Hey Voice Up,

Both of our conversations on Saturday were filled with wonderful connections.

I wanted to share our global conversation in detail this evening.

The purpose is to share how great a community we all have the ability to connect with. We are building a community like no other. We are a safe space to elevate, innovate, and share your purpose. Feel free to invite more along the way on this purpose driven journey.

Voice Up Global Planning Meeting Analysis - Notes

Executive Summary

The Voice Up Global Planning meeting on September 6, 2025, revealed a comprehensive mental health organization operating across multiple time zones with a focus on empathetic community building and holistic wellness. The 52-minute session included participants from the US, India, Bangladesh, Virginia, and Kansas City, demonstrating the organization's global reach.

Key Organizational Characteristics:

- Mission: Youth empowerment through voice and purpose, with strong mental health focus

- Structure: Two-tier meeting system accommodating global participation

- Approach: Cultural sensitivity with adaptation of practices (meditation renamed "breathing")

- Leadership: Non-hierarchical, empathy-driven leadership style

- Core Framework: "B Curriculum" - a comprehensive wellness system covering 8+ life domains

- Success Metrics: Student-authored books gaining commercial bookstore orders (200-300 copies)

Primary Concerns Addressed:

- Mental health stigma and accessibility across cultures

- Financial literacy as mental health component

- Social belonging and workplace integration

- Physical health trauma recovery

- Community building without political divisiveness

Meeting Structure:

1. Global introductions and personal sharing

2. Platform navigation and technical training

3. Deep dive into B Curriculum components with practical applications

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Detailed Chronological Analysis

Pre-Meeting Setup and Technical Details (0:00-1:29)

Art Fuller established the meeting's casual, supportive tone immediately: "May, you may say, Hey, I'm thinking of a different way to approach it. And even if you say that that's perfectly fine, like, literally, we call it a guide because that's all it is. It's just a guide." This comment reveals the organization's informal, non-hierarchical approach.

Art explained their note-taking system: "We have lots and lots of note takers, and usually I just leave my two on, and then everybody will get the notes from one of my two note takers."

Meeting Context and Global Reach (1:29-3:44)

Art provided crucial context about the meeting's evolution: "Originally, when we were starting off the 930 it was just for people that lived in India, because at that time, I was like, wow, I got all these people living in India. But now it's just open to everybody, so it doesn't matter you. You're going to find people from everywhere at this 930 meeting."

Detailed Participant Introductions with Personal Stories

Lindsey Trice's Leadership Role (3:44-4:17)

Lindsey's brief but significant introduction established her as a key health and wellness leader who doesn't typically attend evening meetings, making her presence notable.

Miras Muratov's AI Mental Health Focus (4:37-5:18)

Miras revealed his dual identity: "I'm located in Virginia, Fairfax. So currently I'm a graduate student. Now I'm trying to explore different tools to develop AI tool to hunt the mental health" and "I'm originally from Carlos [Kazakhstan]."

Abdullah Foad's Vulnerable Mental Health Journey (5:39-8:21)

Abdullah's introduction was the most emotionally revealing. He described a complex guilt cycle: "Generally, it happens with me, like in my college, also, if I didn't complete any assignment or anything else, if I if I'm having good connection with my teachers, but I face a guilty to face her or him."

His spiritual moment was particularly poignant: "I have prayed like, you know, it's a morning, so I have prayed and I was going to sleep. Of course, it's a weekend today here in India, Sunday. So I have got just a message, like, you know, notification, pop up at 640 you know, voice a voice up meeting."

He articulated his academic struggles: "From past 10 years, literally, I'm facing, like, mental health challenges, also semester exam, also in my finals, in my I have just passed my engineering from like two months. So in my master I was like the topper of my, of my but before that seven second last semester, like seven semester and in the final semester."

His core insight about Voice Up: "The one thing I have got from Vice up is like, I will get the empathetic people here, empathic people so and like showing up and having courage to stand up for, you know, cause and mental health."

