Interaction with Period Talk- Destigmatizing, and Educating on Periods. — Transcript

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1. 0:02okay
2. 0:03all right so i think we can begin this
3. 0:05and
4. 0:06first of all thank you so much for
5. 0:07joining this call
6. 0:09and i would like to introduce myself my
7. 0:12name
8. 0:14team is
9. 0:16and today you know i would i am very
10. 0:18honored to you know just take an
11. 0:20interview call and yes just being there
12. 0:23because i you know i went through your
13. 0:25account and i was like these people are
14. 0:27so inspiring at such a young age you
15. 0:29know you are doing amazing job
16. 0:32but uh before starting the call first of
17. 0:34all i would like
18. 0:36you know i would like to ask you to
19. 0:38introduce yourself separately or
20. 0:40individually
21. 0:41so that people can
22. 0:42know yeah so my name is kuhu bhaji um
23. 0:47i'm 17 years old and i'm one of the
24. 0:49three co-founders of period talk
25. 0:52i'm nikki morty i'm also 17 i use she
26. 0:55her pronouns
27. 0:56and i'm one of the three co-founders we
28. 0:58all live in the greater boston area
29. 1:01hi i'm akshika chawate i'm also 17 and
30. 1:04used to pronounce she her
31. 1:06i'm a senior in high school and will be
32. 1:08going to cornell next year for college
33. 1:16thank you
34. 1:17okay um so i just want to know like what
35. 1:20was the inspiration behind starting the
36. 1:22organization like how did you know that
37. 1:25you know you want to do something for
38. 1:26this cause
39. 1:28yeah so we all three came together for
40. 1:31the first time uh through an
41. 1:32entrepreneurship competition it's called
42. 1:35tye and it's based in boston uh and
43. 1:37basically in this competition we were
44. 1:39told to pick a bug or passion which is
45. 1:42how they framed it and translate that
46. 1:44into some sort of startup or company so
47. 1:47the three of us as you know 14 15 year
48. 1:50olds in high school had much experience
49. 1:52with the stigma and shame that surrounds
50. 1:55menstruation um and that was kind of our
51. 1:57immediate thought of what we wanted to
52. 1:59do and what we wanted to target um
53. 2:01specifically we wanted to kind of see
54. 2:03how we could how we could ideate and
55. 2:06redesign the standard sanitary pad um
56. 2:09that hadn't been fundamentally improved
57. 2:12for almost you know decades or centuries
58. 2:15um at that point
59. 2:17because we felt as though for younger
60. 2:19teenagers for younger menstruators who
61. 2:21had just begun their periods and had
62. 2:23just become menstruating there was very
63. 2:25little education and very little
64. 2:27accessibility to products that were
65. 2:28comfortable and sustainable and
66. 2:31inclusive for everyone um and so from
67. 2:34that point onwards we've just been
68. 2:35working to kind of target that mission
69. 2:37of expanding the education aspect but
70. 2:40also
71. 2:41increasing the
72. 2:43accessibility to quality products and
73. 2:45trying to redesign those as well
74. 2:48wonderful
75. 2:49um i would also like to know because uh
76. 2:51you are working on menstruation as a
77. 2:54topic of periods as a topic so do you
78. 2:56believe that periods is still a taboo in
79. 2:59the year 2022 or you know is it not so
80. 3:03what's happening around that
81. 3:04we would definitely say that it is um
82. 3:07we've experienced a lot within our own
83. 3:09communities our own schools um and our
84. 3:12cultures outside of school um and we
85. 3:15know that it's a really prevalent issue
86. 3:17right now because
87. 3:18we've seen it play out so we do a lot of
88. 3:21work on social media and when we started
89. 3:22posting on social media we would get a
90. 3:24lot of comments
91. 3:26saying um you shouldn't really be
92. 3:28talking this openly about this issue
93. 3:30um or like it's really disgusting and
94. 3:33it's only for women why are you trying
95. 3:36to target anybody who doesn't identify
96. 3:37as female um so we've definitely seen it
97. 3:41happen
98. 3:42right in the in the present and that's
99. 3:44something we're trying to combat um
100. 3:46through a lot of our social work um and
101. 3:49our product as well
102. 3:52i think uh you know in fact i was also i
103. 3:55also wanted to ask you about these
104. 3:57things because you know when i was going
105. 3:59through your instagram page i observed
106. 4:01that you people also do the chapter
107. 4:03programs right you people started the
108. 4:05chapter programs and even in different
109. 4:07cities so i was wondering like how do
110. 4:09you manage this a lot and you know how
111. 4:11do you just leave those programs and
112. 4:14what is happening there because uh it is
113. 4:16also important there are some negative
