Kayla Rodriguez Graff got a 'no' from the patent office, 'no' from the FDA, and another 'no' from Medicare, and now her biotech company SweetBio® is FDA-cleared, patented in almost 20 countries, reimbursed, and in clinics across the country with $12 million in financing. CEO Kayla co-founded the company with her brother, turning manuka honey and collagen into a dissolvable sheet that helps the body repair. Kayla shares how she and her team white boarded "Operation Phoenix" to figure out reimburs

Sustainable high performance, says Sarah Deane, comes down to capability times culture times capacity to execute. Most leaders have the first two. The third is the one nobody measures: do you actually have the cognitive and energetic resources to access the thinking you're being paid for? A former AI engineer who led the worldwide employee workplace experience program at HP for 320,000 people and now teaches at Stanford Continuing Studies, Sarah spent the better part of a decade following the da

Health insurance now eats around 30 percent of the average American family's after-tax income, about $35,000 a year for a family of four, and what you get for it is a $5,000 to $10,000 deductible and the right to file a claim someone else may deny. Jennifer Burnham-Grubbs calls it the biggest gaslighting project in recent history, and she would know: she has spent 21 years inside life and health insurance, ranks among the top 175 independent insurance producers in the United States (fewer than 3

Women make most of the purchasing decisions, and on the receiving end of the largest wealth transfer in history, some $40 trillion in the next decade. We’re writing more philanthropy checks, but less so when it comes to investing, especially in women-led startups. Chantell Preston is done being polite about it. A serial healthcare entrepreneur with multiple exits, including Mentis Neuro Health, she is the founder and CEO of the family office Preston Partners, co-owner of the San Francisco Signal

Laila Marshall is the Founder & CEO of Beebizy, a B2B event management SaaS built for the lean teams running events that drive real business revenue. A previously exited founder in on-demand healthcare technology, Laila brings a rare combination of practitioner depth and product vision — having personally produced 500+ events before building the software she always wished existed. Based in Los Angeles, Laila is currently in active enterprise conversations with brands like Marriott, Hilton, and E

Naseem Sayani is a venture capitalist and the CEO and founder of GCWC and GCWC Capital. She also hosts The Capital Flex podcast, highlighting the stories of female founders raising money for their startups. Previously a GP at Emmeline Ventures, Naseem is on a mission to educate women about venture investing, and catalyze an ecosystem where women are writing checks to support their entrepreneurial sisters. We talk about how 100,000 women, each with a $50,000 check, could revolutionize venture wit