Justin Peck
Appearances
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
Yeah, but more than that now.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So there's a saying that I've kept along for most of my life. And I don't know where I heard this. But have you ever heard the saying, embrace the suck?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
yeah yeah yeah right so i for some reason i just i don't know if it was just beat into me as a young kid or what but i i have to take the hard way i have to do things in the way that is the most difficult that makes it seem like that's the only way i can learn right because i i'm not i'm not an educated man um i barely graduated high school and but i learned very well through experience.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
And so it's just, it's the experiences that I've gained over that time that has led me to the path that I'm on right now. I don't think I answered your question. What was your question again?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So this may not make sense, but maybe it does. When your brain hurts mentally, your whole body hurts. It's a miserable process. I found that when I was hurt, when I was broken, I could focus more of the external pain than the internal pain.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
the broken bone would actually help me and it would keep me motivated to to be better knowing that all right if i'm gonna race i can't crash i need to be a little more safe right but yes the pain did affect a lot but it kept me motivated in a weird sort of way okay so you've created this body of work it can be your construction it also can be your racing
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
Yes, sir.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
With Mental Health America, they've kind of shifted a little bit of how their structure worked. I realized a few years ago that I didn't quite fit the mold for their path. And while I'm still an ambassador for those guys, I understood that I needed to be more of a more niche in who I was reaching. For me, I work a lot with veterans.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
I work a lot with young men, a lot of people with substance abuse, those type of things that all correlate to the mental health problems that are plaguing the country right now. I apologize, man. It's one too many concussions. I lose my train of thought every once in a while.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
Yes, yes, yes, yes. So two years ago, I kind of pulled away from Mental Health America and started the National Mental Health Alliance. And so what we try to do there is we try to educate. The business in the industry that I've kind of evolved into is more of a toxicology and medication management phase.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So it took me quite a few years, brother, like probably 15 years before I kind of just grasped the concept of this is what I'm living with. This is what God has blessed me with. And so I ended up forming the National Mental Health Alliance. I mean, that's ultimately how I got into it is being a patient, being someone that experiences what mental illness is like.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
We've started a few companies that helps with like drug testing and those type of things in the sense of not necessarily drug testing for illicit substances, but for like mental health medications and those type of things.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
Yeah, so we're definitely trying to reach every corner of the planet that we can. And again, like I said, we're basing everything off of educating. Being able to educate a spouse if the wife is going through postpartum depression. They don't know where to turn to. If they don't have the right information, then what do you... I mean, at the end of the day, you only know what you know.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So we try to provide that type of information for people. With the Alliance as well, we're able to help with domestic violence. We're able to help with substance abuse, all the different components. I mean, even having the nonprofit was a huge blessing over the last few weeks with me being in North Carolina.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
you look at the situation that those people are going through right now, and while everybody can see the outside and the physical broken bones and the physical damage, we can't see what's going on up here. It was pretty amazing to be out there and to be able to talk to those people in a way that I felt like they need.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
One experience that we had out there was there was a line of cars and they were trying to get up a road that was washed out and they had the power company up there. And we were waiting to get through to do some search and rescue.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
There was a lady that was parked behind our caravan and our team, and she got out of the car and she was yelling at us and having a breakdown, as I would too, as probably anybody would. I remember hearing someone kind of make a comment of saying, man, there's Karens everywhere. And I kind of sat back, right? And I sat there and it just, it hit me a little different.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
And so I got out of my truck and I walked over and I just looked at her and I asked her what her name was. And she told me her name and I just opened up my arms, brother. And that woman grabbed a hold of me and she, she allowed me to take her pain, the despair that that woman had. And that's all she needed was a hug and someone to tell her that it's okay.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
When I was young, I tried to join the military. And when I explained to them a little bit about what my brain was doing, it was an immediate, no, I'm not going to allow you to be in the military. And that was always kind of a big thing for me because I felt like that was a way for me to jump into a brotherhood. To be denied that was, it was kind of devastating.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
But I realized something about 10 years ago when I had a few of my veteran friends take their own life. I realized that while I was not able to serve my country downrange, I'm able to now serve my country and serve those men that have went across by being support for them and be able to talk and fit in with that same group, if that makes sense.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So Instagram, JustinPet49. I'm on Facebook as well. LinkedIn, I'm fairly easy to find. But if anybody ever has any questions, reach out via Instagram and I will talk to anybody, anybody at any time. My day when I first wake up is to be able to open up my messages and see there may be 51 day, there may be 20 the next, and there may be 500 the next day.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
to just let people know that strangers are still there. I mean, I think the human experience is hard enough to know that you have people that are willing to walk beside you through the valley. It's a huge thing. I never had that growing up. And so it's one of those things that I felt like I felt very compelled to do.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
My family struggles with it, my daughters, my sons. So it's personal to me.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
When I wrote my book, it was kind of a weird process of how I even wrote the book. My grandmother, I was at my youngest brother's funeral. He had passed away from an overdose at the age of 20. And my grandmother made mention as we're sitting there, she's like, listen, your children need to know how you were as a man, how you were as a child.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
What was it like for me when I grew up so I could pass that along? She challenged me to keep a journal to be able to write things down. And so the process of the book went down that way. Well, in 2016, I realized that I had 270 pages written down and handed it off to an editor and I asked her to kind of clean it up for me.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
