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SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesDone Is Better Than Perfect: Season 1 Review + Season 2 PreviewYou don’t have to be a “podcast person” to start a podcast. In this episode, Linda shares the behind-the-scenes truth of Season 1 and the simple system that helped them ship ten episodes, even with perfectionism in the room.What You'll Learn:The Hook: Why “I don’t even listen to podcasts” can still be the start of a podcast.Reality Check: The honest constraints: no commute, no headphones, and a brain that needs quiet to think.The Shift: The moment it clicked that voice carries nuance text can’t, and support makes...
2026-07-0205 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesAre Finances Making You Anxious? Let’s Fix That ft. Arielle TuckerMoney. Just the word made Danna's face look like she'd been slapped with a cold, wet, rotten fish.In this episode, we sit down with Arielle Tucker —certified financial planner, IRS enrolled agent, and fellow expat—to talk about the thing nobody wants to talk about: how financial stress is wrecking your health, and what to actually do about it.Whether you're avoiding logging into your bank account, drowning in tax complexity as an American abroad, or just hoping retirement will somehow sort itself out—this one's for you.What You'll Learn:The to...
2026-06-2438 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesYour Business Needs to Work Without YouThought you were building a team, but it still feels like everything depends on you? In this episode, Linda breaks down what actually has to change for your business to run without you and gives you a practical 90-day roadmap to make it real.Link to Operational AssessmentFree Scoping Session with LindaWhat You'll Learn:The Hook: The real question isn’t “can you take a vacation?” It’s “would the business still function if you had to disappear for two weeks with no warning?”Reality Check: A founder’s su...
2026-06-1813 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English Voices'Just Hire Someone' - That's Terrible AdviceWhen you’re overwhelmed, hiring sounds like the obvious fix. But if you don’t have clear outcomes and simple processes first, you’re not hiring help, you’re hiring more questions (and more chaos). In this episode, Linda shows you the “pre-hire” work that makes bringing someone on actually reduce your workload.What You'll Learn:The Hook: Hiring doesn’t solve overwhelm; it often turns chaos into expensive chaos.Reality Check: A founder hired three people fast and ended up working more because nothing was defined or documented.The Shift: The real probl...
2026-06-0407 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesHow to Scale Your Business when There is Only One of You | Arielle TuckerWhat needs to change when doing everything yourself stops being sustainable?Arielle Tucker is a certified financial planner and IRS-enrolled agent who helps US expats and globally mobile families with tax and financial planning. In this conversation, we talk about what happens when your business starts working, but everything still depends on your personal capacity.What Arielle shares:Why growth can start to feel heavy when the business depends too much on youHow visibility can create trust, referrals, media opportunities, and new clientsHow contractors, content repurposing, podcasting, and AI can help you build more...
2026-05-2952 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesHow Small Problems Become Big FiresEver notice how the thing that “wasn’t urgent” somehow becomes the thing that blows up your week? In this episode, Linda explains why small problems escalate when they have nowhere to land, and how a simple weekly ritual can keep issues from turning into emergencies.What You'll Learn:The Hook: The real reason issues don’t surface early is usually the system, not the people.Reality Check: A client complaint sat untouched for two weeks because it felt too big for chat but not big enough for a meeting.The Shift: T...
2026-05-2107 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesThe Meeting That Saves Me 10 Hours a WeekYour team is flooding you with messages and “quick syncs,” but somehow you still don’t know what’s actually getting done. In this episode, Linda breaks down the one 30-minute weekly meeting that replaces the chaos with a simple rhythm: everyone sees the same numbers, surfaces the real issues, and leaves with clear priorities.What You'll Learn:The Hook: Why constant Slack pings and endless meetings are usually a symptom of missing one key weekly rhythm.Reality Check: How a growing team can create more interruptions when there’s no predictable place to get ali...
2026-05-0706 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesIt's Not A Process If It Only Works When YOU Do ItYou take a day off and everything grinds to a halt, because the “process” is actually just you. In this episode, Linda van Egmond shows you how to turn what’s in your head into a system your team can run without constant check-ins.What You'll Learn:The Hook: Why your phone blows up the moment you step away, and what that reveals about your business.Reality Check: How growth can increase pressure when the critical knowledge lives in one person’s head.The Shift: A process doesn’t have to be complic...
