1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: Scrubbing In with Becca Tilly and Tanya rad and I 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:07,640 Speaker 1: Heart Radio and two time People's Choice Award winning podcast. 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: Hello everybody, welcome to our mini episode of Scrubbing In. Tanya, 4 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: it is a big day for you. Tell us what 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: is happening. She is holding a small rubber bell shaped item. 6 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: This is my menstrual cup. This is my flex menstrual cup. 7 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,080 Speaker 1: And I'm very excited today because we have Lauren Shulty 8 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:37,639 Speaker 1: Wong who is the creator and um CEO of this company, 9 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,840 Speaker 1: of this flex cup, and I'm just a changed woman. 10 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,160 Speaker 1: So basically it does. It looks like a little bell 11 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:45,640 Speaker 1: and it has like this little thing that you pull 12 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,159 Speaker 1: down like almost like the tampon string. And I just 13 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: appreciate everybody that has written me over the years of 14 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: Scrubbing In and have has told me to use this. 15 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 1: And I have been very reluctant to try it because 16 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: I just used tampons and pads because that's just what 17 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,040 Speaker 1: we've been using since I got my period of fourteen 18 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 1: right or was that fourteen? Um? But can I tell 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: you that this bad boy right here has been such 20 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: a game changer. I can't even explain to you, like 21 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: I almost never want to use a tampon ever again, 22 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: so because it's quite small, so all that goes in 23 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 1: your vagina open up like that. But I'm saying, like, 24 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,319 Speaker 1: if you have a really really heavy period, is that 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 1: what happened? So mine is a light one. You can 26 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: get different sizes depending on your period. But let me 27 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: tell you, So I put this thing in at like 28 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 1: eight am and I don't empty it until eight pm. 29 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: And that's safe. Yeah, And it's super safe, no spillage, 30 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 1: no nothing. You basically folded up like a little taco 31 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: like this, and you put it in like a tampon. 32 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: You just like insert it like that and then it 33 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 1: opens up and its suctions to your wall and the 34 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: blood just drips right into this little cup and then 35 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: you just pull it out marks like a gag. But 36 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: guess what, we're women and we have our periods. It's 37 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: good for you to know. Yeah, and you like wash 38 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 1: it out in the sink or in the show. I 39 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: usually do it when I'm in the shower and then 40 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: you just like put it right back in and like 41 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: you literally it's such a game changer. I cannot even 42 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: explain to you. But wait, so how do you know? 43 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: You know, like if you don't put a tampon up 44 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,560 Speaker 1: far enough, it's like horribly I mean you know, because yeah, 45 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:29,040 Speaker 1: I had your pool party incident, yes, but this one 46 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: I forgot about that have traumatizing by the way, Like, 47 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,079 Speaker 1: but so this one, how do you know if it's 48 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: up far? And like does it hurt if you don't 49 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,519 Speaker 1: put it up far enough? So let me tell you something. 50 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: This is a you do need to give it a 51 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: little bit of a couple of tries before, like, and 52 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: I feel like I know my vagina and I know 53 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 1: my public floor pretty well for the average joe. Uh, 54 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: And I still had a hard time getting the suction 55 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,799 Speaker 1: right because it basically the suctions and that's why there's 56 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: no spill of your leakage because it's just like suctions 57 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:04,799 Speaker 1: to your wall um mark. But um once you get 58 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: it and then you figure out kind of where it 59 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: fits nicely, and it's so easy after that. I'm telling you, 60 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 1: like all the days when I have like I mean, 61 00:03:12,440 --> 00:03:14,520 Speaker 1: granted more quarantine, so it's a little bit different now. 62 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: But the days where I would have like jingle balls 63 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: and you're just running around and you don't you don't 64 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,240 Speaker 1: probably have time to like change your tampon and like, 65 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: or you're gonna be gone all day and you don't 66 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 1: have all the room for the time. You just literally 67 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,920 Speaker 1: put this bad boy in the morning, pull it out, 68 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: wash her out before you go to bed, PLoP her 69 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 1: back in, and she's good till the morning. I'm obsessed, 70 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: Like I'm literally obsessed. And now the re sponsor of 71 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: our podcast, which literally makes me so happy. That's really cool. 72 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: You really you really worked that that angle to get 73 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 1: them as a sponsor, because you've been talking about them 74 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: and passionate about them for a while now. But so 75 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: I guess if you have to take it out in 76 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: a public restroom for some reason, that that you know, 77 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: it's funny. I had that thought. I was like, what 78 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:56,839 Speaker 1: if I'm in the airport ask Lauren about this because 79 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: I have some question. You don't need to, but what 80 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,160 Speaker 1: if you do, Like why what if you've got a 81 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: light one but your flow is really heavy one month 82 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: and it's like it's not okay. Then you go to 83 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: the public reshroom and you just kind of pull it out, 84 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,360 Speaker 1: dump it. You can just dump it and then put 85 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: it back in. I mean, oh, okay, so you don't 86 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: need to wash after every time I mean, I would 87 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,560 Speaker 1: advise washing it, but you don't. Guess you don't have 88 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:24,240 Speaker 1: to be a question for the creator herself. It's so rad, Like, 89 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: I'm just so obsessed with it. Yeah, you're really handling it. 90 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: Are you gonna rent it out before because you've been 91 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 1: just touching it and fundling it for a minute now, 92 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: or wash it with wash it with hot water. But yeah, 93 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,839 Speaker 1: I actually should ask her how long you can use 94 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: one cup for? Like how many periods? Because I've now 95 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 1: used this one for two full periods? Well, so what 96 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: else do you have over there? Do you have another 97 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: little contraption? Yeah, so this is I haven't quite mastered this. 98 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: So this is the menstrual disk. I'm not sure what 99 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: one uses this for aside from having sex on your 100 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,160 Speaker 1: period and not having it be bloody. Is there a 101 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: plastic in? Is that? Like? But it goes in your 102 00:05:04,600 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 1: like it goes on your pelvit floor, so it literally 103 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: just catches the blood before it even travels. You have 104 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:12,680 Speaker 1: to put all the way up and it basically blood 105 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,279 Speaker 