Jen Gotch, THE UPSIDE OF BEING DOWN

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jen Gotch is the founder and chief creative officer of Ban.do, the multimillion-dollar lifestyle brand. She is also a fellow podcaster and former host of the show "Jen Gotch is Okay, Sometimes." Jen is a mental health advocate, reluctantly as you'll find out, and the author of the book The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life. This accessible self-help memoir dives into Jen’s personal history with mental health issues, building her brand, and ways to implement better life practices! Jen and I covered so much during our conversation including how society glamorizes being busy and Jen’s personal family history. Jen's passion for creating a brand that invokes her personal message is so inspirational and I was moved by her hope that this book will help others feel less alone. I loved Jen’s tip to schedule fun into your calendar and make it non-negotiable! I think we could all use that advice right now! (For listeners with kids at home, this episode does include adult language.)

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.
0:12.1	Moms don't have time to read books.
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0:46.9	right this very second. So check out dearanabelle.com, D-E-A-R-A-A-B-B-A-B-L.com, and the code is Zib-B-B-Y-15, and you'll get 15% off of all of this amazing stuff. So definitely go check it out. And thank you so much to dear Annabelle for being our sponsor. I'm so excited to be here today with Jen Gotch, who's the founder and chief creative officer of Band-Doh, the multi-million
1:11.0	dollar lifestyle brand.
1:12.5	She's a mental health advocate, reluctantly, as you'll find out, and the author of the book,
1:17.0	The Upside of Being Down, How Mental Health Struggle has led to my greatest successes in work
1:21.8	in life.
1:22.7	She used to host the podcast, Jen Gotch is okay sometimes.
1:26.1	She currently lives in Los Angeles.
1:27.8	Welcome, Jen. Thanks for coming on.
1:30.1	Thank you. Thank you. I'm very excited to be here. I'm very excited to have you.
1:34.5	Yay. Can you please tell listeners what the upside of being down is about, and I won't even read the subtitle because I don't want to give it away.
1:41.0	Yeah. I also feel like the subtitle is really a hard one to get out.
1:46.6	And when I have to say it, I'm just like, let's just call it the upside of being down.
1:51.1	I think we'll scratch it off.
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