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Zachary Anderson

Zachary Anderson

Retired Australian football player

Sep 14, 2026

10:21
Mm-hmm.
10:23
Um, and then, uh, and then a- another thing that they do weekly is, is they, or, or monthly, but they do it every other week, is, um, they provide a support group for people in recovery.
10:33
And so again, a tagline we use a lot in, in our field is, "The opposite of addiction is connection," right? And it's just getting at that sense of like, let's create community for people.
10:43
When we're in isolation, that does not help, um, our addicti- addictions.
10:47
It just creates, you know, more, more, um, amplification of those things, and so how can we provide places for people to be celebrated for the journeys that they, they've been, uh, navigating for themselves, and have that support? And then finally, the Collective, um, historically has been a group that has really looked at, um, you know, African American youth in our community, um, you know, providing a, an additional space of just welcomeness, connection for them.
11:14
They've even expanded historically by having, like, financial literacy workshops for, especially for first-generation students.
11:22
I was a first-generation, um, college student-

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24:47
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