2019-11-05
1 小时 7 分钟My guest today, Nadia Okamoto, is the founder and executive director of Period, which is an organization she founded at the age of 16 while in high school, has now become the largest youth run ngo in women's health and one of the fastest growing ones here in the United States with over 600 campus chapters in all 50 states and 30 countries.
And while running that foundation, Nadia also headed off to study at Harvard, where in 2017, she then decided to also run for office in Cambridge.
And while she didn't win, her campaign team made really historic waves, mobilizing incredible numbers of young people on the ground and at polls.
And along the way, she published a book, Period Power, a manifesto for the menstrual movement with Simon Schuster, and co founded New York City Gen Z marketing agency Juve Consulting, where she's now also the chief brand officer while running her foundation and attending Harvard.
And did I mention she's 21 years old?
So in today's conversation, we explore really this entire journey along with the moments in her early life, some very painful on the level, resulting in sustained PTSD that she's dealing with to this day that have really shaped her journey, that have inspired her to become who she is, to discover her voice and a sense of power, and step into a place of agency and impact and work insanely hard, travel the world and just make an astonishing difference.
So eye opening and so, so moving to know that it doesn't matter how young or old you are, there is a sense of willingness to step into a void, to teach yourself anything you need to know to make big things happen, and to simply place 1ft in front of the other and trust that doing that day after day after day will lead you to a place of incredible possibility and potential and impact.
Really excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
We first met in kind of a fun way.
It was last summer.
We were both speaking at an event, and I wasn't.
It's funny, I actually.
I knew about your work before that, but I didn't realize I did.
Yeah, because one of my daughter's closest friends actually had worked with you, but I never made the connection.
And finally, my job at that event was actually to introduce you.
And I started going into, like, researching.
I'm like, oh my.
What just an extraordinary human being.
So it's so nice to be able to sit down with you and just spend some time and go deeper into your story.