Meg welcomes Natalie Douglas, an award-winning healthcare specialist, an experienced entrepreneur, CEO, board director, and investor. She is the founder of Lucidity LLC and RealiTi Health, as well as chairman of the board for Entia Ltd and TidalSense. She is also an investor and advisor for many portfolio companies, such as Ceek Women’s Health, RwHealth, Vitaccess.

In this episode, Natalie shares her experience in various leadership roles in life sciences, pharma services, medical devices, digital, SAS, and data analytics. She discusses various challenges and some of the innovative solutions she’s led as a private equity-backed CEO, building a global market, fem tech, and the next era of the healthcare landscape.

Natalie was honored with “Pharma Voice Top 100,” “Health Investor Power Top 50,” “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Finalist),” “First Woman in Business Services Awards,” and “The Sunday Times Fast Track in the following categories over multiple years: Top Track, Buyout Track, Profit Track.”

Further Reading:

• https://www.lucidityllc.com/#Founder
• PharmaVoice: Exploring New Frontiers
• Managing Data From Disparate and Siloed Sources

Episode Credits:

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.

Hosted by Meg Escobosa.

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, Markala Comfort, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.

©2024 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Nancy G. Brinker, the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and The Promise Fund of Florida. Nancy was also United States Ambassador to Hungary from 2001 to 2003 and Chief of Protocol of the United States from 2007 to the end of the George W. Bush administration.

Nancy walks us through her personal experience with her sister Suzy's battle with breast cancer and how that great loss inspired her to dedicate her life to fighting the disease, creating Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Meg and Nancy discuss Nancy’s current work with the Promise Fund of Florida, a nonprofit dedicated to improving access to breast and cervical cancer screenings. She explains her restlessness and desire for faster progress, leading her to create a new model of care that focuses on early detection and treatment for underserved populations. Nancy highlights the importance of patient navigators and partnerships with federally qualified healthcare centers in providing comprehensive care.

Further Reading:

• https://nancybrinker.com/about/
• Promise Fund of Florida
• Susan G. Komen
• Promise Me: How A Sister’s Love Launched The Global Movement To End Breast Cancer
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• Forty is the new 50 when it comes to breast cancer screening for women

Episode Credits:

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.

Hosted by Meg Escobosa.

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, Markala Comfort, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.

©2024 The Krinsky Company

Meg welcomes Dr. Jennifer Schneider, Co-Founder and CEO of Homeward Health, a technology-enabled, community-based healthcare provider delivering high-quality care to those who lack access, specifically rural Americans and the Medicare population.

Discussion topics:

• Leveraging technology and AI to make healthcare delivery more equitable
• Dr. Schneider’s personal experiences receiving care in rural US
• The differences in cultures of care
• How a care model focused on partnership, rather than competition, can help fill service gaps
• Female leadership
• Gender gaps in ownership, payment equity, and value perception
• Homegrown, an initiative from Homeward working to mitigate these issues through mutual learning and support

Further Reading:

• https://homewardhealth.com/
• Decoding Health Signals: Silicon Valley’s Consumer-First Approach to a New Era of Health
• ABC 13 Grand Rapids, MI: "Hope Delivered," Matt Gard.
• Rite Aid And Homeward Partner To Support Seniors In Underserved Communities
• Homeward to Rearchitect Rural Healthcare for 60 Million Americans

Episode Credits:

The Game-Changing Women of Healthcare is a production of The Krinsky Company.

Hosted by Meg Escobosa.

Produced by Meg Escobosa, Calvin Marty, Chelsea Ho, Medina Sabic, and Wendy Nielsen.

Edited, engineered, and mixed by Calvin Marty.

All music composed and performed by Calvin Marty.

©2023 The Krinsky Company