Sept. 5, 2021

Welcome to the new website!

Welcome to the new website and home of the lived experience podcast!

Make sure you leave a review, sign-up to the mailing list and even leave the show a question, which we will answer on the show!

In what has been a massive last 24 months and especially the last 12 months for mental health, we need to create more conversations and shares stories for others to know they are not alone in this world!

Everyone is affected or touched by mental health issues in some way and I hope that you find this website informative and helpful with your own mental health journey.

Joel Kleber

Host

Hi, I am Joel Kleber the host and creator of the lived experience podcast. The goal of the podcast is to create more conversations on mental health that go beyond depression and anxiety. There is so much more to mental health! My experience is growing up with a single mother with Bipolar Disorder 1 and it was an experience, to say the least! However, I have always been frustrated by the lack of content that there is online regarding this and other mental illnesses. My show consists of interviews and also solo episodes where I recount experiences to really emphasise the point that you are not alone out there and many people are affected by mental illness in the family unit.

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