Color Corps, Staging Your Home, Mental Health Days, Summer Hair, Kids and Feelings, Teenage Curiosity

Color Corps, Staging Your Home, Mental Health Days, Summer Hair, Kids and Feelings, Teenage Curiosity

The Lisa Show - Season 1, Episode 498

  • Jul 7, 2020 6:00 am
  • 105:34
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Color Corps (0:00:00) When you’re walking through a city, you see a lot of gray –gray skyscrapers, gray sidewalk, and a dark gray street. But how does it make you feel when you see a colorful mural that breaks through the dull city monotony? Painting giant, colorful murals is part of what Project Color Corps does, a nonprofit organization dedicated to using the power of color to bring energy into neighborhoods and cities. Today, we’re joined by Laura Guido-Clark, founder of Project Color Corps, here to talk with us about their work and the power of color to change a community. Staging Your Home (0:16:17) You just packed everything into the moving van. Looking at your empty house with no furniture can be depressing, but you might not want to spend the money on getting it staged for showings. When you are moving out of your house, there are all sorts of costs that pile up. Should you include staging as one of them? To discuss this topic, we’ve invited Jen Martin, professional organizer, stager, and founder of Reset Your Nest. The Power of Mental Health Days (0:34:45) Over the past couple years, we’ve seen a lot of progress in the way we view and deal with mental health. It’s a great thing that we all know more about it and can talk about things more openly, but unfortunately that doesn’t mean we’ve found a solution. There’s still a lot of fear that we or a loved one will discover they suffer from a mental illness. We often feel like there should be more we can do to make the situation better for everyone involved. That’s why we invited Hailey Hardcastle onto the show. She’s an activist who helps destigmatize mental illness. Recently, she successfully lobbied to make it legal for students in Oregon to take mental health days. Summer Hairstyles (0:52:48) Although this summer might be in a lot of ways like no other summer we’ve ever had—the heat at least has remained constant. And with that heat, comes a desire to trim and lighten your hair. I know those of you with long hair are probably eyeing a pair of sciss