Piloting your Life

Who is Allison Conti?

Allison Conti is an Oklahoma-based entrepreneur who was raised in an entrepreneurial environment where she witnessed the formation and creation of sustainable businesses. The industries ranged from oil & gas exploration and development to retail, cattle ranching and commercial real estate. Allison began her professional career in print media marketing and advertising. She then transitioned to a successful career in the radio and television industry. Allison also owned and managed a small business in the construction trades.

In 2015, as a mother of three, she conceived a solution for involuntary urine leakage, an issue that affects over 498 million women, worldwide. The passion and drive for this venture is based on personal experience. She designed, patented, engineered and manufactured this non-invasive, comfortable and easy to use solution that is entering the FDA approval process.

Allison is dedicated to the innovation and development of affordable, effective solutions for common life-altering difficulties faced in today's environment. Recently named Top 20 under 40 in Business Times Magazine!

Show Highlights

• Allison talks about what stress incontinence is, who it impacts, and why don't women don't want to talk about it, and why she is passionate about creating a better solution for women.

• Allison shares the other options available to women and why she developed YoniFit as another alternative for women.

• Allison talks why women would be willing to participate in the clinical trial at NYU.

• Allison created LeakyLady.com to make the topic easier for investors to discuss and for women to share their stories to remove the stigma around stress incontinence.

• Allison talks about the team bringing this product to market and surrounding herself with an experienced team.

• Terri asks about Allison's fundraising experience and the reactions from investors.

• Allison talks about protecting her technology through patents and trademarks and expanding into global markets.

• Allison shares her personal story around her condition, how many women are affected by this condition, and how it has changed her life and how she wants to change the lives of other women as well.

Terri's Key Takeaway

So much of how we have approached women's health has been about what is wrong with our bodies and with shame and we need to start talking about the conditions affecting so many women to remove the stigmas, shame, and get to better solutions.

References in the Podcast• Leaky Lady: http://www.leakylady.com/ ContactAllison can be reached via email at [email protected]. You can follow on Instagram @YoniFit. Read stories from other women and share your own at www.leakylady.com and sign up for email updates.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected] continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Who is Katie McMillan?

For 10 years, Katie D. McMillan, MPH has dedicated her career to imagining and building technology to improve healthcare for patients and providers. Her experience spans multi-national global health organizations, lean software start-up companies, and large academic medical centers. Katie's latest venture is the creation of the Mobile App Gateway at Duke University Health System. Launched in the summer of 2017, the MAG serves as the hub for digital health at Duke and provides product consulting services to clinicians and researchers, monthly events and workshops, and content exploring the many facets of the health tech industry. Katie has been involved in the ideation and creation of over 75 apps. In her free time, Katie microblogs at her Well Made Health account on Instagram (@wellmadehealth exploring creativity, digital design, and Fem Tech.

Show Highlights

• Katie shares how she developed an interest in women's health and FemTech
• Katie talks about how she's seen women's health and technology change over the last 10 years
• Katie shares why we are seeing an explosion in technology for women's health and why she started micro-blogging under Well Made Health with #FemTechFriday
• Terri asked Katie about evidence-based solutions for women's health and talks about matching up FemTech companies with researchers to generate clinical device and inform the science around the solutions
• Terri raises the issue of the price point and focus on middle class white woman for these solutions and the importance of making available to a broader group of women
• Katie is highlighting Lemonaid Health this week on @WellMadeHealth for #FemTechFriday

Terri's Key Takeaway

We women hold different roles in our lives and have different seasons in our lives which is very different from men and therefore our healthcare needs are very different as well.

