Podcast appearances and mentions of suzanne siemens

Lori Mathison, FCPA, FCGA, LLB, president and CEO of CPABC, Suzanne Siemens, CPA, CA, co-founder and CEO of Aisle, and Diana Vuong, CPA, CA, vice-president of finance and CFO of the Vancouver Airport Authority discuss why companies care about ESG and how their business approaches ESG. Part of our ESG with Coffee Chats podcast series.

Today we interview Suzanne Siemens, the co-founder of Lunapads. Suzanne a trained CPA and graduate from the Sauder School of Business. In 2000, she left her corporate career to join forces with Madeleine Shaw to co-found Lunapads, a socially innovative company that specializes in manufacturing healthy and sustainable alternatives to disposable feminine hygiene products and selling them online at lunapasds.com since 1998! In 2017, Suzanne and Madeleine received Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Social Entrepreneurship for their business success and leadership in providing menstrual products to girls and women globally and locally.She has a very unique story in that Lunapads was founded at the same time the Internet began to take off. She was not able to simply "Google it" when she came across questions about her business like all of us can do today. As the Internet grew in popularity, it saved her company. Selling B2C on the Internet became much more profitable than selling B2B to retailers.Today Lunapads is a global ecommerce company, supporting people across the world that has a wealth of knowledge from their 20-year business history. In this episode you will hear the following: How small companies sold products before the InternetHow one company pivoted TO the InternetWhy having extra capital is crucial to running a companyThe importance of knowing your specific target customerWhy you should always listen to your outliersWhat advertising platforms work best for LunapadsWhy you should claim (or reclaim) your brand on AmazonSuzanne gives us so much knowledge, it's hard to pick it all up at one time. You will for sure leave with a better understanding of business and how to sustain & adapt to an ever-changing world. Visit Lunapads on their website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, PinterestContact Brice & Mike here:Major Impact Media (Brice) - Facebook, WebsiteOutside ROI (Mike) - Facebook, Website

Today I'm talking Suzanne Siemens, co-founder of Lunapads, about building a feminist business, busting menstrual stigma and how consumers can activate our buying power to support feminist businesses.  This episode of Heavy Flow is supported by Kelly Diels, feminist marketing consultant and founder of We Are The Culture Makers.  Full Shownotes  Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation Subscribe to the Heavy Flow email list  Follow @amandalaird on Instagram Heavy Flow is produced by: TK Matunda Music credit: Julia and Bradley of Home Studios Graphic design: Rachel Laird  

Today's conversation is with Suzanne Siemens, co-founder of Lunapads. Suzanne left a stable corporate accounting career after an encounter with her now business partner Madeline, majorly changed her life. Shortly after the meet cute, Suzanne and Madeline launched Lunapads, a menstrual hygiene powerhouse and one of the first on the scene to disrupt a five-billion-dollar industry. Lunapads set out to be the aspiring Patagonia of period products. The brand is thoughtful and inclusive, defining their target market as menstruators to better represent those who are gender non-conforming. Suzanne addresses the ick factor of a business built on bleeding. Learning more about Suzanne’s story and knowing that Lunapads is out there fighting towards menstrual equity on a global-scale is reassuring, inspiring and empowering.

Lunapads International is a women-owned social mission-driven business based in Vancouver, Canada. Our goal is to help people have more positive and informed experiences of their period, and by extension, their bodies overall.

  [1:38] Greg and Suzanne explain B Corps and how Suzanne's company, Lunapads, makes a positive social impact. [4:00] We talk about the de-feminization of period care that Suzanne has been evolving with her company. [8:10] Suzanne explains the importance of being true to your companies values and the importance of checking one's privilege. [17:00] Suzanne explains keeping her personal social and environmental values in owning a business, and rejecting traditional capitalist business practices in being a social entrepreneur. [22:43] Greg explains how he discovered and fell in love with B-Corp by watching a documentary that Suzanne was in.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Suzanne is the CEO of Lunapads, a Vancouver-based company that produces reusable menstrual products and supported many young entrepreneurs. She is using business as a force for good.

