Misseducated

Tash sits down with Rachel Hobart and Fran Wang, a visual designer and mechanical engineer duo who are redesigning one of the most outdated technologies used on vaginas everywhere: the speculum. Along with their previous team members, Sahanna Kumar and Hailey Stewart, this team has created Yona Care. They're doing amazing work to redesign the speculum, which has a dark history and needs some serious updating since its first patent was approved in 1892. Check out their work here: https://yonacare.com/ and follow them on Instagram and Twitter here: @yonacare. 🍑💪🏽👩🏽‍⚕️💕

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Florence (Co-Founder and CEO) and Gideon (Co-Founder and CMO) have launched Cherie, the first totally organic and sustainable tampon subscription company. We talked about what guys can do to be more informed and helpful when it comes to periods 🤣 👏🏽

Cherie's goal is to reduce our planet's plastic menstrual waste and to give back to girls in need. They do this by using entirely compostable packaging and 100% plastic-free products, and partnering with the nonprofit, PERIOD. Support their upcoming Kickstarter campaign, and check them out at www.cherieorganic.com.

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Join me for a conversation with Aagya Mathur, Co-Founder and CEO of Aavia.io. Aavia is a new smart birth control pill case and hormonal health company. I'm giving you early access even though they're still testing in beta because Aavia is going to be a game-changer for anyone taking birth control pills  💕 Check them out at www.aavia.io

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Erika is unlucky when it comes to trying different kinds of birth control. She experiences all the side effects under the sun. But what will her husband say when she asks him if she can get her implant removed? 

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Sarah gives Tash her perspective on the abortion bill that was recently passed in Alabama, and what being pro-life means to her. She shares her thoughts on birth control education, and challenges her politicians on using women's bodies for their own gain.

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Katy's fertility is put at risk when she is taken to the hospital with acute pain in one of her ovaries. She encourages all girls who are prone to ovarian cysts to think twice before getting a Hormonal IUD (problematic cysts are a risk, but they're very rare).

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Emily's dreams of college are almost cut short when her mom refuses to let her get birth control and she has an unplanned pregnancy. If this episode doesn't convince your parents to let you get birth control, I don't know what will!

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Alex switches from the pill to the NuvaRing, and she uses the NuvaRing correctly and consistently. Is that enough for her to avoid an unplanned pregnancy in college? 

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AJ shares her birth control story, and how it took her until she was working in a free clinic as a nurse practitioner to see the Hormonal IUD as a legitimate option for her birth control.

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Ketnia shares her birth control story with us, coming from a traditional Mexican household. The timing of her education about periods and becoming a woman was never quite right.

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