Best Tara Resnick Podcasts (2025)

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Understanding Women's Health, Fertility and Egg Freezing with Dr. Lucky Sekhon, Double Board Certified OBGYN and REI 1:08:48

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In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Lucky Sekhon, a double board certified OBGYN, Reproductive Endocrinologist and fertility specialist based in New York City. We break down what every woman should know about her reproductive health across all life stages, from egg freezing to IVF to post fertility journeys. Dr. Lucky debunks common myths about fert…

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S8E17 13 Years Into Solo Motherhood by Choice With a Known Sperm Donor With Elle 1:16:28

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Do you ever wonder what solo motherhood by choice looks like further down the line? I certainly do, and today's episode with a SMBC of a teen was a fascinating window into that world. Today’s guest, Elle, became a single mother by choice at 36, using a known sperm donor: someone she briefly dated years before. Today, her son is 13, and her story gi…

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Reinventing Your Life and Choosing Yourself: Eboni K. Williams on Relationships, Personal Growth, and Becoming a Single Mom by Choice 1:09:22

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In this week’s episode, Eboni K. Williams shares the truth behind her transformation and the choices that shaped her life. We talk about how childhood patterns influence every decision we make, why relationships can often hold you back or change the course of your future, and how ignoring red flags will always cost you more in the long run. Eboni o…

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Ask a Life Coach: Real Coaching on Starting Over, Dating After Heartbreak, Boundaries & Personal Growth 41:21

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You asked - and I answered. In this episode, I’m answering listener questions about navigating change, rebuilding confidence, healing after heartbreak, finding direction in your career when you feel stuck, and learning how to stay patient when you’re working hard to change but not yet seeing results - all while figuring out how to move forward when…

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S8E16 Building a Life That Supports Solo Motherhood, with Novelist Tory Henwood Hoen 1:00:26

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What would you have to change to make solo motherhood possible? For novelist Tory Henwood Hoen, the answer meant reimagining the structure of her life. She left New York City for Vermont, moved in with her mom during pregnancy, and built a rhythm that allowed her to pursue both her dream of motherhood and her passion for writing. Through it all, sh…

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Redefining Plan B After Divorce: Katie Bryan on Solo Motherhood, Entrepreneurship, and Empowering Women to Know Their Worth 1:03:16

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In this week’s episode of This Wasn’t the Plan, Tara sits down with Katie Bryan - coach, entrepreneur, and host of The Single Greatest Choice Podcast - for an honest and inspiring conversation about divorce, career pivots, solo motherhood, and building a business when that was never the plan. Katie shares her journey from navigating heartbreak to b…

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How to Build Lasting Connection: Communication, Intimacy, Dating & Relationships with Laira Thomas 52:48

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Whether you’re single, dating, or decades into a relationship, this conversation will make you pause and reflect on how you connect, communicate, and show up in all types of relationships. In this episode, Tara sits down with Laira Thomas - a dating, marriage, and intimacy facilitator - to talk about what it really takes to build connection that la…

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S8E15 From Fertility Challenges and Fibroids to Solo Mom of Two with Dr. Shanelle Bolton 49:05

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While some motherhood paths unfold easily, others bring unexpected twists and turns. Dr. Shanelle Bolton’s path to solo motherhood included multiple surgeries to remove fibroids, a chemical pregnancy, and even a near-fatal postpartum hemorrhage. But all of this was part of her journey, and today she’s a proud solo mom by choice to two thriving chil…

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The Courage to Pivot: Reinventing Yourself Through Life’s Hardest Moments with Justine Froelker 54:37

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When life doesn’t go according to plan, what does it take to pivot — without losing yourself in the process? In this inspiring episode, Tara sits down with Licensed Professional Counselor, bestselling author, and TEDx speaker Justine Froelker to explore what real courage and resilience look like when everything changes. Justine has spent over 25 ye…

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Living Her Beautiful Plan B: Kinga Jakab on Redefining Recovery, Healing & Self-Discovery 49:43

