A fertility miracle isn’t random luck or something reserved for a chosen few. It means there is a path to motherhood uniquely aligned with you — but claiming it requires belief, emotional resilience, and consistent action. It’s about becoming the woman who refuses to let fear or past outcomes define her future.

No. Wishful thinking is passive. A fertility miracle mindset is active. It requires discipline, strategic decision-making, emotional regulation, and a refusal to indulge doubt. Belief becomes powerful when it drives consistent behavior aligned with your goal.

Your mindset affects how you interpret results, respond to setbacks, advocate for yourself medically, and stay committed long term. Chronic doubt and stress can keep you stuck in fear. A strong fertility success mindset supports calm decision-making, persistence, and confidence — all of which influence outcomes.

Strengthening belief requires daily reinforcement. This can include mindset coaching, journaling, meditation, surrounding yourself with empowering support, and interrupting negative thought patterns. Belief isn’t built once — it’s built repeatedly.

The holidays often highlight family, children, and milestones you deeply desire. They can amplify grief or comparison. That’s why grounding yourself in the truth — that your journey is still unfolding and your miracle is still possible — is critical during this season.

It means stepping into a new identity. You won’t become a mother by staying in the exact same patterns of fear, doubt, and hesitation. Becoming the woman who receives means elevating your mindset, strengthening your emotional capacity, and aligning your actions with the outcome you desire.

[00:00:00] Hey, gorgeous. If you want success on your fertility journey, you’ve gotta have the mindset for it. It’s time to kick fear, negativity, doubt, shame, jealousy, and the whole clown car of low vibe, fertility, journey BS to the curb. I’m your host, Roseanne Austin, fertility Mindset Master, former prosecutor and recovering type a, control freak, perfectionist.

[00:00:20] I use the power of mindset to get pregnant naturally and have my baby boy at 43. Despite years of fertility treatment failure, I help women across the globe beat. The odds on their fertility journey, just like I did. Get ready for a quick hit of confidence, joy, feminine, bad assery, and loads of hell Yes.

[00:00:37] For your fertility journey. It’s time to get fearless, baby fearlessly fertile. Let’s do this. Welcome to the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast, episode 3 56. The Miracle with your name on it loves. I’m so excited to be here with you this week. It’s Christmas week. I am so. Absolutely [00:01:00] loving this time of year, and I remember what it was like when I was living my fertility journey.

[00:01:05] It can feel like there’s nothing to look forward to. It can feel like everything is a reminder of what’s not here. My purpose in this episode is to get you grounded. Back into a state of reality. There is a miracle with your name on it, the miracle with your name on it. We’re talking about this baby. I know there’s gonna be a lot of triggers coming your way.

[00:01:28] Friends, family, reminders of what could have been having had a miscarriage on fricking Christmas Eve myself, I know how challenging the holiday season can be, but having pulled myself out of that place. Using that experience to my advantage. I also know that there is another way and that holding on to the fact that there is a miracle with your name on it is going to be the thing that’s going to separate you from [00:02:00] your past, past hurts, past failures, just anything from the past that’s holding you down and getting you to re.

[00:02:07] Focus on the truth. There is a miracle with your name on it. None of this is about wishful thinking or hope. Wishful thinking and hope is not enough on this journey. Hope is for amateurs. Wishful thinking is for people who are still playing T-ball when it comes to trying to conceive. You’ve got to get yourself to a much more strategic foundation that is truly believing.

[00:02:31] There is a miracle with your name on it. I wanna share a little bit about what that actually means when I say that. Believing that there is a miracle for you with your name on it isn’t at all about wishful thinking or hoping. What it comes down to is intelligent strategy. Here’s what I mean by that.

[00:02:52] When you approach your fertility journey from the perspective that come hell or high water, there is [00:03:00] a miracle with your name on it. It means that you are a different person. Stepping into that level of belief takes you out of the crowd of, of people lurking on fertility message boards lingering in FB groups.

[00:03:15] Circling the drain with every. Trigger warning, I’m gonna announce that I’m pregnant. Garbage that you know when we’re just stuck in negativity. On this journey, we surround ourselves with getting to a place of real structure and strategy on your fertility journey requires change. Good change. Because I’m telling you right now, belief on this journey is not passive.

[00:03:38] There’s no room for doubt and no, you can’t stay. The same belief at this level requires you to be active, requires you to be constantly pushing that temptation for doubt. Back and putting yourself in a position to be always forward, always moving forward on this journey. I know that there are gonna be a lot of people that would rather coddle you [00:04:00] and tell you they’re there.