1: and then you just kind of fish it out like, oh, okay, 106 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: I haven't quite gotten this right. I've only tried it 107 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: once and it just leaks because I can't figure it out. Um, 108 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 1: but a lot of people like the disk to the 109 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 1: menstrual disk. I just haven't haven't been able to master it. 110 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,599 Speaker 1: But they sent me quite a few so I can 111 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: try on my next collection of the menstrual disc. Yeah, 112 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: the disks you're only supposed to use once and toss it. 113 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:44,359 Speaker 1: Not that's reusable. Okay, all right, Well this is a 114 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: very appropriate mini episode and we kind of dusty. We 115 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 1: had the dog interpretator on last time, which was you know, 116 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: who I wanted to speak to and something. Phoebe's attitude 117 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,480 Speaker 1: has been like worse than ever, so I don't know 118 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: if she got mad that I tried to tap into 119 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: her thought process, but um, today is Tanya's like this 120 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: that she wanted to speak to and I'm excited to 121 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:13,360 Speaker 1: hear from her and what she has to say. So, 122 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: because here's the thing. Tampons, I don't know the facts. 123 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: So it's great that we have Lauren to tell us this. 124 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 1: But like tampons and pads, we've been using these since 125 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:26,800 Speaker 1: like BC, and nobody's reinventing the wheel because we just 126 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: have tampons and pads. Well, yeah, these people are reinventing 127 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: the world. We are women and we are advancing, and 128 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,160 Speaker 1: so why is our feminine care not doing the same? 129 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: What is I mean? It is it's just getting people 130 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: to educating people, which is basically what we're doing, what 131 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: you've been doing, and now what we're going to bring 132 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 1: someone else on to do as well. But um, she's 133 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 1: in the waiting room. Are you nervous? Um? So, Lauren's 134 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,880 Speaker 1: coming up next. But first we want to tell you 135 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: about a firm. 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And so, UM, I'm just really excited to 172 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,439 Speaker 1: have you because I have so many questions just about 173 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 1: starting the company, creating the product, and um just kind 174 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 1: of being a woman in that space because I heard 175 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: that it was kind of a challenge when you created 176 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 1: the product to get investors to lean into it. That's right. Yeah, 177 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be here. It's been a really 178 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 1: tumultuous ride, but I know so many of our lives 179 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: are tumultuous, So UM, I'm excited to talk a little 180 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: bit about the journey today. So you created this menstrual cup, 181 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: When did you create what? What year was it? So 182 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: I have to say I'm not the creator of the cup, 183 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,560 Speaker 1: the cup. I have two people that joined the team 184 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 1: that created it. Um. But I started the company back 185 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: in two thousand and fifteen. Um, I was getting eas 186 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 1: infections for fifteen years. So go back to I grew 187 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 1: up in a small town in Georgia. UM. Pretty much 188 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: from the time I started getting a period until my 189 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: mid twenties. I would get a use infection following every period, 190 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 1: and I tried everything under the sun. I became a vegetarian. 191 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: I started using laundry detergent that doesn't smell good anymore, 192 00:10:22,559 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: like that free and clear bs so you're supposed to use. 193 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: I started using you know, clean beauty products, clean body wash, 194 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: clean everything, um and nothing seemed to work. And I 195 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: had this nurse practitioner speaking of scrubbing in telling me 196 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: I'm not going to write you another prescription for your 197 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:47,319 Speaker 1: use infections until you quit using tampons and pets. And 198 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: that really stopped me in my tracks because back in 199 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 1: two thousand eleven, I wasn't I was like, what are 200 00:10:55,640 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: you talk like? What am I going to do? Free? Blead? Yeah? Bleed? 201 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:05,319 Speaker 1: What does it mean? Yeah? I'm curious what what are 202 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: you supposed to do? What? During that time if you 203 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,199 Speaker 1: weren't using tampons or pads, what was the alterna? I 204 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,400 Speaker 1: mean I kept using my tampas pearl. I was a 205 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 1: die hard, but graded I went all the the jazzle, 206 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: you know what. I was. I the same way like 207 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 1: I people scrubbing and listeners have been so I suffered 208 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,439 Speaker 1: from U t ies chronic U ties and the same way, 209 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: and a lot of scrubbers would message me and say, 210 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: have you tried a menstrual cup instead of tampons? And 211 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know if that's for me. 212 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,680 Speaker 1: It just seems like you're sticking a cup up there, 213 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: like it just felt like aggressive and a lot, and 214 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,400 Speaker 1: so I was really I didn't really try it until 215 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 1: maybe like a year into people like pushing me to 216 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: try it, and once I did, I like, I'm so 217 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,880 Speaker 1: obsessed now I can't even tell you. Um A. I 218 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 1: also think that my U t I s were linked 219 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: to my tampon us as well, because it was always 220 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: after I had my period that I was getting these 221 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 1: U t I s and so, um it's something with 222 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,760 Speaker 1: like the friction way T m I, but like with 223 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,400 Speaker 1: the friction because I would change my tampons every time 224 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,200 Speaker 1: that I would pee because I just hated the wet 225 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: string like a no, it's gross, but I just would 226 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: always change my tampon and the friction was causing some 227 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 1: sort of whatever. And so I started using this cup 228 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 1: and it took me a couple tries to figure out 229 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:34,960 Speaker 1: how to like actually get it in there and get 230 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:38,240 Speaker 1: it sectioned and good. But now that I've figured it out, 231 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: it's the best thing that's ever happened to me. Like 232 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: I will pop it in the morning, go about my 233 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: day all day, like I'm telling you, eight am, and 234 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: then eight pm, I will get in the shower, dump 235 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,439 Speaker 1: it out, clean it out, put it back in, and 236 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: then go to sleep. It's just like for a modern 237 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 1: woman on the go, it's just everything of the sort. 238 00:12:57,480 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 1: You don't have to carry a tampon around, you know, 239 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:01,560 Speaker 1: it's just they it's just it's it's it's there. And 240 00:13:01,559 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: I have a little kid. I'm like, I'm seriously so 241 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:08,280 Speaker 1: it's so genious that guys like, uh, I just kind 242 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 1: of I'm like, I get through my period telling me 243 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,319 Speaker 1: it just like loves to talk about it and all 244 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,439 Speaker 1: the things that she's trying and using, and I'm just 245 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 1: kind of like, I just get through it how I can. 246 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: And then that's that's about the extent of every month. 