7min Product Master Series
By Lewis Kang'ethe Ngugi
Naomie Curier, Senior Product Designer 🕵🏾♀️ (Part 1)
Naomie Curier's Part 1 is about designing for reality: user needs, business goals, and what engineering can actually build, all at once. She's specialising in B2B SaaS experiences, with over 7 years across multiple industries. She recently launched her freelance practice, helping businesses and product teams bring human-centred clarity to complex products.
Highlights, inspiration & key learnings:
- Design for reality. Great product design balances user needs, business goals, and what engineering can actually build right now. (00:31, 00:50)
- Unlearn "don't push back." If your culture taught you to stay quiet, build the muscle to challenge priorities, a good mentor makes it easier. (03:35, 04:16)
- Bring people in early. Don't design in a vacuum and reveal the finished work. Loop engineers in, talk feasibility, share the conversation. (01:19, 02:10)
- Question the brief. Don't just execute, ask if it's the right thing to build. Disagree with evidence, and you'll be heard either way. (00:00, 03:35, 04:57)
- Process is a guide, not a rule. The tidy linear process rarely survives real deadlines. Adapt it to the situation you're in. (02:50, 03:29)
- Research is a team sport. Bring the whole team in as observers, shared empathy now means less convincing later. (05:22, 05:45)
Where to find Naomie:
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Sunjung Park, Staff Product Designer 🦊 (Part 2) GitLab
Sunjung is a Staff Product Designer at GitLab, focused on solving technically complex problems and enhancing the developer experience. She is currently pursuing an MBA, which fuels her passion for creating sustainable solutions to complex challenges that foster societal change.
Where to find Sunjung:
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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/7min-product-master-series/
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/7minProdSeries
- Email: 7minprodseries@gmail.com
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Sunjung Park, Staff Product Designer 🦊 (Part 1) GitLab
Sunjung is a Staff Product Designer at GitLab, focused on solving technically complex problems and enhancing the developer experience. She is currently pursuing an MBA, which fuels her passion for creating sustainable solutions to complex challenges that foster societal change.
Where to find Sunjung:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunjung27
Where to find the show:
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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/7min-product-master-series/
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- Email: 7minprodseries@gmail.com
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Meera Ramachandran, UX Researcher 🛠️ (Part 2) ServiceTitan
Meera is a UX Researcher with expertise in human factors and HCI. She has led innovative product research in automotive (Ford, NIO) and construction tech (Autodesk, ServiceTitan). Currently leading enterprise SaaS research at ServiceTitan. Her work has appeared in SXSW, Auto blogs, and ENR. She is passionate about making complex systems user-friendly.
Where to find Meera:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meera-ux/
- A podcast in the works called photonstopixels
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Meera Ramachandran, UX Researcher 🛠️ (Part 1) ServiceTitan
Meera is a UX Researcher with expertise in human factors and HCI. She has led innovative product research in automotive (Ford, NIO) and construction tech (Autodesk, ServiceTitan). Currently leading enterprise SaaS research at ServiceTitan. Her work has appeared in SXSW, Auto blogs, and ENR. She is passionate about making complex systems user-friendly.
Where to find Meera:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meera-ux/
- A podcast in the works called photonstopixels
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Sarah Brennan-Newell, Senior UX Researcher 🏥 (Part 2) Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Sarah is a Senior UX researcher, writer, and process nerd. Working from Toronto, her research experience includes fintech, automotive, safety and healthcare products and websites. She’s passionate about bridging the gap between users and teams with thoughtful inquiry and storytelling.
Where to find Sarah:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-brennan-newell/
- Medium: https://medium.com/@sarahbrennannewell
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Sarah Brennan-Newell, Senior UX Researcher 🏥 (Part 1) Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Sarah is a Senior UX researcher, writer, and process nerd. Working from Toronto, her research experience includes fintech, automotive, safety and healthcare products and websites. She’s passionate about bridging the gap between users and teams with thoughtful inquiry and storytelling.
Where to find Sarah:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-brennan-newell/
- Medium: https://medium.com/@sarahbrennannewell
Where to find the show:
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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/7min-product-master-series/
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/7minProdSeries
- Email: 7minprodseries@gmail.com
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If you like the show ❤️, please be sure to tell a Product person and subscribe to us on Spotify, Apple podcast or your favorite podcast app. Don’t forget to leave us a rating ⭐️ or comment because it helps to other people to discover our show 🙌🏾
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Brenda Ngugi, Product Manager 💰 Credrails
Brenda is a tech-loving problem solver with a deep passion for meeting user needs and ensuring an optimal customer experience. With a solid foundation cultivated over the past 3 years, she has honed her skills in comprehending the dynamic landscape of agile product development, outlining customer needs, and utilizing data-driven insights to inform strategic product decisions. She transitioned from customer support to customer success to customer experience to product management; which has given her a well-rounded perspective on delivering exceptional user experiences on products.