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⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode includes open conversations about alcohol use, mental-health challenges, and suicidality. Please take care while listening and reach out for professional support if you need it. If you are in crisis, you can call or text 988 in Canada and the U.S., or visit findahelpline.com for international options. In this deeply…

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S8E14 Postpartum as a Single Mother by Choice with SMBC Mel Anderson 48:39

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After a pregnancy marked by hyperemesis and countless challenges, Mel Anderson returns to share the next chapter of her story. This time, it’s a much brighter one. The birth of Mel’s daughter didn’t go exactly as planned, but from the very first moment she heard her daughter’s cry, everything shifted. Instead of bracing herself for postpartum depre…

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Clarity, Courage, and the Choice to Live on Your Own Terms with Keltie Maguire 52:22

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What happens when you realize the life you’ve been building doesn’t quite fit anymore? In this powerful and honest conversation, Tara sits down with clarity coach Keltie Maguire to explore one of life’s biggest questions: Do I want children — or not? Together, they dive into the messy middle of life choices, self-awareness, and societal expectation…

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Redefining Dreams: Carrie Hauskens on Living Her Sparkly Plan B 56:20

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In this heartfelt episode of This Wasn’t the Plan, Carrie Hauskens shares her journey through infertility, loss, and redefining what a meaningful life looks like when your original plan changes. From navigating grief to embracing uncertainty, Carrie offers insights on resilience, personal growth, and creating a sparkly Plan B filled with joy, self-…

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From Defeat to Direction: A Bonus Reset Episode 18:45

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Sometimes life knocks the wind out of you, leaving you feeling defeated or stuck. But defeat isn’t the end — it’s an invitation to begin again. In this bonus episode of This Wasn’t the Plan, Tara Resnick shares practical strategies and insights for navigating life transitions, personal growth, and reinvention when you feel lost, overwhelmed, or rea…

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S8E13 Pregnancy Without a Partner: Facing Hyperemesis and Finding Strength With SMBC Mel Anderson 1:12:17

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Pregnancy doesn’t always go the way you imagined it would. For my dear friend and fellow SMBC, Mel Anderson, what began with excitement quickly turned into one of the hardest seasons of her life. Instead of hiking and practicing yoga through her pregnancy as she had envisioned, Mel faced hyperemesis: severe nausea and vomiting that left her unable …

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Unstuck: How I Chose Myself, My Dream, and IVF 17:41

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In this first episode of This Wasn’t the Plan, Tara Resnick shares her personal journey of feeling stuck, navigating relationships that didn’t work out, and ultimately choosing herself while pursuing motherhood on her own. She reflects on the unexpected ending to her 15-month IVF journey and the lessons she learned along the way. This episode is ab…

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When the Ending Isn’t Happy: Finding Strength & Resilience in Plan B 16:49

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Not every story ends the way we hoped, but that doesn’t mean it has to be the end. In this episode of This Wasn’t the Plan, Tara Resnick shares her experience of facing unhappy endings and explores how to reframe them as the beginning of something new. She discusses the mindset shifts, coping strategies, and personal insights that helped her build …

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Start Here: Welcome to This Wasn’t the Plan 1:45

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Welcome to This Wasn’t the Plan, the podcast where Plan B becomes the path to resilience, personal growth, and reinvention. In this brief trailer, Tara Resnick shares what you can expect from each episode, why she created the show, and how it can bring insight, inspiration, and entertainment to your life. Whether you’re here to learn, laugh, relate…

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S8E12 Managing Expectations & Embracing Flexibility as a SMBC (A SGC Village Podcast Sneak Peek) 38:27

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Motherhood—especially solo motherhood—rarely unfolds exactly the way we imagined. Fertility treatments don’t always go as planned, babies don’t follow sleep schedules, and even our best-laid visions of how life “should” look often get disrupted. In this episode, I’m sharing one of our private Village Podcast episodes on the theme of Managing Expect…

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S8E11 Pursuing Solo Motherhood, Part 2: Tara Resnick on Resilience and IVF as a Single Woman 53:28

