Breaking the Silence: Turning Embarrassing Health Moments into Advocacy & Hope

Send us FAN MAIL text, include your cell# for a reply Breaking the Silence: Turning Embarrassing Health Moments into Advocacy & Hope Paige Golden on HPV Prevention, Bathroom Access Rights, Humor, and Disability Insurance PitfallsMike Roth opens Season 8 of Villages Vitality Life, Seniors Life Unscripted, featuring conversations with leaders and seniors-focused experts in and around The Villages, Florida. Guest Paige Golden, a former book publicist and medical sales professional turned humorist and HPV/cancer awareness advocate, shares her 10-year survival from anal cancer and discusses the rise of this rare cancer, HPV’s role in multiple cancers, and the HPV vaccine’s history, age expansion to 45, and prevention impact (noting some cases are non-HPV related). Paige explains using humor and storytelling to reduce shame around gastrointestinal disorders, describes creating a character (“Sharty”) and collecting “shart” stories/poetry, and promotes a restroom access bill and bathroom access cards available in 20 states (not Florida), urging listeners to contact lawmakers. She also warns about limitations and taxation issues in employer-paid long-term disability insurance versus private policies, outlines her plan to form a foundation and a book project (“But of the Joke”), and directs inquiries through Mike at [email protected]:00 Season Eight Kickoff00:52 Meet Paige Golden01:49 Anal Cancer and HPV03:24 HPV Vaccine Facts04:49 Humor and Shart Stories06:58 Restroom Access Bill08:28 Advocacy Through Storytelling10:28 AI and The Villages Projects12:08 Foundation and But of the Joke13:47 Ghost Cholesterol Tip15:07 Sharty Character and Haikus17:21 Employer Disability Insurance22:03 How to Contact Paige23:06 Final Reflections and WrapVillages Vitality Listeners, I've got some good news for you. In season 8 most new episodes will released as both audio & video versions. Videos on Apple Podcasts, Busssprout.com and YouTube. If you're listening via our Buzzsprout feed, you can ask questions via the Fan Mail button or leave me comments as a text or in our new feature, you can send it as a voicemail. If you'd like a response, make sure you leave your name, email address and cell phone number.Support the showVillages Vitality Senior Life Unscripted is Produced & Directed by Mike RothA new episode will be released most Fridays at 9 AMDirect all questions and comments to [email protected] you know a someone who should appear on the show, please contact us at:  [email protected]