Episode 82
Low Libido Is the Most Overlooked Women’s Health Issue. Dr. Lyndsey Harper Built Rosy to Fix That
Dr. Lyndsey Harper built Rosy to fill the void medicine left behind this episode dives into how she's reshaping sexual health for women through tech, data, and desire.
Rosy isn’t a one size fits all app. It’s a platform built by a variety of clinicians and trained experts in their fields to support women with low libido, arousal issues, and the systemic failures around both. Through erotica, CBT based coaching, education, and clinical trials, Rosy is setting a new standard for how sexual health care can actually work.
In this episode, Dr. Harper shares how the platform continues to evolve and what the data is showing us. We talk about desire, responsive arousal, cultural context, and the new tools changing how we treat sexual dysfunction. If you’ve ever wondered what expert driven, patient-centered care really looks like, this is it.
Highlights:
- How a platform built by clinicians, therapists, and researchers is changing care for low libido and arousal.
- Why erotica is an evidence based intervention and how Rosy makes it accessible without shame.
- What Rosy’s data reveals about responsive desire, cultural identity, and unmet sexual health needs.
- Behind the scenes: Rosy's upcoming arousal treatment, coaching expansion, and Quickies feature.
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Transcript
Yeah, you gotta get outta here. Well that's awesome, I'm so glad. What an exciting trip. Who else going?
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Just me and my family and my dad.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:well good. That's awesome. Well, I hope you have safe travels. Yes.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, me too. And we're gonna go to the coast too, the coast of Turkey, which is near the Aegean Sea, basically the same coast as the Greek islands.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:cool.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Amazing. Well, that sounds fabulous. I've never been to Turkey, but I would love to go.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, it's beautiful I went 15 years ago, but not with my kids somewhere waiting. So thank you. Thanks, well, but we'll talk at the end again, but okay, we'll get started. So we'll just have a conversation. Hey y'all, it's me Dr. Smita Rahman Gyno Girl. Welcome back to another episode of Gyno Girl Presents Sex, Drugs and Hormones. I'm Dr. Smita Rahman and as you heard in my introduction, I do the introduction. As you heard in my introduction.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yeah, that's so fun. Well good, Samina.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Perfect.
Sameena Rahman (:I have the fabulous Lindsay Harper, Dr. Lindsay Harper with me today who is amazing. I met her years ago at Ishwish and we've collaborated and we've developed a friendship and we don't talk to each other enough. But Dr. Lindsay Harper, welcome to my podcast.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Thank you so much for the invitation and it's so good to see your face and hear your voice and I'm thrilled for our discussion today.
Sameena Rahman (:I know. Yeah, me too. I've been trying to figure out like the best way to introduce people because I was toying with the it's Dr. Lindsey Harper, you know, that I owe for one. But then I was like, I kind of like how Alexandra Cooper does it on the call your her daddy, like
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:I don't, I've seen that, I see that there's a documentary that I will probably end up watching, but I've never listened to an episode. So you'll have to inform me. How does she do it?
Sameena Rahman (:I don't I mean she just says like, you know, Dr. Lindsay Harper, welcome to welcome to call. Yeah, she's cool. Anyway, well, I'm so glad I got to see your face too, because it's been a long time since I've seen you in IRL. think maybe two years. Now, I don't know, because when do we collaborate on? Well, we can talk about it during the podcast.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Okay, super chill, super chill.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:which is hard to believe. How does that happen?
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yeah, sounds good.
Sameena Rahman (:But a lot of people know who you are already, but for those who don't, as I said in my introduction, you're a pioneer in the tech world for women's health and really for women's sexual health as well. You know, have this exclusively awesome app. said rap. Exclusively awesome app. She has her apps, yeah, exactly. The southerner, that's all. she has an exclusively awesome.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:I also rap on this side. Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:app for women's sexual health called Rosie. And so we're going to talk all about that and all the great things that you're doing. But tell us like you're an OBGYN like me and we have similar stories to probably how why we came into the sexual medicine realm. But let's let our listeners know why you did this and like why you came into this realm in general.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yes. you know, I think I don't, I don't know how far, how far I should go back, but I definitely always wanted to be a doctor from the time I was a little girl. And then when I got into college as part of my like college experience, my dad got me a job at that. did not, but I wasn't, you know, qualified for at a hospital being a labor and delivery tech where you like go and, know, make sure that the, the biohazard bags are free of instruments. I'm like, it was not a.
