Breaking the Silence Around Women's Sexual Health, Pain, and Pleasure with Michelle Gelband

Podcast: The Empowered Woman | Storytelling & Women Empowerment · Marta Spirk | Entrepreneurship & Storytelling Mentor

Opublikowano: 2026-10-09

In this episode, we're joined by Michelle Gelband, a sex therapist in New York City and the founder of Openly Health, a platform designed to help women navigate sexual health care across every stage of life. Michelle shares how her years working in OB-GYN settings revealed a major gap in conversations around sexual health, pain, pleasure, and intimacy, and how her own experience with endometriosis and a fragmented healthcare system deepened her passion for creating change. She opens up about her personal journey with painful periods, painful sex, advocating for herself as a patient, and the challenges of finding...