The Womens Wellness Show

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Sioned Fôn Jones co-founder of BoobyBiome and award-winning scientist with a PhD in Biophysics. Alongside co-founders Dr Lydia Mapstone and Dr Tara O'Driscoll, Sioned is doing something truly rare: building a science-led company in a space that barely existed before they arrived. We get into the breast milk microbiome, the staggering research gap (we know more...

Dr. Meenakshi Jhala is an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, Co-Founder of Tiny Ventures , and Chief of Staff at Synthax . Her mission is to have a global positive impact on human life — operating across clinical medicine, research, and investment. In this episode we cover: Meenakshi's journey from medical school to the intersection of medicine, research, and VC How working with Millbleep and publishi...

Dr Chrysi Sergaki is the founder and CEO of XX Innovation , a not-for-profit organisation driving systems change in women's health. With seven years at the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), she brings deep experience across policy, regulation, research, innovation and investment — and a rare ability to align the full range of stakeholders needed to drive real change. Her...

Elena Rueda is the founder and CEO of Dama Health , on a mission to end the trial-and-error method of prescribing hormone therapies — from contraception through to menopause and HRT. She completed a Master's in Entrepreneurship at Imperial, built the company while working full-time at Merck, and draws her resilience from her mother — one of the only female detectives in 1980s Madrid. Connect with...

Sheelpa Patel . CEO & Founder Mavens & Mavericks https://www.mavensmavericks.com/   About Sheelpa Sheelpa Patel is the founder and CEO of Mavens & Mavericks , a marketing and scaling advisory working at the intersection of technology, education, and commercial reality. After 20+ years in global brand, marketing, and business transformation roles including pioneering one of the wor...

Clio Wood is a women's health advocate, journalist, author, and co-founder of CensorHerShip alongside Anna O'Sullivan. She founded postnatal and menopause education company Ambrieve over a decade ago, and began noticing the suppression of honest, medically-backed content about women's bodies — from breastfeeding advice to menopause support. That pattern became a campaign. What We Covered The censo...

About Marina Marina Gerner is the author of The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs That Could Change Everything in Women's Health . She holds a PhD from the LSE, is a professor at NYU, and has been a journalist for over 15 years — bringing academic rigour and accessible storytelling to the systemic barriers facing women's health innovation. What We Covered The origin story — 9 in 10 fir...

Gail Armstrong is one of the UK's most prominent women's health investors and the founder of Lavender Ventures, a platform she built after COVID to combine early-stage investing with mentorship and community. With a background in financial services and four years deep in the femtech ecosystem, Gail has a rare view from both sides of the table, sitting with founders day-to-day while co-investing al...

About Karli Karli Büchling is the founder and CEO of Blake Health (previously known as Yoni Health), a Techbio start-up breaking new ground in women's health research. Her fascination with menstrual blood began in 2007, long before it was a topic anyone wanted to talk about. Today she leads strategic partnerships, fundraising, and the mission to close the gender health gap and destigmatize menstru...

Emilė Radytė, PhD studied neuroscience at Oxford and Harvard before starting Samphire Neuroscience which is building wearable neurotechnology medical device solutions for women's health and lifestyle needs.  Samphire Neuroscience mission is to transform women's health through brain based innovation. Our vision is simple: to create a world where women have access to medical grade solution...

Today's episode is with an amazing guest, Albert is the founding partner and CEO of Tramlines a venture infrastructure company, accelerator, and consultancy He’s a multi exited founder, an angel investor and on the HMRC advisory board for AI TRAMLINES is a fund and accelerator focused exclusively on B2B Deep Tech, AI, Fintech, and Enterprise Tech. It targets domain experts with at least 10 years o...

Marta Ciechonska has a PhD in Microbiology and used that to co-founder her company Salient Bioscience Together with her team they are combining synthetic biology and robotics to build digital-first laboratories that make diagnostic testing available to all including the oral and vaginal microbiome  We go back to the early days of starting the company, fundraising, research and the early barri...

“Did I miss my moment because I was so obsessed with building a company? Who knows, I’ll grapple with that” Poppy Mason-Watts is a multi round VC backed founder in the impact space. I’m so grateful for her doing this episode because we need to have more of a conversation about how the founder journey overlaps with the fertility journey and egg freezing. I hope this episode is insightful and brings...