[00:04:01] It’s all really hard and it’s okay. That doesn’t work for me. None of that works for me, and frankly, it shouldn’t work for you. If you’re serious about having a baby. You’ve got to be in a position. Where you can stand here and command in your life. What this is, is an invitation for you to begin to truly stand in your power and claim what it is that you want in your life.

[00:04:25] There is a miracle with my name on it sounds very different than, geez. I really hope I pray and I. I just really wish that my baby was here. No, no. If you go back and look at every single Miracle Mama that was featured on this podcast, you will find a through line. Every single one of those women had to stand for something.

[00:04:45] They had to stand for something they could not see. They had to, at some level, believe that there was a miracle with their name on it. None of that came from staying the same. Not pushing [00:05:00] themselves, being passive and tolerating doubt. As your friends and family are gathering, and there’s so much temptation to just put a happy face on and pretend like everything’s okay, I want you to do something smarter than that who needs denial.

[00:05:15] What I want to encourage you to do is take a little bit of time, step away, get outside, put on a jacket, look at the Christmas lights. Take yourself for a walk, and on that walk. Quietly make the decision between you and your higher power. There is a miracle with my name on it, and I am going to become the woman that receives that.

[00:05:38] One of the greatest gifts that you will ever give yourself is. It’s not material. It’s the experience of not abandoning yourself or your dream. Especially on this journey when we have a relatively finite amount of time within which we can pursue it. The time is now. There is a miracle with your name on it, it’s your [00:06:00] baby, but you’ve gotta be the woman that stops fucking around with doubt, stops wanting to be the same.

[00:06:06] You won’t be the same woman with a baby in your arms as you are today. No baby. To mom is indeed a level up. That is the woman who beats the odds. That is the woman who makes her age irrelevant. Her diagnosis irrelevant. Her past failures irrelevant. Her past mistakes irrelevant. If you wanna be that woman, you have to begin to step into that identity.

[00:06:33] You’ve got to step into the reality mama, that there is a miracle with your name on it, but that requires you to be the woman that goes and gets it. You’re probably doing 10,000 things right now. I bet your medicine chest has probably spilled out onto your kitchen counter and that this journey feels like it is taken over your life.

[00:06:53] But if you are gonna give up time. Space and energy in your life, why wouldn’t it be for your baby? [00:07:00] Why would you continue to be the woman complaining about how long it’s taking or how much it’s costing or, or the inconvenience of it all? What if you became the woman for whom all of those things are no longer relevant?

[00:07:12] What if you became the woman who could stare down the barrel of 2026 and say, there is a miracle. With my name on it and I’m here to pick it up. Motherfuckers. Think about that. Think about the energy that moves through your body when you speak that way. Think about the presence that you bring into your clinic when you stand there, knowing you are there to claim your miracle and look at how you would start to interact with other people when you had crystal clarity that there was a miracle.

[00:07:42] With your name on it. No more being passive. No more doubt and no more clinging to the past. That is the woman that you are stepping into being, and that is a level up, not a step down. I’m here to tell you in this busy crazy week, you do have a miracle with your name [00:08:00] on it. That miracle has been waiting for you.

[00:08:02] That miracle is all around and you are enough. You’re not too late, you’re not too broken, you’re not too fucked up. And you have to become the woman who is fearless. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and really give yourself the opportunity this week to begin to put these pieces together and claim that there is a miracle with your name on it.

[00:08:28] And if you want my help getting there, go to my website www.frommaybetobaby.com and apply for an interview there. My methodology has helped women around the world make their mom dreams come true. And the results is you have seen on this podcast speak for themselves. If you don’t have a mindset for success in this journey, baby, you gotta gap in hole in your strategy.

[00:08:48] You gotta fix this shit. If you want to go beyond the limits of fertility medicine, you have got to be the woman who learns to think beyond fertility medicine. Till next time, [00:09:00] change your mindset. Change your results. Love this episode of The Fearlessly Fertile Podcast. Subscribe now and leave an awesome review.

[00:09:09] Remember the desire in your heart to be a mom is there because it was meant for you. When it comes to your dreams, keep saying hell yes.

If you want a baby in 2026, your fertility mindset matters more than you think. Many women trying to conceive unknowingly repeat the same fertility mindset mistakes year after year — and those mistakes make heartbreak predictable.

One of the biggest fertility mindset mistakes? Arguing in favor of your limitations.

Whether you’re trying to get pregnant naturally or with support like IVF, the way you think about age, diagnosis, time, and possibility directly shapes your decisions, resilience, and outcomes. When you repeatedly say “I can’t because…” and accept perceived limits without questioning them, you reinforce beliefs that work against your fertility success.

