Shaka Senghor

That means that you had fear and you did it anyway.

And so I live my life in that space of like going forward in spite of.

And so that was great that we get a chance to name, you know, these feelings and these emotions and these thoughts.

And like, I'm just so grateful right now to be in conversation with you and learn from your journey.

Likewise.

To see where it's brought you and where it's taken you.

So, yeah.

It's incredible.

Wow, that's a great question.

What I would say to that 19-year-old kid is...

you are deserving of therapy and treatment to address what happened to you.

And you should feel okay with seeking that out, even though it wasn't offered.

And then the second part of that question,

is that based on my mentoring young men and young women who come from similar backgrounds or have had similar experiences, I think it would have worked.

I think so.

And I say that because I've gotten through to enough people

young men at this version of myself now who have come off, you know, being victims of gun violence.

And I've encouraged them to actually seek out therapy.

And I've created the space for them to realize that that doesn't make them weak.

It makes them human.