Jen Gotch Hates Nutshells; Likes Emotional Rating Systems

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Alison Rosen

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🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur and mental health advocate Jen Gotch (founder and CCO of Ban.do) stops by to talk about how she created the multimillion dollar lifestyle brand, being bipolar, her emotional rating scale, self-awareness, how Ban.do developed and why she doesn't really consider it a "fashion" brand, creating the sell out necklaces that said "anxiety" and "depression" and what both feel like to her, her career path, her relationship with her parents, her new Girlboss Media podcast Jen Gotch Is OK... Sometimes, a forthcoming book, going to a food therapist and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.

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0:00.0	I was sitting here with someone I'm very excited to have on the show.
0:29.5	Jen Gotch is the founder and chief creative officer of the lifestyle brand Bando,
0:37.6	which is very colorful and very whimsical and very cool and optimistic.
0:43.1	She also has a new podcast on the Girlboss Network called Jen Gotch is okay dot dot dot
0:49.6	sometimes and she's very popular. Her Instagram stories are very popular and in her Instagram
0:55.4	story she is very open about her mental health struggles. Came out with a like a best-selling necklace
1:02.9	that said anxiety and also one that said depression. So I want to get into all of that. Let's just
1:08.8	start with you have an emotional rating system. It's true. It's from zero to 10. Yeah. But 10
1:14.0	does not mean the best. No, no, no. Well, so it's a system that I created with my mom a long time ago.
1:20.8	Sootles. Sootles. Also known as the amazing Serena. Also known as just Serena,
1:26.3	depending on all of our moods. But she wanted she wanted me to be able to quickly convey to her
1:32.8	how I was feeling without having to get into the intricacies of the emotion because we didn't have
1:37.1	that kind of relationship and I would normally be like, I don't want to talk about it. She's
1:40.3	just give me a number. And so at that point it was like one is really bad. 10 is great. But in my
1:49.2	early 30s I was diagnosed with bipolar. I had been diagnosed with depression, but it was a misdiagnosis.
1:54.6	And so once once the bipolar came along it was like 10 was going to be too high. And
2:02.0	one is still what one is. So I adjusted it. So it's it's really an emotional rating system as it
2:07.4	stands now for someone that has bipolar, but it's easily adjustable. If not. But so 7.8 I'm wearing
2:13.6	7.8 necklace is like by ideal mood. When you're at a 10, do you feel good? Oh my gosh, I feel
2:23.0	amazing. I mean that's the thing with mania in general is like and why it's so hard to keep
2:31.2	people on medication sometimes is like it it actually feels really good. It's more of like the
2:37.3	fallout from the mania is the part that's really hard because you have to deal with the repercussions
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