Jennifer L. Horspool, a communication and public relations expert, global brand strategist, and founder of Engagement PR & Marketing, shares her journey from aspiring scientist to a leading figure in MedTech PR, emphasizing the importance of storytelling, branding, and patient persistence in the industry. She highlights how she helps startups and Fortune 100 companies turn their innovative ideas into well-known brands. Jennifer also discusses the transformative role of AI in MedTech and PR, providing valuable...
Jennifer L. Horspool, a communication and public relations expert, global brand strategist, and founder of Engagement PR & Marketing, shares her journey from aspiring scientist to a leading figure in MedTech PR, emphasizing the importance of storytelling, branding, and patient persistence in the industry. She highlights how she helps startups and Fortune 100 companies turn their innovative ideas into well-known brands. Jennifer also discusses the transformative role of AI in MedTech and PR, providing valuable insights and practical advice for startups looking to make their mark.
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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
Episode 035 - Jennifer L. Horspool
Lindsey Dinneen: Hi, I'm Lindsey and I'm talking with MedTech industry leaders on how they change lives for a better world.
Diane Bouis: The inventions and technologies are fascinating and so are the people who work with them.
Frank Jaskulke: There was a period of time where I realized, fundamentally, my job was to go hang out with really smart people that are saving lives and then do work that would help them save more lives.
Diane Bouis: I got into the business to save lives and it is incredibly motivating to work with people who are in that same business, saving or improving lives.
Duane Mancini: What better industry than where I get to wake up every day and just save people's lives.
Lindsey Dinneen: These are extraordinary people doing extraordinary work, and this is The Leading Difference.
Hello, and welcome back to The Leading Difference podcast. I'm your host, Lindsey, and I am so excited to introduce you to my guest today, [00:01:00] Jennifer L. Hoorspool. Jennifer is a communication and public relations expert, a global brand strategist, international speaker, and founder of Engagement PR and Marketing. As a brand growth and turnaround specialist, Jennifer has been employing her skills in PR, media, marketing, and messaging for more than three decades to grow companies from vision to multimillion dollars and "turn best kept secret brands into the go to experts of their industries." Jennifer works with companies of all sizes from startups to Fortune 100. She's been working with medtech, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies for more than 15 years, and has helped to bring some pretty cool products to market.
All right. Well, thank you so much for being here, Jennifer. I'm so excited to speak with you today.
Jennifer Hoorspool: Thank you, Lindsey. I'm so honored to be here. I'm excited.
Lindsey Dinneen: Wonderful. Well, would you mind starting off by telling us just a little bit about yourself and your background and maybe what led you to MedTech?
Jennifer Horspool: [00:02:00] Sure thing, actually. So I've been running Engagement PR and Marketing since 2015. I've actually been in the field of public relations marketing since the nineties, right? I'm 24 years old. I don't know how that mouth works. I don't really have to do numbers. I do words. Healthcare has been my vertical deep for all those 30 years, right? I've worked with some other people outside of health care, but for the most part, health care. I started off doing a lot in patient services and really like direct to consumer about health and wellness and stuff like that. And then got into drug approvals but from a PR perspective, right? So bringing drugs to life. And then that led me into devices, medtech. And then as AI has expanded, it's just been really fascinating in the medtech world. And I've gotten to work with medtech that does need FDA approval and medtech that does not need FDA approval.
So there's all different kinds of stuff. And one of the most fascinating things that I've gotten to do is work with a couple of different contract [00:03:00] research organizations. And so those are the companies that hold the hands of the inventors so that they can get their products through the FDA and to market in the United States. It's a fascinating journey. There's all kinds of different avenues to go down. And it's just been really spectacular of the things that I've gotten to learn in the inventors and getting inside the inventor's minds.
Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, I can only imagine. Well, thank you so much for sharing a little bit about your background and whatnot. And so, okay. So I'm curious when you first, maybe as a kid, like would seven year old Jennifer have said, this is what I want to do with my life, or did seven year old Jennifer not know yet?
