From Shame to Science: Rethinking Pelvic Floor Health with PeriCoach

What if treating “just a bit of leakage” early could keep you out of aged care, off pads for life, and back to running, jumping and living freely?

In this powerful conversation, we have Chelsea Cornelius, mechanical-turned-biomedical engineer and CEO of Stratos MedTech, the company behind PeriCoach—a clinically-backed pelvic floor training system designed to treat urinary incontinence and mild to moderate pelvic organ prolapse.

You’ll hear how PeriCoach was developed in deep collaboration with clinicians, using vaginal sensors, biofeedback and an app to help women finally see and feel whether they’re doing their Kegels correctly.

This episode is a must-listen if you care about pelvic health, FemTech, medical devices or simply want to understand how one founder turned an overlooked, stigmatized issue into a global, tech-enabled solution for women.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how Chelsea went from race-car-obsessed mechanical engineer to biomedical innovator tackling women’s incontinence
• Discover what your pelvic floor actually is, how it functions, and why pregnancy, sport, chronic cough and aging can quietly undermine its strength
• Understand why up to half of women perform Kegels incorrectly and how biofeedback helps you see in real time whether you’re truly activating the right muscles
• Find out how PeriCoach’s insertable probe, sensors and app work together to guide at-home pelvic floor training and support remote monitoring by clinicians
• Learn how stigma, shame and silence around incontinence shape women’s care-seeking behaviour and what’s starting to shift that narrative.
• Discover the surprising differences between launching a FemTech device in Australia versus the US and why the US has been more receptive to commercial innovation
• Understand how Pericoach is working with systems like Veterans Affairs, private insurers and future reimbursement pathways to scale access for women
• Find out what hard-won advice Chelsea has for today’s FemTech founders about minimum viable products, regulation, fundraising and not over-perfecting before launch

Resources:

Chelsea Cornelius: LinkedIn

PeriCoach: LinkedIn

PeriCoach: https://www.pericoach.com/

Maaike Steinebach : LinkedIn

Website Femtech Future https://www.femtechfuture.com

Instagram Femtech Future: @femtech_future

Ready to move pelvic health out of the shadows and into the spotlight? Hit play now to discover how PeriCoach is helping women swap pads for power, shame for science, and quiet suffering for confident, leak-free lives.

This episode pulls back the curtain on a silent epidemic affecting millions of women and spotlights the FemTech innovation daring to change that story. From hidden pelvic floor muscles to breakthrough biofeedback, Chelsea Cornelius shows what’s possible when engineering meets empathy.

If this conversation opened your eyes, don’t keep it to yourself; be part of the movement to normalize women’s health. Share this episode with a friend, like it, and leave a review so more listeners can find these stories. And see you next week for another powerful episode of FemTech at Work.