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Charlie and her husband suffered from infertility without success for eight years. Throughout their struggle, Charlie felt isolated, outcast, and misunderstood. After they made the decision to end their fertility journey, Charlie searched for people and resources who could help her navigate life after an unsuccessful path to parenthood...only to find crickets. This podcast helps those struggling to figure out where life goes outside of trying to conceive (TTC). Diving into issues such as ”ho ...
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Episode #037: Lilian Santini - Turning AI Into An Outlet for Infertility Grief You may not think that AI and infertility have anything in common, but you'd be wrong. In today's episode of the Life Beyond Infertility podcast, you'll meet Lilian Santini, a woman who was always at the top of the class, came to America with 80 in her pocket, and became…
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#036: Rita Utterback - Helping Women Heal Chronic Bloat and Painful Periods Without Restrictive Diets Rita's struggles with endometriosis + chronic digestive issues are WHY she became a functional nutritionist + women's health + wellness coach. She knows first hand how frustrating it can be to go to the doctor to get answers, just to be told your l…
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#035: Lana Manikowski - Life After Infertility Coach and Childless Not by Choice Advocate After 7 years of fertility treatments and a lifetime of dreaming of motherhood, Lana Manikowski faced the realization that she would not be a mom. The years that followed were full of loneliness, self-judgement and confusion about living a childless life. Then…
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#034: Julie DeLucca Collins - TEDx Speaker, Confidence Coach & Infertility Survivor Today, we're diving into the realm of confidence, entrepreneurship, and personal growth with none other than Julie DeLucca Collins. She's not just a speaker and business coach, but a beacon of empowerment for women everywhere. Known for her top selling book, confide…
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#033: Ben Walker - Procrastination and Mindset Coach On today's episode of the Life Beyond Infertility podcast, I'm bringing you a fellow coach, friend, fantasy fanatic and Penn State fan, Ben Walker. Ben is a former musical theater actor turned life coach for procrastinators. He specializes in finding the ROOT of your procrastination. Getting you …
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#032: Donna Fields - From Growing Up With A Narcissistic Mother to Award-Nominated Teacher Donna is an author, podcast host, teacher/trainer, and creator of the award- nominated website: scaffolding magic.com. She travels the world giving talks and workshops to facilitate educators to create dynamic learning environments in which students develop a…
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#031: Lexy Leigh - Peace of Me Podcast - Being Childfree by Choice and a Stepmom Like most of us, Lexy just wants to live her best life. Have you ever felt something so compelling that you couldn’t ignore it? Maybe you weren’t sure what was calling from within, but there was a spark looking to be ignited. For years, Lexy knew she wanted to create a…
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#030: Samantha DelSignore - The Surrogacy Compass - a journey through surrogacy Samantha and her husband turned to surrogacy to help create their family after experiencing infertility and is on the podcast to share their journey. They are currently expecting twins and Samantha started a surrogacy coaching business to help other Intended Parents nav…
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#029: Erica Cadavid - The Mommy Healer - EMDR Therapist & Perinatal Mental Health While Erica did not personally deal with infertility, she did have a very traumatic birth. Through that she saw the lack of mental health support from medical professionals for pregnancy, labor and postpartum care, which lead her to finding her niche as a therapist. S…
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#028: Ali Prato - host of Infertile AF Podcast, Fertility Rally & Now Published Author! If you're in the infertility space and haven't heard of Ali Prato's podcast, InfertileAF, I think you've been living under a rock. Ali is an infertility warrior and advocate who went through secondary infertility before having her second child, Sonny, through IV…
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#027: Rachel Van Thyn - Rabbi and Board-Certified Chaplain Today, I'm excited to have Rachel Van Thyn as my guest. Rachel is a board-certified chaplain and chaplain educator, who has been providing emotional and spiritual support to individuals and couples going through fertility struggles. She also has a personal experience with IVF, which she wen…
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#026: Dr. Maddy Roth & Inspire Pelvic Floor Therapy Is sex painful for you at your “entry point”? Do you suffer from leakage? Chronic UTI’s, endo pain, erectile dysfunction, hemorrhoids? If you answered yes to any of those…what if I told you you could benefit from pelvic floor therapy… Excuse me, what? Yeah, I had never heard of this type of therap…
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#025: We're kicking off a new series on the podcast - Ask the Audience! I'm hitting the streets asking people who’ve dealt with infertility, miscarriage, pregnancy loss etc. one question each episode. It’s a way to gather advice from people who’ve actually been in the trenches of infertility. Not people who haven’t but think they know what it’s lik…
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#024: Infertility Grief - Why the 5 Stages Don't Work! Remember being taught the 5 stages of grief in school? No? Ok, here's a quick recap: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally, acceptance. But why doesn't this popular model help us when we're dealing with infertility or pregnancy loss grief? In this podcast episode, I explore why the …
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#023: Ever wonder what your parents think when their child goes through an infertility struggle? If they’ve never experienced it themselves, how can they relate to you to provide support and comfort? What helps and what doesn’t in terms of advice and opinions? Should a parent even offer them in this situation? It’s something I’ve always wanted to k…
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#022: While pursuing parenthood through "non-traditional" methods, a lot can feel completely out of your control. Whether facing fertility treatments, an adoption process, or third-party reproduction, you may feel like you have way too many choices to make - with none feeling quite right. Layering on that family building also comes with lots of uns…
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#021: For those of us who’ve gone through infertility, joy isn’t something we’re used to feeling right? Discipline, grit, heartache, hopelessness, sure, but here's the thing — no one wants to live in those emotions forever. Isn’t it time we get to look forward to things again? How can we find or rediscover joy this new year? How can we make this ye…
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#020: This episode mentions childhood rape and a short, graphic depiction of miscarriage. Listener discretion is advised. You are not your trauma. What comes to mind when you hear that phrase? For today’s guest, Harriet M. Harris, it means overcoming childhood trauma at the hands of a family friend. It means realizing those demons she thought were …
