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This is this week’s ForbesWomen newsletter, which every Thursday brings news about the world’s top female entrepreneurs, leaders and investors straight to your inbox. In this newsletter and on Forbes.com, we talk a lot about wellness. But today I want to talk about the other side of that: chronic illness. According to the National Health Council, 133 million Americans live with a chronic disease.
Hannah Olson, a 23-year-old Boston University grad, is among the 133 million. She lives with Lyme disease and needs an IV with antibiotics and a 28-pill-per-day regimen—a situation that rendered her dream design-firm job impossible to keep. But in response to this setback, Olson founded a company called Chronically Capable, a recruiting platform that connects the chronically ill or disabled with work opportunities and flexible employers.
“Just because you’re sick, it doesn’t mean you’re less capable of contributing to the workforce,” Olson
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