SheBoss | Healthcare That Actually Listens with Adrienne Garbarino
In this episode of SheBoss, Megan sits down with Adrienne Garbarino, MSN, FNP-BC, founder and owner of Cove Telehealth for Women, for a real conversation about navigating the women's healthcare system, getting truly heard by your provider, and rethinking everything we've been taught about menopause.Adrienne is a Huntsville native who left, built a decade-long career as a labor and delivery nurse in Atlanta, and came home in 2020 to fill a gaping hole in women's healthcare. Cove was not just a business idea. It came out of her own journey with thyroid and hormone dysfunction, when conventional medicine could not give her the answers she needed and she went deep into functional medicine to help herself. Somewhere in that process, she realized this was what was missing for women everywhere, and she became the provider she wished she'd had.They also dig into the insurance coding trap that catches so many patients off guard, what a genuinely comprehensive evaluation should feel like, the pattern of women being told their symptoms are "just stress" or "just aging," and why combining conventional and functional medicine gets to the root cause instead of the symptom.If you've ever left a doctor's office feeling dismissed, unheard, or stuck with a bill you never saw coming... this one's for you.In this episode, we cover:
- Why your "preventive" annual checkup can quietly turn into a billable "problem visit"
- The coding rules that leave so many women facing surprise out-of-pocket costs
- What comprehensive, patient-centered care actually looks like at Cove
- Why you should never have to diagnose yourself before a provider listens
- Menopause reframed: a normal transition, not a disease you're stuck enduring
- The vision-and-glasses analogy that will change how you think about getting older
- How a personal health struggle became the practice she wished she'd had
Want to learn more about Adrienne?LinkedIn: / adrienne-n-garbarino-msn-fnp-bc-crnp-aa5a9229 Web: covetelehealthforwomen.comInstagram: @cove4women