ThinkrTalk

ThinkrTalk

ThinkrTalk is the only podcast spotlighting the bold ideas and breakthroughs happening at the intersection of biopharma, healthcare technology and investment.   We’ll bring you smart conversations with the TRAILBLAZERS transforming patient care—from inside pharma, scaling health techs, or leading the charge in funding the next big innovation.​   Expect real-world advice, fresh perspectives, and stories that fuel action. Whether you’re an industry veteran or just breaking into the space, ThinkrTalk gives you a front-row seat to the conversations shaping the future of healthcare.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    From Patient-Centricity to Patient Agency: Pharma’s New Opportunity

    Send us a text and tell us what you liked about this episode! Pharma has talked about patient-centricity for decades. But today, patients are moving beyond being considered in the healthcare journey—they are actively designing it. In this episode of ThinkrTalk, Orchid Jahanshahi of ThinkrBelle is joined by Sandra Elia, author, international speaker and patient advocate with Obesity Matters, and Shawna Boynton, pharmaceutical commercial leader and Director of Marketing, Aesthetics at Galderma Canada. Together, they explore a fundamental shift in healthcare: from giving patients access to giving them genuine agency. As direct-to-patient models, AI-powered information, digital health platforms and online communities expand, patients are increasingly combining medication, tech platforms/wearables and peer support to create their own care ecosystems, often faster than healthcare and pharmaceutical systems can adapt. This timely conversation examines: Why patient-centricity and patient agency are not the same thingWhether patients are gaining control, or being forced to self-navigate a fragmented systemHow conditions like obesity, dermatology and women’s health are exposing the limitations of traditional patient journeysThe opportunities and risks created by direct-to-patient modelsWhy promising digital-health pilots struggle to become integrated or scalable in healthcareHow Pharma can move from designing for patients to designing with themWhat the industry should stop doing...and what it must start doing nowThe central challenge is clear: if patients are already leading their own healthcare journeys, what is Pharma’s rightful role? This candid discussion brings together lived patient experiences and an insider perspective to consider what a more human, connected and empowering healthcare model could look like. But is the pharma industry  prepared to relinquish enough control to help create it. This episode explores how true patient agency can people the understanding, support and power to shape what happens next in their healthcare. Send us a text and tell us what you liked about this episode! ThinkrTalk celebrates Life Science Innovators, Doers and Dreamers reshaping healthcare — one bold step at a time.  Follow the ThinkrBelle page for future podcasts! Subscribe, share with a colleague who needs a spark, and please leave a quick review to tell us what you think. Until next time, Keep TRAILBLAZING! This episode of ThinkrTalk was hosted by Orchid Jahanshahi and Produced by Marc Kostoff of The Basement Studios.

  2. May 20

    Bold Global Pharma Leaders Betting on Canada

    Send us a text and tell us what you liked about this episode! In this conversation with Susanna Howard and Miriam Lavoie we get a candid look at what happens when seasoned global pharma leaders choose Canada and decide their ambition doesn’t have to shrink with a change of address. These trailblazers talk candidly about leaving global pharma hubs to build meaningful careers and impact in Canada’s life sciences and health innovation scene. They unpack what remote leadership, growth mindset, and community support look like when trying to make an impact, without losing your ambition. These 2 recently moved to Canada for personal reasons, while keeping global influence. Using a growth mindset and curiosity they continue to navigate career pivots, networks across countries and pay it forward. We talk about the real drivers behind relocation and reinvention: family, identity, and the quiet confidence that you can lead globally from anywhere, even outside traditional hub cities. Susannah shares what she learned running global commercial excellence and what surprised her most about Canada’s healthcare system, including the urgent access-to-primary-care gap that makes virtual clinics and telemedicine feel less like buzzwords and more like necessities. Miriam connects the dots across drug development, launches, and market realities, arguing that patient access and payer realities need to shape innovation early, not as an afterthought. We also zoom out to the bigger opportunities that can shape the Canadian life sciences ecosystem: human diversity for better clinical trials, closing the “boldness gap” that can hold back world-class talent.  If you’re building a career in biopharma, biotech, digital health, or AI in healthcare, you’ll leave this podcast with a clearer sense for building in Canada with a global mindset. Subscribe, share this with someone weighing a big career move, and leave a review with the boldest bet you think Canada should make next. Send us a text and tell us what you liked about this episode! ThinkrTalk celebrates Life Science Innovators, Doers and Dreamers reshaping healthcare — one bold step at a time.  Follow the ThinkrBelle page for future podcasts! Subscribe, share with a colleague who needs a spark, and please leave a quick review to tell us what you think. Until next time, Keep TRAILBLAZING! This episode of ThinkrTalk was hosted by Orchid Jahanshahi and Produced by Marc Kostoff of The Basement Studios.

