ep 83 - An Inspiring Story of How to Build a Community to Tackle Depression - Joel Pilgrim
The Story of OneWave, Starting the Conversation to Take on Depression
“It’s ok to not be ok”. Joel Pilgrim is an occupational therapist specialising in Mental Health. One day, Joel heard about a guy called Grant who was going surfing solo in a dress suit. Within a week, Joel donned a tux and headed down to meet Grant for a surf. This was the start of a community group called One Wave is All it Takes, and he found it combined his 3 life passions...surfing, mental health, and dressing up.
OneWave is a non profit surf community taking funks like depression, anxiety, and bipolar with a strong recipe, salt water, surfing, good mates and Fluro Fridays. Today, OneWave is a wonderful community of surfers and non surfers who come together to have conversations to build awareness around mental health and depression. With depression being so prevalent in our society, this story is empowering and inspiring.
From the surf board to the board room, there is a need to have this conversation to break down barriers.
Here’s what we discuss in this week's show.
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“It’s ok to not be ok”. Joel Pilgrim is an occupational therapist specialising in Mental Health. One day, Joel heard about a guy called Grant who was going surfing solo in a dress suit. Within a week, Joel donned a tux and headed down to meet Grant for a surf. This was the start of a community group called One Wave is All it Takes, and he found it combined his 3 life passions...surfing, mental health, and dressing up.
OneWave is a non profit surf community taking funks like depression, anxiety, and bipolar with a strong recipe, salt water, surfing, good mates and Fluro Fridays. Today, OneWave is a wonderful community of surfers and non surfers who come together to have conversations to build awareness around mental health and depression. With depression being so prevalent in our society, this story is empowering and inspiring.
From the surf board to the board room, there is a need to have this conversation to break down barriers.
Here’s what we discuss in this week's show.
- What sort of things is Joel doing in a given day and who typically is he doing it for or with?
- The backstory to One Wave is All it Takes.
- The start of Fluro Friday?
- The real story of depression and why people tend to want to hide their situation.
- Getting you out of a funk.
- “Its ok not to be ok” is that a real issue for us, do we feel its not ok to be not ok?
- Getting beyond “I'm fine” when you know someone is not ok?
- Why is the ocean is so empowering?
- What changes have you seen in people once they get on a board?
- We discuss the One Wave Surfing Experience in the corporate office.
- The moment that will make you think about what people are really facing.
- The amazing spread of the program across the beaches of the world.
- The challenges the guys have faced to create this movement.
- How has the program been funded?
- How did the crowdfunding program work for OneWave?
- The amazing impact this program is having.
- The magic created by the water and sand environment for corporate creativity.
- Breaking down barriers.
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One Wave is all it takes
http://onewaveisallittakes.com
One Wave is all it takes Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/onewaveisallittakes/?hl=en
The Mojo Radio Show merch partner - Oksana at Impero
http://www.impero.com.au
Oksana at Impero on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/imperobyoksana/?hl=en
Robbo’s Healthy desert, the Fat Bomb
http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/avocado-chocolate-pudding.html
Derek Sivers Dancing Guy - how to build a movement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
Washington Post Red Wine and Dark Chocolates
http://wapo.st/1SD2nl5
The Mojo Radio Show
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