The Health Diaries

How This Health Entrepreneur Balances the Working Mom Life

‘I’m a very low-maintenance eater. If I even eat lunch, that’s a good day.’

There are many ways to live a healthy life. The Health Diaries is a weekly series about the habits that keep notable people living well.

About 80 percent of health care decisions for children are made by women, and Kate Ryder wants to make that responsibility easier. Ryder is the founder and CEO of Maven, a digital health company and family benefits platform founded in 2014 that’s focused on women’s and children’s health with an extra emphasis on supporting working mothers and new mothers returning to work.

Maven members have access to more than 1,400 providers — OB-GYNs, therapists, nutritionists, pediatricians, and more — through the company’s app and as a benefit through work. So far, it’s gaining traction. Maven announced in September 2018 that it had secured $27 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total funding to $42 million.

Ryder shares with Medium how she’s made the transition into life as a working mom and her predictions for women’s health care in 2019.

I’m up by at least 6 a.m. every day. I have two children in diapers, so I don’t really…