Podcasts by Guns and Mental Health by Walk the Talk America
An honest and comprehensive discussion about guns and mental health. Two highly stigmatized cultures that have long stood across from each other, refusing to collaborate whenever tragedy strikes. That trend ends now. For firearms owners, clinicians, and the curious public.
Enjoy a new podcast every Thursday! For this season, we will be mixing in traditional interviews and mental health conversations with our team of clinicians. The mental health podcast episodes will have green cover art, and the interviews will have blue background episode cover art.
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Episode 49: Dylan Sessler from 2022-01-13T22:00
Dylan Sessler is an author, mental health advocate, speaker, and US Army Veteran. He survived parental suicide, PTSD, child abuse, bullying, war, life-changing injuries along with depression an...
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Episode 48: Jesse Bugarin from 2021-12-27T15:00
Jesse Bugarin was raised in the Los Angeles area where homeowners owned guns for security reasons with little access or knowledge of safes to lock up their firearms.
He joined Cannon Se...
Episode 47: Ashley Hlebinsky from 2021-09-22T16:00
What is Bipolar II Disorder and what does it have to do with this podcast?
For the past 15 years, Ashley Hlebinsky has been immersed in the study of firearms history, technology, and cu...
Episode 46: Deborah Alexander from 2021-09-08T09:00
Deborah Alexander is the widow to the late Frank Alexander, former bodyguard for rapper Tupac Shakur. Frank was seemingly torn between two worlds and Deborah bore witness to all of the torment, ...
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Episode 45: Sherry Molock from 2021-08-19T15:00
Dr. Sherry Molock is an associate professor of psychology at the George Washington University and also holds a Master of Divinity degree. She works with faith-based communities to educate on sex...
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Episode 44: Mychael Waller from 2021-07-04T00:00
Perhaps best known in the gun community for successfully defending his life against an armed attacker, Mychael is also a gun store owner, follower of J...
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Episode 43: Sandy Richardson from 2021-05-31T12:00
Sandy RIchardson lives in New York and has owned guns her whole life. She also works in health care. Those two world collided in 2020 when she sought some counseling for pandemic- and other life...
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Episode 42: Chris Cheng from 2021-05-30T13:00
Top Shot Chris rejoins Mike and Jake to discuss mental health in deeper detail, sharing his own path to recovery via counseling, as well as his perspective on the increase in violence crime perp...
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Episode 41: Tom Nguyen from 2021-05-23T01:00
Tom Nguyen bought his first gun intentionally to take his own life with it. In this episode we discuss masculinity, race relations, liberalism and conservatism, and a few other subjects.
Episode 40: Erin Yeung from 2021-05-10T16:00
Erin Yeung has been in Public Safety Dispatch for 17 years and is the owner/host of the podcast "Your Oxygen Mask First", which is aimed at guiding people in "helping" roles ...
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Episode 39: Kim Petters from 2021-05-02T15:00
Kim served in the United States Air Force and presently advocates in many areas for firearms owners, including as the Delaware delegate for DC Project. ...
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Episode 38: Jimmy Graham from 2021-04-25T17:00
Jimmy Graham spent more than a decade and a half as a Navy SEAL while earning multiple certifications and promoting several times. He has served overseas in combat missions in Iraq, Afghanistan,...
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Episode 37: Gianni Pirelli from 2021-04-07T00:00
Mike and Jake affectionately refer to Gianni Pirelli as the "Godfather" of guns and mental health because he authored the book that formed the foundation of Walk the Talk America'...
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Episode 36: Darin Balaam from 2021-04-01T19:00
Darin Balaam is the 27th person elected to serve as Sheriff of Washoe County since the Office was founded in 1861. He took the oath of office on January 7, 2019, a momentous step for a law enfor...
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Episode 35: Matt Miller from 2021-03-28T13:00
Dr. Matthew Miller is an Air Force veterans and the Director for Suicide Prevention for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where he leads a team dedicated to the implementation and rei...