247 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:25,280 Speaker 1: Like every month we have our period. Why are we 248 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: just getting through it? Like it's just something to get 249 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: through for me? I hear you. I mean listen, I 250 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: was very much and both of your camps like in 251 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: that moment and she's like, you have to stop using 252 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 1: tampons and pads. I'm kind of like, what in the 253 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: world am I supposed to do? And so she told 254 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:46,160 Speaker 1: me about menstrual cups. At the time, there was really 255 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:50,400 Speaker 1: only one brand, and I bought it. First of all, 256 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: it was really hard to find, and once I finally 257 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: found it, I bought it and I opened up the 258 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,359 Speaker 1: instructions and they were huge, and I was really complicated, 259 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: and there was nothing on the internet at a time, 260 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: believe it or not, like two thou eleven doesn't feel 261 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: that long ago to me, um, but I couldn't figure 262 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: out how to get it right, and it sent me 263 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: on this journey to kind of figure out like, well, 264 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 1: are are there like better for you? Tampons are better 265 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: for you pads? And the more research that I did, 266 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:18,200 Speaker 1: I kind of discovered like they're all made by the 267 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: same handful of manufacturers, Like there might be marketing differences, 268 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 1: but through and through they're pretty much the same cotton products, right, 269 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: And it's the cotton itself that was causing issues for 270 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 1: me because cotton is an organic material. Therefore I can 271 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,320 Speaker 1: grow and host bacteria anyway. Not to get to science 272 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,440 Speaker 1: e into it Basically what happened was I started talking 273 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: with my friends about this problem. Like I'd never talked 274 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:46,480 Speaker 1: to anybody about east infections before, Like going to work 275 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:49,800 Speaker 1: all day every day, like working out before we're going 276 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:53,120 Speaker 1: to work, leaving work, having a commute going home. The 277 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 1: last thing I want to think about is my period. 278 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: And when I started talking to my friends about my problem, 279 00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: like not everybody got us infections, and people are like, 280 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: I hate my cramps. I hate this, I hate that. 281 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,040 Speaker 1: The one thing that everyone had in common was they 282 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: kind of view their period week as this week that 283 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: they wanted to just get through that they just wanted 284 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 1: to kind of ignore that. You know, it's just like 285 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: the curse or whatever other euphanism that you want to 286 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: use um. And people really blame their own body for that. 287 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:27,280 Speaker 1: They're like, I feel gross, I feel smelly, I feel crampy, 288 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: I feel whatever. I'm like, how can they help women 289 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: feel not like that? How can I help all menstrutors 290 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: feel not like that? Yeah, there's like this shame that 291 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: comes with it a little bit like and not shame, 292 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:39,640 Speaker 1: but like embarrassment, Like you didn't want to talk about 293 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: your ease infections, and like everybody the feedback I get 294 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: is like how a lot of people struggle with U 295 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:46,840 Speaker 1: T I s too, but they don't even want to 296 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,960 Speaker 1: tell their friends about it because they're so embarrassed. And 297 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, because we feel like it's our fault, 298 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: like there's something we should be doing better, Like did 299 00:15:52,600 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: you pee after sex? Yes? Thank you? Like coup, but 300 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 1: you know it sent me on this street. So once 301 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: I started talking to people, I'm like, Wow, a lot 302 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:06,440 Speaker 1: of people carry a lot of this stigma and shame 303 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 1: UM about their periods, about any of their sexual health 304 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 1: and wellness. And I was living in Silicon Valley at 305 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: the time, and I you know, remember people talking about, 306 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:21,960 Speaker 1: you know, shooting a space car into space, which is 307 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: we actually did just for giggles. Meanwhile, we're not talking 308 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:29,480 Speaker 1: about this most basic thing that we spent a courter 309 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: of our lives doing, which is having our periods. So 310 00:16:32,360 --> 00:16:35,800 Speaker 1: for me, I went I wanted to um find some 311 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: really talented people to create products that were healthier for 312 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 1: our bodies but also better for the environment, because I 313 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,640 Speaker 1: didn't feel great about throwing stuff away every single month. 314 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 1: And so what I arrived at was originally a disk 315 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:52,880 Speaker 1: um And then now we also have a cup, um, 316 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 1: and the disk to me is a little bit of 317 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: a baby step to a cup. So it's like it's 318 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:02,120 Speaker 1: like the go between, right if you're a die hard 319 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: tampon user, you're a die hard pad user. The disk 320 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:08,639 Speaker 1: is kind of like dipping your toe into the water 321 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:10,520 Speaker 1: a little bit, like you're not going to jump on. 322 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: And I've been having I've been having trouble with the disc. 323 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: I can't quite get the disc up far enough. I've 324 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 1: been having trouble with that. There's a learning curve, for sure. 325 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: But you're right about the waste thing too, because um, 326 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:32,000 Speaker 1: I I also find the cup to be so good 327 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 1: just because A you don't have to carry a bunch 328 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,199 Speaker 1: of tampons. Like I went away for the weekend with 329 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,439 Speaker 1: my boyfriend, and I don't throw my tampons in the 330 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,679 Speaker 1: toilet because it's like bad for plumber was always sw 331 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 1: them in the trash can, but I don't want to 332 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 1: fill his trash and with don't they tampons in the toilet, 333 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:53,040 Speaker 1: He's continued. But I used to live in an older 334 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: apartment complex and uh Becca knows because we had the 335 00:17:57,600 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: same plant lord and she used to just that was 336 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: like her big thing so now it's like burned in 337 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 1: my brain. But um, and I used to always carry 338 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:07,399 Speaker 1: like this little pouch where I would bring like a 339 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: zip block back and put all my like dirty tampons 340 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:12,360 Speaker 1: in it because I didn't want to like fill the 341 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: trash can with my dirty, smelly tampons, you know what 342 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: I mean. Like it's gross, but like it's true. This 343 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 1: is like what I have done in the past, you know, 344 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 1: and like now