Femtech At Work

On 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 symptoms were "trauma" pushed her to build the app she couldn't find anywhere else. After VCs passed, Mary and her co-founder turned to their community, raising $700,000 in a crowdfunding round that closed in 48 hours flat. N...

What 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 author of The Wonder Within, joins Femtech At Work to answer exactly that. The healthcare system is built for disease management, not for the woman who feels exhausted, hormonally stuck, and told she is fine when she knows...

It 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 mission to make women feel genuinely seen through products that are functional, beautiful, and built around real needs that have been overlooked for far too long. In this episode, Mia takes us behind twenty-one years of b...

What 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 what HeraMed is building right now. Anoushka Gungadin's path to CEO of HeraMed is anything but straight from growing up in Mauritius, to a decade in China, to building a leadership practice in Australia. And it's that exa...

Millions 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 happens when the system fails women, and two midlife founders decide to rewrite the rules of healthcare themselves? In this episode, Maaike sits down with Johanna Wicks, co-founder of Lorai Health, to expose the frustrati...

What 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 beautifully raw conversation, Amelia opens up about the painful turning points that led her here. From navigating three redundancies and systemic harassment to witnessing the silent health struggles women face in midlife. Together,...

Vaginal 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 healthcare. In this powerful conversation, we sit down with Sarah Galloy, founder of Pinc Wellness, to unpack the reality behind recurrent BV, UTIs, thrush and the emotional toll of not being believed. If you’ve ever been d...

What 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 Viv Conway, co‑founder of the sexual wellness brand Girls Get Off, to unpack how a “taboo” idea became a fast‑growing, community‑driven business across New Zealand and Australia. This is a candid, funny, and deeply empower...

Infertility 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 a “human pin cushion” and the father who spent 50+ years in non‑invasive drug delivery? Today, we chatted with Ellen Gonda, co‑founder of GonGlobal, a pioneering Femtech startup on a mission to radically transform the IVF...

Abortion 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 registered nurse and co-founder of Aunty Jane, Alison Lima, pulls back the curtain on Australia’s abortion system, the quiet gatekeeping happening behind clinic doors, and the tele-abortion model rewriting what compassionate, acce...

For 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 (Sam) Costa, nurse practitioner, midwife and founder of Charlie Health, a clinically designed women’s health platform built in Australia for women across the reproductive lifespan. Sam shares how years of working in ferti...

In 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 postpartum recovery are dismissed or hidden in shame, but Amelia is changing that narrative. We dive into how Pelvy uses thoughtful tech to bridge the gap between evidence-based education and real-world results. From breaking "...

What 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 episode, elite runner, coach, and Femmi co-founder Lydia O’Donnell joins us for a raw and honest conversation about disordered eating, hormone health, and how training with her menstrual cycle helped her rebuild performance, he...

When 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 broken and ready for change. This episode is a front-row seat to that transformation. In this episode of Femtech at Work, we sit down with Luke Morris, founder and CEO of Women’s Mental Health Australia (formerly the Liptember...

What 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 redesign period care from the ground up? Today at FemTech at Work, we have Helena U, founder of Inoya, to unpack her unexpected journey from clinical practice and public health into the world of femtech and sustainable period c...

What 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 have Irene Tsang, founder and CEO of Lift Women Group, Australia’s first women-focused crowdfunding and funding ecosystem. From growing up in China and Hong Kong to starting over in Melbourne as a single mother of two, Irene...

Imagine 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. In this episode, we have the Sydney-based founder Annelise Grosman of Kooze Wellness, the cheeky Gen Z brand behind heart-shaped heat patches designed to make menstrual cycles “suck a little less.” Annelise shares how a pe...

What 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, we have Chelsea Cornelius, mechanical-turned-biomedical engineer and CEO of Stratos MedTech, the company behind PeriCoach—a clinically-backed pelvic floor training system designed to treat urinary incontinence and mild to...

What if the breast pump you rely on at work was finally built around your body, your ambition, and your autonomy, engineered by a mom who refused to let a boardroom of men decide what “good enough” looks like for breastfeeding women? In this episode of FemTech at Work, we sit down with Australian founder and stunt‑performer‑turned‑entrepreneur, Sally Grice, the CEO of Lacevo, the first black weara...

What if the most transformative innovation in childbirth isn’t an app or an algorithm, but a simple, clinician-led medical device that turns “threading a needle in the dark” into a precise, compassionate experience for every mother? In this episode of FemTech at Work, we sit down with Dr. Densearn Seo, founder and CEO of Gravida Health, to explore how one clinician’s curiosity, frustration and glo...

What happens when a former accountant, nurse and IVF patient turns her frustration with menopause misinformation into a nationwide movement transforming workplaces across Australia? In this powerful episode, we have Grace Molloy, founder and CEO of Menopause Friendly Australia, to unpack how one “impatient advocate for women” is changing the way organisations talk about and support menopause at wo...

What happens when a state decides women’s health is non‑negotiable? Today at FemTech at Work,we have Sally Hasler, CEO of Women’s Health Victoria, to unpack how one Australian state is using policy, research, and partnership to close the gender health gap. From chronic pain and reproductive coercion to AI-driven access and corporate responsibility, this conversation shines a light on what real sys...

What if the most stressful part of IVF wasn’t the hormones, the scans, or the emotional rollercoaster, but the chaos of managing it all alone at your kitchen table? In this episode, we meet the doctor-turned-founder who decided that fertility patients deserve better than photocopied instructions and guesswork. Joining us is Dr. Caroline Fiddler, a medical doctor and founder of Cycle Guide, a purpo...

What happens when an investor walks away from high finance to rebuild the fertility journey across Asia? In this episode, you’ll step inside the world of Rhea Fertility & GenPrime and see how one woman is redesigning reproductive care for an entire region. Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Margaret Wang, founding CEO of Rhea Fertility and GenPrime, to unpack how she left a global fin...

What happens when a young doctor, failed by the very system she works in, decides to rebuild women's healthcare from the ground up using AI? Today, we're chatting with Dr. Ariella Heffernan-Marks, founder of Ovum AI, about how her battle with debilitating vestibular migraines exposed the deep biases and data gaps in women's healthcare and sparked a radically different solution. Ariella reveals how...