References in the Podcast

• Atlantic article: The Doctor Doesn't Listen to Her but the Media is Starting To: http://bit.ly/DoctorDoesntListen
• PitchBook article: Why Women Investing in Women Matters: http://bit.ly/WomenInvestingInWomen
• Duke Health: https://www.dukehealth.org/
• Marketwatch article: http://bit.ly/WomensHealthTherapeuticMarket
• Genneve: https://genneve.com/
• Willow Pump: https://shop.willowpump.com/
• Hello Jessie: https://www.hellojessie.com/
• Qurasense: https://qurasense.com/#/site/home
• Pumpspotting: https://www.pumpspotting.com/
• Mahmee: https://www.mahmee.com/
• Maven Clinic Blog: Back to Work: The Billion Dollar Opportunity for Companies: http://bit.ly/MavenClinicBillionDollarOpportunity
• Tara Health Foundation: https://tarahealthfoundation.org/
• Lemonaid Health: https://www.lemonaidhealth.com/
• Icon Undies: https://www.iconundies.com/
• Thinx: https://www.shethinx.com/

Contact

Katie can be reached via email at [email protected] , on Twitter @KatieDMcMillan @Wellmadehealth and DukeMobileApps and on Instagram @Wellmadehealth.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Show Highlights

• Terri talks about what the JP Morgan Life Sciences conference is all about, what she learned, who she met, and some of the trends and innovations in women's health.
• Terri talks about the importance of normalization language and conversations around women's health and wellness, including sexual health and wellness.
• Terri and Jacqueline talk about changing the norms around aging, especially around body image, and taking charge of our health in our midlife in setting ourselves best for life after 65.

• Terri is excited about how digital health is being embraced within biotech and pharma in various areas including medication adherence, better patient targeting, better clinical trial design, and better leveraging of data to optimizing drug development and delivery.
• They talk about data and data ownership being a big topic in 2019 and the ramifications of deals like 23andMe and GSK.
• Terri and Jacqueline discuss the $8.1B invested in digital health in 2018, and what is included in digital health including the blurring of lines between health and wellness.

Terri's Key Takeaway

We need to normalize the language and conversations around women's health, wellness, and body parts.

References in the Podcast

• TechCrunch article on CES / female sex-tech: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/08/ces-revokes-award-from-female-founded-sex-tech-company/?sr_share=facebook&utm_source=tcfbpage

• More Men Named Michael Present at JP Morgan (2018): https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/07/jpm-gender-diversity/
• JP Morgan Life Sciences conference: https://www.jpmorgan.com/global/healthcareconference
• Panty Prop: https://www.pantyprop.com/
• RESI: http://www.resiconference.com/
• Startup Health: https://startuphealthfestival2019.splashthat.com/

• Healthcare Innovation Popup: https://medium.com/humble-ventures/teaming-up-with-mount-sinai-co-lab-for-open-innovation-in-healthcare-pop-up-ec3852b4bcb5
• Humble Ventures: https://humble.vc/
• Ogilvy: https://www.ogilvy.com/
• Biotech Showcase: https://ebdgroup.knect365.com/biotech-showcase/
• Springboard: https://sb.co/

• True Wealth Ventures: https://truewealthvc.com/
• Lisa Health: https://www.lisahealth.com/
• Genneve: https://genneve.com/
• Mighty Menopause: https://www.mighty-menopause.com/
• Madorra: http://www.madorra.com/

• Pulse: https://lovemypulse.com/
• B8ta: https://b8ta.com/
• Astarte Medical: http://www.astartemedical.com/
• Watkins-Conti Products: http://www.watkinscontiproducts.com/
• Prima-Temp: http://www.prima-temp.com/

• Ceek Women's Health: https://ceekwomenshealth.com/
• JLabs: https://jlabs.jnjinnovation.com/
• Saama: https://www.saama.com/
• Rock Health article on digital health: https://rockhealth.com/reports/2018-year-end-funding-report-is-digital-health-in-a-bubble/
• Sandstone Diagnostics: https://trakfertility.com/

• MyHealthTeams: https://www.myhealthteams.com/

Contact

You can follow Jacqueline Steenhuis on Twitter @TipsyCopilot or through her website https://www.jacquelinesteenhuis.com/.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com.

