How to Get Through the Worst, Together -- Kelsey Crowe

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I think we can all agree, it’s been a rough spring with COVID-19 taking over our lives. You may know someone who’s sick, or who’s lost a loved one or their livelihood, or any number of awful things. But as this all goes down, we don’t always know what to say, or do, for someone who’s hurting, let alone asking for the help we might need ourselves. My guest Kelsey Crowe wrote a book, “There is No Good Card For This. What to Say and Do When Life is Scary, Awful, and Unfair to the People You Love” and founded a whole community called Help Each Other Out, to help us help each other. We spoke in 2017 and I thought we could all use a bit of what she calls “whiskey for the wounded.”

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Stephanie Tilenius, founder of Vida Health

The total spending on healthcare in the US in 2014 was estimated to be over $3 trillion dollars, and according to the CDC, more than 75% of our health care spending is on people with chronic conditions. Stephanie's startup Vida says their vision is to use technology to connect people to provide "continuous, connected and collaborative healthcare that drives better outcomes at a lower cost." Stephanie led the development of google wallet and the growth of Paypal. I wanted to know... will she transform access to healthcare as much as she changed how we pay for things? Listen to the conversation, or read the edited and condensed Q&A in Fortune.com.

STEPHANIE TILENIUS

STEPHANIE TILENIUS

Dr Sandra Steingraber & Karuna Jagger: Fighting the Cause of Cancer

The causes of cancer seem to be everywhere. From makeup products, to the clothes we wear, and the furniture we buy. And even if it has a pink ribbon on it to support breast cancer awareness, Karuna Jaggar of Breast Cancer Action says it's very possible that the contents are cancer-causing. And when it comes to fossil fuels, our guest Dr. Sandra Steingraber says our "regulatory system is deaf to the voice that the data has and the message it's trying to give." You can view the latest compendium from Concerned Health Professionals of NY here.

Find out how these two women are changing the status quo. Fighting the Cause of Cancer. That's our Inflection Point.

DR. SANDRA STEINGRABER, BIOLOGIST/ADVOCATE

DR. SANDRA STEINGRABER, BIOLOGIST/ADVOCATE

KARUNA JAGGAR, BREAST CANCER ACTION

KARUNA JAGGAR, BREAST CANCER ACTION