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Misseducated is the show about unlearning and the female experience. Covering topics like sex workers' rights, femtech, porn, domestic violence and fertility, Tash Doherty discovers the stories of fascinating people and explores their unusual viewpoints in conversations we rarely have.
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Apr 21, 2023
How To Be Kind To Yourself, And Why It Matters
Hello everyone,
I’m super excited to share my interview with Dr. Kristin Neff, self-compassion expert, author, researcher, professor and TedX Speaker.
Check out her website and workshops at the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion: https://self-compassion.org/
Link to Dr. Neff’s TedX Talk (one of my personal favorites!)
Link to her latest book, Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power And Thrive
Stay up to date with her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/neffselfcompassion/
I hope you find a self-compassion technique or practice that works for you! :)
Lots of love,
Tash 🤗 🌷
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Apr 11, 2023
Back To Where We First Met
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Hey friend,
Have you ever returned to a place, only to be flooded with memories from when you were there before? Maybe it was a small, forested park where you went on a date with a previous partner, at a time in your life when you were deeply in love with each other. Maybe it was a candlelit bar where you went drinking with friends you no longer keep in touch with. Yet returning there, after time has passed, feels both visceral and nostalgic. That’s the position I found myself in a couple weeks ago. I wrote this piece about my experience and performed it at the Spring Salon of my writing class, Notes on Your Notes, taught by Joshua and Adam. They are great writing teachers who have built a wonderful community. Paid subscribers will get to listen to the story. So, tell us: when did you go back somewhere, only to be flooded with memories? Who had you been there with? And where were you in life the time you went back? What was that like?
Lots of Love,
Tash 🤗
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Apr 7, 2023
Female Orgasms 101
I’m over the moon to share today’s episode of Misseducated with you: Female Orgasms 101, with Dr. Laurie Mintz, where we dive in deep all about female pleasure, the orgasm gap and how women can have more orgasms. Here are a couple show notes:
* Contact Dr. Laurie on her website: https://www.drlauriemintz.com/about-laurie-mintz
* Buy her best-selling book, Becoming Cliterate: https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Cliterate-Orgasm-Equality-Matters/dp/0062484389
* Her articles on Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/stress-and-sex
* Find her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlauriemintz/
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Mar 28, 2023
How to Achieve Orgasm Equality
In this episode, I read aloud my article, "How To Achieve Orgasm Equality". This piece discusses sex in depth. I advise my family to not read it. Continue at your peril.
I have had sex with about 40 men in my life so far. Sadly, only a few of them could make me orgasm; I remember all three of them fondly. A couple of others allowed me the time and space for my vibrator. When I realized how rare these men were, far greater questions hit me. Did I pick the wrong guy 37 times? Or put simply: is there something terribly wrong with me?
It turns out that I am not alone. My experience is so common there’s a statistic in social science dedicated to it: the orgasm gap. We'll dive into: what the orgasm gap is, and how big it is, the clitoris, redefining what we mean by "vagina" and "sex", vibrators, anal, and all kinds of other tips. Enjoy!
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Mar 10, 2023
The Women’s March in Mexico City, 2023
Warning: sexual violence and death are mentioned.
This week, on Wednesday March 8th 2023, it was International Women’s Day. Almost two years to the day since the most traumatic event of my life.
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I left my house at about 3pm to attend the women’s marches in Mexico City. I was wearing purple, following the dress code my friend had told me about. As I left my apartment, I grabbed a 500 pesos note from my drawer. I knew instinctively what I had to do.
As I walked to the march, crowds of women also wearing purple and holding signs gradually gathered around me. My throat started to swell up. I hadn’t expected to get emotional already. The chanting, the energy, the spirits of all the women overwhelmed me.
“¡Señor, señora, no sea indiferente, se matan las mujeres en la cara de la gente!"
(“Sir, Madam, don’t be indifferent, they are killing women in the face of the people!”)
If you didn’t know already, I am one of the millions of women who has experienced sexual violence in Mexico. At the marches that day, I thought about it a lot. I thought about how much I had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder these last two years. I thought about all the women who had never made it out alive, who had never been found, and who might have been saved if they had had 500 pesos on them at the time. And how many of their abusers were living free out there in the world, like my abuser was. I also thought about how unbelievable it is that I now call Mexico my home. This country is so beautiful, so vibrant and magical. But there is no justice. When unspeakably awful things happen here, there are no consequences for the perpetrators. In addition to not committing crimes in the first place, that is what needs to change.
By the time I met my friends at the Angel of Independence statue, I was crying already. I was embarrassed about being so emotional in front of them and was grateful that they held space for me. I had a good old sob, right there in front of the crowds of people. But I felt determined to make it count.
I shared my plan with Itzel, my amazing photographer friend, and her friend Renata, who I had just met. We walked around the statue, dipping through the crowds to find the right angle in the sun. I took out my 500 pesos note. I held it up to the Angel of Independence.
Another girl gave us some flowers.
That’s the story behind these pictures. Two years ago, I made it out of there. I live to tell the tale today. I am free. He didn’t get me. But I was only saved because I had money. My story is that 500 pesos, about $25USD, was the difference between me being raped or not raped. Killed or not killed. This privilege is not lost on me. It’s the harsh, damning reality of the world we live in. I think of all the missing women in Mexico, and the family members I saw that day who were marching for them. What would it have taken for them to be saved? How many of them would still be alive right now if they had had $25USD in cash?