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Even with careful planning, none of us can predict how our path to motherhood will unfold. When we last spoke with Tara Resnick, she was preparing for another egg retrieval and left us with quite the cliffhanger. Today, she’s back to share the next chapter of her journey toward solo motherhood. In this conversation, Tara speaks with honesty and vul…

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S8E10 Julie Ferguson on IVF, Solo Motherhood, and Finding Love After Baby 1:04:19

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Julie thought she was freezing her eggs for a future partner. Instead, she ended up fertilizing all of them on her path to become a mom on her own—then finding love and partnership afterward. That’s the short version of Julie Ferguson’s story, but there’s so much more to it. Julie is a PR firm owner and solo mom by choice who’s been through more th…

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S8E9 Pursuing Solo Motherhood: Tara Resnick on Love, Loss, and Choosing Herself 1:03:36

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Life doesn’t always unfold the way you imagined. For Tara, that meant rethinking everything she thought she knew about love, family, and the “perfect” timing. After years in relationships that weren’t moving toward the future she desired, she found herself at a crossroads: stay stuck waiting for someone else to come around, or start creating the li…

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S8E8 Solo Parenting Older Children and Thriving in Business With SMBC Beile Grünbaum 1:06:24

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What does life look like a decade into solo motherhood? If you've ever wondered what’s on the other side of the baby and toddler years, this conversation with Beile Grünbaum will give you an exciting glimpse. Beile is a solo mom by choice of two sons, now 10 and 12, and her story is anything but ordinary. A former financial journalist in Denmark, B…

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S8E7 Finding a Known Donor and Choosing Solo Motherhood with Viveka Mandhyan 59:38

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What if the desire to become a parent is strong, but the partner hasn't shown up? In this episode, I’m talking with Viveka, a school psychologist who has spent her career supporting kids and families—and who’s now navigating her own path to solo motherhood. Viveka started out as a preschool special education teacher, is certified as a yoga instruct…

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S8E6 Building a Strong Support System in Solo Motherhood With Therapist and SMBC Sige Weisman 1:07:15

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You’ve probably heard the phrase, “It takes a village”, but what does that actually look like when you’re choosing to become a mom on your own? Today’s guest is the perfect example of why becoming a single mother by choice doesn’t mean you have to raise your child alone. You’ll hear exactly what it can look like to build a deeply supportive village…

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S8E5 One Embryo Is All It Took: Kellyn Nagel's IVF Story as a Single Mother by Choice 1:14:04

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What happens when you only get one viable embryo and it’s your only shot at becoming a mom? For Kellyn, her single embryo became the greatest gift of her life. Today’s guest is Kellyn Nagel, a fellow single mother by choice and dedicated attorney who represents children in foster care. Kellyn shares her emotional and financial journey through ferti…

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S8E4 Solo Parenting Two Kids After 40, With SMBC Randi Maves 1:12:09

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Solo parenting one child is a big job. Add a second baby to the mix, and do it all without a co-parent, and everything shifts. In this episode, I’m joined by Randi Maves, a solo mom by choice to two boys, four years apart. Randi wouldn’t trade this life for anything, but she’s honest about how intense it can be juggling two different stages of pare…

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S8E3 Dating as a Single Mother by Choice With Erin Russell 58:22

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The desire to share life with a partner doesn’t just disappear when we choose to start our families on our own. And it doesn’t have to. Today’s new episode is a beautiful reminder that both things can be true: you can want motherhood and partnership, and you don’t have to give up one to have the other. At 35, Erin Russell was faced with the hard re…

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S8E2 Expanding Your Family as a SMBC: Lauren Harris’s Journey to Three Kids 1:08:00

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Expanding your family as a single mother by choice isn’t always easy — but many solo moms desire more than one child, and today’s conversation is a beautiful example of how it can unfold. Lauren — a returning guest and seasoned SMBC — shares her journey from welcoming her first daughter to expanding her family with twins, all in just a few years. A…

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S8E1 Inside the SGC Retreat: Curveballs, Self-Compassion and the Magic of Letting Go 39:27