Check out Terri's new Medium publication: https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Show Highlights

• Terri talks about changing up the podcast for the first part of 2019 to focus on women's health (FemTech). Terri shares why she has hope and optimism for women in 2019.
• Terri and Jacqueline expand on the opportunities in women's health and the importance of focusing on health and body and environment holistically.
• Terri shares some of her research for her book Piloting Your Life on the need to normalize 'mid-life' and see it as a beautiful time of exploration and growth and opportunity and not a 'crisis.'

• Terri and Jacqueline talk about what they are excited about in 2019.

Terri's Key Takeaway

Give yourself permission to choose to add more joy into your life.

References in the Podcast

• Sarah Knight: http://sarahknightbooks.com/
• Terri's write up on The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck: https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead/the-life-changing-magic-of-not-giving-a-f-ck-top-10-takeaways-94f7db241838
• Terri Hanson Mead Publication: https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead

• Dan Kendall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dankendall/
• Digital Health Today: https://digitalhealthtoday.com/podcasts/
• Beverly Ryle: https://www.beverlyryle.com/
• The Faces of Digital Health podcast: https://medium.com/faces-of-digital-health
• Frog / Yona: https://www.frogdesign.com/work/yona

• Maven Health: https://www.mavenclinic.com/
• Girl Boss Radio interview with Kate Ryder of Maven Health: https://podtail.com/podcast/girlboss-radio/kate-ryder-founder-and-ceo-of-maven/
• CBInsights: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/briefing/wellness-trends-to-watch-in-2019/
• Carrot Fertility: https://www.get-carrot.com/
• Lisa Health: https://www.lisahealth.com/

• Genneve: https://genneve.com/
• Addyi (women's Viagra): https://addyi.com/
• Year of Yes (Shonda Rhimes): http://theyearofyesbook.com/
• Sallie Krawcheck: http://salliekrawcheck.com/

Contact

You can follow Jacqueline Steenhuis on Twitter @TipsyCopilot or through her website https://www.jacquelinesteenhuis.com/.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com.

Check out Terri's new Medium publication: https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Show Highlights

• Terri and Jacqueline talk about value and creating win-win situations. It's important for every woman to know her value.
• Terri talks about how she is planning to operate as an angel investor in 2019.
• Terri shares why she is doing the podcast and what to expect through the rest of the 2018/2019 year and what she is planning to ask the investors she is interviewing.

• Jacqueline asks if shows like Shark Tank and The Pitch create unrealistic expectations for people who start businesses or have an idea.
• Terri wonders what 2019 will look like with the state of the economy and startup investing and investors getting antsy for exits for the companies that have had unrealistically high valuations.
• Terri argues for additional funding for women's health instead of funding electric scooters.
• Terri and Jacqueline brainstorm questions for Piloting Your Life interviewees for 2019 and ask listeners to share some of their questions.

Terri's Key Takeaway

2018 was a strange roller coaster of a year and expects 2019 to be another wild ride.

References in the Podcast

• Xandra Laskowski: http://www.terrihansonmead.com/podcast/pyl082
• Alicia Castillo Holley: http://www.terrihansonmead.com/podcast/pyl071
• Jenny Kassan: http://www.terrihansonmead.com/podcast/pyl081
• Gabrielle Katsnelson: http://www.terrihansonmead.com/podcast/pyl075
• Nancy Hayes: http://www.terrihansonmead.com/podcast/pyl072

• Cyan Banister: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyanb/
• Knot: https://www.knotcity.com/en/
• Allianz Accelerator: https://www.allianz.fr/accelerateur/en/

Contact

You can follow Jacqueline Steenhuis on Twitter @TipsyCopilot or through her website https://www.jacquelinesteenhuis.com/.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com.

Check out Terri's new Medium publication: https://medium.com/terri-hanson-mead

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Who is Xandra Laskowski?

Xandra Laskowski is a startup consultant with over 25 years of entrepreneurial experience with large multinational tech companies as well as startups as founder, investor, advisor and board member. She has held positions as Worldwide Commodity Manager and National Major Accounts Managerial roles before moving into the angel investment and startup worlds. She founded OSEA Angel Investors in 2017, a women focused angel investment group based at the UC Irvine Cove, UCI Applied Innovation. OSEA Angel Investors is a partner angel group with Tech Coast Angels and Angel Syndication Network.