I don't have to do You're an 345 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:26,560 Speaker 1: earth crusader and you didn't even know it. Yeah, because 346 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 1: over there, like what I'm sitting here, like thinking about 347 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 1: all the toilet, the tampons I put in the toilet, 348 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:37,199 Speaker 1: and the guilt in your apartment complex everywhere. I go, 349 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 1: oh girl, we're not guilty. You listen, Like I'm the 350 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: last person to guilt anyone. I I was a tampon 351 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: flasher from the day I started using tampons until the 352 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: day I ended using tampons. No one ever told me 353 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:52,159 Speaker 1: that you're not supposed to do it. Ever, it's not 354 00:18:52,240 --> 00:18:56,679 Speaker 1: surprised Helen didn't tell you. I'm sure she. I'll be honest, 355 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 1: I'm sure she did. Ok. Yeah, the diesel. Now, but 356 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,640 Speaker 1: I want to talk about when you kind of started 357 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: the company and you went to these men to invest 358 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: in the company, were they just like to say, the 359 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:15,800 Speaker 1: least men and women, right, because even all the male 360 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: investors were like, oh, you should talk to the female investor. 361 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,080 Speaker 1: And then a lot of the female investors I talked 362 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,159 Speaker 1: to you are kind of like that feels like a 363 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,200 Speaker 1: little bit too much for me, maybe something that I 364 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:29,959 Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily use. Um. And then and then they're like, well, 365 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 1: I need to want to use the product for me 366 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:37,000 Speaker 1: to want an investment, which is fair, but at the 367 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,560 Speaker 1: same time, they're not our target demographic. Right, We're going 368 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 1: after millennials and gen z. How many millennials and Gen 369 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: Zu women do you know that are running multibillion dollar 370 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: venture capital funds? Right? Note not many? Zero. So then 371 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,439 Speaker 1: the guys with the male investors would go back to 372 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:01,439 Speaker 1: their wives and say, Hey, I met this young female 373 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,000 Speaker 1: entrepreneur and she's making this thing, and I think you 374 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: should put it your vagina and you can have sex 375 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:08,320 Speaker 1: on your period with no mess. I think I think, like, 376 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: why don't you try it? And how do you think 377 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:17,359 Speaker 1: that went over? Right? Yeah, the life's like out of 378 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: my face? Um? So for me, um. Things. I really 379 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 1: first had a breakthrough when I started being very honest 380 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 1: with people about my own experiences A use infections, but 381 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,399 Speaker 1: B I think for men, reframing the problem in a 382 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: way that they could understand, which was, you know, going 383 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 1: back to a human emotion that they felt related to 384 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,440 Speaker 1: a period, which is hard to do with with most 385 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:47,919 Speaker 1: men don't have periods, right, So like, what related to 386 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: a period makes a man feel any kind of way? 387 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,640 Speaker 1: Have you ever been rejected for sex because your partner 388 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: was on their period? And unanimously if the men were heterosexual, 389 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 1: they would say yes. And so that was my That 390 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:06,479 Speaker 1: was like the first moment where I'm like reframing it 391 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 1: that I'm going to tell the story in a different way. 392 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: And when I started telling the story that way, I 393 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,879 Speaker 1: would at least start their heads nodding in the beginning 394 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: of the conversation versus like this is not this is 395 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 1: not for me. And then once you start getting them nodding, 396 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:27,320 Speaker 1: then you're like and the market opportunities really big. And 397 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,439 Speaker 1: we spent of our lives dealing with this um. But 398 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,440 Speaker 1: along the way we found some men who care so 399 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: deeply about this problem, and we found a lot of 400 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: female investors as well. They really deeply care about this 401 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: problem who use our product religiously. Jesse Draper is a 402 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: great example of a person like that. That's so awesome. 403 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:52,359 Speaker 1: So how many years of it from like when you 404 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 1: came up with the idea to getting it in front 405 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,000 Speaker 1: of investors to actually like creating a company to now 406 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: where you are? Like? How long was that process? So 407 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,679 Speaker 1: you started in two thousand eleven, I started, So I 408 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: started trying different products in two thousand eleven, trying different 409 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,720 Speaker 1: products from all over the world and starting that research. 410 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: In two thousand eleven, UM started having these like dinners 411 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: at my house every week, which grew viral in their 412 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:24,800 Speaker 1: own way about people wanting to come over and talk 413 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: about periods and talk about these infections and talk about 414 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,280 Speaker 1: everything else over wine. I mean, I would be there, 415 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 1: Harpy was. It was really fun. UM. But from the 416 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: time that I officially started the company in two thousand 417 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,600 Speaker 1: and fifteen, we raised money in about a year later 418 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,399 Speaker 1: UM and then started shipping products shortly thereafter. But it 419 00:22:46,440 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 1: wouldn't have gone that quickly if I hadn't done all 420 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: of that pre work and heartache. And I guess the 421 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,760 Speaker 1: thing that I should really say, is like I almost 422 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: bankrupted myself to start this business. Um And a lot 423 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:02,400 Speaker 1: of entrepreneurs, um I self included, are scared of starting 424 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:05,400 Speaker 1: a company because you're like, oh my gosh, the stakes 425 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,959 Speaker 1: are so high and you have to give so much mhm. 426 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,920 Speaker 1: I think my like Kristnia has been she was testing 427 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: organic tampons and then it was went to the cup 428 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: and the disk. And I have literally traumatic memories of 429 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,720 Speaker 1: when I first was learning to use tampons and being 430 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: and I can remember being in sixth grade asking to 431 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:34,800 Speaker 1: go to the bathroom and spent at least thirty five 432 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,479 Speaker 1: minutes and they're trying to get a tampon in and 433 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,720 Speaker 1: being like did I put that up the right hole? 434 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,919 Speaker 1: Is this right? And so the thought of learning something else, 435 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 1: like how it's funny to have, I'm just like, it's 436 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: it's daunting. My very first period, I was going to 437 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: like a pool party that day, and I didn't get 438 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,520 Speaker 1: my sister refused to show me how to use a tampon, 439 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:03,480 Speaker 1: so I use it like a cork so I could 440 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: basically just kind of put the team and I went 441 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,919 Speaker 1: in the pool and like my favorite totally soaked up 442 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,920 Speaker 1: with water and I like ran over to my dad 443 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,080 Speaker 1: and was like, why is my tampon filled up with water? 