A brief YouTube interview discussing 'Authentically You,' a resource for single women created by Nick Stumbo. Speakers position the primary audience as younger, college-age women while noting the resource benefits any single woman, including those in their late 20s–30s. They cite that the national average age for a woman’s first marriage is about 30 and emphasize the resource blends scientific/brain-based information and statistical data with a foundation of biblical truth. The speakers also advise that high-school-aged participants (under 18) may use the material only with parental consent/memo of understanding and recommend restricting use to teens actively struggling with sexual behaviors rather than general youth-group rollout.
Questions this video answers
30 years old
Who is the target audience for authentically you?
Every woman that takes a breath. If I was to give one answer, I would say this is for the younger college age woman, but any single woman would benefit from this.
The more research we did, the more we dug into the information, the more we started to recognize that, you know, women are staying single even longer now. And so, and I think that the national average for the first, first time marriage for women is 30 years old. And so I just think that there's a lot of great information in this that is going to help a single woman navigate those years before marriage or even if she doesn't get married.
From my work with women in my unraveled groups that are in their 30s or late 20s and they're single, it's so hard for them because they're, they're wanting to be married, they're wanting to be sexual and they're saying what does this even look like? Is it even okay to have these discussions? And, and then I had a pastor ask me, would this be okay for some high schoolers? Because he worked with a lot of youth. And my answer is yes. But with anybody under the age of 18, you're going to need their parents to sign the memo of understanding in what kids are dealing with ninth grade. And up there could for sure be girls who are struggling with sexually acting out pornography, masturbation, all those things. And so you may have high schoolers that you could take through this, but just make sure to get that memo of understanding and, and make sure it's for the high schoolers that are actively struggling. This isn't the resource that you just introduced to the whole youth group.
It isn't necessarily geared toward what you would call maybe like purity information or just sexual health. It is definitely for women who have crossed boundaries, but just want to figure out what it looks like going forward to live in health. It's going to have the science and it's going to have the brain parts and it's going to have statistical data, but then it's all laid over a foundation of biblical truth, which I love that.
