Skin like a Rhino with Elvie founder, Tania Boler

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In our latest episode, Tania sits down with Hertility founder and CEO Dr Helen O’Neill to delve into the details of fertility, hormones and genetics and why we should give a sh*t. 🦏 🎧

Trigger warning: Fertility, miscarriage

Topics:
Genetics and women’s health
Impact of lifestyle factors vs. previous generations
Importance of knowing your hormonal ‘norms’
The danger of being prescribed hormonal contraceptives as a catch-all cure
Environmental impacts on hormones
How hormones affect more than our fertility
Culturally typical for women to dismiss symptoms
Lack of investment into female health
Which hormones to test for if hoping to conceive
Gender-biased language in medical textbooks
Fertility pressure on women
Rise in male fertility issues
‘Forever chemical’ effect on our health
Egg freezing
How hormones and cycle affect day-to-day wellbeing 
The benefits of having more data in the field

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Eve Rodsky is New York Times Best-Selling Author of Fair Play - a gamified conversation boosting system which is designed to rebalance workload in the household and reimagine relationships.

Eve and Tania dive deep into the issues around societal expectations of modern-day parenting.

Topics:

• Unpaid labour in the household
• The gender pay gap
• Female Empowerment
• The importance of co-parenting 
• Physical and mental health awareness for Moms
• Relationship and parental boundaries
• The shift in conversation postpartum
• Embracing your new identity 

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest’s own and do not represent the views, thoughts and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler. 

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Latham Thomas, founder of Mama Glow, a New York-based brand focused on doula services, maternity, and lifestyle. Latham herself, also has a background as a trained Doula herself and is a highly influential campaigner for addressing health inequalities for black women in the US.

Latham and Tania discuss how community driven leadership can transform the birthing landscape to create safer and more empowering birthing journeys.

Topics:

• Inherent racial discrimination in the medical system
• Poor prenatal care for Black moms
• Non-consensual experimentation on Black women’s bodies
• Racial pain bias in medicine
• Lack of Black maternal healthcare professionals
• Dehumanising treatment of Black women’s bodies
• The role of Doulas
• Setting up Mama Glow
• Pregnancy discrimination and motherhood penalty
• Impact of the system on Black babies’ health
• Decline in Black breastfeeding rates
• Black wetnurses
• The revolution of Elvie Pump
• The Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler

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Michelle Kennedy is the founder and CEO of Peanut, one of the fastest-growing social networking apps for women navigating fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause.

In this episode, Michelle and Tania discuss community, what it means to women and what's so unique about female-first platforms, like Peanut.

Topics include:

• community
• motherhood
• female founder
• mompreneur
• feminist activism
• reproductive justice
• women's rights
• maternal healthcare
• policy change
• reproductive rights
• postpartum sex
• women's networking
• female friendship
• empathy
• shared experiences
• connection
• menopause

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler.

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On this episode of  Skin Like a Rhino, Tania grills Natural Cycles CEO and co-founder (and ex-CERN physicist, no less!) Dr Elina Berglund about her decade-long journey with the world's first and only birth control app. Let's see if we can learn a thing or two from two women who helped shape the FemTech sector we know today. 🎧

Topics:

• female founder 
• pregnancy planning 
• reproductive health 
• advocacy
• feminist activism
• sexual health
• funding

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler.

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Helen Ledwick is an award-nominated podcast founder and author of the groundbreaking book ‘Why Mums Don’t Jump’, a book which tackles the pervasive issue of the pelvic floor taboo.

A former senior producer and on-air voice at BBC Radio 5 Live for more than ten years, Helen manoeuvred her career to launch her podcast ‘Why Mums Don’t Jump’ after suffering with pelvic floor prolapse after the birth of her second son. Helen is a passionate pelvic health advocate, determined to tackle the pelvic floor taboo— the pervasive shame surrounding these intimate issues that 1 in 3 women will face in their lifetime. Helen speaks with Tania about her journey, from suffering the shame and stigma of living with pelvic floor prolapse, through to creating her podcast and penning her groundbreaking book of the same name. Listen now to Tania and Helen talk about their shared experience with launching successful businesses that prioritise women’s health and wellbeing. 

