004 : Arvin Mitchell Talks "Compression" - Comedy/Depression

In this episode, Nick talks with his friend Arvin Mitchell, a comedian from St. Louis known for Kevin Hart's One Mic Stand, who is now a writer and performer on Studio C on BYU TV (check them out HERE). 

What better conversation to have with a comedian than discussing the comedy world, but also, how Nick and Arvin originally connected after one of Arvin's shows, and most importantly, both guests share their constant battle with depression. Or as Arvin calls it, "compression." Comedy and depression. 

Yes, even the happiest appearing of individuals can struggle with depression. 

Let's get into it, shall we? 

Here's our chat.

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RECORDED: April 11, 2020 (Audio Only)

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Narrator:   0:04
welcome to choose your attitude. Create your Life, a podcast inspired by Brianna Os Strand, a superhuman, a hero who showed the world what it's like to live life to the fullest. Diagnosed at age three, she dragged around cystic fibrosis and later of pesky superbug, not letting anything get in the way of fulfilling a life. Some could only dream off. A death sentence of age 13 she packed a full life legacy that her body just couldn't keep up with. After 29 years of life. In May 2017 her journey was over. But her legacy continues and is followed by many. Her widower and author of Loving Someone Who Is Dying lives off her inspiring story and hopes to help others live such a full and inspiring life. And is the energy behind this podcast in her own words. Choose your attitude, create your life. And now here's your host, Nicholas Strand. Welcome to choose your attitude podcast streaming a podcast. Chu JIA to dot com Welcome, everybody. I am super excited tohave Arvin Mitchell here. Ah, he is a comedian. Uh, accolades of Ah Dr our comedy BT's comic view, uh, coming to the stage dance. Few Kevin Hart, One mic stand, NBC. Stanford Diversity Studio. See, that's a lot of stuff you've got there. Welcome,

Arvin Mitchell:   1:36
man. I'm great. Thank you. I'm grateful to be working. I'm I'm honored to be on your show during this time.

Nicholas Strand:   1:43
I I appreciate it. Um ah. Arvid and I actually Ah, about a year ago, I was Ah, kind of a year after Brianna had passed. Um, I was having some hard times, and, um, I walked off a tour. I was kind of one of those times I just needed to refresh. And I went to go get on a cruise ship, um, and take my first cruise, and ah, Arvin was the comedian on the show. Ah, on the cruise and I forced myself to go, uh, make a laugh. Um, And after the show, I met up with Arvin and, um, I, uh, as being a person on the road, I, uh Arvin and I connected as humans instead of ah, the comedian and ah, audience member. And we talked a lot. Um, and ah has been friends sense. Um and so, uh, that's why I got to get him on this show. And we've been talking ever since. Um, so with that, though, um, how did you get into comedy? Um, where'd that come from?

Arvin Mitchell:   2:53
Well, um, before I go into how I got in the Tommy, I must say thank you. First of all for having me on your show again, man. And, uh, you mentioned your wife, and I

Nicholas Strand:   3:04
think he

Arvin Mitchell:   3:04
just said her name. And and everybody doesn't know that she's your wife because you just said she passed on well, misinterpreted like

Nicholas Strand:   3:13
that was

Arvin Mitchell:   3:14
she was it but his daughter or, you know, But it was a beautiful, beautiful spirit of a woman that I got a chance to know a little bit through your conversation. I just wanted to pay homage to her before, before I went on

Nicholas Strand:   3:29
half that, um,

Arvin Mitchell:   3:30
Yemen. No problem.