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I recently wrapped up one of the most unpredictable SMBC retreats I’ve ever hosted, and I’m still unpacking all the lessons it had to teach me. This solo episode is a behind-the-scenes look at what happens when things go completely off-script, and how self-compassion, surrender, and unexpected moments of connection carried me through. This isn’t yo…

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Welcome to The Single Greatest Choice 2:07

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You always imagined becoming a mom someday, but what if someday doesn’t look the way you expected? Maybe you're considering solo motherhood, wondering if having a baby on your own is really possible. Maybe you know you want to be a mom, but the clock is ticking, you’re single and aren’t sure what to do next. Perhaps you’re already on the path: rese…

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S7E9 My Story: How & Why I Chose to Have a Baby on My Own 1:03:59

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For most of my life, I believed that finding the right partner was the key to starting a family. I spent nearly 20 years searching for the perfect relationship, thinking that marriage had to come first before motherhood. But at 39, I was single and I still deeply wanted to become a mom. That’s when I decided I was done waiting. I would have a baby …

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S7E8 Egg Freezing, IVF & Dating as a Single Mother: Eboni K. Williams’ SMBC Story 1:18:23

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When Eboni K. Williams froze her eggs, she had zero intention of using them, but she did it anyway, just in case. Years later, at 38, her perspective on motherhood shifted, and she was grateful she had taken steps to preserve her fertility. That decision gave her the freedom to pursue solo motherhood on her own timeline, using IVF to welcome the ch…

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S7E7 Adopting a Child as a Single Black Woman Based Overseas With SMBC Richelle Carey 55:20

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Are you waiting for a partner to give you the ‘green light’ to become a mom? For Richelle Carey, the answer became clear in her mid-40s: She wasn’t going to wait anymore. After freezing her eggs at 42 and attempting IVF at 46, Richelle realized she wasn’t attached to biological motherhood. What she truly wanted was to become a mom. That’s when she …

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S7E6 Kids or Childfree? Considering (Solo) Motherhood With Keltie Maguire 56:10

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Deciding whether to have kids is one of the most personal, and often most complex, choices a woman can make. For many, considering solo motherhood brings up even more questions: Should I wait for a partner? Can I do this on my own? What if I’m not sure I want kids at all? In this episode, I sit down with Keltie Maguire, coach and host of the Kids o…

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S7E5 Becoming a Single Mother by Choice After Divorce with SMBC Jamela Black 1:14:29

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When Jamela’s marriage ended at 37, she wasn’t interested in dating. Instead she decided to become a Single Mother by Choice (SMBC). With a deep desire for motherhood and a clear vision of the kind of family she wanted to create, she embraced solo motherhood by choice with the full support of her mom, who even helped her choose the right sperm dono…

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S7E4 The Emotional & Physical Reality of IVF for Single Women with Whitney Foley 56:11

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Pursuing IVF as a single woman is a deeply personal decision; one that comes with emotional, physical, and financial challenges. For Whitney Foley, the desire to become a mom was stronger than her fear of doing it alone. At 34, after years of dating and waiting for the “right” partner, she realized she didn’t want to leave motherhood up to chance. …

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S7E3 From Single Mom by Chance to Choice: Virginia Drader’s Journey to Pregnancy Without a Partner 50:21

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Life doesn’t always go according to plan but that doesn’t mean you have to give up on the dream of growing your family. Today’s guest, Virginia Drader, knows this journey well. After unexpectedly becoming a single mom after a divorce in her late 20s, she spent the next decade focused on her career and raising her son. But after a surprise pregnancy…

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S7E2 Sperm Donation for Single Women: How SMBC Valerie Bauman Found the Right Fit 49:09

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At some point, every single woman who dreams of motherhood faces a critical question: Do I keep waiting for the right partner, or do I take control of my future? For Valerie Bauman, that moment came at 38, during the pandemic, when dating felt nearly impossible. She realized she couldn’t put her dreams on hold any longer and made the empowering dec…

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S7E1 Why Educated Women Are Turning to Egg Freezing With Marcia Inhorn, Author of ‘Motherhood on Ice’ 1:02:17

