Guest Overview 

Born in Grinnell Iowa, her journalist parents, her education in Slavic Studies and Russian Affairs, and her career at the New York Times all prepared her to launch her disruptive health care start-up Clear Health Costs, welcome this week’s guest Jeanne Pinder.

In Part One we cover Jeanne’s upbringing in a loud, challenging home environment with five siblings, and the experience of being part of the families local newspaper the Grinnell Herald, Jeanne discusses the high expectations of her parents, and how this conditioned her to be comfortable with chaos. In an environment of emotional abundance and material scarcity 

Jeanne discusses how her world view was expanded by exposure to foreign dignitaries from her father's work with the state department. Jeanne covers her experience of being part of the counterculture movement during the Vietnam War. Her interest in international affairs led her to Indiana University to Study Slavic Studies and Russian Affairs, which resulted in her studying in Leningrad (St Petersburg) in Russia in the 1970’s and 80’s. 

We discuss that experience and the current state of Russian power and politics and their influence on current US politics. 

Jeanne explains how working at the Des Moines Register led her to a job as a copy editor at the New York Times during the 1980’s and the joy of working in journalism at a seminal time in world history. 

Finally, we discuss the current state of national and local journalism and the power of the community to affect genuine change 

In Part two we dive deep into what led Jeanne to create her journalism meets healthcare start-up Clear Health Costs, her perspectives on Covid-19 and a whole lot more. 

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