Rise Up with Rick - Ed Ross, Co-founder and Director of TradeMutt and TIACS

TradeMutt is a social impact workwear company. They’re known around Australia for their loud, vibrant work shirts which were designed to start conversations about mental health, making an invisible issue impossible to ignore.

Taking a more light-hearted and approachable angle to the conversation, they exist to drive the much needed social and cultural shift in attitude towards mental health among tradies, truckies, farmers, rural and blue-collar workers.

In the past 5 years they’ve grown into a well recognised and established social impact workwear brand. After launching their conversation starting workwear, they saw how the funky workwear was helping to start important conversations about mental health.

What they soon came to learn is that starting the conversation sometimes means that you need to continue that conversation with a professional. A professional that you can trust and relate to; is not going to charge you through the nose; wait months until you can connect with them or have to hoop jump for a referral and if you manage to get through all that to be told there’s actually no one available in your location.

TIACS was born through the realisation that there were way too many barriers to free mental health support for the blue-collar community. Operating since 2020, TIACS provides a professional text and call service with qualified counsellors for free. Open Monday to Friday between 8.0am – 10.00pm AEST You can text them on 0488 846 988.

**This episode contains content that may be uncomfortable or triggering for some viewers- if you cannot get on to TIACS please if you need reach out to organisations like Beyond Blue 1300 22 4636 or Lifeline 24/7 suicide prevention and crisis support. Provides all Australians access to crisis support and suicide prevention services.
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