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How Angel Investors Really Evaluate Femtech Founders | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 30Blush & Bloom

How Angel Investors Really Evaluate Femtech Founders | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 30

Femtech investing insights from DanBAN's Trine Hoffensetz Winther on what angel investors look for in women founders raising early-stage capital.

Gigi · Nov 2, 2025

The Future of Women's Health, Wearables, and Genomics | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 27Blush & Bloom

The Future of Women's Health, Wearables, and Genomics | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 27

The future of women's health runs on community, wearables, and genomics. Aline Noizet joins Blush & Bloom to unpack what really moves femtech forward.

Gigi · Nov 1, 2025

Women's Health and Femtech in Rwanda with Luna Health | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 28Blush & Bloom

Women's Health and Femtech in Rwanda with Luna Health | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 28

Women's health and femtech in Rwanda, from period poverty and PCOS to postpartum care and the scarcity of female gynecologists, with Luna Health founder Bose.

Gigi · Nov 1, 2025

How to Build a Career Without Losing Yourself | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 26Blush & Bloom

How to Build a Career Without Losing Yourself | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 26

How to build a career without losing yourself: Andrea Lungulescu on confidence, sponsors, visibility for introverts, burnout, and staying steady through AI.

Gigi · Oct 31, 2025

How Women's Health Founders Actually Raise, With Dr. Valerie Cai | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 25Blush & Bloom

How Women's Health Founders Actually Raise, With Dr. Valerie Cai | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 25

Dr. Valerie Cai of XX Combinator joins Blush & Bloom to unpack how women's health founders navigate funding, data, and the bottlenecks that slow innovation.

Gigi · Oct 24, 2025

Is My Discharge Normal? What I Learned When I Finally Started Listening to My BodyWellness

Is My Discharge Normal? What I Learned When I Finally Started Listening to My Body

Queeneth on what she learned when she finally started listening to her body.

Queeneth · Oct 23, 2025

What Economic Violence Does to Women's Health | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 24Blush & Bloom

What Economic Violence Does to Women's Health | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 24

Economist Claudia Segre joins Blush & Bloom to explain economic violence against women, how financial control harms health, and why financial literacy protects both.

Gigi · Oct 22, 2025

Women's Heart Health: Why Heart Disease and Stroke Get Missed | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 23Blush & Bloom

Women's Heart Health: Why Heart Disease and Stroke Get Missed | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 23

Women's heart health explained: why heart disease and stroke are missed in women, how pregnancy history raises risk, and the daily habits that protect you.

Gigi · Oct 21, 2025

Designing Better Women’s Health Solutions for Southeast Asia | Blush and Bloom Podcast | Ep. 20Blush & Bloom

Designing Better Women’s Health Solutions for Southeast Asia | Blush and Bloom Podcast | Ep. 20

In this episode of Blush and Bloom, Gigi Kenneth talks with Sastya Wardani, CEO and co-founder of Ovy Health, about building culturally aware women’s health sol

Gigi · Oct 17, 2025

Sustainable Fertility Care and Plastic-Free Pregnancy Tests | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 21Blush & Bloom

Sustainable Fertility Care and Plastic-Free Pregnancy Tests | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 21

Sustainable fertility care meets femtech as Lara Solomon of Hoopsy explains plastic-free pregnancy tests, the hidden waste in diagnostics, and IVF honesty.

Gigi · Oct 17, 2025

Building for Women's Health: Funding, Founders, and Impact | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 22Blush & Bloom

Building for Women's Health: Funding, Founders, and Impact | Blush & Bloom Podcast | Ep. 22

Building for women's health is hard. Jill Miranda joins Blush & Bloom to unpack femtech funding gaps, founder burnout, and why women's health is human health.

Gigi · Oct 17, 2025

What Living With Endometriosis Taught Me About Women’s Health, Blush & Bloom Podcast | Episode 18Blush & Bloom

What Living With Endometriosis Taught Me About Women’s Health, Blush & Bloom Podcast | Episode 18

Founder Rebekah Lloyd on turning her endometriosis journey into Rela Health, and what true innovation in women’s health and femtech looks like.

Gigi · Oct 16, 2025