444 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 1: And my sisters like dying laughing, like you didn't do 445 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 1: it right. And I was just like, there's no videos. 446 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: Nobody tells you how to do that. It's actually so 447 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 1: funny because I started talking about the menstal cup, everybody 448 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: was like, would you do a tutorial about I was like, 449 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,120 Speaker 1: we don't need it. I'm not against it. I mean 450 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 1: I want your only fans. I wouldn't show like my 451 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,200 Speaker 1: actual doing it in my vagina, but I would show 452 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:39,719 Speaker 1: you how. I would show them how to fold it 453 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,239 Speaker 1: like I do, and like we had We actually had 454 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: a customer that was so passionate about the disk and 455 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 1: was talking about this exact problem because we all learn 456 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: from someone that we know how to use our part 457 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,439 Speaker 1: for the first time. There's no higher stakes than bleeding 458 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: through your pants then trying to have period sex on 459 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: the first date and like the product not working right. 460 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: There's never been higher stakes other than your period product working. 461 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:07,719 Speaker 1: And we know that tampon's leak, and we know that 462 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 1: pad's leak, but like they seem like a known entity 463 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: for so for some reason, it's like safer to go 464 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 1: with that than to try something new and to have 465 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:22,160 Speaker 1: like this the bar raised again. Um, but what one 466 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: of our customers did, which she actually made a video 467 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 1: of it, like explained like I think showing yeah, like 468 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,679 Speaker 1: this is what it's like, because that's the kind of 469 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 1: love that we have from our customers. Because back, I'm 470 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,639 Speaker 1: trying to think of an analogy for you, and I 471 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: was trying to think of it this whole time, and like, 472 00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: is it like before you've ever tried coffee, before you 473 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: put on your first pair of roller skates? Like what 474 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:50,359 Speaker 1: what's the analogy here of? Like it's so scary and 475 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,680 Speaker 1: it's hard, and it takes practice and the stakes are 476 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: really high. Maybe driving a car, I don't know, but 477 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,240 Speaker 1: I mean I think putting in a tampon is it 478 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 1: was all this and those things all over again. I'm 479 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,239 Speaker 1: not trying to sell you on the product at all, 480 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm not listen. I'm sitting here looking 481 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 1: at it, and I'm curious and my questions are kind 482 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,840 Speaker 1: of like what happens if, like Tony said, she has 483 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 1: the light one? But what happens if you're always consistently 484 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,960 Speaker 1: light periods but you have one where you're really heavy 485 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,320 Speaker 1: or is it going to leak or is it suction 486 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: to where it's not gonna change it quicker? So like 487 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 1: leave it in for instead of twelve hours, like I 488 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 1: do you change it after two or three? Yeah, I 489 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: have to change mind. So I gave birth and July 490 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:38,959 Speaker 1: to my first child, and my period has changed so 491 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,439 Speaker 1: much since my body is changed so much sense, and 492 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: I've had to really learn how to use my own products. 493 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: And I do have to say, like the first month 494 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,720 Speaker 1: that I used it, um, I just wore a pantiliner 495 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 1: that whole month just in case I leaked or anything. Yeah, 496 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,639 Speaker 1: So I did that the first month, But now I 497 00:26:56,720 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: got this, got this bad void down. Don't try it 498 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,479 Speaker 1: on your have this day like you can. You can 499 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: actually put in a discard cup when you're not on 500 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,280 Speaker 1: your period to make sure you got a place right, 501 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: and that's what we always tell people. And then start 502 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: trying it on your later days and never try it 503 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:14,320 Speaker 1: on your heaviest day to start. So my another question 504 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: for you, and because when you were testing out or 505 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 1: when you were trying products, did they have period underwear 506 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: yet or was that did that come after your product? 507 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 1: Was a good question um. There were a couple of brands, 508 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 1: and then I met the founder of thanks Um and 509 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 1: she's such a life force and Um, I actually really 510 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 1: like period underwear. I think that it's a great backup 511 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: for me. I have such a heavy period I can't 512 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: wear as a primary product. But for people that might 513 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: have spotty periods or light periods, any kind of period 514 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 1: underwear doesn't need to be can beat any brand. UM 515 00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,639 Speaker 1: I think is a great alternative if you're trying to 516 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,120 Speaker 1: cut back your waist overall. Have you tried them? It's 517 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:03,919 Speaker 1: good to me? No, I haven't, but but the the 518 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: whole thought process was that could be a way to 519 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: ease me into it. But I can't grasp how that 520 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:14,160 Speaker 1: works without it feeling like or just have you ever 521 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 1: worn black underwear on your period just so your panties 522 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:22,960 Speaker 1: went and stain? Yeah? Yeah, I think if it is 523 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: the same concept, But do you feel the there's no 524 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: other way to say it, but like the wetness, that's 525 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:32,840 Speaker 1: what I mean, Like I wouldn't wear it as a 526 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,160 Speaker 1: fact if you have a super late period. It's not 527 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: that much right, like there for the last days of 528 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:43,920 Speaker 1: your period. Okay, Okay, I'm glad we talked because they 529 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: were going to have me do a trial run for 530 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 1: an episode of the podcast where I wore period underwear, 531 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: and I probably would have just put it on through 532 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: the whole thing and been like, what the heck are crazy? 