2026-04-2307 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesDon’t Quit Yet: Job Crafting for Sustainable Work and Better BoundariesIf you’ve ever thought, “Something has to change, but I can’t just burn it all down,” this episode is for you. When work has been a major factor in stress or burnout, it can feel like the only real option is to quit. Job crafting offers a calmer, more practical alternative: small, intentional adjustments that make your day-to-day work fit your energy, values, strengths, and limits.You’ll learn what job crafting is (and isn’t), why it can be especially helpful for a sustainable return to work, and how to start with low-risk experiments instead of b...
2026-04-1516 minBack After BurnoutDon’t Quit Yet: Job Crafting for Sustainable Work and Better BoundariesIf you’ve ever thought, “Something has to change, but I can’t just burn it all down,” this episode is for you. When work has been a major factor in stress or burnout, it can feel like the only real option is to quit. Job crafting offers a calmer, more practical alternative: small, intentional adjustments that make your day-to-day work fit your energy, values, strengths, and limits.You’ll learn what job crafting is (and isn’t), why it can be especially helpful for a sustainable return to work, and how to start with low-risk experiments instead of b...
2026-04-1516 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesStop Measuring EVERYTHING: Measure What MovesThought more metrics would make things clearer, but you feel even more stuck? In this episode, Linda breaks down why tracking everything leads to overwhelm and inaction, and how to choose the handful of numbers that actually change your results.What You'll Learn:The Hook: More dashboards do not mean more clarity when you do not know what to do next.Reality Check: Tracking everything can paralyze you, but tracking nothing leaves you blind until it is too late.The Shift: Lead indicators predict results and are the only numbers you...
2026-04-0907 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesRethinking Consistency: A Business That Fits Mom Life | Maryia RamanavaControversial but… What if the goal isn’t to fit your business into motherhood, but to build your business around the life you really want?Maryia Ramanava helps women simplify their marketing and build visibility in a way that fits their reality, and in this episode we talk about flexible business models, consistency without pressure, and what it looks like to grow a business around motherhood instead of against it.What Maryia shares:How she stopped forcing one fixed business model and built one that could move with motherhood insteadWhy building with little kids has...
2026-04-0857 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesWhen Work Is the Last to Know: Hidden Burnout, the “Work Wall,” and How Leaders Finally Get Help with the ARriVE Framework featuring Eric KreitzIf you’ve ever felt like you had to keep it together at work no matter what, this conversation will hit home. Eric Kreitz shares what it looked like to lead at a high level while quietly burning out, why “coping” can morph into something dangerous, and why work is often the last place people let the truth in.We also dig into what happens after time off. Returning after burnout, addiction treatment, or a mental health leave is rarely as simple as picking up where you left off. Eric breaks down the ARrIVE Reintegration Framework, a practi...
2026-04-0152 minBack After BurnoutWhen Work Is the Last to Know: Hidden Burnout, the “Work Wall,” and How Leaders Finally Get Help with the ARriVE Framework featuring Eric KreitzIf you’ve ever felt like you had to keep it together at work no matter what, this conversation will hit home. Eric Kreitz shares what it looked like to lead at a high level while quietly burning out, why “coping” can morph into something dangerous, and why work is often the last place people let the truth in.We also dig into what happens after time off. Returning after burnout, addiction treatment, or a mental health leave is rarely as simple as picking up where you left off. Eric breaks down the ARrIVE Reintegration Framework, a practi...
2026-04-0152 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesMoving to Germany: Expat Taxes, Visas, and Money TipsThinking about moving to Germany? In this episode of Passport to Wealth™, Arielle Tucker, CFP®, EA, sits down with fellow cross-border financial planner Jordan Vlastuin, CFP®, to unpack what Americans really need to know before relocating.From choosing the right visa to understanding German tax treaties, federal pensions, and the realities of setting up life abroad, this conversation is packed with insights for expats and future movers alike. Arielle and Jordan discuss the nuances of tax residency, planning before you move, currency risk, and how local advisors can make, or break, your financial plan overseas.Whet...
2026-03-3128 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesYour Team Can't Read Your Mind: How to Use the Vision Check-InYou have a clear vision in your head, but your team is building from an older version of it. That gap is where good work quietly goes off the rails. In this episode, you’ll learn why “I already told them” is rarely enough, and how a simple, repeatable check-in keeps everyone executing the same priority, with the same context, at the same time.What You'll Learn:The Hook: Your team is working hard, but still missing the mark, because they cannot execute the updates you never explicitly shared.Reality Check: When your vision...
