Episode notes
In Episode 7 of Talking Shoppe, Essence and Emily discuss busy weeks, and do their “work wife, work overlord, and work nemesis” segment. For their last Mental Health Awareness Month episode, they focus on why awareness without accurate education and application falls short, noting there’s no formal channel for learning mental health outside training for becoming a therapist. They connect workplace functioning to mental health through executive functioning, explain how stress disrupts frontal-lobe processes, and outline executive functions. They propose curriculum topics. They close with their weekly R.E.P.O.R.T.
00:00 Welcome Back Episode Seven
00:36 Life Updates
02:14 Work Wife, Work Overlord, and Work Nemesis
05:35 Mental Health Awareness Month
06:31 Awareness Versus Education
12:26 Training Without Application
15:20 Why Mental Health Matters
18:48 Executive Function
25:48 Emotion-Based Policies
27:36 Auditing Mental Load
31:32 Making Education Culture
32:47 Self Advocacy at Work
38:52 Weekly R.E.P.O.R.T.
49:28 Wrap Up