Overlooked: Women's Health Can't Wait
Immersive personal stories and conversations about women's health.
Overlooked is an award-winning women’s health podcast, hosted by journalist Golda Arthur.
In this podcast, we ask, what has been most overlooked, and where is the inequality felt more deeply?
The mission of Overlooked is to empower women by helping them advocate better for themselves, and we do this by featuring immersive personal storytelling, and in-depth conversations about women’s health.
Overlooked began as a series about ovarian cancer, told through the story of Golda's mother, Teresa. After that first season, the show broadened its focus to look at other topics and stories about women's health, including menopause, endometriosis, motherhood, and survivorship.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 40
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Discovering a borderline tumor in your 20s, with Lucy Rudd
Episode Summary:
In this episode of Overlooked, host Golda Arthur speaks with Lucy Rudd, a biomedical scientist from the UK, who shares her powerful story of discovering a borderline ovarian tumor at …
Not your mother's menopause, with Dr. Gillian Goddard
Episode Description:
What’s the difference between menopause and perimenopause anyway? Is there such a thing as menopause misinformation? Why don’t we know more about menopause and HRT? Dr. Gillian Go…
Sharing a difficult story about cervical screening, with writer Brittany Chaffee
Brittany Chaffee talks about navigating cervical health testing, and recounts the moment she received an alarming call from her doctor, leading to years of anxiety, biopsies, and eventually, a harrow…
Creating a new path in women’s health: Oriana Papin-Zoghbi
Oriana Papin-Zoghbi is the co-founder of a women’s health startup called AOA Dx that is working towards early detection for ovarian cancer. Oriana talks about the challenges the company has faced in …
Where do we get our health information from? With Dr Brandi Sinkfield
How much do we really know about our bodies - and did we learn it in real time, when something went wrong, or on a scroll through social media? We need accurate, credible information that is relevant…
Mapping the ovaries, with Dr. Kathleen E. O’Neill
We still have so much to learn about the ovaries, including describing and naming parts of these organs in detail. Dr. Kathleen O’Neill talks about her work with a multidisciplinary group of research…
Endometriosis and Pain, with Gabrielle Jackson
Endometriosis is a complex condition and journalist Gabrielle Jackson has spent most of her life dealing with it. She tells her personal story, the pervasive issue of chronic pain in women, and the m…
Season 2: Women's Health Can't Wait
Welcome to Season 2 of Overlooked, where women's health is brought to life through immersive personal storytelling and in-depth conversations. In this episode, a transition from Season 1, host Golda …
Bonus: A conversation about ovarian health with Dr Dianne Miller
In reporting and writing this series, I’ve become intrigued by the ovaries themselves and their underrated role in our overall health. In this episode, I talk to pioneering gynecological oncologist D…
India
Another recurrence to deal with, and then a long-awaited trip to India, to see my grandmother, as the series comes to a close.
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Survivorship
This episode hands the mic over to two other survivors of ovarian cancer - Susan Leighton, and Donna Peppin. Both Susan and Donna talk about how they're paying their survivorship forward, through adv…
Prevention
The cancer comes back again, and Mom starts a new round of chemo. At this point, I decided I would finally go and get a genetics test done for myself. In this episode, I talk to my genetics counselor…
A new drug
In 2020, Mom was dealing with the covid pandemic as well as cancer. After her chemotherapy treatment ended, she started on a new drug, called niraparib, to try and prevent a recurrence. She would end…
Genetics
This episode features:
Sarah DeFeo from OCRA.
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Recurrence
Featuring:
Dr James Bentley from Nova Scotia Health.
Alison Ross, Director of Knowledge Mobilization at Ovarian Cancer Canada.
Jennifer Barton, Director of the Bio5 Institute at the University of Arizon…
Family
Treatment
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Diagnosis
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New to Overlooked? Welcome.
Overlooked was launched in 2023 to tell the story of ovarian cancer through one woman's story. In 2024 the s…
'Fluid Puppy'
Introducing Overlooked: a podcast about ovarian cancer
For more information on the show, go to www.overlookedpod.com.
New to Overlooked? Welcome.
Overlooked was launched in 2023 to tell the story of ovarian cancer through one woman's story. In 2024 the s…