Podcasts about checkable medical

#63: Flip the script and transform challenges into progress! If you're a founder, you may already know of some things testing your small business. You're not alone. In this episode, Patty inspires action to help you defeat complacency and overcome career hardships.   Follow the UPersevere Podcast on Instagram here and on Facebook here.   Follow Patty Post on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here.   For more information about Checkable Medical head to the website here.

#62: Virtual hug incoming. If you're a startup business in full-blown fundraising mode, this episode is for you. Patty gets honest and motivating as she shares what she's learned: the good, bad and ugly of reeling in new and consistent capital.   Liked this episode? Leave a positive review!   Follow the UPersevere Podcast on Instagram here and on Facebook here.   Follow Patty Post on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here.   For more information about Checkable Medical head to the website here.

#61: It's not easy, but it's important work! From fundraising to launching to scaling a new business, there will come waves of challenges in your career. Patty opens up about her personal experience with rejection and how you can spin hardships to wins.   Follow the UPersevere Podcast on Instagram here and on Facebook here.   Follow Patty Post on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here.   For more information about Checkable Medical head to the website here.

#60: She deleted the apps and was blown away by its impact. Patty reclaims her CEO drive by observing where her energy goes and how it best serves. It's an inspiring episode about modern boundary management without sacrificing your professional development goals.     Follow the UPersevere Podcast on Instagram here and on Facebook here.     Follow Patty Post on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here.     For more information about Checkable Medical head to the website here.

#59: Are excuses weighing down your personal development and career? Listen and lighten your load as host Patty Post gets raw and inspirational about intention. It's the motivation you've been searching for to conquer your big picture aspirations.       Follow the UPersevere Podcast on Instagram here and on Facebook here.         Follow Patty Post on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here.       For more information about Checkable Medical head to the website here.

#58: What's it like to be married to a bada$$ entrepreneur that's disrupting an industry? Patty's husband, Andy, is here to share his perspective. Patty and Andy get real and open about marriage, raising their three children, and deciding to move to North Dakota so that Patty could pursue Checkable.       This is a raw conversation between two people that have been married for twenty years. We hope this episode inspires other couples out there to chase after your dreams while still prioritizing your family.     Follow the UPersevere Podcast on Instagram here and on Facebook here.     Follow Patty Post on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here.     For more information about Checkable Medical head to the website here.

#57: After raising millions herself, host and CEO of Checkable Health, Patty Post, is sharing some detailed wisdom on what she's learned about investors. She talks about how many slides your presentation deck should be, why you need to tell investors how much money they're going to make, and how to provide details to potential investors to increase the odds that they'll invest.         If you're looking for investors in your company, this is the episode for you.     Follow the UPersevere Podcast on Instagram here and on Facebook here.     Follow Patty Post on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here.     For more information about Checkable Medical head to the website here.

#56: Have you joined the 4:00 AM club? Host, Patty Post, shares how she has optimized her time on Mondays, and every other day of the week as well.     As goal oriented business owners and parents, we must be disciplined in order to achieve everything we want to. We live in a lazy society that doesn't move our bodies enough and makes excuses for why we're not being our best.     A high performance life is totally attainable. You can do this.     If you need a kick in the a$$ this episode is for you.     Follow the UPersevere Podcast on Instagram here and on Facebook here.     Follow Patty Post on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here.     For more information about Checkable Medical head to the website here.

Waiting for doctor's appointments, especially with sick kids is a pain in the butt.   Patty Post was tired of wasting time in doctors offices waiting for her kids who had strep throat to be diagnosed even though she already knew they had strep. Patty had spent years as a corporate medical device expert and knew that strep tests and other tests could easily be administered at home, so she took matters into her own hands and established Checkable Medical in 2019.    Focused on introducing convenient at-home testing kits with reliable results, user-friendly administration, and a cutting-edge mobile app that seamlessly connects users to telemedicine and prescriptions Checkable Medical saves time and money.    As a passionate female founder, Patty's ultimate goal is to empower communities with knowledge, allowing them to make informed health decisions.    In the episode, you'll find out:   How Patty manages her time  The journey of building her company Checkable Medical What are the significant challenges that Patt experienced as a female founder How to turn your idea into reality What practices will hone your intuition to things you are curious about   CONNECT WITH PATTY POST LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/checkable-medical-incorporated/ Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/CheckableHealth/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/checkablehealth/ Website: https://www.checkable.com/ If you liked this episode of the Women Who Build Empires, please LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, share, and subscribe!   Is it time to finally get to the Next Level? If you're ready to get off the hamster wheel before overwhelm turns into burn out schedule a complimentary Rev Up Your Revenue Audit:  CONNECT WITH EMI KIRSCHNER Website Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Listen to all of the episodes of Women Who Build Empires, the leading podcast for women entrepreneurs on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Who has a new name with the same great host? We do! The name, UPersevere, was inspired by how much we believe in YOU and your ability to persevere in business and in life. Going forward you can expect honest, authentic and inspiring episodes to support you through your professional journey.   This show is for ambitious women and men that hold their core values in high regard just like we do. Founder and CEO of Checkable and host of UPersevere, Patty Post, has so much to share with you from her own experiences in business. And she'll even welcome some guests that have limitless value to offer when it comes to persevering in business and life.   Whether it's fundraising a startup, product development, scaling your business, or leaning on your core values for both your professional and family life, this show brings it.   “I truly and sincerely believe that if you persevere in business that you can accomplish really great things.” - U Persevere Host and CEO at Checkable Medical, Patty Post.   Follow the UPersevere Podcast on Instagram here and on Facebook here.   Follow Patty Post on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here.   For more information about Checkable Medical head to the website here.

#53: We lost one of the good guys. In this episode, Patty pays tribute to a loved one, mentor and friend, Paul Ehlen. The founder of the Minnesota-based medical products company Precision Lens passed away when a vintage plane crashed shortly after takeoff at an airport in Montana. As charismatic as he was philanthropic, Paul was an early investor of the Checkable dream. His devotion to family, flying and entrepreneurship uplifted the Checkable vision and made accessible at-home testing a reality. Suffice to say, Patty and her team would not be changing the face of diagnostic health care if it wasn't for his unwavering support and leadership. He did it all without expecting anything in return. Together we mourn. Together we honor. Together we persevere in his memory. Follow the UPersevere Podcast on Instagram here and on Facebook here. Follow Patty Post on Instagram here and on LinkedIn here. For more information about Checkable Medical head to the website here.

What lessons and philosophies were echoed in your childhood that you can apply to your entrepreneurial journey today? For Maartje Murphy, Founder of Cows & Co Creamery in Carrington, North Dakota, spending her childhood on a dairy farm set the foundation for an entrepreneurial future incorporating agriculture, family, and her Dutch heritage.Wondering what more she could do with the rich resource she had in milk and cream, Maartje was inspired to create delicious, decadent gelato and cheeses like the ones she had in the Netherlands growing up.Duchessa Gelato was born in 2018 and quickly put dairy farmers (and North Dakota) on the map when Maartje was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 Top 100 Entrepreneurs list in 2020.Today, on the Persevere Podcast, Maartje shares some insight into the early days of Duchessa Gelato and Cows & Co—from a tiny garage processing facility to a wedding gelato cart and beyond. Tuning in, you'll find out why it's difficult for dairy farmers to take a vacation, what it takes to quit your day job and become a full-time entrepreneur, and what you stand to learn from your mistakes as a founder.Join us to hear the inspirational founder story of Maartje Murphy; from farm girl to entrepreneur!Topics discussed in this episode:What the title ‘Farm Girl to Entrepreneur' means to MaartjeThe vital role Maartje's family plays in the businessInsight into the heavy workload that comes with farm lifeA look at Maartje's gelato journeyTaking the leap to become a full-time entrepreneurThe significance of making the Forbes 30 Under 30 listWhat you can learn from your mistakes as a founderWhy it's crucial to stay organized as a business ownerWhat the future holds for Cows & CoVisit cowsandcocreamery.com to learn more about Maartje's delicious dairy products.You can connect with Maartje on Instagram and Facebook. You can also follow the Duchessa Gelato journey on Instagram here!Connect with us at perseverepodcast.com and our LinkedIn group! Then, head to testforstrep.com and checkablehealth.com to learn how to get involved with Checkable Medical's journey to becoming the first FDA approved strep test. You can also find Patty Post on LinkedIn!

Shownotes:If you are looking to jump start your life and persevere to beat the odds, this four part series is for you. Hear from Checkable Medical founder and CEO, Patty Post, as she shares personal experiences she's had navigating adversity. In this series you'll learn how facing self doubts and finding your inner strength allows you to take on any challenge. Patty Post is the founder and CEO of Checkable Medical. On episode 3 of a four part series, Patty discusses her own negative experiences and anxieties surrounding travel, and how she turned those into positives that she can use to further push herself and improve her mindset.

Shownotes:If you are looking to jump start your life and persevere to beat the odds, this four part series is for you. Hear from Checkable Medical founder and CEO, Patty Post, as she shares personal experiences she's had navigating adversity. In this series you'll learn how facing self doubts and finding your inner strength allows you to take on any challenge. Patty Post is the founder and CEO of Checkable Medical. On episode 3 of a four part series, Patty discusses her own negative experiences and anxieties surrounding travel, and how she turned those into positives that she can use to further push herself and improve her mindset.

