Jake Mills

Welcome to Proper Mental Episode 19!

This week I chat to Jake Mills!

Jake Mills is an award-winning stand-up comedian, mental health campaigner and the founder and CEO of Chasing the Stigma.

In 2013, after his own battles with depression and a failed suicide attempt, Jake founded Chasing the Stigma, a national mental health charity that is committed to normalising mental health.

Jake has driven the organisation forward to become one of the fastest rising and well-respected mental health charities in the UK and has gone on to create the Hub of Hope, a ground-breaking mental health database that has since become the UK’s biggest and most comprehensive mental health signposting tool, revolutionising mental health pathways in the UK.

If you put your postcode or location in to The Hub of Hope it will give you a comprehensive list of all mental health support and services in your local area.   It’s an incredible resources and now more than ever should be considered vital to absolutely everyone, whether they are experiencing mental health related difficulties or not.  We all have mental health and we should all know how to protect it and where to go when we need help with it.

The charity also delivers mental health training courses and have worked with organisations like Network Rail and Everton Football Club.

Jake and I go over his story from stand up to suicide to national tv and an award-winning charity.  We chat about the need for change in the approach to mental health support and why we need to focus on why people aren’t getting the help they need.

We chat about mental health in children, pressures of society, the challenges of speaking out and what it’s like to end up on national t.v and everything that comes with suddenly developing a big profile in the mental health space.

Jake is so incredibly passionate about helping other and making a real difference and I personally found this conversation to be very inspiring!

Go and have a look at The Hub of Hope, see how it works and spread the word because the importance of this resource cannot be repeated enough.

You can find out more about Chasing the Stigma here:

www.chasingthestigma.co.uk or @chasingthestigma

You can find out more about The Hub of Hope here:

www.hubofhope.co.uk or @hubofhopeuk

You can connect with Jake @jakemillscomedy on Instagram and Twitter.

You can chat to me about all thing mental health and podcasting on all social platforms @propermentalpodcast.

Thanks for listening!  Enjoy!