533 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,600 Speaker 1: I mean, similar to any new period products, regardless of 534 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: what you're trying, regardless of the brand, I always recommend 535 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 1: if you're so, I think, um sat here, Okay, nine 536 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: people have never tried a disk in the US menstruators, 537 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,880 Speaker 1: I've never tried to cup. So you're you are not 538 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,160 Speaker 1: in the minority. Backup, you are in the majority by far. 539 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: And what I would say to you or anyone else 540 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: is curious about trying any other type of period product, 541 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:31,520 Speaker 1: go easy, Like wear it on a day that not 542 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 1: a tamp on, our pad because well, I guess the 543 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 1: pad you can wear not on your period. Don't put 544 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: a tamp on, and when you're not on your period, 545 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 1: that's dangerous. But pads or um period underwear, disk, cups, whatever, 546 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:46,880 Speaker 1: try it out when you're not leading to get the 547 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:51,720 Speaker 1: insertion and removal right, um, and then use it to 548 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: begin with on your letter days. Have a backup, and like, 549 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: don't wear your favorite pair of like white rag and 550 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 1: bone jeans, like go easy, go easy. But but like 551 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: you're not gonna put your fifteen year old kid in 552 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 1: a Ferrari to learn how to drive the first time, right, 553 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: You're gonna put them in your feeder. You're not gonna 554 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 1: put them in a sick shift. You're gonna put them 555 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: in an automatic. You've got to go. You gotta take 556 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:23,200 Speaker 1: one step at a time, Okay. I I mean, Tanya 557 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 1: has been so passionate about it that it almost feels 558 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: like something that I know. Like I'm telling you, Lauren, 559 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,240 Speaker 1: like I want to be a brand ambassador for this 560 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,480 Speaker 1: menstrual cup. Like you're I'm like that upset aread? I 561 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: already am? I already am, But like I just I'm like, 562 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: there's just so many different reasons why I love it, 563 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:49,720 Speaker 1: and um on top of that, I just it's I 564 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 1: just can't believe I didn't do it sooner. So that 565 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: is like kind of my biggest thing is like I 566 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: wish I would have discovered this sooner because even like 567 00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,000 Speaker 1: the days I was saying, I mean, granted were in quarantine, 568 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: so I'm not like leaving my house now, but there's 569 00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: days where like there's just so much going on or 570 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: like jingle Ball. We have like these big events and 571 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,160 Speaker 1: like I barely have time to even go pee, let 572 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 1: alone like think about changing my tampon, or like having 573 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:12,760 Speaker 1: to lift your dress up, or like you know what 574 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: I mean. Like I'm even flashing forward to like my 575 00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,959 Speaker 1: wedding day, like I'm gonna be so stoked. Hopefully I'm 576 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: not on my parent I was on my beer my 577 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,200 Speaker 1: wedding day. I'm not kidding. It was the first day 578 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 1: of my eving period. And then in Mexico and it's 579 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:33,120 Speaker 1: beautiful here, you so like, of course, but it's like 580 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,280 Speaker 1: it's fine with my cup. I just boy riding in 581 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: my desk and I had zero weeks. I had like 582 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: my cute little bride white thong that my brides needs 583 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 1: gave me that I want underneath my wedding jazz and 584 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,960 Speaker 1: nothing like. It was great the whole thing. And on 585 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: my honeymoon it was magic. But and it's funny because 586 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,280 Speaker 1: there no there's like a community of people that use these. 587 00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,120 Speaker 1: So once I started opening up about it and like 588 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: posting about it, all these people start popping up out 589 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:05,040 Speaker 1: of the woodworks, like, oh I my sister is a 590 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,200 Speaker 1: big fan uses them to my neighbor Aaron uses them 591 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: like everyone just like upset, like telling me how and 592 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:18,959 Speaker 1: I'm like, why didn't Sure, I didn't. I didn't realize 593 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,560 Speaker 1: it until I entered. I was like, wow, okay, but 594 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 1: I do want to just Um, people that are listening 595 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: that want to like have an idea or have something 596 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: like they want to start their own business. What's a 597 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,880 Speaker 1: piece of advice that you now like learned in hindsight 598 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: that you could give them, Um, when you were starting work. 599 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,040 Speaker 1: It's the best piece of advice I ever got. I 600 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: think I waited for so long, So I waited between 601 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: to try all these different products and do all this 602 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: market research and make my business plan and how do 603 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,480 Speaker 1: I go to market strategy and everything else. And I 604 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,840 Speaker 1: think all that research is totally valid and totally important 605 00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: and very necessary to start a business. But actually putting 606 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 1: yourself out there and trying to get your product made 607 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:10,000 Speaker 1: into people's hands as quickly as possible, um, and seeing 608 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,440 Speaker 1: if people actually pay you for whatever it is that 609 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 1: you're making is the most important advice. Yeah, that's really 610 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 1: great advice. I know we have a lot of people 611 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,160 Speaker 1: who are starting small businesses, and I think your story 612 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:26,920 Speaker 1: is such a testament of what it can be if 613 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 1: you're passionate about something and it's something that people need. Um. Yeah, 614 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 1: I like the tipto of like reframing something like if 615 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: you're basically because a lot of people in the beginning 616 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 1: will say no, or they'll be like, mann, I don't know, 617 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: but it's like, Okay, I'm not gonna say that. I'm 618 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,400 Speaker 1: not gonna take your no. I'm going to reframe this 619 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 1: so that it appeals to your friends and family will 620 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 1: tell you you're so great, you're so amazing. I love 621 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:54,040 Speaker 1: the idea, Like that's lovely. It's wonderful to have their 622 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,720 Speaker 1: support and love and unconditional love. You really got to 623 00:33:57,760 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: get out there to whoever it is that you're trying 624 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: to all something to write and like meet Like the 625 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 1: whole idea between behind this um coming. This organization called 626 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,680 Speaker 1: by Combinators makes something that people want, and we're part 627 00:34:10,680 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 1: of that organization. It's an accelerator and they give you 628 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,600 Speaker 1: some seed money to go and start your idea. And 629 00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:20,360 Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of y Combinator because their whole 630 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,719 Speaker 1: thing is just makes something that people want. And my 631 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: first idea for a period product was something that a 632 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:33,600 Speaker 1: manufacturer said we can't make and users tried and they 633 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,759 Speaker 1: weren't using three months later, right, And so to me, 634 00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 1: the bar for success was, I want to make products 635 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,000 Speaker 1: that people are excited to put in their body every 636 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 1: single month, and that they're not saying is a little 637 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:48,839 Speaker 1: bit better than a tamp on our pad, but they're 638 00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,479 Speaker 1: saying it's ten times better than a tampon a pad. 639 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,799 Speaker 1: And like that learning curve and the hesitation to try 640 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,440 Speaker 1: it and how difficult that piece is is the thing 641 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:02,720 Speaker 1: that I'm focused on tackling. But every single business has 642 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: that thing, right, And so if you just get out 643 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,080 Speaker 1: there and talk to people and iterate and it itterate 644 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: on your idea and you're not emotionally attached to it, 645 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: and you're open to the feedback, um, take it, change it, itterate, pivot, 646 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: change your story, do whatever it takes. Um that have 647 00:35:20,840 --> 00:35:23,799 Speaker 1: conviction that whatever you're making is something that people really want. 648 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: So good. It's so true because it literally took me 649 00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:31,719 Speaker 1: about a year to try. You just try this, and 650 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,360 Speaker 1: I'm like, mis period, you know what I mean, She's 651 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,080 Speaker 1: named herself misperiod. But then it took me that long. 652 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,680 Speaker 1: I can't imagine, like, you know, it's gonna it's gonna 653 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: take a while for me to get you, get you, 654 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,759 Speaker 1: get one in you, but I will do it. You 655 00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 1: to me, but me to do it for myself. That's 656 00:35:53,080 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: going to happen. Put it on your vision board. Lauren. 