Help the People is more than a podcast—it’s a movement. Hosted by Shannon Scott-Riley, a writer, consultant, and mental health professional with over 15 years of experience, this show creates space for truth, healing, and action. Each episode blends storytelling, community insight, and critical conversation around the issues that shape our lives mental health, justice, culture, and resilience in underserved communities.
With a background in psychology (MA), CASAC certification, and current pursuit of an LMHC, Shannon brings both professional expertise and lived experience to every conversation. Expect raw honesty, grounded wisdom, and practical guidance that speaks directly to the challenges—and the hope—of everyday people.
Whether you’re here for inspiration, knowledge, or just to feel less alone, Help the People reminds us that kindness knows no enemy, and change begins with us.
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Help the People is more than a podcast—it’s a movement. Hosted by Shannon Scott-Riley, a writer, consultant, and mental health professional with over 15 years of experience, this show creates space for truth, healing, and action. Each episode blends storytelling, community insight, and critical conversation around the issues that shape our lives mental health, justice, culture, and resilience in underserved communities.
With a background in psychology (MA), CASAC certification, and current pursuit of an LMHC, Shannon brings both professional expertise and lived experience to every conversation. Expect raw honesty, grounded wisdom, and practical guidance that speaks directly to the challenges—and the hope—of everyday people.
Whether you’re here for inspiration, knowledge, or just to feel less alone, Help the People reminds us that kindness knows no enemy, and change begins with us.
Episode Two: Survival vs. HealingIn this episode of Help the People, host Shannon Riley unpacks the difference between survival and healing two words we often confuse. Survival is making it through the storm, but healing is learning to breathe after the storm. Drawing from his own story of beginning to drink at fourteen and battling addiction for nearly four decades, Shannon shares how survival once became his only language. But survival alone wasn’t enough it numbed the pain without ever mending it.
Through honest storytelling, he reflects on the losses, broken ladders, and God’s interventions that led him to sobriety. This episode challenges us to ask: Are we just surviving, or are we truly healing? It’s a call to move beyond resilience as a finish line and step into the deeper work of recovery, presence, and joy.
Help The People
Help the People is more than a podcast—it’s a movement. Hosted by Shannon Scott-Riley, a writer, consultant, and mental health professional with over 15 years of experience, this show creates space for truth, healing, and action. Each episode blends storytelling, community insight, and critical conversation around the issues that shape our lives mental health, justice, culture, and resilience in underserved communities.
With a background in psychology (MA), CASAC certification, and current pursuit of an LMHC, Shannon brings both professional expertise and lived experience to every conversation. Expect raw honesty, grounded wisdom, and practical guidance that speaks directly to the challenges—and the hope—of everyday people.
Whether you’re here for inspiration, knowledge, or just to feel less alone, Help the People reminds us that kindness knows no enemy, and change begins with us.