The crowds were singing and the air was vibrant and fun. There were beautiful signs of painted uteruses with the ovaries putting up two middle fingers.
“¡El que no brinque es macho!”
(“Whoever doesn’t jump is a macho!”)
After that chant, the entire crowd would start jumping each time. There were “callaberas” (horse riders) on horseback from Veracruz. There were Otomi women, the oldest indigenous group in Mexico who also predate the Aztecs, in their colorful, traditional dress.
But as we headed down Reforma, to the Palacio de Bellas Artes, I couldn’t help but notice the few men in the crowd. They were often holding crosses or signs with names on them, “Jimena”, “Diana” or “mi prima” (my cousin). They wore t-shirts with a woman’s photo on them. Each one a named face of the roughly 25,000 desaparecidas (missing women) in Mexico. Families and friends travelled in groups, often wearing similar clothes, like beacons of their loved one’s voices in physical form. This was a stark contrast from the flyers stamped across the graffitied fronts of buildings, with pictures of men’s faces and their names, tagging them as “violador” (rapist), “golpeador” (beater) or “abusor psicológico” (psychological abuser).
We passed one woman holding up a sign which read,
“Escribeme el nombre de tu acosador / violador / feminicida”
“Write the name of your stalker, rapist, femicide”
People were queuing up to write names all over her body with thick, black markers. This was another emotional moment for me. I knew I wanted to write something. But the truth is, I don’t know the name of my abuser and I never will. I used Google translate on my phone. I was shaking as I wrote on her arm, “Anónimo” (Anonymous). Itzel captured this really incredible picture.
I felt the weight of my privilege as I was writing. I thought about all the women in Mexico who had experienced violence at the hands of someone whose name they would never know, like me. I thought about the women who had died at the hands of anonymous abusers. That moment was incredibly heavy. But it made me think about how I could be using my privilege more to help other people. I felt like I was carrying the weight of duty on my shoulders.
At sunset, we passed about a hundred female police officers, silently standing in a long row. Some had flowers stuffed in the pockets of their black armored suits. Others stood expressionlessly as the thousands of women marched in front of them. When we arrived in Centro, the downtown area, I saw some stores had been smashed. The air was more tense and seemed angrier there. But none of the damage done to the storefronts could compare to the gravity of what the women were fighting for. To the absolute unspeakable immensity of how many people had been murdered, how many innocent lives had been lost or ruined forever by violence and grief.
By this point, we had entered the Zocalo, the main square and the center of government. The crowd was booming. Itzel, Renata and I felt exhausted. We were ready to go home. The last sign I took a picture of was:
“Existo porque resisto”
(“I exist because I resist.”)
I thought about how I still existed because I had resisted in the moment on that hilltop in Oaxaca two years ago. I felt incredibly grateful for that, for standing up for myself so that I could have a chance of being whole again, like I feel now.
As we got in a taxi to head back to my apartment, I remembered a sign I had seen earlier that day.
“Por que? Algo tan simple cómo volver a casa es un privilegio.”
(“Why? Something as simple as coming home is a privilege.”)
p.s. A photo of Itzel being a badass photographer:
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Feb 24, 2023
I Kissed A Girl. And I Liked It.
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Alessia said she wasn’t looking for anything serious. She said she just wanted to be friends.
How could that be? I dared to entertain the question. When I had held her in my arms only a week before. When she had curled up into my chest, as I ran my fingers along her back searchingly. When I had gone out on a whim and decided to secede myself to being the man in our relationship. When I had admitted to myself in a state of weakness, or perhaps, in a state of emboldened vulnerability that I wanted to take care of her. That I wanted to make her happy. Make her smile.
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Feb 11, 2023
I Look For A Lover
Hello! I usually only write about my romantic life for my paid subscribers. Today, I’m offering a story for everyone, to give you a taste of what’s behind the paywall. All my stories are true, as I remember them, but I have changed some details to protect people’s privacy; as my writing teacher, Ann Randolph, tells me, “A story told twice is fiction”. So, consider subscribing to read more stories with all the juicy details.
I’m also going to enable to chat feature in Substack so you can tell me about the times you’ve looked for a lover also…
I lay on my couch last night. It was a Thursday, and my mood was sour. It had been a long week, almost a month since my breakup. I frowned in the low light of the early evening. I felt apathetic, yet restless. I wanted to dip into the distraction of my phone. It was like I was becoming a crotchety old lady. Like the one in London who used to shout down at us from her balcony when I was a kid, when we filled the bird bath with twigs and stones.
I grumbled to myself. Why was my bed so empty? When was the last time someone had given me a hug? Images of couples walking down my street holding hands, or stealing a kiss, surfaced in my mind. I could have smelt the sickening sweetness rolling off their shoulders. How come they? Why not me? When will I?
I hugged my navy blue couch cushion tighter. I nestled my nose against the warm skin of my own shoulder, imagining that it was someone’s chest. Open. Warm. And that he was cradling me in his arms.
