Gap one, the research.
→ UNDERSTUDIED.
My women’s health politics column highlights the research they never funded, and what it costs us waiting on the data.
Read UNDERSTUDIED →Wellness
Infrastructure™
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Wellness Infrastructure™
Regulation is not a reward. It is infrastructure.
I am a wellness strategist for female founders in tech, especially those building a company and a family at the same time. Your nervous system is your first COO, and I build the infrastructure that keeps it steady while you build everything else.
As seen in
- BCBusiness
- Tatler Asia
- The Globe and Mail
- Thrive Global
- Medium
Women’s health does not fail in one place. It fails in four.
The research was never funded. Therefore no one knows what is actually wrong with us.
The answers are being built by brilliant women the funding overlooks. So many of the breakthroughs that would change everything are still on their way…
The care was never built around the female body. So we are told our symptoms are all in our heads.
We carry all of it. The company, the household, the mental load no one else is tracking, and the fight for our own health. Dysregulated, because no one ever built the infrastructure that would let us hold this much.
Each of these failures on its own feels like bad luck. Together, it is a system.
The four answers
I stopped waiting for someone to close these gaps. So I build at every break in the line.
Gap two, the funding.
→ FUNDED.
Featuring the female founders who are closing the gap. Their companies are building the tests, tools, and data sets that women’s health is missing. I know this field because I support the women building it.
Read FUNDED →Gap three, the care.
→ Altavita.
Where you can finally get all of your tests run, in a compassionate environment. Physician-led diagnostics. We get your results while you recharge.
Visit Altavita ↗Gap four, the capacity.
→ The infrastructure I build.
Guided audios to get you started, the Babies & Empires cohort community, and one-to-one strategic advisory. The capacity to hold all of it, built on purpose.
Explore the capacity work →When you are ready, there are three ways in.
Babies & Empires
The cohort for founders scaling a company and raising children at once.
Strategic Advisory
The wellness layer built into how you operate, not bolted on after burnout.
Speaking
The gender data gap and wellness as infrastructure, on your stage.
Megan Swan is a wellness strategist. Fifteen years in Chiapas, now based in Calgary. Eight years alcohol-free. Author of Marinating in Chaos. She builds nervous-system infrastructure for the women building everything else.
More about Megan →LinkedIn is where you find me. Substack is where you get the research, and the support to hold it.
Substack is where the newsletter lives. UNDERSTUDIED, the gap I take apart, and FUNDED, the founders closing it, in one place, plus first access to the audio library. Free to read.