2026-03-2608 minSwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesS03E06 Lisa: From Recurring Loss to Hard Choices to Motherhood. A Rare Diagnosis, Donor Egg IVF Across Borders, and a Birth That Tested Every Limit.Send us Fan MailLisa's resources are below this descriptionWhat an episode. When Lisa is told again and again that her recurring miscarriages are “just bad luck,” she knows that's not it. She follows her intuition, pushes for deeper testing, and finally gets an answer. Lisa has a balanced chromosomal translocation, a rare genetic rearrangement that makes naturally conceived pregnancies far more likely to end.That diagnosis forces impossible choices. Lisa and her Swiss husband look at IVF realities, adoption barriers, and the heartbreak of more loss, then choose donor egg IVF. But...
2026-03-231h 15
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesTalking About Burnout at WorkIf you are weighing whether to talk about burnout at work, this episode helps you slow the decision down without pressure. You will hear why disclosure is rarely a simple yes or no, and how to think about your own safety, privacy, and support needs in a way that keeps you in control.Karina breaks disclosure into two paths: the choices you make deliberately, and the moments where disclosure happens more organically because the situation creates “room to share.” Through practical factors, relatable scenarios, and research that explains why some workplaces make these conversations easier than others, you...
2026-03-1517 minBack After BurnoutTalking About Burnout at WorkIf you are weighing whether to talk about burnout at work, this episode helps you slow the decision down without pressure. You will hear why disclosure is rarely a simple yes or no, and how to think about your own safety, privacy, and support needs in a way that keeps you in control.Karina breaks disclosure into two paths: the choices you make deliberately, and the moments where disclosure happens more organically because the situation creates “room to share.” Through practical factors, relatable scenarios, and research that explains why some workplaces make these conversations easier than others, you...
2026-03-1517 minSwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesS03E05 Giulia: Long Labour, Unplanned Cesarean Birth and A Diagnosis of Hirschsprung's DiseaseSend us Fan MailGiulia's resources are below. Wow, what a story. You will want to stick around for the postpartum discussion and her incredibly brilliant moment which left not a dry eye on the recording that day. A birth plan can be thoughtful, informed, and deeply held and still get rewritten in real time. Guilia came into labour hoping for a low-intervention, midwife-led experience at Triemli Hospital in Zurich, supported by preparation, hypnobirthing tools, and the belief that staying open to Plan B matters. What follows is a powerful Swiss birth story ab...
2026-03-121h 19
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesGoals Keep Slipping? Why It Happens and How to Fix It.It's the end of the quarter. You look at the goals you set 90 days ago and realize you did maybe one of them. The rest are still sitting on the list. In this episode, Linda breaks down why goals keep slipping and shares a simple weekly rhythm that makes your 90-day priorities actually happen.What You'll Learn:The Hook: Why ambitious 90-day goals quietly slide when there is no weekly rhythm to keep you connected to themReality Check: The real reason goals do not get done is not laziness or lack of...
2026-03-1208 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesStrategy is Not A Plan: The Bridge Between to ActionYou spent a full day on strategy. You mapped the vision, set the goals, and left energized. Then Monday happened, and that beautiful plan went straight into a drawer. In this episode, Linda shows you why your strategy stays stuck on paper and exactly how to bridge the gap between thinking and doing.What You'll Learn:The Hook: Why strategic plans feel productive but disappear the moment you're back at your deskReality Check: The pattern Linda kept seeing in strategy sessions—great alignment, zero follow-through, because no one bridged strategic thinking with op...
2026-02-2608 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesThe Art of Coaching: Evaluating the First Session with JoannaBehind the SessionThe first session is done—and Danna and Megan are debriefing. What just happened? What worked? What do listeners need to know about getting the most out of health coaching?Joanna came in like a lot of first-timers: a little anxious, full of questions, not quite sure how coaching works. She wanted a program. A protocol. Something concrete. But that's not how this goes. Good coaching isn't about talking at someone—it's about listening, pulling out what's really going on, and meeting people where they are.The good news? Joanna alre...
2026-02-1813 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesJoanna's Health History - Special Coaching SeriesChapter 0: Before We BeginMeet Joanna: working mom, twin wrangler, cheese enthusiast. She's got four-year-old twins, a ten-year-old who moonlights as a paid babysitter, and a brain that hasn't known single-tasking in years.She's here because of the afternoon crash—that 2pm slump that wipes her out. She wants her focus back, her energy back, her brain back. But she's also clear about what she's not here for: diets. Diet culture. Anything she wouldn't want her daughters to see.Joanna eats flexitarian, leans plant-based for the planet, but isn't giving up cheese anytime so...
