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Brave & Curious with Dr Lora Shahine — 171 episodes

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Ep 171 What Your Semen Analysis is Not Telling You with Jeff Lysiak, PhD

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Ep 170 Cost of Fertility Care: Solutions with Angela Rastegar from Sunfish

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BONUS Ep 169 Fighting for Fertility with RESOLVE CEO Danielle Melfi

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Ep 168 Taking Charge of Your PCOS with Cory Ruth, RDN

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Ep 167 Endometriosis Diagnosis Without Surgery? Dr. Bruce Lessey

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Ep 166 Is Inflammation Hijacking Your Fertility? Answers from Natalie Crawford, MD

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Ep 165 Do Progesterone Shots Improve Frozen Embryo Transfer Success?

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Ep 164 Taking Charge of Cycle Tracking with Author Dr. Toni Weschler

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Ep 163 C-Section Scar and Fertility: Should Isthmocele Be Treated?

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Ep 162 Optimizing Embryo Transfer Success: Your Questions Answered

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Ep 161 Understanding Fertility Testing: A Step-by-Step Guide for Couples

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Ep 160 Age, Fertility, and Pregnancy: What's Possible and What's Safe

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Ep 159 How Your Genetics Can Guide Your Nutrition with Dr. Steven Zeisel

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Ep 158 How a C-section May Impact Your Future Fertility: What the Evidence Shows

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Ep 157 Why Sleep Is the Most Powerful Health Habit You Can't Ignore with Dr. Meredith Broderick

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Ep 156 The Fertility Reset: How You Can Eat, Exercise, and Maximize Your Reproductive Health for the New Year

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Ep 155 Miscarriage and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: Is IVF the right step for you?

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Ep 154 Folic Acid vs. Folate: Why the Controversy? with Dr. Prati Sharma

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Ep 153 Holiday Shopping Guide Ideas from Dr. Lora Shahine

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Ep 152 The Brains and Uterus Behind Shecanter: Erica Loring's Bold Take on Women's Health and Humor

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Ep 151 Surviving the Holidays While Dealing with Infertility and Miscarriage

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Ep 150 A Gay Dad's Real Talk on IVF & Surrogacy with Richard Westoby

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Ep 149 Decoding Trump's IVF Promises with ASRM Director of Government Affairs, Jessie Losch

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Ep 148 PMS Explained and Made Better: The Period Brain with Sarah Hill, PhD.

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Ep 147 Men's Perspective on Infertility with Jared Walker

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Ep 146 Embryos from Skin Cells: Science and the Future with Dr. Paula Amato

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Ep 145 Dr. Shahine's Fertility Journey: Interview by Jennifer Edmonds

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Ep 144 Hair Loss in Women: Why and What You Can Do with Dr. Joyce Park

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Ep 143 DNA Surprises, Family Secrets, and Finding Belonging in One Big Happy Family with Actress and Writer Lisa Brenner

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Ep 142 Fact Vs. Fiction on Fertility, Egg Freezing, and IVF Today with Dr. Lucky Sehkon

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Ep 141 Balance and an Eastern Approach to Fertility Care with Lorne Brown, Dr.TCM

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Ep 140 Amanda Knox: Sentenced to Infertility

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Ep 139 To Fly or Not to Fly and Other Travel Tips for Fertility

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Ep 138 Fertility Over 40: What You REALLY Need to Know About Conception, Testing & IVF

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Ep 137 CoQ10 and Fertility: What You Need for Egg and Sperm Health

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Ep 136 How Much Caffeine Is Too Much? Understanding Caffeine and Fertility

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Ep 135 You're Pregnant, Now What? Your Guide to the First Trimester

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Ep 134 Detox Your Home: Cleaning House with Lindsay Dahl

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Ep 133 Is Your Tilted or Retroverted Uterus Harming Your Fertility?

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Ep 132 Unicornuate Uterus: What It Means for Fertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

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Ep 131 Considering IUI vs. IVF: Which One is Best for You?