114. 4:18points as well so how do you keep in
115. 4:20check with all these people who are into
116. 4:22this program
117. 4:25yeah um so the chapter program is the
118. 4:27thing that i focus on um i'm lucky that
119. 4:30nikki and akshika have taken the reins
120. 4:32on the other side of our company um but
121. 4:34for the chapter program as nikki said
122. 4:36from social media we saw that
123. 4:38living in the united states we have our
124. 4:40own set of experiences and problems with
125. 4:42menstrual shame but despite the language
126. 4:45barriers and the time zone differences
127. 4:47these problems are you know similar
128. 4:49across the globe and there's something
129. 4:51that are experienced by menstruators in
130. 4:53every single city and town and village
131. 4:56and you know country um in so many
132. 4:59different places um
133. 5:01and so we kind of started off with this
134. 5:03chapter program with the intention of
135. 5:05supporting young people like ourselves
136. 5:08who are in you know middle school high
137. 5:10school or college who are very
138. 5:12interested in initiating these important
139. 5:14conversations and dialogue surrounding
140. 5:16menstruation but don't have the means to
141. 5:18do so and just need a little bit of
142. 5:20extra support
143. 5:21and what we do is you know we try to
144. 5:23heavily market it through social media
145. 5:25and we meet with these chapter leaders
146. 5:27individually in several locations right
147. 5:29now we're in uh 25 with 25 chapters in
148. 5:32eight countries um so we meet with them
149. 5:35and we just try to see
150. 5:36how they can make a positive impact in
151. 5:39their community whether that means you
152. 5:40know providing menstrual products in
153. 5:43their school bathrooms um or working
154. 5:45with you know
155. 5:47local local organizations to provide
156. 5:49these products for homelessness shelters
157. 5:52and things like that
158. 5:53each of them are trying to you know
159. 5:55approach the issue in their own way but
160. 5:57they're all doing really important work
161. 6:00and
162. 6:00actually meets with almost all of them
163. 6:02every single week
164. 6:04so she takes a lot of time in doing that
165. 6:06and we're really proud of the work that
166. 6:08they're doing um and it's it's a big
167. 6:10time responsibility but we are super
168. 6:12excited to see all the progress that the
169. 6:13chapters are making
170. 6:16fine i am pleasure to hear that i hope
171. 6:18that we can also start something in
172. 6:21india as well because uh
173. 6:23we need something like that in india at
174. 6:25least it is 2022
175. 6:27yeah that'd be amazing yeah yeah
176. 6:31um you know
177. 6:32in fact when uh because you people talk
178. 6:35about a lot of period in general in
179. 6:37myths and uh facts what are the myths
180. 6:40and what are facts so i was just
181. 6:41wondering that you know
182. 6:43there are some myths around the world of
183. 6:46globe so have you come across any weird
184. 6:48myths about periods you know across the
185. 6:51world or something
186. 6:56that's a good question um
187. 6:58i think probably the biggest one
188. 7:01is this is like a little bit more like a
189. 7:03serious one rather than like um a funny
190. 7:05myth but
191. 7:06um we had always been told that
192. 7:08menstruation was just for women um and
193. 7:11that's something that we believed for so
194. 7:13long and when we started posting on
195. 7:15social media we saw that um a lot of the
196. 7:17comments were talking about how
197. 7:20they are they don't identify as female
198. 7:22but they still have menstruation so a
199. 7:24lot of these um
200. 7:26menstrual product companies who only
201. 7:28target women in their packaging um in
202. 7:30their marketing it can cause a lot of
203. 7:32gender dysphoria for people who don't
204. 7:34identify as females so that's something
205. 7:36that we um hadn't really encountered
206. 7:38until we
207. 7:39until we went on social media and it's
208. 7:41something that we're really passionate
209. 7:43about working towards because
210. 7:45it affects a lot of people
211. 7:47across the world
212. 7:49do you guys have any others that's the
213. 7:50only one i could think of
214. 7:53well there are a lot of things that have
215. 7:55a lot of
216. 7:56cultural uh background to them so
217. 7:59they're like with specific problem
218. 8:01products for example um in india a lot
219. 8:04we hear the myth that using like a
220. 8:06tampon or something that's an invasive
221. 8:09product is what we call it um you know
222. 8:11it is
223. 8:12has a certain taboo on its own beyond
224. 8:14the taboo that already exists around
225. 8:16menstruation um because you know people
226. 8:19consider it to be you know taking away
