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Startup West podcast 80: Julie Adams, Chemo@Home

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Julie Adams
// // The home-based infusion service has scaled up to more than 100 staff over the past 9 years...

Steve and Brodie talk with Julie Adams, co-founder of Chemo@Home, who with her business partner Lorna Cook has scaled up the home-based infusion service to more than 100 staff over the past 9 years.

Both Julie and Lorna mortgaged their houses to fund the business, which quadrupled in size during Covid. 1,400 doctors across the country use the service, and more and more patients can have their chemotherapy and other care therapies in their own home.

I asked him what it was like for him, and he said – ‘I used to spend all day travelling to the hospital and back, getting my treatment, it was so stressful. I did that twice a week. But the difference it made to me was nothing compared to the difference it made to my wife’ … It’s like you’re giving people back their lives, and there’s nothing that matches that feeling…

Julie Adams, co-founder, Chemo@Home

For more: https://chemoathome.com.au/

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This episode was recorded at Riff studios in beautiful downtown Perth, Western Australia; produced by Startup News, edited by Carmen Yee Kai Wen and brought to you thanks to support from the Spacecubed, Curtin University, RSM, the City of Perth, Dinner Twist and Tekkon.

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Produced by Startup News, the Startup West podcast talks with West Australian startups who have been there and done it, or are right here and doing it! Recorded in beautiful Perth, WA.
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