How She Works

Jamie Miller is a Mixed Martial Arts champion, Brazilian Jitsu Black Belt and domestic violence survivor advocate. After escaping a six-and-a-half-year abusive relationship, an experience that led to homelessness and temporary shelter placement with her daughter, Jamie rebuilt her life through martial arts, personal resilience, and an unwavering commitment to ensuring no woman walks that path alone. She went on to become an MMA champion and a two-time UFC Contender as well as the founder and head instructor of Philly Self Defense: an organization that makes self defense successful to all through workshops, corporate training, and community programs. Through Philly Self-Defense and her service across multiple city-wide boards and coalitions, our guest has provided court accompaniment, crisis resource navigation, safety planning, and trauma-informed self-defense education to survivors from every background. Advisory: This episode discusses adult themes of abuse.

Dr. Monique Sager is a Harvard psychiatry resident who specializes in sex and reproductive psychiatry. She began her career as a consultant before pivoting to medicine and earning her MD MBA from the Perelman School of Medicine and Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton she founded Wharton Femtech, the school’s first group dedicated to advancing women’s health. After medical school our guest continued her training at the Harvard Affiliated Psychiatry Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is now in her fourth and final year. If this wasn’t enough our guest is currently advancing her training further as a sex therapist candidate at the Modern Sex Therapy Institute.Disclaimer: All patient stories have been anonymized with identifying details changed or omitted. In some cases elements from multiple patient experiences have been combined into a composite story in order to protect the anonymity of each patient.

Michelle San Jose is on a mission to help those with memory loss live more independently. She is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who has dedicated the last 17 years of her career to helping people with autism and developmental disabilities develop meaningful life skills. Inspired by her own sister’s traumatic brain injury, Michelle is also the founder of Memo-ries, a free mobile app designed to help people with memory loss capture daily experiences through photos, videos, voice recordings, as well as organize other aspects of their schedules that are challenging due to memory loss.

Emily Oster is on a mission to help parents make confident data-informed decisions. She is a Brown professor who holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University. Her writing includes four New York Times best-selling books that have sold over a million copies. If this wasn’t enough, Emily is also the founder and CEO of ParentData, a one stop shop for data-driven judgement-free answers to all your questions on pregnancy, parenting, and health.

Ali Jaffe Ramis is responsible for your favorite celebrity interview. She began her career as a music talent assistant for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and quickly worked her way up to senior segment producer. Her production credits include interviews with Ina Garten, Paul McCartney, and Taylor Swift. In addition to her work in late night television our guest has written several articles for the New York Times and is the author of the popular book newsletter On My Shelf.

Tracy Taylor Ward is an award winning luxury event designer specializing in effortless, fun, chic and seamless events. She has been named one of the top wedding planners in the world by Brides Magazine and Martha Stewart weddings. Her weddings have appeared in the New York Times, Town & Country, Over the Moon, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vogue.