  3. Apr 20

    Entrepreneur & Intrapreneur: Two Paths to Human Impact

    Send us a text and tell us what you liked about this episode! In this episode of ThinkrTalk, we explore two distinct — yet deeply connected — paths to creating meaningful impact: building from within and building from the outside. Featuring Karine Matteau (Pharma Executive) and Tonya Dickenson (Founder of Asymmetric by Design), this conversation brings together an intrapreneur shaping change inside a global pharma organization and an entrepreneur redefining sustainability and consumer behavior through her own venture. Together, they unpack what it really takes to lead with purpose in complex environments — from navigating regulation and limited resources to challenging conventional business models and driving innovation through constraint. We cover:  How intrapreneurs create change within established systems  Why constraints often fuel the most impactful innovation  The role of data, intuition, and human judgment in decision-making  How values-driven leadership shapes long-term outcomes  Why impact is less about role — and more about mindset A grounded, honest conversation about leadership, risk, and responsibility — and how both paths can ultimately drive meaningful, human-centered change. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this conversation, please don't forget to share, like and spread the word about ThinkrTalk! Send us a text and tell us what you liked about this episode! ThinkrTalk celebrates Life Science Innovators, Doers and Dreamers reshaping healthcare — one bold step at a time.  Follow the ThinkrBelle page for future podcasts! Subscribe, share with a colleague who needs a spark, and please leave a quick review to tell us what you think. Until next time, Keep TRAILBLAZING! This episode of ThinkrTalk was hosted by Orchid Jahanshahi and Produced by Marc Kostoff of The Basement Studios.

    Entrepreneur & Intrapreneur: Two Paths to Human Impact

  4. Feb 10

    Trailblazers in Wellness and lifestyle brands with Natalie & Andrew Von Teichman

    Send us a text and tell us what you liked about this episode! ThinkrTalk is a new podcast by Orchid Jahanshahi, Founder and CEO of ThinkrBelle, a boutique advisory firm operating in the unique space among early-stage HealthTech innovator, investors and  Pharma. In this episode of ThinkrTalk, Orchid sits down with Nathalie von Teichman and Andrew von Teichman — founders, partners, parents of four, and trailblazers in modern family wellness. To Founders, parents, and anyone interested in the future of wellness, this episode is an honest conversation that is light...but also goes deep. It's about building with intention and long-term impact. Coming from distinct yet complementary worlds — pharma, consumer goods, wine, cannabis, and youth mental health — Nathalie and Andrew share how their professional paths converged into a shared mission: building brands that help families live better, emotionally and physically. The conversation traces the evolution of Miindfully, which began as a simple toy concept called MediTATE, and grew into a hardware-enabled emotional wellness tool for children. Today, it is expanding into a broader lifestyle brand rooted in presence, self-regulation and meaningful family connection. Along the way, the conversation candidly explores what it takes to build in emerging — and often misunderstood — categories, from children’s mindfulness to emotionally sensitive consumer wellness, including: Building companies before the market fully understands the categoryOne coherent strategy that blends pharma, CPG, and wellness Lessons from Andrew’s work with Kids Help Phone and youth mental health initiativesHow raising four children while building companies has shaped this couple's  leadershipThe impact of a family sabbatical in Austria on pace, values, and clarityWhat it really means to build a business together — at work and at homeHow Miindfully is thinking about scale over the next 12–24 monthsThis episode is a reminder that emotional health doesn’t start with a product. It starts with heart — presence, modeling, and care. Send us a text and tell us what you liked about this episode! ThinkrTalk celebrates Life Science Innovators, Doers and Dreamers reshaping healthcare — one bold step at a time.  Follow the ThinkrBelle page for future podcasts! Subscribe, share with a colleague who needs a spark, and please leave a quick review to tell us what you think. Until next time, Keep TRAILBLAZING! This episode of ThinkrTalk was hosted by Orchid Jahanshahi and Produced by Marc Kostoff of The Basement Studios.