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Ep 130 Ovarian Cysts Explained: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

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Ep 129 Fewer Shots, Same Success: A New IVF Protocol with Dr. Linnea Goodman

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Ep 128 Clean Beauty and Skin Care with Jenna Levine

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Ep 127 Egg Freezing Top 10 Questions

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Ep 126 Normalize It with Dr. Jessica Zucker: Shame, Stigma & Women's Stories

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Ep 125 Top 5 Mistakes to Avoid When Trying to Get Pregnant

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Ep 124 Your Surrogacy Questions, Answered: Myths vs. Facts with Mollie Huyck

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Ep 123 Surrogacy Journey Step by Step Guide with Mollie Huyck

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Ep 122 Top Tips to Recover Fast from Your Egg Retrieval

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Ep 121 Tips for Pelvic Floor Health with Alicia Jeffrey-Thomas

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Ep 120 Top Tips to Prepare for Your Egg Retrieval

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Ep 119 Fertility Preservation: Should You Freeze Eggs or Embryos?

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Ep 118 Choosing the Right Prenatal Vitamin for You

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Ep 117 Semen Analysis Explained: What Your Results Really Mean

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Ep 116 Heavy Flow: What's Too Much & How to Help

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Ep 115 Introducing Brave & Curious with Dr. Lora Shahine

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Ep 114 Signs of Early Pregnancy: How Soon Can You Know

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Ep 113 IVF Timeline: How Long Does it REALLY take?

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Ep 112 Top Tips to Boost Your Egg Quality

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Ep 111 Ten Types of Miscarriage and Why it Matters

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Ep 110 How Air Quality Affects Your Fertility and What You Can Do About It

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Ep 109 Your Embryo Transfer: What to Expect and Tips for Success

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Ep 108 The HSG Test: How to Prepare and What to Expect for Your Hysterosalpingogram

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Ep 107 Are You Ovulating? Key Signs and Symptoms to Know for Sure

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Ep 106 Implantation Bleeding vs Periods: How to Tell the Difference

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Ep 105 Surviving the Two-Week Wait: Coping Strategies and Insights on Infertility

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Ep 104 A New Year, A New Fertile You: 5 Steps to Take Now

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Ep 103 Stop Telling Me It's 'In My Head'': It's NOT Hysteria with Author Karen Tang

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Ep 102 Endometriosis Explained: Learn How to Advocate for Your Care with Dr. Karen Tang

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Ep 101 Setting Boundaries & Navigating Others' Expectations for Your Fertility with Jennifer Edmonds

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Ep 100 From Miracle to Milestone: The World's First IVF Baby Louise Joy Brown Shares Her Story

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Ep 99 Thoughtful Gift Ideas for Loved Ones Facing Infertility

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Ep 98 Weight Loss Drugs and Fertility: What You Need to Know with Dr. Spencer Nadolsky

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Ep 97 Safer Skincare for Fertility and Pregnancy: Essential Tips with Dermatologist Dr. Heather Rogers

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Ep 96 Protecting Yourself from Surrogacy Scams with Dr. Brian Levine

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Ep 95 Caffeine & Your Fertility: Does It Really Matter?

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Ep 94 One and Done? The Benefits and Drawbacks of Having an Only Child with Author Lauren Sandler

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Ep 93 Return to Hope After Stillbirth with Dr. Kiley Hanish

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Ep 92 Roller Coaster of Emotions After Miscarriage and Stillbirth

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Ep 91 The Future of Miscarriage Treatment with RPLA founder Megan Hanson

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Ep 90 Two Years Post-Roe: Current State of Reproductive Rights in the US

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Ep 89 Promise vs. Reality: Egg Freezing with Author Natalie Lampert

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Ep 88 How to Get an Accurate Pregnancy Test Result EARLY

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Ep 87 Alabama Was a Warning: Fertility Law and Politics with Attorney, AshLeigh Meyer Dunham

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Ep 86 Support After Miscarriage with Author, Therapist, and Speaker Lindsey Henke

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Ep 85 Balancing Act: Career, Family, and Infertility with Dr. Joyce Park

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Ep 84 Five Tips for Getting Pregnant After 40

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Ep 83 Ectopic Pregnancy Explained

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Ep 82 What You Need to Know About the First Trimester

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Ep 81 Can CoQ10 Help You Get Pregnant Faster?