Jennifer Horspool: Well, seven year old Jennifer thought she was going to be a scientist. I was the girl that had all the, like the, I made my own soaps. I made my own potions and lotions. I did not think of myself as a witch. I thought of myself as a science, a scientist. And so I was always inventing this and inventing that and [00:04:00] constantly spilling things on my poor mom's brand new floor. And, you know, "Mom, I cleaned it up as quickly as possible," you know.
Lindsey Dinneen: Oh
Jennifer Horspool: No, I've always enjoyed science and I've just found it to be fascinating. And then and then I got lost along the way. I forgot about science. Quite honestly, I was taking it, but like those were hard and communication just came so easily to me. And then it became more about storytelling. And so I love to tell stories and one thing after another, I got into branding and brand building. And this is like in the nineties is when that terminology kind of first started maturing outside of your brand mark, which is your logo.
Before the, like the early nineties, early to mid nineties, we talked everything about a brand was really just your brand mark was your logo. We thought that was a brand. And then we came down to, no, it's actually-- the brand is the emotional components of who you are and who you are as a company and all the different things. And so I got to get into all of that and I got all into the words and the storytelling and the feelings and emotions of it. And now I got to represent [00:05:00] scientists. And so it's really been a really good match because I think I'm a natural communicator.
Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah. That's wonderful. And I think it's so helpful sometimes to bridge the gap because you have that background and that interest in science. And sometimes perhaps not all scientists can communicate as well as they want to maybe those of us who don't have that background and do need to understand what it is you're bringing to market so that we can purchase it.
Jennifer Horspool: Right, right, right. And it's uncomplicating the complications that they find simple, right? So it's, how do you take that scientific language and turn it into common language that everyone can get behind? And so, I've always said like really smart people can simplify everything.
Lindsey Dinneen: I love that. Yeah. I, there's a saying that something along the lines of "simple isn't easy, but simple is worth it." And I...
Jennifer Horspool: I love it.
Lindsey Dinneen: ...think a really good thing to, to remind yourself of is, when you can simplify processes or communication or whatnot, it [00:06:00] is worth it in the long run, even though, you know, like that famous, was it Mark Twain, who said something like, "I didn't have time to write a short letter..."
Jennifer Horspool: Yeah, "...so I had to write a long one." Exactly. Exactly. Because it's the truth, you know? And that's funny because in marketing all the time, they're like, "I need 11 words to fit right here." And people don't understand that it's much harder to write 11 words about something than it is to write 700. 700 is I get to explain it all. 11, I have to be impactful and those words really matter. And so it's actually much more difficult to write 11 impactful words than it is to write 700.
Lindsey Dinneen: Yes, it is. I love that. That's a good analogy too. So now what are you currently doing and excited about and what are you looking forward to as you continue to build the business and move forward?
Jennifer Horspool: Yeah. So because we do marketing, PR, branding, brand experience, love to work with brand new startups, love to [00:07:00] help them get their whole-- figure out that whole identity, get their websites going. Everything that's in the beginning, you would be surprised at how many emotions are tied into that first coming out brand. And it, people think it matters so much and it does matter, right? But it's like sometimes, "Get out what you know right now. Let's get something up. And then as your science matures, we can mature your brand. We can mature your website."
First thing we want to do is get something out there where we can start getting presence, getting you seen, known, trusted, and found, right? Getting found is the most important thing, and it's not the easiest, right? So, so there's all these different strategies that you do to get found first by your name, you know, by who you are, your company name, the founders' names, and also by what you do or what your promise of your technology is going to do.