Nicholas Strand:   3:32
The way I got

Arvin Mitchell:   3:33
in the comedy was I've been a clown man ever since I was a child and just always loved last. I didn't know how powerful cartoons were when I was a child. Always laughing that have been everything. Mocking him, mimicking him. And my sister used to always tell me that I should be a comedian, and, um, I didn't take her serious. Really? Um, because I didn't know how you could do it as a job and people with my my job. You know, always when I was in school, I was like, the class clown or just very, very had sick ways of being funny. And, um, you know, until my mom came up to the school and and so I mean performing at the time, I was supposed to be learning, and she told me if I was gonna be a crown to get paid for it. So, um, I kept being funny in class at the sheet with me in front of the

Nicholas Strand:   4:30
class, and

Arvin Mitchell:   4:32
I didn't know you could do this as a career man. So, like I said, my sister told me one time too many that I should be doing this as a job. I just went for it. Somebody at work told me I was too funny to be working there, and I said, Go find the stage now and I'll get on it And he would have found the stage and I got on the stage and it happened.

Nicholas Strand:   4:53
So you just basically, you know, you have the jokes. You you have people kind of giving you a little bit of insight that you're funny. And, um, you you found it. And you just kept that Dr going. And now here you are with all these huge ah, history of where you've been. Um, the power laughter. I know that when we're on that cruise ship, that was one thing that I really enjoyed. Um, not only did you have your, ah, material that you kept inside, but you also really connected with the audience. And I know for me, um, that our that we were together a zay was an audience member watching you. The comedian, um, you really kind of took me away from life. It was a nice little moment. Um, how does that feel for you to be able to kind of have that that golden golden baton to be ableto take people away for an hour and just laugh about things that usually are a dark side at home?

Arvin Mitchell:   5:58
Yeah, Well, to be honest with you, it kind of feels like a people power sometimes, you know, because, um, I'm glad I had the opportunity to make you feel that way. But another a woman told me that after I did a show that I didn't even realize that I had a great night after that night, we were on the way inside the club. Um, I was feeling some kind of way. I had made a conscious decision to stop doing comedy because the club owners who treated me like crap not to stop working the club, but to stop doing comedy. And, um, I got on staying that night, man and rocked out real hard. And as I was leaving the club, still thinking about the way the show started, disgusted and everything. Lady stopped me on the way out. And she's she's going up. I need it. I don't want to say something. You and I was like, you know, I'm have a good night. I was just trying to get out of there, you know? And I actually thought he was, you know, trying to know me if you will.

Nicholas Strand:   6:58
But,

Arvin Mitchell:   6:58
um, I was like, I was like, you know, trying to get out of the way. And I was like, I'm good, I'm good. And she's like, I just want to say that you made me forget about what I'm going

Nicholas Strand:   7:07
through the

Arvin Mitchell:   7:07
whole time you were up there, she was contemplating suicide, and it made me feel like my life. My my concerns about doing comedy work so minimal at that time. And she I've said in my car before I went in the show in contemplating not doing the show. But after she said that to me after the show, I sat in the car just going, Wow, this stuff is powerful, like it's that powerful. So I don't I don't feel when I say it feels like a superpower. I don't I don't say that from a place of arrogance.

Nicholas Strand:   7:47
It feels

Arvin Mitchell:   7:48
good to be able to do to bless somebody from a place that that's not hard for you to bless him from, You know, kind of like when people ask you for things that you might not even have it, you know, to give you might you might be at a point where you don't have abundance, but for them forget about what they're going through, because I have an abundance of of energy and joy and laughter, even some nights with him. Um, I'm not faking it, but I'm not feeling my best, but I still have to give you a show so you can have that experience to walk away and say, Man, I feel good. Like I've literally I had a lady laughed so hard at a show. She stayed until the room was empty because she peed in the chair.

Nicholas Strand:   8:40
So, little puddle,

Arvin Mitchell:   8:41
it was It was it was a college cell and she would be

Nicholas Strand:   8:44
with plastic chairs and

Arvin Mitchell:   8:46
she got up and told me I did

Nicholas Strand:   8:48
not see you, but I

Arvin Mitchell:   8:50
felt good.

Nicholas Strand:   8:51
You know, that's the result of my

Arvin Mitchell:   8:54
comedy. I literally made

Nicholas Strand:   8:55
her here.

