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Almost 30

Ep. 73 - Polly Rodriguez of Unbound Box on Surviving Cancer and Redefining Sexuality and What it Means to be a CEO

Almost 30

Krista Williams & Lindsey Simcik

Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week we're talkin' about SEX, LOVE & OTHER THINGS (hehe shameless plug for our event on October 14th) with Co-Founder and CEO of Unbound Box, POLLY RODRIGUEZ!  We discuss everything from how and why she started Unbound Box, her battle at 21 years old with colon cancer and early menopause, the male dominated sex industry, to sexuality as a whole. Polly and Unbound Box have been featured in press like Bustle, The New York Times, Bravo, Glamour, and POPSUGAR for revolutionizing the sex industry and giving the best advice as a boss-ass business owner. With that being said, here's some of the goodies we explore in the episode: Polly's experience with colon cancer while living abroad in Spain - having the symptoms and not knowing what to do, dropping out of school, chemotherapy, surgeries, being catapulted into menopause, and ultimately being embarrassed by her illness and sexuality the negative stigmas with menopause and any major health deficiency her professional time on Capitol Hill, then moving to Manhattan and deciding to go into business strategy and working for a dating startup why SEX is so stigmatized & how Polly found the market opportunity to address it through a brand new project the resistance and criticism she received for starting Unbound Box, with her reputation being highly judged her first sex trade show, the mechanics of the show, & how it was male dominated what it's really like to not only start a business as a female, but to FIND INVESTORS as a female for a sex business how to get the attention of INVESTORS and the art of the PITCH what is a SEXY that people can relate to how sex is more a WELLNESS and SELF-CARE action than a taboo how for women, sexuality is all about PERMISSION and we talk about how to give to yourself This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Podsights - https://podsights.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

There are so few things that like universally are applicable to everyone and sex is like

0:04.8

essential truth that none of us would exist without it and so why is it so hard to talk

0:08.9

about why is it so stigmatized?

0:17.5

You're listening to the Almost 30 podcast with Christa Williams and Lindsay Simpson, whether

0:22.1

you're looking to laugh or looking for advice and inspiration, we're so glad you're here.

0:26.4

Hey guys, welcome to this week's episode.

0:34.5

So excited to introduce you to Polly Rodriguez.

0:38.2

Polly Rodriguez inspires the shit out of me.

0:42.9

I got off the phone with her, Lindsay and I got out of recording with her and I felt so

0:47.4

moved so excited about what women are doing so we are so excited to introduce her to you.

0:53.1

And then too, if you are going to be in LA on October 14th from 3 to 7 at say, dwellness

0:59.3

for our sex, love and other things event, Polly is going to be speaking there.

1:04.3

So unbound and almost 30 will be having the event.

1:07.4

So this is just a little tidbit of this badass female that we're going to share with you

1:11.4

today and then you can get a little bit more at our event on October 14th.

1:16.5

So Polly is the co-founder and CEO of Unbound Box, which is a really fun place to go to explore

1:25.8

sex toys and jewelry and loobs and things like that and there's no stigma.

1:32.0

You know what I mean?

1:33.0

I think like people envision going shopping for sex toys and they think of going down

1:38.4

like a dark galley into this Hollywood hustler store.

1:41.8

So highway.

1:42.8

Literally.

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