Golden Hour

What happens when you're a physician, you know how the healthcare system works, and you still can't get answers about your own body?In this episode of Golden Hour, Dr. O sits down with Dr. Gowri Aragam, a UCSF psychiatrist and host of Sense of Self, for a deeply personal conversation about chronic pain, motherhood, medical dismissal, and the experience of no longer recognizing the person you...

What happened to the village we're always told it takes to raise a child? And what if it hasn't disappeared so much as we've forgotten how to participate in it?In this episode of Golden Hour, Dr. O sits down with entrepreneur, community builder, and new mother Mun Yee Kelly for a conversation about connection, motherhood, and the quiet isolation of modern life.After three days of labor, an...

What happens when medicine becomes more technologically advanced without becoming more responsive to the people it serves?In this episode of Golden Hour, Dr. O sits down with Dr. Nasim Afsar, MD, MBA, physician executive, former Chief Health Officer at Oracle, and author of Intelligent Health, to explore why healthcare needs more than new technology. It needs a fundamentally different approach to...

What if leaking when you laugh isn't simply a sign of getting older? What if painful sex isn't something you have to endure? And what if the answer to better pelvic health involves much more than doing Kegels?In this episode of the Golden Hour, I'm joined by Dr. Tanya Goodrich, a doctor of physical therapy, founder of Healthy Pelvis Physical Therapy, and pelvic-health specialist with more than 15...

What happens when a pregnancy ends in loss, but life keeps moving forward? And what happens when you become pregnant again while still grieving the child you lost?Nina Larsen is the CEO and co-founder of Omaia Health, an AI-enabled maternal mental health platform focused on supporting emotional well-being during pregnancy and postpartum. But her journey into maternal health began with something...

What happens when the life you worked incredibly hard to build changes you—and then ends?Meaghan Rose knows what it means to build while becoming.As the founder and former CEO of Roxbox, the pioneering jewelry rental subscription company later acquired by Signet Jewelers, Meaghan helped shape an era of direct-to-consumer brands while raising more than $20 million and becoming a mother of three...

Breastfeeding is often framed as an individual choice—and when it doesn’t work, an individual failure.But what if we’re looking at the wrong problem?Michelle Nirumandrad is the founder of Human Milk-y Way, a platform using technology, community, and data to rethink how we value and support human milk. She is also a mother of five and a longtime milk donor who estimates she has donated...

What happens when you spend decades learning how to navigate a body—and a healthcare system—that other people cannot see?Keva Dine is the founder and CEO of the Keva Dine Agency, a global creative recruitment firm. For more than 25 years, she has built a powerhouse career while living a parallel life with endometriosis and adenomyosis—a story she has never shared publicly until now.In this...

What if some of the things parents believe they should be able to do “naturally” were never meant to happen without other people?Dr. Emily Little is a developmental scientist, perinatal health expert, founder of Nurturally, and the “Baby Myth Buster.” Her work examines infant development, caregiver-infant bonding, physical touch, lactation, postpartum mental health, and the cultural practices...

What if one of the biggest problems in fertility care is that we wait too long to start talking about fertility?For much of our reproductive lives, the healthcare conversation centers on preventing pregnancy. Then, when someone decides they're ready to conceive, we often expect them to try for months—or even a year—before fertility becomes a meaningful part of the conversation.Katie Jaxheimer...