Guest Title - Jodi Neuhauser, Founder & CEO, In Women’s Health

What happens when we work together to create cultures and organizations where women don’t have to shrink to survive?

Jodi Neuhauser is a visionary executive and women's health leader with 19+ years of experience building and scaling B2B and B2C consumer healthcare brands. As a leader, she has scaled and managed teams of 2 to 200+ and generated over $1B+ in new business. She is passionate about fixing consumer healthcare one day at a time and empowering women to live healthier lives. A 3x, VC-backed founder in women's health, Jodi is currently building In Women's Health, the first careers platform for women's health. She is also a board member, angel investor, public speaker, and community leader in the women's health and consumer health space, and was recognized as a "Top 10 Inspiring Healthcare Entrepreneur to Watch in 2023" by Entrepreneur.

Even Jodi’s intro makes me tired! She is all energy, but that go-go power is fueled by self care. In this episode, she talks about what happened when she didn’t take the time to take care of herself and how that hurt her personally and professionally. Jodi is an ecosystem builder, and there’s nothing she’s more excited about than harnessing the power of women to push their agenda forward. In this episode, we talk about her groundbreaking work with the Women’s Health PAC, and why she feels it's time for us to lean into our collective political power.

What happens when a genetic counselor takes those skills to industry, nerds out on billing and reimbursement, and then starts a podcast about genetics? Kate Wilson is what happens.

Kate Wilson is a podcaster, educator and consultant. She specializes in oncology genomics and has over 15 years' experience in product management, laboratory genetic testing, and clinical genetic counseling. She is a nerd about billing and reimbursement and loves science communication. Kate is passionate about access to genetic healthcare and precision medicine for all. She serves as adjunct faculty for the Emory University Genetic Counseling Program and currently hosts and produces the All Access DNA podcast and DNA Dialogues podcast.

Today, we talk with Kate about her earliest career successes and why she left the clinical world to pursue a career in industry. We drilled in on her good, bad, and ugly and found out more about the origin of her podcasting career. And given Kate’s background and her work with genetic testing, we asked her opinion about the recent funding cuts to work that supports genomic research as well as her perspective following one of her own recent podcasts on the 23andMe data privacy scandal. We could talk to Kate forever, and you will want to as well after hearing this episode.

“If you show up as an engineer, people will treat you that way.”

What a powerful lesson from our guest this week - aerospace engineer, corporate trainer, motivational speaker, and comedian, Shayla Rivera. Starting her career at NASA as an aerospace engineer (who does that?!?), Shayla spent five years working on the space shuttle and space station programs. She left to pursue psychology, trying to understand what makes people tick, first working in environmental systems sales and then moving on to corporate training. She found her niche as a motivational speaker. Her love of words and natural ability to not take herself or the world too seriously finally led her to comedy. Currently, Shayla serves as Director of ENGR[x] at Texas A&M University, her alma mater. This new program is designed to provide undergraduate engineering students with professional skills and experiences beyond their engineering degree requirements, making them more attractive to employers.

Shayla is one fascinating woman with a down-to-earth attitude and infectious enthusiasm for life. In this episode, she offers sound advice for how to avoid the common pitfalls that plague some women going into science and technical fields and how to follow your curiosity. The question, she says, is not “What do you want to be when you grow up?” but “What do you want to be first?”