Jessie Inchauspé: Biochemist and Founder of Glucose Goddess

Second Life

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Jessie Inchauspé is the brilliant biochemist, best-selling author, and founder behind the massive Instagram Glucose Goddess. With over half a million followers, Inchauspé has created a movement to help people reconnect with their bodies through an awareness around the effects glucose levels have on everything from sleep to energy levels to skin—AKA glucose monitoring. In just a few years, Inchauspé has made the importance of glucose health more mainstream through her practical, tangible hacks in order to live one’s best life alongside her first best-selling book, Glucose Revolution. But before Inchauspé set out to start a health revolution, she began her career in Silicon Valley after receiving her master’s degree in biochemistry. There, she worked with the personal genomics and biotechnology company 23andMe, where she would become a senior product manager. On this episode of Second Life, find out how Inchauspé’s career path unexpectedly catapulted her into finding a niche field of health research that feels like a calling.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Hillary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Who Outwear, and
0:11.2	this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:16.7	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting
0:20.9	aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their Second Life.
0:26.0	Today, I'm speaking with Jessie and Chalceby, the biochemist and founder of the Instagram
0:31.6	account, Glucose Goddess.
0:34.2	If you haven't discovered her fascinating Instagram account, Glucose Goddess, or read her new
0:39.9	bestselling book, Glucose Revolution, I am happy to be your introduction.
0:45.8	Jessie has built a career around communicating a very specific aspect of science with her
0:50.4	audience, Glucose Monitoring.
0:53.3	In 2019, she started her Instagram account to share the impact blood sugar levels have
0:57.9	on overall health, including arm-mood, sleep, energy, and even skin.
1:04.0	Breaking down scientific studies in a truly digestible way, she shares graphs and tangible hacks
1:10.0	that explain how to reduce Glucose spikes and regulate your levels.
1:14.5	In just a few years, she's grown her audience on Instagram to over half a million followers,
1:20.1	and has just released her first book, Glucose Revolution, which has already been translated
1:25.0	into 25 languages.
1:27.2	But, before Jessie was decoding how things like the order in which we eat our food can
1:32.4	impact our overall health, her day-to-day looked quite different.
1:37.4	After finishing a master's degree in biochemistry, Jessie moved to Silicon Valley and sought out
1:42.3	a position with the personal genomics and biotechnology company, 23 and me.
1:48.4	There, she worked her way up the corporate ladder to become a senior product manager and
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