Fertility, Growing Your Audience, and Culture Building Habits Every Business Needs with Courtney Saye, Sarina Virk Torrendell, & Ashley Ansuini

2025-09-22

Fertility, startups, and fitness are the three forces reshaping how entrepreneurs build in their lives and businesses. In this special episode with our VIP Mastermind guests, Courtney Saye, founder of the Functional Fertility Clinic, who helps couples conceive by addressing root-cause health issues, Sarina Virk Torrendell, startup advisor and founder of Seed28, who helps early stage companies launch and scale with precision, and Ashley Ansuini, founder of The Good Place Pilates, who is building inclusive, high-performing fitness studios. We dive into functional medicine breakthroughs for reproductive health, go-to-market strategies that position startups to win, and the culture-building habits that make businesses thrive. Tune in to learn how purpose-driven founders are creating impact, profitability, and legacy in totally different industries.

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HIGHLIGHTS

00:00 How do you help couples achieve pregnancy through functional fertility?

03:00 How gut health issues and yeast overgrowth block conception.

09:45 The profile of driven entrepreneurs and why stress impacts fertility.

14:30 The top five factors that sabotage conception.

16:15 Courtney’s free course on the Functional Fertility method.

19:30 Sarina’s journey from early Postmates to Apple, Meta, and Amazon.

22:00 Lessons on solving the “cold start problem” when building marketplaces.

25:30 What most founders get wrong about go-to-market strategy.

30:45 The mindset shift from operator to founder.

34:00 How do you balance being a founder while raising two young kids?