2026-02-1829 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesA Real Client. Six Sessions. One Coaching Series. (Here’s How to Listen)Thanks for listening to the introduction episode for our coaching series with Joanna.This project follows a real three-month coaching engagement with six coaching sessions. We recorded the coaching sessions themselves, plus Joanna’s full health history, plus debrief episodes where Danna and I reflect on the coaching session and break down what we were listening for.Here’s the easiest way to listen, depending on what you want more of.If you want to hear the actual coaching sessions (the real-time coaching conversations between Danna and Joanna), listen on So Frickin’ Healthy.I...
2026-02-1804 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesDelegating vs. Dumping: Are You Bad at Delegating?Thought you were bad at delegating? You're probably just bad at setting people up to succeed. In this episode, Linda breaks down why your team keeps coming back with questions and exactly how to fix it.What You'll Learn:00:00 The Hook: Why delegation feels like it's failing (hint: it's not about trust)00:58 Reality Check: The story of founder Kate, whose capable team couldn't stop asking questions02:06 The Shift: Delegation isn't about handing off tasks. It's about setting people up to win.03:16 The Move: Three questions that change everything before...
2026-02-1208 minSwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesS03E03 Emily: From Infertility due to PCOS to Joy, Support and Healing.Send us Fan MailEmily's resources and contact info are below this description :After five years of trying, Emily and her husband's fertility journey ends not with another treatment cycle, but with an act of surrender and faith. And then, a positive test surprises them two weeks later! Emily, a UK–Italian psychologist living in Uster, ZH, invites us into her honest, layered journey through PCOS, infertility, a late breech pregnancy, and an induction at Spital Uster that swung from serene to urgent in minutes. We...
2026-02-111h 10
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesImpact Founders, Listen Up! It Doesn't Have to Be This Hard!You're building an impact-driven business that matters. But you're drowning in decisions, stuck in the weeds, and thinking: this is harder than it needs to be.You're right. It is hard. But it doesn't have to be this hard.This Is Harder than I Want It to Be is your 5-8 minute weekly reset. One problem reframed. One action to take. One change that creates space.Hosted by Linda van Egmond, a 20-year veteran of working with impact founders and B-corp startup operator, this show tackles the real challenges of scaling without burning...
2026-02-0501 minSwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesS03E02 Ana: A Heart-Shaped Uterus, Walking Epidural and Finding Her PowerSend us Fan MailAna's resources are under this description.A clear plan helps, but the real story begins when birth asks you to adapt. Anna joins us from Zurich to share how she chose motherhood on her own terms, navigated a heart-shaped uterus without panic, and prepared through hypnobirthing, swimming, yoga, and an English antenatal class at Triemli Stadtspital in Zurich city. What follows is a vivid, vulnerable account of labour: nausea between contractions, a walking epidural that brought crucial rest, and the moment where language clarity changed care.As p...
2026-01-2959 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesQuitting Her Job Postpartum: What This Mom Learned About Building a Business Around Nap Time | Saríce HolleyHow do you take better care of yourself when motherhood, work, and exhaustion have left your running on empty?Saríce Holley helps moms nourish themselves through pregnancy, postpartum, and everyday life, and in this episode we talk about what realistic wellness looks like when motherhood changes your energy, routines, and capacity.What Saríce shares:What taking care of yourself can look like when motherhood has completely changed your energy, routines, and capacityWhy so much wellness advice does not work for moms, especially when it ignores the mental load and stop-start rhythm of re...
2026-01-2839 minSwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesS03E01 Diana: 2 Births in Zurich- A Fast First Hospital Birth And A Taxi Delivery For Her Second BabySend us Fan MailDiana's resources are below this description: What happens when labour quickly goes from quiet to unstoppable and the only “birth room” around has four doors and a meter running? We sit down with Diana, a Brazilian living in Zurich, to relive two unforgettable births: a swift, positive first delivery at Spital Zollikerberg in Zurich and a second that arrives in a taxi during rush hour- no midwives, no doctors, no time, just instinct and inspirational courage.We start with the ease of her first birth and the rare gift of a...
2026-01-081h 03
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesBefore You Quit Your Business at Year One: A Real Talk on Motherhood, Grit + Branding | Rebecca FarleyHow do you build a business that actually fits your life when motherhood changes your energy, capacity, and definition of success?Rebecca Farley helps women create brands and businesses that feel aligned, and in this episode we talk about what it really looks like to build something sustainable when motherhood, burnout, and comparison are all part of the picture.What Rebecca shares:What starting a business while pregnant actually looked like once motherhood hitWhy trying to work the old way can push mom entrepreneurs straight toward burnoutHow to create a brand and business that...
