#82 - Jorgen Gullestrup: (Brick by Brick #4)

This is the fourth episode of our Move Your Mind limited construction series. We will be interviewing a range of people from the industry and having conversations around the state of mental health in the industry.Australia loses one construction worker every two days to suicide & more than 20% of the construction industry are shown to have had a mental health condition. These figures are made even more compelling as it is an industry that employs 10% of the working population. We feel this podcast will play an important role in creating conversations and awareness. Jorgen is a plumber and suicidologist. He is a suicide survivor and have lived experience of mental illness. Starting work 15 as an apprentice plumber in Denmark he experienced a period of mental ill-health ultimately influencing his decision to migrate to Australia at an age of 23. He served as an official of the Plumbers union for 13 years whereof 6 years was as Queensland State Secretary and National Assistant Secretary. In 2007 he became the founding CEO of MATES in Construction, a construction industry leads mental health and suicide prevention program. He holds a Master Degree Suicidology, A Diploma in Social and Community Development, an Associate Diploma in Labour Studies. He is a PhD Candidate researching “Male help-offering in suicide prevention”.You can learn more about Mates in Construction here: https://mates.org.au/...Thanks for listening! We would love your support so we can keep growing this show! Please sign up to nickbracks.com to receive a free chapter of my book. We would love you to subscribe, review, share and comment on the podcast to help us make a difference!The Move Your Mind book & Audiobook is now Available in stories Australia wide and online globally! You can find free chapters & order here: Move Your Mind Book or on my site: nickbracks.comYou can also sign up to our new Move Your Mind community group here: moveyourmind.me or here: Move Your Mind Community We have also relaunched underBRACKS with $1 from every pair going towards mental health. You can find them here: www.underbracks.comYou can find all of the other links here: https://linktr.ee/moveyourmind Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.