And so I really enjoy working with people at all stages. I've, I've had the great fortune of [00:08:00] working with startups that are unfunded, startups that are funded, and then all the way through to Fortune 14 companies, right? So the entire gamut, I know who and how to work with. with. And we work with all of them. But our sweet spot really is in just either just launching or have already launched and are just starting getting ready to get known, really building that brand and pulling people to you, to your sites, to your social media, to the studies that you're doing, to all the different things so that we build that rise. And then you're found more easily because at the end of the day, if you're the best kept secret, you could have the best science in the world, but then no one gets to use it. So we take you from the best kept secret to the best known experts in the industry.
Lindsey Dinneen: Ooh, I love that. Nice.
Jennifer Horspool: Thank you.
Lindsey Dinneen: And I think it's so true too, because I think sometimes working with engineers, for instance, who are beyond brilliant and sometimes there's this, [00:09:00] there can be a disconnect of, "Well, it's so great. Like the product is so great and it should just be known." And we're like, "Yes, you're right. It should be, but there actually has to be a process to go through." Cause unfortunately the whole, "if you build it, they will come..."
Jennifer Horspool: Yeah, that movie threw everybody for a loop when websites came about because all of a sudden everybody thought, "Oh, if I build it, they will come." And it's like, no, that's a movie. The dream, if you remember, it was the dream field.
Lindsey Dinneen: Right.
Jennifer Horspool: So if you build it, then you have to market it so that they even know to come. And there's a lot of variety, like it really, it should be. fun. And it needs to be fun first and foremost, right? Like the excitement, you know, there's an acronym that I do about media. How do you get in the media, MEDIA, right? So your message is your magnet. The "M" is your Message. Your message is your magnet and your magnet is your magic that really pulls people to you. And then the "E" is Excitement. You have to deliver it with excitement cause if you're not excited about it, [00:10:00] how is anybody else going to be? But that passion really pulls people to why this is such an exciting breakthrough. What's it going to do that's different than something that's on the market today.
Then you have to distinguish yourself. The "D" in media is that: Distinguish. How are you different than what's already on the market? Why is that important? You know, you have to be interesting. The "I" is Interesting. It's like you deliver it with excitement. But how are you differentiating from everyone else? You have to distinguish yourself. You have to describe what's so important. How is it interesting. And then you really do that for your Audience. Who is the main target audience? And it's easy when your audience niche is small, but when people see it as a broad alternative to a lot of things, they get clustered, right?
Like, it's like, "Oh my goodness gracious. No, it's all these people. It's everyone." And the sad part is when you serve everyone, then you have to still niche [00:11:00] down into little buckets because everyone is not listening the same way. And when you start talking to everyone, you start talking to no one because it's too generic. People don't know to stop and listen. The whole thing is you're trying to stop that scroll. Everything, it doesn't matter if it's your video, if it's a meme, if it's a white paper, if it's your blog, whatever it is, we're all in the same scrolls right now, right? It doesn't matter if it's social media or on email or you're trying to stop that scroll. How do you get them to open your thing? And really, so the MEDIA: the message, the excitement, you know, all of that just really comes into play.
Lindsey Dinneen: That was amazing. Thank you so much for sharing that. You're obviously brilliant at all of this and I really appreciate that summary. I could not stop nodding my head because I was just like " yes." So thank you. And I love your acronym. That's perfect. Oh my goodness. Easy to remember. So what are some of the challenges or roadblocks that you see, [00:12:00] maybe especially with some of these startups, because a lot of startups are listening to this podcast. And so speaking of niching down, speaking to your people, but so, so what advice would you have? What kinds of challenges and roadblocks do you see? And what kind of advice would you have for somebody who is in this situation of, "Okay, I'm ready to start being known. I don't want this to be a secret anymore." What do you see and how can they overcome some of those issues? Thanks.
Jennifer Horspool: Yeah, that's an excellent question because patience is a virtue still today and we have less and less of it. Right? We think like, "We've been working on this for a year and a half and here we are, ta da!" And everybody's gonna be like, "Oh my god, they're here!" Right? You know what I mean? But that's not really how it is. We all, we have trust issues. issues. And in today's world, because there's so much online and because we have so much accessibility and because there's always new things being invented all the time, where's the credibility, right? So, and even if you're [00:13:00] the most credible person in the world, where's the credibility in the product? Where's the credibility in your launch? Where's the credibility?
