Nadya Okamoto is a 22-year-old Harvard student. In early 2020, Okamoto co-founded August, a lifestyle brand working to reimagine periods. Nadya Okamoto is also the Founder of PERIOD (period.org), an organization fighting to end period poverty and stigma that she founded at the age of 16. In 2017, Nadya ran for public office in Cambridge, MA at age 19 — at the time, becoming the youngest Asian American to run. In 2018, Nadya published her debut book, Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement. Nadya is also the former Chief Brand Officer and current Board Member of JUV Consulting, a Generation Z marketing agency based in NYC. She has been recognized on the lists of Forbes 30 under 30, Bloomberg 50 “Ones to Watch” and People Magazine's Women Changing the World. 
In this episode, I sit down and learn more about her journey as a Gen Z activist, entrepreneur and author amongst many of the other hats she wears. We chat about where she draws empowerment from, her passion for ending the period stigma and poverty, her journey with mental health, navigating cancel culture, combatting imposter syndrome + more!

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*The unsettling racial violence against the Asian community in recent events has been devastating. Sadly, these are not isolated incidents but a part of larger historical patterns of anti-asian hate and violence since the Chinese Exclusion Act. 
In the US over 3700 self-reported incidents of Anti-Asian Discrimination occurred in the last year according to stop AAPI hate. Myself and Grow with the Flow Podcast stands against anti-Asian racism and xenophobia. 

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Asian Mental Health Collective
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National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
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