The Practical Magic of Coven Health

“It’s not a problem that you can’t keep it together enough. It’s a problem that you have too much to keep together.” — Dr. Michelle Jacobson

What happens when a leading menopause specialist and a seasoned business builder decide that “this is just how it is” is no longer an acceptable answer?

In this episode, Lisa sits down with Dr. Michelle Jacobson and Jenn Patterson, co-founders of Coven Health, to explore why women’s healthcare so often feels fragmented—and what becomes possible when care is evidence-informed, collaborative and built around the whole woman.

They talk honestly about perimenopause, migraine, iron deficiency, anxiety, rage, libido, medical dismissal and the impossible pressure to keep everything together. They also unpack why individualized care matters, why a patient must have agency in every treatment plan, and how better education now could change the experience of the next generation.

In this epsiode:

How a two-and-a-half-year specialist wait list helped inspire a new model of care

Why publicly funded physician care is only one piece of comprehensive health support

How migraines, mood changes, fatigue and rage can intersect with the menopause transition

Why not every midlife symptom is “just hormones”

The value of prioritizing one meaningful health change at a time

What true patient-centred care and informed choice look like

How Gen X women were trained to keep it together—and what that has cost us