Fixing Menopause Care with Anne Fulenwider of Alloy Health

About this episode

Anne Fulenwider discusses the challenges and opportunities in menopause care and the systemic failures affecting women's health.

For decades, women have been told their symptoms are “normal” like sleep disruption, brain fog, anxiety. What that really means? The system was never built to help them. Instead of answers, they’re dismissed or misdiagnosed and left on their own to figure it out. It’s a system failure costing women time, money, and agency. Takin’ Care of Lady Business Episode 148 In this episode, Anne Fulenwider , Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Alloy , joins JJ to talk about what it actually takes to build in a category that has been ignored for decades – and why that creates both massive risk and massive opportunity. Anne left a top role in media to build Alloy, a telehealth company focused on menopause care, in a space most people weren’t paying attention to and many investors didn’t understand. What started as personal frustration turned into a business built around one simple idea: women deserve real information, real treatment, and access to the right expertise. This conversation breaks down why menopause symptoms are still so widely misread, how fear around estrogen shaped an entire generation of under-treatment, and what it looks like to build inside a system filled with outdated assumptions…

People in this episode

Host: Jennifer Justice

Guest: Anne Fulenwider

Topics covered

• menopause care
• women's health
• telehealth
• system failure
• misdiagnosis
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• menopause
• healthcare
• women's symptoms
• telehealth
• estrogen
• misdiagnosis
• systemic issues

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Alloy Health, Alloy, media

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