2025-12-0247 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesThe First 5 Tasks to Hand Off to a VA: Delegate the Drain | Renee HastingsHow do you know when it is time to get support instead of just trying to push through the overwhelm on your own?Renee Hastings helps overwhelmed business owners get practical support through virtual assistants, and in this episode we talk about what delegation can look like when you need more breathing room, better systems, and less pressure on your shoulders.What Renee shares:How she went from being a single teen mom on welfare to building a VA agencyWhy saying “I’m overwhelmed” is often a real sign you need helpHow to think about...
2025-11-1447 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesLonely, Tired, or “Stuck”? A 4-Minute Emotional Reset for Mom CEOs | Tera WagesSnapping at your kids or easily overwhelemed when you’re doing your best to hold it all together?Tera Wages helps people identify and process emotions more clearly, and in this episode we talk about what it looks like to move through overwhelm, guilt, and emotional overload when you are trying to lead at work and stay present at home.What Tera shares:Why overwhelm often builds when we lose touch with what we are actually feeling, and how naming the real emotion can help you move through it fasterHow guilt and shame affect mo...
2025-11-0341 minSwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesS02E09 Joanna: Rethinking Authority, Confidence and Where We Give Birth. One Hospital Birth in Poland and One Home Birth in Switzerland.Send us Fan MailJoanna is a small business owner living in Glarus with her family. She owns Moon and June, a non-alcoholic apertif made in Switzerland. Her resources are below this description. A decade can change everything. Joanna went from a fast-paced banking career and a midwife-led hospital birth in Poland to a slow, deliberate, deeply supported home water birth in the Swiss mountains—finding a new kind of confidence along the way. Her story threads through motherhood, blended family life, and the tension between authority and intuition, showing how respectful car...
2025-10-301h 13SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesS02E08 Maggie: How A Planned Twin Cesarean Became A Grounded, Joyful Birth And A Gentle PostpartumSend us Fan MailMaggie Wyss, PhD, is a researcher, writer, and international health expert exploring the intersection of gender, health, and society. Her work is centered on how women navigate complex decisions, particularly in pregnancy, birth, and motherhood. Her resources are below this description:What if a twin cesarean could feel calm, connected, and even a little spiritual? We sit down with Maggie, a mom of three, to trace a full-term twin birth that began with a change of plans, unfolded with a warm, communicative medical team, and flowed into a...
2025-10-2358 minSwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesS02E07 Kristina: Pandemic Pregnancy to Empowered Parenting: Resilience, Gentle Support and ConnectionSend us Fan MailKristina's resources are below this desriptionIf you’re craving a nuanced, practical take on birth, breastfeeding, and entrepreneurship/work- light on dogma, big on real-life problem-solving then this is the story for you. A long labour, a late epidural, and then the hardest part hits after birth: every latch feels like fire. When Kristina finally asks to stop, one midwife shames her- and another walks in with calm, options, and a plan that changes everything. That simple shift from pressure to partnership unlocks two years of breastfeeding and a n...
2025-10-161h 07SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesEp. 34 Pairing Functional Medicine with Health CoachingMegan and fellow coach Danna revisit an early episode to unpack functional medicine—what it is, how it differs from conventional care, and how a functional approach can sharpen a health coach’s practice. Expect practical examples (BP meds, antibiotics + probiotics), how to vet providers, and what extra training changed in Danna’s client work.Back in 2018, Megan introduced functional medicine as an option when conventional care feels stuck on symptom relief. In 2025, she and Danna (a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach) compare notes: What does “root cause” really mean? How do labs, lifestyle, and nutrition fit together...
2025-10-0216 minSwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesS02E05 Gülkiz: Fast Labour, Birth House, Redefining "Doing It Right" PostpartumSend us Fan MailGülkiz' resources are belowA wrong email address reshaped an entire birth story. We sat down with a scientist‑mum whose path wound from Berlin’s buzz to Zurich’s quiet trails, through months of trying to conceive, a surprise double‑line at dawn, and a chance discovery of a birth house (Geburtshaus Zollikerberg, in the Zurich, Switzerland area) that aligned with her values. What followed was a swift, deeply supported labour: hip squeezes practiced in class, affirmations in the bath at 1 a.m., a midwife’s steady calm when vo...