Topics include:

Pregnancy and childbirth
Shame and stigma of pelvic floor health
The current healthcare system
Following your passion
Making a change in society
Building a community
Lack of education on birth and breastfeeding
Giving women choice
Breaking women's health taboos
The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler

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Alexandra Chong is a Jamaican entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Jacana, a global cannabis company and also founded Lulu, a private networking solution for women. 

There’s not many women that lept from professional sport to law to online dating and finally CBD products. The New York Times said she started a ‘take back the internet movement for young women’ and that hunger to change the world has fuelled many more business decisions. I’m excited to have my friend/mentor, Alexandra Chong with us on the show today. 

Topics include:

• Early childhood life ambition 
• Professional Tennis career
• Entrepreneurship 
• Creating Lulu
• Female founders 
• Silicon Valley 
• Setting up Jacana 
• Health benefits of plant medicine
• Stigma of cannabis
• Meditation and mindfulness 
• Work-life balance for Moms
• What's next for Alexandra Chong

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler

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Ida Tin is a Danish entrepreneur and author co-founding Clue app. A period to pregnancy menstrual tracking app with 11m active users. 

Starting her early career working with her father at a motorcycle tour company, Ida then channelled her own frustrations around women's health into Clue. Setting up a new business and navigating the challenges of being a female founder whilst raising her own children Ida talks of how culture and personal growth is fundamental in growing a successful business. 

Topics include:

• Childhood and early career
• Entrepreneurship 
• Early frustration with menstrual cycle tracking
• Setting up Clue
• Breaking women's health taboos
• Women in business 
• Series funding 
• Data 
• Work-life balance for Moms
• Boundary setting 
• Leadership and building the right culture
• Care 
• Coining FemTech 
• What's next for Ida Tin

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler

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Trinny Woodall is a UK TV personality, journalist and entrepreneur whose global business Trinny London is changing the way women talk about the beauty industry.

Trinny is seen as a bold, confident and outspoken entrepreneur but this is not how she sees herself. Through practicing mindfulness and meditation, the self-deemed ‘loud introvert’ discusses how she forged the confidence to succeed as a female founder.

Opening up on feeling like an outsider in childhood and within the fashion industry, Trinny talks to Tania about the personal experiences that led her to develop skin like a rhino. How those moments, good and bad, gave her the resilience to take the risks in business that led to her global empire, Trinny London.

Topics:

• Risk-taking
• Being a loud introvert
• Gender bias
• Entrepreneurship mindset
• Early context
• A passion to create
• Fashion
• Journalism
• Resilience
• Being an outsider
• Being a female founder
• Feel the fear and do it anyway
• Advice for women in business
• Mindfulness and meditation
• Inclusivity at Trinny London
• Beauty industry and aging
• Imposter Syndrome
• Mentoring

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler

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Sarah Liddell is Chief Product Officer at Elvie, creating innovative products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life.

Sarah (studied fine art initially) then started her career as a furniture and props maker. When Sarah became a mother, she felt frustrated with the way products didn’t meet her needs as both a mum and a woman. Once her children started school, she attended university and began her degree in product design and engineering (working nights to support her family) where her chosen Major project was on re-designing the pushchair. Sarah’s first design and engineering roles was at Dyson. When she first joined, she was the 4th women to join out of a team of 240 engineers. Later in Sarah’s career, she joined design agency Native Design, where she worked on connected devices

Opening up on her career journey Sarah reflects on the gender tech gap and the challenges still faced by women in engineering. 

Topics:

• Early context
• Career advancement
• Maternal guilt 
• Work-life balance for Moms
• Boundary setting 
• Gender tech gap
• Women in engineering
• Gender bias and gender gap in STEM
• User experience
• Advice for women in tech

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the guest's own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of Elvie or Tania Boler