When Women Get Sick—and What Rebecca Bloom Wants Us to Do About It
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Behind every delayed diagnosis and dismissed symptom is a woman who deserved better.
In this moving conversation, Guy Kawasaki talks with Rebecca Bloom, author of When Women Get Sick, about how women’s pain is too often overlooked—and what we can do to change that. With compassion and clarity, Rebecca offers a roadmap for advocacy, empowerment, and hope within a system that desperately needs reform.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's something remarkable and not in a good way. Disengaged employees cost U.S. companies |
| 0:06.5 | almost $1.9 trillion a year. That's a lot of zeros. Why? Because when teams lack the right |
| 0:13.7 | skills, productivity declines, turnover increases, and strategies stagnate. But it doesn't have to be |
| 0:20.5 | that way. At Project Management Institute, |
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| 0:29.1 | deliver on time, and actually get things done. The cost of not upskilling? Way higher than the |
| 0:35.4 | investment. Project Management Institute. Find the answers at pmi.org. |
| 0:41.9 | The appeal process is so underutilized that it truly shocks me. You can win an appeal probably almost |
| 0:50.0 | half the time, and maybe even more than that. Those are great odds when you think about it, right? |
| 0:56.4 | And yet people don't do it because they're stymied by the burden of it when they've got other |
| 1:04.4 | more important things to worry about. You're worrying about a healing process. Do you really want to |
| 1:09.8 | sit around and write fake lawyer letters about things? Do you really want to sit around and write fake lawyer letters about things? |
| 1:13.7 | Do you really want to bug your doctor to support that? |
| 1:16.6 | There's just this fatigue around the bureaucracy of it all that stops people from doing that. |
| 1:25.6 | Good morning, everybody. |
| 1:28.9 | I'm Guy Kawasaki. |
| 1:40.5 | This is the Remarkable People podcast, and we are on this never-ending quest for finding information and inspiration to help you be remarkable. |
| 1:47.3 | And we have a remarkable health care and medical care advocate today. Her name is Rebecca Bloom. You're going to learn more about health care in the next hour than is possible |
| 1:52.6 | in almost any other way because she's all about equity and education and empowerment. |
| 1:58.0 | Now she's working to bridge the gap between patients and providers and communities so that |
| 2:03.8 | care is not just available, but it's accessible and fair. |
| 2:08.1 | Her latest book is called When Women Get Sick, and I read it last night, and I must say, |
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