One in eight people around the world have a mental health disability or disorder and Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) is there to help inform and educate people on the realities of this. It happens annually during the first week in October and it allows everyone to address misconceptions about mental illness and promote acceptance while striving to reduce stigma. 

It got me thinking about how we are represented in the media, and especially about what voices and perspectives go unnoticed. So here’s a list of unheard Latine voices in honor of HHM.

It’s ostensibly about life coaches; gurus, masters, experts. Whatever you want to call them. The people that say they know what’s best for us. But really after all of our digging, it turns out to be about the idea of optimization, excellence, perfectionism, wealth, all the stuff that makes us so miserable in America. It’s about why we all think we have to MAXIMIZE everything and meanwhile it’s literally killing us (episode 8 is real “fun”).

Atonement. Apology. Reckoning. Fasting. These are all things that take place on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of atonement. Yom Kippur is the second of the high holy days in the Jewish calendar. And if you’re like me, you probably have a complicated relationship with this day.

Having been in the climate space for a while, I’m always on the lookout for the not-so-usual, probably not tech-focused, conversations or stories told from interesting angles or by energized and enthusiastic people. I didn’t see enough of that sort of show around, so that — along with Larj Media’s massive creative and production expertise — is how Living Change came to be.