657 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I mean, we've been talking about 658 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,880 Speaker 1: having you on for a long time, So thank you 659 00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,120 Speaker 1: so much for coming on and sharing your story and 660 00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,719 Speaker 1: information with us, because it's I mean, even for me 661 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 1: what I've listened to. Tomy talked about this for a 662 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,600 Speaker 1: long time, and I finally am in that place of 663 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,080 Speaker 1: thinking I could maybe try it and and love it 664 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 1: and not be so intimidated by it. So thank you 665 00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:26,919 Speaker 1: for your time, and I'm gonna keep trying. I'm gonna 666 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:30,240 Speaker 1: keep trying with the disk because actually my pelvic floor 667 00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:32,480 Speaker 1: physical therapist is the person who told me about the 668 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,040 Speaker 1: disk because she says she it's like no no blood, 669 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,239 Speaker 1: period sex. That was the marketing tool for this. I 670 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 1: was like, sign me up, girl, you can have or 671 00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: otherwise period sex and you would never know that you 672 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:54,480 Speaker 1: were on your period. Lauren, thank you so much for 673 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,000 Speaker 1: taking the time. We really appreciate it, and keep going, 674 00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:01,360 Speaker 1: keep making more. I'm excited to talk to you again. 675 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,120 Speaker 1: We have new products coming out all the time. UM, 676 00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,640 Speaker 1: We're always listening to what people want, what people say 677 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,399 Speaker 1: they want, and I appreciate you Becca for being so 678 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,680 Speaker 1: open when this isn't something that is necessarily your cup 679 00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:16,879 Speaker 1: of tea. Yeah, I was gonna say thank you. I'm 680 00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:20,000 Speaker 1: I'm normally don't really have an opinion on a lot 681 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,160 Speaker 1: of things, but you you made me feel very comfortable 682 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,759 Speaker 1: to be just truly myself and how I feel about 683 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,960 Speaker 1: these things. So thank you for being such a like 684 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:34,239 Speaker 1: comforting teacher, comforting teacher. Yeah, and if you need a 685 00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,880 Speaker 1: guinea pig for your products, send them on over. I 686 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:42,359 Speaker 1: will so. If you have a period like we do 687 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,520 Speaker 1: and you care about the planet and you want to 688 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 1: try this, Um, you guys can go to flex It's 689 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,200 Speaker 1: flex fits dot com to get twenty percent off of 690 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,880 Speaker 1: all orders using the discount code scrubbing twenty. That's flex 691 00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,280 Speaker 1: f l e x fits dot com and the promo 692 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:04,479 Speaker 1: code is scrubbing Thanks. It's this is so much fun, 693 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: all right. How do you feel post conversation with it 694 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:29,000 Speaker 1: one of your heroes? Your heroes? I feel good, you know, 695 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,040 Speaker 1: I felt long, I felt that I kind of came 696 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,839 Speaker 1: on a little too strong. It's funny that you fan 697 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:39,319 Speaker 1: girl even like you're a fan girl and all the 698 00:38:39,400 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 1: things that you're passionate about. It's very charming and endearing. 699 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,319 Speaker 1: I think I came on too strong, like I feel 700 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 1: like she's more of Rebecca. She was definitely more respect 701 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 1: definitely a Becca, and I felt like my Tania energy 702 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 1: was like a lot for her. But no, I didn't 703 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:53,920 Speaker 1: feel like it was a lot for her. I just 704 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,000 Speaker 1: felt like her responses were very much like me and I. Honestly, 705 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 1: normally when people come on and have some thing, I 706 00:39:00,239 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 1: always feel like in any situation that I have to 707 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,320 Speaker 1: be like, oh yeah, like that's you know, I'm totally down. 708 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,960 Speaker 1: But she made me feel very comfortable to be like 709 00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:12,440 Speaker 1: I think because she's like Becca, it's fine, like I've 710 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,879 Speaker 1: been in your position before. Of people haven't. That's almost 711 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:21,040 Speaker 1: is like almost, yeah, but that's twelve is a large 712 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 1: number if you take it into consideration of the world 713 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,840 Speaker 1: of people who are trying it. And I can't imagine 714 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,239 Speaker 1: that people were like so on board when tampons came 715 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,959 Speaker 1: out and we're like, okay, let me shoot this piece 716 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,960 Speaker 1: of cotton up there and see what happens, you know. 717 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,280 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't even imagine putting cotton up me anymore. 718 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:42,600 Speaker 1: The thing of the past, leaving that baby my she's 719 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,880 Speaker 1: really outgrown all of us, to all my fellow tampon users, 720 00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:49,719 Speaker 1: She's left us in the dust onto more mature things, 721 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:54,200 Speaker 1: things like this very chic menstrual cup. No, that's a disc, 722 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:57,440 Speaker 1: a disc. Gosh, shoot you, but you haven't mastered yet, 723 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:01,120 Speaker 1: so don't get so cotton over there. Um humble myself. Yeah, 724 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,640 Speaker 1: I really liked her. She was awesome. Um. We have 725 00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:06,200 Speaker 1: one email and it's on topic, Mark, how did that 726 00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:10,160 Speaker 1: conversation make you feel? Honestly, I thought it was fairly interesting, 727 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,920 Speaker 1: and um, as many episodes go, I think I do 728 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,120 Speaker 1: rank this one higher than the Pet Psychic. I'm sorry, Becca, Okay, 729 00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,200 Speaker 1: well I I okay, I'm just I'll keep my thoughts 730 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:23,880 Speaker 1: to myself on that. But okay, I thought it was 731 00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:25,719 Speaker 1: very interesting, and I think our listings will find this 732 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,680 Speaker 1: very interesting as well. It's just it is interesting because 733 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,920 Speaker 1: and I do want to I want to do the 734 00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:34,239 Speaker 1: tutorial because it is hard. There's a learning curve with 735 00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,120 Speaker 1: like new feminine products, you know, so if I can, 736 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,760 Speaker 1: if I can be the person that folds my flex 737 00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:43,520 Speaker 1: cup into a taco and really shows you how it's done. 738 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,799 Speaker 1: I'm happy to be that person, a trailblazer. Well the 739 00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,160 Speaker 1: emails from Crystal, she says, I just wanted to share 740 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:53,360 Speaker 1: some information with you. Did you know your cycle is 741 00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,840 Speaker 1: happening all month long? We women go through four cycles 742 00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,880 Speaker 1: each month, not just a week we bleed. Each cycle 743 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:04,880 Speaker 1: you are in affects everything, workout, stress, food, fuel you need, mood, 744 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,399 Speaker 1: your bio clock, relationships, sex, life, literally everything. I mean, 745 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,120 Speaker 1: I'm thirty seven and learning so much about my body 746 00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,439 Speaker 1: and what it goes through every month. It's true. I mean, 747 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:17,799 Speaker 1: I it's crazy because I'm about start my period right now, 748 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,719 Speaker 1: and it's like the things our bodies do when we're 749 00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:23,440 Speaker 1: going through this, Like my boobs are and I'm like irritable. 