Todd Ennis

Todd Ennis has overcome a hard life and suicidal thoughts to be a mental health advocate and start a brand called called Love Ya Mind Australia.

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00:00So who Toddy Ennis is is I run a company called Love Your Mind Australia, which is a mental

00:08health movement.

00:09So I'm a mental health advocate, but I also have a 90 day program that runs online.

00:15And that shows the eight components of mental health shield that I encourage everyone to

00:20live by that gives you the best opportunity to shield yourself against mental health.

00:24So it's all through actions that I that I run.

00:28That was how I rebuilt myself from the moment there in 2018, when I was ready to take my

00:35final steps.

00:37Something that day, I'm not saying it was a big epiphany, but I just knew I wasn't ready

00:42to take that step.

00:43And I thought I'll just fight one more day and I made a phone call when I left.

00:47And that was a catalyst to rebuild my life and to be able to stand here before you today.

00:52As a man that I am making such an impact, not just our community, but the country, and

00:56hopefully across the globe, is probably the greatest achievement other than having my

01:00kids that I've ever done.

01:02At 42 years of age, I never thought the person I used to be, I would amount to anything.

01:08I actually didn't think I was a very good man at all.

01:11But I'm super proud of myself today to come into this space and be able to have such an

01:15impact on people's lives.

01:17Is it some sort of work or fundraising?

01:24Yeah, so with my fundraiser that we're doing on the 21st of April, which is Easter Monday,

01:29it's a public holiday.

01:32Statistically between the ages of 15 and 24 in Australia, suicide in our teens is at an

01:39all time high, and it's the biggest killer.

01:42So we had a guy in our community take his life not that long ago.

01:46And I thought, you know what, it's time for me to do something.

01:51So I aligned myself with the Lake Macquarie Newcastle Suicide Prevention Company.

01:55They used to have five or so staff, they're now down to two.

01:58So they're going under pretty quickly.

02:01And their program that they run, I find, is really effective for our teens in particular,

02:05and I don't want to see that happen.

02:07So I've aligned with them as a charity.

02:09I'm going to run from Blacksmith's Beach just into Nobby's Beach.

02:12It's not that big a run, it's more about just raising awareness, creating some money for

02:17those guys, and just showing our teens and their parents and that someone in their community

02:22cares, and that I'm in their corner, they can always contact me.

02:27And if you could just fight one more day, and they can see how much fun we have on the

02:30run, they might just think that maybe that might be something to give them a bit of hope

02:33to get up the next day.

02:34That's what I want to do.