227. 8:21your virginity and things like that
228. 8:23there are a lot of these like cultural
229. 8:25um preferences that have been ingrained
230. 8:27so um we're also trying to work on that
231. 8:30and just normalize all products and all
232. 8:33conversations surrounding menstruation
233. 8:37uh akshika do you have anything
234. 8:41um i don't have anything in particular
235. 8:44but i think i do remember reading
236. 8:46somewhere
237. 8:47that
238. 8:48uh
239. 8:48in
240. 8:50bolivia if i'm not wrong you can't
241. 8:52really hold babies um when you're on
242. 8:55your period because they believe that
243. 8:56will make the baby sick so in a way like
244. 8:59periods are kind of like a transmittable
245. 9:00disease
246. 9:02um
247. 9:03i just i don't i mean i don't think it's
248. 9:04like too funny but i just think it's
249. 9:06like really weird that there's so much
250. 9:08taboo and stigma and impurity associated
251. 9:10with just a simple biological process
252. 9:13i think in india it has so like
253. 9:16when someone who is menstruating like
254. 9:18they are not allowed to go to temples or
255. 9:21kitchen
256. 9:23although
257. 9:24we personally did not believe it but
258. 9:26like
259. 9:27so you know when i talked to my mother
260. 9:29my mother
261. 9:30told that it is not like that it's just
262. 9:32because that because uh in you know when
263. 9:35they were you know menstruating so
264. 9:37during because housewives have to do a
265. 9:39lot of things and at that time men were
266. 9:42kind of we were living in
267. 9:44men's world something like that so they
268. 9:46did not do anything so that is those
269. 9:49three days were given to that woman so
270. 9:51that they can just completely rest and
271. 9:53cannot do anything
272. 9:55i'm like okay so basically it was for
273. 9:58women's course but like there are some
274. 10:00people who have just
275. 10:01kind of molded in a wrong way
276. 10:05yeah i think that happens a lot with
277. 10:07just any social issue in general they'll
278. 10:10take one thing and twist it into
279. 10:12something else to fit their agenda yeah
280. 10:14actually i haven't heard that that
281. 10:16reasoning before and that's really
282. 10:17insightful because um we've had those
283. 10:20experiences with not being allowed in
284. 10:22temples um when we visit india um we
285. 10:26always thought it was something
286. 10:26surrounding
287. 10:27the fact that periods are seen as being
288. 10:29impure and i think that it has molded
289. 10:32into a lot of people do see it like that
290. 10:35um but it may have different roots which
291. 10:37is cool to learn about
292. 10:40um i also want to know because uh like
293. 10:43now we are into pandemics so has this
294. 10:46pandemic affected your working style or
295. 10:49your organization in general
296. 10:52um i would say that um as i as explained
297. 10:56earlier we met through a pitch
298. 10:58competition program thing um and towards
299. 11:02the end of the program the pandemic
300. 11:04started so we started having meetings
301. 11:06online
302. 11:07um
303. 11:08i think that online has actually
304. 11:11increased our efficiency
305. 11:13because we uh we live in different towns
306. 11:16and nikki live in the same one but i
307. 11:17live about 20 25 minutes away so meeting
308. 11:21almost every single day as we do
309. 11:24while like in person would be very
310. 11:26impossible um and it would be kind of
311. 11:29not utilizing our time efficiently so i
312. 11:31think being able to
313. 11:34um
314. 11:35meet online almost every day
315. 11:37has given us the courage to go out and
316. 11:39just message random people online for
317. 11:41help and set up meetings with people
318. 11:43from literally all over the country and
319. 11:45all over the world
320. 11:46i think the pandemic has actually
321. 11:49increased our
322. 11:50um work ethic
323. 11:52yeah and we liked it
324. 11:55sorry i was just sorry just like a lot
325. 11:57of zoom calls
326. 11:58yeah i was just gonna say too like uh we
327. 12:00all we often joke that we spend upwards
328. 12:03of like two three hours together every
329. 12:05week but we've really only met in person
330. 12:08like all three of us a handful of times
331. 12:10in the last two years
332. 12:13i'm amazing like something i said
333. 12:15something positive about pandemic
334. 12:18otherwise we just hear that oh pandemic
335. 12:21has just affected us negatively
336. 12:24um so you have done so many projects and
337. 12:26campaigns um
338. 12:29probably on instagram or apart from
339. 12:31social media in general so
340. 12:33do you have any favorite campaigns or i
341. 12:36think if you can answer individually
342. 12:38like which campaigns have been your
343. 12:40favorite
344. 12:44yeah i can start off um so like i said i
