#488 Healthy coping mechanisms and uniting the industry on TNT with Jonathan, Angelo and Gianluca

We open up the show with shocking mental health statistics and discuss approaching people with curiosity, finding what's important to you, brain dumping, problematic masculine norms, and the line between executives and labourers. Manny came to play devil's advocate on this episode of The New Tough.

On November 30th, 2023 – 9-8-8 – a suicide hotline launched across Canada. The $158.4-million project is funded and overseen by the public health agency and led by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto.

9-8-8 is available in English and French 24 hours a day, 365 days per year across Canada. Call or Text.

988’s website is: https://988.ca/

If your safety is at risk, call 9-1-1 right away.

Not many people know that you can go to the hospital’s emergency department where you stress to the triage nurse that you are having mental health issues and that you need to speak to the crisis response team. They have a system that you have to follow and eventually you do meet a psychologist that’s on call and you do get the help you need.

Want to support CAMH with research funding for mental health data and initiatives? With your support, we can change mental health care forever and ask people to go to camh.ca to donate whatever they can manage - every little bit helps.

Lastly, dear listener, we’d like to hear from you:

• Is there something missing? Something that the industry could be doing? Doing more of? Or doing different?
• Did something resonate with you during our podcast? If so, would you be willing to share what that is?
• Has any of the information help put some perspective on mental health in the construction industry? If so, what were your biggest takeaways?
• Anything else we should know?

Find our guests.

Jonathan Cinelli at JonathanCinelli.com and @JonathanCinelli on Instagram. Reach out at 416-717-4139 and JC@JonathanCinelli.com.

Angelo Suntres of Human Side of Construction at Suntres.ca and @HumanSideofConstruction on Instagram. Reach out at Angelo@AGSGroup.ca

Gianluca Pascale of The Constructor's Guild at ConstructorsGuild.com and Gianluca Pascale on Linkedin. Reach out at Gianluca@ConstructorsGuild.com.

Stay connected with The Construction Life Podcast by texting Manny at 416 433-5737 or emailing him at manny@theconstructionlife.com. If you have something to contribute to the podcast, email info@theconstructionlife.com to schedule a time to join us in studio.