Show Highlights

• Xandra shares her journey into investing beginning in 2012 including some of her favorite investments and how they are faring.
• Xandra talks about her investment philosophy which has evolved since she started investing. She makes sure they are in revenue and that she is strategically aligned to be able to provide support before she writes her first, small check.
• Xandra's leverages her professional experience and network in addition to her experience managing her family's asset as an angel investor.
• She created Osea Angels to help other women in her community learn about investing in startups and get access to deals to make those investments. She is bringing education, inspiration, and connections to her members for startup opportunities.
• Xandra saw a need to support small businesses in Orange County that need access to resources to build and grow their businesses and she partnered up with someone to provide these services.
• Xandra most felt like the pilot in her own life when she took over her family's finances to better manage her family's wealth.

Terri's Key Takeaway

It's time for women who are building the female founder / female investor ecosystem begin to benefit financially.

References in the Podcast

• Hera Venture Summit: https://www.heraventuresummit.com/
• Osea Angels: https://www.oseaangelinvestors.com/Page/Home
• Liquid Biosciences: http://www.liquidbiosciences.com/
• Tech Coast Angels: https://www.techcoastangels.com/
• UC Irvine Cove: http://innovation.uci.edu/the-cove/
• First Republic Bank: https://www.firstrepublic.com/
• Changing Tides: https://thinkresultsmarketing.com/books/changing-tides/
• AngelList: https://angel.co/
• Jane VC: https://www.janevc.com/

Contact

Xandra can be reached by email at [email protected].

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Terri talks to Jenny Kassan about alternative funding mechanisms for female founders and small business owners and how she works with them to provide tailored fundraising strategies.

Who is Jenny Kassan?

Jenny Kassan has over two decades of experience as an attorney and advisor for mission-driven enterprises and is a certified coach. She has helped her clients raise millions of dollars from values-aligned investors. She is the author of Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul (Berrett-Koehler, October 2017).

She served on the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies and submitted the petition to the SEC that led to the passage of the 2012 JOBS Act.

Before becoming a securities lawyer, Jenny worked for eleven years at a nonprofit community development corporation in Oakland, where she served as staff attorney and managed community economic development projects including the formation and management of several social ventures designed to employ and create business ownership opportunities for low-income community residents.

Jenny is a fellow at Democracy Collaborative and the co-founder of the Force for Good Fund, is the President of Community Ventures, and co-founded the Sustainable Economies Law Center. She was a director of Berrett-Koehler Publishers and is a member of the Content Advisory Panel of Conscious Company Magazine and serves on the advisory boards of Lioness Magazine and Investibule.

Jenny earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and a master's degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley.

Show Highlights

• Jenny talks about her journey into working with startups and businesses on tailored fundraising strategies and the importance of Title III of the JOBS Act.

• Jenny talks about how her frustration with fundraising options and meeting Michelle Thimesch led to the recent launch of CrowdFund Main Street to take advantage of Title III of the JOBS Act.
• Terri and Jenny talk about how crowdfunding can fit into a startup's fundraising strategy and how the definition of success for a startup is not based on funding rounds.
• Jenny is now focusing on the investor side and educating a lot of Americans on investing opportunities through her new organization called Angels of Main Street.
• Terri talks about how important it is for some us to see the direct impact of their investments and/or time.
• Jenny talks about how she works with her clients to structure their financing strategies in alignment with their goals, values, and short/long term strategies. She also talks about the various options available to founders.

• Jenny felt most like the pilot in her own life when she went out on her own with her own firm. She now has the business of dreams. 



Terri's Key Takeaway

Taking the first step is important to opening up new opportunity paths.