345. 12:48spent the majority of my time working
346. 12:50with the chapters um and that's just
347. 12:52been a lot of outreach through tick tock
348. 12:55or instagram talking to younger uh
349. 12:58followers who might be interested but
350. 13:00that's been the most rewarding part of
351. 13:02this this entire uh you know startup for
352. 13:05me um all the time we've spent on this
353. 13:07has has really has really shown itself
354. 13:09when i see you know 11 12 year olds
355. 13:12getting on these calls and being so
356. 13:14excited about the possibility of making
357. 13:16a positive impact in their local
358. 13:17communities um i think that you know
359. 13:20that's the most important thing that
360. 13:22we've been able to do
361. 13:23obviously we've had some success in in
362. 13:25other places as well um but that's been
363. 13:28the area for me personally where i've
364. 13:30been able to see a direct positive
365. 13:32impact
366. 13:33and really and really see some of these
367. 13:35younger menstruators that with our
368. 13:37support have been able to blossom and
369. 13:39feel really comfortable talking about
370. 13:40issues that you know are generally not
371. 13:42super comfortable to talk about
372. 13:45i would say that's one of the biggest
373. 13:47ones for me as well um i know when we
374. 13:49first had this idea we were um it was
375. 13:52like during february break or something
376. 13:53we were so excited to get started on it
377. 13:56and we had like calls for hours every
378. 13:58day trying to write the handbooks and
379. 14:00make training videos for chapters um for
380. 14:03leaders who want to start their own
381. 14:04chapter
382. 14:05um and then we started doing outreach
383. 14:07and finding new methods of marketing so
384. 14:08it's taught us a lot as well about how
385. 14:10to kind of push a campaign and start a
386. 14:12new project and we were it's been
387. 14:14something that we're so excited about so
388. 14:15that momentum has really showed um and
389. 14:18then another thing i know i've touched
390. 14:20on this a few times already but um the
391. 14:23campaign for transgender rights and um
392. 14:26transgender inclusivity in marketing
393. 14:29has been really inspiring for me because
394. 14:31i know when we when we post on tick tock
395. 14:33and we just like a simple video saying
396. 14:36um
397. 14:36transgender
398. 14:38humans who menstruate are included in um
399. 14:41the overall
400. 14:42category of people who menstruate and we
401. 14:44get so many comments saying um thank you
402. 14:47and thank you for addressing this issue
403. 14:48and they haven't seen people address it
404. 14:50before
405. 14:51so that's been kind of really
406. 14:52heartwarming and really enlightening to
407. 14:54see how many people um we can reach with
408. 14:57just a small statement
409. 15:05uh akshika if you can also answer like
410. 15:07what is your favorite campaign
411. 15:12uh i don't really have much to add on um
412. 15:15besides what nikki said
413. 15:18but i
414. 15:20handle most of our product related part
415. 15:22of the business and i am not fully as
416. 15:26immersed in our marketing although i am
417. 15:28involved and i made some early tick
418. 15:30tocks along with nikki and kahu
419. 15:33um
420. 15:34but basically uh in terms of our product
421. 15:37we kind of redesigned the traditional
422. 15:39sanitary pad to have
423. 15:43a new innovative
424. 15:45mechanism for disposal
425. 15:47because when we were doing initial
426. 15:49customer research and surveys and such
427. 15:51we found out that a lot of people felt
428. 15:53that it was really they felt really un
429. 15:55hygienic um
430. 15:57and
431. 15:58unsafe handling metro fluid when it was
432. 16:00time to throw away their pads
433. 16:03so we came up with a new design we filed
434. 16:06for a a us provisional utility patent
435. 16:10for it
436. 16:11and we're currently in the process of
437. 16:14working on a formal non-provisional
438. 16:17utility patent for it
439. 16:20i do a lot of the prototyping at home
440. 16:22um
441. 16:23i've been researching materials to make
442. 16:25it environmentally friendly and
443. 16:27biodegradable
444. 16:28um so that's really the biggest part of
445. 16:32what i do for our company
446. 16:36it's wonderful that how you have this uh
447. 16:39delegated all the tasks according to
448. 16:41their skills and
449. 16:43you know it's wonderful to hear that i
450. 16:45also want to know that uh although i
451. 16:48would really touch a serious topic so
452. 16:50you know
453. 16:52scotland as a country they have just
454. 16:53started you know to
455. 16:55uh
456. 16:56uh basically to periods as in earlier
457. 16:59periods used to be an essential product
458. 17:01there but now they have started you know
