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Today, we are spending time with Kiki Freedman. 

Kiki is the CEO and co-founder of Hey Jane, the 5-year old telehealth startup providing patients with medication abortion via mail and the telehealth clinic offering safe, affordable, and convenient reproductive & sexual health care.

You may have seen Kiki’s story in Inc last year when she was named a 2023 Inc “Female Founder 200” winner.

What Kiki is doing with Hey Jane is saving lives. It’s creating access in all of the ways that the word is defined. 

Access is:

1. a means of approaching or entering a place — in layman's terms: a way in
2. the right or opportunity to use or benefit from something
3. an attack or outburst of an emotion; For example: “When I read about the anti-choice zealots stripping away women’s rights to control what happens to our own damn bodies every day I am suddenly overcome with an access of rage.”

Yeah…that shoe fits.

In this episode, I share my own abortion stories. Yes, I’ve had two. 

And I’m so excited to be with Kiki next week on stage at SXSW — an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences organized jointly that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas 

And we’ll be sharing the stage with Dawn Laguens, executive vice president and chief global strategy and innovation officer at Planned Parenthood and Dr. Roopan Gill — OBGyn and CEO and Co-Founder of Vitala Global Foundation

Kiki, Dawn, Roopan and I will be talking about why EVERYONE is an Abortion Beneficiary. 

Because whether you’re pro-choice or anti-choice, you — my friend — are an abortion beneficiary.

Kiki started Hey Jane because she saw a problem. And she wanted to fix it. 

I am so deeply drawn to people like Kiki. The doers. The fixers. The founders. 

The people who don’t wait for someone else to solve a problem. 

And it got me thinking…

When DO we decide that a problem isn’t going to be someone else’s to solve — and that, in fact, WE need to be the ones to fix it? 

Let’s find out. 

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