Beste Sheri Johnson Podcasts (2024)

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121: The Keys to Responding to "You're So Lucky You Don't Have Kids" 27:01

2M ago27:01

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! This might be one of the most "triggering" remarks that parents make to people who don't have kids. If you wanted kids, you sure don't feel very lucky, right? In fact, you might feel pretty unlucky. Have you had this scenario come up before? I have and I'm going to walk through the st…

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120: Do You Have Kids? How to Respond with Grace 31:17

3M ago31:17

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! So many childless and childfree women hate this question. A simple "no" answer often leads to awkward silences or the other party trying to back track or fill the space. But what if you could answer this question with ease and grace and both you and the person asking the question coul…

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119: How To Shift Your Reaction to "Miserable Childless Cat Ladies" 28:31

3M ago28:31

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! If you are anything like me, you're probably tired of hearing about JD Vance and the comments he made publicly about childless women being miserable cat ladies and having no stake in America's future. I'm not even American, and yet angry reactions to this have been filling my feed the…

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118: 7 Signs You Might Need a Mindset Tweak 24:10

3M ago24:10

24:10

Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! If you want to be able to answer questions like “do you have kids” with authenticity instead of awkwardness, you must shift your mindset. It's not enough to just rehearse how you'll respond. And if you're anything like I used to be, what you're rehearsing might feel more defensive and…

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117: Stop Waiting For Time to Change Everything 8:15

3M ago8:15

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! "Time heals all wounds" is the biggest lie we've been told about grief. I used to believe this lie, myself. After any sort of big emotion, I thought time would eventually clear it away. This is a super-short solo episode where I break down why this common, widely-held belief is actual…

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116: How to Answer The "Insensitive" Questions and Comments 25:47

4M ago25:47

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Do you have kids? Who's going to take care of you when you're old? What's your purpose then? You can borrow my kids anytime! You've probably heard them all, or at least some of the questions and comments that bother us women without kids. Maybe you've thought to yourself, or maybe eve…

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115: Let's Talk Terminology for Women Without Kids 24:02

4M ago24:02

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Childless? Childfree? Woman Without Kids? Take your pick! I've been really curious about how women who don't have kids and wanted them identify themselves. Some appear to be really attached to the Childless Not By Choice term, and yet my own experience and in the multiple discussions …

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114: Navigating Loneliness As a Childless Woman 21:54

4M ago21:54

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Feeling lonely is one of the most common complaints I hear from childless women so if you're feeling lonely, you are definitely not the only one! I felt lonely too when I first started down the path to permanently childless, especially once my husband seemed to have moved forward with…

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113: Why I Decided Against IVF 34:33

4M ago34:33

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! There was a time when I didn't quite feel like I had found a place within the childless community and the reason was that I had not done IVF. It seemed as though so many of the women there had tried IVF and they had this common language and terms that I wasn't familiar with. Then I re…

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112: How to Get Through Emotions After Speeches Like Harrison Butker's 34:43

4M ago34:43

34:43

Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Harrison Butker's commencement speech at Benedictine College ruffled a LOT of feathers, especially within the childfree community. There were a lot of insults thrown at him, arguments started on social media comment sections, even calls to cancel his NFL contract. Were they justified?…

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111: Purpose is Not Something You Find (Part 2) 32:17

5M ago32:17

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Download your free guide to Finding Purpose Beyond Parenthood: Getting Through Grief and Triggers to a Life of Meaning and Joy! Last week I talked about how purpose is not something you "find". It's also not a singular mission. It's not a destination. And it doesn't have to be big. On…

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110: Purpose is Not Something You Find (Part 1) 27:50

5M ago27:50

27:50

Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Download your free guide to Finding Purpose Beyond Parenthood: Getting Through Grief and Triggers to a Life of Meaning and Joy! Purpose is not some concept that you find. It's not a destination. It's not singular. And it doesn't come from having kids. I understand why you believe it d…

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109: The Unsung Sisterhood of Women Without Kids, With Ruby Warrington 1:06:43

