Meet your I'm Listening host, Carson Daly

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Meet Carson Daly, Radio personality and co-host of NBC’s TODAY and The Voice, and your host for I'm Listening

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00:00Hi everybody, good to see you.

00:03I'm Carson Daly, honored to be host again of Odyssey's I'm Listening.

00:08I'm so excited to be hosting I'm Listening again.

00:11It's such an important topic.

00:13I never would have thought in my broadcasting career that spans almost 30 years now that

00:18mental health would be the thing that becomes, you know, my life passion really.

00:23My advocacy work has been so important and it's really stemmed from my personal experiences

00:28of suffering in silence for so long, not having any idea about the struggles of anxiety

00:34or depression or panic disorder.

00:37These are all things that I've come to learn a lot about and I really enjoy talking about

00:42it and sharing those stories and experiences with all of you just in some small hope that

00:47maybe it'll help you or give you some light or encouragement on how to get beyond it,

00:53how to manage it, how to live with it, how to find resources, all of those really important

00:57things.

00:59So I'm excited to dive in.

01:00There's a lot of different areas of mental health that we're going to cover.

01:02We've got mental health advocates at the ready to help us all out.

01:05Of course, your phone calls are going to make the two-hour I'm Listening special really

01:09what it's all about.

01:10So we encourage you to share your story.

01:12You know, when I shared my story on the Today Show, I didn't mean to talk about, you know,

01:15anxiety and panic attacks and all of the things in my life, but I did and I couldn't believe

01:21what it unlocked in people.

01:22They come up to me now more than anything else I've ever done in TV and want to talk

01:26about mental health, and I'm really honored about that.

01:30One thing I'm really looking forward to discussing this year in our two-hour special I'm Listening

01:34is the impact of mental health on kids.

01:36You know, people ask me, hey, you've got a lot of jobs, and that is true.

01:39I've been lucky, but my favorite job, my most important job is being a dad.

01:43You know, I lost my father when I was young.

01:45That was quite stressful, as you can imagine.

01:48My mom remarried to my stepfather, who's been a godsend.

01:51He passed away.

01:52So I love being a father.

01:54I've got four beautiful children under the age of 15, and having these discussions about

01:57the impacts of social media, mental health, them going to school, which all of a sudden

02:03now has become a stressful place.

02:04There's a lot in the category of parenting and children's well-being and mental health.

02:09What are normal signs, normal red flags?

02:11What's normal behavior versus behavior that as parents we should start to really take

02:15notice of?

02:16When do we get help?

02:17How do we get help?

02:19What's the appropriate kind of help?

02:21Will insurance cover that help, whether it's for us or our kids?

02:24There's a lot to still tackle and discuss under the umbrella of mental health, and I'm

02:29looking forward to doing that with all of you.

02:31We'll see you for I'm Listening.

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