And sometimes it's much slower to ramp up than you want it to be than, you think it's going to be. So the first initial, sometimes even press releases or outreach to media introductions to media, and you might get interviews, you might get like all different kinds of things where you're seeing a lot of groundswell, but it hasn't turned into stories yet. It hasn't turned into articles on the web. And it's very frustrating because you're like, "I gave them my time. I gave them all my expertise. I was as transparent and authentic as possible. I shared all this, like, where's our story?"
But they might still be just accumulating information on you and watching and waiting. They're seeing how your science matures because if they come out with it, it's an endorsement by their publication that this is authentic, that this is a real thing. And so, especially in credible publications, which is what you're trying to get into, right? And so [00:14:00] they're waiting and watching for the right time to release your story. They might interview you three, four, five times, collecting the data, building up the story before they actually cover you, before they actually release the interview notes, before they actually do something that you can really use on your site and to build out your stuff.
So in the meantime, you do the media interviews. You build the relationship with your key media who are writing about your topics. And you really, that's what you're doing is building the relationship. You're making them feel comfortable enough with you, your science, the results, your white papers, like everything that you're putting out, all of your studies, especially if you're presenting, by all means, share that with your media without necessarily expectation. You want the expectation, right? You want the story to come out of it, of course. But they might still be just collecting information and building up your [00:15:00] file and then what, once it happens, it could be something grandiose. It could be something really great that then you can really use.
And then don't be afraid to repurpose these when you get stories. Don't be a one and done. "Oh my God, we were the Wall Street Journal. Here it is." You're done. I think it's 8%, you know of LinkedIn followers even see your posts or even if they're exposed to your post, whether or not they're on social media that day. And it goes through down and through your feed. It's still in your social media, but repurpose it all the time. Pull out quotes from it, pull out interesting tidbits, share your infographics, like share that thing. Don't be afraid like 20, 30, 40 times throughout the year, you can take one study and really dissect it and share different pieces to it. Different people are going to see it. They're going to absorb the, and the same people are going to absorb it differently each time. It's like watching your favorite movie over and over again, and you grab new tidbits every time you're like, "I never even noticed that before." It's the same kind of concept with your [00:16:00] science.
Lindsey Dinneen: Oh, brilliant. Thank you. That was great. I really appreciate you sharing that advice with us too. Yeah, and I think to your point, it is hard to be patient because you're so excited about whatever it is that you're building and working on. And patience is such a wonderful thing to keep in mind. Like it's okay, you know, it will come just, you know, one step at a time.
Jennifer Horspool: When you get started on your marketing, it can take like three, four months before you really are starting to see real results because it's like AB testing all the time, right? What are people responding to? What are they not responding to? It's kind of the same thing with traditional media when you're trying to get in with a media.
Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah. Excellent. Thank you. Well, so I'm curious, are there any moments or a series of moments that stand out to you because they clearly reminded you why you chose this field and why you're specifically doing it for healthcare, medtech and whatnot.
Jennifer Horspool: So I think I feel like we're at kind of a pivotal point in health care right now. It's been [00:17:00] very much like one specific way. We've been a pill popping society for lack of a better way of putting it. We all wanted a pill to solve all of our problems. In fact, there was some show in the nineties and it was like all about the year 2025. And we were such a pill popping society that by the year 2025, you pressed a button and this pill came out and that was your entire meal. And you took your pill and that was your meal. And you just went on, you had all the proper nutrition. Like we thought, "Oh, we're not even gonna have to bother to eat anymore."
Well, foodies hadn't really come about yet. So foodies came about and they're like, "No we want to eat. Eating is the great part. Like, why would you take that away? Nobody wants to eat a pill." So I think with medtech, where it, is we're able now, especially combining it with AI, is that we're able to create new things that, that test the body in new ways. We're able to create new things that show us like even where your body's misaligned. And the part that's so important about the way your body is aligned is that has to do with nutrient delivery. [00:18:00] It has to do with injuries.