Sameena Rahman (:you
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:glamorous job, but I loved it. I loved every minute of it. And the doctors, they knew that I was going, that I was planning to go to medical school. And so they would bring me in the OR and like show me all the things. And one of them, one of them one time was like, I just delivered a double footling breach. You don't know what that is right now, but you will when you get older. And it was so, so I still remember it to this day. So it's just all these interactions with that.
Sameena Rahman (:That's sexy job, man.
Sameena Rahman (:serious.
Sameena Rahman (:No, you're just...
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:And then I got into medical school thought maybe I would do pediatrics or who knows who knows but I end up loving Trauma surgery and I also loved my OB rotation and so that was in you know, people try to talk us out of it I don't know how many times you've got tried to talk out of it. So
Sameena Rahman (:I know. My older brothers are urologists and they're like, you do not want to be an obj. And it's
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:You don't want to do it. Yeah. that's, I, you know, I think probably 20 years or so into it, might have a different perspective, but there wasn't anything anybody could have done to ever talk me out of it. and so then I was in, I finished residency, private practice, and this was like my seventh and eighth year in private practice. I started to kind of realize on the sexual health front as my patients, we, you know, we were like, maybe through a couple of babies together, you know, it's like,
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:You kind of, for the, for people who are listening, you kind of age with your patients, right? So this is around the time we were all kind of going through the same life stage and my patients were like, hey, I love my partner, but I literally do not care if I ever have sex again. And it's causing like a major problem. And I was like, huh. And then, and it was just one patient after the next, after the next. Yeah. I'm like, okay. Like, I don't know. I had zero idea what to do.
Sameena Rahman (:Yes, yes, yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Can you write me a note so I don't have to have sex with my doctor?
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:And the other thing at this time is that I wasn't even asking my patients. Like I would ask them how many sexual partners, like the things were taught to ask, but I wasn't asking about sexual function, sexual pleasure, like nothing. And so then it started coming up more and I asked, we don't learn, we don't learn anything. And yeah, so when I got angry, I realized that I had spent two weeks in the erectile dysfunction clinic at the VA, at the Veterans Administration Hospital, but I had not learned
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:We don't
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah. Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:one lick about women's sexual health, even though I was a women's doctor. Like it's just, it blew my mind. And the other thing that blew my mind was that I didn't even realize this was a blind spot. Like I wasn't like, my hospital sucked at this or I suck at this. I thought I was pretty good doctor. And then this just presented itself. It like landed in my lap because all these patients were having these questions. And I was like, wait a minute, why don't I know anything about this? And so I went.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:on this Facebook group of OBGYNs that is amazing. And I was like, hey, is this just me? Like, did I land in a weird place in Dallas where everyone's having sexual problems? Or did I go to a residency program that just did a terrible job of this? you know, like I was trying to figure it out, like intellectually. And what I came to realize is that as you well know, Samina, 43 % of women have a sexual health problem. We don't get any training in residency. It's starting to change a little bit now because of.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah. Amazing.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:you the work that so many people, including you, are doing. And these women are just left to suffer in silence and embarrassment and shame. And they think it's only them who are suffering. So that really compounds all of those problems. And so when I started to put all these puzzle pieces together, I was like, what in the heck? Like, I can't believe that this was in 2019. In 2019, this is the state of the union and we're all okay with it. Like, I just can't believe it. So then I ended up...
Sameena Rahman (:Yes.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:in that same Facebook group, where do people go to learn about this? That's how I learned about is wish came to the first conference, the fall course. And I felt like I had stepped onto a different planet. I was like, what is this the best to be all? What are we? What is this place?