Arvin Mitchell:   8:57
Yeah, it just t somebody shudder in laughter or turn red or just get dizzy And they wait for a really long time after the show just to say how you made them feel and I absolutely love it. It's like a medicine for me, for me, because I if I reciprocate that when I see you laughing, it's something that I thought up. It makes me feel good because I did. I did the work, you know? I mean

Nicholas Strand:   9:34
right? Yeah, it is a great

Arvin Mitchell:   9:35
It's a great feeling. Man

Nicholas Strand:   9:37
is a

Arvin Mitchell:   9:38
great feeling.

Nicholas Strand:   9:39
There's a connection and almost like you said, almost Ah, responsibility. Ah, when people come to the show, they kind of go, I guess wantinto have that laugh. Um and so when you walk up on stage, you kind of have that responsibility to to make these people laugh, and sometimes it's not always there, But, um, why do you think comedy allows us to remove some of those stressful areas or the the shields that we put up that in a normal conversation that families or others would not be able to communicate with? I I find that kind of interesting with comedy is comedy kind of has that, um that that ability to just remove all the rules, um, and and make it fair and not wrong, Um, in your experience, how how does that feel? And then, um, where do you see kind of that being a thing?

Arvin Mitchell:   10:41
Well, um, I think I think it has that power to do that because it's such an involuntary thing to do is like you're tickling somebody without touching them. So we pride ourselves. There's whether you American or he's just a human being. It they understand things. We pride ourselves on being smart. So when we some people come to the show. Would the expectation of being outsmarted right? And you knowing what I know is an artist. I know I can do that for you. If you're willing, sometimes even if you're not willing, some people come. Could not laughing. End up laughing and you can't please everybody. So that doesn't always happen. But the fact that it can happen and you could make that connection happen, it's, I believe laughter is to me and emotion, and people want to give themselves over to that. Like when you saw me perform on a cruise ship, you came back again because you you want It's amore and so did a lot of other people. That's why people try to stay in the theater. They don't want to leave out. And they absolutely want Thio. You know you want to feel happy and then come into family shows. You know, everybody doesn't have to be drunk. It's just it's just a great feeling that you you feel like you deserve after a powerful man,

Nicholas Strand:   12:20
for sure. So when when we met or when that happened, that was about a year after Brianna had passed, and that was that. The action of me going on that cruise was actually me trying Thio pull myself out of a darkness because I had fallen in a confusion again. And what was amazing about that night is not only did you remind me to laugh, but, um, I'm not sure if we had talked about this, but when I went back, it actually inspired me to force myself to do a weekly visit to the local comedy show. Because of just that in my struggles that whether it was funny or not, it was one of those things of, you know, it reminded me the simple power of laughter. Um, and And so by going to these comedy shows and laughing again something I had not felt for a very long time because I was so stuck in this depression in pain Um, yeah, it was something that I had gone back to. So the laughing school there and here in Atlanta? Um, I I went and visited probably once every other week. Um, when I was home from work, Um and so that was huge. Um, one thing in our conversation when we when we met, um, it was actually the next day Ah. We were, uh, in the same area. Obviously. Cruise ship where you can't really get off. So the few days that were on there, you're on there as well. And that's when we first met. Um, and we started talking about these things. Um, and, uh, we actually right before this. You you you brought up, huh? The word compression. How? Which is comedy and depression. Um, and, you know, I wanted to talk about a little bit too about, you know, here you are, comic, you're going up on stage, but at the same time, you're human. Um, and, you know, we all deal with things. How do you kind of remove that or or how to use that to inspire you? Um, you know, through your time. Because, you know, it's depressions tough, and it weighs you down. But at the same time, um, you know, you've got something you know, to to go up in approach to this audience,

Arvin Mitchell:   14:39
man. Um, on one hand, and I don't I never wanted, like, Mr Know it all when I'm explaining something about comedy, but I'm just telling you per mile on personal experience, um, I've battled depression off and on for years. And if it's a part of what I do like I know I'm not the only one that battles with anxiety and other things what, you know, that I could help somebody else while I'm doing it. That's why I talk about really stuff. When I'm up there steal telling jokes, you know I have to. I have to weave in the reality of my situation. And that's how you knew that I battle with depression because I mentioned something about it on stage.