I had spent most of that week hopping between galleries at Zonamaco, or Art Week in Mexico City. I had descended upon the stained-glass, art-deco facades of trendy, candlelit bars in Juarez and Roma Norte and Condesa. I had tried to admire some of the art, at least. But these events had been far more about the people than the paintings or the portraits; the city’s hottest Bright Young Things were there, only a century after Evelyn Waugh.
I had tried to flirt with a guy in a crisp, lime-green suit, wearing thick rectangular sunglasses indoors. I had tried to chat to a bearded man in all black, a turtleneck and a long, leather coat. Like he had been picked up from some underground rave in Bushwick and plonked into the middle of this cavernous room of bizarre, contorted statues and screens for the NFTs. I had tried to get the attention of a man with dark ginger hair, wearing a mosaic of necklaces and embroidered shirts. He had smelled like incense, and said he ran a boutique mushroom chocolate business. But as we had exchanged phone numbers, and I had glanced hopefully up into the warmth of his green eyes, I knew he would never silently shut the door of my apartment behind us. He would never lie down on my couch. He would never assume the exact position where I was at that moment, with my navy blue couch cushion and my own shoulder there, trying to comfort myself.
As I rolled over and considered taking a nap, suddenly my phone screen flashed through the darkness. My friend had texted me. An invitation to a piano bar nearby. Suddenly I felt the deep silence of my apartment. The stillness was haunting me. I texted my friend to tell her I would be there. I waited to see if she would text back. As I lingered for a moment, I decided I couldn’t sit in the emptiness anymore. I wanted something. I wanted somebody. I wanted someone to fill the silence.
I got up off my couch. I did my makeup. I put on a tight, long, pleather brown dress with a white turtleneck underneath. I locked my front door and left the darkness of my apartment behind me. I ate duck tacos at a restaurant on my own, unable to fully appreciate the delicious plum sauce.
As I paid the bill, my phone screen lit up again. My friend had cancelled on me. I would go to the piano bar alone. I walked down the street there alone also. At a crosswalk, I caught a glimpse of a man, one of the well-dressed bearded ones with nice cheekbones. But a car pulled up, and he got into it, and we drifted apart, like two suns spreading away in the vastness of an expanding universe.
I turned the corner and reached the piano bar. Just then, I saw a couple smoking cigarettes outside. I don’t quite know how to tell you this. Maybe there’s no other way to say it. But she stood out to me. She had short brown hair, and styled bangs. She was wearing a strapless, black top. Her cleavage was deep, and so were her curves. A tall man with glasses and long, blonde hair stood next to her. I remember she was smiling. I remember she was smiling at me.
“Are you guys going to the piano bar too?” I found myself saying.
“Wait, what?” she replied. She was American, undoubtedly. And then, as if we had known each other for ages, she said, “We’re drinking with friends in the wine place downstairs. You can come sit down with us if you want.”
“I don’t want to interrupt,” I said, looking at the tall man then back to her again, “How do you guys know each other?”
“We met on the internet,” she said.
“The apps?”
“Yeah.”
“Cool,” I said, probing further. The tall man said nothing.
Her name was Alessia, she told me, though she wasn’t Italian. She was from D.C., but technically the Maryland part. She was half-American, half-Ecuadorian. And she was an artist. And she had a dog. I looked at the dark purple stone pendant hanging around her neck.
“I’ve been wanting to get a giant lizard tattoo on my arm for like 10 years,” she told me, “I finally booked my session on Valentine’s Day. I’m going to do it!”
“That’s awesome,” I said, noticing another long, rectangular tattoo with an inscription on her arm. I thought back to my ex, and the tattoos he had on his arm. And how much I loved them. And how colourful they were. And I thought about how edgy, and how sexy, she was going to look with her new tattoo.
“I like your dress. And your haircut. You won’t be single for long,” she said to me.
I smirked, but I felt myself stiffening. I folded my arms. My insides squirmed. On Feeld, the mother of all quirky dating apps, I had put my sexuality as “heteroflexible”. Was that what this was about? Was this a moment of pure fun? Or a moment of shame and weakness? I suddenly resented Alessia for telling me all about the cool art parties she was hosting. I felt like we had clicked, and now I wanted to unclick from her. And ignore whatever had happened. And continue on to find some swanky man with glasses in a suit at the bar. But I couldn’t bring myself to do it.
A couple days earlier, I had texted my gay friend.
“My great-grandmother’s brother was gay,” I messaged him, “Do they know if sexuality is genetic?”
“I think they discovered a ‘gay gene’,” he messaged back, “But it was debunked. Anyway, I think it’s socially constructed. Like no one can even grapple with just how thoroughly they’ve been taught to be straight.”
His words now felt like a tap at my shoulder. And then a slightly bigger slap round the head. Alessia brought us inside, and we went through the motions. We had a glass of wine with her friends. We got the check. Her friends left, and we went up to the piano bar afterwards, the tall man following quietly behind us. But all the while, my thoughts and my feelings were nagging me. I had barely had any encounters with women. Yet in those few cases, I found myself mystified. I was so nervous even though I was trying to play it cool. I had been to pride parades. I remembered when the White House lit up with rainbow flags the day that gay marriage was legalized by the Supreme Court. I had plenty of friends that were gay.
