Hi everyone, Sophia Bush here. Welcome to work in progress, where I talk to people who inspire me about how they got to where they are and where they think they're still going.

Today on work in progress, I am so excited to share my conversation with a woman who is beyond inspiring.

She's tenacious, resilient and relentlessly dedicated to the well-being of women at large.

Cindy Eckert is a serial entrepreneur and highly vocal advocate for women, specifically in the areas of business and health.

Over her impressive 24-year career in healthcare, Cindy created and sold two innovative pharmaceutical companies,

Slate Pharmaceuticals and Sprout Pharmaceuticals.

At Sprout, she forged a new path in women's healthcare by creating Adgi, the first ever FDA approved drug for low sexual desire in women.

After selling it for a billion dollars only to see it shelved by the company that bought it, she bought tooth and nail to get it back and made sure it was made available for women against all the odds.

She now mentors and invests in entrepreneurs with groundbreaking ideas through her investment fund, the Pink Sealing.

This Pink U-Bader helps women do what Sydney has already done herself, achieve big success, take command and mail-dominated industries, and truly change the world.

On today's episode of Work in Progress, Cindy and I discussed what it's like to move around a lot as a kid, the importance of individuality in the workplace, and how the best way to change a problematic industry is to change it from within.

We also explore the social conditioning of women around the subject of sexual pleasure, and why female sexual health is largely overlooked.

This episode is all about advocating for ourselves as women and demanding better. You'll want to share this one with every woman you know.

I'm so pumped that we're doing this today, thank you for joining me.

Absolutely. I'm so happy.

Before we get into your work, what you're doing in healthcare, what you're doing with the Pink Sealing, I always like to go backwards with people of it, because so often when I sit across from someone and interview them, it's about what they're doing in the world now.

I'm always curious where people started. I've read that you said that you had a bit of a nomadic childhood, because your dad was with the State Department, and you moved around a lot.

Where do you consider yourself being from, and then how often were you moving?

I think it's such a good question. Where am I from? My joke to everybody is I live on an airplane, which is probably because I don't really identify with any one spot.

I'm actually my business is based in North Carolina, and I've been here as long as I've been anywhere in my life, which is remarkable to me.

I'm a regional childhood, and I think foundationally my roots are very blue collar. I'm from upstate New York, Rochester, and lived in a town where you were Irish or you were Italian.

Your parents probably worked at the factory, and I had this incredibly adventurous spirit of a father who came home one day and said, do you know where the Fiji Islands are?

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