HeyJaredHelp The People
Help the People is more than a podcast—it’s a movement. Hosted by Shannon Scott-Riley, a writer, consultant, and mental health professional with over 15 years of experience, this show creates space for truth, healing, and action.
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- Sep 20, 2026
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The life you want. (opens the original)
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Survival may have gotten you here, but survival was never supposed to be your permanent address. At some point, we have to stop simply learning how not to die and begin learning how to live. The life you know taught you how to survive. The life you want is going to teach you how to live.
Whose Bible Is It Anyway? When Scripture Can Defend Both the Slave and the Abolitionist. (opens the original)
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The episode wouldn't have to argue that the Bible is simply good or bad. The more difficult question is: If the slaveholder and the abolitionist are both holding the Bible, how do we determine which one understands God? And then take it further: slavery, segregation, civil rights, women's equality, interracial marriage, LGBTQ issues, war, the death penalty, wealth and poverty. Across history, people have repeatedly reached into scripture and emerged with contradictory conclusions. That puts your
Survival Checklist (opens the original)
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What if you stopped defining your life by your failures and started defining it by everything you've survived? In this deeply personal episode of Help the People, Shannon Riley invites listeners to create a different kind of checklistnot a list of accomplishments, but a survival checklist. From childhood trauma and addiction to grief, racism, illness, heartbreak, and starting over, we often forget how much we've endured because we're too busy remembering where we fell. This episode explores a po
The Weight That Tightens the Noose (opens the original)
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Episode Description The Weight That Tightens the Noose What if the deadliest part of the noose wasn't the rope—but the weight it was forced to carry? In this deeply personal episode of Help the People, Shannon Riley explores the invisible burdens that many Black men carry every day: generational trauma, racism, abuse, addiction, poverty, hypervigilance, and the constant pressure to survive while appearing strong. Drawing on his own life, Shannon reflects on how these burdens can become so heavy
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