May 22, 2023 • 14 mins
We spoke with cancer survivor Meghan Rothschild, President & Chief Badass of Chikmedia.
May Melanoma Awareness Month and Meghan very frankly shares her story and how she advocated for herself. Fastforward to today, she is not only a survivor, but fierce advocate and he introduces us to a new company Brightguard and their incredble lifesaving touchfree sunscreen dispenseries!
May Melanoma Awareness Month and Meghan very frankly shares her story and how she advocated for herself. Fastforward to today, she is not only a survivor, but fierce advocate and he introduces us to a new company Brightguard and their incredble lifesaving touchfree sunscreen dispenseries!
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(00:00):
I heard communities. Thank you somuch for listening. I'm Renee Denina.
We are thrilled to have on theline with us right now. Megan Rothschild.
She's the president of chick Meda.She's also a cancer survivor, and
it's that time a year to talkabout melanoma and that is something you have
been fighting for for years. Infact, that is actually how we met.
Megan. Thank you for being here. Yeah, thank you so much
for having me. I appreciate it. You know, we really met.
(00:22):
I think just after your experience,or maybe you were still going through a
piece of it, but that's whatI remember from you, and I always
think about you. Every time Ifeel the sun on my shoulders, I
think, oh, I've got toput my sun block, my sun's screen,
I got to protect myself from theharmful race. And it's all things
to you. But I mean,that's what it's about, creating awareness,
word of mouth and being safe inthe sun. So first and foremost,
(00:44):
tell us about your experience. Yeah, so you hit the nail on the
head. Get cancer is all aboutprevention, early detection, all of that,
and that's really you know, Iwas nineteen when I detected my own
melanoma. I noticed that there wasa spot on my stomach where I was
itching. I was just kind oflike mindlessly touching that area because the mole
(01:06):
was really itchy, and I thoughtthat was kind of weird. So I
went into my primary care position formy normal, regular checkup, just like
you go every year. I wasa sophomore in college at the time,
and I pointed it out and shelooked at it and she said, I
think it looks fine. And youknow, that's what we all want to
hear, right when we go tothe doctor and we're concerned about something.
We want the doctor to say,Nope, totally normal, looks good.
(01:29):
And for whatever reason, I wasjust like, you know what, even
though you're saying it looks normal,I just don't feel right about it.
And I'm not walking out of hereunless you write me the referral to have
it removed. So she kind ofargued with me, if I'm being honest,
like, she went back and forthwith me and tried to discourage me
from taking that next step, andI said, nope, I want to
do it. So I went inand I had the mole ex size,
(01:52):
just like you would anything suspicious onyour skin. And two weeks later,
when I went back in to havethe stitches taken out, I was told
I had melanoma. Did you thensee that same doctor again? Because what
was that conversation like? Because ifyou didn't do that, who knows how
our conversation would be today exactly.And so yes, I did end up
(02:12):
being that doctor again. They werethey had been someone had been my doctor
for years, and honestly, likeI actually really did not appreciate the response
back because once I was diagnosed,I was again going to college. My
sophomore year is about two hours awayfrom home, and so they were scheduling
me for all of these appointments withoutcalling me and talking to me. And
I would call back and say,hey, can we do it on Tuesday
(02:34):
instead of Wednesday when I don't haveclass because I was I was trying to
maintain my college experience, you know, I wasn't trying to drop out of
the classes. And they I rememberthe doctor calling me and saying, you
know, you need to take thisseriously, and I thought, how funny
that was the one who did takeit seriously. And I'm the reason why
we were able to diagnose this.And so you know, I think there
(02:57):
was just a challenge to kind ofacknowledge that I was the one who had
really pushed for this, and luckilywe ended up catching it out of stage
two. So with melanoma, itcan spread inside the body, it can
go to the lymph nodes, goto the surrounding organs, and luckily we
had caught it early enough that thatdid not happen. Well, Megan,
let me ask you this too.I mean, you're nineteen years old.