ShownotesDr. Jamin Brahmbhatt is a urologist and robotic surgeon who is an outspoken advocate for men's health and wellness. He currently works as the Director of the Personalized Urology & Robotics Clinic at Orlando Health and is a board member of the Florida Urological Society. Dr. Brahmbhatt wants to change the way men value their own health by making an impact on social norms and ideas that influence our perceptions of our health.In this two-part series with Dr. Brahmbhatt, we cover various topics, such as infertility in men, why it's so important to encourage men to go in for a doctor's visit, and steroid use in teenagers. Stay tuned for the second half of this series for more information on men's health with Dr. Brahmbhatt!Key TakeawaysMale infertility, what causes it, and what you can doMyths of urology and urologistsThe importance of engaging men with the healthcare system and tactics to do itSteroid use in teenagers and what to look forFor more resources, check out our website.For Dr. Brahmbhatt's clinic website: https://purclinic.com/Follow Dr. Brahmbhatt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjaminb/Trandscript:0:00:00.1 S1: Enjoy the first part of a two-part series with Dr. B. Our health is the most important thing that we have and as a married woman of almost 19 years to my dear husband, Andrew and mother of two boys and daughter of my dad, Bill, who's 81, I am acutely aware of the fact that men don't go into the doctor and they don't seek care. In fact, I have an uncle that saw the doctor once in his entire life and died at age 86 of a heart attack while he was climbing a mountain. Men typically have a hard time going into the doctor, and this podcast is for all of you women that care about the men in your life. Whether that's your sons, your dads, your husbands, your brothers, your spouse, your partner. We are covering everything with Dr. Brahmbhatt, a urologist at Orlando Health. We're covering everything from steroid use to infertility, to depression, to prostate exams, to identifying any kidney problems, and what's the best way to see a physician. We are covering the gamut. Doctor B is incredibly approachable, relatable, he makes things funny and the reason I had this podcast was for all of you ladies that are the caregivers of the men that we love, and it's good to recognize the symptoms, and it's good to be encouraging to our men that we love.0:01:34.8 S1: With that, let's get into the interview today, you're gonna learn lots, take some notes, I'm gonna have all the show notes with the links of the products that he recommends, and as well as a link to follow Dr. B on LinkedIn and TikTok. And I just hope that you leave with some new ideas on how to incorporate health and wellness into their lives. So with that, let's get into the episode. 0:02:06 S2: Welcome to the Wellness Essentials Podcast, where we invite you to join the conversation and get inspired to be in the driver's seat of your health and well-being. On this podcast, you'll get an all-access pass inside the minds of MDs, experts and thought leaders in the industry. No topic is off-limits, and we're asking the questions to get you the answers across the gamut of topics when it comes to optimizing your health. This is the WE Podcast.0:02:44 S1: Hello everyone, this is Patty Post. Today, I'm your host of the Checkable Health Podcast. We have rebranded everyone, we were the Wellness Essentials Podcast, now we're the Checkable Health Podcast as we are powered by Checkable Medical, but Checkable Health makes more sense because at Checkable Health, we create content that is for mothers that have a core value of health and wellness for themselves and their families.0:03:15.3 S1: So on the Checkable Health Podcast today, my guest is Dr. Brahmbhatt, who is a urologist with Orlando Health. Dr. B, thank you so much for joining me.0:03:27.0 S2: Producer, cue round of applause. Thank you so much for having me on. I appreciate the opportunity, and if you can't hear me, it's not my fault, it's Patty's fault.0:03:41.5 S1: This is our take two for, I wish we could have that. That first performance was so good we had such a great connection and our goodbyes, it wasn't like a goodbye forever, we actually did have a great connection, so I'm very thankful that you're coming back on the podcast again. Thank you.0:03:59.5 S2: Thank you. And last time my skin was perfect, I did my hair. This time I have acne on my face, but it's okay, I'm doing it for you, Patty. So, no seriously, all jokes aside I appreciate being on. We had a great conversation, and we can have that same conversation again and go on and on and on, and I look forward to it.0:04:16.7 S1: So I didn't do my hair either, my hair's slicked down and I have a little bit of acne myself, so I just, we're gonna feel comfortable. We're amongst friends here. And that happens in life. Right. If you're a CEO, if you're a doctor, if you're a teacher, life goes on when you have these blemishes, right?0:04:34 It does. And actually, I actually have been more on TikTok lately, actually, as a creator, and my content sucks, but I've just been kind of playing around with the software, and then I'm like, “Holy moly”, I had this like epiphany. They have so many filters, like I remember Snapchat filters, Instagram filters, but you go on TikTok, there's video filters, photo filters like, I can look white, black, my skin could change, my skin could be perfect, I could be toned, I could look skinny. So this whole time for the past year during COVID, I've been wasting time on TikTok, but if TikTok ever sponsors me, TikTok, I don't think it's a waste of time, I appreciate it, but it makes you realize nothing is real nowadays, like nothing at all. So this is the real me, whether you can see it or not, and you can definitely hear it, and I think we should embrace ourselves. I think that's what's lacking, and I think that's why we have you checking us and keeping us some honest here.0:05:32 S1: Getting you on video.0:05:34 S2:. I think what everyone in the audience needs to realize is that everything may be really produced and sound so great and you'll add music, but Patty here, is not only an entrepreneur and trying to change the world with her test and everything else, but she has kids, a dog, and then she has this backdrop, that's almost half falling off, but that's the reality is, it's actually Nurses Week and Healthcare Awareness Week, and I always try to give all the females that work in my office an extra kudos, I don't, I don't gender equal, I don't wanna get in trouble here, but it's amazing how you can be a mother, a wife and run what you're doing. I barely get up from my office and, so it is pretty cool, and I don't think you share it out, I think you should show your real you because of stuff, what you do is not easy, but you make it look easy.0:06:30.2 S1: Well, thank you for saying that. I think with, the women, why this podcast have gotten really narrow with my audience of women, mothers specifically, because we do care for our families, we care for ourselves, we care for our husbands, we care for partners, kids, and a lot of times our parents, which you had mentioned to me that your in-laws are coming, I think that we just naturally, we're gifted as being nurturers, we're inclusive, we're nurturing, we're empathetic, and sometimes it can be a burden that we carry. I think that it is a blessing to the world that there are women because we are like that, so I bet the women in your office like rally around you and take care of you. Is that true?0:07:19.1 S2: They do, they actually do. They know when I'm stressed out. They know when I haven't eaten anything. They go get me what I need, they can control my schedule up ahead, it's pretty amazing, like I am, so, I don't wanna say babied, but we have such a good mutually beneficial relationship, it truly is amazing. But you know what's also amazing is, I'm actually glad we're recording this now, 'cause you mentioned, we were talking about girl power and I have three daughters, so I'm all about it. But you know what's really interesting that really irks me is that Infertility Awareness Week is usually the same week as Mother's Day. It just kills me. You may not know this, but I think in May, it's Infertility Awareness Day or Awareness Week, and then you have Mother's Day and yes, this is geared towards mothers, but you may have people listening that want to be mothers and they're struggling. I actually sub specialize in infertility, the male side of infertility, and I would say dealing with a couple that has infertility is harder than diagnosing metastatic cancer in some cases, because it's such an emotional journey. But that being said, going back to the whole thing, I know I'm going off on a tangent, but I...0:08:26.5 S2: I think it's important to say, going back to the whole thing about what the realities of life are and how social media can really affect you, the first thing I put in my plan with these patients and these couples is get off social media and get off forms and stop reading. Because that, when you go online and hear about someone throwing a balloon off a helicopter to see if it's a boy or girl and doing these gender parties and they're going on vacation before they have a kid or celebrating birthdays, it can really take a big toll on you as a couple, and believe it or not, it's not your age, in many cases, it's not your habits, it's really stress, stress is one of the top risk factors for infertility, whether it's male or female, and what is the biggest stressor in our life, I would say right now, it's probably what we're looking at with their eyes and swiping with our fingers, which is social media, so I just wanted to kind of at least do some education with this girl power conversation that I started off and give you kudos, all the women out there that are trying to become mothers, and all the mothers out there, I think everyone deserves a big kudos.0:09:28.1 S1: I couldn't agree more. We just had a podcast episode about infertility and the struggles with infertility and what couples go through, and then loss of children as well.0:09:41.1 S2: Is this your way of telling me change topic of conversation, 'cause we've already talked about it?0:09:44.8 S1: No, not at all. I think that it is very important, and actually as opening, as I said, that we're narrowing the audience and really Checkable Health, a subject can be covered a dozen to 212 different ways, especially medically speaking, you can get very deep and get into medical terminology, and there's a lot of people out there that really wanna get that medical terminology, so as we continue to grow this podcast, we aren't gonna touch on one subject a single time, we'll touch on it multiple times, and I think hearing it from you as a urologist, hearing that as a father and an employer, it really resonates with me because topics shouldn't just be covered once and the content that we're creating, I want people to take their walk for 45 minutes and hear from a physician or a clinician or subject matter expert on something of their health that they didn't know prior to listening to it, it's entertaining, but more educational. 0:10:52.8 S2: So in this case for the women out there, going and getting an evaluation for infertility is extremely difficult, it's kinda like, “Where do I go?” So you as a female may be trying, trying, trying, and then you go to your gynecologist or obstetrician, and then from there, you may have to go to a specialist, usually the dude is the last person that's looked at it. But the reality is 50% of infertility is male factor-related and 50% is female factor-related, and so what's really changed in my field is a lot of the stuff that we do on dudes when they initially come see us, some of it's actually now in your own hands. So I got reminded of this, 'cause what you're trying to do, you're trying to do a home test that you can make healthcare more accessible for kids and families, in the same way we can actually make your guy's fertility status much more accessible and in your hands, no pun intended here ‘cause I'm gonna tell you what I'm talking about. So you can actually check a full semen analyses. So when we see a couple for infertility, I just do what the guy...0:11:57.8 S2: If the guy has a problem and if he doesn't have a problem or we don't know what's going on, we try to discover it. He comes in, we get a history, a physical. If he's smoking weed, we tell him to stop. If he's smoking, we tell him to stop. He's overweight, we tell him to exercise, but then we get into nitty-gritty, so we check the testicles and then we'll order some labs, we check hormones in testosterone, but the biggest thing that we do is a semen analysis, and that's where we actually take the entire ejaculate and look for sperm counts, and just all these details that we look at, that used to be miserable to do, you have to go to a lab and you're usually put in a toilet somewhere, sometimes a shared toilet, and you gotta go and wank off without lube or anything. And then you gotta rush that thing, but that's actually changed now, and I'm not paid by this company, I just think it's pretty cool what they're doing similar to what you're doing, is at home semen analysis test. They used to be like a gimmick, but the research, there's a research article that came out in a big name Journal of Urology, where they said that this at home test is one of the first tests that…0:12:55.7 S2: Is probably just as good as what you would do in my office. And that you can just buy online on your own, I think it's called meetfellow.com or meetfellow. You can just Google it, I don't know the exact thing, but it's been a game changer. My compliance rate with my patients, 'cause I just tell them, “Hey, just do it at home” has skyrocketed up, but you can actually do that if you're like, “Hey, you know what, we haven't started yet, but hey, let's just track or…”0:13:18.0 S2: If you have a concern, you can do that, and then your labs, you can actually just get your primary care doctor do it when you're seeing them and get the routine stuff, so you can kind of do the basic stuff on your own, and a lot of couples don't realize that, and that's where the fertility part gets delayed, and then you go from being 30 to 35 to 36, and then realizing your dude, his swimmers aren't swimming. You can start doing that early, that's just a little tip to avoid any hopefully frustrations for you guys if you're trying to conceive.0:13:46.8 S1: And emotionally for the female, we carry that burden of the infertility, like “Oh, it's me”, and then you get all of the ovulation tests and you're balancing your… 0:14:02.6 S2: Patty, I'm gonna stop right there. I'm gonna stop right there. Those ovulation tests are the…I don't wanna say anything 'cause I don't wanna get yelled at, but they're like, they're horrible. Yes, yes, you can measure and see when you're most fertile. Today, I saw two couples in fertility, one of them, they only have sex for three days the whole month.0:14:16.7 S1: Oh, jeez.0:14:17.0 S2: Right around that peak, and I'm like, “Dude, you should still be doing it”. So what I tell my couples is like, “Screw that ovulation thing and just do it every other day”, and my dudes, my dudes are like “Yeah!”0:14:29.3 S2: “Did you hear that? Can we do it three times a day?” But…0:14:33.4 S2: It becomes like a, it's just so sad because you're gonna be spending thousands of dollars and if you gotta do all these hormones and testing, you're gonna be spending, you're gonna be putting all these chemicals inside of you, when all you gotta do is enjoy each other's company every other day, don't try to be so perfect with the statistic, so yes, it's ovulation test and apps. They're great, if you're doing it great, but man, don't forget about each other and why you guys are together. It's not about having a baby, it's about that intimacy in that relationship, and so enjoy it, Enjoy it. A bang for your buck, as I say. That's gonna be edited out.0:15:10.9 S1: There are so many, what was the one that you said, “Screw that”, when you start with this. Exactly, you should be screwing more if you want, if you wanna get pregnant. Right, and it shouldn't be so stressful. So with that said of a urologist, let's stop for a second, because some people might not have ever seen a urologist, and I'll back it up another step, I'm actually having you on because as a wife, I have to do the encouragement and sometimes even the calling for doctor's appointments or, I have someone that, lovely works for me, and sometimes she makes embarrassing appointments for my family, but that is my, I feel like it's my role. So for my husband, we're looking for a new doctor for him. I'll set up appointments for him, you need to go do this, and then he just goes, and he doesn't set anything up for himself, and I would like to hear about one, What your view is on the frequency that a male should be seen by their physician, and two, when do you see a urologist? Because it's a specialty. And what does the urologist do? 0:16:29.3 S2: So first, the myths. Urologists only take care of men, no. I would say my practice, about 70% men, 30% females. Second myth is that we only take care of old dudes that can't remember half the stuff they're doing. That is not true, like I see everyone from 18 to 100. The third myth is that you have to always see a primary doctor first to see a urologist. I'm gonna be careful on demystifying that myth, you should always have a primary care doctor first, that is like your quarterback or your coach that navigate, that coach that navigates everything. We are a sub-specialty, but I'm actually seeing more and more, especially young millennial men, just bypass whole system and come see me directly, and then they want me to do all this screening testing, and I think some doctors like me won't accept them, but I just say, “Okay, listen, if we have an opening, let's take them”, and then I'll do the routine urology stuff they're concerned about but I will stress the need for a primary care doctor and I will actually, on their follow-up notes, notate that that's part of the plan is they have to commit to getting a primary care doctor, so I kinda use it as a way to...0:17:38.4 S2: Yes, get them what they need from a urology standpoint, usually some candy like Viagra, Cialis or they're worried about their testosterone, but then I make sure that they get engaged with someone else, so urologists are surgeons of the genitourinary tract, so we deal with all the medical and surgical issues from the kidneys and to the tip of the penis, or the tip of the urethra in women. We do all things like kidney cancers, kidney stones, blocked tubes that go down to the bladder, bladder cancers, overactive bladder is something I'm seeing more and more and more, especially in women, and then we deal with sexual dysfunction and testicle stuff and ball pain and other things, so I personally am based, I'm nine years out of practice, I'm in Orlando, part of the Orlando Health System, and if you go to myballshurt.com, it actually comes to my website. 0:18:30 S1: Are you serious?0:18:31 S2 Yeah, I own about 300 domain names that all get filtered and you'd be surprised that people aren't looking for urologist in Orlando, they're like, “Man, myballshurt.com”. I have some other raunchy ones, which I'm not gonna say, but hey, it brings the people in.0:18:46.5 S2: We actually are a sub-specialty, and it's a specialty that no one really knows about until you actually need one. I actually needed one myself when I had a kidney stone a year and a half ago. I couldn't take care of my own stone, but we do a lot, and we're actually very broad, but we are probably the specialty that's trying to get men healthy the quickest. And that's because we see problems as sometimes are irreversible, like they can no longer have erections, or now they have issues with scarring on their penis, and it's all bent another way.0:19:16.7 S1: That sounds awful. What is that called?0:19:19.6 S2: It's called Peyronie's Disease, that's abnormal curvature of the penis, and the company that has a product that we inject into the scar to open it up has a really cool marketing campaign, it's with the carrot and like a bent carrot. They didn't have that great, great marketing, but now, I'm like, “Man, this carrot thing is pretty cool”. But hey, it gets the guys in, but we do a lot and we've become kind of like the advocates for men because we have opportunities to engage men way more than other people or other specialties may. So I personally have made it a life's mission to change some of the statistics that men are dealing with in America. Men live 5 years less than their female counterparts. Men are 50% less likely to go see a doctor when they have an acute condition, men are full of excuses when it comes to why they don't wanna go see a doctor. If you look at the top 10, the top causes of death in America have changed since COVID, but if you look at, I think it's 9 out of 10, or now even maybe 10 out of 10 causes of death in America, men are more likely to die of these than women.0:20:23.7 S2: And it's because a lot of factors, we just don't engage healthcare like we should, we think we're macho, we're afraid of the prostate exam, not everyone that comes to my office gets a prostate exam guys. So our whole thing is to get guys more healthy, and there's many different tactics to do it, but it ain't easy. Dudes are not easy to get into, and I know that because I'm a dude myself.0:20:46.0 S1: And how do you motivate you though, because you can say something and I want a reaction right away. Like, “Well, you should go do this”. And then two days later, I'd be like, “Oh, Did you make that appointment?” “Oh no, I didn't”, and then it will be like two months and this appointment is still not made, so how do you motivate a male to see a urologist or see doctor just in general.0:21:16.6 S2: Well, there's, there's many different ways, tell them he's not gonna have any dessert until he goes and sees the physician, but I think what it comes down to guys is, listen, men really don't have as many opportunities as women do to engage healthcare. So birth control is more prominent in women. When it comes to birthing years, women have to engage healthcare professionals whereas dudes, until they're having trouble peeing or their erections go down, or they're having chest pain that you really don't see a purpose, but what men need to realize is at about the age of 20, you should start going and seeing a primary care doctor. That's when you kinda get the manual for your health. Once you get that manual, everything is kind of pre-determined for you based on science and research, so whether it's a certain set of labs every five years, visits every two years or something every single year, it's all kind of catered to you based on how much you weigh, your past medical history, your parents history, your family history, so the primary care doctor is pretty good about getting that. What happens is when you go in and see your primary care doctor for the first time at 50 or 60, it's very overwhelming, 'cause you've had 50 years of life that they have to dive into, why not just form a relationship and kind of get how the healthcare systems work early and then once you got that manual, you just follow it, that's all you gotta do. It's kinda like the car, like, “Hey, I gotta change my oil here, the light goes on here, then I gotta go do this”.0:22:47.2 S2: We through Orlando Health when we did, we have this campaign called the Drive for Men's Health, where we drive across the country every summer and we use really cool tactics to get guys talking, we actually did a survey one of those years, and we asked the question, as men, we found, remember their make and model of their first car more than when their last doctors visit was, so they know everything about their cars, but very little about their healthcare. So it's just getting them to realize, “Yo, this is a priority”, how you do that is the billion dollar question, which hopefully, we'll get someone like Elon Musk or Tim Cook to support me in my endeavors and help us figure all this stuff out much more quicker, so…0:23:33.8 S1: I think from the comfortability, this might be a really bad example, but when my kids were learning their own anatomy, there were friends that would, “Well, we don't say vagina, we say who-who or kitty cat”. I'm like, “It's a vagina. It's a penis. It's not your dingaling”. And they would giggle at first, and same with fifth grade, we are talking about anatomy and after you hear it a few times, you're more comfortable with it, and what resonated for me when you said women are more comfortable with the healthcare setting, especially if we've had children, then we've had to go in even just for that first child, those first visits are very uncomfortable, or when you get your first annual gyno exam. Uncomfortable, but then you're familiar. You know what it takes. And to me, when I hear erectile dysfunction, I'm thinking, “Well, how would, it's embarrassing”. And then how would you get over the hurdle of making that call of like, “Oh, I have, I might have a problem here”, and that's where the Romans and the Hims have made it where the barrier to entry is so low, but I'm curious of what your opinion is on that, because it might not just be erectile dysfunction, there might be some...0:25:05.0 S1: There could be something that's causing that erectile dysfunction, and it's important to get into your uncomfortable zone and actually go in and see a physician if something is happening.0:25:16.2 S2: Yes, so kudos to Hims and get Roman, all these companies, they really did open up access to kind of taboo medications and topics and treatments for the mass audiences, so definitely kudos, kudos to them. But at the same time, these are for-profit entities, so you go online, you fill out a questionnaire, and if you really know what you want, you can kind of fill it out in a certain way, then you quickly get an evaluation and then you get your drugs and usually in these things, it's more response, I'd say more of a subscription model, so you gotta get three months supply, where a Cialis is gonna cost you four bucks a pill, whereas you can go to your local grocery store using GoodRx. Yay, GoodRx, sponsor us! GoodRx is gonna be about a buck a pill. The biggest thing is, I think these things are great, but I see so many patients that go see these online things, get what they need, but then you're right, they're only gonna have to work up. If you're a guy in your 40s, and the only thing or only problem you have is erectile dysfunction, I'm gonna go send you to see your cardiologist to make sure your heart's okay.0:26:24.7 S2: Early onset erectile dysfunction is a huge warning sign for cardiac disease and heart attacks in the future. I send several guys a year to the cardiologist and you'd be surprised what they find and most they don't find anything, but hey, it gives us a peace of mind. At the same time, dudes will be started on, let's say, testosterone at super high doses, and they're in their 20s and now they're having infertility, these are all things that are on there when you sign your life away on all those pages. But there's so much more to it, and yes, it's easy to do that, and it's hard to get in with someone like me, it may be a several month wait, so it sucks, and I don't know how to fill that gap, but it's possible because we have virtual visits, and you can go see a virtual primary care doctor within a healthcare organization that has consultants that can kind of help out. I think it's kind of like when it comes to your body, you can pick any car you want, I'm not gonna name any brands, but you can get the top of the line sports car to take care of you and drive you around, or you can just go for the golf cart.0:27:34.1 S2: And I think when we take these easy ways out, like the golf cart may be great, but it's not gonna get you to your final destination, so I think this is one where even if it sucks and you're gonna suck it up, go and engage in a system that you're comfortable with number one. And there's lots of ways to make it comfortable for you, we'll go into that either now or in a different way. Go into the best first, where you're gonna have tons of resources open to you and to get evaluated.0:28:00.6 S1: Go into the best first, did you say?0:28:03 S2: Yeah, I would say go and if you have to wait a little bit to see a primary care doctor that's legit, just wait.0:28:09.6 S2: And get in there, don't just try to take the golf cart mentality where you just go online and quickly get whatever you need based on symptoms. Don't focus on the symptom, focus on you and your entire body. I think that's essential. So it's worth the wait because you only get one body.0:28:25.5 S1: I just had this conversation with my son, so I have two boys, 18 and 16, and I'm not sure if you've heard this from guys that age, but they really think that steroids isn't a big deal, and they wanna get big and have big muscles and be studly for when they get older, right now they do. And I say there are repercussions in doing that, and I'm wondering if you can elaborate on that.0:28:58.6 S2: I've been fortunate where I haven't had to deal with getting kids off of this stuff, I have heard stories of people being on them and with their kid, and some of the stories are pretty sad, it's kinda like you've got this peer pressure to be the best sports athlete, and then you want to appease your coach, and you want that cheerleader to look at you. I think as a kid, if you're taking steroids, that's one of the stupidest things you can do. I'd have no other way to describe it. Is it a defect on the part of you as a parent? No, 'cause sometimes you don't even know what's going on, but I think this is where it's essential, as we go off, just a quick tangent, you gotta have open communication with your kids day one. So as you mentioned like you, I'm just gonna use the words that are there and make sure that their biggest confidant is not some girl or we have to be equal here or a guy that they have a crush on, that it's always you. Steroids, yes, you can get those gains, but those are not everlasting gains. Once you stop, they're gone. But once you stop, you may have caused yourself infertility, you may have increased your risk of heart attacks and blood clots in the future.0:30:09.4 S2: Dudes that take steroids without prescriptions and try to get big, they're taking a lot of stuff, and what's really funny is when I tell guys this they just start laughing, and I'm gonna try not to laugh. When you take steroids or exogenous testosterone like yeah, your muscles may get big and your balls are gonna shrink.0:30:28.4 S1: It's true, it really happens.0:30:30.5 S2: You're gonna have small balls. Yeah, so you may have guns, that's where you can say the beach is that way and you can move your like man boobs left and right, so do you wanna be known as the guy with the small balls? It's true, and that's because when you take all this stuff, exogenously, your testicle thinks, “Woah, they don't need me, there's no use for me”, 'cause the testicle is where most of your testosterone is made. That's also where your sperm is made. So if you're taking exogenous stuff, then your testicle's gonna be like, “Alright, I don't gotta work” and it's gonna kinda shrivel up.0:31:01.1 S1: They get lazy.0:31:02.3 S2: They get lazy, shrivel up and say, “Buh-bye”, the testicle actually in most cases, stops producing sperm. You should not get into the habit of this now. What if you're a parent? How are you gonna know? There are kind of ways, I'm not an expert at this, but there are ways, 'cause when people are on these things, they may have mood changes, they may be super irritable, you may be like, “Yo dude, you never had acne in your life, and now you have crazy acne,” well, acne. You may notice that they're a little bit more swollen, they have fluid retention. So there's lots of different things that you can kind of look at, but I hope kids aren't doing this and if they are, then try to stop it 'cause it can be very dangerous for them now and in the future.0:31:46.4 S1: I completely agree. I can't wait until Will Post listens to this and he hears you say that.0:31:54.2 S2: Who's that?0:31:54.6 S1: That's my son. 0:31:57 S2: How old is he? 0:31:58 S1: He's 18.0:32:00.2 S2: 18, what does he wanna do with his life?0:32:02.6 S1: He's gonna be a entrepreneur, finance major, entrepreneurship.0:32:08.2 S2: You've determined that for him?0:32:09.4 S1: No, that's what he wants to do. We just went to visit schools. I actually want him to be like finance, econ, I'm like don't be an entrepreneur. That's crazy talk. But he wants to, so we'll see.0:32:25.6 S2: He has to follow in your footsteps. No, I think that's good. I think you're letting him kind of flourish, like I know, we have one daughter that wants to be a lawyer, one daughter that wants to be a doctor like me, and then we got one daughter that wants to be an artist. And so when she first said that to us, me and my wife were like... But we didn't how to engage that conversation because we're thinking like, “Okay, most of the artists we know, financially, everything else may be struggling”, but then my wife looked at, well, there's lots of artists that are thriving, they're doing better than us, so we kind of now encourage it, and let them do whatever they want, but it's hard I think being a parent. So I think if he wants to be an entrepreneur let him be an entrepreneur. I never thought I was gonna be a penis doctor.0:33:10.9 S1: When you were 18, you weren't like, “This is what I'm going to, this is what I'm going to pursue. Urology!”0:33:20.0 S2: I didn't even know what urology was until med school, I didn't even know it was a specialty. I personally knew what urology was, but I didn't know what urology was. No, I didn't even know the specialty existed, 'cause every, I'm of Indian origin, I was born in New Jersey. Patients think I'm not from America, but I am from America, I was born in New Jersey. New Jersey is a state in the United States of America. I know New Yorkers kinda don't believe in that, but when I was, most of my family was either cardiologists, like heart doctors or primary care doctors, so that's all I knew. Throughout med school, you do these rotations, and I fell in love with it, and now I made a career out of it. I just wish my mom could really explain to people what I do, but it's okay. I'm a kidney doctor, I'm like, “Mom, I'm a surgeon”.0:34:04.8 S1: Right, you're in the OR, how many days a week?0:34:09.3 S2: About two days a week, and I'm in the clinic about two and a half days a week.0:34:14.0 S1: We hope you enjoyed the first half of Patty's conversation with Dr. B. Make sure to catch the second half on the next episode. Thank you so much for tuning in to today's episode. We hope you got a lot out of it. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to our podcast so you can stay up-to-date with our latest episodes. Also, you can find us on social media by searching, Checkable Health. We look forward to seeing you again soon.