She aims to ensure all users have an out-of-this-world experience when they interact with products she has built or enhanced.
When she's not working, she finds joy in embracing the beauty of the outdoor scenic view, catching sunsets, working out, taking care of plants, or traveling to explore the next hidden gem.
She's currently seeking to contribute her expertise to a diverse product team that values ethical and sustainable practices. She is eager to be part of shaping the future of technology-driven solutions.
Where to find Brenda:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendangugi/
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Lade Tawak, UX Researcher 🧪
Lade Tawak is an Experience Designer & UX Researcher who has worked with startups, agencies, and multinationals across the globe. She has an academic background in Psychology. She is passionate about Jesus, teaching, and building products, people, & communities.
Where to find Lade:
- Website: http://ladetawak.com/
- LinkedIn: https://linkedIn.com/in/ladetawak
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Ogeh Ezeonu, Senior Product Designer 💰 Papaya payments
Ogeh is an experienced product designer practicing human-centered design and crafting products and services with multidisciplinary teams at scale.
Where to find Ogeh:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ogechukwu-ezeonu/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ogehezeonu/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OgehEzeonu
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Ogeh-E
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June Barasa, Product Owner 📊 Elephant Ventures
June Barasa is a strategic, innovative, and data-driven Product Manager in technology and innovation with diverse experiences in product development. She loves working on innovative and challenging products that enable people to become more efficient in their day-to-day.
Mentions:
- Pomodoro Technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
- Study Verse: https://studyverse.live/
- Parkinson's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
Where to find June:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/junebarasa/
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If you like the show ❤️, please be sure to tell a Product person and subscribe to us on Spotify, Apple podcast or your favorite podcast app.
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Karl-Chris Nsabiyumva, Lead Product Designer 💳 Auvenir
Chris describes himself as a problem-solver with a knack for design. His design career is influenced by a background in Economics, International Trade and non-profit-management. His design style tends to be minimalist and symmetric, striving for simplicity and convenience.
Where to find Karl-Chris:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nsabiyumvakc/
- Website: https://www.nsabiyumva.io/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/nsabiyumva_
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Alex Wokabi Karanja, Design Lead 💵 Safaricom PLC
Alex Wokabi Karanja is a design lead at Safaricom and a big believer of design with why. Through designOps (operational and project support), and collaboration with other different teams, he helps the entire business deliver value and superior experiences.
Where to find Alex:
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-wokabi-7aa4a48b/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Greats_Wokabi
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Vanissa Wanick, Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design 📚 University of Southampton, UK
Vanissa Wanick is a Design Researcher, UX Designer & Educator. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Vanissa has more than 10 years of international experience in digital design and user experience design, working as a designer for several companies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vanissa has also published more than 20 papers in the area of games design, gamification, user interface design, brand experience, VR/AR/XR, cross-cultural design and engagement.
Mentions:
- Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered - Book by Don Norman: https://amzn.eu/d/ej0lqJV
- Designerly ways of knowing - Book by Nigel Cross: https://oro.open.ac.uk/39253/8/designerly%20ways%20of%20knowing%20ds.pdf (The Open University)
Where to find Vanissa:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanissawanick/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanissa
- Read her upcoming book:
- Reinventing Fashion Retailing: Digitalising, Gamifying, Entrepreneuring: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031111846
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Lavet Baraza, Service Designer 📚 African Leadership Group
Lavet is a service and experience designer at African Leadership Group. She uses her design skills to tackle issues in the social impact space and has experience working in various sectors, including humanitarian aid, education, mental health, and climate restoration. In her free time, she enjoys exploring the streets of Bangkok and trying the local street food.
Where to find Lavet:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lavet-adhiambo-9a1641116/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/BarazaLavet
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lavet.love/
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Pierluigi Rufo, Design Lead 🎨 Snapp Mobile Germany
Pier is a digital product designer who loves to push great ideas to life through a human-centered approach. He has shaped digital products across different industries such as entertainment, banking and mobility. He’s currently tackling new challenges as Design Lead at Snapp Mobile.
Mentions:
- Eisenhower Matrix: https://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/
- Quadrant 1: Do
- Quadrant 2: Schedule
- Quadrant 3: Delegate
- Quadrant 4: Delete
- Talks and blogs on the learns from building the app for storing pictures (Shutter Points) that was sunsetted:
Where to find Pier:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/pierluigirufo
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierluigi-rufo-04299040/
- Mastodon: http://%40Pier@snapp.social/
- Snapp Mobile Germany: https://www.snappmobile.io/
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Lemuel D. Abishua, Product Manager 👥 The Room
Lemuel is a Product Manager at The Room, a social impact startup in Africa. Legal background & experience in leading African law firms. Transitioned to startup ecosystem: Sales, BD, Research & APM. Currently leading product discovery for new onboarding, activation & community engagement experiences. Plus, co-organizer of Africa Product Peers.