Nicholas Strand:   15:28
You know, it's

Arvin Mitchell:   15:29
just it's just a It's a part of life just like everything else and so to move forward with it. And you actually have a connection with a person like yourself, you

Nicholas Strand:   15:42
know,

Arvin Mitchell:   15:42
and various other audience members that I don't get an opportunity to not necessarily not get opportunity. But, you know, we could exchange information with anybody, but but we don't you know. But it was meant to be will be. But just to be able to share, um, what I battle with, I've had numerous guests come up to me after a show and tell me their own story. I mean, I e I mean everybody has been

Nicholas Strand:   16:11
through.

Arvin Mitchell:   16:11
Not every single person on the planet. But as far as I know, most people have been through some things in life that, um that that a worth reading about or sharing help the next person get through whatever it is they might be going through. You know what I mean?

Nicholas Strand:   16:29
Yeah, for sir,

Arvin Mitchell:   16:30
like you do with the passing of your wife, You know, I mean, somebody else had they made they need to hear your story because that lets them know that they can get through losing a loved one. You know what I mean? So,

Nicholas Strand:   16:47
me,

Arvin Mitchell:   16:47
too. To share what? That I've battled with depression. But I'm still telling jokes. The irony in that is mind blowing some people because on one hand, somebody might say I don't find it funny at all. On another hand that somebody tickled pink going I could relate to. Everything you say is 100% Tell me more.

Nicholas Strand:   17:11
And it's that that one person you touch over the 30 or 40 that maybe didn't get it. That inspires you and keeps you fuel to keep going. Um,

Arvin Mitchell:   17:22
well, the thing is doing doing numbers and averages, it's way more than 30 people. Who is

Nicholas Strand:   17:28
where? More people who

Arvin Mitchell:   17:29
get it. Then don't this why

Nicholas Strand:   17:31
I grow

Arvin Mitchell:   17:32
as a working comic when when they're not, um, a pandemic going on

Nicholas Strand:   17:37
working because we're

Arvin Mitchell:   17:38
funny and relatable, You know what I mean?

Nicholas Strand:   17:40
Truly, there's so

Arvin Mitchell:   17:42
many people that can identify with with the human experience, but not the end of the day. That's what you really, really laughing? That even if

Nicholas Strand:   17:51
I

Arvin Mitchell:   17:51
can't say I've been down that road and I've never lived in the city, your experience, the life that I or area geographically that I grew up ahead, you you're still a human. So

Nicholas Strand:   18:05
you

Arvin Mitchell:   18:06
don't know what it feels like to experience the same thing that another human experience walking out of a restroom on a cruise ship and seeing the guy come out of the stall and walked right past the sink and your

Nicholas Strand:   18:19
life. You're

Arvin Mitchell:   18:20
the reason we're

Nicholas Strand:   18:20
having this pandemic

Arvin Mitchell:   18:22
right now.

Nicholas Strand:   18:23
Think this. Um So is that where you're Ah, you're material comes from, Or how do you kind of create your material on how where does that kind of, uh, pull from? Um

Arvin Mitchell:   18:36
um It's all over the place, man. Again Yeah, Part of it is from just regular human experience. You know, I might pick up a book here and there. Don't worry. That happened to me in my life, um, emotion and just just opening my eyes. Man, you observed so much like, right now I'm sitting here talking to you, and while I'm sitting in my RV and as the guy walking down the middle of the street just wearing a superman hoody

Nicholas Strand:   19:05
Johnny smoking a cigarette, you imagine you may like it so

Arvin Mitchell:   19:10
much material everywhere you turn that

Nicholas Strand:   19:14
you don't

Arvin Mitchell:   19:14
You don't have to make make a bunch of stuff up, you know? I mean,

Nicholas Strand:   19:18
first being aware and observe it. More of that. That stuff you're, uh you're history. It's so huge. Of the things that you've done coming from the kid that you know kind of was challenged by your mom toe. Go and make some money out of it. Um, can you share some of those big experiences that still kind of come to mind that, um, you know, kind of the ah ha moments that, uh, you know, maybe you're competing to do better for or?

