With a career spanning over 25 years, Helen is the co-founder of Peli Health, a digital health platform specializing in women's pelvic health. Her extensive expertise encompasses digital advertising, search/AI software, and marketing across various tech sectors, including adtech, legaltech, search AI, and now healthtech. Helen brings valuable experience in driving the successful launch of digital products in global markets.

Kerstin Recker is a femtech founder and a passionate advocate for equitable technology. With a track record of scaling successful ventures. Having navigated the world of Fortune 500 companies and startups, Kerstin brings a wealth of experience to her role as the co-founder of Peli Health, a groundbreaking centralized pelvic health platform. Her expertise spans diverse sectors, including media and entertainment, search, AI, ed tech and health tech.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Transitioning between different career fields is possible and knowing that your skills are transferrable across sectors
• How expanded understanding about pelvic health can empower individuals to make informed decisions and explore a wider range of resources and support options
• Why affordability and accessibility are the biggest challenge in accessing pelvic health care and treatment
• Creating a more supportive and inclusive environment for those suffering pelvic health issues
• Ongoing initiatives and destigmatisation efforts surrounding pelvic health issues
• Why we need to encourage women to educate themselves and advocate for their overall well-being
• The beauty of embracing freedom and making an empowered choice for yourself

Learn more about Kerstin and Helen and Peli Health:

• https://pelihealth.com/

• https://www.instagram.com/pelihealth

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/pelihealth

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Rebekah Lloyd is a women’s health consultant, careers advisor, podcast host, and founder of This Independent Life. After experiencing burnout and chronic pain, a 10-year delayed endometriosis diagnosis, and the resulting career and financial challenges, she started This Independent Life to help advance the future of women’s health and careers. She provides consulting and advisory for healthcare startups, industry, universities and research, as well as charities and workplaces. She is a UN Women UK delegate and is dedicated to using business as a force for good, her clients including global organisations such as Omnicom, Astra Zeneca, Barclays, UNiDAYS, National Trust, Whistles, University of Cambridge and Imperial College London. She has been featured internationally, including The Guardian, Nasdaq and Stylist, and in 2023 was invited to advise the UK Parliament Women and Equalities Committee on women’s health as a result of her work that was broadcast globally via the BBC.

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