Community Response to Abdullah's Vulnerability (8:13-8:35)

Art's immediate supportive response: "I am so I appreciate you sharing that Abdullah, because that's I mean, literally. That's why we're designed. We're designed to help, to be empathetic, to understand, to be a safe space, and you're always welcome, like you're always welcome."

Abdullah continued his reflection on community-finding: "It's hard to find like, from where the people or a group or a community that understands you, you know, it's all politics over in every group, like in a when the people collect, it's being a politics. It's a part of politics."

Art's direct question to Sukhwinder: "Now. Sukhwinder, do we have politics in this thing?" 

Sukhwinder's firm response: "Definitely. No."

Sukhwinder Singh's Mentorship Philosophy (8:58-10:14)

Sukhwinder provided insight into Voice Up's team diversity: "We have vast like team like, some people are good in developing, some people are good in data, some people are good in mind. We have teachers and like, we have diverse people, where we all are connected with all of basic five principles, patience, empathy."

His philosophy on mutual growth: "Whenever we join, we join with this spirit only, like we'll meet these people and wherever we are stuck in our life, first we'll upgrade ourself. And once we are avoided, we will create such an environment where Whoever joins with us is also agreed to that spirit."

Cultural Sensitivity Discussion (10:31-11:03)

Sukhwinder revealed important cultural adaptation strategies: "Some people have that taboo of like, we cannot use this word meditation, so we change this word to breathing. So we'll come on this part which art is already will come on the B curriculum part."

Art's lighthearted response: "Yes, everybody loves breathing. Everybody so it's a wonderful thing."

Jack's Musical Purpose Connection (11:22-13:32)

Jack's introduction: "My name is Jack. I'm from Atlanta, Georgia, and I've been a part of voice up from maybe, maybe two, two or three weeks now, very recently... I'm working with the musical purpose internship, really trying to help people, bring people together with music."

Art revealed a significant organizational challenge: The musical position had been available for nine months with only Jack applying: "I had this position out there for nine months, nine had this position out there for nine months. And how many people had applied to a jack? Just one, just me."

Art connected Jack to Ayushi: "You and I usually have a very unique connection. Hers may not be music, but you have found like I put that position. So I was thinking about it nine months ago, yeah, yeah. And so now it's coming to fruition."

Ayushi Rai's Curriculum Development Role (13:32-14:06)

Ayushi offered Jack support: "Virtual High five? Jack" and described her role: "I support with creating curriculums and training courses for voice up. And I'm really excited that week, every week, on the weekends, and we brainstorm. And this is a community that really supports and wholes Academy."

Jeff Cheeks' Executive Leadership Perspective (14:14-15:45)

Jeff provided leadership continuity: "I've been with voice up since October, November, November, December, timeframe, and I'm a part of the executive leadership team as well. I'm excited to be here, and I enjoyed this time frame that we get to meet with everyone across the seas."

His encouraging words to newcomers: "Also Jack and Abdullah, welcome to the team. Looking forward to see what you guys bring to the table. And you know, if you're doing the internship side of things, just keep pushing forward and working on your your progress and your eight week guide."

Tamoso Deep's Gender Equality Focus (19:46-21:32)

Tamoso outlined his specific mission: "My plan is to highlight the Women entrepreneur of this country, because, like, I'm someone who believes in gender equality, and I still feel like the situation is actually very, very dire here when it comes to gender."

He acknowledged his limitations: "Since I'm not A woman myself, there are certain limitations. When I'm attempting to work on this issue, I might not be able to get enough responses from everyone. So that's why I chose the entrepreneurs, because they are actually already out there."

Almoid Sheikh's Data Philosophy (21:51-23:20)

Almoid was dubbed "the philosopher of data" by Art and described his role: "I help around the data and analysis side of things with adding some purpose and clarity with actionable way to finding it."

Voice Up Platform Technical Demonstration (24:13-27:47)

Art's platform overview included specific navigation instructions: "Make sure you have gone to voice up life, Doc programs and for all the interns, please be sure that you choose voice up internships, connect to purpose."