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#019: You've just turned 50 and moved across country two weeks earlier. Over the next 10 days you find yourself in the ER, twice. With various symptoms, including a racing heartbeat. Got high blood pressure and a bladder control issue. After scores of tests and a trip to the cardiologists, it's determined that outside of hormones, due to menopause.…
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#018: *This episode has mentions of infant loss, termination by choice, and traumatic miscarriage. If you find any of these triggering, please consider skipping this episode. Listener discretion is advised. You're 20 weeks pregnant and the unthinkable happens. You go for a routine ultrasound and to find out the results of the genetic testing you ha…
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#017: Can you relate to this? You're an adult child with no kids and it's the holidays. Your parents call a week or two before and ask where you're going to be spending them this year. You can hear the expectation in their voice that you better say with them, or they're going to try and hide their disappointment and fail miserably. This in turn mak…
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#016: Monique Farook is an entrepreneur, women’s health advocate, wife, and mom to one IVF conceived child. Monique began the Infertility And Me Podcast (I.A.M) & community in the winter of 2019; two years after giving birth to her son and after 4 1/2 years of struggling to become a mom. At the time, there weren't many women who looked like her spe…
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#015: Angelique Chelton, PMH-C, CGP, CTP spent a decade walking with diverse families through pregnancies, births, and their early postpartum lives as doula, lactation counselor, childbirth educator, and assistant midwife. She is a subject-matter expert in pregnancy loss, having companioned countless families through miscarriage and stillbirth and …
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#014: Meet Jolene. She's been married to her amazing husband for 4 years and they have a sweet, rambunctious 2 year old little boy. They live in and love our home state of Kentucky where they reside in the horse capital of the world! Her latest venture is becoming her all-consuming passion project. It's her podcast, Motherhood Off The Rails. It gre…
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#013: In this episode, I'm talking to Casey Westbrook, a fellow coach and all-around badass outdoor enthusiast! We're chatting about how women can support not only their bodies, but just as importantly their minds, through non-traditional, outdoor exercise - think mountain biking, kayaking, skiing etc. We're also getting into why a woman's body sho…
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#012: Ovarian rejuvenation - what exactly is it and why is it not just for women battling infertility? From improved skin care, to balanced hormones: in this week's episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dionne Mameshin, Director of Patient Relations and Business Development with Gen5 Fertility Center on this exact topic. Gen 5 Fertility Cent…
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#011: In this week's episode I had the pleasure of interviewing my friend and fellow childfree advocate, Anna Olson. Anna is a certified life coach who works with women navigating a childfree life. She is also the host of We're Not Kidding, a podcast devoted to sharing the stories of those without kids. In an effort, to help foster connection among…
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#010: Season 1, Episode 10: Breaking the Silence This summer I had the privilege of being a speaker as part of the Unsilenced Voices: Breaking the Silence Summer Summit, put on by the incredible Michelle Jewsbury. Unsilenced Voices is a global, non-profit that empowers survivors of all types of traumas through advocacy, education, and support servi…
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#009: Let's think outside the box here for a second... Want another option for creating your dream family if you've tried natural conception, IVF, IUI, surrogacy etc. and came up empty-handed? Have you ever considered using an egg donor? In this episode I have the privilege of interviewing folks from Your Eggs. Based out of CA, the company is one o…
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#008: This one's going to ruffle some feathers... Even within the fertility/infertility space, there seems to be only one definition of childfree and one definition of childless. But like everything in life, it's not black and white. There is an entire spectrum of women who are somewhere in the middle and we get lost in the shuffle or stigmatized o…
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#007: I'm back after our trip to Alaska (it was AMAZING by the way)!! Super excited for this week's episode with Sharna Southan! She's an amazing Aussie who has helped numerous women work through their trauma of pregnancy loss and is also an advocate for the Angel Mom Network. Sharna Southan is a Pregnancy loss Practitioner & certified Trauma infor…
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#006: I get SO tired of hearing "oh you're still young, you have time yet...just keep trying." In this episode I'm diving into why your biological age isn't a direct correlation to your fertility age. I'm also discussing how age factors into a couple's decision to stop their infertility journey in order to go live their lives before it's too late. …
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#005: In this empowering episode of "Life Beyond Infertility," join me as I chat with certified women's mindset coach Heather Edwards, owner of HC Edwards Coaching. She's a woman of faith, coffee lover, closet photographer, and self-proclaimed mindset mastery enthusiast. I've personally used her services and consider her a true friend. Her unique p…
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#004: We're going to Alaska! How deciding to live childfree is allowing us to check places off our bucket list! _______________________________________________________________ Want to know the No. 1 reason most women get stuck in the vicious cycle of infertility grief and how to break it? ____________________________________________________________…
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#003: In today's guest speaker episode I interview Anya Cason. She's the creator of the Instagram page @finding.childless.joy . It's one of the most raw, honest and genuine pages I've ever come across on social media, infertility space or not! She's been through it all - infertility, miscarriage, hysterectomy, divorce, body image, online haters. Ye…
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#002: TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains depictions of suicidal thoughts. Please listen at your own discretion. In this Part 1 of a Mental Health & Infertility series, you'll hear about my backstory with mental health and the defining moment that triggered my depression and anxiety. I'm also detailing how mental health affected my infertility j…
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#001: The OG of the Life Beyond Infertility Podcast! There's tons of information and podcasts out there about what you feel while going through infertility. What no one talks about is what you feel when the journey is over and it wasn't successful. You're now childfree or childless. What does that feel like? How do you move on? How can you accept i…
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