2025-10-0252 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesOn Bridging Theory and Practice in Health AI - HIMSS Europe Series with Amanda LealAccountability and Responsible AI Governance in Healthcare.In this final episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series from the 2025 HIMSS European Health Conference, host Claire Murigande speaks with Amanda Leal, the AI governance and policy specialist at HealthAI.HealthAI, the global agency for responsible AI in health, is an independent nonprofit organization that promotes equitable access to AI-powered health innovations.In this interview, Amanda reflects on her personal journey within the realm of healthcare and AI governance. Drawing from her legal background and experiences in tech policy, she shares her motivation to contribute...
2025-09-2714 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesOn Transitioning to Gender-Specific Medicine - HIMSS Europe Series with Thao NguyenUtilising Existing Clinical Data for Gender-Specific Health Improvements. In this new episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series from the 2025 HIMSS European Health Conference, host Claire Murigande speaks with Equal Care Founder & CEO Thao Nguyen.Equal Care is rewriting medicine with precision, equity and inclusion by certifying prevention, diagnostics, and treatments with sex and gender balanced clinical data.Thao's insights reveal an optimism for the future, with expectations for increased recognition and implementation of gender-specific practices across the healthcare continuum, ultimately leading to a paradigm shift that will benefit patients, healthcare providers, and t...
2025-09-2515 minSwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesS02E04 Johanna: The Birth That Changed Everything- When Pain Transforms into PurposeSend us Fan MailJohanna's resources (including her website and new podcast) are below this descriptionThe journey to motherhood transforms us in ways we never expect. For Joanna, an Australian expat living in Switzerland, what began as a dream-come-true pregnancy turned into a birth story filled with unexpected twists – from her water breaking in the bath to a husband who wouldn't answer his phone (and was immediately presumed dead), a taxi driver who got lost en route to the hospital, and ultimately, a challenging posterior labor that demanded everything she had. She gave birth at...
2025-09-251h 12
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesOn Investing in Women's Health - HIMSS Europe Series with Ida TinThe Future of Femtech and Why Women's Health Matters to All.In this new episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series from the 2025 HIMSS European Health Conference, host Claire Murigande speaks with pioneering tech founder Ida Tin, the Co-founder of Clue and the Founder of Femtech Assembly think tank.Ida explores the evolution of the Femtech sector since she coined the term in 2016. She empahsizes the necessity for women's health to be acknowledged as a social imperative and to consider its implications for everyone. Ida advocates for framing women's health issues within the broader context...
2025-09-2315 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesOn Rethinking Preventive Care Through AI - HIMSS Europe Series with Dr. Jérôme BouazizThe Intersection of AI and Preventive Medicine Through The Lens of Women's Health.In this new episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series from the 2025 HIMSS European Health Conference, host Claire Murigande speaks with Dr. Jérôme Bouaziz, the Co-founder & CEO of One Clinic.Dr. Bouaziz is a gynaecologist and entrepreneur. In this interview, he shares how his group, One Clinic, utilises AI in facilitating individualised patient assessments, thereby enabling better integrated care and prevention.Dr. Bouaziz believes that women are the solution for prevention. He sees women’s health as the most...
2025-09-1818 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesOn Navigating Endometriosis Care - HIMSS Europe Series with Julie HanellThe Labyrinth of Endometriosis Diagnosis.In this new episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series from the 2025 HIMSS European Health Conference, host Claire Murigande speaks with Julie Hanell, a business podcast host and an endometriosis patient.Julie candidly shares her personal journey with endometriosis, navigating the healthcare system. She highlights the importance for patients to advocate for their health by seeking multiple opinions and conducting thorough research.Julie shares her hopes for the future of endometriosis care, which includes advancements in surgical techniques and overall patient care. She envisions a medical landscape where p...
2025-09-1612 min
SwissCast Shows: Where Swiss Life Meets English VoicesOn Gender Bias in Diabetes Technology - HIMSS Europe Series with Dawn AdamsChallenging Healthcare Norms Through Women’s Experiences in Diabetes Management.In this new episode of Narratives of Purpose's special series from the 2025 HIMSS European Health Conference, host Claire Murigande speaks with Dawn Adams, a seasoned midwife specialised in diabetes, pregnancy, and women's health. Dawn underscores the necessity of recognising the distinct physiological responses of women to medications and technologies historically developed within male-centric frameworks, particularly in diabetes care.The conversation further delves into the implications of these disparities, urging a reevaluation of the methodologies employed in clinical research and technology development to foster inc...
2025-09-1117 min