Go Faster…You Can Always Slow Down Later. Lessons from the Home[ward] Grown Mentorship Program || EP. 182

Inspiring Women with Laurie McGraw

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Jenny Schneider and her Home[ward] Grown mentee, Nathalie Gouailhardou, co-founder of Neurode — a wearable headband that can track and treat ADHD symptoms.

This episode rounds out a full year of the Home[ward] Grown Mentorship series where every quarter, Dr. Jenny Schneider selects a CEO/Founder into this mentorship program. Now if you are in healthcare, and as long as you haven’t been living under a rock, then you know Jenny – mom, physician, athlete, and accomplished serial entrepreneur and leader. And busy!!! So very busy. AND STILL, Jenny created Home[ward] Grown to support women CEOs, mentoring someone new every quarter. Because that job is hard. And Jenny knows a thing or two. So she makes the time. Its just that important.

Key Takeaways:
1. Neurode’s Mission: Nathalie, a neuroscientist with ADHD, founded Neurode to provide a drug-free, side-effect- free solution for ADHD. The device combines non-invasive brain stimulation and brain activity tracking to improve focus and executive function.
2. ADHD Awareness: ADHD affects both children and adults, especially women, yet existing treatments were developed primarily for young boys. Neurode fills a critical gap in personalized ADHD treatment.
3. The Mentorship Experience: Nathalie shared how Dr. Schneider’s guidance during critical stages of Neurode’s beta launch provided actionable insights, including strategies for user acquisition, team leadership, and scaling the business.
4. Home[ward] Grown Program Impact: Dr. Schneider emphasized the importance of mentorship as a tool to help women advance faster and tackle challenges in leadership roles. There is no problem that Nathalie could not figure out on her own, providing mentorship coupled with experience can lead to solving things faster. And speed matters.
5. Nathalie’s Key Take Aways: The value of storytelling in engaging investors, users, and team members; Leaning into speed and progress, even when the pace feels daunting. (“There will be time to slow down later”)

2025 Home[ward] Grown Applications:
Applications for the 2025 Home[ward] Grown mentorship program are STILL open. Details here →
https://lnkd.in/g2KGf6Er

About Nathalie:
Nathalie is the CEO and co-founder of Neurode, a company pioneering a wearable headband that treats and tracks ADHD. As a neuroscientist with ADHD herself, she combined her expertise in brain-machine interfaces with personal insights to create a user-friendly and innovative device. Neurode was born from firsthand experience with the side effects of medication feeling her determination to build an alternative that doesn’t have these same downsides. With her co-founder Damian and the Neurode team, they have validated Neurode’s technology through clinical trials. Now, Nathalie is focused on expanding Neurode’s private beta, giving people the chance to experience a new way to improve focus and memory.

Learn more at neurodelabs.com

About Dr. Jenny Schneider:
I am CEO of Homeward, a technology-enabled healthcare provider delivering care to those who don’t have it, starting in rural America.

Previously, I served 5 years as the Chief Medical Officer and President of Livongo. At Livongo, I was responsible for product, data science, engineering, marketing, clinical operations, and our growth strategy. In my final year at Livongo, we led the company through the largest consumer digital health Initial Public Offering in history, a secondary offering, a convertible debt offering that raised over $540 million, and the industry’s largest merger ever between Livongo and Teladoc Health, valuing Livongo at $18.5 billion and beginning a new era of consumer centric virtual care. I was honored by Modern Healthcare as one of the 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives and by Fierce Healthcare as Woman of Influence for our work empowering women and modeling diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

In October of 2020, I joined the Board of the Health Assurance Acquisition Corp., a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) with Hemant Taneja, Glen Tullman, Dr. Stephen Klasko, Quentin Clark, and Anita V. Pramoda. Our mission is to partner with leading health and care businesses leveraging technology. We aim to support their efforts to become iconic category winners that accelerate the digital transformation of existing healthcare into a new system of health assurance.