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16: Tara Raffi, Founder and CEO of Almond, Discusses Modernizing Women's Healthcare, Perseverance, Raising Capital, and Having a Big Vision

You Are Here

Rachel Rhee

Education, Self-improvement

5.014 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this episode, the founder and CEO of women’s healthcare company Almond, Tara Raffi, shares her journey from management consulting at one of the leading, competitive firms, McKinsey, to deciding to pursue a path in founding a women’s health company that modernizes the OBGYN experience. She shares her struggles and insights into how she got to where she is, getting into Y Combinator, raising capital, and her own self care practices that help her sustain the busy lifestyle as a founder. For...

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0:00.0

Welcome to You Are Here, the podcast where we have conversations with people who have

0:04.8

courageously taken the road less traveled. I'm your host Rachel Ree and in each

0:09.6

episode we'll be exploring stories from people who have followed their own path and are living life on their own terms.

0:16.0

Know that we're here to meet you where you are and where you'd like to be.

0:20.0

This is you are here.

0:23.0

Happy New Year friend.

0:25.0

On my end, it was so nice to disconnect from work

0:28.0

and just have so much focus time to spend with family.

0:31.0

At the end of the year, I also did some goal setting and one of the

0:35.3

areas of focus for me that I identified is really to just be more health conscious

0:39.7

as I'm sure so many of you also have some health goals on your radar.

0:44.1

I am generally someone who takes care of my health, especially given my health history.

0:48.1

However, I just want to be more intentional about this. And for me this includes regular movement, taking my

0:54.8

supplements, and really just keeping better track of all my doctor's visits and

0:58.8

lab work so that I can have a truly preventative and proactive approach to my health.

1:05.1

At the end of last year I was introduced to Almond, which is an OBGYN women's health

1:09.9

care company based in Los Angeles. They take a functional medicine approach to

1:14.4

your health and if you know me at all, you know I love a holistic approach to

1:18.4

well-being and really looking at your body and health in a 360 view.

1:23.3

So I'm really excited to have the founder of Aoment on today for my first guest of the year.

1:28.6

Tara Rafi is on a mission to make it easy for the 130 million American women to get great OBGYN care

1:36.7

that helps them feel seen and be seen with ease. She has a background and management consulting yet decided to embark on this path

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