Shownotes If you are looking to jump start your life and persevere to beat the odds, this four part series is for you. Hear from Checkable Medical founder and CEO, Patty Post, as she shares personal experiences she's had navigating adversity. In this series you'll learn how facing self doubts and finding your inner strength allows you to take on any challenge. Patty Post is the founder and CEO of Checkable Medical. On episode 2 of a four part series, she details the danger of making excuses and how you can stop making them so you can start accomplishing your goals. After all, as Patty puts it, “excuses only sound good to the one making them.”Get connected with our community and learn more at https://checkablehealth.comTranscript0:00:00.0 S1: Hi, it's Patty Post, the host of The Persevere Podcast. And today, and for the next few episodes, I'm going to share some stuff about myself. And, these things are things that I have accomplished, challenges that I've gone through, and I'm gonna do it in an interview style, so they're gonna be our little minisodes, and I hope you get to know me a little bit more. And really the goal of it is, I wanna share some things that I've worked through professionally and personally, and how it's helped me achieve and become a better version of myself, and I hope that it helps you as well. So it's super easy, digestible, nothing is like rocket science here, and a lot of you will probably think they're great reminders, that's what I'm hopeful of. And I hope you think of this as, “Okay, I can do that too. If she did it, I can totally do it.” That's what I want to inspire you, to have a mindset that anything is achievable if you put hard work, dedication and consistency to it. 0:01:16.3 S2: Welcome to The Persevere Podcast, powered by Checkable Medical, and hosted by Patty Post, a female founder, entrepreneur, wife and mother of three, doing all of the things. The strength to persevere in business is powered by passion, grit and hard work. The Persevere Podcast is for entrepreneurs and business leaders who set out to innovate and change the world with their ideas, whether it's fund­raising your start-up, product development, marketing, branding, or scaling your existing business, this podcast is for you. We'll discuss everything it takes to persevere and build the business you've always dreamed of. Let's make it happen. 0:02:08.1 S1: Well hello everyone, this is Patty Post, your host of The Persevere Podcast. We are on mini episode number three, and, interesting topic today is, how to turn travel anxiety into a positive. I don't know if any of you know what travel anxiety is, but it's that nervous feeling that you get prior to going on your vacation, and it could be for fear of the unknown of where you're going, you've never been there before, or all of the things leading up to the vacation just makes you very stressed out, or maybe you need to pack for your family and yourself, and you get a little anxious over the outfits, and for a lot of women, we feel that way of, “Okay, what's my agenda for the week and what am I gonna wear?” That takes a lot to put that all in one bag, as well as I know my husband has a lot of anxiety just going through the airport, that is stressful for him. Getting his license out, getting the phone, where is he gonna sit, he doesn't like crowds. Leading up to vacation can be very stressful and anxiety-ridden, but it doesn't have to be a negative because you don't go on vacation to feel anxiety, so...0:03:31.3 S1: Let's get into it. The main reason why we go on vacation is because we want to detach, we want to relax, we wanna spend time with the people that we love and experience something new and create memories, and as a founder, you definitely need to detach from your world, that is ever-chaotic, and you go on vacation to get away. How vacation serves us as founders in a positive way, is that when we get away from the day-to-day activities, we can focus on creativity, that allows us to let our mind wander. We get a break. If you think of pulling a band, if you just keep pulling, pulling, pulling, you're gonna snap. This allows us, that band, to come back together, so that's our brain, that's our bodies, that's our nervous system, a time for our batteries to recharge, and that's why vacation is positive, especially for those of us that are founders. Some of the goals that I set for myself when I returned home are, I'm going to block time every day for writing, or I'm going to start exercising, I'm going to start eating healthy, I'm going to... It's always a fresh start for me, it's sort of like a new year when I come back from the vacation, and it just is like a clean slate, even if you're going in February, which I end up going vacation in February…0:05:17.0 S1: Every year, I look back on the first six weeks of the year and like, “Okay, did I even closely get to what I wanted to do in terms of consistency and discipline and goals in the month of January?” If I didn't, “Okay, where did I fall short?”, and intentionally write that down and I do it where I let my mind just bounce back and forth, and if I'm hanging on a subject, I know that I'm not at where I need to be, and that's something that I am going to activate when I get home, “Okay, I gotta do better at this, I've gotta get better at having intentional team meetings and allowing my team to connect, and I'm not hearing from Kayla, I don't know how she's doing, I don't know how her spouse is doing, I don't know how her life is going”. I think about those things, and if it comes up in my mind, then that means that there's a gap, and so I identify those gaps and then when I get home, I activate them and just in that first two weeks, I try to do that. So, I'm super intentional about it because in just a few days time, when I get back into the swing of things, I will completely forget about those feelings that I had while I was on vacation, so I activate on those thoughts right away.0:06:47.4 S1: I would say the biggest anxiety that I have before I go on vacation is all of the work that I did leading up to vacation, that huge to-do list, and taking care of all of those loose ends and making sure that there aren't any loose ends. I think that's what I get the most anxiety about is the loose ends. It's like, “Oh my gosh, how did I forget that? What did I not do? Did I give that person direction, what if someone reaches out for me and I'm not there”, and those are the kind of things that give me the anxiety, but I've noticed what happens is day one and two, I don't even start relaxing because I'm still thinking about what's happening back at home, or back at the company, or back with the people that work for me. And, instead of continuing to hover over those items, my best practice is I have created a space that is just myself. And in my notes on my phone, I will go for a walk, and I just think about all of the things that come up in my mind that I didn't do 'cause those first two days, I'm thinking, I'm still back at home.0:08:07.3 S1: So by doing that, I'm on my walk, I'm getting that energy out. I put the notes down and I label it, like random things from day one and two on vacation, and then I just write down the list. And then I'll put the little bullets next to it, so then when I get back, then I have this to-do list. It's almost like when you are wide awake in the middle of the night, the best practice is to one, take a melatonin from Checkable Wellness, two, is to write down what is going, running through your mind, what, get that hamster off of the wheel, and by getting them off of the wheel is writing down what you're thinking about, what's keeping you up, and sometimes it's sitting there for 45 minutes and writing it. So I will end up doing it a couple of times during the day, whether on my notes are just journaling, and those first two days, I don't allow myself to really think about anything of those to-do items. If I'm not intentionally thinking about it like, “Oh, I forgot about this, okay, I'm gonna grab my phone, I'm gonna write it down, and then I'm gonna close it.”0:09:24.0 S1: And that's just the best practice for me, so then I can be present with my family or with my husband, or even with my girlfriends, if I'm on a girlfriend trip. There was a time in this last vacation that I took in October to Indian Rocks Beach with my family and I was wanting to get to the next level as being an executive, and there was so much going on with people at the company with raising money with product, we were just starting our clinical trial. I physically didn't have the time to sort of level up and leveling up to me is really being enriched in a book or a thought leader and taking in a bunch of information and just learning, like I can't go and get my MBA right now, I'm getting it while I'm working at Checkable. But what I did is, I heard of a great book by Jim Collins called BE and it's Be Entrepreneur 2.0, and what I did was every morning I walked for an hour and 15 minutes and I was gone for six days, and I told myself, I am gonna take the first day to just do my walk with no sound, and then for five days, I'm gonna get into this book and then I'm gonna read it on the plane, and that's it.0:10:52.8 S1: And I did that and I felt so good about it because I turned off all of my, told my team, I'm not gonna answer emails, I'm not gonna do any work, and I'm gonna focus, and that totally allowed me to, I vividly remember a lot of his advice from that book, and I also vividly remember reading some of these and listening, I listen to the book as well as I have the book, some of these case studies, and I put them into motion right when I got back, and I also was very intentional about my sleep, intentional about my alcohol intake, and just was really healthy, I didn't make a ton of unhealthy choices, and that was the most progress that I had made on a vacation personally with my family, and then professionally, intellectually on that vacation as well as distress. I came back absolutely rejuvenated, invigorated and totally ready to crush the last 10 weeks of the year, which we completely did, and I felt like a really great leader for doing it. And I recommend anyone that is going on vacation to intentionally put together something that will make you feel good that you're gonna level up using that time on vacation as well as getting some fun and getting your family time in, you can have it all…0:12:36.3 S1: And to take a negative to a positive, that anxiety that holds us back and makes us feel icky and probably crabby with our family, turning it into a positive and putting in the work, you're gonna feel really, really good about it. My closing thoughts on this episode is vacation is worth it, and at Checkable we have a no vacation or an unlimited vacation policy, and unfortunately, it ends up where we don't take a lot of vacations, and that's something that I really encourage people to, even take the couples vacation, just a weekend trip somewhere, or some get away with your friends or even be by yourself and take that time. And it is good for your soul. It's good for the people that are around you, it's great for your company, and if you get that anxiety before you travel, anxiety is excitement and anxiousness is excitement. Nervousness is actually the same emotion as excitement, so take that and use it for a positive for your business, for your personal development, and make it holistic that you are going to come back, rejuvenated, excited and just ready to conquer whatever challenges that lay ahead of you after you go on your amazing vacation.0:14:13.2 S1: So with that, please, if you're on vacation, even as you're listening to this, or if you're planning a vacation, tag us @checkablehealth. We would love to see where you're going on vacation. I think those are the most fun things on social media when we see people's destinations. And follow us, @checkablehealth and me, @pattypostceo on Instagram and TikTok as well as Patty Post on LinkedIn. We'd love to hear from you, and of course, five stars if you loved this mini episode and we would love to hear from you. So with that, have a great vacation, and don't let that anxiety get you down, turn it into a positive.0:14:56.1 S2: Thank you for listening to The Persevere Podcast, powered by Checkable Medical. Head over to perseverepodcast.com for notes, links and additional resources from today's show. To continue hearing insights and gaining knowledge from those persevering, succeeding and making their dream a reality, be sure to subscribe through your favorite podcast app. Now go make it happen.

