The Pink Pineapple Podcast

Explore how Nancy Scotford and her team are developing groundbreaking hardware to improve sexual pleasure, health, and understanding across a woman’s lifetime. This episode reveals the science, technology, and social impact behind their innovative approach.

In this episode:

• Nancy shares how Get Rude's device focuses on sustaining and enhancing the pleasure state, rather than quick orgasms typical of traditional sex toys.
• The importance of personalized and micro-erogenous zone targeting, and how real-time measurement enables tailored experiences.
• The potential of long-term health insights from sexual response data, including links to sleep, heart rate variability, and overall wellbeing.
• Challenges of hardware development, data security, user privacy, and navigating regulatory pathways towards medical device classification.
• Marketing strategies amidst societal taboos and the creative workaround using brand naming to share impactful health data.
• The future vision: integrating with wearables, screening for sexual dysfunction, and expanding inclusivity for diverse genders and experiences.
• Nancy's advice for overcoming shame and seeking support for sexual dissatisfaction or dysfunction.
• The journey of building a groundbreaking product in an underserved, taboo space and the motivation that drives her mission.

Motherhood changes everything, but our systems still behave as if women should simply bounce back.

In this episode, Mari-Carmen Sanchez-Morris, founder of Matresa, joins us to talk about matrescence, the hidden transition into motherhood, and why postnatal support remains so fragmented.

We explore maternal mental health, the gaps in education and care after birth, the role of workplaces, and how tech could help build the infrastructure mothers actually need.

In this episode of The Pink Pineapple Podcast, Emma Thornton and Claudia speak to Ella Harris, Founder and CEO of UVISA, about one of women’s health’s most common but least comfortably discussed issues: vaginal dysbiosis. 

We explore why so many women end up self-diagnosing, why current treatment pathways can feel repetitive and frustrating, and what happens when innovation finally enters a space that has been underserved for far too long. 

Ella explains how UVISA’s reusable light-therapy device is being developed as a non-pharmacological approach to common vaginal infections, and shares the science, the product journey, and the realities of building a women’s health medical device company. 

The conversation also explores clinical trials, startup funding, grants, cash flow, and what founders really need to know when taking an idea from concept to market.

In this episode of The Pink Pineapple Podcast, Claudia and Emma speak with Dr Jordan Abdi, CEO and co-founder of U-Ploid Biotechnologies, about one of the most important and misunderstood aspects of fertility: egg quality.

Jordan explains the biology behind how eggs age and why chromosomal errors become more common over time. The conversation explores how U-Ploid’s technology aims to address this challenge directly, with a new approach designed to prevent chromosomal separation errors during egg development.

Along the way, the discussion touches on fertility myths, the limitations of embryo-focused research, the responsible use of biomarkers like AMH, and how emerging fertility technologies may shift the field towards earlier, more personalised interventions.

It’s a fascinating deep dive into reproductive biology, biotech innovation, and what the future of fertility care could look like.

Link to the HFEA treatment add-ons traffic light system that Jordan mentions in the show: https://www.hfea.gov.uk/treatments/treatment-add-ons/

Urinary tract infections affect millions of women, yet many still feel their symptoms are misunderstood or dismissed.

In this episode of The Pink Pineapple Podcast, Emma and Claudia speak with digital health leader, advisor and women’s health advocate Katherine Church about women’s experiences with UTIs, the limitations of current care pathways, and emerging innovations in diagnostics, prevention, and policy.

Katherine also shares her own journey through digital health and her passion for improving women’s health experiences globally.

From new testing technologies to the future of women-centred healthcare, this episode explores how the conversation around UTIs may be starting to change.

In this episode of The Pink Pineapple Podcast, we explore the emerging field of continuous hormone monitoring through wearable technology.

Jenny Duan, CEO and co-founder of Clair Health, joins us to discuss their wrist-worn device designed to generate ongoing hormone trend insights for estrogen, progesterone, LH and FSH.

We talk about how this technology works, what clinical validation involves, the realities of regulation, and what it could mean for the future of women’s health data.

Could hormone tracking one day become as routine as heart rate monitoring?

If you’re interested in women’s health innovation, AI-driven wearables or the future of hormone tracking, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.

In Slice 17, we sit down with Nina Van Schaick, midwife and COO of PeriPear, to talk about one of the least discussed yet most common complications of childbirth: perineal trauma.

We explore the reality of tearing, including obstetric anal sphincter injury, the long term physical and psychological impact on women, and the surprising lack of awareness before birth.

We also unpack the evidence behind warm compresses, shown to significantly reduce severe tears, and how PeriPear is developing a medical device designed to standardise perineal support during labour.

It is clinical. It is honest. And it is a conversation we should have started years ago.

In Slice 16, we are joined by Dr Tom Chambers, somnologist and co founder of Theta Sleep, to explore why sleep medicine needs a rethink, especially for women. From underdiagnosed sleep apnoea and insomnia to the impact of pregnancy and menopause on sleep, we discuss the gender differences that are often overlooked. We also dive into the rise of tech enabled sleep clinics, the pros and cons of sleep wearables, and why the best sleep advice might be simple but powerful.

Emma and Claudia are joined by Charlotte Lewis, femtech lawyer and co-author of the FemHealth Focus Report, to unpack the real barriers holding women’s health back.

They explore why women’s health remains underfunded, how regulation is often misunderstood, and what needs to change across investment, policy and innovation to close the gender health gap. The conversation also looks ahead - at the role of community, the NHS, and the growing potential of AI in women’s health.

In this episode of The Pink Pineapple Podcast, Claudia Pastides and Emma Thornton speak with Chiara Board, the scientist-founder behind P Happi, about her journey from repeated UTIs to launching a first-of-its-kind daily intimate serum designed to support and protect the vaginal microbiome.

Chiara explains why the vaginal microbiome has long been under-researched compared with the gut, how hormonal changes can destabilise natural flora, and why a microbiome-protective serum offers a way forward for women suffering with recurrent UTIs and discomfort. 

Drawing on her personal lived experience and rigorous science, Chiara and the hosts dig into what it takes to develop credible women’s health products, the importance of integrating microbiome-friendly care into primary care pathways, and why empowering women in STEM is essential for future innovation.

This episode blends lived experience, biotech insight, and practical takeaways for women, clinicians and innovators alike.