Happy Thanksgiving! On this episode, Mark and Melanie learn about Grace.health with co-founders Therese Mannheimer and Roman Jasins. Grace.health’s goal is to give women control of information about their own bodies, allowing them to make informed healthcare decisions. Grace.health is a female health companion that lets women track and plan their periods, fertility, and ask questions. It is a global undertaking, hoping to reach not just the tech savvy woman, but all women in all markets worldwide.

Stigmas and taboos around the world portray periods as dirty and contagious, preventing women from being able to work, go to school, or even sleep in the house. Grace.health’s goal is to educate people to help limit these superstitions and allow women to live fuller lives. With Grace.health, women know when their periods are coming or when the are ovulating so they can make the proper plans.

In the longterm, Grace.health hopes to be a tool to not only help women identify any health concerns but also find a healthcare professional and get the treatment necessary.

Therese Mannheimer

Therese, one of the founders of Grace.health, is an experienced business developer and product person who believes that the best way to solve problems is to put relevant solutions into the hands of people. She is also co-founder of the Allbright Foundation that works with driving opinion around meritocracy.

Roman Jasins

Roman is CTO and co-founder of Grace.health.

Cool things of the week

• Building IoT Applications on Google Cloud video
• Getting started with Kubeflow Pipelines blog
• Subatomic particles and big data: Google joins CERN openlab blog
  • GCP Podcast Episode 145: ATLAS with Dr. Mario Lassnig podcast
• Istio Routing Basics site

Interview

• Grace Health site
  • Google Cloud Startup site
• Dialogflow site
• FEM International site
• UN site
• Doctors Without Borders site
• The Hunger Project site

Question of the week

With background cloud functions - how can I set them up to retry on failure?

• Background functions
• Retrying Background Functions

Where can you find us next?

Mark and will be at KubeCon in December.

Melanie will be at SOCML in November and Black in AI and LatinX in December.