 Today, I want to introduce you to a buddy of mine named Charlie. Charlie has a channel called Authentic Mental Health and I highly, highly, highly suggest you go check it out, but this video isn't necessarily about Charlie's amazing mental health channel, but it's about why Charlie is such an awesome guy and why you should model your life after him. So stay tuned. Let's up everybody. This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about my man, Charlie. So Charlie, he is a guy over in the UK and he has a channel called Authentic Mental Health. Recently if you don't follow me on social media, you probably didn't know this, but recently I've been doing some guest videos on his channel. So I'm going to link to his channel on the end screen as well as up in the info card. So please, please, please go check out his mental health channel. But anyways, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about Charlie because Charlie is literally just the kind of guy who I try to mold my life after. So in this whole YouTube game, right? This whole thing that I'm trying to do and you know, I basically started this channel here in case you didn't know, let's talk for a minute. So basically I started this channel because I work at a drug and alcohol rehab center. It costs a lot of money to go there. You need insurance to go there or it costs you a lot of money. And I do these groups and you know, some people come to treatment and they want to get better and there's other people who come in and they're like, you know, and I try to explain to them like, you got to be grateful for this time here. There are so many people out there who would love to be here, right? And one day I was just sitting around and I'm like, man, like a lot of my friends come to me for mental health advice. I have people come to me for sobriety advice or they tell me their friends or family members are struggling with this kind of mental illness or addiction. I'm like, why don't I just make a YouTube channel and just put this information out there? Like I just wanted to put information out there to just help as many people as possible. That was my only motive behind this thing, right? And in doing so, starting the channel like the only real motive behind growing my channel is because I want to help as many people as possible. That's it. And by the way, we're getting close to a thousand people. We're getting close to a thousand subscribers. But anyways, it warms my heart because I'm able to help more people. And you know, when I, when I first started working on my mental health, I had to start looking at who I'm hanging out with. Who's my support group? Who do I want to become, right? And I remember when I first got clean, like there were people who were just spending a lot of time with me and helping me and holding my hand while I was at rock bottom and they were helping bring me back up. And I've always been somebody where I just kind of analyze human behavior, right? And some of you notice that if you watch my channel, I really read people and try to pull things out and see like, OK, what's good, what's bad, what needs to be worked on. And I was just blown away because I had never experienced anybody in my life who just were they were just trying to help me just because they wanted to see me succeed. I had never had that in my entire life. Most of us and you included most of us are around people who only help us with a motive, right? Unless it's like a family member and even if it's a family member, it's kind of iffy, you know what I mean? And the example I'll give some of our parents, they want to see us succeed in school, not so much so we have a better life sometimes, but because it makes them look good to all their friends, right? So typically there's some kind of motive behind these things. But I was amazed at people who are doing things for me without a motive. And in this whole YouTube thing, I've been trying to reach out and talk to other people and other people with mental health channels. There's not that many of us and just reach out and like, nobody replies. Nobody talks to me like at all. And then I stumbled across authentic mental health run by Charlie. And I loved his channel. I followed him on Instagram. And one day I just shot him a message like, yo, what's up, dude? And we just started talking and having conversations and stuff. And then he started checking out my channel. He's like, dude, I love what you're doing. And he's like, I want to help you out. I'm like, wait, what? You know, and it was just having normal conversations. And that's why Charlie has been having me do guest videos on his channel. Like it's crazy because Charlie's not looking for anything in return. He just legitimately wants to help me out. Like and think about it. Like I don't have much to offer Charlie. I'm a small YouTuber. I'm about to hit a thousand. You know, hopefully pretty soon. This dude is sitting at like 72,000 subscribers and it is rapidly growing. Right. And he's just reaching out his hand to help me. And it's amazing, you know, and we've been talking and like, I'm trying to, you know, learn from him and what he's done with his channel and how to make it grow. And he's just like, yeah, don't worry, mate, we'll get you there. And he tries to like inspire me. And by the way, I love it when he calls me mate. But it's just really amazing to see that. And, you know, one of the reasons that I try to help so many people is because of people like Charlie. It's because of the people who helped me when I was first getting started working on my mental health. And I don't know if this is something that everybody has. I don't think it is. But here's my advice to you. Like the way I look at it, when people are just completely selfless when helping me, I almost feel indebted to them. Like, I feel like it would be a slap in the face to the people who helped me if I didn't do the same thing for other people. And I hope that makes sense. So what they say in the recovery community sometimes is, you know, you know, we give away what was so freely given to us, right? And that's one of the reasons why, you know, I help people with their sobriety. I help people with their mental health. I just do these things like I've only been working at a drug and alcohol treatment center for about two and a half years. But even before that, I was just freely helping people. I spend time and, you know, if any of you follow me on social media, on Instagram or Twitter, and if you're not, you need to. But like when I just have free time and I'm in Facebook support groups for mental health and addiction, I just go out there and I provide people with suggestions and advice just because it's something that I like to do in my free time. If you've watched my video about having an existential crisis, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I'll link to that video up here, too. But anyways, I just wanted to give a big shout out to Charlie. And I hope you guys learn from this. Like, start checking in with yourself. I'm going to do some more videos on something called self seeking. But check in with yourself. Are you doing things for other people because it's the right thing to do or are you doing it with a motive? You know what I mean? But anyways, I've done two videos so far. They're up over at Authentic Mental Health. As soon as you're done with this video, go head over to his channel. Subscribe to it and then check out the videos I've done over there. One of them is just kind of a short video sharing my story. Another one is three tips to help you with anxiety while you're in public. Very good video. If I do say so myself and I should have a couple more videos coming out on his channel this week. So make sure since you're not so you're not missing anything from me, you go subscribe over there. And you're also checking out some of Charlie's amazing content. All right. So anyways, if you like this video, if you like helping out other people, if you like just being good to your fellow human beings, because it's the right thing to do, go ahead and give this video a thumbs up and do me a favor. Leave down in the comments below who inspires you to be a better person. How about that? I think that's a good one. All right, everybody. That's all the time I got, but if you're new here, I'm always making videos about mental health to help you out. So make sure you click my little round subscribe button over here. You will see a link to Charlie's channel, Authentic Mental Health. Click or tap on that. Go subscribe and below it is a thumbnail with another video from my channel. Thanks so much for watching. I'll see you next time.