I'm Listening with Dr Ariella

For too long, women’s pain has been ignored, their symptoms brushed aside, and their stories dismissed — with devastating consequences.Hosted by Dr. Ariella Heffernan-Marks, this is the podcast that listens: to the women failed by the system, the researchers exposing medical misogyny, and the innovators closing the gender health gap.Brought to you by Ovum, the intelligent health partner built for women.Real stories. Radical listening. Change starts here.

I'm Listening with Dr Ariella is a health podcast hosted by Ovum, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ovum hosts I'm Listening with Dr Ariella, a health show with 12 episodes published.

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  Episode #11

  Ep 11: Partnership, Fertility & Finding Your Way with Şener Besim

  Dec 14, 202521 minS1

  <p>In this special Her Issue edition of I’m Listening, Dr Ariella once again hands the mic to her mum – journalist and podcast host Deborah Blashki-Marks.</p><p>Deborah sits down with internationally renowned designer Şener Besim, who opens up about the creative partnership he shares with his wife, Kelly, and the surrogacy journey that shaped their family. </p><p>In this intimate and honest conversation, Deborah and Şener explore:• How partnership fuels creativity, and why working with his wife Kelly made the brand stronger• The long, emotional surrogacy journey that shaped their family, resilience, and worldview• What eight y...

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  Episode #10

  Ep 10: The Future of Early Detection with Helen Frazer

  Nov 30, 202533 minS1

  <p>In this special Her Issue edition of I’m Listening, Dr Ariella hands the mic to someone very special — her mum, journalist and podcast host Deborah Blashki-Marks. </p><p>Deborah sits down with Dr Helen Frazer, radiologist, Clinical Director of St Vincent’s BreastScreen, Adjunct Associate Professor, and winner of the ANZ Women in AI Innovator of the Year.</p><p>Helen is leading one of Australia’s most ambitious medical AI programs, BRAIx — a world-first initiative using artificial intelligence to improve the accuracy, speed, and equity of breast cancer screening.</p><p>In this episode, Deborah and Helen explore:<...

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  Episode #9

  Ep 9: The roots of medical gender bias, with Amy McLennan

  Nov 16, 20251h 2mS1

  <p>Recorded live at SXSW Sydney 2025, this episode uncovers a truth that shapes every woman’s experience in healthcare: medical bias isn’t accidental — it’s built into the system.</p><p>Dr Ariella is joined by Associate Professor Amy McLennan, medical anthropologist and educator at ANU, to trace how history, research practices and cultural assumptions have created a model of medicine designed around men.</p><p>Together, they explore:</p><p>How women were excluded from clinical trials — and why the effects still distort diagnosis and drug safety</p><p>Why “every cell has a sex,” and what that means for medi...

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  Episode #8

  Ep 8: When ambition meets illness, with Michelle Irving

  Nov 2, 202545 minS1

  <p>What if living with chronic illness could deepen, not derail, your power? In this episode, Dr Ariella sits down with Michelle Irving — founder of Career & Chronic and Chronic Illness At Work — to unpack practical ways women can protect their health, honour their ambition, and lead with sovereignty. We explore “badass boundaries” in the clinic, the crucial mindset flip from pleasing to patient autonomy, and Michelle’s elegant emotional map of chronic illness (from “at sea,” to “washed ashore,” to the “new forest,” to the “return to the village”). We also walk through a career roadmap that acknowledges off-ramps, on-ramps, “the new,” and long stretches...

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  Episode #7

  Ep 7: The pregnancy everyone missed, with Joyce Jiao

  Oct 22, 202532 minS1

  <p>In this moving episode, Dr. Ariella Heffernan-Marks sits down with Joyce Jiao — a founder and mother whose story reveals what happens when intuition collides with a system that doesn’t listen.</p><p>After giving birth, Joyce began experiencing strange sensations — fluttering in her stomach, chest tightness, weight loss — but her symptoms were dismissed as postpartum anxiety. Months later, an ultrasound revealed she was 18 weeks pregnant — and living with Graves disease, a condition that could have put both her life and her baby’s at risk.</p><p>Together, Ariella and Joyce unpack:✨ How bias and data gaps lead to dangerous d...

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