He emphasized the structured approach: "You're going to see something that says, Start here, and then you just follow the steps. So like when you click one, it shows you all the different steps, and you just go 123, you know, you just follow it in order."

The quiz component: "Then you take a little survey, a quiz about it. We want to make sure you understand the history, and it's just a fun little quiz."

Focus Groups and Book Publishing Success (25:30-27:45)

Art shared significant organizational achievement: "With our first book, we've had a local bookstore reach out to us already on the first book that we've published, and it was a local independent bookstore, and they are putting in an order for two to 300 copies of our book, which was created by a student. I mean, that's pretty neat."

The B Curriculum Philosophy and Structure (27:47-30:50)

Art's foundational explanation: "The B curriculum basically relates to having a balanced life where you belong. See, I had to use bees in there. So that's what it's about."

SURBHI's key insight: "It covers everything, and it can adapt to any and everything."

Art's universality principle: "When we collaborate with different partners organizations, it doesn't matter if they serve children or senior citizens. We're going to be using... the V curriculum [B curriculum]."

The comprehensive list of B topics: "Meditation, but that's not what we call it. It's called breathing... bamboo... birds... bench balance and body... budgeting and banking best self business... belonging and bringing it all together."

Detailed B Curriculum Component Explanations

Bamboo - Cultural Connection and Letter Writing (30:50-32:41)

Sukhwinder provided rich cultural context with a physical demonstration: "This is a bamboo pen. You can see it's a bamboo pen. It's grave with our hands. It's just we have, like, shaped into a pen."

The process he described: "We first write a letter to a loved one, because nowadays we are disconnected from people. We we have many people staying around us, but we are not connected... We will not give by hand. We will give by post. So we have to go to post office and deliver this letter."

Cultural integration: "We will also start with a notebook. That's a next chapter... in like I would say that cultural days of previous days, we would say that like people which we which lived in the peace and harmony time that people used to write their diary."

Connection to nature: "If we see like we are connected to nature, we are connected to a culture and environment."

Bench - Deep Therapeutic Communication (33:08-38:40)

SURBHI's passionate explanation revealed the bench component's transformative power: "My personal favorite part is bench. I don't know why. There is a big reason behind it, because it has, I have seen it has changed lives in front of me."

Her insight into communication purposes: "We talk when we talk. Sometimes we talk just to clarify or communicate, right? But sometimes the purpose is different."

Personal application story: "I just randomly texted two, three of my friends who I lost in touch, and then I found shared one thing very easily with them, that you know, this is what I was going through in two, three months."

The healing process: "After few weeks, when we were, you know, having a, you know, multiple sessions of just talking and communicating what they actually feel. And after two, three weeks, I received some kind of messages that we feel so unloaded."

Cultural metaphor: "There is a saying in in India in general, that whenever we are free from a big thought or a heavy thought, we feel like a stone has put it all, you know, from our heart."

Ripple effects: "It helps you to connect more with them, with the, you know, the people around because it makes a real connection when you are free from your bad thoughts."

Breathing - Cultural Adaptation and Personal Practice (39:07-39:50)

Miras shared his cultural context: "It's not something common in my culture. So once I did that, I feel, felt myself relaxed, and since I was not doing anything like that, it was actually helpful for me, because I'm a graduate student and I have home assignments and also stuff to do."

Personal integration: "Sometimes I practice breathing, especially before going to sleep."

Belonging - Overcoming Social Isolation (40:01-40:57)

Ayushi addressed universal experiences: "There has been always some experiences where we have felt that we are the old one in the room, or if we talk about someone Who is just graduated from college and they are entering the workforce, they might feel out of place."

Solution framework: "Belonging curriculum is where you get to understand that this is a normal experience, and this is just a phase, and how to overcome it. What are you need to be a part of the group, and it's just a way on how you can be a part of the group instead of giving as the old run out."

Body - Trauma-Informed Health Approach (41:07-42:52)

Lindsey connected personal trauma to health advocacy: "Health and wellness has been a vital part in my life. I've as an ex athlete, health has been important for me and but also, I've seen health take out several people that I love. I lost my father, I lost a uncle, and all of those, I lost a grandmother, and all of those that I've lost that have been dear to my heart, has been because of failed health."

