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Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo

Betr Remedies

Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo & Cadence13

Society & Culture, Arts

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Ellen sits down with her business partners Jen Hoffman and Livio Bisterzo, the co-founders of Betr Remedies. Betr Remedies makes over-the-counter medicine and is on a mission to improve medication access in America. They discuss medication waste, inequities in medication access, and how they are working toward mending our broken healthcare system.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello again, welcome to Tell Me.

0:03.3

On today's episode, I am speaking with Jen Hoffman and Livio Bistherso.

0:08.2

Jen Hoffman is an industry veteran and a business leader with decades of experience in drug

0:12.8

manufacturing and Livio Bistherso is an entrepreneur with decades of expertise in consumer packaged

0:18.8

goods, or CPG, with a focus on conscious products, one of which you might know is hippies

0:23.8

the very popular organic and vegan snacks.

0:26.3

Jen and Livio are my partners in a company that we co-founded together called Better Remedies.

0:32.5

Better Remedies is an over-the-counter medicine company with a gift-back component.

0:37.6

We believe that everyone should have the health care they need.

0:40.9

In America, one in four people cannot access life-saving medication and it's not because

0:46.2

of lack of supply.

0:47.5

We've created this company and our mission really is to address a health equity issue.

0:52.5

My conversation today with Jen and Livio is the first part of a two-part series.

0:57.8

Next week, I'll be speaking with Kia Williams, who runs a program called Sierra.

1:02.0

Better Remedies is working together with Sierra to address medication access.

1:07.7

Before I got involved in this business, I had no idea that there was such a problem with

1:11.9

medication access in this country and Jen and Livio came to me with this idea about how

1:16.3

to address this problem.

1:17.8

I hope you enjoy both conversations.

1:31.6

I have two of my favorite people on today.

1:33.8

We have Livio Bisterzo and Jen Hoffman.

1:37.4

Hi, guys.

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