(03:20):
You're invincible, as we all arewhen we're twenty one and under, we
are nothing can happen to us,right, and you are trying to put
your life into units. At thispoint you've just been told you of melanoma,
but maybe you're just hearing cancer.Maybe you hear melanoma and you don't
think it's as serious, or maybewho knows, I don't know what you
were thinking. But you've got collegeand you're like, Okay, well I've
got to go to school and I'vegot to take care of this and I've
(03:43):
got to do that. And you'veit's like, how did you balance or
do you think you are an automaticpilot? And how was it for you
as nineteen year old you dealing withthis. I mean, you have a
nail on the head about the invincibilitything, like you think that's what you
think, Like you say, I'minvincible. This isn't going to affect me.
I remember, even though I arguedand said I want them all removed,
(04:03):
I walked out of the appointment havinghad them all removed, not thinking
anything would really come of it.And so it was all about, you
know, again, trying to findthat balance of Okay, this is serious,
I need to get in. Ibooked my surgery. I knew I
had a surgery date. I spokewith all my professors and said, I'm
going to be out for the week. You know what work can I take
(04:24):
home with me? And then leadingup to the surgery, I just tried
to maintain my grades, you know, I just I knew that there was
going to be some downtime. Iknew that I really needed to allow myself
some time to recover both mentally andphysically from this. And so it was.
It was weird. It was aweird dynamic, you know, Like
I was technically diagnosed on my twentiethbirthday. So I had them all removed
(04:46):
and then went in right at twentyand so what you know, what do
you do a twenty year old havingcancer? You know, like it was
crazy. I really didn't know howto manage all of it. I just
knew that there were certain things Ineeded to do, stuffs I needed to
take to ensure that I came outon the other side of this, and
that's that's what I did. Youknow, I've been doing this program for
(05:06):
about seventeen years now, and youwere early on at the beginning of my
show, and I remember having youin my studio and I remember talking to
you, and I know, tobe quite honest that I really didn't talk
about this all that much before you. I mean I did obviously, you
know, you don't want to getburned, but it was more of like,
oh, I don't want to geta sunburn. It wasn't oh I
(05:27):
don't want to get cancer. Iwas more like, oh, gosh,
I don't want to, you know, and then the jokes, Oh,
you're just red lobster. You knowyou're you gotta put the magazine. You
know, I didn't. You know, I don't know if I would be
as mindful about it as if youweren't. You know, if I had
met you or in my studio ormaybe have this topic on the show as
much as we do, because again, we didn't really talk about this all
(05:49):
that much. I mean when Iwas growing up. I mean, and
this is a true story, andI know people listening right now, we're
going to this. I mean,we purposely would put baby oil on ab
oil. I mean, how appallingis that now to say that out loud?
You know. So I'm very carefulof watching if I see something new,
and now I'm always covering up likewe would lie, you know,
(06:11):
on the pavement. Oh it's it'smore sun there. Lie at the worst
hours of the day, and youknow, horrifying, absolutely horrifying. But
the messaging was, oh, youwant to cover up so they don't get
a burn. Now it's you don'tlisten. You want to make sure you
have the right cover up because youdon't want to get cancer. And that
is really right, becoming more commonMegan, right, Yeah, I absolutely
(06:31):
think so. I think over thelast you know, fifteen twenty years,
we have seen such an increase inawareness. We've seen an increase in people
wanting to protect their skin, whetherit's for skin cancer reasons or vanity reasons
if not wanting premature aging and wrinklingand all of that. And you know,
when I when I first started onthis journey, people didn't understand what
(06:54):
caused skin cancer. They didn't knowthat melanoma is a young person's disease.
It really impacted young women between theages of fifteen and twenty nine, and
people had no idea. They thoughtof it as like, you know,
the retirees in Florida basil cell gettingsomething taken off their nose. No,
melanoma is deadly, and it's affectinga young female population primarily. And so
(07:15):
I do think and I appreciate yousaying that, but makes me feel so
good about the work that I've beendoing over the last you know, twenty
years. It definitely has. I'veseen an improvement and people being cognizantly aware
of Wow, a sunburn isn't justuncomfortable, it's really bad for you,
absolutely a thousand percent. Now,I also want to talk a little bit
(07:36):
about something that you know very wellabout, and that is some black You
know, we talk about UVA UVBsunscreen. Some black what's the best one?