If you’re serious about getting pregnant in 2026, it’s time to identify the thought patterns that sabotage results and consciously replace them with beliefs that support success.

• The most common fertility mindset mistakes blocking conception
• Why arguing for your limitations keeps you stuck
• How to shift from fear-based thinking to empowered action
• A practical journaling exercise to uncover hidden mindset blocks
• What elite-level fertility strategy really looks like

If 2026 is your year, your thinking has to match that commitment.

Learn the amateur move you’ve got to STOP tolerating if you want baby-making success in 2026. Elite Miracle Mamas leave nothing to chance on their journey. They make their mind work FOR them.

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Fertility mindset mistakes are thought patterns that reinforce fear, limitation, or hopelessness during the conception journey. Common examples include assuming age automatically equals failure, believing a diagnosis defines your outcome, or repeatedly saying “I can’t because…” without challenging the belief. These patterns influence decision-making, stress levels, and long-term resilience.

Mindset does not replace medical care, but chronic stress, fear, and hopelessness can influence hormonal balance, sleep quality, and overall wellbeing. A strong fertility mindset supports consistent action, emotional regulation, and strategic decision-making — all of which matter when trying to conceive.

“I can’t get pregnant because…” is often a reflection of unconscious limiting beliefs. Many women absorb rules about age, diagnosis, money, or timing without questioning them. Identifying what follows “because” helps uncover assumptions that may be shaping your fertility strategy without your awareness.

To improve your fertility mindset in 2026:

• Identify recurring negative thought patterns

• Challenge beliefs about age and diagnosis

• Replace “I can’t” with intentional, evidence-based thinking

• Surround yourself with supportive experts

• Take aligned action consistently

Success requires both mindset and strategy working together.

Common limiting beliefs include:

• “I’m too old to get pregnant.”

• “My diagnosis means it’s impossible.”

• “I don’t have enough time.”

• “If it hasn’t happened yet, it won’t.”

These beliefs often feel factual but are interpretations, not guarantees. Many women conceive after challenging these assumptions.

You stop sabotaging your fertility journey by becoming conscious of how you argue for your limitations. Track your “I can’t because…” statements. Question whether they are objectively true or inherited beliefs. Replace passive thinking with intentional, empowered decisions aligned with your goal.

[00:00:00] Hey, gorgeous. If you want success on your fertility journey, you’ve gotta have the mindset for it. It’s time to kick fear, negativity, doubt, shame, jealousy, and the whole clown car of low vibe, fertility, journey BS to the curb. I’m your host, Roseanne Austin, fertility Mindset Master, former prosecutor and recovering type a, control freak, perfectionist.

[00:00:20] I use the power of mindset to get pregnant naturally and have my baby boy at 43. Despite years of fertility treatment failure, I help women across the globe beat. The odds on their fertility journey, just like I did. Get ready for a quick hit of confidence, joy, feminine, bad assery, and loads of hell Yes.

[00:00:37] For your fertility journey. It’s time to get fearless, baby fearlessly fertile. Let’s do this. Welcome to the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast, episode 3 55, baby in 2026. Stop doing this. Hey, loves. I’m so excited to be here with you this week. We’re just a couple weeks [00:01:00] away from 2026, and I wanted to make good on a promise that I made in last week’s episode, and that is to start helping you prepare for success in 2026.

[00:01:11] You gotta stop doing this. Stop arguing in favor of these perceived limitations on your fertility journey. Stop arguing in favor of what they tell you are limits on your fertility journey. Stop accepting that shit. Straight up. You’ve gotta stop arguing in favor of limits on your fertility journey.

[00:01:36] Here’s why. More often than not, those limits aren’t even limits that you as a grown-ass woman have placed in your life. Most of these things are just kind of spoonfed to us on this journey. The reality is there is a woman. Right now on a planet of almost 8 billion people that is older than you, has a worse diagnosis and is [00:02:00] in a labor and delivery room, or giving birth at home somewhere on the planet.

[00:02:05] That’s a reality. But more often than not, when we’re in pain, when we’re confused, when we’re feeling overwhelmed, or we fall under the authority of somebody wearing a white coat, we just take in all these limits without ever truly challenging them. Who says that having a baby in your forties is harder?

[00:02:25] What if the only reason why it’s actually harder is because you accepted that as truth, as gospel as law, without ever stopping and thinking. There was information that came out within the past couple weeks that said there is a baby boom for women, 40 and up. That is a reality. The US census, the last time we did the census even showed that it is an antiquated and broken notion that having a baby in your forties is weird.

