Women in Business: An Interview with FIGS' Heather Hasson and Trina Spear

Dagny Zhu, MD, talks with Trina Spear and Heather Hasson, co-founders and co-CEOs of FIGS Scrubs, about how they help female physicians feel confident and perform their best, their initiatives to celebrate healthcare workers and address gender disparities in the medical workforce and more.

• Welcome to another episode of Mend the Gap :12
• The topic :21
• Welcome Trina Spear and Heather Hasson :31
• About how Spear and Hasson got started, and the glass ceilings they have broken as women in this industry 1:00
• Background on making clothes and fashion 4:58
• Limits in scrubs fashion, fabric; why does everything have to be a V-Neck? 5:35
• Did you always see yourself as a leader? Were you born with these leadership skills, or is it something you developed along the way? 7:03
• Can you share a little bit about your background? Were you ever interested in healthcare and medicine yourself? 9:53
• FIGS Mission Statement; What are some of the initiatives you’ve done to help address those gender disparities in the healthcare workforce? 12:07
• Utilizing social media to tell stories of healthcare workers and inspire the next generation of female healthcare workers 15:16
• As women on the business side and becoming the first female co-CEOs, what kind of obstacles did you encounter along the way? 16:44
• FIGS’ advocacy; What’s coming up for this year? 19:30
• What tips, pearls, or resources would you say to the young women today to make their place and their name in society and their own respective fields? 22:43
• Thank you 25:00

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Trina Spear and Heather Hasson are co-founders and co-CEOs of FIGS Scrubs. Spear can be reached at @trinaspear on Twitter. Hasson can be reached at @heatherhasson on Twitter.

Dagny Zhu, MD, is a cornea, cataract, and refractive surgeon and medical director and partner at NVISION Eye Centers in Rowland Heights, CA. She can be reached on twitter @DZEyeMD.