In this episode, two companies focused on women's health and wellness are featured. The first company, Expect, is a streaming fitness platform specifically designed for pregnancy and postnatal fitness. The workouts on Expect are approved by OBGYNs and aim to improve outcomes for both mothers and babies. The founder, Dara Cook, discusses the importance of maternal fitness and the need to make it accessible to all women, especially women of color who are disproportionately affected by maternal mortality rates. The second company, Wolomi, is a digital platform that provides support and resources for women of color during their pregnancy and motherhood journey. The founder, Layo George, emphasizes the importance of creating a safe space for moms and addressing maternal mental health. Both companies are working towards promoting health equity and overcoming challenges such as fundraising and partnering with health plans.

Kike Oduba, MD - Founder & CEO, WellnessWits:

“I'm a physician entrepreneur and I'm also a mom of three, have navigated the healthcare system through my own personal health challenges for my family and friends, and so I am passionate about health equity, closing gaps in care. I'm also passionate about helping people with chronic diseases not to have to suffer too long in silence or in silo.”

Vanessa Villaverde (CHCF):
”However, I will tell you my broader true north is to create pathways for under invested founders.”

Do you know what your best life is? 

Do you know what it looks like? Can you see it? Can you envision it? Can you feel it, taste it, touch it? If you don’t know, then you’re not close to living your best life. You have an inner power–an untapped, infinite potential–that if unleashed, will change your life and the lives of those around you.

Is it enough just to live? When you’re in a challenging situation of ANY kind, but especially a personal health and/or family care challenge, is it enough for you just to live? Or do you want to BE ALIVE? Don’t you want to THRIVE? Not simply survive.  To BE ALIVE, what are you willing to do? You have to GIVE what it takes….

The question is, how can we as INDIVIDUALS get the best care when it’s often INVISIBLE to us in the moment that we’re NOT? How can we ensure that we are getting not just equal care, because, truth be told, that’s not what healthcare is about—but PERSONALIZED care? Care that’s tailored to our individual needs and based on our unique experiences. If each of us can get THAT, then we won’t have to question whether there is health equity in the medical system.

It’s May, Mental Health Awareness Month. In this episode, we introduce you to the 3 Ts. If you know your 3Ts, you will ALWAYS overcome your stress. No matter what the situation.

This is another CAN’T MISS episode. This 16 minutes can transform how you experience stress and how you live. Listen now!

This is real talk. But you can do something. I have developed a new approach that gets results. That helps you live your best life while dealing with a health challenge—for yourself and/or family members.

I call it Tripod PHIRE.

The current healthcare system doesn’t treat people of color equally. Everyone deserves unbiased, high quality healthcare.

In light of his sister’s recent passing, Care3 CEO David S. Williams III held a FREE webinar to share what we've learned in driving health consumer behavior entitled, "Erase Racial Bias in Personal and Family Healthcare: The Black and Brown Guide to Achieving Healthcare Equality."

This episode of the Treat Us Right Podcast is the audio from this highly attended webinar.

In a joint podcast, we are talking to Kira and Stephanie from the Care3 Global Innovation Partnership group, MitoAction, where we focus Care3 for mitochondrial disease as a chronic condition as MitoAction Mobile.

Why should I listen to this episode? This is how Care3 is used for ANY chronic illness.

You’re going to hear patient testimonials, parent testimonials about how Care3 has changed the course of their lives and lifestyle.

Doctors want to know what happens when they’re not seeing you. They NEED that information. It’s critical to their treatment planning. So don’t leave it up to chance. Don’t leave it up to what you remember in that moment. Document health and care experiences to make healthcare work for you.

There are two lifestyle changes that occur when you or a loved one is diagnosed with a chronic illness or has a level of functional decline. The first one is obvious. The second one goes completely overlooked by pretty much everyone….And if you can embrace that lifestyle change, you will get the best outcomes—and you'll get them faster.

That initial shock is really a collection of feelings; feelings of uncertainty, fear, denial, sadness, regret, the how and the why. But overall, shock is a feeling of being overwhelmed by the moment—by the information that was relayed. And in this case, by the revelation of a life-changing condition, that shock is all about the uncertainty of it all coupled with the certainty of the diagnosis, what does this mean? How does this change my life?

This episode is all about the moment when your life changes. The moment when you learn about a life-changing health condition for yourself or a loved one. It’s the moment when healthcare, and interacting with the healthcare system, becomes a lifestyle. “…the first moment that I experienced being exposed to a situation that was life-changing was when my mother told myself and my siblings that she had cancer—and had six months to live.”

In this short 4-minute episode, Care3 CEO David Williams reveals the top 4 changes he is making in 2021. David also reveals what he will continue to do from 2020 that helped amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. These tips can help you make the best of your 2021 and improve your personal and family health.

You’re about to subscribe to Treat Us Right. The Treat Us Right podcast is your aural path. It’s a chorus. Make healthcare work for us.

The Sandwich Generation is the defining lifestyle of our time. Now we have to vote with that in mind this Election Day and advocate for attention and policies beyond.

There is a not-so-secret roadmap to successfully caring for your parent and staying sane in the process. The roadmap doesn’t reverse time or magically cure chronic disease. But it does give you enough time in the day to live your life while also doing the things that lead to better care and higher quality of life for your parent. Are you ready for the not-so-secret roadmap? It’s actually a paradox….

Health disparities among black people are caused by racial inequality. Healthcare inequality is an outcome of racial inequality. Racism in healthcare is both interpersonal in terms of conscious and unconscious bias as well as institutional based on restricted access to the best doctors, treatments and facilities.

So not only are black people more likely to be infected by coronavirus from providing essential work or being connected to those people, but we are also more likely to get subpar care. That’s just facts.

Dr. Jabari Reeves returns to the Treat Us Right Podcast to give his impressions of where we’ve been from our first episode in early March 2020 to where we are now. Where do we go from here? Dr. Reeves reveals the keys to successfully helping ourselves, our loved ones, and society as a whole in a forever-changed world.

Your economic viability and personal health are the two most important factors in living your best life. But when you visit your doctor, you don’t prepare like you do at your job, do you? At your work presentation you had text, media, and data. You were tight. At your doctor visit, you’re only having a verbal exchange of information. What if you could be ready for your doctor visit with the same level of detail without having to spend the same time intensity in preparation?

The aggregate data on coronavirus, its spread, the response, and other metrics are definitely important. But just in the past week data has begun to emerge about who is getting COVID-19—by race. And the results are infuriating. It seems that Black folks are dying at a rate DOUBLE our population representation in each community across the country. This begs the question of why?