Sameena Rahman (:i didn't write yeah what is this? exactly! it's not vagina, it's vulva? like we didn't even-
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yeah, it's bulb-
Sameena Rahman (:yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:And so it was just like, just felt like, okay, this is definitely what I need to be learning about right now. And then I connected with so many awesome people just like you. know, there's just like a crew, right? And it's just so good, the energy. And I just fell in love with it. And I was like, okay, I could open a sex medicine clinic in Dallas, which still sounds amazing. Or maybe there's an opportunity to create a platform.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, yeah, the vibe, the vibe, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:where I can turn back to all of our friends and colleagues who are OB-GYNs who haven't had sex medicine training and say, this is super common and we all need to be asking these questions. But if you do, here's something you can recommend to your patients that is evidence-based, that you can feel confident in, and that your patients can find resources for the next steps. And that's really where Rosie was born. And I felt like at the time that if I didn't do it with my education, with my passion, with my resources,
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah. Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:that why would I expect anyone else to do it? You know, I kind of felt like it was my obligation at the time and I just haven't looked back and I'm obsessed.
Sameena Rahman (:Absolutely. Yeah.
Yeah, amazing. Because it's not easy to like, you know, do this, like digital platform and be an entrepreneur in FemTech industry when it's male dominated too and women's pleasure is never going to be considered a priority. So like, how did you even like come to the idea of like, I mean the idea but like, how did you like what was the process like?
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:So, you know, I have a secret weapon and that is that I married an entrepreneur. My entrepreneur husband married a doctor like I am a doctor. There's just no way around it. I love it. But I married an entrepreneur and he helped me to understand how entrepreneurs brains works. And so from the very beginning of our marriage, which we now have been married for 17 years, he said, you know, there are so many problems in the world to be solved.
Sameena Rahman (:I meant.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:look for the ones that you uniquely are positioned to solve. And so that whenever you hear things like that, it shifts your worldview from like just constant frustration, especially I think in medicine, there's so many things that need to be changed to one of like, where's the door? And so what that did for me was like, I started just like constantly and my oldest daughter does this now, like, what about this? What about this? What about this? What about this? And then when this one,
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:came to me, I was like, well, there's absolutely no question this is 100 % it. And I'm going to just do whatever I need to do to push that door open and make it happen. And so it was just, you know, I think, I don't, I don't have a great explanation for it other than my brain was primed. The problem to me was very obvious once I was looking for it. And then in terms of the next steps, it's like, I had a lot of great resources around me in terms of
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:Lyndsey Harper, MD (10:09.966)
you know, technology people and people who had started many businesses to try to help me understand where to begin. And what I really learned and what I try to do is hopefully through friendships is give back to other people who are also trying to do similar things for women. And because I had, I really did have a lot of guidance and what I learned is that you don't have to know anything. And that was really the biggest mind shift for me was like in medicine.
Sameena Rahman (:Thank
Sameena Rahman (:You've been amazing. Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:We go to medical school and then we go to residency. There's all this oversight. There's all this training. There's all these, if this, then this. And in startup land, there's absolutely none of that. And you literally are making it up as you go. And that feels very scary at first, especially to people who have trained like us and with maybe our personalities. But once you get comfortable being like, I don't know what is happening, but I think this is the right next thing. And you start to trust that voice and that inner sort of direction, then.