Her philosophy: "I believe that it your your weight tells a story. And every one of us have a story, even from a global aspect, all of our bodies, we have things in common, sickness, ailments, all those things."

Holistic approach: "Not only do we find our voice, but along with our voice, we we make sure that we are holistically living in its totality, and our bodies in complete health, mentally and spiritually."

Process description: "Starting with your mental health, starting unraveling your story, your journey, and we walking alongside of you to make sure that your body is in the best, best complete health."

Banking/Budgeting - Financial Mental Health Connection (42:59-45:15)

Jeff made explicit mental health connections: "A lot of mental health issues can stem from not having a balanced life. And the fact of finance, money, you know, you run into, everyone has a situation where your your mental health goes away. It just affects you when you have financial issues."

Practical framework: "We want to provide an avenue of you know, tracking your finances. You know what you bring home every day, what are your expenses that you pay out every day? How can you pay yourself back?"

Wisdom principle: "You could be the richest man in the world, but be the poorest person in the world because of your poor decisions through life."

Self-care financial principle: "It's very important that you pay yourself to put money away, so that over time, when it's time for you to retire or move on to Your next chapter in life after working, you have enough to cover your journey."

Educational empowerment: "Once you grasp it and understand that process, moving through the banking things is it becomes a lot easier for you... not saying you have to have the full understanding, but just understanding some parts how that gained that great knowledge can persevere you through a lot of things, through life."

Data Integration - Measuring Human Progress (45:52-47:31)

Almoid outlined his comprehensive assessment vision: "Capturing a survey type of assessment for each type of modules, like a specific one, like for birds, specific, more specific assessment. And then for bamboo, a different assessment and kind of similar for all the other ones as well."

Impact measurement: "Combining all those data points that we collect and adding a measured impact to it will give it a more credibility. And also, people will be able to see the trends that where they started and where they are right now. They can see the growth."

Philosophical framework: "It will serve as a beacon. Maybe, I don't know why that word come to my mind. I think it will serve as a beacon. The data that we collect, it will serve as a beacon, the light, which will guide the participant to, like go towards a better life."

Synthesis and Future Integration (47:31-48:12)

Art's summary captured the B curriculum's scope: "I hope for all of you that are kind of new, you're you're understanding the power of the B curriculum. It's not really just about one thing, it's about all things. That's like a hard thing to do, but when you break it up into little pieces, it is manageable."

The beat component tease: "Now we're adding the beat, which is going to be a wonderful, wonderful addition that beat. Oh my goodness, it's going to be a great addition to the beat."

Community Reflection and Technical Support (48:12-51:16)

Sukhwinder's closing reflection: "If our body is fine, means I would start reverse away. If I'm we are mentally fine, our body is also fine. So it really matters a lot... We all are here to actually connect to and maintain our balance. And really, I love the way everyone discussed on all the topics."

The technical demonstration showed platform navigation features, including email notification settings and group management capabilities.

Contact Information and Ongoing Support (51:16-52:28)

Art provided multiple contact methods, emphasizing accessibility: "You can send me an email, which is info at Ellington books.com you can send me a text message... You can go to WhatsApp, or you can send me a text. My text is 812-200-0342, so you can get in touch with me like lots and lots of different ways."

Final emphasis on community: "I thank you all very much for your time. Welcome aboard, everyone."

Key Organizational Insights

The meeting revealed Voice Up as a global mental health organization that:

- Adapts to cultural sensitivities (meditation → breathing)

- Maintains non-hierarchical, empathetic leadership

- Integrates traditional practices with modern mental health approaches

- Focuses on holistic human development through the comprehensive B curriculum

- Uses data-driven approaches to measure human progress and wellbeing

- Successfully publishes student work and gains commercial recognition

- Provides multiple support channels and emphasizes accessibility

The organization appears to blend Eastern and Western approaches to mental health, with particular attention to cultural adaptation and community building across diverse global populations.