Mylie Cardman Podcast

The speaker, Miley Karpman, introduces herself as a 19-year-old student in English 105. She talks about her small town in Pittsburgh, North Carolina, and her close relationship with her family. She attended a school in a neighboring town called Siler City, which was diverse and allowed her to learn about different cultures. Miley emphasizes the value of education and understanding the world around her. Growing up as a teacher's kid, she became fascinated with why certain things were taught and how they applied to different people. She noticed a lack of comprehensive sex education in her school and wanted to implement a program to help younger girls understand their bodies and navigate puberty. Hello, Sunshine. Welcome to my podcast. My name is Miley Karpman, and I am 19 years old, and I am in English 105. I want to start off by telling you just a little bit about me. I am from a small town in Pittsburgh, North Carolina. I have two dogs. Their names are and I am really close with my family. So a little bit about the school that I went to. It was actually in a neighboring town about 20 minutes away from where I lived, and it's called Siler City. And this was also a super small town in a lower income area. It was super diverse, and this allowed me to immerse myself in different cultures and learn about different practices that I wouldn't necessarily have been exposed to if I had gone to school in the town that I lived in. Something that I really have noticed that I've valued over the years is education. And not just like systematic instruction, rather sort of understanding the things that are going on around me and why these things are happening and how it affects different areas. Because not everything is just 2 plus 2 equals 4. And different things can be applied to different areas, and so I just also found it super fascinating to learn about. Growing up a teacher's kid, I was really fascinated with what my mom was always teaching. I wanted to know why she was teaching certain things, how it applied differently to different people. When I was younger, I noticed being super frustrated when I didn't know certain things and what certain things meant. And I found this to be especially prevalent in a school that I went to because with sex education in particular, a lot of people didn't want just like textbook definitions. They wanted to understand why certain things were happening with their bodies and what that meant and how to navigate puberty. And so that's why I wanted to implement a program that would help younger girls sort of understand what is going on with their bodies and their minds and how to navigate that because I think that's something that the area that I was in really craved and was lacking. So yeah, thank you so much. I hope you have a great day.