Let's Talk About Mental Health

What is entrepreneurship?  To the Midtown Hotel worker, Michael Marshall, entrepreneurship is “a street fashion, professional way of hustling.”  He continues to go on and say that it is a “risk it all” and “going out and getting what is yours” type of deal. One who has an entrepreneurial mindset sees the world and all of its problems and says “I want to fix them.”

When I asked Marshall about a problem he sees in the world, he immediately brought up the neglect we show for mental health awareness. A lot of the problems he has seen in the past decade are more internal and emotional-based, rather that the physical problems that were more prevalent in the past. Marshall continues to describe how it takes a lot of courage for people to come out and say that they have a mental illness and that the society around us needs to show more support; as of now, there is a stigma around mental illness that we need to overcome.

Entrepreneurship is all about developing new solutions to both underlying societal problems and problems we see in our daily lives. The entrepreneurial mindset is an ambitious one — those who are ambitious enough will inevitably reach their goals, whether they are personal goals or more societal, such as raising awareness for mental health.