Episode 12: Empowering young people through menstruation education
Teen Junction Podcast · 1 August 2025 · 33m
Speaker 1: The Teen Junction with Sydney Pollutera Empowering teens one conversation at a time. Speaker 2: Welcome to another episode of The Teen Junction podcast with Me Cindy Polluta. As always Speaker 2: a podcast for parents and caregivers as we try and navigate these very tricky and Speaker 2: sometimes uncertain adolescent years. There's eight billion people in the world and what we're discussing Speaker 2: today affects about four billion of those eight billion people. But yet when we talk Speaker 2: about this, the majority of people gets so uncomfortable. We're talking periods, yes, menstruation, because Speaker 2: it's not just a monthly conversation that we need to have, It's a lifelong conversation. Speaker 2: And our guest today is menstrual activist Candice Cheerum. As she likes to call herself Speaker 2: the Minister of Menstruation on social media, Candace is a menstrual activist, busting the stigma Speaker 2: to help young people, especially girls, to feel confident with me and informed about their Speaker 2: bodies. She's also written a children's book called Menstruation Station. So Candace, thank you so Speaker 2: today for coming. Speaker 3: You for having me. Speaker 4: Ministerial greetings, All protocols observed, you know, just have to make sure that the protocols Speaker 4: observed. You don't know who it might be in the building, but thank you for Speaker 4: having me. Speaker 2: Firstly, for those listening who have no idea who you are, I mean, in the Speaker 2: media space, we have a clear we know who you are. But for those listening Speaker 2: they've come across this podcast for a first time, maybe by a primary applies or Speaker 2: Spotify, they're like, who is this lady.
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