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Jessica Schaefer

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
147 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

On the VC funding, I come from a different seat, mostly because the PR firm I built, we worked with a lot of venture capital funds, but we were primarily focused in fintech. It wasn't until the last two years of the company that we started to see this shift. And there was so much more capital flowing into healthcare, flowing into femtech.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

On the VC funding, I come from a different seat, mostly because the PR firm I built, we worked with a lot of venture capital funds, but we were primarily focused in fintech. It wasn't until the last two years of the company that we started to see this shift. And there was so much more capital flowing into healthcare, flowing into femtech.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And from my perspective, it made sense to transfer into this industry. I really believe that you need to be able to spot waves and know when to get off. And so Bevel was always focused in fintech and crypto. And then we just started to see the doors open here. On the funding, specifically for women healthcare companies, even this year, women's rights are certainly top of mind on the ballot.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And from my perspective, it made sense to transfer into this industry. I really believe that you need to be able to spot waves and know when to get off. And so Bevel was always focused in fintech and crypto. And then we just started to see the doors open here. On the funding, specifically for women healthcare companies, even this year, women's rights are certainly top of mind on the ballot.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And from my perspective, it made sense to transfer into this industry. I really believe that you need to be able to spot waves and know when to get off. And so Bevel was always focused in fintech and crypto. And then we just started to see the doors open here. On the funding, specifically for women healthcare companies, even this year, women's rights are certainly top of mind on the ballot.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And so I think that it's not just... our issue. It's everyone's issue. And so I think communicating to VCs in the way that they would understand that, hey, listen, the U.S. growth rate and birth rate is the lowest it has ever been. And third world countries are outpacing our growth rates faster than ever. That's a conversation that anyone can digest because it'll have huge economic impacts.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And so I think that it's not just... our issue. It's everyone's issue. And so I think communicating to VCs in the way that they would understand that, hey, listen, the U.S. growth rate and birth rate is the lowest it has ever been. And third world countries are outpacing our growth rates faster than ever. That's a conversation that anyone can digest because it'll have huge economic impacts.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And so I think that it's not just... our issue. It's everyone's issue. And so I think communicating to VCs in the way that they would understand that, hey, listen, the U.S. growth rate and birth rate is the lowest it has ever been. And third world countries are outpacing our growth rates faster than ever. That's a conversation that anyone can digest because it'll have huge economic impacts.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And so it's not just a woman's issue. I think it's an issue for everyone.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And so it's not just a woman's issue. I think it's an issue for everyone.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

And so it's not just a woman's issue. I think it's an issue for everyone.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

It's a population issue. Yeah, we're not having enough babies.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

It's a population issue. Yeah, we're not having enough babies.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

It's a population issue. Yeah, we're not having enough babies.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

I think most people don't know because one in 4 billion people get egg yolk sac tumors. When I had it, there wasn't a cure, but an egg yolk sac tumor, it reached stage four, and I was treated at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. And one of the graduates, a new graduate from medical school, Dr. Korones, he actually was able to find a cure and treat it very aggressively through chemotherapy.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

I think most people don't know because one in 4 billion people get egg yolk sac tumors. When I had it, there wasn't a cure, but an egg yolk sac tumor, it reached stage four, and I was treated at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. And one of the graduates, a new graduate from medical school, Dr. Korones, he actually was able to find a cure and treat it very aggressively through chemotherapy.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

I think most people don't know because one in 4 billion people get egg yolk sac tumors. When I had it, there wasn't a cure, but an egg yolk sac tumor, it reached stage four, and I was treated at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester. And one of the graduates, a new graduate from medical school, Dr. Korones, he actually was able to find a cure and treat it very aggressively through chemotherapy.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

But my fertility was always like From a very young age, I was two and a half years old and then I was in the hospital for two years. Because I had chemo and because I had radiation, they were like, you're probably not going to be able to have kids.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

But my fertility was always like From a very young age, I was two and a half years old and then I was in the hospital for two years. Because I had chemo and because I had radiation, they were like, you're probably not going to be able to have kids.

Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer

But my fertility was always like From a very young age, I was two and a half years old and then I was in the hospital for two years. Because I had chemo and because I had radiation, they were like, you're probably not going to be able to have kids.