The Truth About Women's Health & Wellness Nobody Talks About with Kat Schneider
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, we are joined by Kat Schneider, Founder & CEO of Ritual, a health company that is setting a new standard in the supplement industry. Today's conversation is a deep dive into women's health & wellness, and how we can make more mindful decisions about what we're putting into our bodies. Kat breaks down her journey building a supplement company by women, for women, including the challenges + struggles she faced while making a vision that had never been done before come to life. We also unpack the truth about the supplement industry no one talks about, like the differences between clinical research and which studies actually mean what. This is your sign that it's never too late to empower yourself with the tools to make healthier choices!
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Introducing Kat Schneider, Founder & CEO of Ritual!
04:10 Why is it important for women to be represented in the health landscape?
06:20 When + how to take an idea to launch.
11:50 How to cultivate a strong female-led culture from the top-down.
17:15 Practical ways to connect back to a vision that's never been done before.
21:20 How do challenges shape the business you build?
24:05 The truth about the supplement industry's regulation.
29:00 How to navigate the intersection between motherhood, CEO, and founder.
34:50 What does it look like to build a company that supports values first?
37:25 The hidden differences in clinical studies no one talks about.
42:00 Why peer-reviewed journals are the gold standard of clinical studies.
45:05 How can women make more informed decisions for themselves and their families?
49:10 Kat's top favorites + recommended products for daily health rituals.
56:20 Celebrating Kat's Powerhouse moment of scaling a category-of-one company.
RESOURCES + LINKS
Shop Ritual HERE!
Applications for our Spring 2026 Expanders Retreat are now LIVE - apply HERE!
Tickets for the 2026 Powerhouse Women Event are now LIVE HERE!
FOLLOW
Kat: @katandkale
Ritual: @ritual
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There is not nearly as much regulation as you might think about the things that we're putting in our bodies. |
| 0:07.6 | It's never been more important to be skeptical of everything. |
| 0:13.0 | The wellness world just expects that women are tiny men. |
| 0:17.0 | When you look at women's physiologies, when you look at our hormones, everything is just vastly different. |
| 0:23.5 | And this is why more women need to be launching their ideas, but then also just a part of the big decisions that are being made in these companies. |
| 0:32.0 | I knew that there was nothing in the industry that I trusted or wanted to take from my pregnancy. There was this |
| 0:38.5 | voice in my head that just wouldn't stop talking to me saying, you've got to do this, and I just |
| 0:43.0 | couldn't stop. We've invested over $5 million in clinical studies for women's health. If you were to |
| 0:49.8 | put together like this stack, is there a top three that you have for someone's daily wellness |
| 0:55.2 | rituals? My favorite stack would be, we are doing a deep dive today on women's wellness wellness |
| 1:09.7 | and something that I learned over the last several years is just the low amount of research clinical studies that are actually done on women and used to formulate the products that we're putting into our body. |
| 1:24.4 | So I'm so excited. I was geeking out over getting to have this guest on the show |
| 1:28.7 | because I've used their products for years |
| 1:30.9 | and such a fan of the way that they formulate everything |
| 1:34.5 | that they do in order to make sure |
| 1:36.6 | that the products are the highest of quality. |
| 1:39.8 | So I got to sit down with Kat Schneider, |
| 1:42.3 | who's the founder and CEO of Ritual, a health company |
| 1:45.5 | that is setting a new standard in the supplement industry. |
| 1:48.2 | We dive deep into the clinical research, why we should be really mindful of the choices that |
| 1:56.6 | we are making when we're shopping supplements and wellness products and just some very practical |
| 2:02.3 | things that you can start to look for in your purchasing decisions because, you know, as a mom |
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