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Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo

Betr Remedies

Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo & Cadence13

Comedy, Society & Culture, Arts

4.81.1K 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. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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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