04: The MBA Journey and Maternal Mental Health, with Bindu Chanagala

In this episode, Bindu shares how her MBA journey led to co-founding nurtur, a maternal mental health startup using AI to predict and prevent postpartum depression. She opens up about balancing motherhood with entrepreneurship, why investing in herself mattered, and how her background in healthcare and engineering fuels her mission to change maternal care.

About Bindu Chanagala

Bindu Chanagala is the Co-Founder of nurtur, a maternal mental health startup spun out of MIT Sloan that uses AI and clinically proven protocols to predict and prevent postpartum depression.

An immigrant and mother of four, Bindu’s own experience with limited maternal mental health support inspired her mission to change care for mothers everywhere. She previously held engineering and leadership roles at Intermountain Health and SelectHealth, where she built teams, implemented automation, and developed predictive models impacting over a million lives.

Through nurtur, she combines her technical expertise and personal journey to create empathetic, preventive solutions for maternal wellness.

Learn about Bindu's work here: https://nurturcare.com/

Connect with Bindu:

• Lindkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bindu-chanagala

Thanks to OMA for supporting this episode. Try it yourself at  omanaturalfood.com  and get 15% off with the code: FMPOD