And you know, I have thatall broken down for you at my
community access stock Com. And wecan't chat about that if you'd like.
But you know, you brought myattention to a company that I cannot be
(07:56):
leave. This hasn't been done before, and it's it has been I've never
heard of it. So I doapologize there and to get here you are
Megan again, Megan's bringing something tomy attention. Okay, so now I'm
going to think about this. Butyou know, especially through COVID, I
mean, we all knew about youknow, hand sanitizers and dispensaries and things
like that, about you know,getting the purel or the whatever on your
hand to get rid of germs.But as sun Black touch free sunscreen dispenser
(08:22):
is brilliant, it's genius. There'sa company called bright Guard I believe I'm
saying that correctly that does this.This is how did you even know about
them? And how can we getthem here? Because this is that's some
protection everywhere. Yes, I lovethem. I've actually so they've been around
four years. They were actually thefirst sunscreen dispenser company on the market.
(08:45):
I've been working with them for gosh, I might be miss quoting here,
but at least six to seven years. They've been around. I literally can't
believe that because I'm just like lookingat all of this and I'm like,
how do I did I miss this? Or is it that I'm such a
good person that I always pack mysunscreen for me? Like, how did
I miss that? Yeah? Well, so you know, this is our
challenge right now. Is so thiscompany allows you to place sunscreen dispensers wherever
(09:11):
the town or city might want toplace them. It can also be privatized
too, so they do everything fromgolf courses. They're working with parks and
rex departments across the country to providefree sunstreen at pools and parks and walk
you know, walking paths and bikepaths and things like that. Because how
many times have we been out andabout We've caught ourselves you know, oh
(09:31):
my gosh, I didn't bring extrasunstreen. I didn't think I was going
to be out this long. Ididn't think I was going to be indirect
sunlight today, or oh my gosh, it was overcast when I left the
house and now it's directly sunny onmy face. And so this company allows
for towns and cities to really providefree sunstreen to the community. And they're
actually working with a variety of businessesin Connecticut. They just installed over at
(09:54):
the Hartford yard Goats, which Ithink is awesome because you're indirect sun light
there, you know, like thesporting the sport venues are such a key
place for this, especially with allthe kids out of there, because we
know any exposure before the age ofeighteen is going to increase your risk of
skin cancer. And so yeah,they're just they're really doing great work.
And they you know, like Isaid, they were the first on the
(10:15):
market. They work with organic sunscreenbrands. They just do a phenomenal job
of helping people protect themselves because thatis key. That's key with skin cancer,
that's key with the prevention is protectingourselves well. And let me be
honest again to you, like,I don't think I've ever gone to the
yard gooat city, in which Igo to a lot. I don't think
I've ever brought sunscreen with me there, honestly no. And I unless I'm
(10:41):
going to the beach, I don'tbring it. But then I'll be out
at a walk and I'll be like, oh my gosh, I gotta find
shade or let me wear a hat. To have that as readily available as
you know, like a hand sanitizerdispenser. To have that, I think
parents would appreciate it too, butespecially people like myself who most of my
events are going to be outdoors inthe summer. But I'm thinking of our
(11:03):
first responders, I'm thinking of DOOTworkers, I'm thinking of you know,
all these people that could benefit fromit, because it's just you know,
again, like you said, ifwe put it on in the morning,
right, So I'm an avid sunscreenuser, It's in all of my products.
I get ready for the day,Yeah, but then two hours later
when you're supposed to be reapplying becausethat's how often you should be reapplying sunscreen
(11:24):
if you're indirect sunlight. We don'thave that stuff on us now. So
being able to again have this accessto free sunscreen is so incredible. And
it's just they do such a goodjob, and they partner with a lot
of great organizations, and I'm veryhappy to be working with them because this
is just as critical as the handsanitizers and the purel and things like that.