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Episode 34: Brooke Cheney from 2021-03-16T00:00
Brooke Cheney is an accidental advocate. She had been around guns all her life but didn't really know anything about them. Once she had children, she decided to learn how to handle firearms...
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Episode 33: Christy Butler and Ryan Hale from 2021-03-10T21:00
In this episode we discuss what it's like for mental health professionals to intervene in mental health crises with alongside law enforcement. Our outstanding guests come from two different...
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Episode 32: Christian Conte from 2021-03-05T10:00
Christian Conte, Ph.D., is a psychologist, author, Level 5 Anger Management specialist, former university professor, husband, dad, and creator of Y...
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Episode 31: Brandon Cassinelli from 2021-03-01T22:00
Brandon Cassinelli is a 5th generation Nevadan and a Reno native. Hailing from a law enforcement family, he followed his father and two uncles into work at the Reno Police Department beginning ...
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Episode 30: John Petrolino from 2021-02-24T00:00
John Petrolino is a United States Merchant Marine Officer, writer, firearms instructor, and author of De...
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Episode 29: The Liberal Gun Club from 2021-02-19T00:00
Ed Gardner and Lara Smith of The Liberal Gun Club join Mike and Jake for a conversation about core concepts of Second Amendment rights.
The...
Episode 28: Andrew Langlois from 2021-02-15T00:00
Andrew Langlois spent many years as a law enforcement officer and is now in graduate school for public health doing research on firearms policy and its effect on preventing negative outcomes. He...
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Episode 27: Jason Griego from 2021-02-10T00:00
Jason Griego is a retired Air Force C-130 & C-17 Loadmaster with 24 years of service. He flew combat missions in Bosnia, Saudi Arabia, Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan. Jason is the Founder of V...
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Episode 26: Rob Morse from 2021-02-05T00:00
Rob Morse: designer/analyst by day, civil rights advocate by night.
He hosts the Self-Defense Gun Stories podcast and co-hosts the <...
Episode 25: Colion Noir from 2021-02-01T00:00
Colion Noir is a Houston native, but for the past eight years he has made Dallas his home. While attending law school, a friend invited him to the local gun range to shoot for the firs... Listen
Episode 24: Kenyon Gleason from 2021-01-25T03:00
Kenyon Gleason is the president and secretary of the National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW), and has been with the organization since 2015. <...
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Episode 23: Jose Fierro from 2021-01-18T16:00
Jose Fierro was a fighter pilot for the US Marine Corps and serves as a WTTA board member. In this episode he explains his passion for helping veterans and preserving gun rights, discusses some ...
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Episode 22: Randy Miyan from 2021-01-10T04:00
Randy “Miyanovich” Miyan is the full-time Executive Director and co-founder of Liberal Guns Owners: a 501(c)4 organization which supports firearms ownership rights, the mitigation of firearms-re...
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Episode 21: Eddie Davenport from 2021-01-06T03:00
Eddie is a social worker out of North Carolina who grew up in the firearm competition world and holds multiple national shootings titles. As such, he believes that he is uniquely positioned to h...
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Episode 20: Aaargo Jay from 2021-01-01T13:00
If you ask him, he'd tell you that he is just a guy. However, spend a few minutes with him and you will soon find out that he is all of the aforementioned. His passion for advocacy is dire...
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Episode 19: Shauna Springer from 2020-12-24T09:00
Shauna "Doc" Springer is a psychologist who has worked for a long time with veterans on their posttraumatic stress and has written extensively about the subject, including in her book,...
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Episode 18: Sherman Gillums from 2020-12-21T19:00
For more than a decade and a half Sherman Gillums, Jr., has continued serving this country's disabled and paralyzed veterans after he spent a dozen years serving as a marine.
On t...
