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Welcome to the Mastering Midlife Podcast where we explore life at it’s most stressful and most productive.  We will be featuring conversations with experts in the field of Mental Health, Executive Leadership, Business, Health, Exercise, Nutrition, Sex, and Relationship.  Midlife is a powerful time, and together we will learn to “thrive when the world asks the most of us.”

May 22, 2019

Randy’s career in the news has been a seminar in America: He has led award-winning coverage of presidential politics in Iowa and Ohio; the auto industry and urban rebirth in Detroit; and immigration in Colorado.

He has a record of leading exclusive, impact enterprise that increases digital reach.

Randy is the 2016 winner of American Society of News Editors' Burl Osborne Editorial Leadership award for work on immigration. 

When Randy Essex wrote the article, “The Dark Side of the American Dream is Killing White Men” he thought he would get a huge amount of negative feedback because of race and politics (which he did) but overwhelmingly, he experienced an opening up. People wrote him and started deep and revealing insights. Our conversation moves from “white privilege” to mental health and substance abuse to service and connection. This is a conversation that cannot be had enough.

 

“The implication is if you don’t make it, it’s because you’re not smart enough, not savvy enough, didn’t work hard enough, you’re a failure and it’s your fault.” – Randy Essex

 

Today on Mastering Midlife:

 

  • How a responsible man’s suicide sparked Randy to notice that “this is not an uncommon story.”
  • Suicide rates in the Mountain West are even higher than the national average and could not be ignored.
  • 80% of Suicides are Men, 70% are White Men (more than double other demographics)
  • The statistics are growing among every demographic
  • If you don’t measure up, suicide becomes an option for many of us (though mental illness, substance abuse, and gun culture account for 90% of suicides).
  • Finding value in something “other than the material.”
  • How do we focus on connection, service, spirituality to combat the isolation?
  • How the Detroit Free Press is looking for ways to explore further, and find solutions.

 

 

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