Mentions:
- The 70-20-10 Learning Model:
- 70% of learning happens through doing the job
- 20% of learning happens through peer learning
- and 10% of learning happens via classroom environment.
- Dovetail:
- Repository platform for insights
- https://dovetail.com
- Four tenets to leadership from the African Leadership Group (AL Group):
- Self leadership
- People leadership
- Strategic leadership
- and Commercial leadership
Where to find Lemuel:
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedIn.com/in/lemuelabishua
- Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/lemuelabishua
- Website: lemuelabishua.com
- IG: Africa Product Peers
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Charity Mbaka, Product Designer 📚 Microverse
Charity is a Product Designer with 4+ years of experience working to solve problems at the intersection of business, consumers and technology. She has designed experiences for a diverse set of customers in ed-tech, e-commerce, fintech, and security, on mobile, web and desktop. She currently works at Microverse as a Product Designer, formerly a Experience (UX & Service) Designer.
Mentions:
- Quote: "If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late" ~ Reid Hoffman
Where to find Charity:
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Eric Bailey, Senior Designer, Accessibility and Design Systems 💻 GitHub
Eric is an accessibility advocate, designer, developer, writer, and speaker.
Where to find Eric:
- Website: https://ericwbailey.website/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericwbailey/
- Mastodon: https://social.ericwbailey.website/home
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Raven L. Veal, PhD, Senior Strategic Designer 🎯 BCG X
Raven L. Veal, PhD is a Senior Strategic Designer at BCG X. Prior to joining BCG, Raven led innovation strategy at Citi Ventures and design research at IBM. Overall, Veal is passionate about advancing health equity and financial inclusion through the design of new ventures.
Mentions:
- Quote: "We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves." ~ Nikki Giovanni
Where to find Raven:
- Personal website: https://www.ravenveal.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravenveal/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/ravenveal
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ravenlveal/
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Benjamin Hoppe, Freelance Designer 🎨
Benjamin Hoppe is a Freelance Designer in Toronto. He designs and builds software with the goal of reducing friction and creating unique user experiences.
Where to find Benjamin:
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrbenjaminhoppe
- ReadCV: https://read.cv/hoppe
- Website: https://benjaminhoppe.co/
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Monica Scott, Experience Design Manager 🏥 ICRC - International Committee of the Red Cross
Monica currently works as an Experience Design Manager at the ICRC, where she manages a team of UX Designers as well as the UX Design practice at the organization. Whether it's hosting design meetups, sharing design jobs online or writing about changes in the industry - anything that connects designers with one another gets her excited.
Mentions:
- "Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems" - Scott Galloway.
- From The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning book by Scott Galloway: https://profgmedia.com/book/the-algebra-of-happiness/
- A User Manual for Me:
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Courtney Dunn, UX Researcher 🚗 General Motors
Courtney is a mixed methods researcher living in the Detroit, USA area. Her research experience includes automotive, govtech, voice AI and finance. She loves helping teams make evidence-based decisions that improve people’s lives and meet business objectives.
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Rebecca Blakiston, Senior UX Researcher 🏛️ Ad Hoc
Rebecca Blakiston is a Senior UX Researcher at Ad Hoc, a company that improves government services. Previously, she was a UX Strategist and Librarian at the University of Arizona. She has a decade of experience advocating for data-informed, empathy-driven decisions.
Mentions:
- 'Seven Second Pause of Silence' sometimes called the 'Seven Second Rule':
- The Four Tendencies book by Gretchen Rubin: https://gretchenrubin.com/books/the-four-tendencies/
- The "Obliger" Tendency from The Four Tendencies book: https://gretchenrubin.com/quiz/the-four-tendencies-quiz/obliger/
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Shpetim Ujkani, Sr. Staff UX Designer 🔎 Google
Shpetim Ujkani is a Sr. Staff User Experience Designer at Google. He is designer connecting humans and computers, shaping tools for people and mentoring. Currently, responsible for leading the design at Mandiant ASM within Google Cloud Security and coordinating all core design initiatives—including establishing a consistent design system and improving cross-functional collaboration within many teams and design efforts.
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Senam Kofi Joy, Product Designer 🎨 senamDesign
Kofi is a product designer based in Accra, Ghana. He values human connection, growth & openness. He also enjoys solving difficult human problems through design. Previously, he was at Mest as a tech fellow teaching product design and mentoring.
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Sasha Petrov, Senior Product Designer 🤖 hOS Inc.
Sasha Petrov is passionate about building things that have never been built before. Currently he is focused on creating products that empower individuals to become the best version of themselves utilizing technology and AI.
