Imagine going through your entire life knowing exactly what you want to do when you grow up and spending all of your time actively working toward that goal, just to have it taken from you with almost no-notice. And then imagine it’s all happening right before the world basically shuts down from a global pandemic. How would you handle that? And how would you go about finding a new purpose?

That’s what happened to Lauren Bean, founder of Unfinished Apparel. In this episode, Lauren shares how some really tough times led her to turn her little embroidery hobby into a mission-driven clothing brand that aims to improve the experience of psychiatric treatment by providing comfortable and dignified clothing for patients. Lauren shares the downsides of traditional paper scrubs, the amazing impact of clothing on the healing process, how she’s destigmatizing mental health on social media, and how she found the courage to solve a problem that was bigger than she initially understood.

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