Episodes
Changing Who Writes the Checks: Naseem Sayani on Women Investors, Social Capital, and Building the Women’s Health Pipeline
In this episode, host Grace Vinton welcomes Naseem Sayani, founder and CEO of GCWC and Director of WHAM’s Innovators Circle. They dive deep into a critical question: why does it matter who allocates capital, not just who raises it? Naseem shares her journey from incubators to founding her own fund, revealing the collaborative and abundance-driven style that sets women investors apart. She debunks ...
Agentic Patient 11: ""I stopped letting AI read my daughter's medical records" (Karlien Hollanders)
She has 408 of her daughter's medical documents. She stopped letting AI read them — here's why. Karlien Hollanders is a pharmacist who became her daughter's medical record. When her firstborn went into complete renal failure at two months old and was diagnosed with primary hyperoxaluria type 1, she spent three years moving between Belgian specialist hospitals that could not exchange data with each...
The Body Keeps Score... and I Was Losing
Sometimes your body tells you what your mind has been too busy to notice. Nurse Alice was working, traveling, building businesses, caring for patients, raising a family and keeping up with life. From the outside, everything looked fine. But her body was telling a very different story. In this deeply personal episode of Ask Nurse Alice, she opens up about what was happening behind the scenes during...
CEO Ending the 5-Year Diagnostic Odyssey for Kids With Genetic Disease!
Katherine Stueland is President and CEO of GeneDx (Nasdaq: WGS), a $3 billion public company that diagnoses more children with genetic disease than any lab in the world. Since taking over in 2021, she has brought the company to profitability and launched new tests that are changing how rare disease is diagnosed. On the day of this recording, she was named a 2026 Fierce 50 honoree for Health Equity...
Changing Who Writes the Checks: Naseem Sayani on Women Investors, Social Capital, and Building the Women’s Health Pipeline
In this episode, host Grace Vinton welcomes Naseem Sayani, founder and CEO of GCWC and Director of WHAM’s Innovators Circle. They dive deep into a critical question: why does it matter who allocates capital, not just who raises it? Naseem shares her journey from incubators to founding her own fund, revealing the collaborative and abundance-driven style that sets women investors apart. She debunks ...
How To Keep Building A Company When Your Idea Is Too Early For The Industry, Luis Oscar RamĂrez
This first international episode of The Tech Glow Up was recorded live in Harajuku, Japan at the offices of Mawari — a company building the streaming infrastructure for the next generation of smart glasses and immersive experiences since 2017. Luis Oscar RamĂrez is the co-founder and CEO. He started Mawari in Shibuya with a straightforward premise: if the world is three-dimensional, the internet s...
Why Your Title Doesn't Mean You Have Power in VC
In this episode of Inspiring Women, host Laurie McGraw (EVP, Transcarent) sits down with Paige Hendrix Buckner, CEO of All Raise, the nonprofit working to grow the power and influence of women and non-binary venture capitalists. Paige breaks down why having the title of "partner" no longer guarantees real decision-making power inside VC firms, and why that gap is quietly blocking capital from reac...
Prescribing Wealth: A Doctor's Prescription for Financial Freedom
Is your money working for you, or are you just working for your money? Dr. Nkem Ezeamama, CEO of Pheenyx Capital Investment, is an ER physician who discovered that the business of medicine was changing faster than the practice of it. When a private equity firm took over her hospital and began slashing physician hours, she realized relying solely on her clinical income was a risk she couldn't affor...
101 Episodes in Under 2 Years: What I've Learned About the Human Side of Tech Innovation
Episode one started with a hypothesis: innovation is hard, and you shouldn't have to do it alone. 101 episodes later — recorded in under two years — that's still the most consistently true thing on this show. This is a solo episode where I'm marking The Tech Glow Up's milestone and sharing what 100-plus conversations with founders, CEOs, and product leaders have actually taught me. The patterns ar...