“…no one can even grapple with just how thoroughly they’ve been taught to be straight…”
We sat down in the corner behind the piano at the back of the bar. I wanted to sit next to her, but instead I sat next to her date (apparently I wasn’t crashing whatever they were doing). I made small talk with him. It turned o…
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Feb 3, 2023
Tackling Unexplained Infertility with Dr. Amy Beckley, Founder and CEO of Proov
Hello everyone and welcome back to Misseducated, with me, your host, Tash Doherty.
This week we’re diving into the subject of unexplained infertility with Dr. Amy Beckley, the founder and CEO of Proov. In this episode she shares with us how her experience of having 7 miscarriages fueled her to create the leading products in at-home fertility and hormonal testing kits.
We talk about how she bootstrapped the company and brought these sorely-needed femtech products to market from an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, of all things. We’ll also touch on how an over-the-counter medication with a $10 co pay could save you from having to do a $40,000 round of IVF if you’re trying to conceive, and also the surprising impact that the reversal of Roe v. Wade has had data centers and the security around women’s health data.
So please, enjoy! 🎧 🎙️
Links to things mentioned in the episode
Dr. Amy’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amybeckley/
Proov’s website: https://proovtest.com/
Some of Amy’s research on cancer: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233749462_IL-1b_promotes_stemness_and_invasiveness_of_colon_cancer_cells_through_Zeb1_activation
Proov’s Indiegogo Campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/at-home-ovulation-double-check-test#/
Proov’s announcement of their Series A: https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/15/proov-raises-9-7m-series-a-for-at-home-ovulation-testing-platform/
Proov’s Crunchbase profile: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/proovtest
Article on Japan’s population crisis: https://thediplomat.com/2023/01/japans-population-crisis-nears-point-of-no-return/
Iceland’s maternity and paternity leave policy as of 2017: https://www.leavenetwork.org/fileadmin/user_upload/k_leavenetwork/country_notes/2017/Iceland.FINAL.2may2017.pdf
Article on Proov’s decision to switch data centers following the Roe v. Wade decision: https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/proov-fertility-data-google-aws
Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh, The Egg Whisperer: https://eggwhisperer.com/about/
Dr. John Park, Carolina Conceptions: https://carolinaconceptions.com/about/doctors-providers/park
Dr. Josh Klein, Extend Fertility: https://extendfertility.com/about-extend-fertility/
Dr. Gary Levy, My Fertility Cloud: https://myfertilitycloud.com/
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Jan 27, 2023
Sex in The London Library
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“Excuse me, Madam,” the porter said to me, “Tennis shoes are not allowed in the Breakfast Room.”
My cheeks flashed red hot. I looked down in horror at my painted Converses. They were a black mark against the opulent, rouge-velvet carpet. My beating heart was almost audible over the tinkling piano music and the gentle clanking of fine China tea plates coming from inside. I sensed Will hovering over my shoulder. I tried to soften the blow,
“Not even to just look around—”
“Certainly not,” the porter replied, “We’ll be happy to seat you on another visit, should you be capable of adhering to the dress code.”
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Dec 6, 2022
On Domestic Violence, Christianity & Women Leaders
I interviewed Zuzana (Cahojova) Brixová, the Director of Gender Equality for Slovakia, just over a year ago. I feel so lucky to have come across her story; it is one of incredible strength and perseverance.
Here, Zuzana tells us about her experience of domestic violence, and how she overcame an abusive marriage to find her freedom and her voice as a lawyer. She now drives key policies in her country to protect women and children from violence.
As a practicing Catholic, Zuzana also shares her fascinating opinions on how false interpretations of religion can place more value on protecting something (sanctity, virginity or marriage) rather than someone.
Her inspiring story is one of true transformation. I hope you enjoy it!
p.s. For survivors of trauma and abuse, I want to reiterate that overcoming a terrible situation and forging a new, safer life for yourself is more than enough. Post-traumatic growth is mostly a myth, and surviving trauma itself is enough. You are enough.
Read more about Zuzana’s background here.
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Oct 19, 2022
How to Adjust to the Real World After College
Enjoy this reading of my latest piece, "How to Adjust to the Real World After College".
Thank you to my friend Alara Gebes for requesting the article, and Deniz Kecik and Alan Jinich for their feedback.
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Sep 27, 2022
How a near-death experience birthed a startup, with Anu Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO of Millie
After a sturdy career in consulting and healthcare, Anu Sharma knew she wanted to make a difference. She just wasn't sure what kind of difference she wanted to make. Yet when she gave birth to her daughter three years ago, nothing could have prepared her for a near-death experience. Anu used her in-depth health knowledge to take herself back to the ER post-partum, effectively saving her own life.
In this episode, Tash Doherty interviews Anu about her career and the physical danger she experienced in giving birth. We'll also explore how that experience inspired Anu to start Millie, a new healthcare startup dedicated to reimagining patient care for birthing people everywhere. Millie offers digital services, and has recently opened their first clinic in Berkeley, California.
Misseducated is super excited to be able to support Anu, her team and Millie's work.
Find out more about Millie:
https://www.millieclinic.com/
Insta: @millie_clinic
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Jun 7, 2022
The Man Version of Me
"If I were a man, I would..."
This was a prompt given to me by my writing teacher, Ann Randolph. It sparked one of my most-read pieces on my blog, and helped me discover my narrative voice. Enjoy!