ShownotesReenita Das is an industry expert with over 25 years of healthcare marketing and consulting experience which include engaging with global clients and start ups to develop and implement growth strategies. Das currently serves as Transformational Health Partner and Senior Vice President and is the first woman Partner at Frost & Sullivan. In addition, she is the Founder of the Corporate GLOW (Growth and Innovation of Women) program.In this podcast episode, Patty sits down with Reenita Das to talk about all things FemTech, women's health research, the inequality between men's and women's health and how to make significant progress in funding the women's health sector.Key Takeaways:The importance of FemTech and the focus on women's healthThe lack of funding for FemTech companiesMost research is done on male subjects or cellsMore focus is needed on menopause and chronic diseasesHow to make a change in the future of women's healthFor more resources, check out our website.Follow Reenita on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reenitadas/Follow Reenita on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reenitadasTranscript:0:00:00.3 S1: This is the Persevere Podcast where we help founders create awesome products and not run out of money. Hi, I'm Patty Post, founder and CEO of Checkable Health. I started the Persevere Podcast because I experienced loneliness and solitude as a solopreneur. I had no one to turn to, and I couldn't find relevant content for high tech entrepreneurs, specifically in the stage of business that I was in. So like any true entrepreneur, I decided to go out and create it. Today, my guest is Reenita Das, she is a partner at Frost and Sullivan, and she has dedicated over 30 years of her career to researching the topic of women's health. She's coined the phrase “She Economy”, and she wants everyone to know that women's health products are not just a niche. We actually are half of the economy, we have more buying power than men. We make more healthcare decisions, and we have our anatomy that should be studied on our anatomy. She really talks about a lot of different things that we don't think about as the everyday consumer, but when it comes to research, things like the model that you're using in mice should be a female if your product is going to be for a female.0:01:27.6 S1: Most of our medical products are only studied on the male anatomy, and that has been done for decades now, and the tide is changing, but she really talks about how even today that the dosing amounts are on a male adult body, not on a female adult body. Males and females, we metabolize drugs differently, so therefore, should we be having the same dosing schedule as males? Really interesting things out of this podcast, we think you're going to really have your eyes opened to the lack of opportunities that have been presented to women's health, the huge amount of opportunities that there are for innovation, also the changes of how we think about the phases that a woman goes through. For example, menopause, we haven't studied it enough, we don't have enough information out there to accurately understand or predict what is going to happen to our bodies because it's not talked about, it's not researched. We end up talking to our girlfriends and that's how we get our information, our medical information, rather than going to the source. Reenita, thank you so much for your dedication to women's health, and not just in the US, but globally. She is definitely changing the health care for women, not just for today, but for generations to come. Really excited for you to take a listen, learn some things about women's health and really get active, and if you are an investor, invest in those female founders, those med tech opportunities that are in women's health. So without further ado, let's get into it with Reenita Das. 0:03:12.2 S1: Welcome to The Persevere Podcast, powered by Checkable Medical, and hosted by Patty Post, a female founder, entrepreneur, wife and mother of three, doing all of the things. The strength to persevere in business is powered by passion, grit and hard work. The Persevere Podcast is for entrepreneurs and business leaders who set out to innovate and change the world with their ideas, whether it's fund­raising your start-up, product development, marketing, branding, or scaling your existing business, this podcast is for you. We'll discuss everything it takes to persevere and build the business you've always dreamed of. Let's make it happen.0:04:10 S1: Hello everyone, this is Patty Post, your host of The Persevere Podcast. Our guest today is Reenita Das. Reenita is a partner at Frost and Sullivan, and her focus is on women's health and transformation of healthcare, she's super passionate about changing this healthcare landscape as I am too. Thank you so much for joining me today. 0:04:34 Thank you so much Patty.0:04:35 You are welcome. There's a couple of things I wanna say about Reenita. Reenita is the first woman partner after 25 partners at Frost and Sullivan, she is the senior vice president, and she is the founder of GLOW and GLOW is Growth and Innovation of Women Program.0:04:53.8 S1: And she's also on the board of a non-profit called High Tech High Heels, Silicon Valley, and it focuses on increasing gender diversity in STEM, and in the current role at Frost and Sullivan, she works on futuristic scenarios and forecasts in understanding how healthcare will operate 10 years from today, and working with clients specifically to help them change and how they will impact the trends and how they will change healthcare specifically in women, and she focuses on rethinking consumer business models as healthcare makes a transformation to health and identifying opportunities with companies outside of healthcare, to bring solutions to the health care sector. I'm so proud of the opportunity to meet with you, Reenita, this is gonna be a great conversation. Our pre-recording connection, we already got into some good stuff. So with that, let's get into it.0:05:54.8 S1: So Reenita, what is your work in history and research, specifically in FemTech? 0:06:00 S2: I have been working in women's health for almost two and half decades now. I really wanna say that we really never had any women's health till only a few years ago, and even there we're still on the edge. We're working in a system of healthcare that has been built by men for men, and we've never really taken a step back to really understand how women look at healthcare, what their needs are, how different those needs are to men, and how we want to consume healthcare, how we wanna be able to see our doctors when we wanna see it. All of this is not here to us, and a lot of my work today is really in helping companies understand how different the system of care would be for women compared to men. I've always been a very curious person, I always wanted to find a solution to big problems, and really finding my passion in women in healthcare was really an active… I wanted to always work in the space of human life and I came into consulting and advisory just by chance, simply because it looked very interesting, and eventually spent 25 years in this space, and I've had some amazing experiences working in almost 25 different markets, living in 10 countries, working with different cultures, emerging markets. Taken right now, I'm in Dubai, working in the Middle East, looking at the status of women here, so I really...0:07:42.5 S2: I have a lot of gratitude for the place that I reached right now in my career.0:07:47.5 S1: It's amazing. Tell us about some of the things that you are uncovering in healthcare in terms of women in our lack of, just our lack of opportunity, you mentioned before the call just about FDA, so can you share with us that story, I think that's a great starting point of exposing that, really we don't have representation in healthcare.0:08:11.6 S2: So it's very interesting when you start looking at medical devices and pharmaceutical products. We have 50% of the population by 2030. Women will make that 4.2 billion in the world of 8.3 humans, and yet still six years ago, the FDA did not even have a department or a separate office looking at women's specific products. So we did a lot of lobbying and championing work, and now they have an amazing department, we have been working with them for the last few years, we developed an entire blueprint, we want the areas and opportunities that the FDA really needs to focus on, and based on that, they have really crosstracked many new medical devices in terms of incontinence, pelvic health, some of the contraceptives, and I hope many more will come to the fight in the future.0:09:12.4 S1: Are you seeing that the big Fortune 50 medical device companies, are they growing out their women's health divisions or acquiring companies to have more of a focus?0:09:26.2 S2: I think the reality is most of the innovation in women's health is coming from the startup culture from women themselves that are founding companies. 80% of the FemTech… technology companies today are run by women, founded by women, and these are all small companies. The large mainstream healthcare companies have had women's health divisions, but really looking at it in a very traditional way. So now when I find a lot of is that many of these companies are wanting to learn what's happening outside, they wanna learn what are some of the digital products… how they can integrate some of these digital technologies into their current area of focus in terms of their disease area, so they are starting to begin to look at that. For example, one of the big questions that I look at is I study a lot of work in cancer, and if you look at the whole aspect of diagnosis of cancer, this in the United States, it's always very traditional… in hospitals or in clinics, but now there's a lot of focus on women-centered healthcare facilities which are only women that are more catered to the needs of women…0:10:42.4 S2: And a holistic basis, where… one part of it, but there's a lot of other mind, body and soul kind of products and solutions available there. So now, most recently, some of the Fortune 1000 companies are starting to wake up and say, “You know what? Maybe we need to look at these centers because our products…selling them into these centers”, so I think it's happening, but it's still very, very slow and not at the pace that we would like it to be.0:11:12.5 S1: How about research? Do you think research is happening at the pace that you want it to be happening?0:11:16.7 S2: Well, if you just look at digital health spending, and this is where the money is, in digital health last year in 2021, was 29 billion dollars spent into digital health funding. And guess what was the funding coming out for FemTech or female technology? It was roughly 5% of that 29 billion dollars, so very, very small. And so we still continue to be a step… less than 5% of the entire funding available, so that continues to be, even though we've grown, we've tripled in the last two years in terms of amount of funding, FemTech companies, we have one company that's got it to a… so all of that is happening, but it's very nice.0:12:05.9 S1: And that's surprising considering one of the top downloaded and utilized apps is Clue. It's my favorite app, it just sounds so weird when I first download it, and I was telling everyone about it, it seems so weird, and then I'm like, “Well, why would it be weird when I'm telling my friends, we all have, you assume you all have a cycle, and if you don't have a cycle then or it's intermittent, then you should be tracking it. These tools are amazing, and the access of these tools should be in the app store and we should be creating them, whether it's postpartum or whether it's, you're trying to get pregnant. Now, looking at something that I have joked about, and you probably know Dr. Somi Javaid with HerHealth MD, she was one of our guests and absolutely, just in so much awe of her and what she is going for in terms of research. We talked about the dollars spent on men's health versus women's health, and being from medical devices, the number of dollars that have been spent on the prostate versus the entire female body, can you talk more about that?0:13:18.9 S2: In my mind, it starts with the whole aspect of the mice. In clinical research in the lab. I don't know if everyone's aware of it, but most of clinical research, clinical research in the lab, when we work with animals or cells taken from the body of animals is male. So we start with a proposition that 90% of the work that this stuff is going to go to, when it becomes finished is to men. So the discussion needs to start from there, why are we not using female mice? Not clinical trials. They're not pre-clinical trials. We start with the mice. So I think that the dialogue needs to go to the mice.0:13:58.2 S1: And is it the same in pre-clinical research when you move to other animal models? Is it mainly male?0:14:03.8 S2: Absolutely, so I'll give you an example of, I don't know if you know the story of Ambien, the sleeping aid, but after 21 years of Ambien being in the market, 21 years it was in the market, and then the FDA suddenly realized that women were having serious accidents the day after using Ambien. And they decided to cut the tablet in half. This was 21 years after it was on the market. The original trials for Ambien was 100% male, there was not a single female on that trial. So I think the basis of all this inequity lies in the simple fact that we start the trial or we start the… with male mice and we use cells from male animals, but why aren't we using both genders in our scientific research. So when it starts from there, then it's too difficult to get women into a trial when the people... already on male mice. Another big example I have is a product to treat female sexual dysfunction, which is the product called Addyi. This was a product that was in the market for women, and it was found that women were taking the drug with alcohol and those women were having serious side effects. So after it being in the market for a couple of years, the FDA said that they wanted to do another trial with...0:15:31.1 S2: Looking at the side effects of alcohol on the drug. And the clinical trial was designed, and the study enrolled 23 men and 2 women. 0:15:39 S1: What?0:15:40 S2: That's a population of 92% men for a drug intended only for women. Women metabolize alcohol very differently to men, and so there's a huge impact. I have been talking about the vaccination that all of us have gone through. We are getting exactly the same dose of vaccination as our male counterparts. Have we not studied the impact of that on our bodies as we metabolize or hormone effects? None of that has been done. And all of us are vaccinated for the same dose. I do have good news. The good news is… trials now coming in, and we're gonna see many, much more of it and then COVID has really been a catalyst to get that going. I think we will be able to have much better health equity in terms of reaching out to Blacks, Hispanics, women in minority positions to be able to run women only trials because all this time, that was the biggest challenge. We couldn't get enough women or they didn't… so it was not possible, but now with virtualization, I think all the excuses have been cut, so I do think that we can see much more of a higher percentage of women being represented.0:16:56.4 S2: Good.0:16:57.1 S1: And it's shown that men will be fast to enroll in the trial, but then they won't go through the follow-on for the complete the trial for the two years, and it ends up being very problematic for these long-term studies, and that inclusion is important, especially in clinical research. We're doing a lot of marketing with our clinical trial, and I have to say it's the most fascinating piece of the trial for me personally, because how you reach people is so important, and we're now doing a translation into Spanish, which for a startup is challenging but it's so important because our population needs devices that are right for them, and if they're not able to read the instructions, why would they, they're not gonna benefit from it. And we want everyone to benefit from an at-home strep test specifically. But even our other products and women's health that we're bringing out, having them translated in Spanish as well, and that brings me to the piece of telehealth. You mentioned telehealth for clinical research, but what do you see as the opportunity for telehealth to help with women's health specifically and broadening that reach?0:18:20.7 S2: I think it's huge. I think it's huge. They will get better access. It's easier, women have very busy lives than to take care of their work, their home, their child. I think it will be able to fit in. We have found through our research that women don't make their appointments as much as men do, they don't take their medicine as much as men do, so I do think that with telehealth apps with constant reminders with messaging, instant messaging, we're really going to move to a model of healthcare, which is gonna be much more personalized, it's gonna be much more patient-centric, obviously it's gonna be ambulatory, the virtual…central care, and it's gonna be much more based on data or technology, transparent and seamless. So I think we're moving into a future of healthcare world, which is all, fits in with the needs of where women would like to see their health care going. We just need to have many more products that meet the needs of women, because a lot of the times today, all our work and effort is focused on the early stage of life, a woman's life, which is fertility, menstruation, pregnancy, and they're not putting in a lot of effort into the whole area of menopause, chronic diseases, which...0:19:38.0 S2: Which is 1 in 4 women are going to be over the age of 40 years in the US and the world. So 25% of the female population is going to be over that age, and would be much more help in products that are available right now. So we really have to change the dialogue and move it out of just the infertility market, or the menstruation market, and move it to the menopause and chronic disease market in studying. For example, brain health. We haven't studied the female brain. How is that different from a male brain? People just started studying that. Alzeimers, dementia, it's much more… when compared to men. But yet, we're only beginning to understand what that important, what those implications are, and menopause is a huge impact on all of these diseases in the future. Talking about the gaps in the education system, I did a study looking at, I think 200 medical schools across the world and looking at how many hours or how many months of people going for studying about menopause and it's really sad. It's less than three months. And this is one thing…population that has this disease. It's less than three months. So then what, if there is no one who really can talk to you about this or help you about this, then who do you go to?0:21:02.3 S1: Right, and the education, not being there, like for a startup, we're looking at launching a product, a vaginal pH test, and there aren't any out there, and something that we have to overcome is how do we educate and thinking of menopause, it's like my mom, she still doesn't really talk about her menopause. She jokes about it now because she's 81, but it's not something I'm talking to my daughter about, she's 11 about getting her period and what's gonna happen with her body. I really have no idea what's gonna be happening to me, I'm 42, and it's almost like a taboo topic too. I remember sitting at a meeting and a woman was like, “Oh my gosh, I'm so hot”, and I was like, “Oh, she's going through a hot flash” and she left and being 28, like what's going on with her? Why is she doing that? And it should be normalized, but we don't talk about those things, so how do companies like ours and others that are breaching the FemTech topic, we are up against the taboo topics that men don't want to talk about because it is uncomfortable, and then we're trying to get research dollars from them, and they're the ones that write the checks or make the decisions, and they're going to then subject themselves to being a part of uncomfortable conversations, and it just feels like it's a losing battle, and how do you inspire people like us that are trying to make a change?0:22:38.8 S2: Just keep talking about it. That's all I say, get on to all the big conferences and talk about menopause, not about infertility. I know infertility is a big problem, and it's also a big commercial dollar value for the healthcare industry, but menopause is equal, because the impact of meopause leads to so many other diseases. Auto-immune diseases, Alzeimers, dementia, could go into cancer, could go into chronic inflammation, which would lead to other diseases, so the list is endless. Endless, osteoporosis. And if you bring up a really good point, how do we learn about menopause? You don't really learn, once we start having these symptoms, we start discovering, oh my God, what is happening to me, and I do a Google search and I try to get as much help as I want or I talk to a girlfriend that I know who might have had it and that's the way we get information. 0:23:34 S1: Right.0:23:34 S2: And that's not the right way. That's not how we should be educating ourselves on this when it's already taken over our body. We need to know ahead of time, so then we are prepared, we can take action, we could have vitamins, we can change our diet, sleep better, we can exercise. Whatever needs to happen, we can be aware of it.0:23:53.4 S2: Not when it's prolonged. And I think that's the model of healthcare that we need to get to. We're in a model of sick care, when the symptom arrives, we address the symptom. But we need to get to the point where it's proactive care that we already know, and we studied the woman's body enough to know that this is how it's gonna come. And when it's gonna come, I can be prepared for that. So really, we need to rethink how we think about healthcare, the way we think about it, what that means, how should we be measuring outcomes of reality, and how do we look at it in a holistic fashion, it's physical health, it's spiritual health, it's social health, it's mental health. All of these things for me is healthcare. And then you know what you're saying is so right, because once you start doing the research to your symptoms, and Facebook is an amazing tool because you have all these groups now and they have followers of a couple of million on the menopause group, I'm in that group because I wanna just hear the comments and the communication that's going on, so that has really been one of the lifesavers for many, many women around the world, so I think getting onto these groups, getting a message out, is so, so important as a tool.0:25:05.9 S2: But then related to that is, now that you know you have it and you want to alleviate the symptoms, the healthcare system doesn't… in many countries of the world, menopause is not covered by insurance, including in this part of the world that I'm at. So if you have hot flashes, if you have night sweats, if you don't have any estrogen in your body, you have to pay money out of pocket to get the patches or the gels or the bio-identicals that you need, and it's even in many, many insurance systems in the US and many of the drugs are not covered, or the new… are not covered. The access to, even though you found out everything, you don't have access to it. And that's why I feel that the insurance systems now need to keep pace with the healthcare system of what they're looking at in healthcare, because if they're not covering these basic diseases of life, change of life, it's not really a disease, it's a change of life, but it has serious implications on our mental and physical and emotional health, which leads to chronic diseases later on, those need to be covered.0:26:20.1 S1: I even heard about a dry eye syndrome in women when they've gone through menopause and not understanding that there's a correlation, and there is a supplement that was being researched for dry eye in women, and they couldn't get women in the study, and they were only getting men and they ended up that they had so many men, and it wasn't making a difference, so they didn't get the labeling that they wanted to make the claim for dry eye for women in menopause or post-menopause, and so I'm hoping that that they get funding and they can go back in the trial, but that's just an example that I have that's fresh in my mind of, “Oh, I didn't even know that you would get dry eyes”, so maybe that's something that I should even be talking more about and I should interview my mom because my mom could definitely tell me, she was in Toastmasters at the time, she had me at age 40, and then she went through menopause, like 48 to 52, and so I imagine having an eight-year-old and then she had two sons that are in their 20s, she's in this crazy time of life, and you just brought up some things that maybe my mom isn't so crazy that...0:27:41.0 S1: She just was going through a lot at that time. 0:27:46 S2: The term pause, it shouldn't be a pause. It goes on sometimes for…years. Why is it a pause? 0:27:51 S1: Right. Yeah. 0:27:53 S2: I question that. Who invented the term?0:27:59.7 S1: Yes. So why now, the funding and interest in FemTech, Reenita, why is there this rising?0:28:09.6 S2: I think companies are beginning to understand with this whole focus on gender equity that starts in the workplace, the MeToo movement that happened a couple of years ago, all the presidential debates that went on that we need a woman President, Vice President. You know women have become the center of it all. We are in what we call the Sheconomy, and part of that Sheconomy is that emphasis, that health is very much part of that, and we need to start thinking about it. So companies are waking up to realize that they can't continue to run the system the way we are running it…they can make money out of it, so let's, let's run it. Most of them are focusing, as I said, on the spring of life, or when we are beautiful, when we're young, and we were able to procreate. So now we need to move the dial over to the second half of life, the autumn stage.0:29:11.3 S1: Autumn stage. I like that season. I love autumn, actually. That sounds very nice. I'm thinking that women live five years longer on average than men, that even the end of life, I think there's opportunity there for support of widows, and we're not gonna go into that space right now, but it certainly is something that, when I look at the numbers of how many widows there are that are in nursing homes, and could there be digital health there to help those women? Opportunities there?0:29:44.4 S2: It's a very interesting part because one of the things that I'm also working on is looking at actual real estate for women. Women only, real estate community homes. Women, there are many more divorced women today than there ever was in the last 10, 20 years, the rates of divorce. Single women, women who are not getting married, it's almost gonna be 45% of the entire working population of women that are gonna be single, and these women are not gonna get married so as they get older, they will have to have some kind of community to be able to live in. So what would that community design look like? How do we create a woman's only kind of community, which is a health, wellness, mind, body and soul space? For these widows as well as we talk about it. So that could be another huge growth opportunity in the future. …Based on needs and we design homes based on all of that. So it's a huge promotion opportunity, I see it in the future, especially when it's gonna be 25% of the population.0:30:55.5 S1: For the last piece, question that I have, or topic that I have is around the marketing of women's health and the messaging, and you being in Dubai where you're saying there's a lack of messaging and awareness at all, where in the US, it just seems so skewed like a tampon commercial gives you the freedom to feel great and go ride a horse and play beach volleyball is, that's what we see on commercials, when in reality, your first, it stinks to get your period, you don't feel great, so it's not represented accurately I don't think. And I'm curious how, what are you seeing to change that and how can you leave us with an inspiring message to create these campaigns that are relatable and educational and fills with the reality of what it is.0:31:49.9 S2: I think we're getting more and more authentic campaigning and advertising. In the past is all about selling the dream. That's why we enjoy looking at this advertising because you know, we could look like that and could be as beautiful as that if we used the product. Or lose 20 pounds in one night or whatever it may be. It was all about selling the dream, and I think for healthcare, yes, selling the dream…but I think we also have to be very realistic, selling that dream, maybe package it in a different way. I think today we're seeing many more women of color on commercials than we've ever gotten. We're seeing more LGBTQ area, we're just beginning to understand them, we don't have any products or solutions around that. I'm starting to look at conferences and events that we can have separate sessions of how do we deal with. We don't even understand the whole aspect of transgender and the effect of hormones on that…So there's so much work that we need to do. So going back to your question on messaging, we need to make it more holistic, we need to make it more mainstream, more representative, so everyone feels included in that and taking real voices.0:33:08.9 S2: I think that's the best thing, and that's why I love Facebook with the ads on Facebook, because we actually have testimonials of people who have used, their stories, and that's what makes it inspiring when you can see the difference, that you can see the impact.0:33:21.8 S1: I agree. I'm gonna have to join some more Facebook groups now.0:33:29.6 S2: Today we're doing a lot of consumer research through Facebook groups, and it's completely unsolicited, it's unadulterated… I think every single FemTech company is collecting data, and they're following patients. So I think because they're all female-founded and small, they're being able to do that and collect from the Cloud, how to build that up and get to that stage of actually building and making an impact, that's gonna take time. But I do, I'm very, very optimistic that we are moving in on a database basis for healthcare, and so far there wasn't anything like that before, and we're getting actual female data, which we never have. So that is a huge change I see for our daughters maybe. That they won't have some of the issues we've faced, because they will have 20, 30 years of solid data behind that, and this is the first time I think in our entire history that they're connecting, only women do that, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's a...0:34:38.7 S1: Makes me think of what we're doing in our nutraceutical line, that maybe we should be going to the menopause space.0:34:48.9 S2: Lots of opportunity, lots of products as well. On Facebook and find that… I don't know how good they are so that's the other challenge that I have. There's so many nutraceuticals out there, you really don't know what outcomes are you spending so much money out of pocket and buying them, but you don't know, because they're not…or they don't go into any regular process. So we really don't know.0:35:12.4 S1: I have a low creatine and testosterone in my last, my blood work that I had, and so I'm taking creatine twice a week, but it sure would be nice to have a creatine that was marketed to women and that, both of those happen when you are going into menopause or perimenopause, and they both are low, typically simultaneously so I haven't gotten the testosterone pellets or anything like that yet. I'm still researching all of that, but that could be an area of opportunity for us, all based on the personal need that I'm an entrepreneur that believes if you see a gap or if you use, have a product and you think you could do it better, go out and do it. And it seems that FemTech is the space to do it, and it's such a driver, it helps you get up in the morning. I mean for me, of all the products that I do, it's okay, I can do this better, I'm gonna do it. And I appreciate you and your research of 25 years in this space, Reenita, I hope that when we come out with a product that I can send that to you and I will do you proud with what we've put together on our digital and our product, because we just have so much respect for you.0:36:33.1 S1: So thank you for all of the work that you do for us and further women's health, you're making generational differences in what you're doing.0:36:40.7 S2: Thank you so much, Patty. Your work is very inspiring and I would love to see what you're gonna come out with next so I'll wait with baited breath.0:36:49.7 S1: You'll be the first for the samples. Yes, great to meet you. Thank you for joining me today on the Persevere Podcast, and make it a great day and yay for FemTech. Let's just keep going. Keep your head down, ladies. 0:37:03 S1: Thank you for listening to The Persevere Podcast, powered by Checkable Medical. Head over to perseverepodcast.com for notes, links and additional resources from today's show. To continue hearing insights and gaining knowledge from those persevering, succeeding and making their dream a reality, be sure to subscribe through your favorite podcast app. Now go make it happen.

