Hello, welcome to Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan. I am your host and I sound much more put together right now than I really am.

Today's been an interesting day for me, but I'm so happy to be here to talk about Mental Health this episode with the wonderful Sarah who is a local business owner here in Seattle.

She owns a letterpress shop and it's just amazing and we look start off as Instagram friends and then I was just like, I really love this lady and I love her, I love all her letters and her cards and just the level of authenticity that you bring to not only the store but also like your Instagram presence.

So I'm so happy to be here today with you and thank you so much for being here Sarah.

Of course, I'm really excited.

Yes. And I mean, I kind of just want to start off with like, how has your day been?

Sounds like a little less crazy than yours, slightly.

Yes. I will say I kind of ran into my shop today like a whirlwind and had to apologize to my staff and be like, hey, I'm having a bit of a weird mental health day.

So it's not about you. I promise. I'm not like obsessing over, you know, messy piles or wanting to clean things because you did anything wrong. I'm just having a day.

Yeah. You know, sometimes you just have to be transparent with people.

You do. And like that's great communication to even have, especially within the workplace because I think a lot of people don't have that.

So I mean, you already like, you'd be a wonderful boss to have just with that level of transparency because I think in a lot of situations like people going to work and their boss would like be acting out and be like, you know, whatever they be doing and no explanation.

And then people think it's about them and they feel like they're to blame.

But if you're just like, yeah, no, don't worry. It's not about you. I'm just having a day.

I'm learning.

Yeah. We're all learning day by day.

Sometimes painfully.

Yeah. Yeah. I'll share a little bit about my day today and why it was a little stressful.

I went, so I have a few days until I leave for a trip and I was like, you know, I'm going to be a responsible woman.

And so I went to try to go get a pap smear done. And I've never had one before.

That's not fun. Yeah. And I don't want to have health insurance. So I was like, where do I go? And I was like, oh, plan parenthood. Okay.

So went and had my first experience there. And then I found out after waiting for a long time that you can't have a pap smear done on your period.

...