Most injuries we think, "Oh, it's because I was playing soccer and I twisted my knee this way." But it was actually because, well, your hip and your ankle were out of joint to begin with. You went and you played soccer and your body was already misaligned. You slept wrong or you had poor posture while you were watching television. You got all cranked up the wrong way. And then you went out and you played basketball, cause you always play basketball on Saturdays, cause you're a weekend warrior. Weekend warriors are the ones that get the most injuries. And that's because we don't do the training all the way along. And then you go out and you play and then you have injuries. So it's like getting ahead of all those things. Medtech today has such an opportunity to change the entire trajectory of the way we look and analyze the body, that I think there's no more fascinating industry than medtech right now.
Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah. Oh, I love that. And Thank you for sharing a little bit about some of the, even the technology that you get exposed to too, because that is [00:19:00] just so cool. And I am curious, you mentioned at the beginning how, and this is a hot topic because it's on everyone's mind, of how is AI impacting medtech? And I'd be curious to know how AI is impacting even the work that you do for medtech and healthcare.
Jennifer Horspool: Right. So two totally different things, right? Like when you say AI, to anybody today, they just go, "Oh, ChatGPT, right?"
Lindsey Dinneen: Right, right.
Jennifer Horspool: There's so much more than ChatGPT, right? I've been fortunate, I've actually been working with AI for 15 plus years because we didn't call it AI back then. We called it different things. We just talked about what it did. We didn't say, well, "the artificial intelligence is putting it together." Like we didn't do that. It's a term now, right? What we talked about was the application of it and taking all this data and getting the analysis out in an intelligent analysis that's going to help people. Or now [00:20:00] you can use AI processes that were developed for something else. You can plug and play it into your application and it can vascularize things that never were vascularized before. I mean, that's one of the things in certain types of medtech that people are working on galore is really in creating 3D printing organs, for example, 3D printing life saving aspects.
I'm working with one company and they're developing a, it's a 3D printed bio biopolymer wrap that actually, it's got bio absorbable materials. There's just, there's new materials, there's new stuff, there's new technologies. And AI is really the ability to speed up data analysis, the ability to combine mass amounts of data or mass amounts of processes and simplify it into something that humans can do, but nowhere near at the speed. So we're taking things that might have taken three months or three years, and we're able to get it down to three seconds or even [00:21:00] less.
We're able to take things like military applications or there's the God awful bombings that are going on, how are we getting medical care to areas where they're so remote that there's no medical care? So AI is actually able to connect things up where there is no technology. There's no wifi, there's no this, there's no that, but then you can do x rays and you can actually get your x rays and upload them and get them, get a diagnosis. get like intelligent insight back when you don't have access to the internet and to other things. And so it's really, AI is the ability to dream bigger and make those dreams actually truly happen.
And then in my field, It's a really great way to never have to start with a blank piece of paper. The blank piece of paper is the hardest thing in the world to start with AI right now, especially if you're going like ChatGPT, it's great for content. It's not so great for context yet. You still have to personalize [00:22:00] everything. Never take what AI does and just use it straight out. Everyone knows, first of all, everyone knows the way it writes. So then you just look lazy. And you look like you didn't really share your own stuff. No one cares what AI had to say. They care what you, the expert, had to say.
So, we do a lot of ghostwriting. We write a lot in other people's words. We might take it to AI to get that started or maybe get some ideas. It's fabulous for ideas for blog posts. It's fabulous for ideas for social media. It's fabulous for ideas, you know, then take those ideas. It's fabulous to get started, but not to finish. You need to take it and spend a good hour with it and really make it yours.