Well, at that time, I was quite fortunate to get a couple of phone calls from some publishers.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
um saying that we love the content you know your message we're willing to offer you offer you this so i had a couple book deals put on my lap i turned every single one of them down every single one main reason why is because they wanted to take over creative right they wanted to take my story and tweak it which now makes it a fiction book where it's not my story anymore and so while the the big fat check would have been nice at the end of the day i still needed to stay true to myself and true to my message
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
The irony behind everything is I think that's mostly how people get into the certain trades that they're in. They'll come up with a trauma or a family experience and they're so passionate about that experience. That's the course correction and that's where they end up going in life.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So if you go to my site, it's justinpeck.com. You can buy it there. I'm on Amazon. I don't think I renewed with Barnes & Noble, so I don't think it's on there anymore. But either my website or Amazon.com.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
No, man. I just, I just enjoy the conversation. I think at the end of the day, I, um, I've, I've listened to a few, a few of your podcasts to kind of touch up on, on who you are and if it means anything to you, brother, like I'm really proud of you, man. Like you job, you, You educate, you put thoughts and potential actions in people's minds that actually make a difference.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So at the end of the day, I don't know where your mind space is at, but at the end of the day, if you ever doubt what you're doing, man, I'm telling you, you reach a lot of people and you should be proud of what you do.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
I can tell that your personality and where your heart is at, the likes and the views are awesome. But at the end of the day, you're not doing it for the likes and the views. You're doing it to actually help the populace.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
Perfect. All right, my friend, I appreciate the time.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So I was probably nine is my earliest recollection. But where I felt that I was different is I was highly sensitive. My emotions, I still to this day, and you'll probably see that as we discuss further on, but I wear my emotions very, very, very close on my shoulders. I don't hold any of it back. At nine, I was an emotional sensitive kid. Kind of went through that process.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
And so I kind of started pulling away from there. And then when I turned 13, that was my very first manic episode. And I remember it very vividly, actually. When that happened, not only did my friends see me different, but my family saw me different because I was different.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
It was a struggle. But if you think about it, I mean, that was 40 something years ago, right? And times have changed. Mental health, the word bipolar wasn't even a word back there. It wasn't even a vernacular word that people would even discuss. All people have the ability to talk about it, which is amazing.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
yeah brother like all all through my high school junior high elementary um it was it was severe cases i mean it would be things now that people would probably get arrested for because back then bullying was just bullying right it's there you always had someone bigger than you my family structure was very solid they didn't understand by no means um you know growing up with you know a dad that's
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
was a truck driver and it's, you know, lean and mean type things. Growing up with a grandpa that went through the great depression and, you know, the 1918 type stuff, then all the dilemmas and all the things that they went through. And then they look at us as a new generation coming through and they like suck it up. You know, it's that, it's that whole mentality.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
And so I had great support, but they didn't understand. I mean, I didn't understand. And it wasn't until I actually dove into it and was willing to talk about it that my family actually grasped onto the concept of what I was going through. My mother still feels bad that she wasn't able to recognize it. But again, I mean, it was 40 years ago. And how do you do that?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
Well, so in school, nothing. Honestly, nothing. Teachers, educators, the people that I would typically look for or look to for support in a school atmosphere, there was none. There was zero back then. But again, my family, it was more... trying to think how to even explain this. It wasn't that they didn't know what to do. So, okay, I guess I'll back up a little bit.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
On the manic phase, I went from being a kid that was pretty quiet, didn't really say much, kind of kept to myself, felt like it was more of a depressive state, more of a mellow state. But then overnight, I turned into the mania phase and I got into a lot of trouble, skipped school all the time. I was a hooligan. And I think my parents kind of probably took that as,
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
just teenage years and going through puberty and all those things, which it's ironic that it actually happened in that period of time because I still have a firm belief that the mental components has a lot to do with hormone balances and the changing of body and how hormones actually affect our brain.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
It was an interesting experience. I think I remember most of it. There's trauma, right? And I think everybody has trauma through childhood and through growing up, just in different circumstances.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
I feel like I was blessed to be able to have this. It's been hard. It's a hard road to tackle. But at the end of the day, brother, it's made me the man that I am today. And it's given me the platform to be able to talk about it.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
and did it affect your interaction with females you know if you wanted to go on a date or anything like that oh man i was so shy i was so shy i had two friends through my high school years that were close and that could probably put up with me i didn't really have very many friends after that i was fortunate to have a girlfriend in i think my senior year
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
Even after I graduated high school, the social side of the disorder is pretty overwhelming at times because with the depression or even the mania, when you realize that you're different in that way, you start to overcompensate for things when you don't actually need to. People just look at you as who you are, but deep down, it's just like they say, we're always our worst critic, right?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
And so growing up, I was my worst critic. And so I would always look at the situations or the things that my mind was going through and thinking to myself, how could these people even come close to understanding what I'm thinking?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
And so through those interactions and through those things, it was not only a healing process, but I think it was a really, really good learning experience for me and those people that walked beside me on that as well.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So racing, you know, I actually get this question quite a bit. I answer it different ways every single time. But racing for me, I realized that at a young age, that was my medication. I was able to not perfect my craft by no means. I felt like I was fast and I was good at what I was able to do. I realized that in that group of people, there was no judgment. There was no...
