Yifat Shaltiel, Esq. is Author of “Save Money on Surrogacy” and has 16+ years of experience practicing surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology law and providing surrogacy coaching. She is CEO and Founder of Surrogate Steps, a surrogacy agency, helping families grow for over ten years. As one of the chairs of the Reproductive Health Law Committee for the Women’s Bar Association of the state of New York, Yifat testified on surrogacy matters in the New York State Legislature and participated as speaker at various venues, including the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. She has been featured as a surrogacy law specialist at numerous venues including Cornell Law School and news media outlets such as MSNBC. In addition to her book, she published many articles on reproductive law and surrogacy, and taught CLE classes regarding surrogacy to other attorneys and judges.

Yifat Shaltiel, Esq. was introduced to the world of surrogacy and infertility through her own infertility journey. She has made it her mission to help others grow their families through surrogacy and assisted reproductive technology and hopes that the information in this book, about how to save money in a surrogacy journey, will help more individuals afford surrogacy and successfully become parents.

Listen as Yifat shares with Ellen and Jenn:

• Experiencing infertility as a young prosecutor.
• Feeling very alone, but eventually finding a support group. 
• Experiencing failed treatments until a successful, but very difficult, pregnancy.
• Wanting to help others in this situation. Digging into the law.
• Quiting her job to follow her passion and starting a law practice focused on helping others with infertility. 
• Numbers. Just how expensive is surrogacy? 
• Best paths to saving money. 
• Areas where you don’t want to cut corners.

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