459. 17:04to make period products as a free
460. 17:06product so do you think that all
461. 17:08governments should do that or do you
462. 17:10feel that it can only happen in scotland
463. 17:15yeah i think that's a really important
464. 17:17issue that isn't often discussed uh
465. 17:19obviously we're a poor a for-profit uh
466. 17:22venture so we we are trying to redesign
467. 17:24products that you know are a little bit
468. 17:27are a little bit more advanced in terms
469. 17:29of the sustainability aspect and also
470. 17:31the design of them themselves but a big
471. 17:33part of our actual program is getting
472. 17:36these free products and i would
473. 17:38definitely say that the accessibility
474. 17:40aspect needs to be improved um across
475. 17:43the board in the united states
476. 17:45specifically uh poverty is is obviously
477. 17:48a huge issue in some of our urban areas
478. 17:51but specifically period poverty is
479. 17:53something that's very rarely addressed
480. 17:55um because you know some so many
481. 17:58families don't have the means to buy
482. 18:00some of the products that they need um
483. 18:03in certain states in the united states
484. 18:05like
485. 18:06mississippi is one that comes to mind um
486. 18:08they're like almost a fifth of uh people
487. 18:11under the poverty line just don't have
488. 18:13any access whatsoever to period products
489. 18:15because the support that they do receive
490. 18:17from the government doesn't go towards
491. 18:19getting a pad or a tampon for
492. 18:21you know the menstruators that might be
493. 18:23in that family so for people like that
494. 18:26who don't have any accessibility at this
495. 18:28point um having free products in public
496. 18:30restrooms or other facilities would be
497. 18:33extremely beneficial for them and would
498. 18:35definitely reduce the
499. 18:36uh the stress and anxiety that surrounds
500. 18:39getting a period every single month
501. 18:41so i think like what you said certain
502. 18:43countries that are taking those steps to
503. 18:45make improvements like that are really
504. 18:47doing a great job and need to be kind of
505. 18:49the leaders for the rest of us
506. 18:56um all right so i think i do not have
507. 18:58any more questions but like i just want
508. 19:01to know how can people know more about
509. 19:03you or reach out to you or you know if
510. 19:05they because you know listening to you i
511. 19:07also wanted to somehow contribute to
512. 19:09this course because this is such an
513. 19:11incredible cause so like how can people
514. 19:14join to your organization or is there
515. 19:16any opening or something
516. 19:18yeah there's multiple ways to do that
517. 19:20sorry nikki
518. 19:22um but people can reach out throughout
519. 19:24to us through our instagram account
520. 19:26which is at let's period talk
521. 19:28um and we also have a website that
522. 19:30kahoot created for us um
523. 19:33let'sperrytalk.com and over there you
524. 19:35can find more ways to contribute to our
525. 19:37organization such as
526. 19:39creating a chapter or just donating to
527. 19:41us
528. 19:42and
529. 19:43anyone can reach out to us at any point
530. 19:45in time and we'll be more than happy
531. 19:47to
532. 19:49get to know about your experiences and
533. 19:50figure out how we can work together to
534. 19:52make a difference yeah
535. 19:54and if you're looking to just sort of
536. 19:55send like a direct message um you can
537. 19:58also contact us through our email which
538. 20:00is um
539. 20:02periodpouchinfo gmail.com and that
540. 20:05should be listed on our website as well
541. 20:07um so just all of our contacts should be
542. 20:08on there um if you want to just send us
543. 20:11any sort of message or start your own
544. 20:13chapter which would be a much bigger
545. 20:14step would you really encourage you to
546. 20:17uh wonderful so do you have any last
547. 20:20messages to all the people you know who
548. 20:23wants to be or who wants to learn more
549. 20:25about periods in general
550. 20:27or
551. 20:28like what is your thoughts on it
552. 20:32i think speaking from personal
553. 20:34experience it will be very awkward to
554. 20:37work with it think about it
555. 20:40research it
556. 20:41um initially like it was definitely
557. 20:43awkward for me
558. 20:44my parents my family isn't overly
559. 20:46traditional but it was just like
560. 20:48something that
561. 20:50i didn't
562. 20:51like honestly talk about much with my
563. 20:53parents
564. 20:54um but now it's like a con like a dinner
565. 20:56table conversation where i explain
566. 20:59stuff about it like we all edu we're all
567. 21:02we're all getting educated together um
568. 21:04and i think if you're brave enough to