Sameena Rahman (:You know what
Yeah. Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:it starts to open up, but there's a lot of self question, a lot of self doubt at the beginning because there was no red book. You know, like we have a red book and OBGYN when we were training, like, let me turn to page 499 of the red book, you know? Yeah, exactly. It's like, wait, what do I do now? And so there's a lot of that, but what all you have to do is just keep putting one foot in front of the other, like do the next thing that you think you need to do. And then eventually, you know, something will break and you'll
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
I think it does contraceptive. Yeah, exactly.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:It's never over. I don't feel like I've accomplished one, one thousandth of what I intend to. And, you know, it's always a work in progress and that's okay. And it's the journey, blah, blah,
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, yeah. No, it's great. And you're such an amazing collaborator. You're always willing to bring other women to the table, which I find so amazing because there are people out there who are just like, this is my thing and you can't be involved in this world and so.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Well, thank you for saying that, but honestly, I would not want to operate. And I know you're the same in any other environment. You know what I mean? Like, especially for, I think people sort of stepping out and doing something kind of outside of what's considered the norm. It can be pretty isolating because you're taking a lot of quote, doing air quotes risks a lot of, a lot of the day. so for me, my whole life,
Sameena Rahman (:Right.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:really is about connection. And if I don't have that connection with people who are like-minded and who are really pushing to do similar things, then I just don't want to have anything to do with it. That's why I love being an OB-GYN. That's why I love the community of women OB-GYNs. That's why I love the sex medicine community. That's why I love the female, like the women's health startup community. There are such strong bonds in each of these places that it makes it
It gives you the energy and the inspiration to keep going because there's a lot of times where you're like, this is real, this is real hard. You know what I mean? Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:I'm done. Yeah. No, it's really true. Yeah. And sometimes you think, I should just stop. even, you know, I have a small example of just like when I teach students and sometimes I'm like, maybe. And then you get like, you know, an award or you get like a student that tells you like how amazing, you know, and so then you're like, I should keep going. This is like changing people's lives. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Exactly. You got to keep going. Yeah. It's those little, it's those little things that really, really mean so much, you know, and I think that's across life and that's true in, in this realm for sure as well.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, absolutely. So tell us about Rosie app and tell us all the new things that are coming in within it. Because you and I collaborated on one aspect of Rosie, I think in the beginning, right? When you start talking religion and sex and stuff. That was so long ago.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:yes, okay.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yes. Oh, it was amazing. It was so long ago, but it's honestly one of my favorite things we've ever done. I talk about this a lot because I just, the reason why I think I'm so drawn to sex medicine is because, and ISWISH was so good about setting up this context for me, is that it is such a multidisciplinary team sport, right? And I think that's actually how we all view health, like women's health generally.
Sameena Rahman (:I love it too.
Yes. Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:but you cannot separate it out in sexual health. It is imperative, right? And exactly. And so I just love that aspect. And I wish that our whole health system were built that way. So what that means to people who are listening who aren't sex medicine people like we are is that there's a biological piece of the puzzle, right? Stuff in our bodies. There's a social piece of the puzzle, which is what is around us. What is our context?
Sameena Rahman (:The bio cycles all the way.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:And then there's the psychological pieces of the puzzle. What are we thinking? What is the psychological framework of sexuality, both internally and externally? And when you're talking about sexuality and sexual medicine, these things must all be taken into account in order to address a problem or a patient appropriately. And I just love that. And so one thing that I got super duper interested in
I mean, I live in the South, right? So we have a very conservative Christian predominance here, but we also have a lot of Muslim patients. have a fair amount of Jewish patients, not as much Orthodox Jewish patients, but a lot of conservative religions. so one thing that I just love is thinking about how can we speak to women as individuals, right? So within their context, whatever that might be.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:and help them find freedom and release shame in whatever context that is. And I firmly believe that we don't, we should not all be the same. I don't want everyone to be like me. And I think that's, I love that about the world. And I want to speak to women in the place where they are. And a huge part of that, that we can never get rid of or deny is religion, right? And that's, there's so much, there's so much strife and religion, but there is also much, so much beauty there as well. And so,
Sameena Rahman (:Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:religion and
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah. And so much resemblance between the religions, Like, you know, underlined, yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:We, you know, that's what really blew my mind. Yes, is because I do not, am not like a super religious person. will say I'm more spiritual than religious, but we partnered with people like, well, with you, right, to create the class for Muslim women. Speaking about sexuality, we also partnered with a conservative Christian gynecologist and with an Orthodox Jewish sex therapist, Bat Sheva Marcus in New York. And I was just mind blown.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:to read each, I didn't write any of this. Y'all wrote all of it, right? So I'm learning from you all about the religious sort of context with sexuality and each of these religions and how completely similar they were. I mean, it was just, it blew my mind. And so ever since then, I'm like, if I ever get a wild hair and go get a PhD in anything, it will 100 % be religion and sexuality because it is fascinating. And I just love that part of it. And I think people,
Sameena Rahman (:I know.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:on the platform and everyone that we talk to appreciates that aspect of it as well because it does communicate that we are trying to address people as whole people and we're not trying to say this is the same output for everybody. We expect you to receive it in the same way. And that's how I think medicine should be delivered and you know, and the whole experience of it. So thank you for partnering with us on that. It's been a very, very meaningful part of the platform.
