Everything's Cherry

Join us as we kick off season 2 with a special Valentine's episode! We delve into love, notable relationships, and everything in between. Everything's Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health. Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms. New episodes every 3rd Thursday of the month.

Bet you didn't think SPAM could be related to mental health, but in this episode our guest Sierra O'Neill proves you wrong! Make sure you're not hungry because you're going to be able to smell the SPAM through this one. PS: We are very open to SPAM sponsoring this podcast??? Everything's Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health. Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms. 

In our Suicide Prevention special, CJ and Ruzelle sit down with fellow mental health advocate Niel Darren Romero from Project Inspire. We talk about being artists, creating, and how it all ties to mental health. In this episode, we dive deep into talking about suicide prevention and how crucial it is to open up about it.  Everything's Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health. Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms. 

On this special episode, Ruzelle and CJ catch up with John and Jasmine of the “We Got Out Of Bed Today” podcast. Tune in as we chat about millennial dark humor, turning 30, and for some reason- iCarly?  Follow and support Jasmine and John by heading over to @wgoobtpodcast on Instagram, and check out Jasmine at  thehusk.substack.com. Everything's Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health. Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms. New episodes every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.

Tune in for our "back to school special" where we reflect on our teenage years and talk about the pressure put on teens today (and in 2010). Everything's Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health. Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms. New episodes every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.

In this episode, CJ and Ruzelle explore our paths to advocacy- how we became mental health advocates, who helped us along the way, and everything in between. Thank you to Sara Harrell from Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center for suggesting this topic! Everything's Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health. Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms. New episodes every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.

Jamela Santos (a clinical social worker & yoga teacher) joins us to chat about how our mental health is affected by things that happened before we were even born - our family's histories, historical events, colonization, immigration - as well as the experiences of growing up Filipino on Guam (@filipinosforguahan). Everything's Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health. Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms. New episodes every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month.

CJ and Ruzelle are joined by Chloe Babauta (@ate.chloe_), where we talk about struggling with mental health in the new millennium, getting a diagnosis, and the challenges of having a mental illness while living in a small community like Guam's. Everything's Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health.  Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms. New episodes every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month. 

If you were looking for a sign on whether or not to go to therapy, here it is. In this episode, we talk about our experiences with therapy and what it's like finding a therapist on Guam. Everything's Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health. Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms.

In this episode, we invited Dr. KristiAnna Whitman (Guam Focus on Life Project Director) to open up about her own mental health journey both as a professional and also as a regular human being. Everything's Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health.  Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms. 

In this episode of Everything’s Cherry, we talk about how movies and TV shows portray mental health and why it’s important - the good, the bad and casual use of the word “crazy”.  POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD: How I Met Your Mother, 13 Reasons Why, Pretty Little Liars, Inside Out, Melancholia Everything’s Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health. Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms.

CJ and Ruzelle have a girl chat with friend and actorvist Joyce Torres (@joycelynnrose) about crying, expressing yourself through acting and theatre and how to be a supportive friend. Everything’s Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health. Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms.

Welcome to Everything's Cherry! In our pilot episode, meet hosts CJ and Ruzelle as we introduce ourselves, our journeys with mental health, and what we hope to accomplish with this podcast. Everything’s Cherry is a podcast hosted by Ruzelle Almonds and CJ Ochoco that features conversations about all things mental health related. Join us for personal stories, advice from professionals, and other musings on how everything affects our mental health.  Follow us on Instagram (@everythingscherryguam) and tune in on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major podcast streaming platforms.