Melissa Blatt: Why I Started a Healthshare Company
Your Brand Amplified
Bleav + Anika Jackson
5.0 • 132 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Melissa Blatt is the Founder + CEO of indipop, offering simple and affordable healthcare for the self-employed and small business owner. She started out in the entertainment industry behind the camera, which led to business development and marketing roles for diverse companies. After leaving the corporate world to go out on her own and experience the freedom and flexibility that she was craving, she realized that healthcare was going to be a pain point. After exploring all the options for various plans and coming up with the same high premiums and deductibles, she knew she wasn't alone. 57 million in the US alone are "the Independent Population." After conducting a deep dive into the health industry, Melissa found healthshares to be an alternative solution that is not mainstream. She started indipop to curate and hand select high value plans to go on the site saving a lot of stress, time and money!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Your Brand Amplified, the podcast where we interview marketers, publicists, and |
| 0:06.5 | brands to learn their stories, what makes them tick, and tips and tricks that make a difference. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome back. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm your host, Anika Jackson, |
| 0:15.6 | and this week I'm here with Melissa Blatt. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome, Melissa. |
| 0:19.0 | Good morning or afternoon, wherever you're listening. So we connected via LinkedIn actually as a resource for my |
| 0:27.4 | company and then I was intrigued by what you do and I said no you have to come on my podcast so will you please tell our |
| 0:36.9 | audience a little bit about your company and then I want to really get in because |
| 0:40.4 | you've had so many transitions and really cool experiences. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm just really excited. |
| 0:46.1 | It's not a straight line. |
| 0:47.8 | Yeah, there's a few curve balls in there. |
| 0:56.6 | I have a company, I founded a company a company a couple years ago called Indie Pop which stands for independent population. So these are all the folks that are not employed by a company getting their health care. |
| 1:04.8 | And I'm one of these people that went out on my own and just had sticker shock when I tried |
| 1:09.9 | to get affordable health care. And it just set me into this path of trying |
| 1:15.3 | to find a solution. |
| 1:16.2 | And once I did, I said, I know I'm not alone. |
| 1:20.0 | There's 57 million people just like me who are struggling and I can go into the weeds a little bit with with health care but essentially that is a couple years ago I launched this company called Indie Pop. |
| 1:32.8 | Wow, only two years ago. |
| 1:34.2 | And did I hear you say, right before we started this, |
| 1:38.0 | that you're already, you're going to be on a magazine cover? |
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