5M ago1:06:43

1:06:43

Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! It is so clear to me that Ruby Warrington is a thought leader in the childfree/childless space! She has authored, Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood, and in my view, the whole book was revolutionary. She discusses concepts that were swirling around vagu…

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108: The Hidden Things You Didn't Know You Were Grieving 30:23

6M ago30:23

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Many childless people don't even realize they are grieving. Who would have known you can grieve the loss of an imagined future? What I find is that many women without kids, even those who choose not to have them, feel some sort of grief and it's not always the loss of that future. Ide…

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107: 5 Steps for Navigating Mother's Day as a Childless Woman 30:24

6M ago30:24

30:24

Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! These are 5 steps you haven't heard before. You've probably heard people talk about staying off social media and opting out of Mother's Day emails. Maybe doing something nice for yourself and saying "no" to the celebrations. These are all valid things you can do to avoid feeling the p…

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106: The Wisdom of Aging As a Childless Woman 18:55

6M ago18:55

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Menopause is a huge transformational time for women and another topic that we don’t talk about enough. Women may joke about their memory, or hot flashes or complain about heavy periods. But they don’t talk about the deep stuff. The vulnerable stuff. Or the scary stuff. There is SO muc…

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105: Unleashing Your Inner Rebel 27:26

6M ago27:26

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! It's hard to fit in when you are in the minority. Childless women over 40 make up roughly 20% of the population (depending on what country you live in). Sometimes I wonder how many of them are living in the larger cities because it sure feels like everyone around me in my little town …

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104: What If NOT Having Children Was the Norm in Society? 19:22

6M ago19:22

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! In our current society, women without kids make up anywhere between 15 and 25% of the adult female population, depending on the country. Recently, I started to wonder what life would look like - what grief would look like - if that were reversed. If mothers were in the minority, would…

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103: What To Do When Your People Just Don't Get It 38:19

7M ago38:19

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Have you ever come away from a conversation thinking "gosh, "people just don't get it"? Either they say something insensitive or simply can't empathize with your childless circumstances. It's definitely happened to me. Even recently. But the mistake I see in the childless space is the…

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102: Navigating Anger as a Childless Woman 28:24

7M ago28:24

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Anger is an emotion that comes up a lot with my childless clients who wanted kids. Anger can be a really complicated emotion because it's not only an emotion in and of itself, but it can also disguise other emotions. What makes it even tougher to manage is that most little girls are t…

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101: How Childless Women Will Change the World 27:18

7M ago27:18

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! As I embark on the next 100 episodes on the Awakening Worth Podcast, I spend this session reflecting on the deeper reason I keep hitting record and why you should keep hitting the play button. I've come to realize that so many of us are stuck in this pronatalist ideology and it's impa…

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100: From the Partner's Perspective, with Mike Johnson (my hubby) 43:58

8M ago43:58

43:58

Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Celebrating 100 episodes today! My husband, Mike Johnson, and I mark this special occasion together on the podcast with a conversation that makes its way through life without children from HIS perspective. As we share the narrative of our journey, from the heartbreak of miscarriage to…

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99: Why You Need Energetic Womb Healing, with Dr. Jennifer Reimer 1:04:23

8M ago1:04:23

1:04:23

Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! The moment I sat in quiet meditation with an energy healer, I never anticipated the floodgates of emotional pain that would open from my womb space. That pivotal encounter ignited a journey into womb healing, leading me to create womb healing retreats that help women to release emotio…

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98: What We REALLY Need to Be Talking About on International Women's Day 27:55

8M ago27:55

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! This episode is a bit controversial. I think there's this an expectation that if you are a woman, you are onboard with everything International Women's Day stands for. But I'm not known for just getting on board with something simply because of an expectation. Do I want women to rise?…

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97: Challenging Pronatalism's Effect on Purpose and Fulfillment 28:12

9M ago28:12

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! I'm doing a solo episode today and pulling back the curtain on pronatalism even further. In this episode, I will peel away the layers of this pervasive belief system, examining how it shapes the sense of purpose and self-worth in those of us without children. By uncovering historical …

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96: Childlessness and the Transformation of Our Species, with Maria Hill 56:50

