Rico Sharp Part 5 Mental Health Leadership Conference

28 Aug 2026 · 3 min

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Rico Sharp argues that doctors, dentists, teachers, and mental-health providers need their own peer support from someone who understands their work. You can't pull your own tooth, and family can't address the specific stress of caregiving. Without a qualified colleague to mentor them and set boundaries, helpers burn out and compromise their ability to serve others.

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The helper needs help too. A doctor needs a doctor. A dentist needs a dentist. How many of you know that a dentist can't pull his own tooth? Like, I'd like to see him try. How many of you know that a teacher needs a teacher? See, one of the reasons why we're losing people in this industry is because we're not finding somebody As mental health providers that we can go to and get mental health support. See, we live on— we live in the city on the top of the hill, right? We're at the top of the chart, right? We're at the top of the graph. And so people come to us for help. But the question is, who do we go to for help? Can I tell you that going to mom and dad and brother and sister and husband and wife and a friend or a confidant, that's not enough. You have to find somebody who specializes in what you specialize in. You have to find someone that knows how to treat the symptoms that you're showing. People who can identify with precision where you are and say to you, Sharon, you need to slow down. Sharon, you need to learn how to back up a little. Sharon, you need to put a divider between your home life and your work life. If you don't find help, if you don't get the support that you need so that you can bring out the best in you, how are you going to bring out the best in others? If people come to you for solutions and for answers, for help, for support, for reinforcement, and for you to undergird them, and yet you're not in a good healthy place to do that, They're in trouble. How are you going to help someone if you're running on fumes? So you have to find a person that you can go to and say, can you counsel me? Can you mentor me? Can you support me? And you have to keep those people in your life. We call it accountability, ladies and gentlemen. We call it accountability. Somebody that can hold you accountable, strengthen you when you feel weak, help you when you feel helpless, support you when you become emotionally, mentally, or psychologically drained. You need someone in your life that can do that, that will not judge you, will not criticize you, but understand that you are not carrying the weight of the world. On your show.