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Ep 80 Finding Safer Products with Lanning Ardente: Let Sorette Do the Research for You

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Ep 79 Top Tips for Nausea & Vomiting in Pregnancy

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Ep 78 The Hard Choice of Choosing to Live Child-Free

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Ep 77 Pride in LGBTQI+ Family Building with Drs. Stephanie Rothenberg and Darcy Broughton

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Ep 76 Anxiety Solutions with Somatic Trauma Professional Parijat Deshpande

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Ep 75 Father's Day with Infertility: Challenges & Coping Skills with Dr. Erica Bove

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Ep 74 Fighting to Protect IVF with Barbara Collura, Head of RESOLVE, Part 2

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Ep 73 Fighting to Protect IVF with Barbara Collura, Head of RESOLVE, Part 1

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Ep 72 Infertility Changes You ... with Jesse and Doug from Infertility Feelings Podcast

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Ep 71 The Real Price of Fertility Treatment: Financial Planning with Angela Rastegar From Sunfish

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Ep 70 Mother's Day with Infertility and Miscarriage: Tips for Coping, Surviving and Thriving

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Ep 69 Marijuana and Reproductive Health: What You Need to Know

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Ep 68 Are your candles toxic for your fertility? Learn from Tristan Weholt from RoxHill Candle Company

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Ep 67 Third Party Fertility Misconceptions with Center for Family Building Founder, Lisa Schuman, LCSW

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Ep 66 Are At-Home Inseminations Right for You?: Learn with Maureen Brown Founder of Mosie Baby

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Ep 65 Busting Fertility Myths with Lisa Schuman, LCSW

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Ep 64 Understanding Endometriosis Signs and Symptoms

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Ep 63 Are IVF babies endangered?: Perspective on the threat to IVF from the first IVF Baby in the US: Elizabeth Carr

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Ep 62 Miscarriage Support You REALLY Need with Early Pregnancy Loss Association Founder Emily Carrington

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Ep 61 Holding Both The Family You Have and Hope for Another Baby: Secondary Infertility with Allie Karagozian

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Ep 60 "There is No Heartbeat" What's Next and Options after a Diagnosis of Missed Miscarriage

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Ep 59 Getting to Baby with Nutrition, Diet, and Foods for Fertility with Authors Angela Thyer, MD and Judy Simon, RD

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Ep 58 How Did the Pineapple Become a Symbol of Hope for the Fertility Community?

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Ep 57 Is Needle-less Acupuncture the Latest Fertility Breakthrough?

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Ep 56 Can a Fertility Coach Help You Get Pregnant? with Ceire Nevins

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Ep 55 One Test at a Time: Explaining the Confusing World of Genetic Testing in Fertility and IVF

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Ep 54 Talking Fertility Treatment and Challenges with Fertility Influencer Adelaide White

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Ep 53 Exercise and Trying to Conceive: Too Much, Too Little, or Just Right?

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Ep 52 To Drink or Not to Drink: All About Alcohol and Fertility

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Ep 51 Family Fertility, Courage, Curiosity, Balance & More from a Woman Wiser than Me: My Mother

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Ep 50 Over 25 Years of Taking Charge of Your Fertility with Author Toni Weschler

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Ep 49 Olympic Champion Figure Skater to Fertility Advocate: What Tara Lipinski Learned while Unexpecting

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Ep 48 Tips for IUI Success

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Ep 47 Weight and Fertility: Optimizing Health NOT Restriction and Shame with Dr. Stephanie Fein

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Ep 46 Tips for Surviving and Thriving Thanksgiving with Infertility

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Ep 45 Yoga for Fertility with Author and Yoga Instructor Lynn Jensen

