Why Women’s Health and Women’s Wealth Are Not Separate Conversations
How capital systems shape outcomes, access, and long-term security
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Now that it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in my neck of the woods, I’ve been reflecting on the year that’s ending and on what quietly began alongside it.
Earlier this week, I started another Substack publication.
It’s called The CIO View - a weekly daily memo on the financial markets written for Chief Investment Officers, wealth leaders, family offices, and anyone who thinks about wealth like a strategist rather than a spectator.
I wonder if you noticed?
I didn’t make a big announcement when it launched. I just started writing. Partly because it gave me space to return to my first love, the financial markets. And partly because it reveals a side of my work that some people don’t realise is always there.
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Widening the Lens From Women’s Health to Women’s Wealth
Many of you found me through my work on women’s health. That work hasn’t changed. But the questions it raises don’t stop at medicine. They lead directly to capital.
I’ve written before about how women’s health outcomes are shaped not only by clinical care, but by who funds research, which problems attract investment, and how long it takes innovation to reach the market. To understand those dynamics fully, the lens has to widen into the capital systems where those decisions are actually made..
Long before I started writing about women’s health, I spent more than two decades inside the financial system advising private and institutional clients on how to build, protect, and extend wealth across market cycles.
I’ve sat in rooms where markets were breaking. I’ve watched families navigate liquidity events, divorces, inheritances, and generational handovers. I’ve seen how wealth behaves under stress and how quietly it compounds when it’s structured well.
That experience didn’t sit apart from my work on women’s health. It gave me the context to see how capital decisions shape outcomes long before they show up in clinics or balance sheets.
The Questions Women Keep Asking About Money
And over the years, especially from women, I’ve been asked the same questions in different forms:
I’m not good with money. Where do I even start?
How do I invest beyond what my bank shows me?
How do people actually build wealth not just save money?
Those questions have stayed with me. Because the honest answer is uncomfortable: most of us were never taught how wealth actually works. Not because it’s impossibly complex, but because access, ownership, and capital allocation have always been proximity-based.
Working with the ultra-wealthy for more than twenty years gave me a front-row seat into how wealth is really built. What struck me wasn’t brilliance or bravado. It was how early they learned the rules; rules most people are never shown. And that brings me to what I want to do next year.
A 12-Week Series on Women and Wealth
Starting Sunday, January 10, I’m beginning a 12-week Sunday series here on women and wealth. This is not about hustle culture or “get rich quick”. And it certainly won’t be financial shame repackaged as empowerment.
This is about understanding the system that is already shaping your outcomes whether you are paying attention to it or not.
For many women, especially those in their 50s and beyond, the next ten years matter financially more than the last thirty. Inflation, longevity, healthcare costs, and timing all converge here. Waiting, staying in cash, or relying solely on what feels familiar are not neutral choices even for careful, responsible savers.
Over these twelve weeks:
You’ll learn why most women were never taught how wealth actually works and what that omission has quietly cost over time.
You’ll see how money behaves across cycles, especially in an inflationary environment.
You’ll understand how public and private markets fit together, where real wealth is created, and why so many people never even see those opportunities.
We will also talk honestly about access, confidence, and readiness as structural realities that determine who gets to participate and who doesn’t.
The goal isn’t to turn anyone into an investor overnight. The goal is clarity. Clarity about how money actually moves so you can protect what you’ve built, position yourself for what’s coming, and decide when and how to participate with confidence.
Because without that understanding, even diligent, careful savers can find themselves quietly falling behind through invisibility. Once you understand the system, you stop second-guessing yourself. You stop outsourcing every decision. And you start making better ones earlier, and with far more agency.
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What Capital Has to Do With Women’s Health
You might be wondering what any of this has to do with women’s health.
Well, everything really.
Because your capital is a vote. Every dollar allocation is a signal about what we value, what we prioritise, and what we’re willing to back. We can spend years pointing out what’s broken (and much of it is) or we can also learn how to participate in shaping what comes next.
Why Participation Changes Outcomes
Most women (and some men) are excluded from the venues where the world’s wealth (and influence) is created not because they don’t belong there, but because no one ever made the system legible. I want to change that. I want us to change that. Not by telling women what they should do. But by showing how the system actually works.
Because when we understand how wealth really behaves, we don’t just grow our own security. We become allocators. We become owners. We get seats at tables that quietly decide what gets built and what doesn’t.
And if the future we want includes better health outcomes for women, then our participation - our capital and our conviction has to be part of that story.
This isn’t about leaving women’s health behind. It’s about widening the lens.
Health.
Wealth.
Time.
Agency.
They are not separate conversations. They never were. The first essay in this series will land on Sunday, January 10.
If you know a woman in her 50s or 60s, a friend, sister, colleague, or mother who has worked hard, saved carefully, and is quietly wondering whether she’s done “enough,” feel free to share this with her. Not as advice, but as orientation.
To go deeper, pre-order my upcoming book The Billion Dollar Blindspot to learn why women’s health is the future of healthcare investing.
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Disclaimer & Disclosure
This content is for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute financial, investment, legal, or medical advice, or an offer to buy or sell any securities. Opinions expressed are those of the author and may not reflect the views of affiliated organisations. Readers should seek professional advice tailored to their individual circumstances before making investment decisions. Investing involves risk, including potential loss of principal. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
The Oligarchs are not just an issue in political realms, they exist in Medicine.
A small group of influential individuals, decide...everything.
I cannot name a single female in that small group.
Not. One.
Because women have been systematically locked out of wealth generation at scale.
*...the questions it raises don’t stop at medicine. They lead directly to capital...*
Bingo
Money decides what gets "discovered"