Suzanne Siemens is De-Feminizing Menstruation Care with Her Sustainable Business

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[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.

Lunapads Co-Founder

A British Columbia Top Ten Honour Roll Chartered Accountant, Suzanne Siemens was was offered a job during her third year at UBC Faculty of Commerce. However, in part because of a lack of female partners role models, Suzanne realized it wasn’t the career path she was destined to have.
After she left, she became the Controller of a publicly traded company for 8 years. However, she eventually drove herself to a mental health burnout, and this made her realize that she had to chase a career that aligns with her values.
Suzanne eventually met Madeleine (The Co-Founder of Lunapads) when they were assigned on a group project during a leadership program. Feeling attracted to one another via their differences they decided to combine their skills and start growing Lunapads together.
Since then, she has transformed her mental health and her lifestyle and is feeling happy in a business of her own focused on her values.

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