[00:02:55] It’s an anomaly. It’s hard, it’s miserable, or [00:03:00] it’s something to be ashamed of. I posted something recently to Instagram where Claire Gaines. A-list celebrity talked about being pregnant at 44 and how she felt shame and and didn’t even think it was possible. This is the kind of crap that you have to exercise like a fricking demon from your fertility journey because this is just not true.

[00:03:22] Women are getting pregnant naturally. Women are getting pregnant with the support of IVF and other interventions. All the freaking time in your forties, even fifties, you may not even fucking need IVF. That’s a reality. We have to start challenging these antiquated, rigid notions about what’s truly possible for us.

[00:03:43] On the fertility journey, your responsibility if you’re committed to fertility success is start looking around your life, your psyche, the way that you think for these kinds of limitations, and fucking stop arguing in favor of them. You [00:04:00] have to start conditioning a different way of thinking so that you can create a new result.

[00:04:06] Thoughts, beliefs, actions, results. It’s logical, linear, and true. There was a study that came out of Harvard talking about how your body is quite literally listening to your mind. It’s a fucking fact. Your body does exactly what your mind. Tells it. If your mind is not calibrated to success on this journey and is instead ruminating on all of these limitations and only looking at the negative on this journey and not counterbalancing it with the reality that women are having babies in their forties and fifties all the fucking time, what decade are you getting that information from?

[00:04:46] 40 and 50. Today is not what they were. 60 years ago, 40 and 50 is when women are truly coming into their own, especially if you’re a fucking professional. If you spent most of [00:05:00] your twenties, thirties, and forties getting to be the chief medical officer at the hospital, or your top engineer or partner in the law firm.

[00:05:10] Forties and fifties is exactly when you’re gonna have your family. What’s the big deal? It’s time to just throw those antiquated notions out the fucking window. They don’t apply to women who are vibrant and living a full life Today. It is completely normal to see a woman in her forties or good luck trying to even figure out if she’s 40 in the pickup line at school.

[00:05:33] This is the new normal. This requires us to think. In a more precise way on this journey, a more truth-based way instead of allowing. All of these statistics and fear mongering and hurry up and get pregnant because you’re gonna turn 40 and it’s downhill from there. Nope, that’s just not true. It’s just not true.

[00:05:56] And who cares? There are gonna be some women who get pregnant naturally in their [00:06:00] forties and fifties. There are gonna be some women that need support, but who fucking cares? It’s your life. The point is, as a grown woman, it is your responsibility to create the life that you want. On your terms, but that doesn’t come without significant changes to your thinking and being judicious in what you let in and what you push out.

[00:06:22] Quite literally, when we’re talking about stop arguing in favor of your limitations, here’s how this can look. Most of the time we are completely unconscious of the way we’re arguing in favor of our limitations. It can sound a lot like I can’t because. I can’t, because what you have to start focusing in on is what comes after, because is it something that’s actually true or is it a rule that you’ve just sort of accepted and never really challenged or made a decision that you wanna live by as a woman [00:07:00] who is trying to get and stay pregnant?

[00:07:03] In her late thirties, forties, or even fifties. Is that a rule that you choose to live by? Who says that you don’t have time? Who says that you don’t have the money? Who says that it’s impossible? All of those rules, if they are not consciously chosen by you and through careful thought, accepted by you, all of those things are just somebody else’s beliefs.

[00:07:27] If you want to create success on this journey, and you might be the only one on the left on the fucking dance floor, you have to take authority of the way that you think you have to be consciously creating a series of beliefs that support your success. I can’t because. Isn’t one of them. You are actively choosing success on this journey.

[00:07:50] Here’s how you can begin to get a handle on this, and this’ll be fun, ladies, especially around the holidays. If you approach this exercise with love, a sense of humor, [00:08:00] some compassion, and some fucking forgiveness, you can really get somewhere as a result. I would strongly encourage you to keep an I can’t journal.

[00:08:11] Take a couple pages in your journal. Or get a special notebook for this. This can be super interesting because what comes after I can’t, because is always telling of the current state of your mindset. You may be very shocked and you may find that these aren’t your rules at all. They might be your mom’s rules, your dad’s rules, your boss’s rules.

[00:08:32] They’re just not conscious and created by you. There’s never been more urgency, especially in your life, in the context of this journey. For you to be a conscious creator in your life, that means you choose the rules. You say what goes. If those people don’t wanna play by the rules, you are gonna find another team.

[00:08:54] You are gonna find new people on your bump squad. I have met so many women over my [00:09:00] 11 year career coaching women to fertility success who had no idea that despite the fact that they had JD md, all these amazing titles, multiple letters after their names. All of these certifications, all of these degrees, prestigious positions at universities, hospitals, law firms, these women had no fucking clue that they had handed their license agency and authority to rules that they never consciously challenged or even investigated to see whether or not they actually bought that shit.