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Jun 7, 2022
A Note By Tash: The Old Stone and The Desert
A fable for single women who want to find a partner. Disclaimer: you can be single and perfectly happy.
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Jun 18, 2021
Entering The Void of Cults with Amanda Montell, Author of "Cultish"
In memory of Laura Johnston Kohl, a Jonestown survivor who went on to join another cult, Synanon.
Cults are a topic I find endlessly fascinating. But I wanted to know: how are cult leaders able to subtly and gradually influence their followers' beliefs over time?
To find out more, I spoke to writer, language scholar and podcast host, Amanda Montell. Amanda's new book, "Cultish", explores the language of cults and the techniques used by all kinds of organizations, including SoulCycle and Instagram, to build stronger in-group affinities. Are they cults or not? Stay tuned to find out.
In this episode, we learn all about Amanda's dad’s experiences growing up in the cult Synanon, the cult of the patriarchy, and why the phrase “boys will be boys” is more insidious and problematic than you’d expect. We also trade stories on how Scientology tried to recruit us.
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Jun 10, 2021
Quick Update! The real reason why I haven't been making podcast episodes...
Trigger Warning: Rape, sexual assault, violence and sexual violence discussed.
I recorded this update a couple weeks ago. I've been going back and forth between sharing the true story of what happened to me. So, here is the honest truth. I'm so grateful for your patience, and thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Why have I not published an episode in 2 months? Well, you're about to find out. Stick around, and I'll be back with longer-form conversations with some amazing, inspiring people soon!
Much love,
Tash
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Mar 5, 2021
On Porn & Life Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur, with Lilly Sparks, Founder and CEO of Afterglow, a porn company for women
I'm not the only woman who watches porn. According to Pornhub's 2019 Annual Review, 32% of Pornhub's viewers are women, accounting for about 13.5 billion video views per year. But Pornhub has tried to lump us all into a single category, "Popular with Women", and we don't quite fit.
Enter: Afterglow, and it's inspiring and authentic founder, Lilly Sparks. In this episode, I wanted to deeply understand the woman behind the idea. Why did Lilly decide to start Afterglow? How did she turn her lack of resources and access to good education about sex into an enormous market opportunity, that even Pornhub couldn't crack?
Tune in to find out.
P.S. If you really want to know, the most popular category on Pornhub for women in the United States in 2019 was lesbian porn.
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Feb 26, 2021
How is Porn for Women Different? Sexual Wellness, Discovering Our Desires and The Ethics of Pornhub, with Lilly Sparks, Founder and CEO of Afterglow
Another episode not for my family or future employers...
Here I chat with Founder and CEO of Afterglow, Lilly Sparks, about what it's really like to build a porn and sexual wellness site for women. I really see the incredible potential in what Lilly is building, because I've watched a lot of porn over the years, but I'm always bombarded with things that don't interest me: big boobs, other people's perfectly manicured vaginas, etc. We also discuss a recent New York Times story, "The Children of Pornhub", and the ethics around porn. Are we all terrible feminists? Is there another way to make porn that doesn't feel so uncomfortable to watch, and doesn't create a mismatch between our sexual interests and our ethics?
Tune in to find out!
Check out Afterglow: https://xoafterglow.com/
Their Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xoafterglow/
Their LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xoafterglow/
The NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-tra…
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Feb 19, 2021
Film & Storytelling For The Next Generation, and Becoming a Mum During COVID, with Serena Schuler, creator of Makeshift Society
This week, I’m chatting again with Serena Schuler, award-winning writer, director and series-creator. I ask her all about how she got the crew and cast together for her current and most ambitious project, Makeshift Society, which is an Original TV Comedy Series about a female founder. We chat about about the importance of diversity in the cast, what it was like to have a baby during the coronavirus, and how having a daughter has given her even more motivation to pursue her storytelling. We also geek out on Jewish writers in the early 20th century, specifically, Yiddish feminist authors.
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Makeshift Society: https://makeshiftsociety.com/
Serena's website: https://www.serenaschuler.com/
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Feb 12, 2021
The Secret Screenwriter of Silicon Valley: What The Tech Bros Got Wrong, with Serena Schuler, creator of Makeshift Society
This week my guest is Serena Schuler, an award-winning writer, director, and series creator. She's piloting the first episode of her new series called Makeshift Society, an Original TV Comedy Series about a female founder. I liken Makeshift Society to the female version of the HBO show Silicon Valley, so I’m really excited to share this conversation I had with Serena today. What I also love about Serena’s story is that she worked on screenplays and scripts, writing secretly for years before she decided to become a filmmaker. Here, I ask her all about that journey, how her experiences of working in tech influenced her storytelling, how she got her cast and crew together and how she fundraised for her increasingly ambitious film projects. We also talk pretty openly about the douchebags of startup bro culture, and I share some of my experience getting fired.
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Feb 5, 2021
How to Have More & Better Female Orgasms, and Smart Sex Toys, with Anna Lee, co-founder of Lioness.io
(Warning: We discuss sex in this episode).
Anna Lee, co-founder of Lioness.io, has learnt a thing or two about the female orgasm from building a smart sex toy company. Here, Anna and I have an open and honest discussion about sex, masturbation, squirting and female orgasms, which frankly I'm a little nervous about putting out into the interwebs. Be prepared to learn a lot more about different types of female orgasms, and also how to help you or your female partners (if you have any) have better ones.