Jo Dalton i s the founder of JD&Co is the go to Global Exec Search & Advisory firm supporting the founders, funders, and leaders of high growth disruptive tech fuelled brands She’s also a founding member of Alma Angels, an angel syndicate focused on supporting women’s led companies  Jo’s experience and visibility over the landscape make her incredibly well placed to discuss how to sta...

Valerie Evans is a principal at Five Seasons Ventures  Five Seasons Ventures is the leading pan-European Venture Capital fund investing in iconic and sustainable consumer brands. Whilst not a women’s health specific fund Valerie is very passionate about seeing more consumer women’s health innovation reaching series A and she walks us through the main 2 problems she sees when moving from seed-...

Léa is the CEO and co-founder of Cycalana Bio, she has a PhD from Cambridge in clinical neurosciences Léa started Cyclana Bio nearly a year ago and announced a £5 million seed round in October co led by NfX and Eka Ventures   We talk her personal journey of getting diagnosed with endometriosis, experience with using HBC for endometriosis management as well as how she manages her triathlon tra...

Luana David is a previous founder now VC at Supernode Global,  A venture capital firm investing in early-stage startups that are empowering humans to reach their full potential in the most important aspects of everyday lives Most notable Supernode have backed Hormona in the women’s health space which gives Luana amazing insights to the women’s health landscape She’s also someone who’s followe...

Vandana is an exited founder with over 20 years healthtech experience.  She has a patent in cervical cancer screening. Launched the world's first handheld ultrasound. Launched the world's first at home baby monitoring wearable   Sits on the board of breast cancer charity.  Raised £10 million across 2 rounds backed by Accel Partners who are one of the top VCs  Her first sta...

Estia Ryan is a VC and head of research at Eka Ventures.  The intersection of this role as well as Eka’s investment into Cyclana Bio, Ditto Daily and Hesta Health make her incredibly well placed to cover the common challenges women’s health founders faced when moving from ideation to raising pre-seed  Last year Estia partnered with Yougov to survey over 1000 women,  which they used...

Today's episode I’m joined by Ahana Banerjee the founder and CEO of Clear I’m fortunate enough to have learnt from Ahana over the past couple of years, she’s shared so many amazing lessons with me from building Clear that I’m really excited to bring you this conversation today  Ahana is the youngest solo female founder to get into YC, The biggest accelerator program in the world! App of the D...

Dr Sula Windgassen .  PhD researcher with over 30 published academic papers. An honorary researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience holds five degrees, from King’s College London and the University of Leeds, and is currently conducting research with both King’s and University College London. Chartered Health Psychologist & Mindfulness Practitioner.  Author...

Leo and Zahra discuss the CensHership campaign. Dr Zahra substack https://drzahra.substack.com/ Reports / papers  https://www.censhership.co.uk/ https://www.censhership.co.uk/white-paper   Key Findings of this whitepaper: 95% of women's health creators surveyed in 2024-25 reported censorship on platforms including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, Google, Amazon, YouTube, Pinterest and Lin...

How can nutritionists/ dietitians be using AI more effectively to support their coaching and businesses? Rohini and Leo - we could share some examples from our own work How effective are current AI tools? How they may evolve in the future.  AI + tailored nutrition and lifestyle advice when it comes to women’s health conditions like endo, PCOS etc.  What about the role of compassion, empa...

Hosted by Dr Frances OBGYN, hear 3 women's journeys personally and professionally with miscarriages, IVF and egg freezing. Organisations doing amazing work in this space: Fertility Matters at Work - Provides training on fertility support to employers + ‘Fertility Friendly’ accreditation- https://fertilitymattersatwork.com/   Nickie Aiken, MP - brought forward legislation via a Private Members...

Rhiannon is a futurist specialising in women’s health. As the former Co-founder of Ultra Violet, the only Women's Health, Wellness and FemTech trend forecasters, she is uniquely positioned to analyse the data and set predictions on future consumer trends in the women’s health space. We talk about where this increase in discussing and promoting women’s health has come from.  The dark side of c...