Lindsey Dinneen: absolutely, wonderful, thank you for sharing a little bit about that too, I, it's just always such an interesting, it will be a discussion point for years and years, probably forever, I don't know, but it is so exciting, I love the way that you described it too, of being able to not approach it out of a fear [00:23:00] or concern, but approach it out of, "Oh my goodness, I can actually make these dreams come true. And I can have a bigger, even more positive..."
Jennifer Horspool: ...impact, right? We, every, we're looking for impact and it's really, don't be afraid of it. I talked to some people and they're like, "Well, everything we do is just so personalized." Everyone wants to think that everything is so different, what we do is so unique. I know everybody's is so unique. It's so unique. We're all the same uniquely, but...
Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah.
Jennifer Horspool: ...we're all uniquely the same. I don't know, you know, whichever way you want to put it. But it's really about amplifying who you are. You can take it and create avatars to let it think in a certain person's tone. And then you can feed it that avatar. And you're saying like, you're telling it, "I want you to be this avatar, in this way of thinking with this tone and these personas, these personality traits" that you're giving it, "I want you to create now. something spectacular" and it can give you something that could might, it might even be 70, 80 percent done, right? But just never take it [00:24:00] straight out and just plain old use it.
But what it's also really good for is in finding gaps, right? Where you're like, "Here's everything I know about this and here's everything I know about this. Why aren't they, why aren't they working together? Find the gaps in this for me." Excellent at doing that, especially in medtech, where you can really then find out like what's happening today. What are the problems that we have with the medtech that's out there today. If you want a product, but you want it to go even bigger, maybe you want to change standard of care somehow by making something, taking what we have now and amplifying it to a whole another realm where you're taking the aspects of maybe three other products and you're marrying it with standard of care today. And you're saying, "this is how it's going to go that much better." It will find all those gaps for you, right?
You can create programs. There are AI program writers that you tell them, "I need this as my end result and they can design a program that's intelligent, that continues to [00:25:00] learn." There's a, another gentleman that I've been working with and he developed, it basically helps you make decisions and it helps you weigh all the decisions. And it's not like it's so profound that you couldn't have done it on your own, but you don't do it on your own, right? You plug the things in and now you get the answers back. And that's AI.
Lindsey Dinneen: Ooh, fascinating too. That is so cool. Yeah. I mean, the possibilities are endless and it's just the beginning, so it's going to be exciting to, to stay on it. Yeah. Well, pivoting the conversation just for fun, imagine you were to be offered a million dollars to teach a masterclass on anything you want, could be in your industry, but doesn't have to be. What would you choose to teach?
Jennifer Horspool: That is a fascinating question. I would talk about-- I, I would talk about the power of being you. You know, we are, we're born uniquely us. That is the one thing where you really do get to own the unique. You are [00:26:00] uniquely you for a reason. I grew up in the seventies and eighties. Like I said, I'm 24 years old. I'm sure you know that math. But it wasn't the time for girl power. It really was not the time for girl power. And then girl power came about and it was so great because watching the transition of girls into sports and really owning sports, right? And girls into science and STEM, like now females are owning STEM and there's femtech. Femtech is a real, true industry, not just a word, but an entire industry. And that is how are we serving women?
So we've been marketing to women for years because women are the caretakers of the family, but we haven't been taking care of those women. We've been empowering those women to take care of their families. So it's, we've been shamed, " Oh, you can't be conceited. If you love yourself, you're conceited." That's what growing up in the seventies and eighties was like, it was very much about, you're not allowed to love yourself and loving yourself in today's world, as we know, is the key to everything.
[00:27:00] And so the more uniquely and fantastically you are you, the better innovations you're going to bring to your life, to the people who know you, to the scientific world, if that's where you belong. You didn't get into science by accident. You didn't get into inventing by accident. That is part of what is uniquely you. You have a curious mind. And one of the things that we forget to do, we do it in science all the time. The hypothesis is designed to be proven incorrect. Incorrect. We think, "Oh, I'm trying to prove my science." No, you're trying to prove it incorrect. And if you can't prove it incorrect, the assumption is that it must be true until we can find something else or something better.
