First Person Health: stories about ovarian cancer
This episode features voices from First Person Health, a creative storytelling workshop which helps women express their experiences with health and illness, diagnosis and recovery. This is a special o...
17 Syys 27min
Cancer survivorship and its shadow, with Dr Mercedes Castiel
There are many positive developments in cancer treatments right now, and the overall survival rate for cancer across the board is ticking upwards. But there’s a shadow here. Survivorship is overlooked...
1 Syys 28min
Why Black women are twice as likely to die of this cancer, with Dr Kemi Doll
Gynecologic oncologist Dr. Kemi Doll explains how clinical guidelines built without Black women in mind, and decades of dismissed symptoms means that Black women are twice as likely to die of endometr...
18 Elo 30min
Stories from the 'First Person Health' workshop
'First Person Health' is a storytelling workshop, and this episode features two moving pieces from women who took the class: Patsy Day tells a devastating story about her stillborn child, and says th...
4 Elo 19min
On the passing of my mom, Teresa Arthur
Teresa Arthur, whose story with ovarian cancer was the reason Overlooked was created in the first place, passed away on July 2nd, 2026. In this episode, Golda reflects on her mom’s passing, and re-in...
16 Heinä 15min
From period pain to the pain scale: why we struggle with the language of pain, with Kate Downey
This episode is a special collaboration with Cramped, a podcast hosted by the dynamic Kate Helen Downey. Golda and Kate talk about the language of pain, why women talk about their pain differently tha...
24 Kesä 37min
The cost of endometriosis, with Sanju Pal
Sanju Pal was a high-performing management consultant when she was told she had a cyst on her ovary the size of a Coke can. But sitting in her gynecologist's office, facing urgent surgery, all she cou...
2 Kesä 25min
Understanding and treating PMDD, with Shalene Gupta
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder, or PMDD is an overlooked and under-researched condition - a severe form of PMS. Shalene Gupta is the author of ‘The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD’, a...
12 Touko 29min
