Don't Send Me a Video: Lists, Learning Styles & the Women's Health Gap

About this episode

In this episode, Lauren discusses the importance of accessible information formats and interviews Joanna Strober about women's healthcare and the challenges faced in the system.

I'll just say it: don't send me a video. Not because I'm technologically challenged — I literally make video content for a living — but because if I need information fast, I need it in a format I can actually consume. Scrollable. Skimmable. Mine to move through in the order my brain needs. Send me a video and you have just given me homework, and I am not paying you to give me homework. That's the rant that opens this episode, and I stand by every word of it. But then we get into something that I think matters even more. I'm sitting down with Joanna Strober, the CEO of Midi Health — a women-focused healthcare company doing what the standard system has historically refused to do: actually start with women's biology instead of working around it. Joanna spent years watching herself and women like her get handed SSRIs and sleep studies when what they actually needed was someone to check their hormone levels. So she built the company that does that. Insurance covered. All 50 states. Actually available. We talk about perimenopause, the diagnostic desert most women wander through on their own, what it actually takes to build a healthcare company that investors have no existing pattern…

People in this episode

Host: Lauren Howard

Guest: Joanna Strober

Topics covered

• women's health
• hormone levels
• perimenopause
• healthcare innovation
• AI in healthcare

Keywords

• learning styles
• health gap
• diagnostic desert
• SSRI
• sleep studies

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Midi Health

Books & works: Different, Not Broken

Places: Dearborn, Michigan

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