(11:46):
Like, it's just we need tobe offering this to people because inevitably
someone's going to forget. You're goingto catch yourself outside when you didn't think
you were going to be And that'sthat's the key, is just making sure
that you're protecting yourself. Yeah,you can get to break guard dot com
to get more information about that,but also Megan, for people wanting more
information about melanoma in general. Youknow, is there a place that you
can send people to get more information? And I know you're going to share
(12:09):
some personal photos with us with thisinterview too. Yes, absolutely, there
are so many incredible nonprofit organizations outthere. So you can actually just go
to skincancer dot org and that hasall sorts of information. There's multiple different
kinds of skin cancer. There's basilcell melanoma and squama cell. But the
Skin Cancer Foundation does a great jobMRF Melanoma Research Foundation. You know,
(12:31):
if you just simply google skin cancer, you're going to be able to go
to multiple websites that have really importantinformation and also can talk to you about
the warning signs of melanoma, howto spot things, how to have that
conversation with your doctor as well.All right, we're going to put all
the links up to everything up atmy community access dot com. But We
always appreciate having Megan Rothschild here withus, president of Chicken Media, cancer
(12:56):
survivor and very very vocal advoct aboutkeeping yourself safe in the sun. And
it's not just the summertime, folks, Right Megan, that's a big battle
to get to chat about two right. Oh yeah, and a lot of
people we you know, break Guardworks with a lot of ski slopes because
people think they're getting a windburn,but you're not. You're actually getting sun
exposure. When you're out there inthe winter, the reflection, the uvy
reflection off the snow can be evenmore amplified than what we're seeing in the
(13:20):
summer. And so this is ayear round thing. We need to be
protecting ourselves twelve months out of theyear. And we're just so grateful that
you are you are okay, andyou're you're such an advocate for this and
for all the years that you've beena part of this program advocating for people
to be smart. Even if oneor two people listen right now and they
think, okay, you know what, let's not mess around anymore. And
especially my generation, Oh my gosh, I just just can't believe what we
(13:43):
used to do, like we wepurposely would go out and get burned on
purpose, just so that we couldhave, you know, a week of
attat which based and horrifying. Ican't. I'm embarrassed of myself and what
we know. We didn't know,We didn't talk about it. You don't
know. We didn't know. It'snot part of health education. We just
we didn't know. But we donow, and that's the good thing.
(14:03):
We can. We know moving forwardwhat we need to do to continue this
fight against the absolutely to hear thisinterview again, you can visit my community
access dot com. You'll get connectedto all the links we spoke about.
Megan Rothschild. Thank you so muchand I'm sure we'll be chatting again over
the summer. Yeah, thank youfor having me
I heard communities. Thank you somuch for listening. I'm Renee Denina.
We are thrilled to have on theline with us right now. Megan Rothschild.
She's the president of chick Meda.She's also a cancer survivor, and
it's that time a year to talkabout melanoma and that is something you have
been fighting for for years. Infact, that is actually how we met.
Megan. Thank you for being here. Yeah, thank you so much
for having me. I appreciate it. You know, we really met.
(00:22):
I think just after your experience,or maybe you were still going through a
piece of it, but that's whatI remember from you, and I always
think about you. Every time Ifeel the sun on my shoulders, I
think, oh, I've got toput my sun block, my sun's screen,
I got to protect myself from theharmful race. And it's all things
to you. But I mean,that's what it's about, creating awareness,
word of mouth and being safe inthe sun. So first and foremost,
(00:44):
tell us about your experience. Yeah, so you hit the nail on the
head. Get cancer is all aboutprevention, early detection, all of that,
and that's really you know, Iwas nineteen when I detected my own
melanoma. I noticed that there wasa spot on my stomach where I was
itching. I was just kind oflike mindlessly touching that area because the mole
(01:06):
was really itchy, and I thoughtthat was kind of weird. So I
went into my primary care position formy normal, regular checkup, just like
you go every year. I wasa sophomore in college at the time,
and I pointed it out and shelooked at it and she said, I
think it looks fine. And youknow, that's what we all want to
hear, right when we go tothe doctor and we're concerned about something.
We want the doctor to say,Nope, totally normal, looks good.
(01:29):
And for whatever reason, I wasjust like, you know what, even
though you're saying it looks normal,I just don't feel right about it.