Shownotes:Patty Post is the founder and CEO of Checkable Medical. On episode 1 of a four part series, she shares personal experiences where she faced challenges where she reached a point and had to make the choice to preserver through reach her goal.On this episode she shares her experience running a marathon in a mustard costume. Whether it be rain or shine or any other obstacles she faced, she shares how she kept her head in the game, trained her body and her mind, and ran the race.Go to checkablehealth.com for more great content!Transcript:0:00:00.0 S1: Hi, it's Patty Post, the host of The Persevere Podcast. And today, and for the next few episodes, I'm going to share some stuff about myself. And, these things are things that I have accomplished, challenges that I've gone through, and I'm gonna do it in an interview style, so they're gonna be our little minisodes, and I hope you get to know me a little bit more. And really the goal of it is, I wanna share some things that I've worked through professionally and personally, and how it's helped me achieve and become a better version of myself, and I hope that it helps you as well. So it's super easy, digestible, nothing is like rocket science here, and a lot of you will probably think they're great reminders, that's what I'm hopeful of. And I hope you think of this as, “Okay, I can do that too. If she did it, I can totally do it.” That's what I want to inspire you, to have a mindset that anything is achievable if you put hard work, dedication and consistency to it. 0:01:16.3 S2: Welcome to The Persevere Podcast, powered by Checkable Medical, and hosted by Patty Post, a female founder, entrepreneur, wife and mother of three, doing all of the things. The strength to persevere in business is powered by passion, grit and hard work. The Persevere Podcast is for entrepreneurs and business leaders who set out to innovate and change the world with their ideas, whether it's fund­raising your start-up, product development, marketing, branding, or scaling your existing business, this podcast is for you. We'll discuss everything it takes to persevere and build the business you've always dreamed of. Let's make it happen. 0:02:07 S1: So with that, let's get into my first topic, which is the time I ran a marathon in a mustard costume, and yes, I did say that, a mustard costume. I was compelled to sign up for a marathon because it was the first of the year, and I had just lost a bunch of baby weight, and I was already gotten through some yoga certifications and had great work with business and I felt like personally, I was in a good spot, but I needed to push myself. And so, why wouldn't I sign up for a marathon on January 3rd in Minnesota when the marathon was in June? And that made it a challenge in and of itself, because I knew I'd have to train in the winter months, and it was far enough away where I didn't think of, “Oh, this is gonna be a marathon. This is gonna be a lot of work.” So that crazy, super optimistic part of me came in there as well. Going through a marathon was impactful on my mental toughness in a variety of ways. One, having to wake up in the morning and get my training done so then I could get to work via mom, especially on the weekends, having my kid's sporting events to go to, and then a social life and be a wife during the week, having to travel for work and be sure to get my runs in, I just really had to remind myself that I had something that I wanted to achieve, and I let those feelings of excuses of giving myself permission to not do it, I wouldn't let myself give myself permission not to do it.0:04:03.5 S1: My training runs specifically. So how did I keep myself accountable? I kept myself accountable for not giving in and not choosing to go with what my feelings were… two different ways. One, I would write it down and say to myself, “You are going to do this, you are running”. I put my calendar together of what I was running for the six months and I wouldn't let myself waiver on that. And then the other thing that was even more impactful is I had a running coach who is my friend, and she is the one that I signed up for the races with and she had no problem saying, “Oh, it's raining? That doesn't matter. Your hair's gonna get wet. Oh, your shoes are waterproof.” Or, “Oh, you have your period? Yeah, that means that you still can run,” and she was unwavering in letting you make excuses, and so she is a track coach, she had run, I wanna say over 100 races in general, and over 50 marathons, and so she knows what it's like on the other side, of like, “Yeah, you're gonna, it's gonna suck, but you're gonna have to do it.” There were so many different challengesthat came up along the way, and one of them that I remember right now, the biggest challenge when it came to the training was just being consistent. And especially when I traveled, I had an interview that took me to Las Vegas and it was the day that I had to do a half marathon, and there was no way I could do it the day before.0:05:55.9 S1: There was no way I could do it the day after, and so I had to do it when I was in Vegas. And so I got up early, I went on the run, and one, I wasn't used to that dry heat, and two, I wasn't used to all of the stairs in Vegas, 'cause you know how you have to run up and down over the main strip and, so after flying, I had gotten really dehydrated. My calves were cramping up like crazy, and I was wearing these heels for my interview and I had to stand for a couple, almost a couple of hours waiting for this interview to happen in a hotel, and I ended up having just bad cramps and it kinda wrecked my body. So after that, to continue training when the marathon was only two weeks away, took tons of time, and I had to foam roll and go to the physical therapist, and I knew that I needed to do that race though. So it was always just thinking about, “Okay, what is it that I want to accomplish and always being super vigilant to that.” So one of the things to overcome when you live in a Midwest climate is the climate itself, and if you have to do your trainings outside. And, you just have to get over it by being prepared.0:07:26.9 S1: So I hear a lot of people be like, “Oh, I could never do that. I could never live in the Midwest.” Well, you can do anything that you put your mind to, and you definitely can do it if you are geared up. And so it's almost like doing a podcast. Well, yes, anyone can do a podcast, grab a mic, grab some headphones, there you go. You can do a podcast. Same with the marathon and running in the climate of the Midwest, so Minnesota, it was 20 below literally when I did some of my first runs in January and February and... Did I do them? Absolutely, but I had to wear mittens instead of gloves. I had to wear, sometimes six layers. I had to wear a jacket that would not take in snow, and so it was almost like a rain coat. I had to wear multiple leggings. you have to get shoes that are for snow. You have to have Yaktax that are, make it so, you put them on the bottom of your shoes and then you don't end up slipping. So anything that we do, I really like to go back to that scenario of gearing up for my training in the winter time, because I geared up and then I could do it.0:08:47.8 S1: And if we are armored up, if we're geared up in anything in life, I think we can totally accomplish it, and I didn't let those... I didn't let the cold be my excuse. So, you don't prepare for marathon day to be icky weather, and we wake up on marathon day and it's raining, and it's cold, and it's supposed to be the middle of June. What the heck? Why is it 40 degrees? So we have our costumes on and all we did was take some garbage bags, put some holes in them, and we ended up running the first few miles in torrential rain, it was crazy. Like, think thousands of people starting, you're all one before you start. You're waiting to go to the bathroom. I've never seen so many porta-potties lined up at this race, and then the line standing in the rain, it just is like thinking back, we all were crazy. So that in and of itself, even before the race started, there was a setback, and then we got through the rain, and then the sun broke the clouds, and we come over by Lake Superior, so this is Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, and suddenly it was super hot and it was like, “Okay, now we gotta take off the layers”, while you're still running, and that was mentally the hardest thing for me to get through the ups and downs. 0:10:23 S1: I just want, like can you please just give me some consistency here, like I just wanna run my race. But, I think it's a great analogy of life of, no, there's not gonna be consistency. Nothing is like the1­, 2, 3 or X, Y, Z, how it's supposed to go. You're gonna get stuff thrown at you and have the mental toughness and the positive attitude to keep going. I really, really wanted to quit at the end, because Grandma's Marathon is really known for an area where there's tons of fans, and it is so fun and amped up when you are running down that main Lake Avenue, and there are so many fans and they're partying and there's music, there's kegs of beer. The best thing that I had was I had a piece of bacon and then a half a glass of ginger beer, and I distinctly remember that tasting amazing. Well, you go past Lake Avenue and then there's a couple more miles where it's pretty industrial, you go through downtown. And there are no fans. And I was waiting for my husband, and I'm like, “Where is he? Why, I thought he was gonna come cheer me on here, he was supposed to be at mile 21”. Didn't end up being there or maybe it was like mile 23, and he couldn't get a parking spot.0:11:47.0 S1: So, I was feeling like I wanted to stop, and this is where I was so glad that I was with this group of ladies, there was four of us together, and having them... “Don't stop, keep going.” It's sore. Your muscles literally start cramping up, right, and your feet, you're like, “Am I even wearing any shoes anymore?”, and I wanted to stop so bad, but then when it got to that last mile marker, just something changed in me, and I saw my husband and then my cousin's husband, I'm like, “Okay, yeah, we gotta do this for them,” and they kind of ran through the end with us. And I must say, so we all wore costumes and that definitely helped with the excitement and amping the whole thing up for us. So as a group, we decided to dress up in costumes, and our friend who is that experienced marathon runner, her experience is, if you are wearing a costume, you're gonna get people cheering for you, it's gonna get you excited. So, she already had a hot dog costume. I happened to have a mustard costume, and then my other friend had a relish costume. Our fourth partner, she was unwilling to wear a costume, it was her first marathon and she's like, “I'm not gonna wear a costume”, and it was so fun.0:13:08.6 S1: Every half marathon that we did, every race leading up to Grandmas, we all had that costume, so people just love it when you're wearing, and I think the tu-tus are fun, I think having shirts are fun, but this is just like a next level where the people really hadn't seen it. And it's great to get encouragement from others, and I highly recommend going in with your running group and doing something crazy like that, to stand out a little bit. The biggest take away is if you desire to do something and you tell yourself that you are going to do it, do not let yourself talk yourself out of accomplishing it. It's going to be hard. You are going to want to make excuses, you're going to tell yourself, give yourself permission not to. But everything that you do every day when you put out your energy to the world or your prayer, pray for that accomplishment and to have strength to do it, because since then I have really been able to tighten up my goals and tighten up my self speak to myself as well, and be more hard on ourselves. There's nothing wrong with being hard on yourself, and there is nothing wrong than reaching for the stars, and for me, maybe someone else it's a 200 mile race or 300 mile race.0:14:42.6 S1: For me, it was that Grandma's Marathon, and from there, I just feel like, “Well, I did that. Why can't I do this now?” So for anyone listening that, if I said that and something comes to mind for you, write it down, give yourself a date and do it. And don't let yourself make excuses for not doing it because you are a strong person, you are beautiful. Whether that's writing a book or maybe a certification, doing a business, I say, go after it because it is worth it and you are worth it, and you will never regret it. So if there's anything that comes to your mind that you want to accomplish, if it's writing a book, if it's going after a business opportunity, maybe a certification oreven traveling somewhere and climbing a mountain, write it down and give yourself a date and don't let yourself not do it. Even if you have to push that date out, that happens, but don't give yourself permission to not do things. Give yourself permission to do it and be your best coach because you know yourself better than anyone else. 100% believe in yourself. That's what I want is the takeaway of this whole podcast today. If you got anything, believe in yourself 100%.0:16:15.0 S1: So that's my story of running Grandma's Marathon in a mustard costume, and I hope that you were able to get a couple of nuggets that inspired you, and if you have any questions for me, you can always send me a DM on Instagram or TikTok at Checkable Health. I also am on LinkedIn and you can send me a message and follow me, and I'd love to see your pictures, tag me in your pictures of when you finish a marathon or when you accomplish something awesome. Even if you have something in mind that it's something you wanna go after, put it in your story, and then tag me, @pattypostceo, and that's a way to tell the world that you're gonna go after something. And I would love that. I'm even gonna start doing that, so with that said, go out and set big goals, 'cause I know that you can do it. And give this episode five stars 'cause we wanna catch that algorithm on Spotify and Apple Podcast. Write a review, I'd love to hear what you think. Thank you so much for listening.0:17:25.6 S2: Thank you for listening to The Persevere Podcast, powered by Checkable Medical. Head over to perseverepodcast.com for notes, links and additional resources from today's show. To continue hearing insights and gaining knowledge from those persevering, succeeding and making their dream a reality, be sure to subscribe through your favorite podcast app. Now go make it happen.

