I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar with Lauren Wang

Taste of Taylor

Dear Media

237545, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Taylor has on CEO & Co-Founder of The Flex Company (@flex), to talk about the Period Revolution. Historically, men have been in the drivers seat of period products, but thanks to Flex that’s no longer the case. They discuss the history of periods, why period products have been so bad in the past, and how Flex is changing the period care game for the better. If you’re a woman and have a period, this is a must-listen.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a DR Media production.
0:14.1	Hey girl, hey, welcome back to my weekly podcast,
0:17.3	Taste of Taylor. I'm your host Taylor Shrecker and joining me today, I'm so excited.
0:22.8	On this podcast, we like to entertain because duh, we also like to inspire and to teach and
0:28.6	today's gas is going to do all three of those things Lauren Wang, founder and CEO of the Flex
0:34.8	Company, welcome to the podcast. Hey girl, hey. So it's tough to be here Taylor. So everybody
0:41.2	knows that I'm the queen of TMI and nothing is more TMI than talking about our periods. But it
0:46.5	actually is a very important thing that I really didn't understand the newness and the significance
0:54.8	of talking about our menstrual cycles until I started to get to know your company, get to know
1:01.1	you and research you. And it really is kind of like a relatively new thing. I believe the term is
1:09.4	the period revolution. That is the period revolution. Yeah, it's here and it's happening. It's happening
1:15.0	and but it's relatively recent, no? Yeah, really and you know since 2015 is kind of when things have
1:23.2	been heating up. Okay, so we're going to get into the nitty gritty of the period revolution. We're
1:27.9	going to talk all about the Flex Company, but first things first, I really wanted to ask you
1:31.9	so how did the Flex Company come about? To be totally blunt with you, I had no intention of
1:37.6	starting a company, no desire to start a company. I've always like the person behind the person.
1:43.6	My background is in marketing, but I was getting yeast infections for 15 years and I tried more
1:50.1	than 30 products from all over the world because I had this nurse practitioner say, look, I'm not
1:55.3	writing another prescription for your yeast infection medication until you quit using tampons.
2:00.4	Really? And then you're probably like, well, what else is there? I'm like, literally, what else is
2:05.7	there? And this is, you know, 2011. So basically between 2011 and 2014, 2015, I'm just trying to do
2:15.4	all this research on period products, learning that basically they're all the same thing. They're
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