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Chronically Confident
Life is hard but approaching it through a lens of confidence and acceptance makes it much easier. The Chronically Confident Podcast is for humans who want to be inspired to live their most authentic lives while practising radical self-acceptance. Join Hannah for stories, lessons and interviews about navigating self-acceptance in the real world, and using confidence as a tool to build the life you want.
Host Hannah is a disabled queer and Jewish opinionated writer, artist, speaker, activist, and fashionista learning life alongside you. With an MSc. in Public Policy majoring in Social Change and Sustainability, Hannah has honest conversations about the relevant societal barriers that may inhibit our confidence, while re-focusing on acceptance and the things within our control.
Join Hannah as they inspire thousands around the world with inspiring, validating and evidence-based conversations on body image, communication, boundaries, sustainability, relationships, self-care, disabilities, mental health, fitness, queerness, career and more all through a lens of confidence. Follow Hannah on social media: @healthybyhannahb.
Chronically Confident
18 – (PT. 1) Our Sexual Education System Sucks ft. Nicole Johnston
The taboos surrounding sex, sexuality, and sexual health have been a long, withstanding battle that advocates still fight to eradicate. This is for the young generation to feel comfortable in their own gender and sexuality—for young women to freely talk about their menstruation, for non-binary fellows to embrace their unique well-being, and for everyone to embrace their sexual nature.
We are graced by my prodigious colleague Nicole Johnston—a feminist and community organizer who has a fiery commitment to policy development that intersects between gender equality, peacebuilding and post conflict development, and the role of public policy in designing gender transformative peace processes.
Here’s an overview of what we discussed.
- A brief background of how we met as colleagues taking master’s degree together
- The struggles and social limitations of living in a “man’s world” that fueled Nicole’s passion for feminism
- Nicole’s endometriosis journey and the stigma that shrouded reproductive health in medical space
- Hitting puberty and the dilemma of teenage girls’ menstruation situation
- The role of intersectionality in an inclusive conversation about sex education
- Internet as a double-edged sword in the sex education space
- How a community can impact on your mindset growth and gain your safe space
Resources:
NYHSSE’s Instagram https://www.instagram.com/notyourhighschoolssexed/?hl=en
NYHSSE’s Website - https://notyourhighschoolssexed.weebly.com/
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