If you're a family member of mine, or you know me in a purely professional setting, don't listen to this episode. You've been warned!
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Jan 29, 2021
Scaling a Sex Toy Startup in Silicon Valley: The Challenges of Building and Fundraising in Sextech with Anna Lee, co-founder of Lioness.io
How would you pitch a sex toy company to investors? Well, Anna Lee, co-founder of Lioness.io, is here to tell us. Whether it's hosting a booth at the Consumer Electronics Conference in Las Vegas, or fundraising from manels of venture capital investors in Silicon Valley, Anna and her team at Lioness.io have come up against every barrier in the book on their path to building a successful sex toy startup.
Also, aside from Lioness and a couple other female-founded companies, sex toy companies have mostly been built by men. How did these men know what should go into developing a vibrator? Anna has some telling insights.
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Jan 22, 2021
How I became a Mechanical Engineer and Sex Toy Company Founder, with Anna Lee, co-founder of Lioness.io
Anna is anything but your typical mechanical engineer. She's the co-founder of Lioness.io, a smart sex toy company, which among other things, enables people with vaginas to track and measure their orgasms. Here I ask Anna all about her experience growing up, her path to becoming a Mechanical Engineer when she was studying at UC Berkeley, and how she got into building Lioness. Enjoy!
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Jan 1, 2021
Diary Of A Cam Girl: Job Hunting, Dating & Webcamming
In this episode, I continue my conversation with Lola, a cam girl and recent college graduate, as she looks for a job during the pandemic. I wanted to know whether she expected to still be camgirling after all these years when she first started doing it age 18. Is this kind of supplemental income sustainable? How has the pandemic impacted her cam work? How does it overlap with her romantic relationships? Stay tuned to find out! 💡
In the mean time, lots of love to you all. Feel free to send me your questions and curiosities to @misseducatedpod on Instagram.
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Dec 25, 2020
What Is It Like To Be A Cam Girl? The Start, The Attraction & The Following
What is it like to be a cam girl? To find out, I spoke with Lola, a recent college graduate who started as a cam girl when she was a freshman as a way to supplement her income from her various student jobs. In this first episode, I ask her about how and why she got into camgirling, how being a cam girl enabled her to explore her own sexuality, and how she built her following on Chaturbate. Enjoy!
p.s. Sorry for publishing this on Christmas Day. I have been releasing an episode of MissEducated every week for 8 weeks and don't want to break my streak!
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Dec 18, 2020
Heterosexual Power, Sugaring & Slang: What Ruby can teach us
This episode is the final part of my conversation with Ruby, a college graduate, nanny and stripper who has kindly shared her experiences of sex work with us. Thank you, Ruby, for coming on the show!
Here, we talk more about the dynamics of power between heterosexual men and women when it comes to strip clubs. Before this conversation, I didn’t know what sugaring was, so I ask her to define it here and tell us about her sugaring experiences. She also shares her personal aspirations now that she’s been a sex worker, and some advice and slang tips to help us get around the strip club.
Do you know any professors out there who are doing research, policy work or anthropological studies on sex work? If so, please get in touch with me! Ruby is interested in pursuing a PhD on this, and MissEducated would love to make that happen.
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Dec 11, 2020
College Student, Nanny, Stripper: The Balancing Act
How can one person embody these 3 personas? In this episode, I ask Ruby all about how she balanced her life as a college student, nanny and stripper. We talk about the labor rights of sex workers, when it comes to things like job contracts. She’ll also reveal some of the threats to her personal safety and the mistreatment that she’s faced when doing “out of club” work, to give you a heads up.
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Dec 4, 2020
Entering the World of Sex Work, with Ruby
Meet Ruby, a young woman who entered the world of sex work when she was a college student, living in Los Angeles. Ruby has since done a number of forms of “body work”, such as dancing at a strip club, using the platform Seeking Arrangement for sugaring, and also informal “out of club’ work with male clients, which we’ll learn is more dangerous for her personal safety.
In this first episode, I ask her how her alias Ruby came about, why she decided to get into body work and what it was like when she first started dancing at the strip club.
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Nov 27, 2020
Advice & Recommendations from the Femtech expert, with Christina Vanvuren of Femtech Media Group
This is the last part of my conversation with Christina Vanvuren, founder of The Future of Femtech and Femtech Media Group. Here, she tells us all about the skills and techniques she used to scale her organization and get sh*t done, and how she organized one of the first conferences on femtech. You'll also get the inside scoop on all our favorite startups and products in femtech. Enjoy! 🥰
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Nov 20, 2020
#29 How to educate yourself, and your daughter, with Christina Vanvuren of Femtech Media Group
Welcome to the second part of my conversation with Christina Vanvuren, founder of the Future of Femtech! Here we discuss how becoming a mum helped Christina develop a broader understanding of the problems we face in women's health, particularly when she went through postpartum depression but had no idea what it was at the time. We also ask a very important question: how should we educate our daughters? Christina shares some personal and funny stories about how she has been educating her daughter, Journey, about her body.
