Welcome back to mood with Lauren Elizabeth. I'm Lauren Elizabeth and today I'm going to be joined with the CEO of MAPER Group.

I'm sure you know MAPER and love MAPER. They make all the greatest kind of like streetwear, like you know like comfy sweatpants and everything.

But it's not just that you guys. They have an incredible message. They do amazing campaigns and it's really focused around different forms of self-care and mental health.

And we really dive into what it's like to be a CEO and struggle with mental health and how you can do both.

And I feel like it's a conversation that's like never really been had before. And it's just like so interesting because when I say this in the podcast current mood combo,

but you know when you think of a CEO you see them just like conquering all their things and now they're perfect and they're a CEO.

But that's just not real life. And we have anxiety. We have depression. But we still get shit done.

So I'm really excited to have Sam on the podcast to talk all things MAPER Group mental health being a badass boss as bitch.

And I know this episode is a little late. And I just like want to make a PSA. I don't know why the universe is against me lately.

I've been having so many technical difficulties from my computer to now my memory cards.

So I have lost a month and a half s worth of premium content. But I still have obviously all my backup zoom recordings.

So I know sometimes I get like a couple stars on the Apple podcast store and you guys are like the audio could be better.

And I'm like, where in a panorama? It's called a pandemic of poopity pop trisha. So yeah, no, I'm not recording with people in real life because I'm staying home.

I'm staying safe. I don't want to put people at risk. I don't want to make people uncomfortable.

But I have the incredible opportunity to use digital platforms to be able to connect with people.

I probably wouldn't even be able to connect with without it. So apologies if the audio is just a little lower quality than usual.

We're once again in a pandemic and I'm doing my best. And I think you know the message is still there and it's still incredible.

And it's worth the listen. So that will be our current mood combo. I've obviously had quite the morning.

I started off my night last night figuring out that my new adapter doesn't work with my memory card. And then I figured out it was actually my memory card.

Then I figured out I couldn't get anything off either memory cards, including YouTube.

So then I drove to Best Buy this morning to realize Best Buy was an open because they tell you to wake up early and then nothing's open.

So why do we wake up early? They tell you to be productive and then you lose all your content. Why are we being productive?

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