Janie talks to LunaPads Co-Founder and feminist icon SUZANNE SIEMENS about popular opinions/misconceptions about menstruation and menstrual products, LunaPads innovative marketing strategies, feminist business practices, the Pads4Girls program, lack of access to menstrual products throughout the developing world, menstrual education, and more!PLUS WE HAVE A VERY EXCITING GIVEAWAY FOR A $100 LUNAPADS GIFT CARD! Listen to the end of the episode to find out how to enter and win!!!FOLLOW RELATIVELY HEALTHY ON TWITTER: twitter.com/844stolarxSUBSCRIBE/RATE on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts.RELATIVELY HEALTHY IS A FOREVER DOG PODCAST.http://foreverdogproductions.com/fdpn/podcasts/relatively-healthy

Hi everybody,  Today I am super excited to introduce you to Madeleine Shaw, co-founder of lunapads.com, a company specializing in manufacturing reusable menstrual products.  In my coaching calls with women, who are moms and have been through pregnancy, birth & labor the issue of recurrent bladder infections has been coming up a lot! There are so many reasons why bladder infections might be happening, and today on the show I have someone who has personally struggled with infections and as a result, created this wonderful company.  Here's a bit of info about Madeleine's company, lunapads.com Since 1993, Lunapads has been making their signature collection of menstrual products, Lunapads and LunaUndies. Lunapads were created by Madeleine Shaw, a fashion designer who realized she needed something to solve her own health concerns about using disposable pads and tampons. Switching from tampons to cloth pads brought her the unexpected benefit of discovering a deeper connection with her body, and she set out to bring this gift to others in the form of starting a business. She wrote the first business plan for Lunapads in 1994, and in 1995 opened a store and small production facility. By 1998, Lunapads were available in health food stores across Canada. In 1999, Madeleine met Suzanne Siemens, a Chartered Accountant, at a Community Leadership course they were both participating in. Realizing that they shared a vision for better health for people and the planet, they combined their skills to fully develop Lunapads' potential. Lunapads are now used by thousands of customers worldwide: as a result, 2 million disposable pads and tampons are now being diverted from landfills every month. Show Notes Register for my healthy school lunches webinar Join our Private FB group Here  Lunapads.com - use coupon code MAKETHESWITCH to get 20% off your purchase 

Madeleine is a social entrepreneur known for her longstanding commitment to green products, progressive business practices, and women's entrepreneurship. Madeleine co-founded Lunapads International Products Ltd. with her longtime business partner Suzanne Siemens in 2000. Lunapads is a reusable cloth menstrual pad that keeps disposable products out of landfills. Madeleine and Suzanne are also the co-founders of Pads4Girls and One4Her, projects that provide sustainable hygiene supplies to girls in developing nations to support their school attendance. Since 2000, these initiatives have touched the lives of over 300,000 girls in 18 countries. Pads4Girls now forms part of United Girls of the World, a registered non-profit society that the pair also lead. In today’s show, we talk about Lunapads, natural menstrual products,  why we should be intentional about the menstrual products that we are using, and much more! Topics discussed in today's episode Why should we even be concerned about the use of regular pads and tampons? What are conventional disposable pads and tampons made of? What types of tech are used to make disposable pads & tampons? How many tampons & pads end up in landfills each year? Why are so many women uncomfortable touching their own bodies? Why would a woman actually want to use reusable pads or the diva cup? How can switching to Lunapads or the Diva Cup change a woman's consciousness around their periods? What is the financial impact of switching to reusable menstrual products? How does the Diva Cup work? How does the Diva Cup encourage a woman to explore her body? The Pads 4 Girls program & how it helps women around the world not only manage their menstruation but attend school and work where they were not previously able to do so Connect with Madeleine & Suzanne You can connect with Madeleine & Suzanne on the Lunapads website and on Facebook & Twitter Resources mentioned Lunapads | Madeleine Shaw & Suzanne Siemens One4Her | Lunapads Pads4Girls | Lunapads Taking Charge of Your Fertility (book) | Toni Weschler Join the community! Find us on the Fertility Friday Facebook Fan Page Subscribe to the Fertility Friday Podcast on iTunes! Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Produced by Sirc of (The Nock)