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Nov 13, 2020
#28 Journey to a Passion for Women's Health, with Christina Vanvuren of Femtech Media Group
I sat down with Christina Vanvuren, founder of Future of Femtech, which is now part of Femtech Focus. Here, she tells us about how she left her corporate job, where she was miserable, and began her journey which would lead to discovering her passion for women's health. What inspired her to launch one of the first conferences devoted to femtech? Stay tuned to find out!
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Nov 6, 2020
#27 Sexism in Silicon Valley: Raising Money as a Female Founder, with Kristina from Kegg
In the last part of my conversation with Kristina, Co-Founder and CEO of Kegg, we talk about the cold, hard challenges for startups in the femtech space, and the discrimination female founders constantly face in trying to raise money from investors in Silicon Valley.
Kristina has built Kegg, a medical device that helps women track their fertility and strengthen their pelvic floor muscles. Her customers (which includes me, by the way) love her product. But it is incredibly challenging for Kristina to raise money from mostly male investors, who are uncomfortable with the idea of a product that goes inside the vagina, and that solves a problem that they don't understand the need for.
Kristina has learnt some important lessons from her mum and her female investors on how to succeed. She shares all her wisdom with us here! In this conversation, neither of us is holding back, so you’ll get a real look at what we think of the state of fundraising for women in startups.
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Oct 30, 2020
#26 Building a Product for an Intimate Place, with Kristina from Kegg
Join us for the second part of the story of how Kristina built Kegg: a medical device that both helps us understand our fertility and strengthen our pelvic floor muscles (which is great for intimacy 😉).
Here, I ask Kristina about the process of developing such a beautifully designed product that goes into your vagina. In just a few short years, she has brought this product to market, made revenue and has given women an incredible non-hormonal option for fertility. She tells us here about attending a sex tech summit in Utah, and how her team dissected sex toys to understand how these products are made. What she uncovers will shock you.
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Oct 20, 2020
#25 Origins of a Female Founder, with Kristina from Kegg, a device to track your fertility using cervical mucus
Kristina is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kegg, a 2-1 fertility tracker that also helps you strengthen your pelvic floor muscles. Like many founders in the Femtech space, her story of how she got started is an unusual one. Here, I asked her about what it was like to grow up in Slovakia, her experiences working in big tech companies and startups, and how she made her way to San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
She offers some great words of wisdom to young, ambitious girls on how to graduate without student debt, and pursue causes that you are really passionate about. Talking to Kristina was very inspiring for me, so I hope you enjoy!
You can find out more about Kegg and Kristina at www.kegg.tech.
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Sep 27, 2020
#24 Fertility 2.0: Egg Freezing, IVF and Embryo Testing
From all the research I was doing about egg freezing and extending my fertility so that I can pursue my career, I wanted to know: what is the oldest possible age I can have a baby?
To find out, I spoke with Dr. Fahimeh Sasan M.D., founding doctor at Kindbody, a clinic based in Manhattan that is at the cutting edge of fertility technologies and women's health services. Here, she shares with us some fascinating real-world examples of why more women are freezing their eggs, and why more couples are genetically testing their embryos.
Dr. Sasan did her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC and has been practicing and delivering clinical excellence for 12 years. She was rated one of NY Times Top Doctors in 2016 and 2017 and is passionate about helping women better understand their fertility and their options for the future.
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Jun 10, 2020
#23 Egg Freezing: The New Path to Getting Pregnant
Egg Freezing is expensive. Then why are people doing it? Valerie Landis, founder of Eggology Club and Eggsperience.com is here to tell us her fascinating story.
I got some feedback on the last episode I did on Egg Freezing, and wanted to incorporate it to make the story better. Feel free to give me your feedback, and I hope you enjoy!
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May 27, 2020
Welcome to MissEducated
MissEducated is about unlearning the misguided rules from society that govern our lives. With me, your host, Tash Doherty 👋🏼. Wherever you're from in the world, and whatever culture you grow up in, your society hands you a pile of rules and traditions. While some of these rules are good, helping to protect us as we conform, others of them are wrong and are outright damaging. I give the example from my own life of growing up in fashion-conscious London, England, where the ideal of female beauty was to be as skinny as possible and many of my classmates developed eating disorders as a result. Follow us and MissEducated, as we unlearn our society's misguided rules, and discover fascinating alternatives about technology, relationships, success and the female body that can enable us to live in our own ways.
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May 25, 2020
#22: Egg Freezing: The New Path To Becoming A Parent | Valerie Landis from Eggsperience.com and Eggology Club
Egg freezing is expensive, so why are more people doing it? What is it like to have your eggs frozen? And would you be okay with donating your eggs? Valerie Landis, founder of Eggsperience.com and Eggology Club, joins us to discuss all these questions. She shares how this fascinating technology has transformed the path to becoming a parent for those who are lucky enough to access it.
Learn more at @eggsperience_
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May 18, 2020
#21: Zoe Mendelson -- On Pussypedia, And How To Speak Your Mind and Get Your Way
Tash talks to Zoe Mendelson (@youngzokeziah), co-curator of Pussypedia, about how to speak your mind and get your way in the working world.