Our guest: Patty Post, Founder & CEO at Checkable MedicalIn this episode, we discussed: Post's background The what, how, and why of Checkable Medical The first-mile problem of healthcare What's next for Checkable Medical   Our sponsors for this episode are BlocHealth, Curation Health, ChenMed & MediTelecare.BlocHealth is building the ecosystem of services and solutions to power the future of healthcare. For more information, please go to www.blochealth.com & follow BlocHealth on social media - @blochealth"Curation Health's advanced clinical decision support platform seamlessly integrates into the electronic health record and leverages more than 750 proven clinical and quality rules. With this intelligent point-of-care platform, you can power a scalable risk adjustment process and amplify quality program performance." For more information, please go to www.curationhealthcare.com & follow Curation Health on social media - @curationhealth"ChenMed brings concierge-style medicine and better health outcomes to the neediest populations – moderate-to-low income seniors with complex chronic diseases. For more information, please go to www.chenmed.com & follow ChenMed on social media - @chenmed"MediTelecare provides behavioral telemedicine services to residents of skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, using state-of-the-art telehealth technology." For more information, please go to www.meditelecare.com & follow MediTelecare on social media – @meditelecareTo learn more about Checkable Medical please use the links below:- Website - LinkedInAlso, be sure to follow Slice of Healthcare on our social channels:- Website - Facebook - LinkedIn - Twitter - YouTube - Newsletter