Sameena Rahman (:Yes.
Sameena Rahman (:Absolutely. Absolutely.
yeah, well wonderful, thanks so much. And the platform's so much more than that. There's a lot of educating, but there's also some treatments, right? Like there is actually like some data to support how using the Rosie app and some of its form has like will decrease your, or increase your libido or increase, decrease hypoactive sexual desire disorder. So tell us a little bit about.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yeah.
Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yes. Yeah. So whenever I was first like ideating on this, I was like, you know what, let's just see what I can bring together that has an evidence base that we know is therapeutic in some way for women. Right. So we know that education is therapeutic for women. So there's a ton of that. we also knew that erotica was an evidence-based inner intervention for women. And at the time it was like the 50 shades of gray, you know, phenomenon had just passed. And I remember being like on the beach with
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, I know.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:my Fifty Shades book with my entire in-law family. And it's a big family. And all of us were reading the same exact thing. And I was like, this is hilarious. And so I just loved the idea of having erotica on Rosie because it's very private. You're not carrying around a book and everyone knows what you're up to over there. It's just a way to access it in a private, secure, hopefully shame-free way. And they're short stories because
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:That's so good. That's so good.
Sameena Rahman (:No. No. No.
Sameena Rahman (:All right.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:you know, who's got time these days, who's got time? And it really taps into that responsive desire pathway, which is where, know, when we become aroused, then we experience desire. And we have seen that play out over and over and over multiple studies. And we were able to show that ROSI improves desire and arousal by about 17 % in two studies. So yeah, there's something to it. I didn't make it up either. I just put it on this platform, right? And so we also offer
Sameena Rahman (:you
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:No. No. No. No.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:coaching, is in a CBT-based format where we can work through problematic education or thoughts around sex and sexuality. There's a community aspect.
Sameena Rahman (:Do you have you work with a you work with a group of coaches? Yeah. Yeah. mean, training coaches too. Oh, I didn't know that. I just thought you had coaching on there. See, even me I'm learning about more of what you're doing. You expanded so much.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:We do, yeah, we train, we have a whole training protocol and everything. And then we've since, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yeah. All right, here we go. And then it's been, it's yes, it's a lot. And so we talk about almost every single aspect of women's sex and sexual health. And so that starts at, you know, and from 17 on, so we're not doing puberty because there's erotica on the app. The app has a plus 17 rating. So just to be clear on that, cause everyone's like, Oh, do you have stuff for my daughter? And I'm like, well, actually there is a class on the platform that we recorded with Carrie left for
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:to talk to your daughters about puberty and periods and sex, but it's for the moms. It's not for the daughters. So just to clarify, but we help women ages 17 and our oldest person on the platform is 98, Samina. I love her. I know, isn't that amazing? And so we're really addressing sexuality throughout the lifespan. So pleasure, trauma, endometriosis, infertility, pregnancy, postpartum, know.
Sameena Rahman (:love you so much.