Pussypedia is a free, bilingual encyclopedia of the pussy made for you to understand, that was written by a community of over 200 contributors. Zoe curated Pussypedia with the visual artist María Conejo and the designer, developer, and educator Michael Yap. Zoe is a journalist, researcher, information designer, and content strategist, and her writing has appeared in Fast Company, WIRED, Hyperallergic, Slate, Next City, and elsewhere. She joins Tash virtually from Mexico City.
Discover Pussypedia and it's very useful 3D toggle tool at www.pussypedia.net, and follow @pwordpedia on Instagram!
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May 11, 2020
#20: The Alabama Abortion Bill: One Year On | Ashley from Birmingham, Alabama
What do people think about birth control, sex and workplace sexism in Alabama? Ashley is here to tell us all about it. Also, this week marks one year since The Human Life Protection Act was passed in Alabama, a law which criminalizes the vast majority of abortions in the state, including those in the case of rape or incest. Big thanks to U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson for blocking it with an injunction!
Check out Episode 53 of The Naked Student podcast, featuring Sam here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6zNVRYr9pz8aQDAuMpNVeZ?si=TXHZeqlQQ_mZhXo0xX5d
Find us on Instagram @pussiehood :) We're very excited that this is our 20th episode!
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May 4, 2020
#19: My Grandmother, Nonie: Religious Fundamentalists, Liberals and Family Secrets
This is Pussyhood, Quarantine Edition! About a year ago, I went to visit my grandmother in Los Angeles, and I got way too curious. I asked her all kinds of questions about her upbringing as a Seventh-day Adventist, her sex life, her love life and her political beliefs. She shares with us just how far women have come in the last couple decades. She also reveals things to us that she has never told anyone else before...
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May 4, 2020
#18: Lady Doctors & Birth Control | Dr. Jenn and Dr. Erica from The V Word Podcast
This week, our two favorite lady doctors, Dr. Jenn and Dr. Erica, take to the stage 😍. They host The V Word Podcast, where they deep dive on womxn's health and reproductive policy issues. Check them out! They're amazing. Here, we ask them about their personal journeys becoming gynecologists and getting birth control. What they say will surprise you!
Special shoutout to Terilyn for joining us 🤗.
The V Word Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-…rd/id1342089208 👂✨
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Mar 23, 2020
#17: PCOS & Poetry | Rosie's Pussy Prologue about Motherhood
This episode gets real up close and personal. Rosie shares her prologue with us about PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome), which she performed at The Pussy Prologues spoken word and poetry event that was hosted at The Center in San Francisco in March 2020. That night, a group of incredible womxn performed their own versions of The Vagina Monologues that they had written, giving the groundbreaking cultural performance a modern update to include topics such as bisexuality, masturbation, PCOS and sexism in the workplace. It was one of my favorite nights of the year. Please enjoy!
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Mar 17, 2020
#16: Traditional Herbs & Period Pains | Lulu Ge from Elix Healing
After almost 2 years of research and development, has Lulu Ge found a natural solution to period cramps? Lulu recently launched her company, Elix Healing, a blend of natural herbs personalized to each girl, to solve the period pain problem that she and so many of her friends have faced. But is the science there to back it up? Let's find out!
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Feb 17, 2020
A Profound Tale Of Life, Death and IVF | Anne's Story
Anne shares with us the most profound story of life, and what it means to have children, that I have ever come across. She delights, entertains and shocks us with her personal experiences going through surgeries to repair her fallopian tubes, IVF, miscarriages, abortion, the eventual birth of her children, and gives us her take on the classic questions of balancing career with family.
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Feb 3, 2020
Reimagining The Speculum | Rachel Hobart & Fran Wang from Yona Care
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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Dec 23, 2019
Men & Tampons | Florence Kwok & Gideon Nweze from Cherie Organic Tampons
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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Dec 11, 2019
The Smart Birth Control Pill Case | Aagya Mathur from Aavia.io
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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Dec 11, 2019
Finding The Right Birth Control Method Is Frustrating | Erika's story
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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Jun 1, 2019
The Alabama Abortion Bill | Sarah from Birmingham, Alabama
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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Apr 30, 2019
Ovarian Cysts & The Fertility Awareness Method | Katy's Birth Control Journey
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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Apr 12, 2019
Parents & Birth Control Access in High School | Emily's Story
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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Oct 31, 2018
Does Choosing A More Effective Birth Control Matter? | Alex's Story
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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Sep 17, 2018
IUD Insertions: The Patient's vs. The Nurse's Experience | AJ's Story
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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Sep 8, 2018
An Unplanned Pregnancy & Traditional Family Values | Ketnia's story
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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Aug 31, 2018
Is It Okay To Just Pull Out? | Sasha's story
Sasha tests her chances using the pullout method with her boyfriends for 3 years. Will she get pregnant?
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Jul 30, 2018
Is It Okay To Miss A Pill? | Jenna's Story
Jenna tells us her story of finding the Hormonal IUD, planning her baby, and gives words of wisdom for teenage girls https://anchor.fm/misseducated/support
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Jul 26, 2018
Young, Having Fun & Using Birth Control | Maya's Story
Maya tells us her story of using the implant, waiting to find the right guy to have kids with, and putting herself first for the foreseeable future 👍
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Jul 26, 2018
No More Period Pain | Tash's Story
I'm Tash! Here I tell my birth control story, and share why I wish I'd found my perfect birth control method years before :)
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