Episode 12: Corned It for 10 Days with Michael Conward, Co-founder of MyLÚA Health

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"I could eat fried food every day, man. Fried chicken, shrimp, fish, french fries."

Michael Conward, co-founder of MyLÚA Health, on what he gave up for 75 Commit while building an AI maternal healthcare platform that won the NIH RADx Maternal Health Challenge and landed a partnership with IBM.

This conversation gets real about what founders actually eat. Michael went from Miami kid raised on Bahamian Caribbean food and North Carolina Southern cooking (collard greens, sweet potatoes, and hands down the best Thanksgivings ever), to competitive basketball player obsessed with health and wellness, to startup founder who sometimes does not eat until 2 PM.

His co-founders? Health-conscious shoppers at the co-op ordering salmon salads with fresh berries. Michael? Still dreaming about fried shrimp platters.

But here is what matters: Michael is a food excellence person. Celebration means watching someone crush the thing they are excellent at making, whether that is a family member's signature meatloaf or a two-star Michelin restaurant in Tribeca where eight people serve thirteen guests. For his 40th birthday, his wife took him to a Tara, and he almost liked watching the service and execution more than eating the food.

Michael also shares how MyLÚA Health is using agentic AI to connect communities, doulas, payers, and employers to moms, why he started an entire Instagram page devoted to Food Network recipes with funny captions, and what it was like being the first entrepreneur in a family of a firefighter dad and corrections officer mom.

CONNECT WITH MICHAEL: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelconward/

CONNECT WITH MYLÚA HEALTH: Website: https://mylua.health

MORE FOUNDERS FRIDGE: Website: www.foundersfridge.com

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