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

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

Paige Golden on HPV Prevention, Bathroom Access Rights, Humor, and Disability Insurance Pitfalls

Mike 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 mike@rothvoice.com.

00:00 Season Eight Kickoff

00:52 Meet Paige Golden

01:49 Anal Cancer and HPV

03:24 HPV Vaccine Facts

04:49 Humor and Shart Stories

06:58 Restroom Access Bill

08:28 Advocacy Through Storytelling

10:28 AI and The Villages Projects

12:08 Foundation and But of the Joke

13:47 Ghost Cholesterol Tip

15:07 Sharty Character and Haikus

17:21 Employer Disability Insurance

22:03 How to Contact Paige

23:06 Final Reflections and Wrap

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