    Trailblazers in Wellness and lifestyle brands with Natalie & Andrew Von Teichman

  5. 10/15/2025

    Trailblazers in Motion: A Dance of Grit & Growth

    Send us a text and tell us what you liked about this episode! If you’re navigating product launches, reshaping field forces with digital, or simply trying to lead with more clarity and less theater, this conversation offers practical playbooks you can use today.  This episode of ThinkrTalk explores what it really means to lead with grit and grace, to grow in a highly regulated industry that’s constantly evolving. We cover: redefining leadership through trust and courage, the power of collaboration across pharma and tech and how to rise, rebuild and reinvent through change. This wasn’t just a conversation — it felt like a dance among trailblazing women who’ve turned challenges into catalysts for transformation. Bold change rarely starts with a big budget—it starts with leaders who turn uncertainty into momentum. Orchid Jahanshahi kicks off the FIRST episode of ThinkrTalk with two TRAILBLAZERS from two proudly Canadian companies: Tamara Seales Knights, President of Seaford Pharmaceuticals, and Lisa Heath, Co‑founder and CEO of MediResource Inc. Together, we explore how small, independent teams build trust moats, make faster decisions, and build products that consistently serve patients providers, and payers. Tamara takes us inside a family-built, vertically integrated pharma company preparing its first innovative prescription launch. She shares the discipline behind their wins: articulate a unique value, target precisely, and keep market feedback flowing. When a line extension stalled after 18 months, the breakthrough came from reframing the problem—less about format, more about strength—a lesson in critical thinking over sunk-cost bias. Lisa unpacks three lines of business that have kept MediResource 30 years-strong: licensed evidence-based consumer health content, high-intent traffic for responsible DTC campaigns, and an insurance benefits navigation platform that connects employees to better health. We dig into hiring for diversity—people who want breadth, not boxes—why “pivot” can either be empty jargon or a real marker of resilience, and how transparency with partners uncovers hidden risks before they bite. Lisa explains why long-form, pharmacist-led content earns 5.5 million Canadian readers annually, while Tamara lays out a culture-first approach that pairs humility with high energy so teams can move fast without breaking trust. We even connect dance and health outcomes: joy, rhythm, and immediate feedback as design principles for behaviour change in both dance studios and software. Send us a text and tell us what you liked about this episode! ThinkrTalk celebrates Life Science Innovators, Doers and Dreamers reshaping healthcare — one bold step at a time.  Follow the ThinkrBelle page for future podcasts! Subscribe, share with a colleague who needs a spark, and please leave a quick review to tell us what you think. Until next time, Keep TRAILBLAZING! This episode of ThinkrTalk was hosted by Orchid Jahanshahi and Produced by Marc Kostoff of The Basement Studios.

    Trailblazers in Motion: A Dance of Grit & Growth
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ThinkrTalk is the only podcast spotlighting the bold ideas and breakthroughs happening at the intersection of biopharma, healthcare technology and investment.   We’ll bring you smart conversations with the TRAILBLAZERS transforming patient care—from inside pharma, scaling health techs, or leading the charge in funding the next big innovation.​   Expect real-world advice, fresh perspectives, and stories that fuel action. Whether you’re an industry veteran or just breaking into the space, ThinkrTalk gives you a front-row seat to the conversations shaping the future of healthcare.

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  • Creator
    ThinkrTalk
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    5
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