How I Owned the Room That Wasn’t Built for Me
Dr. Woganee Filate, Co-Founder of Lume Women + Health, shares how representation, prevention, and women-centred care shaped her path as a physician and entrepreneur.
After building a career in sleep medicine, Dr. Filate saw a major gap in women’s healthcare: symptoms like fatigue, mood changes, and sleep disruption in midlife were too often dismissed instead of properly understood. That experience inspired her and her Co-Founders to create Lume, an integrated clinic offering holistic, evidence-based care under one roof.
Bringing Lume to life required more than medical expertise: it meant learning the business side of healthcare, making strategic financial decisions, and leaning on the right advisory support to move from vision to execution.
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In How I Owned the Room That Wasn’t Built for Me, Dr. Woganee Filate shares her journey from aspiring physician to co-founder of Lume Women + Health—and the experiences that shaped her commitment to building a more intentional model of care for women.
As a sleep physician, Dr. Filate saw how often women in midlife were dismissed when seeking support for fatigue, mood changes, sleep disruption, and other symptoms. She also recognized how little medical training had prepared physicians to understand menopause and its connection to long-term health.
That gap inspired her and her Co-Founders to create Lume: a single destination that brings together physicians, therapists, menopause specialists, nutritionists, and other care providers in one collaborative model.
Her story is also one of entrepreneurship. Building Lume meant stepping beyond the traditional healthcare system, learning the realities of running a business, and relying on trusted advisors who understood what it takes to build something new.
“The best advice I’d give future entrepreneurs in choosing a financial advisor is to pick someone who really believes in you and your vision. That is the most important pairing that you can have.”
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