FemTech Focus

FemTech Focus covers women’s health innovation as a field shaped by science, money, policy, advocacy, and personal experience. Dr. Brittany Barreto frames the show around the past, present, and future of women’s health and wellness, with conversations that often connect intimate health realities to broader systems. The subject matter can be clinical and specific. Episodes address breast cancer, endometriosis, pelvic pain, sexual health, vaginal microbiome testing, pregnancy-related implications, IUD pain, and reproductive healthcare policy. The show also tracks the industry around those issues: founders raising money, startups building new tests, consultants pursuing government funding, and market research efforts cataloging the FemTech landscape. It has a clear advocacy streak. Patient stories are treated as evidence of what care systems miss, especially when delayed diagnosis, pain dismissal, or lack of research leaves people without useful support. At the same time, FemTech Focus is not only a patient-story show. It spends real time on business models, policy levers, health data, legislation, public education, and the difference between attention and durable change. The episode with Priyanka Jain and Evy brings the vaginal microbiome into focus as an overlooked biomarker space. Conversations with Sahar Paz and Crystal Rose Napolitano move through cancer advocacy, nervous-system-informed sexual health, endometriosis, and body literacy. Liz Powell’s appearance brings government affairs and non-dilutive funding into the women’s health conversation. The annual review episodes shift into industry analysis, using trends and predictions to take the temperature of FemTech as a sector. The tone is candid, informed, and often plainly corrective: women’s health problems are not treated as niche, embarrassing, or secondary. They are presented as research, care, and equity problems with market and policy consequences. That makes the show especially useful for founders, clinicians, researchers, investors, advocates, and health-curious listeners who want more than wellness slogans. FemTech Focus works best when it sits at the intersection of lived experience and infrastructure. It asks what patients need, what builders are making, what funders notice, and what policy can change.