9M ago56:50

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! As a leader in the childless space, Maria Hill brings a ton of wisdom to this episode. Her story of parental and societal expectations as a woman growing up in the 60's shed so much light on what we are going through now as childless women. Maria and I cover some unexpected topics in …

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95: Leaving a Legacy is Not As Important As You've Been Led to Believe 21:10

9M ago21:10

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Legacy. It's a word I hear a lot in the childless community. What kind of legacy will I leave now that I'm not having kids? As though having kids is the only way to leave a legacy. In this episode, I'll unpack: what legacy is and the role of ego in this need to leave a legacy behind h…

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94: 3 Keys to Overcoming Regret and Fear of Regret on the Childless Path 25:55

9M ago25:55

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! A feeling of regret and fear of future regret are two things I hear so many childless women talk about. We regret decisions and choices we made in the past that have led to our current circumstances. We also are afraid to make decisions in the present because we might regret them late…

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93: This is Why I Didn't "Just Adopt" 36:13

9M ago36:13

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Embarking on the path of adoption or deciding against it—either one is a journey laden with emotion and complexity. Today, I open my heart to you in a candid narrative of my own experiences with the profound choice of not adopting. We'll cover the unpredictable adoption landscape, unp…

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92: How to Turn Grief Into Growth, With Kirsten Frey 53:23

10M ago53:23

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! I continue to be enlightened and inspired by my good friend, Kirsten Frey. She returns for a second time on this episode to share her expertise on recovering from grief and opens us up to the multitude of different kinds of loss. We tend to think of the acute sense of loss after a lov…

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91: 5 Obstacles Keeping You From a Joyful 2024 21:32

10M ago21:32

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! I used to start every year during my pursuit of motherhood thinking, "this is going to be my year". And it never was. Once I came to terms that my future was going to be childless, it started to look pretty dismal. And yet, I wanted to feel optimistic about the year ahead. What I didn…

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90: Special Holiday Gift, Raise Your Vibration Meditation 24:24

10M ago24:24

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! It's 3 days before Christmas as I record this special episode. This is not my usual all-talk episode or guest interview. Today, in this heartfelt episode, I'll guide you through a visualization exercise that promises to lift your spirits and shift your emotional state towards love and…

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89: Feeling Like You Don't Belong as a Childless Woman is Not Grief 28:38

11M ago28:38

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! It's pretty normal to feel like you don't belong when you're a childless woman. We grow up thinking that eventually, we'll belong to the mom club. And then it leaves us with a pretty big feeling of exclusion when we don't get to join. Most people in the childless space, assume that th…

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88: Behind the Scenes of a Happy Childless Holiday 30:41

11M ago30:41

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! When we want something, it's not actually that thing that we want. It's the feeling that we imagine we'll have when we have the thing. When I wrapped my head around this concept, I could use it to determine exactly what I wanted to feel and how to bring those positive emotions into th…

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87: How to Let Go of Being Pitied as a Childless Woman 23:06

11M ago23:06

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! No one likes to be pitied. And childless women who wanted kids are no different. I certainly don't like it and I did feel as though people pitied me when I first began to accept that I would never be a mom. But when my clients started asking how to get past pity, I realized that I did…

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86: How to Prepare Emotionally for Holiday Gatherings 35:43

11M ago35:43

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! If you’re already worried about feeling grief and triggers while at a family gathering or social event through the holidays, this episode is for you. I’m going to give you some solid steps for preparing yourself before, during and after so you can breeze through them like a woman of g…

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85: 10 Tips to Get You Through the Holidays as a Childless Woman 41:50

12M ago41:50

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! The holidays are probably one of the toughest times for childless women. Grief can hit at unexpected moments and the triggers seem to be all over the place. They hit our social media feeds, our shopping excursions, and the middle of the football game on TV. Even a quick trip to the gr…

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84: Prontalism Explained And How it's Impacting You 24:57

12M ago24:57

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! If you are a childless woman who feels triggered by how mom-focused and kid-centric our society seems to be, you might be stuck in the pronatalist ideology. If you're stuck here, you often feel like you are somehow worth less than mothers, you get irritated when someone asks if you ha…

