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Episode 50: Interview with Darius Miller

During this episode of the Grim Drive Podcast, where we explore mental health through the lens of professional sports and athletes, we have the pleasure of interviewing Darius Miller..

Episode 51: Interview with Dr. Owen Muir

During this episode of the Grim Drive Podcast, where we explore mental health through the lens of professional sports and athletes, we have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Owen Muir.

Mission:

The Grim Drive Podcast explores mental health through the lens of professional sports and athletes.

Pro athletes come forward more and more with stories about their mental health journey, what they have endured, and how they managed to push through. This only started recently and reflects a mental health stigma that continues to be reduced.

Pro athletes also leverage mindset to achieve peak performance, as well as representing (and often driving) elements of popular culture through the use of social media, technology, and personal branding. This places athletes front and center as role models for people of all ages, giving them a platform that can reach many to deliver important information.

The mental health stigma, particularly for males, has been significantly diminished in the last few years; A cultural shift at the point of pushing through to the next phase: Awareness. Awareness is emerging after long periods of collective denial and resistance to the topic of Mental Health. The insight will fuel this phase of Awareness and powerful examples, like professional athletes, provide the spark. This insight, with a little helpful push from the athletes that frame it, can be harnessed by our listeners for their own benefits, to continue to push through on their own mental health journey.

About

Jotham Busfield

Jon Cunha

The co-hosts of The Grim Drive Podcast are Jotham Busfield and Jon Cunha.

Jotham Busfield, LICSW, and Jon Cunha, LMHC, are both professional licensed therapists and experts on male mental health, who value mental fitness and the role athletics can play in total health. Combining over 20 years of working with guys in the Greater Boston area, Jon and Jotham co-own Riser+Tread, a Coaching + Counseling company with three locations in Greater Boston and a focus on male mental health to help guys “Step Up + Move Forward.”

Both Jon and Jotham live in Greater Boston and are huge Boston sports fans (but don’t hold that against them if your allegiances are to another sports fanbase). Both born and raised in Massachusetts, they didn’t have a choice and would have it no other way.

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The Grim Drive Podcast explores mental health through the lens of professional sports and athletes. Pro athletes come forward more and more with stories about their mental health journey, what they have endured, and how they managed to push through. This only started recently and reflects a mental health stigma that continues to be reduced. Pro athletes also leverage mindset to achieve peak performance, as well as representing (and often driving) elements of popular culture through the use of social media, technology, and personal branding. This places athletes front and center as role models for people of all ages, giving them a platform that can reach many to deliver important information.

During this episode of the Grim Drive Podcast, where we explore mental health through the lens of professional sports and athletes, we have the pleasure of interviewing Darius Miller..

Darius MIller (@DMillerKY on Twitter) is an American professional basketball player who played in the (NBA) from 2012-2021 for the Oklahoma City Thunder and the New Orleans Pelicans, and also played overseas in Germany for two years from 2015-2017. He played college basketball for the Kentucky Wildcats and finished his senior season by winning the 2012 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament. During this episode, we cover quite a bit, including his journey as a professional basketball player in the NBA and overseas, winning the championship in college at Kentucky, injury recovery, the sports and mental health overlap, and NFTs!

*The Grim Drive Podcast is a way for people to learn about mental fitness, mental health, and mental illness, through the lens of sports. We want to do our part to further reduce the stigma associated with mental health by highlighting the athletes who have shown strength through vulnerability, spoken up, and spoken out. We want to provide listeners with mental health education, to raise awareness and reduce risk, maximizing the path to mental fitness.

As a reminder to listeners/viewers, please leave us a review on apple podcasts, or comment on one of our youtube videos with any thoughts. We guarantee we will respond to all comments and would love the chance to have a dialogue about some of these topics with anyone who is interested to discuss. You can also follow Jotham on Twitter (@jothamLICSW) to discuss all things mental health.

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