Arvin Mitchell:   19:50
Well, I mean so many different levels. I mean, like they say you only good as your last show stuff like that. So I don't really hold on to a whole lot of memories and hold him on a pedestal, if you will.

Nicholas Strand:   20:07
I

Arvin Mitchell:   20:07
don't not to minimize them, because it was It was great working with you, Kevin Hart. Like, I mean, I worked with him before he got to the level that that he's gone now and one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Seriously, like dude every Ever since he became like a superstar rock star comedian. Every time I've seen them after that in person, he never treated me like What's your name again?

Nicholas Strand:   20:34
You

Arvin Mitchell:   20:34
know something And, you know, I've had the opportunity to I mean, I was sitting on the couch on Super Bowl Sunday when, ah, when Janet Jackson did her thing with Justin Timberlake, um, in the same living room with little rail and, um, and and he was in get out and a bunch of other stuff now. And you know, some of his other friends Wildcat, meaty and, um, they had a little click car, the last laugh, and they're still doing things. And, um It's just, you know, being and I think it felt like it felt like the whole the whole come up, you know, when you were playing kickball with your friends and then they grew up to be superstars kind of effect, you know what I mean? So I mean, I worked with Tiffany Hatice before she took off into the stratosphere. Um, when I did NBC Standard for diversity, every platform comic view and, um, band fool that idea with Cedric the entertainer, Tommy Davis. And it was just all so stares you up because if it's a real thing to work with, not just celebrities, but get paid, making people laugh, man,

Nicholas Strand:   21:50
doing what you do. It's awesome.

Arvin Mitchell:   21:52
Those And it seemed like every every stage of the highlight. I mean, before all of this happened, you know, that it kept feeling like I was getting over. You know, even though I put in the work it here like this, this is this is amazing. This is mind blowing that I could get paid to make people laugh. This is something I will do for

Nicholas Strand:   22:17
free, you

Arvin Mitchell:   22:18
know? So every platform and sometimes it's a hole in the wall where I'm I'm working on my craft. Or when I went to school at, uh, I took second city and, um, in Chicago while I was working on my stand up because, you know, that's where a lot of the actors from SNL come from. You know, you take these improv workshops and stuff like that, and misuse is mind blowing. And in the in this country that you came I can't I can't even say is mind blowing. It just felt mind blowing to me. But the fact and the reason why I kind of backtracked on a statement is because comedy is a powerful man. It does so much that it be if the $1,000,000,000

Nicholas Strand:   23:03
industry, I

Arvin Mitchell:   23:04
mean, television

Nicholas Strand:   23:05
networks,

Arvin Mitchell:   23:06
you know, on, you know, shut down for now. And everything is breathing because you know of what's going on. But people are in the house. Needed a good laugh, you

Nicholas Strand:   23:19
know, and

Arvin Mitchell:   23:19
the fact that I'm on ah, clean sketch family comedy show Utah called CDO C, where I'm able to make people laugh steel with their family. You don't have to plug in your headphones tow. Watch this show to tune in to BYU TV and check out, you know, a family friendly shell, that smart and fun like man, this is This is amazing because laughter is medicine, you know? And they have all types of other programs on Like to get a lot of people ask me because I forget when I'm on certain platforms to mention how people can find out about where the show is being broadcasted and how they can find out where they can follow me and everything. But you can go to the APP store on your phone and download the BYU TV app and then look up studio. See? I mean, we have we have three seasons out now. We just dropped a new season on 11th April And is this short clips? 34 Minute Cliffs of some hilarious sketch comedy man and the characters that I get to play and my cast mates get the plate. It's so fun. And it is, man, the makeup ladies, I mean, is bananas. What they do a hair makeup and constant. And it feels like family. You know, the lighting guys and everything like, man, this is This is an amazing job. Tohave and, um Michael, Merle and Russ and Adam. You know, they founded this company to bring laughter the family man, because you don't have to goto on adult comedy show on time. Don't give me wrong by any stretch of the imagination. I'm I'm not trying to get people to not go to