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83: Navigating Step-Parenting as a Childless Woman, with Gail Miller 1:01:26

12M ago1:01:26

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Are you feeling like you're navigating uncharted territory as a step-parent without any children of your own? I'm not a step-parent myself, but I've learned from my clients that it can be complicated with its own set of challenges and emotions. Join me today as I interview Gail Miller…

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82: Expecting Empathy From Loved Ones May Be the Worst Way to Get Support 27:53

1y ago27:53

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! If you’re grieving your dream of becoming a parent, you probably assumed at least someone amongst your family and friends would provide you with the support and empathy you need. And yet, my own experience, and that of most of my clients, is that their closest friends and family - and…

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81: Three Unique Tools for Coping with Childless Grief, with Lisa Hohenadel 46:43

1y ago46:43

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Lisa Hohenadel uses an intriguing behavioural therapy method to help childless women work through the grief and triggers. It's called Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or DBT. I've never come across this particular type of therapy before and I wanted to hear more about how Lisa uses it in…

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80: The 5 Big Mistakes Childless Women Make on the Healing Journey 29:33

1y ago29:33

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! If you've found yourself stuck in grief and triggers unable to get past it, today's episode is for you. I'm unpacking five major blunders that keep childless women from moving forward and embracing their future. And don't worry, I made every single one of these mistakes and so do …

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79: Navigating the World of Finance Without Children with Dr. Jay Zigmont 59:49

1y ago59:49

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Did you know that most financial plans and planning software are geared entirely to the traditional parenting path? I hadn't really thought about how my saving, spending, retirement and estate planning might be totally different than that of my child-rearing friends. Until I met Jay Z…

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78: How To Respond to "You're So Lucky You Don't Have Kids" 24:53

1y ago24:53

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Has someone ever said to, "you're so lucky you don't have kids"? If you wanted kids, of course you don't feel very lucky to have that unfulfilled dream. Sometimes I wonder if parents say things like this - or complain about their kids - to us childless women because they want us to fe…

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77: The Missing Ingredient to Creating a Bright Future (and Present!) 18:46

1y ago18:46

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! There's this misconception out there that if you can get past the grief of your unexpected childless circumstances, your future will somehow just appear brighter. But unfortunately that's not true in most cases. You've probably come across women in their 50's and 60's who are still st…

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76: How to Get Past Envy as a Childless Woman 25:12

1y ago25:12

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Navigating a sea of baby showers and first birthdays can feel isolating, especially as a woman who has not had children. If you've found yourself avoiding friends with young ones or feeling a twinge of envy every time a pregnancy announcement pops up on your feed, you're not alone. In…

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75: Who Will Take Care of Me When I Get Old? With Jody Day 1:09:46

1y ago1:09:46

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Jody Day is back for a second episode on the podcast! Our first conversation was so eye-opening for me, I had to have her back after I had actually digested all of what she shared with me. Jody is often referred to as the founder of the "childless movement" and is the founder of Gatew…

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74: Moms Don't Have a Monopoly on Busy with Dr. Jennifer Reimer 53:59

1y ago53:59

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! This is an extra-special episode as my twin sister, Dr. Jennifer Reimer, joins me. As two women who were childless until our 40s, we unravel the deep societal pressures, personal grief, and associated triggers on the pregnancy loss and infertility journey that we travelled at the same…

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73: Letting Go Of Your Childless Identity is Crucial for Embracing Your Future 14:53

1y ago14:53

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! If you're a woman without kids, you are likely keenly aware of some of the judgments out in the media and in the world about childfree women being selfish, lonely and unable to truly know unconditional love. But as a woman who didn't make that choice, what are your feelings toward tho…

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72: How to Find Connection With Other Childless Women with Stephanie Joy Phillips 55:54

1y ago55:54

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Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Have you ever had a deeply personal dream not come true? Have you felt pressured by societal expectations conflicting with your own path? Join us on a journey with Stephanie Joy Phillips, the incredible head and founder of World Childless Week, who will share with us her journey of no…

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