Mentions:
- Collaborative Product Design - Book: https://www.agux.co/book/collaborative-product-design/overview
- Sasha’s Blog: https://petrov.substack.com/
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- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/o-petrov/
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Otobong Okoko, Senior Product Designer 🟠 Zalando
Otobong Okoko, Senior Product Designer at Zalando. He started his journey in tech as a front-end developer and transitioned to design over a 12-year professional career. His superpower is asking questions to empathize and uncover challenges that are not easily communicated and enjoys giving back to the community through mentoring.
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Bavithra R, Product Manager 💰 MoneySmart Group
Bavithra is a Product Manager with the MoneySmart Group. Bavithra enjoys the dynamic nature of product management and has 4 years of experience doing all things Product in Tech companies. On her free time, you can find her on the yoga mat or chilling with a good book.
You can find Bavithra on LinkedIn.
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Faruk Shuaibu, Product Designer & Founder 🚛 Dako
We are back with Season 2 in 2023!
Faruk Shuaibu is a product designer building in the education, agriculture, commerce, and health sectors, where he helped solve challenging problems. In his free time, he enjoys making music, mentoring designers, and playing competitive chess.
You can find Faruk on LinkedIn, Twitter (@726f6f6b) and startup (Dako).
Mentions:
The Mom Test - book
https://www.momtestbook.com/
Product Psychology at growth.design
https://growth.design
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Happy Holidays 🎄
Hey everyone, happy holidays! We celebrate the season!
I want to extend my gratitude to all the guests who have taken the time to share with us, and thank you to all listeners for supporting and helping the show to grow in many ways.
We will see you in 2023, for SEASON TWO of the 7min Product Master Series Podcast!
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Purity Waigi, Lead Product Manager 📖 Wikimedia Foundation
It’s the final episode of Season One. Purity Waigi, Lead Product Manager, Content Experiences at Wikimedia Foundation. Purity is a curious mind currently intrigued by the needs of humanity which remain constant regardless of origin and experiences. She enjoys curating knowledge and bullet journaling as a creative outlet.
You can find Purity on LinkedIn and her Notion page of Product Management resources.
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Godfrey Kimani, Product Designer 📞 Safaricom PLC
Godfrey Kimani, Product Designer at Safaricom PLC. Godfrey is a problem solver who cares about crafting products and experiences that leave a positive impact on people, the environment, and society. He's excited by the process of deriving user needs from research, creatively leveraging the power of technology to satisfy those needs, and thinking critically about the constraints and edge cases to make sure that the solution scales.
You can find Godfrey on LinkedIn and on Twitter as (@kimani_godfrey4).
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Dennis Gikunda, Design Lead 🏭 Wasoko
Dennis Gikunda, Design Lead at Wasoko. Dennis is mainly a product designer & strategist currently focused on solving complex problems in retail, across Africa. Passionate about creating meaningful products that have a positive impact on people's lives.
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Andrew O’Regan, Interaction Director 💊 Novartis
Andrew O’Regan, Interaction Director (Interim) at Novartis. Andrew has worked in design since the mid 00s, and currently is a design leader and manager. He really believes in deep cross functional collaboration and teams built with this as a principle, but ideally he'd prefer to be growing vegetables.
Where to find Andrew:
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- Twitter: https://twitter.com/fantoraygun
- Personal website: https://www.fantoraygun.com/
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Sharon Wangari, Product Design Lead 💰 Paystack
Sharon Wangari, Product Design lead at Paystack. She is a problem solver. She's worked with cross-functions across Africa to create value within the Healthcare, Logistics Retail FinTech, spaces.
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Tessie Waithira, Mixed-Methods Researcher 🎯 Qhala
Tessie Waithira, Researcher at Qhala. She's a mixed-methods researcher based in Nairobi Kenya. She studies and thinks about the social, cultural, and economic effects of technology to uncover needs, barriers, and opportunities, and how we can develop impactful solutions. Qhala is a digital consulting firm in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Lorine Phoebe, Product Manager 🛍 Kasha Global, Inc.
Lorine Phoebe, Product Manager at Kasha Global, Inc. Solving problems is her forte. Comedy is her go-to remedy. Kasha is an innovative e-commerce platform based in East Africa, built for women's health, personal care, and beauty products accessibility within urban and rural areas.
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Joy Wambui Taracha, UX Researcher 🧪 Antara Health
Joy Wambui Taracha, UX Researcher at Antara Health. She enjoys discovering various people's perspectives on how they see the world and consequently how they use products. Antara is the only virtual-first healthcare provider in Kenya. They brings its members' personalized care through health navigation. Members have an assigned healthcare professional and access to numerous specialists through the app that will walk them through every step of their healthcare journey.
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