{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Scaling Impact","title":"Menstrual Health Myths: Breaking Them Down with Chika Nwaogu","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2208,"description":"Join us as Chika Nwaogu shares his revolutionary journey, infusing comic books and tech into menstrual health education. Discover how this coder turned advocate is championing young African girls' lives, one period at a time. Tune in for laughs, insights, and an uplifting saga of empathy and innovation.Here are a few topics we’ll discuss on this episode of the Scaling Impact Podcast.Chika Nwaogu path from coder to advocateCombatting period poverty with creativityEmpowering girls with comic books and techCreating a sticky learning experienceBridging gaps with the Pather e-learning platformResources:PadHerDevNoodlePodcast ChefNxtStepConnect with Chika Nwaogu:LinkedInConnecting with our hostsJosh Hoffman - LinkedInAlex Garashchenko - LinkedInSean Boyce - LinkedInQuotables:09:32 - I'm not a parent yet, but I think there is such a value in getting, when you're a kid or your kid getting as many skills as possible. One, you just don't know what their future's gonna look like. And it's just good to have. But a lot of times success is found when you pull a skill from, and this is exactly what you did, right? You pull skill from something else, whether it's another job, another industry, another project, and you pull it into what you're currently working on. And it's having those skills, whether you realize that at the time or not, that says, oh, like I'm actually doing something a little bit different here, and these skills work really well in this field. So I think it's, it's really cool that kind of, whether it's an accident or not,17:21 - We are always looking for innovative ways. You know, we first started with comic books. We, we, we are scaled to animations. We are, most recently trying to scale into digital games and then to e-learning platforms. So it basically, we are going to be always looking for more innovative ways and mediums to present menstrual and sexual health education to young African slogans.I always want to listen. I want to know how best can I do...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/66Z-JkzyaQve51NguBCteHZdh4LBbMmJS4LNGtPEwTw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMzOTY0LzE2NjI3/MjAyMzQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}