If you have the burning desire to see your idea through to fruition. If that's your mindset, then things are going to happen to allow you to make it happen. This feeling is what nudged Patty Post and her family to uproot from their home in Minnesota to make the move to North Dakota and start her company Checkable Medical.Learn how moving to North Dakota has opened doors for her business and helped foster an abundant environment for both her family and her company to thrive.SHOWNOTESLearn more about Checkable Heath at checkablehealth.com

What does it take to develop an FDA approved at-home strep test? Listen as Patty Post, Founder & CEO of Checkable Medical, shares her journey. On this episode of #TheKaraGoldinShow Sponsored by - Such A Voice - Visit SUCHAVOICE.COM/KARAGOLDIN and receive a complimentary copy of Such A Voice's ‘Must Knows of Voice-Over' Enjoying this episode of #TheKaraGoldinShow? Let Kara know by clicking on the links below and sending her a quick shout-out on social or reach out to Kara Goldin directly at karagoldin@gmail.com Follow Kara Goldin on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karagoldin/ Follow Kara Goldin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karagoldin/ Follow Kara Goldin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/karagoldin Follow Kara Goldin on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KaraGoldin/ Check out our website to view show notes: https://karagoldin.com/podcast/244 List of links to resources mentioned in episode, suggested reading & social media handles: Join a Study: https://www.strepteststudy.com/ Visit the Checkable Medical Website: https://www.checkablemedical.com/ Connect with Patty on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patty-post/ Follow Patty on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pattypostmn/ Follow Patty on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pattypostmn Follow Patty on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/patty.gaslinpost

f you're looking to access your inner powerhouse potential, today's episode is for you! I'm chatting with my friends and partners at Checkable Medical CEO and Founder, Patty Post and Marketing Operations manager, Lora Larson. Both of these women Inspire me to live my BEST life every day. They've helped me see that life is happening NOW, not tomorrow, not next year, not in the near future, now. I hope my conversation with them fuels you forward in all you do. Patty Post is a medical device innovator and CEO/founder of Checkable Medical. Patty spent the last decade executing multi-million dollar contracts with health care systems and medical technology companies. Directly involved in first-to-market technologies and their rigorous processes, Patty cultivated a high-caliber network of fellow medical device professionals. After nearly 10 years as a medical commercial consultant and clinical research executive, Patty has developed a deep understanding of the medical device market. These experiences lend themselves as assets in the evolution of Checkable Medical and position Patty to overcome roadblocks women-owned and run businesses traditionally encounter in male-dominated fields. Lora wants to make a difference for women and families by helping make simple healthcare accessible to all through the work she does for Checkable Medical. She is passionate about issues facing women and works to make the world a safer and more equitable place for feminine presenting people to live. She resides in her adopted and adored city of Fargo with her husband Jacob and absolutely spoiled pup Barkley.