Nicholas Strand:   25:13
adult comedy

Arvin Mitchell:   25:14
shows when comedy start back. But you see, some people can't built adult comedy shows because they're family people, they they have Children and they learn a family comedy. And a lot of people think that clean comedy is corny. And that's not the case all the time. You know? I mean, so, um to be apart of I'm a part of the writing staff animal part of the cash and my my cast make off phenomenal. I mean, Austin is amazing. April Gary Dalton Tanner, Jessica Jena story. Um, Matthew, Like, I mean, I met these people last year, man, and I couldn't imagine working with other people as well about as well as I've gotten to know them and to see their craft displayed in front of me, where I'm able to get paid to do what I do and I'm learning from

Nicholas Strand:   26:11
them. I mean,

Arvin Mitchell:   26:13
I just

Nicholas Strand:   26:14
I just

Arvin Mitchell:   26:14
Yeah, man is beyond beautiful because I get to know them on a personal level, and I get to ask them questions like this is

Nicholas Strand:   26:23
it's

Arvin Mitchell:   26:23
a really blessing, you know? And then I gotta say this before I forget I'm in a grocery store in a city that I never imagined. I'd be moving too, and a little white kid walks up to me, Acquainted me, goes You're

Nicholas Strand:   26:40
what? She

Arvin Mitchell:   26:43
recognized me from

Nicholas Strand:   26:43
television. No way. I'm

Arvin Mitchell:   26:49
the only black

Nicholas Strand:   26:50
dude and you know, but yeah,

Arvin Mitchell:   26:53
man, it was like a culture shock for me when I first got here. And I don't I'm not the comment that make everything about race, but is it? I had a really shift when I when I got here, but everyone has treated me so

Nicholas Strand:   27:10
so

Arvin Mitchell:   27:10
kind. I mean, some of the nicest people I've ever

Nicholas Strand:   27:13
met, man,

Arvin Mitchell:   27:13
always looking out, family oriented and just really,

Nicholas Strand:   27:17
really solid. So yeah, I love the passion. And that's one thing, since er since we've met and we've talked a lot is your passion for this work. And, ah, as we can tell in this interview, like, you know, you still that comedy and, um, you know, kind of like me in this project. You know, it's definitely you can see that the therapy with yourself to do this, let alone helping other people, Um, and and even hearing your story of, um, you know, really never giving up on that. You just got to keep fighting And, um, you know, making it through. And, uh, I love this story. Um and, ah, it's it's been great to be your friend and tow. We've really reached out together. And, ah, some of these dark times it's been really nice. And, um, I hope that, Ah, when we reschedule the release party, um, we'll be able to ah, have you out there, um, and hopefully be onstage for us and make us laugh and such That

Arvin Mitchell:   28:18
will be amazing.

Nicholas Strand:   28:19
Yeah, the, um, choose your attitude create your life was Brianna's quote. Um and I I wanted to kind of, ah ask you and I've kind of been asking everybody, um, what's that kind of mean to you? And ah, when you hear that, um, how do you kind of ah exemplify o r Interpret it?

