Betr Remedies
Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Pompeo & Cadence13
4.6 • 1.1K 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.
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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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