References in the Podcast

• CrowdFund Main Street: https://crowdfundmainstreet.com/
• JOBS Act, Title III: https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/jobs-act.shtml
• Gabrielle Katsnelson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielle-katsnelson-6a73958/
• SMBX: https://www.thesmbx.com/

• National Venture Capital Association:
• Changing Tides: https://thinkresultsmarketing.com/books/changing-tides/

Contact

Jenny can be reached through her website http://www.jennykassan.com/

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Who is Tawana Murphy Burnett?

Tawana Murphy Burnett, former consultant turned startup employee and entrepreneur, is now a global marketing leader at Facebook helping the top 30 Global Advertisers like Estée Lauder and Johnson & Johnson become the best mobile marketers. Prior to Facebook, Tawana led brand and product teams at Intuit, LeapFrog, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson, leading P&L, Brand Growth, integrated marketing strategies and new product innovation for brands like Listerine, Advil, and ChapStick.

Since 2017 Tawana has become an active investor in women and women of color owned businesses primarily through Portfolia and as a Member and Due Diligence Lead with Pipeline Angels. She has served on numerous Diversity and Inclusion councils, most recently joining Digital Undivided as an Advisory Board Member for StartUp Newark.

Show Highlights

• Tawana talks about being inspired to get involved in angel investing because of what Terri shared with her about her desire to get more capital into the hands of female founders when they met in the Lufthansa lounge in Frankfurt.
• Tawana joined Pipeline Angels and shares her experience learning about angel investing, leading a deal, and getting more involved to invest in more women of color.

• Tawana has made 9 investments since she started less than two years ago. She talks about being excited about the community building piece, hosting more events, and getting involved with Digital Undivided in Atlanta and Startup Newark.
• Terri talks about leveraging AngelList as a 'poor woman's VC' to be able to bring deals together and give women who are leading these deals some sort of compensation for the work associated with this. She also talks about the importance of building the ecosystem but also finding ways for women to get compensated for all the work we are doing for free.
• If Tawana could wave a magic wand, she would improve the public education system in the US and make sure it is financially supported.

Terri's Key Takeaway

Be open to conversations with people; be open to new ideas; be open to education.

References in the Podcast

• 4YFN: https://www.4yfn.com/
• Mobile World Congress: https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/

• Joanne Wilson (Gotham Gal): https://gothamgal.com/
• Portfolia: https://www.portfolia.co/
• Pipeline Angels: http://pipelineangels.com/
• Kishau Rogers: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kishau/
• Mented: https://www.mentedcosmetics.com/pages/ourstory

• Sephora Stands Accelerator: https://www.sephorastands.com/accelerate/
• Nancy Hayes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancyhayes2/
• Fempire: https://www.fempiregroup.com/
• Digital Undivided: https://www.digitalundivided.com/
• Project Diane: https://www.inc.com/kathryn-finney/innovating-inclusion-digitalundevided-and-project-diane.html

• AngelList: https://angel.co/
• Lynn-Ann Gries: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-ann-gries-44440/

Contact

Tawana can be reached through LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tawanaburnett/

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Who is Maren Bannon?

Maren is Co-Founder and Partner at Jane VC, a venture fund to invest in female-led technology startups. Maren is an entrepreneur at heart who has been building tech businesses for the past 15 years. Previously, she was CEO and Cofounder of LittleLane. Her operating experience also includes leadership roles at health tech startups as well as leading consumer marketing for a $1B product at Genentech. She is the mother to three young daughters and feels energized each day by her vision of creating a different world for them. She has an MBA from Stanford and an Engineering degree from Dartmouth.

Show Highlights

• Maren talks about joining forces with one of her fellow Stanford grads, Jennifer Neundorfer, to create a new fund, Jane VC, to not only get more capital into the hands of female founders, but to activate more female investors.
• Maren shares the journey from reconnecting with her partner Jenn in January 2018 and leveraging AngelList to quickly create and raise the fund by bringing on supportive people in their network.
• Terri asked Maren about Jane VCs plan to get access to deal flow, being open to anyone, and their plan to provide transparency to the VC process to work towards leveling the playing field.
• Maren shares their plans for Jane VC in providing transparency, investing in women, and actively looking for investing opportunities outside of the Silicon Valley.
• With Jane VC, they are focused on investing in pre-seed and seed stage rounds, but they will also invest in Series A. With Maren based in London, they will have the opportunity to focus on startups not only in the US, but also in Europe including London, Berlin, Paris, and the Nordics.

