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Ep. 309 - Jen Gotch on The Upside of Being Down

Almost 30

Krista Williams & Lindsey Simcik

Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

THE INTERVIEW Jen Gotch joined us just over a year ago for a really important conversation about mental health, figuring yourself out, and self-care. Jen is a huge expander for a lot of us in Almost 30 Nation — Krista and Lindsey included! — so we had to have her back for round two to discuss her powerful new book. The Upside of Being Down is an honest account of Jen’s mental health struggles and how that long journey, with all its ups and downs, led to her greatest successes in work and life. She is so inspiring and unapologetic about her life + gives a fresh take on what it’s like being a constant internal battle. We dive deep into what it’s like to push yourself in your career without sacrificing self-care, opening yourself up to receiving praise, and the value of learning to quit things just to prove to yourself that you can. We also talk about: Coming back to compassion Not changing yourself for others Opening up + being able to receive Self-care, self-love, + self-help Being able to separate yourself from negative thoughts Coping with emotional eating Changing your relationship with alcohol Find more to love at almost30podcast.com! Resources: Shop ban.do: bando.com Instagram: @jengotch The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life by Jen Gotch This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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you come at it from so many different ways and it's like that's if you're interested in

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personal betterment, like that's what you're going to spend your life doing. And so figuring

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out strategically what you need in any given moment, that's truly going to to move you

0:17.8

towards that. You know, and so I think sometimes binging on Netflix is appropriate. And sometimes

0:25.2

it's like you're actually just avoiding something else. And the better that you are at knowing

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yourself again, this is like why I why I did this and like why I talk about these things.

0:37.9

It's like the more self-awareness you have, the easier these things are to discern.

0:42.8

You're listening to the almost 30 podcast hosted by Christopher Williams and Lindsey Simpsick.

0:54.2

Almost 30 started as a conversation about the transition from our 20s to our 30s. But then we realized

1:00.8

life is full of transitions. So we expanded our mission. We are an intuition led wellness focused

1:07.9

lifestyle podcast that promises to deliver authentic conversations, diverse points of view,

1:13.2

and insights rooted in optimism, growth and intention. The almost 30 nation community is a group

1:19.6

of purposeful dreamers who are smart, passionate and always seeking the full potential in every aspect

1:26.2

of their lives. At almost 30, we're making magic together. We dream it and then we do it.

1:32.6

Thanks so much for tuning into the almost 30 podcast. Here we go.

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Welcome back to the almost 30 podcast, everyone. So glad you're here. Hello. My name is

1:47.5

Christa Williams and I'm Lindsey Simpsick. And we started this. We got married last week.

1:57.5

There should be a marriage for business partners. My now honest, well, it's more.

2:01.2

50 50 baby. And we've got our own prenup going on. We literally have our own prenup happening.

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If you're new here, we started almost 30 when we were transitioning from our 20s to our 30s.

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We felt really lost and confused. And we wanted to find some answers and create a conversation. So

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we provide tools, resources, insights to help anyone navigate transitions in their life.

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