 What's up everybody it's Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem of focus on the solution and if you can see here I am at Las Vegas City Hall It's national recovery month and we are participating in the Las Vegas recovery rally So there's a ton of tables set up here with a bunch of resources For different treatment centers different programs non-profits. They got 12 step groups here and all sorts of stuff It's gonna be really cool. And you know, I'm gonna be recapping this event I just wanted to show you a little bit of what's going on So stay tuned because there's gonna be some great speakers and all sorts of stuff and you're not gonna want to miss this What's up? What's up? All right, sit down for just a minute. All right, so we just had a ton of speakers inside So we're at like the city council meeting which is pretty crazy Like not city council meetings city council like office not even office like meeting room like whatever it is You'll see video of it, but the place is huge and I've never been inside one of those places But anyway, anyway, we got a ton of speakers. So the main organization called foundation for recovery They're actually a national organization. It's a non-profit organization where they they do a lot of recovery support So helping people get sober helping people stay sober helping provide resources helping people get back on their feet when it comes to government services when it comes to job training finding jobs Getting reconnected with families are an awesome organization. I got some cool speakers who went up there One of the first speakers who went up there was somebody that you know, I'm actually friends with one of my buddies Elizabeth And she's awesome. She's in recovery. He's been sober a little over three years and she has Been a part of an organization where they talk a lot about mental illness and co-occurring disorders And I'm talking to her because I'm actually gonna try to get her to come and do some content with me here at the rewired soul because she struggles with bipolar disorder and she's very open about it's very Educated about it and bipolar is one of the mental illnesses that I'm not as educated about as I'm like So hopefully she'll be doing a video with me soon Next up they had another gentleman come up there and he's from Nevada and what he does is that he goes over different Nevada legislatures and Meetings and everything and he's fighting to get rid of certain laws that are holding people in recovery back from progressing in their lives and Aside from that also creating new laws to get more funding to get more people treatment And it's just absolutely amazing like seeing people like that really inspired me like that. I'm saying they're watching them like yo I need to become a part of this like that is awesome after that Then came the main course so the gentleman who is the founder and one of the top dudes at facing addiction Hopefully you have heard of this organization. I'm gonna try to get in contact with them Is there awesome basically like what he was talking about and I'll actually have another video up of what his speech was like but like there is a governing organization to fight cancer to fight diabetes to fight Asthma to fight heart disease to fight all these things But there's not one for addiction and that's what facing addiction is back in 2015 They had their first huge rally which was like a concert and all this other stuff and 50,000 people showed up But anyways this gentleman he got involved in creative facing addiction after his son had some clean time and then passed away from an opioid addiction um But he's doing a lot of cool things and he talked about this 10-point plan About what we're gonna do to tackle the addiction crisis here in the United States and it was really moving like it was awesome So everything's been going great. My son has been killing it. He's been doing great I got my lovely son right over here and he's been helping giving out shirts and buttons and talking about the YouTube channel And my girlfriends been doing a lovely job as well. Anyways, I'm gonna get going We're about to do a recovery walk and I'll have some more videos of that So that last clip you saw Was my man Joe Engel who was doing a recovery countdown And if you've never been to like a convention or a big recovery event, they do countdowns And we celebrate years of sobriety down to months down to days of sobriety It's a really powerful thing to seeing all those people in one room who have overcame addiction and I think the least amount of time was 20 something days this young lady went up there and You know, she got a ton of love and support and it's just really cool For those of you who didn't see my other video about the Narcan training event I'm gonna put a link up in the info card above my head I talk about what Joe Engel does with this organization called there is no hero and heroine Please please please go check out that video and listen to all the amazing stuff. Joe Engel's doing Because like I said in that other video like Las Vegas, we're not on top in a lot of categories But like we are killing it when it comes to Recovery fighting addiction Advocating and all that stuff. So I hope you enjoyed that I hope watching this video kind of inspired you to go out do something just increase awareness Let's talk about this thing If you want like get into some advocacy work see which local organizations are doing things I'll put a link to facing addiction down below You should follow them on social media see what they're doing how they're getting involved with the government and all that stuff And I'll be doing updates as I get more involved and let you all know what you can do in your individual cities because These kind of events when we all come together. It's really amazing how powerful our voices can be So I hope you enjoyed that video if you liked this video if you like me doing these kind of vlog style videos This is my first time so like leave comments down below or give it a thumbs up or thumbs down Say yo Chris is suck or say yo Chris. This was amazing. Or do you have any critiques? Let me know This is the first time doing it. I think it came out. All right for my first time, but anyways anyways I hope you liked it and if you haven't yet if you are new here I'm always doing videos about mental health about addiction and overcoming these things where we talk about the Solution so please right below this box hit that little round subscribe button and make sure you hit that little Notification bell too because it'll pop up and let you know when I have brand new videos So thanks again for watching and I'll see you next time