750 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,200 Speaker 1: It's just like I'm hungry all the time and all 751 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,000 Speaker 1: I want is trash, which is pretty on brand all 752 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,320 Speaker 1: the time for me. But but it is interesting because 753 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,440 Speaker 1: it's like you have your period for a week. I 754 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:38,799 Speaker 1: start feeling the pre periods a week before. That's that's 755 00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 1: two weeks out of a month. That's half of a month. Yeah, 756 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:44,160 Speaker 1: the other two weeks I normally am pretty fine, Like 757 00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,239 Speaker 1: I don't really have anything going on, but yeah, it's 758 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:50,120 Speaker 1: it's pretty it's pretty amazing what our bodies go through 759 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:54,720 Speaker 1: and how we've just you know, we've adapted and we've learned, 760 00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,239 Speaker 1: and we're with these products. We're trying new things to 761 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,919 Speaker 1: make it easier and less of Uh, what'd you say? 762 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,279 Speaker 1: Like I have to have to get through it, and 763 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,759 Speaker 1: I do. It's just like all right here she is. 764 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:11,440 Speaker 1: The pain, the irritability. Yeah, it's so many things. It's 765 00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:12,920 Speaker 1: like for me, there's a day where there's like a 766 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:16,200 Speaker 1: gremlin that just that just crawls up my body and 767 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:20,240 Speaker 1: zaps me of all energy. It's just like the gremlin 768 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,600 Speaker 1: just zaps me. And that's for two days of my cycle. 769 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:28,879 Speaker 1: Then I have the pain, the nipple pain that last day. 770 00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,480 Speaker 1: Then I have the cravings, Then I have the breakouts, 771 00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,120 Speaker 1: and then my period. I forgot about the breakout. Yeah, 772 00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:36,920 Speaker 1: and then like the last thing you want to deal 773 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:38,400 Speaker 1: with this is just there's so many things that come 774 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,120 Speaker 1: along with it too, you know, and like you're on 775 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,640 Speaker 1: your period and like having a store of the tampons 776 00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,840 Speaker 1: and trash and it's just like such a mess. Yeah, 777 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,279 Speaker 1: I think I need to stop flashing my tampons. Huh. 778 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:55,080 Speaker 1: Both Your biggest takeaway kind of is a big takeaway. Yeah, 779 00:42:55,080 --> 00:42:57,399 Speaker 1: you're not supposed to flush your tampons on the toilet ever, 780 00:42:58,200 --> 00:42:59,880 Speaker 1: but especially like in the home that you live in, 781 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,840 Speaker 1: because if they do, like if your landlord finds the 782 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:07,440 Speaker 1: tampons in your pipes or whatever, that's on you, you 783 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:08,560 Speaker 1: know what I mean, if you have to get somebody 784 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:13,400 Speaker 1: out here. It's like, yeah, and I remember that because 785 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,240 Speaker 1: you know how many floods I had in my old apartment. 786 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:17,840 Speaker 1: How one was like, do you flush your tampons? I 787 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,919 Speaker 1: was like, nope. You would have definitely found a way 788 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,520 Speaker 1: to make it your fault. She would have definitely found 789 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:27,400 Speaker 1: a way. We all lived, me, our landlord, Antonio all 790 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,560 Speaker 1: lived on the same for like right door, like doors 791 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:33,640 Speaker 1: down from each other, and she was that landlord. If 792 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,840 Speaker 1: you called her and were like, oh, my guardens disposal 793 00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,160 Speaker 1: is broken, can you have somebody come fix it, she 794 00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 1: would find something in the garbage disposal and leave it 795 00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,760 Speaker 1: on your counter, so you knew it was your fault. 796 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,640 Speaker 1: Like the chicken don't put chicken bones down your sink 797 00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:49,480 Speaker 1: and we were like, okay, we don't need you to 798 00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,719 Speaker 1: leave the dirty ass chicken bone on the counter. I 799 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,080 Speaker 1: like it. It's like passive and ground Yeah, it's like 800 00:43:55,160 --> 00:44:00,640 Speaker 1: you can just tell us thanks, selling like oh so funny. 801 00:44:00,719 --> 00:44:03,560 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. I never had any of those issues. But 802 00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,759 Speaker 1: she was a character. Um character. Well, I'm so glad 803 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,960 Speaker 1: we got to talk to Lauren. She was great. I 804 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:14,520 Speaker 1: feel informed she um. I loved her story of starting 805 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:18,400 Speaker 1: a business in such a like just starting business in 806 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,160 Speaker 1: general is so competitive, and then starting a business that's 807 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,360 Speaker 1: you know, surrounding our menstrual cycle is and having to 808 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,040 Speaker 1: pitch it to men as what I'm saying. But I 809 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,480 Speaker 1: loved how she did it. It's so true. Men love 810 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,840 Speaker 1: to have sex regardless. They like don't get it. They're like, 811 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:37,040 Speaker 1: what do you mean you're on her period? That doesn't 812 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:49,719 Speaker 1: affect me, guys. I'm just kidding, guys. I know what's 813 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,440 Speaker 1: actually really sad is like red Star is so tender 814 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,440 Speaker 1: and sweet when I am on my period, you know 815 00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,359 Speaker 1: what I mean, Like, he's so not that guy. That's 816 00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:01,320 Speaker 1: like and yeah, I still just like we learned on Monday, 817 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,160 Speaker 1: all we have to do is put on Taylor Swift 818 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:07,920 Speaker 1: and there are other avenues. She'll make that disc work UM, 819 00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:10,400 Speaker 1: so when are you gonna try it? I mean, I guess, 820 00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:12,640 Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. I don't know. It's just 821 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:14,960 Speaker 1: all my mind that I'm open to trying it. So 822 00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:19,720 Speaker 1: one step at a time. UM, thank you everyone for listening. 823 00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:26,760 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Another week down, closer, closer. UM, 824 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,440 Speaker 1: I'll be back next week, Tanya. We'll be doing our 825 00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,880 Speaker 1: highs and lows, but doing our lows. I am. I 826 00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,279 Speaker 1: will be back next week with Caitlin Carter. He's on 827 00:45:36,360 --> 00:45:38,279 Speaker 1: My Good Friend. She's going to co host with me. 828 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,960 Speaker 1: And we will miss you. Gonna be on vacation in 829 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:46,160 Speaker 1: my cocoon, which you deserve. Thank you. Um, we love 830 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:50,160 Speaker 1: you all. Happy weekend and we'll see you next week. 831 00:45:50,560 --> 00:46:14,000 Speaker 1: Bye bye bye two