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As more women pursue higher education and successful careers, the dating landscape is shifting. For the first time in history, women are earning more degrees than men. Could that very achievement be making it harder to find a life partner? With fewer equally educated men in the dating pool, many single women are left wondering: Should I freeze my e…

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S6, Ep 10: SMBC with a known donor, Ashley Coates 1:01:00

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My final guest of this season is Ashley Coates, a longtime Instagram friend and solo mom by choice living in Portland, Oregon. When Ashley decided to pursue solo motherhood, she decided to ask a close friend to be her known donor. What happened next feels almost too good to be true. Tune in as Ashley shares her experience of navigating conception, …

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S6, Ep 9: Solo Mum Society founder, author and podcast host, Alisha Burns 1:00:26

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We discuss more about….. The transition from corporate life to focusing on solo motherhood. The joys and challenges of parenting during a global pandemic. Her mother’s health crisis and its impact on her responsibilities. The process of writing her book featuring stories of 20 Australian SMBCs. Strategies for achieving a better work/life balance. P…

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S6, Ep 8: “Accidental” SMBC through foster to open adoption with Elizabeth Friedland 1:04:08

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We discuss more about….. Elizabeth’s journey to fostering and adoption. Balancing professional life with motherhood. The emotional and logistical challenges of fostering. dating and introducing our children to a future partner. Building and relying on a support system. Insights and advice for those considering fostering or adoption. Connect with El…

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S6, Ep 7: SMBC to two through adoption with Emily Driscoll 49:36

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We discuss more about….. Emily's initial adoption research and the steps involved in the process. The emotional journey and uncertainties of getting matched. The costs and logistical aspects of adopting in the U.S. Adjusting to motherhood and balancing work with childcare. The importance of support and strong friendships in solo motherhood. 👩‍👧‍👦Th…

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S6, Ep 6: Celine Charlotte, a quick journey from considering to parenting 1:11:22

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We discuss more about….. Celine's transition into embracing single motherhood. The challenges and emotional journey of egg retrieval and embryo transfer. Moving from the Netherlands to Sedona, and eventually to New York City. The vital role of community and support for SMBCs. Balancing business and motherhood, and the importance of surrounding ones…

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S6, Ep 5: Luisa Ruge, SMBC in Colombia 59:00

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We discuss more about….. What the fertility process looks like in Colombia The raw emotions while undergoing IV Deciding whether or not to have a second child Support and expectations during pregnancy and postpartum More info about 1:1 coaching, group coaching and community groups with The Single Greatest Choice at www.singlegreatestchoice.com/ 👩‍👧…

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S6, Ep 4: Danielle Winston, The Seed Scout 58:54

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When Danielle and Paige were ready to grow their family, they knew the route of a traditional sperm bank wasn't right for them. They went to great lengths to find a known donor by tapping into their own network and doing a TON of legwork. After walking that path themselves, they decided to create The Seed Scout to help other families who were looki…

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S6, Ep 3: thoughts on a second child as a SMBC 51:51

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If you’ve been going back and forth about whether or not to have a second child as a SMBC, you’re not alone! I frequently get asked about this topic, and it’s one that’s on my mind a lot these days. From making decisions about egg and embryo freezing to deciding on spacing between children to weighing the pros and cons of being “one and done”...the…

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S6, Ep 2: Meredith Kate, host of The Backup Plan Podcast 56:34

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For years, Meredith and her gay best friend had a running joke that if they were both still single without kids by a certain point, they’d have a child together. Recently, Meredith decided it was time to take that joke seriously. In our conversation, she’ll explain more about her decision, the arrangements she’s making with her known donor, and how…

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S6, Ep 1: Carla Allen, SMBC through gestational surrogacy 50:37

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Carla shares her experience from exploring surrogacy options to the complex matching process and the major impact of spiritual faith on her decision-making. She also reflects on the important trust and connection required in the surrogate relationship, and the joys and challenges of pregnancy through the lens of surrogacy. Join us as Carla's story …