Why this former music exec now promotes mental health awareness full-time
Silence the Shame panel April 30th, 2019. From left: Jennifer Lett from MusicCares, David Lighty , Michael"Blue" Williams , Joi Brown , Shanti Das , Charlamagne tha God , Dr. Cynthia Lewis , Dr. Randy Sconiers got her start in the music business with an internship at Capitol Records; about a decade later, she had worked with everyone from Outkast to TLC to Usher to Prince.
Four years later, she made the difficult decision to quit her job -- despite her upward trajectory, in which she was eyeing roles as general manager or president or urban music at a major -- and move from New York back home to Atlanta, where she started consulting. “It was really hard walking away from, you know, a career that I had worked so hard for,” she says today. But it was also a career that was no longer just taking a mental toll, but a physical one, too.
In place of corporate stress, Das was dealing with her mother’s Alzheimer's, the death of her uncle, financial instability and her best friend’s suicide. She hit a low, turning to pills over grief counseling, and remembers clearly her sister suggesting she call the national suicide prevention lifeline. She took her advice and also texted her pastor who said, “I'll pray with you, but you need to get help.
As Das started to heal herself, she became more vocal about her friend’s passing on social media, catching the attention of Atlanta’s urban music station V103 who invited her on as a guest to speak on mental health awareness. “I said people shouldn’t be afraid to speak up,” Das recalls. “They should just silence the shame. That stuck with me and as I went home and thought about it for the next few days, I was like, ‘Man, I really need to do something with this.
By May 2016, Das had obtained 501 status and soft-launched her organization, then called Hip-Hop Professional Foundation though later changed to Silence the Shame to better represent the mission of normalizing mental health specifically within communities of color. In its first year, Nick Cannon signed on as ambassador.
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