About Holly Grigg-Spall

In 2015, I pivoted to marketing and communications consulting for a portfolio of femtech and female health-centric companies. I have supported the success of a range of projects from expert’s first books to hardware start-ups.

As the author of the cult book ‘Sweetening the Pill,’ I have spent over a decade researching, connecting, and working in the circles of reproductive health, body literacy, and femtech for fertility. With only some support from my small publisher, I took on the bulk of book promotion myself, creating a continued bestseller and underground phenomenon.

In that time, I became a sought-after expert on these topics, providing insight, guidance, and trend forecasting to a range of individuals, companies, and brand research groups.

I am a co-producer on a feature documentary inspired by ‘Sweetening the Pill,’ which is currently in production. The film is directed by Abby Epstein and executive produced by Ricki Lake (the team behind the paradigm-shifting ‘The Business of Being Born’). It will be titled ‘The Business of Birth Control’ and is due for release in 2020.

Although I now only sporadically freelance in journalism, my Guardian Op-Ed on the pill and mental health side effects was ranked as the most-read comment piece of 2016. The story went viral, became a Twitter Moment, and as a result I was featured by the Washington Post and interviewed for NPR (to name just a couple).

Other highlights of this trajectory have included: Vice naming me “the poster girl for a movement of women abandoning the pill in favor of contraceptives that don’t wreak havoc on their body and mind;” my work featuring in both American and British Vogue, and speaking at SXSW on the journey from birth control to body literacy.

I now lead workshops for women choosing to go off hormonal birth control in Los Angeles and around the US.

As a marketing and communications consultant I have worked on several notable projects including online women’s health portal FLO Living, Lara Briden’s Period Repair Manual, and launching the Daysy fertility tracker in the US.

I started out as a film and arts journalist. I worked with Film4, Screen International, Little White Lies, Total Film, and Movie Rush, to name just a few.