• If Maren could wave a magic wand, she would shift the power dynamic to make it more equitable for women.

Terri's Key Takeaway

To shift the power dynamic and improve the world, we need to activate more female investors and invest in more female founders.

References in the Podcast

• Jane VC: https://www.janevc.com/
• Jenn Neundorfer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jkneundorfer/
• Lynn-Ann Gries: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-ann-gries-44440/

• Komae: https://www.mykomae.com/
• Women's Startup Lab: https://womenstartuplab.com/
• Joanne Wilson (GothamGal): https://gothamgal.com/
• Sallie Krawcheck: https://www.ellevatenetwork.com/team/sallie-krawcheck
• AngelList: https://angel.co/

• Guy Fawkes Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night
• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: http://www.beacon.org/White-Fragility-P1346.aspx
• Becoming by Michelle Obama: https://becomingmichelleobama.com/
• Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett Smitth: https://www.facebook.com/redtabletalk/videos/343064719835818/

Contact

Maren can be reached by email at [email protected].

Founders interested in pitching to Jane VC can do so here: https://www.janevc.com/contact-us

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Who is Mary Ray?

Mary Ray, cofounder and COO of MyHealthTeams, has a deep understanding of consumer behavior and social networking, which drives unmatched engagement among MyHealthTeams' more than 1.6 million members across 29 communities serving people living with chronic conditions. Her innovative vision for people-first digital health solutions and laser focus on user experience, authentic connections and scalable platforms has helped the company quickly address 90% of the chronic condition population since its launch in 2012.

Drawing from her personal experience with friends and family members living with chronic conditions, she is passionate about building communities that empower individuals, families and caregivers to share experiences, resources and lifehacks that help them actively manage health and wellness while living with a chronic condition. Previously, Mary has held executive positions with established leaders such as IAC and Sony as well as with innovative startups across the mobile, digital media and consumer technology landscape.

Mary is a graduate of the College of William & Mary School of Business and George Mason University. A serial entrepreneur, Mary is an advocate for women in technology and has served as a SXSW mentor for up-and-coming female leaders. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and son.

Show Highlights

• Mary takes us through her background and her entrepreneurial journey into being the co-founder/COO of MyHealthTeams. This journey started in 2nd grade selling Pac Man trading cards.

• Mary talks about meeting her co-founder Eric Peacock and how they decided to start MyHealthTeams as a spin-out from Insider Pages.
• MyHealthTeams is no longer a startup and is now in the growth stage. Mary talks about where they are today and the plans to go deeper in their segments and provide greater benefits to their members.
• Terri asks about their strategy for creating new social networks and why they don't roll out for lots of conditions at the same time. Mary answers and shares some of their biggest surprises in the MyHealthTeams social network rollout and usage.
• Mary's favorite founder resources include connecting with others through LinkedIn groups, female founder groups, and Harvard Business Review.
• If Mary could wave a magic want, she would change it so that people sincerely understand each other and act accordingly.

Terri's Key Takeaway

Listen to your customers to learn about ways to improve your product in unexpected ways.

References in the Podcast

• MyHealthTeams: https://www.myhealthteams.com/
• Insider Pages: http://www.insiderpages.com/
• Ning: https://www.ning.com/
• Hidden Brain: https://www.npr.org/series/423302056/hidden-brain
• Hidden Brain: Nature, Nurture and Your Politics: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654127241/nature-nurture-and-your-politics

• How We Judge the Mistakes of Male vs Female Leaders: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/how-we-judge-the-mistakes-of-male-vs-female-leaders/2012/09/24/71e3ada0-066d-11e2-afff-d6c7f20a83bf_story.html?utm_term=.fae92b904ff3

Contact

Mary can be reached by via email [email protected], Twitter @marycray and LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryray/

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.