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
bullying there was none of that in that atmosphere i mean these are of course just just personal beliefs but when you take artists when you take um like i see the records in in behind you when you have artists when you have people that are thrill seekers that have that ability to do things that more It's actually kind of crazy. It's the special ability, right?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So I've always looked at autism as people with special abilities, meaning like super powers. They do things way better than I can do on certain things. Racing for me, I realized that the camaraderie that I had with my fellow racers gave me a place to belong. When you have that sense of belonging, then the self-doubt starts to go away. When self-doubt starts to go away, now confidence builds.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
And it's just that slow progression of climbing that ladder. And with the type of racing that I do, I mean, it's pretty extreme. I mean, when you're doing... 120 to 160 miles an hour on the dirt over bumps and jumps. And I mean, death is close. This thing that you feel alive when you're closest to death, that's kind of how it worked for me.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
posed to me like that in a very, very long time. So thank you for that. That's an amazing question. So I woke up one morning, I was married. So I was 26 years old. So I had, I think, two babies at that time, maybe three. And I had been fighting the depressive side of it pretty hard. My wife at the time didn't really understand. I didn't talk about it very often.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
I remember waking up one morning and just had the feeling of despair and grabbed my dog. I was a construction guy, so grabbed my dog and threw him in the back of the truck and went to go check on my job sites. And I found myself at the top of the canyon. So isolation... is a pretty powerful thing. It could be very negative. It could be positive as well.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
I isolated myself from a lot of people during that moment. And it wasn't even a planned thing. I was sitting at the top of the canyon watching my dog run around with all the joy in the world. Looking at the beautiful scenery, the trees, the valley. And it's always kind of intrigued me because I don't necessarily have the answer of why that moment happened.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
But the moment was as simple like I give up, reached into the center console of my truck, grabbed the pistol.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
loaded it put it to my head and pulled the trigger what that did for me it did a few things um but i remember that depressive feeling before i pulled the trigger and then when you pull the trigger that adrenaline the massive amount of adrenaline that hit me and the very first emotion that i had is i was mad i was i was generally angry at myself but how could i screw this one up too right like
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
There's a bullet in there. I knew it. So when I unchambered the bullet and it flew in front of my face and landed in my lap, I picked it up and I looked at it and I saw where the firing pin had hit the primer. And there's no reason it shouldn't have went off. The two things that it did for me is... It helped me understand that there's higher powers that be.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
There are certain special things in our life that we get to experience that are unexplainable. The second thing that it did for me was the adrenaline that hit me. It instantly, and I'm telling you, brother, like I'm talking instantly, took me out of that depressive state enough to be able to gather my composure, load my dog and drive down the canyon instantly.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
And I guess the third thing it did was when I got cell phone service at the bottom of the canyon, the very first person I called was my doctor. That led me to, again, where I'm at today without even being diagnosed. So I wasn't diagnosed until that incident. I had lived to the age of 26 with just not knowing. This gave me the avenue to actually understand what was going on.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
Absolutely, absolutely.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
And I think that was really a huge pivotal moment in my life of actually having a name or a face to the name. Then you can research it and slowly progress as we go.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So I've always been an entrepreneur. I've been a business guy since I was 18. I was very fortunate to start my own company at 19 and haven't worked for another soul since other than myself.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
So construction was always something that I knew and then I got good at it. And then I was able to speak the language, speak the vernacular quite well and became a fairly large builder in my state. Knowing that that was a good source of income for me when 2008 came and wiped basically everything off the planet financially for most people, right?
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
I kind of turned my focus more into helping people get paid in the construction industry. So I still stick in the construction industry, but racing is probably my priority. I guess maybe my priorities are a little messed up, but I love the race car. I really transformed into the full-time racer probably 15, 16 years ago. It just slowly evolved into where I'm at.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
NASCAR.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
The best way for me to describe it is, so I drive trophy trucks and rally cars. So it's the Baja 1000. It's the Vegas to Reno. It's the long distance endurance racing in trucks that have huge horsepower. So like, for example, the Baja 1000 last year was a 1,369 mile race. Took us 38 hours, right? So you're in the race car a long time.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
I was a dirt bike guy for a long time, had some good sponsorship with like KTM and those guys. But after so many broken bones, you have to get into a cage.
Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World
BONUS EPISODE: Justin Peck: Racing to Resilience – Transforming Bipolar Challenges into Mental Health Advocacy and Community Support
Oh boy, I think we're going on 28 years now. I was diagnosed with class one bipolar. So I went through suicide attempts, went through a lot of just crazy emotions, crazy feelings, but I was a professional race car driver. You can't say that you're crazy when you're doing a crazy sport, if that makes any sense.