XXEquals

In this episode, we are joined by founder and CEO of the start-up, Emm, a bio-wearable smart menstrual cup designed to help you understand your body better. In our conversation, we discuss the origins of Emm, its plans over the next 10 years, and how it aims to help reduce the gender health gap by providing women with body autonomy through individual data.

Jemma Sawyer is the Founder of ILOH, the UK’s first shopping platform for sexual wellness products designed exclusively by women. In a sector traditionally monopolised by men, Jemma set out to explore the intersection of FemTech and female design innovation. Our conversation with Jemma covers everything from her background as a Stylist and Consultant to her founder journey, the societal stigma around sexual health products, and how ILOH is designed to tackle the shame around pleasure products.

In this episode we speak to Lilu Co-Founder and CEO, Adriana Vazquez.

Adriana has been named one of the top 30 Femtech Healthcare Influencers in 2019 and has won multiple awards for her work at Lilu. Adriana and her co-founder are YC and NSF I-Corps fellows and their patent was recognised as Philadelphia’s invention of the year in 2019. Our conversation with Adriana covers everything from what inspired Lilu, the struggles of being a founder and a person of colour, and what steps Adriana had to take to fund and grow Lilu.

In this episode we speak to XXEquals core team member and Senior Insight and Innovation Consultant at KD, Lucy Baldwin. Lucy  has over a decade's worth of experience in the design industry with a strong interest in people and their needs.

Our conversation gets under the skin of the Baby Boomer generation, where the term ‘Greynaissance’ came from and how we can be more innovative in this space and cater for this often overlooked and underserved generation.

Abby Covert is an Information Architect, writer and community organiser. served as President of IA Institute, co-chair of IA Summit, and Executive Producer of IDEA. She is a founding faculty member of SVA’s Products of Design program, Design Operations Summit and Advancing Research Conference. She invented World IA Day, bringing IA education to thousands in local communities annually.

In our latest XXEquals podcast, we speak to Information Architect, Writer and Community Organiser, Abby Covert. Our conversation explores Abby’s introduction into information architecture, how the craft and theory of diagrams led to the inspiration of her new book 'Stuck', and, Abby also shares the advice that she would give to her 25-year-old self.

In our latest XXEquals podcast we meet Bristol based Film-maker and Co-Founder of the production company, Falling Films, Maria Webb. Maria and our CEO, Merle Hall, discuss the broad spectrum of often negative experiences of menstruators, from the synthetic experience of the pill, to receiving inadequate medical support. Maria shares how after experiencing problems with her own menstrual cycle, she set out to change the way we talk and think about women's health by telling her story through the film, Fake Blood. Tune in now to find out more.

As referenced in the podcast:

Lara Briden: https://www.larabriden.com/

Podcast with Verso Biosense: https://www.xxequals.com/in-conversation-with-joseph-cefai-head-of-product-development-at-verso-biosense/

Maria’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/__mariamakes__/

In our latest XXEquals podcast we meet Bristol based Film-maker and Co-Founder of the production company, Falling Films, Maria Webb. Maria and our CEO, Merle Hall, discuss the broad spectrum of often negative experiences of menstruators, from the synthetic experience of the pill, to receiving inadequate medical support. Maria shares how after experiencing problems with her own menstrual cycle, she set out to change the way we talk and think about women's health by telling her story through the film, Fake Blood. Tune in now to find out more.

As referenced in the podcast:

Lara Briden: https://www.larabriden.com/

Podcast with Verso Biosense: https://www.xxequals.com/in-conversation-with-joseph-cefai-head-of-product-development-at-verso-biosense/

Maria’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/__mariamakes__/

In this episode, we talk to PhD Researcher. Christine Madla.

Christine is currently at the UCL School of Pharmacy, University College London, focusing on how males and females respond differently to medicines. She founded Sex in Science early this year to address the sex and gender research gap in science, health care and wellbeing.

Join Merle and Christine as they discuss all things sex and gender, how major stages of female life such as the menopause can be overlooked in clinical studies, and the importance of using sex as a biological variable.

In this episode, we talk to PhD Researcher. Christine Madla.

Christine is currently at the UCL School of Pharmacy, University College London, focusing on how males and females respond differently to medicines. She founded Sex in Science early this year to address the sex and gender research gap in science, health care and wellbeing.

Join Merle and Christine as they discuss all things sex and gender, how major stages of female life such as the menopause can be overlooked in clinical studies, and the importance of using sex as a biological variable.

In this episode, we talk to Sophie Patel, R&D Prototyping Manager at No7 Beauty Company.

Sophie is a human first and research and prototyping professional second. Her pronouns are she/her and she in unapologetically both a woman and brown. Those intersections are shaping how she is trying to drive action in creating equity in her corner of the beauty industry, while continuously learning and listening to marginalised people so that she can advocate for you when you are not in the room.

Join Merle and Sophie as they discuss Sophie's journey into packaging design, being passionate about what you do, and embracing her full identity in work and life.