Julia Cheek, Bringing COVID Testing Home
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week we're continuing our series, Going Against the Grain, with CEO and Founder of Everlywell, Julia Cheek. Everlywell is a consumer health testing company that provides innovative, at-home kits and redesigned lab results. They are at the forefront of personalized medicine, focusing on transforming the $25 billion diagnostics industry.
Today, Julia and Jessica talk about the incredible "going against the grain" journey of being a female in the tech industry, as well as how COVID-19 testing went from an obscure concept to a catalyst for growth and innovation.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. This is your host, Jessica Honegger, |
| 0:05.3 | founder of the Social Impact Fashion brand, Noon Day Collection. Join me here every week |
| 0:11.6 | for conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared. |
| 0:18.7 | Well, thanks for all of you guys who sent well wishes to Texans. It has been a true crisis that |
| 0:26.7 | we've been in, who knew that a weak, long snow and freeze would result in a huge energy |
| 0:33.7 | and water crisis across our state. Thank you for all of those who've lent support, |
| 0:38.7 | who've sent money. We are almost out of the woods and energy has been restored and we are |
| 0:46.9 | thankful to have come together during a crisis within a crisis. The other crisis I'm talking about |
| 0:55.0 | is COVID-19, which I have not had just a straightforward, kind of geeky, scientific conversation |
| 1:03.8 | about COVID-19 with you guys yet. And that's one of the reasons I wanted to have Julia cheek on |
| 1:10.0 | the show. We are still in the middle of our Going Against the Green series. And when I think of |
| 1:15.0 | someone who is going against the grain, well, first of all, a female in the tech industry is |
| 1:20.7 | unfortunately still considered going against the grain that's still very much a male dominated |
| 1:25.2 | space. And Julia actually just received the largest series funding of any tech company in Austin |
| 1:32.7 | Ever, which is no small thing because we are a tech town. Julia cheek, she is the CEO and founder |
| 1:38.6 | of Everly Well. You might have heard of her from Shark Tank and it is a consumer health testing |
| 1:44.4 | company that provides innovative at home kits and is really redesigned how consumers think about |
| 1:52.4 | testing themselves for things like STDs, allergies, thyroid. You name it. Now her organization really |
| 2:01.8 | came on the radar this last year as we began to actually talk about testing as testing has become |
| 2:08.8 | a focal point. Julia and I have known each other for three years now. And she's been a game |
| 2:15.1 | changer in the season of COVID testing that's really brought humanity to this industry and is |
| 2:21.5 | really a people centered in everything that Everly Well does. It's an inspiring and empowering |
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