Arvin Mitchell:   28:40
Use your attitude. Create your life. What it means to me, man. It's like it's funny that used to ask me that right now because I struggled over the last few days to have, ah, a positive attitude. Because with this pandemic going on, you know, a lot of people are extremely lonely. You know, some people who live alone confined it harder now that they can't leave the house in different when you can leave the house and you don't. But when you can't leave the house, it sets your mind in a whole nother tailspin. I mean, you could leave, but the social distancing has a, you know, mandatorily at home right now. So I had to over the last few days had literally choose my attitude. And I shared that with my mom even before I met you. And this was a phrase, um, you know, we had a couple of conversation where I'll call her, and I've been I've been living out of town since, um 07 I moved from ST Louis, you know, seven moved to l. A move from L. A. You know, to Utah and, you know, be bopping around, and so I have to call a lot of my family members in AA. Lot of times she would tell me about something. Somebody got killed in the news or accident or whatever. Number one. Mom. I can't take it. I can't take it. I can't take doom and gloom. You have to choose to be happy. Think upbeat, Check out of that stuff and one eye. Once the pandemic hit, I found myself constantly checking the news for you know, what are they saying now? And I'm seeing all these miserable stories. And it's not to say that you shouldn't watch the news or check into a but trashing and trash out, you know what I mean? So I had to literally choose to stop watching so much stop checking in and check in with myself. So if I choose, ah, more positive attitude and I'm in my higher mind and I'm being my eye yourself, then I am creating my life on a whole nother level. You know, this time is supposed to be used for us as social distancing to, um, you know, stop the spread of coded 19 but we're also made to stay at home. I'm looking at a guy in front of my RV, right now across the street. Um, he's he's doing some housework with his wife. They're building something. He has, ah, workbench out. That could would that sand in this stuff. And, you know, being at home to work on those projects that you've been neglecting all this time and read that book you said you wanted to read and learn how the type faster learning another language, creating a life that you want can't say I mean, no everybody, not everybody. But a lot of people will put traveling on their, you know, bucket list and all that stuff. They can't happen right now. But what about getting your taxes done and and knocking out the book the 12 weeks year or whatever other book that you said you wanted to write yourself or whatever your dreams or like you literally can't begin creating your life right now? And it seems like the world is going to change after this, so you might as well create your life to the best of your ability with all the tools that you have access to and a part of me create. My life means I'm plugging the WiFi sometimes and, you know, choosing the have a positive attitude and meditate on the blessing that have been bestowed upon me in the past. And even now, you know, I mean, we could manifest a lot of things, man. And for me to be learning comedy right now and just constantly trying to understand certain things about sketch and other aspects of my life makes me feel like I still have some control over my life because the longer this goes on, it feels like you don't have as much control as you actually do. So we have to check in with ourselves. And I'm saying that to myself, and I'm saying that to anybody who will listen to this podcast to choose a positive attitude like you chose to do. You didn't have to write that book. You didn't have to share what was on your heart and use your book as a ministry to help other people toe let them know how you love, you know. So you chose to do that and you chose a positive attitude to do it with. And you created a whole other life for yourself. Because so many times, you know, you and I've had these conversations about, you know, depression and anxiety and being anxious and stuff. You know, it could have been one of my last days, you know?

Nicholas Strand:   33:26
Sure. Great way to sum it up. Um, thank you so much for coming on here. Um, if people want to find you, uh, where do they find you?

Arvin Mitchell:   33:36
My instagram is Arvin Comedian. I'm not sure what my website is. I think it's Arvin mr dot com. That's a r v e i n m i t c h e l l Arvin Mitchell dot com Um Yeah, man, it was honored. Nice being a guest on yourself. And I really, really wish you all the best.

Nicholas Strand:   33:54
Ah, likewise. Um, appreciate everything. Um, I'll make sure that I put the information on the ah podcast description. Eso Either way. Well, you can hear it here or go there. Thio be able to find it. But Instagram Arvin comedian umm and ah yeah, Well, um thank you. Ah, for everyone. For joining us on the huge attitude podcast. Don't forget to come visit us at choose. You have to dot com where you can find more info about this mission. A cz. Well, it's choose your attitude apparel, along with my books Loving Someone is dying and the illustration quotes on the fridge. If you have any questions or ideas for the show, please email us that podcast at to Janet to dot com, as we are always excited to hear from you. Thanks for listening. Those as always, choose you to create your life. Thanks, guys. Thanks for listening to choose your attitude. Create your life If you like what you just heard. We hope you'll pass along our Web address and podcast. Choose your attitude dot com to your friends and colleagues. If you have a specific topic or question, you want Nick to answer or address, or if you want to recommend someone pretty amazing to be on the show, please visit our website and leave your recommendation under our podcast page while you're there. Please leave us a positive review. Be sure to check out our archives section on our website for previous podcasts. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Join us next time for another edition of Choose Your Attitude, Create Your Life