Michelle Obama
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And so not saying that there aren't times and places where therapy is deeply important, but for the most part, there are people that you talk to about certain things.
There's things you go to your mom with or your dad with or your therapist with or a friend with.
And I think a lot of, a lot of, um,
a lot of it is getting zeroed in on who can I pay to make sure I have this experience.
But I then, I then think also the levels of access that you think you have versus, versus what you actually have.
And so, um,
I look at a lot of community that hasn't been fostered yet.
The way that I look at that kid who's like tall and could dunk, but no one's told him to dunk yet.
They're like, you're almost there.
You're almost at the rim.
Just a little jump.
Just a small jump, you know?
And so what we do is in every city,
we do our best to partner with a local outreach in that city.
So then that way, the people coming to the show can see something that's already happening because it is difficult to set up that sort of mutual aid and support
general community around fixing a problem all by yourself.
And that's what a lot of people think is happening.
But there are pantries, there are shelters, there are all these different places that are all around you that you may just not know about because they don't have the best social media presence or they aren't being hyped up enough by people who aren't directly involved in the organization.
And it might be a small team that can only do so much and they're trying to do the work.
And so we partner with these groups and