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Ep 44 Listen to Women: Lessons Learned from The Retrievals

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Ep 43 Preventing and Treating OHSS: A Scary IVF Risk

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Ep 42 Busting Fertility Myths with Angel Investor and Author Leslie Schrock

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Ep 41 Tips for Choosing a Sperm Donor with Seattle Sperm Bank's Director Angelo Allard

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Ep 40 Chris Charbonneau on Planned Parenthood and Reproductive Rights

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Ep 39 Dr. Lee Hullender Rubin on Acupuncture and Fertility

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Ep 38 Mikki Morrissette on Choosing Single Motherhood

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Ep 37 Brett Russo on Her Memoir About IVF

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Ep 36 Dr. Lariah Edwards on Environmental Toxins and Fertility

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Ep 35 Louise Brown on Being the First IVF Baby

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Ep 34 Arden Cartrette on Pregnancy Loss

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Ep 33 Alison Prato on Secondary Infertility

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Ep 32 Dr. Temeka Zore on the Two-Week Wait

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Ep 31 Chiemi Rajamahendran on Intimacy and Grief

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Ep 30 Jessica Valant on Fitness and Fertility

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Ep 29 Kellee Stewart on Fertility Advocacy and Education

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Ep 28 Andrea Helton León on the Taboo of Infertility

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Ep 27 Jennifer "Jay" Palumbo on Celebrity Fertility News

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Ep 26 Sarah Herron from The Bachelor on Mental Health and IVF

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Ep 25 Tarun Verma on His Infertility Film "Conception"

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Ep 24 Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh on Egg Freezing

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Ep 23 Samantha Busch on Surrogacy and Infertility Advocacy

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Ep 22 GG from Shahs of Sunset Shares Her Fertility Journey

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Ep 21 Amanda Knox on Fertility and Incarceration

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Ep 20 Separating Fact from Fiction with COVID-19 and Fertility

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Ep 19 Environmental Toxins and Reproduction Health: Potential Countdown to Human Extinction with Dr. Shanna Swan

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Ep 18 History and Perspective of Assisted Reproduction from Living Fertility Legend Dr. Cappy Rothman

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Ep 17 Sperm Donation: Myths vs. Reality from a Sperm Donor

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Ep 16 Surrogacy: Finding Purpose and Fighting Misconceptions with Eloise Drain

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Ep 15 Men Matter: The Other Half of Infertility from Male Fertility Expert Dr. Paul Turek

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Ep 14 Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis: Fighting Misconception and Finding Hope with Pelvic Pain Specialist Dr. Sonia Bahlani

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Ep 13 Love Makes a Family: An Adoption Story with Cathie Quillet

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Ep 12 Against the Odds: Having a Baby Naturally After Failing IVF with Kaci Aitchison Boyle

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Ep 11 Mental Health and Emotional Wellness Through Infertility with Dr. Ali Domar from Harvard University

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Ep 10 When Infertility is the Man's Fault with Laura and Jon Summers from Infertility Man

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Ep 9 IVF is Not Like Ordering Off A Menu and Other Celebrity Misconceptions with Jennifer "Jay" Palumbo

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Ep 8 Validating Your Own Fertility Journey with Kaela McDougall from 'Infertile Mafia' Podcast

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Ep 7 When and How to See a Fertility Specialist with Dr. Natalie Crawford from Fora Fertility

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Ep 6 Lesbian Family Building Options with Jaimie and Robin from 'If These Ovaries Could Talk' Podcast

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Ep 5 Donor Egg Family Building with Dr. Shannon Clark from Babies After 35

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Ep 4 Black Women and Fertility: Less Judgement, More Understanding with Filmmaker Chiquita Lockley

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Ep 3 Are Fertility Support Groups Right for You? with Kim Nicholson from Resolve.org

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Ep 2 Closer to a Cure for Miscarriage with Dr. Ruth Lathi from Stanford University

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Ep 1 Introducing: Baby Or Bust