The Human Body Doesn’t Care About VC Funding | Dr. Colette Edwards #humanbody

What happens when you build a health product that ignores the one thing that matters most: the human body? As Dr. Colette Edwards puts it, “The human body doesn’t care about VC funding. The human body does not care about ROI.” In this episode, we explore what it really takes to innovate in healthcare without losing sight of the people you are building for. Our guest is Dr. Z. Colette Edwards, Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Pausitive Health, a holistic one-stop digital health destination for women navigating every stage of the menopause journey. A gastroenterologist with an MBA, Dr. Edwards is also managing editor of the Wharton Healthcare Quarterly and the author of several books on health and wellness, including Navigating Your Health Care Journey: Lessons Learned to Get the Care You Need and Deserve. She previously served as national medical director for associate health and well-being at a Fortune 50 company, overseeing 55,000 employees and acting as clinical lead during the COVID pandemic. In this episode, Dr. Edwards breaks down why prevention and healthy lifestyle are still underweighted in medical training, where AI genuinely helps in medicine and where removing the human becomes dangerous, why women’s health, and menopause in particular, remains chronically underfunded, and the single most important rule for anyone building a health product: loop in the people you are designing for, early and often. Whether you’re a startup founder, biotech entrepreneur, digital health innovator, or life sciences leader, this conversation offers a rare blend of clinical insight and practical advice for building products that people actually adopt. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 “The human body doesn’t care about VC funding” 0:23 Welcome to From Lab to Patient, Garage to Market 1:00 Meet Dr. Colette Edwards 2:41 Her background: a gastroenterologist with an MBA 3:46 What a primary care physician really does 5:08 Why healthy lifestyle and prevention matter 6:22 The gaps in medical education around prevention 8:49 Where innovators can help deliver reliable health information 10:11 AI and simulations in medical training 11:48 Where AI helps in medicine, and where it gets dangerous 13:59 Why she chose gastroenterology 17:18 About Crowley Law 18:54 The gap in women’s health 19:29 What Pausitive Health is and why she built it 23:07 The funding gap in women’s health 24:09 Why menopause gets overlooked 25:23 Integrative modalities and a holistic approach 27:07 The moment that sparked Pausitive Health 30:40 Tip 1: keep the end user front and center 33:02 The one EMR that actually worked, and why 34:14 Closing thoughts 🔗 Connect with Dr. Z. Colette Edwards & Pausitive Health: 🌐 Website: https://www.pausitivehealth.com/ 💼 LinkedIn:   / pausitive-health   📸 Instagram:   / pausitive_health   ▶️ YouTube:    / @pausitivehealth   📖 Book: Navigating Your Health Care Journey (Z. Colette Edwards) 📚 Get Phil’s book ‘Avoid Startup Failure’: https://www.amazon.com/AVOID-STARTUP-... 📺 Watch & Listen: 🌐 Website: https://www.crowleylawllc.com ▶️ YouTube:    / @crowleylawllc   🎵 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0FQvlE5... 🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... 📻 iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-fr... 💼 Connect with Phil Crowley: LinkedIn:   / philcrowleynjny   Facebook:   / crowleylaw   #WomensHealth #Menopause #DigitalHealth #HealthcareInnovation #AIinHealthcare #LifeSciences #StartupFounder #PreventiveCare #HealthTech #FromLabToPatient