Episode 17:"At the Intersection..."webinar recap from 2020-12-06T19:00
One of WTTA's most important efforts involves training mental health professionals in firearms culture. This competency training helps clinicians better understand the foundational principl...
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Episode 16: Myra Fukuno from 2020-12-05T11:00
Myra Fukuno has an intimate relationship with suicide and firearms; her boyfriend of five years took his own life with one. Today, she still advocates fiercely for gun rights and shares openly ...
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Episode 15: Chris Jachimiec from 2020-11-23T17:00
Chris Jachimiec is a recently retired member of the United States Air Force. He served in multiple military leadership roles in Nevada, Germany, and Korea, and is a veteran of the war in Afghan...
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Episode 14: Jesse Lott from 2020-11-11T17:00
Jesse is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor in Nevada who specializes in couples, adolescents, mood disorders, and substance abuse. He is trained i...
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Episode 13: Kevin Dixie from 2020-11-03T01:00
Kevin Dixie is the owner-operator of No Other Choice Firearms Training (NOC) and the Founder of Aiming For The Truth, a 6-spoked approach to healing broken families and strengthening the communi...
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Episode 12: Kevin Reichard from 2020-11-03T00:00
Kevin is a husband to his wife and father of two daughters. You may know him as "Tacdaddy" on the Internet. Additionally he is the author of Logically Emotional in Parkland, a Uniq...
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Episode 11: Yehuda Remer from 2020-10-20T22:00
Yehuda Remer is a husband, father, children's gun safety book author, gun rights advocate, and devout follower of God. As an Orthodox Jew he is somewhat of a firebrand among his people, whi...
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Episode 9: Marcella Williams from 2020-10-02T07:00
Marcella survived the October 1, 2017 shooting at the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a strident Second Amendment advocate, survivor of domestic violence, small business own...
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Episode 8: Devin Perkins from 2020-09-28T07:00
Devin is the founder of Kids to Kings, an organization that helps young children from disadvantaged circumstances rise above them through edu...
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Episode 7: Mark Gorodetzer from 2020-09-28T00:00
Mark works in suicide prevention in southern Nevada where he serves on the Las Vegas Mayor's Challenge and Nevada Governor's Challenge teams. He does not own guns but realized he neede...
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Episode 6: Derek LeBlanc from 2020-09-21T00:00
Derek created and runs Kids Safe Foundation, a firearms education and training organization specifically focused on children. He is a powerful force...
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Episode 5: Dustin Jones from 2020-09-14T00:00
As a published author of The First 30, Dustin brings a unique perspective on personal we...
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Episode 4: Edgar Antillon from 2020-09-08T11:00
Edgar Antillon, founder of Guns for Everyone, is a Mexican-American who shares his views on how race and culture affect firearms ownership, among many ...
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Episode 3: Cheryl Todd from 2020-08-30T23:00
Cheryl Todd, owner of AZfirearms.com and host of Gun Freedom Radio, holds a psychology degree and speaks to the v...
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Episode 2: Chris Cheng from 2020-08-17T03:00
Winner of History Channel's Top Shot Season 4, Chris works with computers by day. However, in his off time he lends his voice to the LGBT community, advocates for 2A rights, and has written...
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Introduction: Jake and Mike from 2020-08-08T10:00
In this inaugural podcast, Mike Sodini, Walk the Talk America's founder, and Jake Wiskerchen, WTTA board member and mental health practitioner, explain the mission and philosophy of WTTA, w...
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Introduction: Jake and Mike from 2020-08-08T10:00
In this inaugural podcast, Mike Sodini, Walk the Talk America's founder, and Jake Wiskerchen, WTTA board member and mental health practitioner, explain the mission and philosophy of WTTA, w...
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Introduction: Jake and Mike from 2020-08-08T10:00
In this inaugural podcast, Mike Sodini, Walk the Talk America's founder, and Jake Wiskerchen, WTTA board member and mental health practitioner, explain the mission and philosophy of WTTA, w...
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