And I'm not walking out of hereunless you write me the referral to have
it removed. So she kind ofargued with me, if I'm being honest,
like, she went back and forthwith me and tried to discourage me
from taking that next step, andI said, nope, I want to
do it. So I went inand I had the mole ex size,
(01:52):
just like you would anything suspicious onyour skin. And two weeks later,
when I went back in to havethe stitches taken out, I was told
I had melanoma. Did you thensee that same doctor again? Because what
was that conversation like? Because ifyou didn't do that, who knows how
our conversation would be today exactly.And so yes, I did end up
(02:12):
being that doctor again. They werethey had been someone had been my doctor
for years, and honestly, likeI actually really did not appreciate the response
back because once I was diagnosed,I was again going to college. My
sophomore year is about two hours awayfrom home, and so they were scheduling
me for all of these appointments withoutcalling me and talking to me. And
I would call back and say,hey, can we do it on Tuesday
(02:34):
instead of Wednesday when I don't haveclass because I was I was trying to
maintain my college experience, you know, I wasn't trying to drop out of
the classes. And they I rememberthe doctor calling me and saying, you
know, you need to take thisseriously, and I thought, how funny
that was the one who did takeit seriously. And I'm the reason why
we were able to diagnose this.And so you know, I think there
(02:57):
was just a challenge to kind ofacknowledge that I was the one who had
really pushed for this, and luckilywe ended up catching it out of stage
two. So with melanoma, itcan spread inside the body, it can
go to the lymph nodes, goto the surrounding organs, and luckily we
had caught it early enough that thatdid not happen. Well, Megan,
let me ask you this too.I mean, you're nineteen years old.
(03:20):
You're invincible, as we all arewhen we're twenty one and under, we
are nothing can happen to us,right, and you are trying to put
your life into units. At thispoint you've just been told you of melanoma,
but maybe you're just hearing cancer.Maybe you hear melanoma and you don't
think it's as serious, or maybewho knows, I don't know what you
were thinking. But you've got collegeand you're like, Okay, well I've
got to go to school and I'vegot to take care of this and I've
(03:43):
got to do that. And you'veit's like, how did you balance or
do you think you are an automaticpilot? And how was it for you
as nineteen year old you dealing withthis. I mean, you have a
nail on the head about the invincibilitything, like you think that's what you
think, Like you say, I'minvincible. This isn't going to affect me.
I remember, even though I arguedand said I want them all removed,
(04:03):
I walked out of the appointment havinghad them all removed, not thinking
anything would really come of it.And so it was all about, you
know, again, trying to findthat balance of Okay, this is serious,
I need to get in. Ibooked my surgery. I knew I
had a surgery date. I spokewith all my professors and said, I'm
going to be out for the week. You know what work can I take
(04:24):
home with me? And then leadingup to the surgery, I just tried
to maintain my grades, you know, I just I knew that there was
going to be some downtime. Iknew that I really needed to allow myself
some time to recover both mentally andphysically from this. And so it was.
It was weird. It was aweird dynamic, you know, Like
I was technically diagnosed on my twentiethbirthday. So I had them all removed
(04:46):
and then went in right at twentyand so what you know, what do
you do a twenty year old havingcancer? You know, like it was
crazy. I really didn't know howto manage all of it. I just
knew that there were certain things Ineeded to do, stuffs I needed to
take to ensure that I came outon the other side of this, and
that's that's what I did. Youknow, I've been doing this program for
(05:06):
about seventeen years now, and youwere early on at the beginning of my
show, and I remember having youin my studio and I remember talking to
you, and I know, tobe quite honest that I really didn't talk
about this all that much before you. I mean I did obviously, you
know, you don't want to getburned, but it was more of like,
oh, I don't want to geta sunburn. It wasn't oh I
(05:27):
don't want to get cancer. Iwas more like, oh, gosh,
I don't want to, you know, and then the jokes, Oh,
you're just red lobster. You knowyou're you gotta put the magazine. You
know, I didn't. You know, I don't know if I would be
as mindful about it as if youweren't. You know, if I had
met you or in my studio ormaybe have this topic on the show as
much as we do, because again, we didn't really talk about this all
(05:49):
that much. I mean when Iwas growing up. I mean, and
this is a true story, andI know people listening right now, we're
going to this. I mean,we purposely would put baby oil on ab
oil. I mean, how appallingis that now to say that out loud?
