Frank King, Suicide Prevention speaker and Trainer was a writer for The Tonight Show for 20 years. He’s fought a lifetime battle with Major Depressive Disorder and Chronic Suicidality, turning that long dark journey of the soul into 6 TEDx Talks and sharing his lifesaving insights on Mental Health Awareness with associations, corporations, and colleges. Depression and suicide run in his family. He’s thought about killing himself more times than he can count. A Motivational Public Speaker who uses his life lessons to start the conversation giving people permission to give voice to their feelings and experiences surrounding depression and suicide. And doing it by coming out, as it were, and standing in his truth, and doing it with humor. He believes that where there is humor there is hope, where there is laughter there is life, nobody dies laughing. The right person, at the right time, with the right information, can save a life.

TEDx Coaching, Suicide Prevention, mental health, comedy

A comedian doing speaking on Suicide Prevention, how does that work? You wrote jokes for The Tonight Show for 20 years, how did you get that job? You have 6 TEDx Talks, how did you ever land that many? You coach others to get TEDx Talks, what does that entail? You live with two mental illnesses? When did you begin your comedy career? Is your family funny? You were on the road doing comedy clubs for 2,629 nights in a row nonstop?

Four of my 6 TEDx Talks

Born to Be Funny https://youtu.be/mugOzr6ItFk Mental With Benefits https://youtu.be/mCnsHSdAn48

A Matter of Laugh or Death https://youtu.be/IeMg6OFYfU0

Suicide, The Secret of My Success https://youtu.be/3D4m33DXtsI

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