David Idemudia delivers opening remarks at the 2020 Speak Your Truth! livestream, introducing himself as a licensed social worker, therapist, and community activist, while expressing gratitude for the event’s purpose and encouraging audience members to support one another and utilize crisis resources. Malcolm McFadden is also welcomed as co-MC, with Tyler Calabrese briefly handing off hosting duties to the two.
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[00:10:20] just as the genius child malcolm who i met through this thing four years ago and
[00:10:24] um you know he he’s just an incredible like mc and a producer and just all around good guy so
[00:10:33] yeah you guys um i this thing wouldn’t work at all without you two so thanks for doing it i’m gonna
[00:10:40] kind of take a back seat and let you two take the reins and um i might come in a little bit
[00:10:48] here and there so take it away guys thanks for doing it all right thank you thank you
[00:10:56] hello everybody my name is david idemudia thank you tyler for the wonderful introduction i’m
[00:11:02] a licensed social worker and therapist and as tyler has said community activist i’m a homeless
[00:11:11] advocate for annarona county and i worked with crisis systems in the past as
[00:11:18] well as homeless outreach services and i’m developing uh my own homeless outreach
[00:11:25] organization as well um i just want to thank tyler again for what we were able to do with
[00:11:34] the speak your truth event it happens to be one of the most uh happiest points in my year
[00:11:41] at any time when i am you know a part of this this whole event brings some level of
[00:11:48] uh of anxiety but the the payout from it all it just makes me feel like there’s so much purpose
[00:11:55] in what we’re doing for everybody that’s either listening standing by getting up there and
[00:12:00] speaking because it’s such a brave and bold space to be in and for us to be able to share
[00:12:06] one another stories to be there listening and to not feel so alone uh is something that just
[00:12:16] for us want to keep doing that
[00:12:18] so i thank everybody for joining us and i am hoping that if you know someone’s story grabs you
[00:12:26] makes you feel you know warm you can you know put a good comment down
[00:12:32] if you’re having a difficult time like tyler said there’s a number listed
[00:12:36] we’d like to know specifically where they could get that at but if you know there’s somebody
[00:12:41] that’s having a difficult time they can always call the enter on the crisis response line
[00:12:48] at 5522. yep you know david yeah it’s at the um like in the information below the video on
[00:12:54] youtube if they expand that because um the number for the crisis hotline and the uh traits
[00:13:01] perfect perfect right so i’m happy to hear that um but once again this this is this is this is
[00:13:09] our our hard work our our soul into this and we had malcolm join us so i’m happy some odd years
[00:13:15] ago and ever since then um yeah hope you have a good day guys and i look forward to seeing you and
[00:13:16] see you go sister very soon and yeah thanks a lot and good night best of luck guys bye bye good night