Femtech At Work
by Maaike Steinebach
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About this podcast
Femtech At Work is a new podcast that showcases inspiring femtech founders, corporate champions of women’s health in the workplace, and ecosystem innovators.
Starting off in Hong Kong we will travel across Asia and Oceania and the rest of the world to explore the most innovative new women’s health solutions around reproductive health and diseases that disproportionately affect women, talk about the challenges and opportunities of starting a women’s health company and the role of the workplace for impact and change.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 82 episodes
- How a Startmate Launch Club Founder Built an AI Companion to Help Mothers Skip the Doomscroll · 22 min · Season 3 Episode 81Most new mothers aren't short on information about pregnancy and birth, they're drowning in it, and that's the real problem this episode of Femtech At Work Podcast digs into…
- Pelvic Organ Prolapse Recovery: Why 40% of Women Still Suffer Years Later · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 80She burst into tears the first time she tried on pelvic floor support wear that was supposed to help her — instead, it fell off and left her in more pain. On this episode of…
- From Crippling Anxiety to a 700K Community-Funded App · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 79On this episode of Femtech At Work, Mary Doube, civil engineer turned competitive strongwoman and co-founder/CEO of Aviiana, shares how being told her crippling perimenopause…
- Women's Metabolic Health: The CGM Platform Fixing What Healthcare System Ignores · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 78What happens when one of Australia's leading integrative GPs starts scaling women's metabolic health to thousands? Dr. Michelle Woolhouse, founding medical doctor at Vively and…
- Progressive Period Care and the Problem Nobody Was Solving: Mia Klitsas on Innovation in Women's Health through Moxie · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 77It started with a lone tampon rolling around at the bottom of a handbag. That was the moment, Mia Klitsas, the Co-founder of Moxie, Australia's progressive period care brand on a…
- Maternity Deserts, AI Bias, and the Future of Women's Health Tech with Anoushka Gungadin in Building HeraMed · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 76What if the data collected during your pregnancy could predict and even prevent - a heart attack, a stroke, or dementia decades later? That's not a distant vision. That's exactly…
- Why Menopause Patches Are Stuck in the Past & How Lorai Health Plans to Change That · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 75Millions of women rely on hormone therapy patches to survive menopause, yet Big Pharma has essentially decided that fixing the global patch shortage isn't profitable enough. What…
- How CaptureCare is Rewriting the Rules of Menopause Support with Real Empathy · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 74What happens when you combine decades of medical sales expertise with a refusal to accept the status quo? You get Amelia Dickinson, the founder of Capture Care. In this…
- Turning Pain into Purpose: BV, Vaginal Health and the Rise of Pinc Wellness with Sarah Galloy · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 73Vaginal health is central to a woman’s life, from her first period to her last hot flush – yet it remains one of the most dismissed, misunderstood and under-researched areas of…
- The Startup Story Behind Girls Get Off and Women’s Sexual Empowerment · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 72What happens when two female founders decide that women’s pleasure deserves the same love and design as kincare and refuse to let stigma or shadow bans stop them? Today, we have…
- How GonGlobal Is Reinventing IVF Drug Delivery in Australia · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 71Infertility affects 1 in 6 adults, but what if hundreds of IVF injections could be replaced by a non-invasive, connected drug delivery platform, designed by a daughter who became…
- From Stigma to Standard Care: How Aunty Jane Is Rewriting Abortion Access in Australia · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 70Abortion is legal across Australia, so why are so many women still turned away, forced to travel hours, or pay hundreds of dollars for essential care? In this episode, a…
- Beyond Tracking: How Charli Health Turns Women’s Symptoms into Real Answers · 34 min · Episode 69For years, women were told, “It’s just pain.” What happens when that pain is turned into hard data that doctors can’t ignore? In this episode of FemTech at Work, we have Samantha…
- Rewriting Pelvic Health: How Pelvy Is Transforming Care with Founder & Physio Amelia Godfrey · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 68In this episode, we’re joined by Amelia Godfrey, the pelvic health physio and founder of Pelvy, who’s rewriting the rules of care. Too often, issues like leaking, pain, and…
- How Femmi Helps Women Run With Their Hormones, Not Against Them · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 67What happens when an elite runner is praised for losing her period in the name of performance until it nearly breaks her body, and forces her to truly listen to it? In this…
- Women’s Mental Health in Australia: Data, Policy, and the Liptember Legacy · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 66When a man launches a women’s mental health fundraiser and accidentally builds Australia’s leading organisation for women’s mental health, something in the system is clearly…
- Inside Inoya: Patented Menstrual Cup Design, Social Impact and the Future of Period Care · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 65What happens when a registered nurse and public health practitioner discovers that the menstrual products she relies on are filled with undisclosed chemicals—and decides to…
- Closing the Gender Finance Gap: How Lift Women Is Funding Female Founders · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 64What if women didn’t have to beg for capital, but could build, fund and scale their ideas on their own terms from anywhere in the world? In this episode of FemTech at Work, we…
- Making Menstrual Cycles Suck A Little Less With Kooze Wellness · 27 min · Season 3 Episode 63Imagine a world where period pain doesn’t derail your workday, your workout, or your weekend plans—just because smart, playful, science-backed products are finally within reach…
- From Shame to Science: Rethinking Pelvic Floor Health with PeriCoach · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 62What if treating “just a bit of leakage” early could keep you out of aged care, off pads for life, and back to running, jumping and living freely? In this powerful conversation…
