Anne Fulenwider: Alloy Women’s Health Co-Founder

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🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Anne Fulenwider is the co-founder of Alloy Women’s Health, a start-up dedicated to helping women receive safe, effective treatment for the symptoms of menopause. From a young age, Anne wanted to be a writer. After college, she landed a job working for the famed writer George Plimpton at The Paris Review. Over the next decade, Anne continued honing her writing and editing skills at publications such as Vanity Fair, Marie Claire, and Brides, and in 2012 took on the role of the editor in chief at Marie Claire. Over her eight-year tenure, she brought her editorial voice to the magazine and created new projects like the Image Maker Awards and Power Trip. In 2016, a devastating personal loss made Anne realize there was still so much work to be done in women’s health, and in 2019, she left her post to found Alloy Women’s Health with her friend Monica Molenaar. In 2021, they raised $3.3 million in seed funding and launched the company with a telehealth service to allow women access to crucial hormone prescriptions. Over the last five years, they’ve scaled and expanded Alloy to include in-depth consultations with physicians and customized treatment plans with prescription and over-the-counter products while achieving profitability within just three years.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm Hillary Kerr the co-founder and chief content officer of
0:10.0	Who What Where and this is Second Life, a podcast, spotlighting women
0:16.0	who have truly inspiring careers.
0:19.1	We're talking about their work journeys,
0:21.0	what they've learned from the process
0:22.4	of setting aside their doubts or fears, and what happens
0:26.3	when they embark on their second life.
0:28.6	Today on the show, I'm speaking with the co-founder of Alloy Women's Health and former Marie Claire editor-in-chief, Anne Fullenwider.
0:37.3	When Anne was a kid, she wanted to be the next Joan Didion, so she studied English literature at Harvard, worked on the literary magazine, and after graduation, got a job working for the renowned writer and co-founder of the Paris Review, George Plimpton.
0:52.0	She eventually moved over to Vanity Fair where she Paris Review, George Plimpton.
0:52.8	She eventually moved over to Vanity Fair, where she rose to be a senior editor.
0:57.1	The next few years were a whirlwind of promotions, as Anne worked as the executive editor
1:02.4	of Marie Claire, the editor-in-chief of
1:04.8	Bride's magazine, and only a year later, the editor-in-chief of Marie Claire.
1:10.0	Over her tenure, Anne revitalized and transform the magazine expanding the types of stories
1:16.4	Marie Claire told and introducing new projects like Power Trip. In 2016 she suffered a devastating personal loss, and a few years later, driven by a desire
1:27.4	to improve care for the millions of women who began menopause every year, she left Marie
1:32.0	Claire and co-founded alloy women's health.
1:35.0	Three years in, the company offers comprehensive care to those entering parymenopause and menopause,
1:41.0	from screenings with board certified physicians to custom treatment plans and
1:45.2	evidence-based efficacious products.
1:48.3	Anne is such an incredible example of someone who followed their passion to a new and exciting path and I am so
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