You know. So I'm very carefulof watching if I see something new,
and now I'm always covering up likewe would lie, you know,
(06:11):
on the pavement. Oh it's it'smore sun there. Lie at the worst
hours of the day, and youknow, horrifying, absolutely horrifying. But
the messaging was, oh, youwant to cover up so they don't get
a burn. Now it's you don'tlisten. You want to make sure you
have the right cover up because youdon't want to get cancer. And that
is really right, becoming more commonMegan, right, Yeah, I absolutely
(06:31):
think so. I think over thelast you know, fifteen twenty years,
we have seen such an increase inawareness. We've seen an increase in people
wanting to protect their skin, whetherit's for skin cancer reasons or vanity reasons
if not wanting premature aging and wrinklingand all of that. And you know,
when I when I first started onthis journey, people didn't understand what
(06:54):
caused skin cancer. They didn't knowthat melanoma is a young person's disease.
It really impacted young women between theages of fifteen and twenty nine, and
people had no idea. They thoughtof it as like, you know,
the retirees in Florida basil cell gettingsomething taken off their nose. No,
melanoma is deadly, and it's affectinga young female population primarily. And so
(07:15):
I do think and I appreciate yousaying that, but makes me feel so
good about the work that I've beendoing over the last you know, twenty
years. It definitely has. I'veseen an improvement and people being cognizantly aware
of Wow, a sunburn isn't justuncomfortable, it's really bad for you,
absolutely a thousand percent. Now,I also want to talk a little bit
(07:36):
about something that you know very wellabout, and that is some black You
know, we talk about UVA UVBsunscreen. Some black what's the best one?
And you know, I have thatall broken down for you at my
community access stock Com. And wecan't chat about that if you'd like.
But you know, you brought myattention to a company that I cannot be
(07:56):
leave. This hasn't been done before, and it's it has been I've never
heard of it. So I doapologize there and to get here you are
Megan again, Megan's bringing something tomy attention. Okay, so now I'm
going to think about this. Butyou know, especially through COVID, I
mean, we all knew about youknow, hand sanitizers and dispensaries and things
like that, about you know,getting the purel or the whatever on your
hand to get rid of germs.But as sun Black touch free sunscreen dispenser
(08:22):
is brilliant, it's genius. There'sa company called bright Guard I believe I'm
saying that correctly that does this.This is how did you even know about
them? And how can we getthem here? Because this is that's some
protection everywhere. Yes, I lovethem. I've actually so they've been around
four years. They were actually thefirst sunscreen dispenser company on the market.
(08:45):
I've been working with them for gosh, I might be miss quoting here,
but at least six to seven years. They've been around. I literally can't
believe that because I'm just like lookingat all of this and I'm like,
how do I did I miss this? Or is it that I'm such a
good person that I always pack mysunscreen for me? Like, how did
I miss that? Yeah? Well, so you know, this is our
challenge right now. Is so thiscompany allows you to place sunscreen dispensers wherever
(09:11):
the town or city might want toplace them. It can also be privatized
too, so they do everything fromgolf courses. They're working with parks and
rex departments across the country to providefree sunstreen at pools and parks and walk
you know, walking paths and bikepaths and things like that. Because how
many times have we been out andabout We've caught ourselves you know, oh
(09:31):
my gosh, I didn't bring extrasunstreen. I didn't think I was going
to be out this long. Ididn't think I was going to be indirect
sunlight today, or oh my gosh, it was overcast when I left the
house and now it's directly sunny onmy face. And so this company allows
for towns and cities to really providefree sunstreen to the community. And they're
actually working with a variety of businessesin Connecticut. They just installed over at
(09:54):
the Hartford yard Goats, which Ithink is awesome because you're indirect sun light
there, you know, like thesporting the sport venues are such a key
place for this, especially with allthe kids out of there, because we
know any exposure before the age ofeighteen is going to increase your risk of
skin cancer. And so yeah,they're just they're really doing great work.
