Heather Hasson
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Sure. Yeah, that was, well, yeah, I started seeing it in December and then it hit really hard in March of 2020. Where were you? I was in, where was I? I think I was in Vietnam actually at the time.
No, I was with our manufacturers. Oh, yeah. Okay. And I'm like, okay, something is going to happen here really quickly. Because we're in healthcare and we see everything, right? And we're in communication with healthcare professionals globally. So we know we have our finger on the pulse. I'm like, okay, this is going to get serious really quickly.
Yeah, I think we were a little bit ahead of the normal commercial world since we are so in tune with healthcare. But we didn't realize the magnitude of what was going to happen. Nobody did. Right. So it was honestly our partnering with our manufacturers. It was... partnering with anybody who we knew to get our masks to healthcare professionals.
I mean, we had calls saying, I'm using a mask eight times and I'm putting it in the oven to sterilize it and my institution's not helping us out. Oh my gosh. They couldn't help them out. And it was our duty as a company to protect and to provide gear for healthcare professionals, right? They're on the front lines. Right. And so we just...
did everything we could to get hundreds of thousands of masks to healthcare professionals. We just gave them out for free. We made oxypulses. So that was a huge thing too. The pulse oximeters? Yeah. Oh, interesting. I didn't know you did that. Yeah. That was a really big deal because with the breathing and healthcare professionals were handing them out to patients. So we gave them a ton.
And then we said, give these out to patients so they would know when to come to the hospital if they needed to come to the hospital again. But yeah, I mean, it was... The entire company was amazing, and we really just were working 24 hours a day for quite some time, for, what, two years, year and a half?
It was awesome. It was honestly a lot of work. I think to be able to get to a place of like, okay, we are taking our company public is an incredible milestone. Even though it's, I mean, it is grueling. It is very difficult. And it looks easy, obviously, from the outside, right? Oh, you made tailored scrubs. You had a great brand. Oh, you went public. First female founders go public. Great.
But there have been like... you know, major hardships along the way. And there still are, right?
One that was actually that really, really got me was we were in a terrible, terrible lawsuit. Oh, gosh. Yeah. And I think, you know, I was being personally sued as well for everything. My company was being sued and it was like, are you going to lose everything? And you can.
I just think about being a giant killer sometimes. Right. Like David. I don't know. You're just slaying dragons left and right. No, like in the sense of like, yeah, right. Because like the people that were suing us, they were the giants, right? They were the Goliaths. We were the Davids.
David and Goliath. David and Goliath, right? And I move on very, very quickly. So it's like, okay, next and then go. I mean, I think everybody has to be resilient in order to be on this earth. You have to be. You have to be pliable in some, you know, fashion. Yeah. But yeah, you just move on to the next thing. Go. Yes.
Well, about two years ago, I started to see healthcare professionals having an issue with certifications and education. And I started a company in healthcare education, and we have not launched yet, and we're about to launch soon. We're in beta. And basically, we came out with a new way for healthcare professionals to get certified. We track and manage your certifications.
So it's healthcare professionals learning from each other instead of learning necessarily even from a textbook or from a third party. So a specific example actually just happened today, which was pretty cool. Here in the United States, when you have a baby, and sometimes our OB-GYNs, right, they are protocols to cut up. And in Colombia, you cut laterally, and that's their protocol there.
And so we're watching these two surgeons talk on our platform. They're like, why do you do this? I'm like, well, this is why. This is the research. This is the papers.
And they're like, okay, that is really fascinating to know that. So that's just one micro example, but times that by millions.
Yes. And right now, I mean, we have 10,000 professionals on here. We're watching, we're learning, we're iterating. And it's really neat to see when healthcare professionals learn, even just no protocols from state to state or hospital to hospital or country to country. You're finding a need. Yeah, we're finding a need. And I didn't do this. I actually just did this as a passion project.
Because I didn't really want to start another company. Zero desire.
Yeah, I think... I can't, first of all, for me, I can't sit still. I always have to be doing something. And I always have to be solving for a problem because that's just how my mind works. If I'm not solving for something, I feel like I'm worthless. So I think this is a very, very big issue in healthcare. And my job is to, okay, how do I help healthcare professionals?
How do I be their biggest cheerleader? How do I give them time back so they can have better patient outcomes, right? And so selfishly, so I'm a patient too, right? So I can live longer and live healthier and live the best life ever. How do I do that for Heather? Make sure all our healthcare professionals are taken care of. So this new company is amazing. And it's called Aug.
It's called Aug Health. And we're super excited to launch it. And I think it's going to make a massive difference in healthcare education.
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