Most of us freeze up around the topic of suicide because we don't know what to say. Jay Laughrey and Charlotte Maya, who each lost someone to suicide, walk through the practical stuff everyone should know: what to say to someone who is struggling, how to ask directly, what actually helps a grieving family, and why 988 belongs in your phone.

When Charlotte Maya's husband died by suicide in 2007, she was terrified she'd be ostracized by her community. Instead, honesty drew people closer. She joins Success, Rewritten to talk about grief, suicide literacy, and rebuilding a life she never expected.

I didn't build the habits because I'm disciplined. I built them because I had no other option. In 2018, a manic episode turned into psychosis, and when I came back to work three months later, I had to rebuild everything. Here's what that rebuild looks like — and what it still looks like when life breaks the routine.

Gabe Howard thought about suicide every day for years — and genuinely believed that was just how everyone felt. The mental health speaker and author of Mental Illness Is an Asshole and Other Observations joins Success, Rewritten to talk about what bipolar disorder actually feels like from the inside, why "beating" it is the wrong goal, and what it means to ask about suicide directly.

By every external measure, Dr. Ricardo Anderson was winning. Principal of the Year. Six figures. PhD on the way. At 32, he walked away from all of it to address the trauma he'd been stuffing down for 22 years.