
446 – Walk the Talk America – Michael Sodini on Guns and Mental Health
Mental Health and Guns with Michael Sodini founder of Walk the Talk America
Episode 446
Michael Sodini of Eagle Imports
This is episode 446 of the SSA Podcast and I am so pleased that you have joined us.
The focus of this week’s show is Mental Health and guns with Michael Sodini of Eagle Imports and Walk the Talk America a pro-Second Amendment, non-profit organization dedicated to helping to bring awareness to the issues that surround firearms and mental health.
Michael’s Background:
- ASU Grad with a degree in communications
- Spent time in fashion modeling and real estate before working for the family business, Eagle Imports
- Became President of Eagle Imports in 2009
- Partner in Avidity Arms
- In 2018 formed WTTA a non-profit organization dedicated to making positive change in relationship to mental health, and firearm awareness.
What we talk about in today’s show:
- What it’s like to own a firearms business based in New Jersey
- How being a fashion model breeds a sense of humor
- Stigma and how it impacts what we do and what we don’t do
- How the Second Amendment community thrusts stigma onto others to avoid being stigmatized ourselves
- How people like Colion Noir, Rob Pincus and Maj Toure are doing to change the firearms industry
- Initiatives that WTTA are actively working on
- What link mental illness and violence really have compared to what we believe they have
- Why trauma mitigation can be a linch pin for preventing violence
- WTTA’s end game and what that looks like today
- How Eagle Imports looks at mental health
- What steps you can take to make a difference
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