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transcript  Victor’s Story

[Victor Nunez speaking with background music] Sometimes, even though I've been working, my mind is not there. As a Latino man we grow up with things like, "Don't say that. Shut up. You're a man, you don't cry." And you got that inside of you. There's things that I have, that doesn't let me keep going. And you think the world is ending. And I feel I need to talk to somebody. My mental health journey started when I came to talk to my therapist, bringing everything that I have inside. It make me feel really, really comfortable. The man who get in that room when I opened that door is a man full of problems. But the man who walked out of that room is a new man. My name is Victor Nunez, I'm a father, I got my own company, this is me.

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