Nadya Okamoto is hoping to change the conversation around periods and menstruation with the period brand August.
Working to change that has been Nadya Okamotos M.O.
Food stamps dont cover period products, and tax existed on them in 40 states at the time.
This passion fueled her to write a book:Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movementin 2018.
Another silver lining of the pandemic?
Building our virtual community when people were really craving community was really wonderful, says Okamoto.
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A lot of the advice we got was, How could you even think about fundraising right now?
Were in a pandemic, nobody knows whats going to happen!
We wanted to verify that we only took money from values-aligned investors, she says.
We were like, Okay, we have to turn down this money, even though its a lot.
They didnt connect with any female angel investors in the first six months of attempting to do so.
Having female-lead investors was really important, and we werent going to settle on that, she says.
She was also working through personal matters in the process.
Its a mentality brought over from my nonprofit work, Okamoto says.
Whats the point of doing anything [if youre] censoring the voices of the people youre serving?
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The idea came from an Inner Cycle Zoom call in fall 2020.
Even after seven years of hard work helping normalize menstruation, theres still so much Okamoto wants to do.
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