The same thing applies to your life. The same thing applies to yourself. And in fact, I'm going to challenge, but the same thing applies into the way that you're researching your politics. The same thing applies to the research and you're applying to your beliefs about everything in life. And if you can start to say that, "This is my [00:28:00] current hypothesis. This is what I believe based on all these things. And I haven't been able to prove myself wrong. Therefore, I believe these to be true." And if you start researching everything like that, you're going to find so many more discoveries in life and you're going to find so much more of your sweet spot and where, what makes you really happy and find your people who are going to go on this journey with you. And so I think that's what I would like to do. And thank you for the million dollars.
Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah! Well, that's a brilliant sounding masterclass, and I totally want to sign up, so let me know when you offer it, because I'll be there.
Jennifer Horspool: You got it.
Lindsey Dinneen: And then, how do you wish to be remembered after you leave this world?
Jennifer Horspool: Gosh, that's another nice question. I think as an empowering person who helps people to see the value in being truly and authentically themselves. I think the more we really embrace who we [00:29:00] are and all of our flaws and all of our own cuckoo, cause everybody gets some. We love to point the finger, right? And one of the, one of the greatest things I learned, and I don't even remember which coach I learned it from, but you know, when you're pointing the finger at everyone else, you've got three more pointing back at you. And so the most empowering thing about that is it puts you in charge. And that means it puts you in charge of being able to fix anything. And so, yeah, that.
Lindsey Dinneen: I love that. Yeah. Excellent. And then final question. What is one thing that makes you smile every time you see or think about it?
Jennifer Horspool: My dog, Bruno.
Lindsey Dinneen: Yay.
Jennifer Horspool: My dog, Bruno. He's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. He was homeless. He was sleeping under my friend's truck for about three weeks. She posted, "Hey, I have to find this guy his forever home." And and we met and it's just been a fabulous engagement ever since. He's the greatest thing ever.
Lindsey Dinneen: So sweet. I love that. Dogs are the best. [00:30:00] They're perfect companions.
Jennifer Horspool: Yeah.
Lindsey Dinneen: Excellent. Well.
Jennifer Horspool: He's spoiled now. He went from outside to a couch and a bed and all these other beds and he's a happy guy.
Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, I love it. I love it. That deserves some love and attention and, yeah, pampering.
Jennifer Horspool: Right.
Lindsey Dinneen: That's phenomenal. Well, Jennifer, thank you so much for being here today. Seriously, it was value after value. It was nonstop amazing advice, amazing insight. We are so honored to be making a donation on your behalf as a thank you for your time today to Paw Prints in the Sand. Paw Prints in the Sand Animal Rescue is an all animal foster based animal welfare organization with a mission to give at risk animals a second chance at life by providing medical care behavior training and loving forever homes. Thank you for choosing that organization to support! Thank you for joining us and thank you for everything that you do to change lives for a better world.
Jennifer Horspool: Thank you. [00:31:00] And thank you for doing this. This was fantastic. I really appreciate the opportunity to come and speak with you and talk medtech to all the scientists out there. It's one of my favorites. It's always fascinating. And thank you for doing the podcast. It's fantastic.
Lindsey Dinneen: Yeah, excellent. And for those startups and founders that might need some assistance, where could they find you?
Jennifer Horspool: Email me at jennifer at engagementpr. com or or just go to engagementpr. com, fill out the form or you can go to LinkedIn, Jennifer L. Hoorspool, everywhere I am, get my L in the middle. It's I say, whether it's my middle initial or my last name, please put the L, it's really important.
Lindsey Dinneen: Okay. Excellent. Sounds good. Well, again, thank you for being here. And thank you also to our listeners. And if you're feeling as inspired as I am right now, I'd love it if you would share this episode with a colleague or two, and we will catch you next time.
Jennifer Horspool: You're the best.
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