Sameena Rahman (:Wow, that was so good.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:perimenopause, menopause, sex and aging, sex and cancer. I mean, just the whole gamut of it. And so we've got that covered from the medical aspect, from the mental health aspect, and from the relationship aspect, as we mentioned. And then subsequently, about a year ago, we started expanding into some other areas of women's health as well, because we looked at that user base and we're like, oh my gosh, we've got women across their entire lifespan, because that's what sexuality is, right? Sexuality's never over, luckily, hopefully.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah. Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:Gah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:And so, and we can pull in all these other topics of women that are already on the platform. So we started providing some menopause support, some bone health support, some cancer specific support. We're in a clinical trial right now with women with gynecologic oncology cancers. And so there's a whole expansion outside of sexual health that exists on the platform now. So really, and we've also launched a feature called Quickies, which I love.
Sameena Rahman (:Let me just.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:And it's where people who have expertise, so doctors like you and I, nurse practitioners, psychologists, dieticians, anybody who has expertise in the area of women's health can come on and create short form video content. So it's a little bit like TikTok meets WebMD. So if you're looking for health related information, but you wanna make sure it's been vetted, then Rosie is a safe place to find that as well.
Sameena Rahman (:I love it. I've been meaning to record some quickies for you, know, life is a quickie. It's a quickie.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yeah, girl. It's in a quickie. It doesn't take long at all. Yes. And for anybody who's listening who is a physician or a health care provider, we pay doctors to create that and providers to create that content. So we're not asking you to do it for free. I know that your expertise is valuable and we want, we're trying to create a healthier ecosystem to share medical information.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:wonderful. That's so awesome. And tell me who else you've been partnering with because I read something, remember that's why I reached out to you, was like, so amazing you're partnering with. Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yes!
Yes, yeah, so our very first B2B partnership was with Roche Diagnostics and we did an HPV education campaign. So that was how this kind of all got started. And then we partnered with Pfizer on a few different things, including menopause, bone health, I'm forgetting one, migraine actually has been big, big, big, big. About 40 % of women on the Rosie platform experience migraine, it's crazy. Yeah, and then we've also partnered with Nutri-Full,
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, I'm gonna stop.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, I can believe it.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:We have partnered, we're currently just signed a partnership with a company called Darae Pharmaceuticals and they make only products for women. the partnership that we're working on with them is a topical arousal drug and it's not yet available, but it will be very soon. And so we're helping women on the platform to understand arousal problems. Like what even is arousal, right? That's a great question.
Sameena Rahman (:Right.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah. Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:We're helping on the patient side, on the healthcare provider side, and then for patients who start the medication, we'll also be supporting those patients while they're on the medication as well.
Sameena Rahman (:That's wonderful. Yeah. And I've been waiting for that one to come out because, you know, everyone's always trying to use Viagra for, they're always trying to sneak in their, their, their, husbands or partners Viagra, but this is a topical sildenafil, which is the active, it's the ingredient in Viagra. So, but used for arousal purposes. So it's going to be good. I've talked about it on other podcasts before, but, that's so exciting.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Mm-hmm.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:It's very exciting.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:yay!
Sameena Rahman (:I mean, you're just like, you know, killing it across the board and like, I'm so excited for you. It's like.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Thank you so much. You know, some days it feels like we're killing it and other days it feels like we're not. But yeah, we're getting by by the skin of our teeth. But once again, this work is so important and we have such great support in the ecosystem. We're all extremely passionate about what we're doing and we know women need it. So there's just, you know, we just put one foot in front of the other every day and just keep on keeping on. So thank you though.
Sameena Rahman (:I know. You're barely making it.
Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:I love it, I love it. Anything new on the horizon within Rosie or any other new tech that you're thinking about that you can, you probably can't talk about it.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Thank you.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:my gosh, there's always-
I mean, yeah, there's always, that's the thing. It's actually been such an interesting experience because, you know, there's been so many friends of ours, which I'm so happy and thrilled to see writing books, right? Which is great because we need, I love it. And I can't, I'm so, it's so exciting. Okay. Which is another, like such an amazing topic. And I know you know, Somna.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, I'm working on one by the way. I'll send you one. It's on South Asian women and sexuals.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:who works at Rosie. So lots and lots of excitement around that. What'd you say?
