EPISODES
Family Planning Episodes
Making All Births Intended and Wanted: Cadence OTC and Samantha Miller
Samantha serves as co-Founder and CEO of Cadence OTC, on a mission to increase over-the-counter (OTC) access to safe, effective, affordable contraceptives. She is a small pharma executive leader with more than two decades of experience in strategic partnering, product and technology acquisitions, commercial planning, supply chain, regulatory management, and corporate financing.
This Dude Vasectomized Himself! Meet Dr. Esgar Guarin, the Evangelical Vasectomist
Our guest in this episode, Dr. Esgar Guarin, is on a crusade to promote vasectomies, and even gave up his previous medical career to focus on simply being a full-time vasectomist as part of his commitment to making the world a better place.
Reproductive Freedom in the Developing World: Anna Christina Thorsheim and Family Empowerment Media
Anna Christina Thorsheim is the co-founder and director of Family Empowerment Media. She’s a strong generalist with experience in social entrepreneurship and a passion for enhancing women's opportunities for contraception.
Modernizing Contraception with Your Choice Therapeutics’ Akash Bakshi
As you’ll hear from company CEO Akash Bakshi, Your Choice started as an idea in a UC-Berkeley lab, ended up going through the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program, and is now a funded startup aiming to bring new contraceptive categories to market.