Audrey and I had great fun doing this one. As usual when we set out to co-create something, the result is a little different than I had anticipated. It is more interesting.

My plan had been to talk seriously about co-leadership—when does it work, what are the trade-offs, what’s the difference to job sharing a role with less open-ended deliverables than “somehow make this startup fly.”

We did a bit of that. But then we got giddy, and what you will hear if you listen is a pretty intimate chat, shot through with the what-the-actual-f*ck-actually-just-happened incredulity of someone who recently gave birth, and their friend who also still bears the scars of that experience. Listening back, it seems to me to boil down to a conversation mostly about relationship across different domains of life; what mechanisms we have to make thinking and acting better together, and the limits of sharing. Also, reflections on running a consumer medtech startup, and how becoming a parent can both completely explode your faculties and somehow make them sharper, as well as somehow broader, than you ever thought was possible.

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