And they you know, like Isaid, they were the first on the
(10:15):
market. They work with organic sunscreenbrands. They just do a phenomenal job
of helping people protect themselves because thatis key. That's key with skin cancer,
that's key with the prevention is protectingourselves well. And let me be
honest again to you, like,I don't think I've ever gone to the
yard gooat city, in which Igo to a lot. I don't think
I've ever brought sunscreen with me there, honestly no. And I unless I'm
(10:41):
going to the beach, I don'tbring it. But then I'll be out
at a walk and I'll be like, oh my gosh, I gotta find
shade or let me wear a hat. To have that as readily available as
you know, like a hand sanitizerdispenser. To have that, I think
parents would appreciate it too, butespecially people like myself who most of my
events are going to be outdoors inthe summer. But I'm thinking of our
(11:03):
first responders, I'm thinking of DOOTworkers, I'm thinking of you know,
all these people that could benefit fromit, because it's just you know,
again, like you said, ifwe put it on in the morning,
right, So I'm an avid sunscreenuser, It's in all of my products.
I get ready for the day,Yeah, but then two hours later
when you're supposed to be reapplying becausethat's how often you should be reapplying sunscreen
(11:24):
if you're indirect sunlight. We don'thave that stuff on us now. So
being able to again have this accessto free sunscreen is so incredible. And
it's just they do such a goodjob, and they partner with a lot
of great organizations, and I'm veryhappy to be working with them because this
is just as critical as the handsanitizers and the purel and things like that.
(11:46):
Like, it's just we need tobe offering this to people because inevitably
someone's going to forget. You're goingto catch yourself outside when you didn't think
you were going to be And that'sthat's the key, is just making sure
that you're protecting yourself. Yeah,you can get to break guard dot com
to get more information about that,but also Megan, for people wanting more
information about melanoma in general. Youknow, is there a place that you
can send people to get more information? And I know you're going to share
(12:09):
some personal photos with us with thisinterview too. Yes, absolutely, there
are so many incredible nonprofit organizations outthere. So you can actually just go
to skincancer dot org and that hasall sorts of information. There's multiple different
kinds of skin cancer. There's basilcell melanoma and squama cell. But the
Skin Cancer Foundation does a great jobMRF Melanoma Research Foundation. You know,
(12:31):
if you just simply google skin cancer, you're going to be able to go
to multiple websites that have really importantinformation and also can talk to you about
the warning signs of melanoma, howto spot things, how to have that
conversation with your doctor as well.All right, we're going to put all
the links up to everything up atmy community access dot com. But We
always appreciate having Megan Rothschild here withus, president of Chicken Media, cancer
(12:56):
survivor and very very vocal advoct aboutkeeping yourself safe in the sun. And
it's not just the summertime, folks, Right Megan, that's a big battle
to get to chat about two right. Oh yeah, and a lot of
people we you know, break Guardworks with a lot of ski slopes because
people think they're getting a windburn,but you're not. You're actually getting sun
exposure. When you're out there inthe winter, the reflection, the uvy
reflection off the snow can be evenmore amplified than what we're seeing in the
(13:20):
summer. And so this is ayear round thing. We need to be
protecting ourselves twelve months out of theyear. And we're just so grateful that
you are you are okay, andyou're you're such an advocate for this and
for all the years that you've beena part of this program advocating for people
to be smart. Even if oneor two people listen right now and they
think, okay, you know what, let's not mess around anymore. And
especially my generation, Oh my gosh, I just just can't believe what we
(13:43):
used to do, like we wepurposely would go out and get burned on
purpose, just so that we couldhave, you know, a week of
attat which based and horrifying. Ican't. I'm embarrassed of myself and what
we know. We didn't know,We didn't talk about it. You don't
know. We didn't know. It'snot part of health education. We just
we didn't know. But we donow, and that's the good thing.
(14:03):
We can. We know moving forwardwhat we need to do to continue this
fight against the absolutely to hear thisinterview again, you can visit my community
access dot com. You'll get connectedto all the links we spoke about.
Megan Rothschild. Thank you so muchand I'm sure we'll be chatting again over
the summer. Yeah, thank youfor having me
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