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Aug 10, 2026
Calling Off Her Wedding Changed Everything: Choosing Herself & Building Allara Health with Rachel Blank
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2:12Emily ElizabethHOST
Like, let's talk about early 20s, Rachel, undergrad, and then we'll fast forward to Harvard Business School.

Rachel BlankGUEST
So I've always been interested in like numbers and business to study business undergrad at UVA and ended up going into consulting after college like so many people at the undergrad business school do.

Rachel BlankGUEST
But I realized that actually consulting and banking like it just felt so different.
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34:28Emily ElizabethHOST
you, you like, let's say, or do most people who have that, do they mostly get it around puberty or do some like randomly get it at 25?
She turned a personal diagnosis into a fast-growing women's health company 5/5/26
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Julia BoorstinHOST
Why, instead of just solving your own medical problems, did you decide to make it a business?

Rachel BlankGUEST
Yeah, I always like to say in a lot of ways, me founding Alara was just a very frustrated patient who decided that I wanted something better.

Rachel BlankGUEST
So for context, I was diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome, PCOS, in my early 20s.
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