569. 21:05take that first step no matter how like
570. 21:07scary or awkward it is i think you can
571. 21:10like start impacting how comfortable
572. 21:12people around you are with certain
573. 21:14topics not necessarily
574. 21:16just menstruation but other
575. 21:19topics are considered taboo
576. 21:22yeah and i like a chica said i
577. 21:23definitely want to commend those people
578. 21:26um who are taking the first steps to get
579. 21:28involved because it can be difficult to
580. 21:31start on a leadership to start taking
581. 21:33leadership and taking action regardless
582. 21:36of the topic on top of that when it's
583. 21:38about an issue that generally isn't
584. 21:40comfortable
585. 21:41that's a whole different level and it's
586. 21:42so it's so important to recognize that
587. 21:45it takes a lot to do that um and we're
588. 21:47here to support anyone who is interested
589. 21:49in taking those first steps
590. 21:55uh nikki d uh because he also want to
591. 21:57hear you so what is your last thoughts
592. 22:00sure yeah um i would say that my last
593. 22:03thoughts are just um try to take action
594. 22:06when you can i'm just sort of
595. 22:08reiterating what they both said which
596. 22:09it's scary to first initially
597. 22:12go ahead and
598. 22:14make a step in something in an issue
599. 22:16that's so
600. 22:17traditionally stigmatized um
601. 22:19but
602. 22:20it's important to start taking action if
603. 22:22it's something that you are really
604. 22:23passionate about and we also are here to
605. 22:26support anybody so
606. 22:28if you'd be interested in starting a
607. 22:29chapter we guide you through the whole
608. 22:31process in connecting with your
609. 22:33community and starting that open
610. 22:35discussion um
611. 22:37and even beyond just our company taking
612. 22:40action in your community um even if it's
613. 22:42really small scale can make a really big
614. 22:44impact
615. 22:45i mean uh to be very honest we would
616. 22:47love that because our team chapter is
617. 22:49about that because we want to like so
618. 22:52for our what we came up with and how
619. 22:54come co-founders came up with an idea
620. 22:56that they wanted to do something to uh
621. 23:00not only inspire but also to show that
622. 23:02they are teams like you and other teams
623. 23:05in all over around the world and who are
624. 23:07doing for something like they are not
625. 23:09just sitting so a long time a lot of
626. 23:11people say that you know today's youth
627. 23:13is not doing something or
628. 23:15they are not into good signs but like
629. 23:18this is where we can show to people that
630. 23:20hey you know what today's youth are more
631. 23:21empathetic and more accepting and they
632. 23:24want to bring the change
633. 23:26so that is the idea of uh teen chapter
634. 23:29and we would love to collaborate in any
635. 23:31way possible because your idea is very i
636. 23:35mean it's something that it's really
637. 23:37effects and it is very effective
638. 23:39so we would love to collaborate more and
639. 23:41more with you people
640. 23:44yeah likewise and we we've uh you know
641. 23:46looked at some of teen chapters work as
642. 23:48well i think it's obviously we've been
643. 23:50very privileged to give to be given the
644. 23:52opportunity to start something like this
645. 23:53but i think it's so great that you have
646. 23:55been highlighting all of the you know
647. 23:57young people who are starting taking
648. 23:59starting to take important steps for a
649. 24:01variety of different issues so um i
650. 24:04think it would be so cool to work with
651. 24:05you as well in the future
652. 24:06yeah we'd love to kind of get in the
653. 24:08call and talk about that and we're also
654. 24:09so honored that you um had us on here so
655. 24:12thank you so much
656. 24:14thank you thank you so much for you know
657. 24:16being with us we were also honored to
658. 24:18have you people
659. 24:19um
660. 24:20but i think uh we have a very short time
661. 24:23because so we would kind of be wrapping
662. 24:26up this meeting but like it was so much
663. 24:29good to hear you all and yeah it's just
664. 24:32inspiring like right now i'm sitting
665. 24:34here and i'm like oh my god these people
666. 24:36are doing so much thing like i also want
667. 24:38to do something for these girls
668. 24:40so thank you again for sitting with us
669. 24:42and yeah wish you all the best for you
670. 24:45know your cause and i wish that you
671. 24:47people just
672. 24:48be hired and just achieve all the things
673. 24:51that you want
674. 24:52thank you so much that means a lot of
675. 24:54questions
676. 24:55thank you it was great talking to you
677. 24:56thank you
678. 24:57thank you so much
679. 25:01um so yeah i think