Tune in to hear from three moms and their experiences at different stages of parenting. Motherhood is rewarding, yet brings challenges. You may be asking yourself, what am I suppose to do? We've got stories of motherhood from the moms of Checkable Medical. Whatever stage of motherhood you are in, be sure to tune in.This episode is packed with tips, tricks and experiences from mom's from a variety of walks of life.Patty, Melissa and Erica expand on their experiences of motherhood and share resources and advice they've learned along the way. Whether you're a brand new mom, or are dealing with kids in their teens, this episode has something for everyone.Key Takeaways• Navigating different stages of childhood• Resources to help you be the best parent you can be• Exploring discipline methods• Navigating the challenges of having teenagers• Balancing social media and tech• Share in the joys of being a momWELLNESS ESSENTIALS SHOWNOTES: https://www.wellnessessentialspodcast.comCHECKABLE MEDICAL INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/checkablemedicalCHECKABLE MEDICAL WEBSITE: https//www.checkablemedical.com/

Waiting around at the clinic just to be told to go home and rest is frustrating. This episode's guest has found a way to get reliable test results without going to the doctor's office. Patty Post is the Founder and CEO of Checkable Medical, a North Dakota-based startup that is developing an at-home, over-the-counter rapid strep test, and rapid COVID antibody test. Tune in to hear the future of rapid testing and how she is building her new business. FOLLOW LADYBOSS MIDWEST:ladybossmidwest.com // FIND US ON INSTAGRAM @ladybossmidwest // LEARN MORE ABOUT FLOW: THE LADYBOSS RETREAT: ladybossmidwest.com/retreat

There are a lot of podcasts out there and a lot of content. We realize this, so our vision in creating the Wellness Essentials Podcast (WE Podcast for short!) was to create a space where women could come as their authentic selves and be a part of a community that supports them in their health journey in all ages and stages of life. We want to provide women with engaging entertainment with actionable steps to take as they face everyday life. No topic is off-limits when it comes to health and women's lifestyle.  By hearing real, raw conversations and teachings from experts and everyday women who have been in your shoes, we feel you'll be encouraged to make things happen -- and have the tools to do so! In this first episode of the Wellness Essentials Podcast, Patty Post, founder and CEO of Checkable Medical introduces the powerful and passionate team behind the WE Podcast and Checkable Medical. Hear the team's heart and get to know the women you will be hanging out with in the months and years ahead. And find out what to expect in the knowledge-packed episodes to come! Cheers to living your healthiest and happiest life!WELLNESS ESSENTIALS PODCAST SHOW NOTES: https://www.wellnessessentialspodcast.com CHECKABLE MEDICAL INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/checkablemedical/ CHECKABLE MEDICAL WEBSITE: https://www.checkablemedical.com/

Patty Post is the owner and CEO of Checkable Medical! Patty talks with us all about her career path and starting her own business. Patty has a full line of supplements to help with a variety of healthcare needs. She also talks with us about her goals and hopes for changing healthcare and making a positive impact in females, mothers and anyone looking for more accessible health at home. Use discount code: CupofQueens Supplements: https://www.checkablemedical.com/products-2/productshttps://www.checkablemedical.comhttps://www.facebook.com/CheckableMedicalhttps://www.checkablemedical.comInstagram: @cupofqueensFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/cupofqueensWebsite: https://sites.google.com/view/cupofqueens/home?fbclid=IwAR19XF68UvygkGDfRf1Hgja6WHXRZ7DjYgYavwWDZ_z5S6f3qejMm4ZeQEI

In this episode, Patty and Duane discuss her new company, why she chose North Dakota as the headquarters of her company, how she captured non-dilutive capital, clinical usability studies, developing your pitch, how your pitch should evolve, and more. Patty Post LinkedIn Checkable Medical Website Duane Mancini LinkedIn Project Medtech LinkedIn Project Medtech Website

In episode 9, Patty chats with Tom Lemberg, the CEO of Curebase, a leading software platform for decentralized clinical trials. Tom's platform takes medical research out of the traditional academic setting and brings it to patients everywhere so that they can participate at home and with their own doctors. The model dramatically accelerates the pace of research while expanding diversity and increasing equal access to ground-breaking medicines. The platform guides patients through the entire clinical trial and reinvents clinical trial software for a model that puts patients first and uses real-world health data. Much like what Checkable Medical is doing by creating a company that allows patients to get care from wherever they live and eliminate the unnecessary roadblocks in getting the right care at the right time. Key takeaways from the podcast: How Curebase is changing the game of healthcare and clinical trialsHow access everywhere allows for diversity in patients and better statistical outcomesHow virtual clinic trials help with retention for longer studiesWhy it's important to put patients firstHow COVID helped with Curebase's Series A raiseWhy it's important to think about a hiring plan before a raiseWhy you should be open to hiring good talent located anywhere in the worldHow creating an engaged team and shared culture promote company growth and innovationPut on your headphones to become inspired and learn more about how Tom and his Curebase team are changing healthcare and impacting lives! Connect with Tom on LinkedIn, Twitter, and via email at tom@curebase.com!

Welcome to the StartupBREW Fargo Podcast! This week we heard from Patty Post with Checkable Medical!Checkable Medical's mission is to empower individuals to make clinical, evidence-based decisions from the comfort of their homes. Checkable Medical is focused on delivering innovative at-home diagnostic testing to employers and individuals.Visit our website to learn more about StartupBREW Fargo!

In episode 3 of the Persevere Podcast, we welcome Matt Smyth of Headland Law. Matt is Checkable Medical's patent attorney and general counsel. As an electrical engineer, Smyth designed hardware for telecom companies. He later decided to go to law school because of his interest in patent law. He then worked for a large intellectual property (IP) firm, Fish and Richardson, for many years before spending a decade at Honeywell's legal department managing their global patent portfolios. Matt decided to repackage his law experience and engineering skillset to help medical startups set their foundations in IP. With this goal, he founded Headland Law & Strategy (headlandlaw.com).Patty and Matt start the conversation by discussing why a statement of work is important when working with contractors. The bottom line, it's clarity. Clarity around what the startup wants and what the service provider will deliver, on what timeline, and for how much. Patty shares her experience about how difficult it has been to work with contractors to define a scope of work for something that has never been done before or isn't completely defined. Matt suggests having a solid team of advisors to help a founder define the different phases of a project and all milestones that can be reached. Breaking projects into small pieces allows for each party to clearly understand each phase of the project and a smoother working relationship with the contractor.Matt weighs the pros and cons of hiring on a fee structure versus hourly structure. He believes a hybrid model (combining hourly work and fixed fees) is the best way for the founder and contractor to equitably share any risks.Matt also explains what working on retainer means. He details the two ways retainer engagements usually work and how problems can occur when there are not clearly defined milestones in the work engagement.Matt and Patty both agree that spending the time and money to establish a legal foundation for the startup early in a company's journey is a great idea and prevents many future problems.In the final segment of the episode, Smyth explains what a swimlane diagram is, how it can help designers of software/processes, and how it can help define a working relationship with a contractor.

Do you have a burning desire to do something more but don't know what to do? Or do you have an idea that just won't go away no matter how much you try not to think about it? Asking God for big dreams can be scary, scary because He's a God that wants to give you what you ask for, and scary because if you dream big and ask big, you will have to either decide to take a huge leap of faith or say no to your dream.  Patty Post knows just what it is like to dream big and ask God for the door to open to a big, scary, but exciting dream. As the founder and CEO of Checkable Medical, a healthcare startup company, her dream of one day innovating a new way of healthcare is now a reality. Her company empowers consumers to take their health into their own hands, providing peace of mind through at-home tests and innovative wellness solutions. Something she was told wasn't possible.  If you are sitting on the sidelines waiting for your big dream, or if you have made the leap and need encouragement to keep going, Patty's story will inspire and motivate you to ask for the big and expect the doors to open.  So, let's dive in and make it happen! FAITH AND GATHER INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/faithandgather/  FAITH AND GATHER FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/faithandgather  FAITH INSPIRED SHOW NOTES: https://faithinspiredpodcast.com/2021/06/30/asking-god-for-big-dreams/

In Episode 2 of the Persevere Podcast, Patty welcomes Todd Taylor, Checkable Medical's corporate attorney and co-founder and partner of Avisen Legal in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Todd and his team of business lawyers specialize in providing legal services for entrepreneurs and business owners. Todd himself specializes in corporate governance, contracts, and financing.Patty and Todd discuss how business leaders can benefit from quickly developing an open, honest, and trusting relationship with a lawyer. A partnership with a good lawyer who understands the company's goals will help guide all legal decisions of the business and prevent issues from turning into problems. Patty and Todd share stories and relate to some of the common mistakes founders make when establishing a company. They have found that cheap can be expensive; not taking the time to calculate legal decisions can be costly. Both agree taking the time to evaluate decisions with your lawyer will pay off for the company in the long run.Patty opens up about her experience in fundraising for Checkable Medical and her past ventures. She has feared low valuations and dilution but has gained great perspectives and confidence from Todd. Todd has seen companies fold because they chose not to accept money, so he coaches entrepreneurs to not worry about dilution as much as what can be done with the money raised. Funds raised can lead to faster increases in company valuation. In Patty's case, funds raised for Checkable Medical helped her hire a great team, thus increasing output and company valuation.You can visit Avisen Legal's website at avisenlegal.com and contact Todd at 612-325-5036 or ttaylor@avisenlegal.com. 

In this episode, founder and CEO Patty Post shares her background and passion as an entrepreneur in multiple industries and the path that led her to form Checkable Medical.In her experiences working as a medical device executive and as a consultant in a Clinical Research Organization (CRO), she found opportunities to reduce healthcare burdens (for the system, the consumer, and the payers).Patty discusses the difficulty of being a nurturing mother and a career woman at the same time. In caring for her children's illnesses, she experienced the frustration of taking time away from work, spending hours at clinics waiting for a diagnosis. Patty knew there had to be a better way; at-home diagnostic tests could reduce friction for patients/caregivers and lower the burden on the healthcare system. With this vision, Checkable Medical was born.Checkable Medical offers simple, rapid at-home diagnostic tests and a state-of-the-art digital platform to connect patients with healthcare (telehealth) providers and pharmacists. The platform also provides treatment management to help patients complete treatment regimens so that re-infection is less likely.Patty discusses the many phases of getting a medical product to market: fund-raising, clinical validation, analytical validation, FDA approval, engineering, consumer surveys, human-factor validation, marketing, and white-labeling.Listen in to learn more about the Checkable Medical story and the heartbeat of the company. 

Patty Post is a serial-entrepreneur, a goal-getter, and a full-time mom. She has had the opportunity to work in various sales/management positions with well-known companies like UPS and  Stryker Neruo, Spine and ENT. Her most recent noteworthy accomplishment was starting a medical device company called Checkable Medical. As a parent and a patient, founder and CEO, Patty was frustrated with the status quo of going to the clinic to get checked for an infection. She imagined an at-home diagnostic that would confirm an infection that allowed her and her loved ones to receive a treatment plan from a virtual care provider. She couldn't find a solution so she is building one with a team of healthcare and technology experts.Checkable Medical's mission is to empower individuals to make clinical, evidence-based decisions from the comfort of their homes. Checkable Medical is focused on delivering innovative at-home diagnostic testing to employers and individuals.Without having to go to the doctor, their diagnostic tests paired with a digital platform will allow individuals and caregivers to administer their own tests for infectious diseases thus reducing the burden on our healthcare system and minimizing exposure to the population. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/thevariabledesign)