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did she still time with you? Okay, that's awesome. She's with you fully now, like, yeah. good, okay, wonderful.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:yeah, and has been for a couple years. She's awesome. So the interesting thing about a digital platform is that it's never over. You know, like a book, you're like, and it's shipped and it's done. This is never over. So, and that's a great thing. And it's also like an exhausting thing, right? Because it's like, yeah, cause it's like, okay, AI, like how are we going to use AI and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And like, there's just, it's a, so it's a never ending learning experience for me.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, yeah, yeah. An overwhelming thing.
Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:but it's also a never ending sort of evolution for the platform itself, you know, because you can test and iterate and launch and pull back and try this and try that. And, you know, you don't want to be doing things willy nilly, but if there's a signal somewhere, then we're going to, we'll follow it. And so it's really, it is, I love this because you, it allows you to exercise so much creativity that I feel like sometimes in, you know, just regular
practice, you get distanced from. Because there's a little bit of loss, or a perceived at least loss of agency over how your day goes, what's going to happen. And so it's really great for me, particularly as the CEO of the company, to be able to be like, hey, let's give this a shot, or what about these ideas, or why haven't we thought about it this way? And then we just kind of work with these
premises until we can figure out if they make logical sense for the business or not. It's a very creative process, thankfully, which I've really enjoyed.
Sameena Rahman (:I it's been very interesting thinking outside of the box. Even like you said, your husband's been very supportive. I always talk about how mine was like, just start a practice, know, stop this useless work. And I was like, okay, that's what, you you learn so much how to do any aspect of it. You don't learn any of it. And so it's been a huge trial and error, mainly error, but I've been provided good care for the last 10 years. Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Right.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Exactly. And that's how it is. That's just what it is. And anything that you're doing something new, it's a lot of, it's a lot of, my gosh, I just heard this phrase, but my perimenopause brain isn't gonna think about it. It's like, succeed or learn or something. I don't know, whatever. It's, there's no, there's no failing. Yeah. You're just, you're just learning. You know I mean? And it is data and it doesn't have to be bad necessarily. So
Sameena Rahman (:I agree. Me too.
Keep going guys! There's no failing!
Right, right, awesome. Well, you're such an inspiration, Lindsay, and I'm just so happy that I've become friends with you and I'm so happy to like see you grow in so many ways and hopefully I'll get to see you at some time soon. Like, I'm not sure. Are you going to any conferences that I'm going to?
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Same.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:And I'm sure, are you going to Menopause? Yeah, I'll see you there. Yeah, yay. And I'm sure like half of the people listening to this as well. Yeah.
Sameena Rahman (:Yes. Okay. Yeah, exactly. So, well, thank you again. mean, again, you're such an inspiration. And for those of you don't know the Rosie app, check it out. It's amazing. and, you know, I always, it's always part of my, like, when I'm doing my low libido and HSD detox, I have your little, you know, QR code and I'm like, my friend made this app.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Oh, thank you. They're like, wait, what? Yeah, exactly. Like, okay. Well, that's amazing. Thank you for your support, literally from day one. And I just value our friendship and your position in the field of sexual medicine so much. It's just been so fun to see, like all, I feel like all the people that we kind of started out together are coming into these leadership roles.
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:It's just such an important progression and I'm just honored to know you all and to, you know, be involved even if it's a little bit tangentially or on the fringe. So it's really exciting.
Sameena Rahman (:Yes.
Sameena Rahman (:Yours,
Sameena Rahman (:Yeah, absolutely. Awesome. All right, well, thank you again, Lindsay. This has been a pleasure. hopefully, as you continue to do stuff, I'll have you on again. So because I love talking to you, you're just so fun. Anyway, yeah. So thanks, guys, for joining me for another episode of Gyno Girl Presents Sex, Drugs, and Hormones. I'm Dr. Samina Rahman. Remember, I'm here to educate so you could advocate for yourself. Please join me on my next episode.
Lyndsey Harper, MD (:Perfect! Sounds great! you too. Thanks, Samina.
