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 fertility and women’s health clinics, from tertiary hospitals to remote Indigenous communities in Cape York, exposed the huge gap between what period and fertility apps promise and what women actually experience. That frustration and award‑winning research into cycle‑tracking apps sparked the idea for Charli Health- a hybrid model that combines a powerful cycle and symptom tracker with access to real clinicians via a virtual clinic.

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