HEALTHCARE *by design*

In this week’s episode, I sit down with  Izac Ross , co-founder and CEO of  Haven , a virtual clinic focused on delivering more thoughtful and specialized care for people living with migraines or chronic headaches. Izac shares his path from working on design teams at some of the most leading healthcare startups to becoming a founder himself. We unpack how Haven is designing care within the constra...

In this week's episode, I sit down with Arpan and Amit Parikh, two brothers who both serve as Chief Medical Officers at two different leading behavioral health startups, and they're also co-authors of the Substack Two Docs and a Stack . We talk about where the future of behavioral healthcare is headed, the business models that actually work, where startups should focus, and how AI can mean...

In this week's episode, I sit down with Naseem Sayani, investor, operator, and advocate for female founders and women's health. She shares her path into venture capital, and the structural challenges women face in the startup ecosystem from funding gaps to pattern recognition biases, and how the current landscape determines who gets funded. Naseem shares why the power of community, financi...

In this episode, I sit down with  Thiv Paramsothy , founder of  Hera Fertility , a company that’s rethinking fertility care for men. Thiv shares how Hera got started, the pivots they made along the way, and how they ultimately landed on building a platform that uses AI and machine learning to provide insights and support for men’s reproductive health. We talk about Thiv’s journey from working insi...

In this week’s episode, I sit down with Amantha Bagdon, founder and CEO of RxPost. After two decades working behind the pharmacy counter, Amantha saw the same problem over and over again...pallets of medications tossed out or wasted on the shelves while nearby pharmacies paid a premium to fill the very same prescriptions. That frustration sparked RxPost, a pharmacy-only marketplace and smart inven...

In this week’s episode, I sit down with Adam Stansell, founder and CEO of Axle Health. Adam’s path into healthcare is anything but traditional — Starting at Uber, moving to logistics company Motive, and ultimately launching Axle Health in the middle of a pandemic. He shares what it was like to step into healthcare with humility. The lessons he carried from tech into home health delivery, and navig...

In this introductory episode, host Nuzi Barkatally shares her personal journey with Crohn's Disease, how it fueled her professional experience working in healthcare and startups, and why she ultimately started this podcast. 

In this introductory episode, host Nuzi Barkatally shares her personal journey with Crohn's Disease, how it fueled her professional experience working in healthcare and startups, and why she ultimately started this podcast.