[00:09:33] It doesn’t matter how academically smart you are. Or, or what your position is Until we wake up and become conscious to this pattern, more often than not, we’re living by rules that we didn’t even choose. So. Get out some paper, get some pages in your journal, and start writing down every one of your I cans, because I’d like to do this in real time.

[00:09:58] Keep it close by. If you [00:10:00] catch yourself saying, I can’t do that because I can’t afford it, you’re gonna write that down. Give yourself a moment and say, well. Is it that I can’t afford it or I choose not to afford it? Those are two very different things, mama. I’m not saying that either is wrong, but know why you’re saying that.

[00:10:20] Don’t just be a parrot that’s just repeating shit that your mom used to say, your dad used to say. When those rules may not even apply to you. You are not a stay at home mom. Who’s not bringing in money? Maybe that was your mom. No shade either way. But if we’re just parroting what was modeled to us, we’re not consciously creating our experience.

[00:10:40] We are living by somebody else’s limitation. You may find I can’t because I don’t have the time. Well, have you ever thought about making the time? I know that some of you might think, well, you know, I’m, I’m a physician in a hospital. This is my. Shift. This is the way it works. I don’t know that it’s necessarily the way it works, it’s the way it’s been done in the [00:11:00] past, but you won’t know until you challenge that.

[00:11:03] So often. The experience that we want to have on this journey was just an ask away. It was just having the guts to challenge the rule, and then you might find yourself in an entirely different circumstance, and this really can fuel your success on this journey. Shortly before recording this podcast, I had an amazing conversation with one of my Miracle Mamas in the making.

[00:11:26] She had just been having a real tough time with a clinic that she was working with. She called another clinic that was outside of her country and asked for what she wanted, and they were like, great, we can totally do that. She was absolutely floored because she thought that that clinic’s way of doing things, the one in her home country, she thought that that’s just the way it was.

[00:11:50] It wasn’t until she had summoned the courage inside of her to challenge the alleged rules, that she started to create an entirely different [00:12:00] experience, found a clinic that wanted to love on her and do things her way, and she is. Well on the path to fricking success in 2026. That’s how powerful this process is.

[00:12:11] Take note of the ways in which you argue for your limitations. Mama, and fucking stop it. Think about this. Chances are there’s a conversation that you have been avoiding. With someone that is maybe on your bump squad and you’re just afraid because you think they are going to say no, or you think that challenging them is going to mean a loss for you.

[00:12:37] You don’t actually know that you don’t know it until you do it, and that I can’t because could be blocking your clear path to your baby. One of the things I would encourage you if you have the courage to do this assignment and Miracle Mama’s will, is have compassion for yourself in this process. [00:13:00] None of what I am encouraging you to experiment with.

[00:13:04] Is a gotcha. We’re not looking for all the ways that you’re fucked up. What we are looking for is your way to freedom on this journey. You’ve heard me say this a bazillion times, and I’m gonna say it again. The desire in your heart to be a mom is there because it was meant for you. Mama, you learning to argue in favor of your possibilities.

[00:13:26] Not your fucking limitations is going to make you a legend on this journey. It’s going to make you a mom. I know this is a lonely road because most people in our lives and far too many living this journey worship at the altar of limitations. They are all too ready to throw their hands up, let go of their license and agency and let somebody in a white coat be in authority.

[00:13:52] Nobody but you deserves authority in your life. You can call in. Experts, [00:14:00] let them love on you. Let them help guide you, but you don’t have to live by anyone’s rules but your own. If anything is going to be limiting you on this journey, it’s time to question it. You are not going to get to where you want to go by accepting limitation.

[00:14:17] Have the courage to challenge the rules and motherfucking make your own. And if you want my help getting there, go to my website www.frommaybetobaby.com and apply for an interview there. My methodology has helped women around the world make their mom dreams come true, and the results as you’ve seen.

[00:14:36] Speak for themselves. If you don’t have a mindset for success on this journey, baby, you got a gaping hole in your strategy except no substitutes. Women serious about fertility success and who want the best? Get fearless. Till next time. Change your mindset. Change your results. Love this episode of The Fearlessly Fertile Podcast.

[00:14:59] [00:15:00] Subscribe now and leave an awesome review. Remember the desire in your heart to be a mom is there because it was meant for you. When it comes to your dreams, keep saying hell yes.

If you’ve been told your age, diagnosis, or fertility statistics limit your chances of getting pregnant, this episode will challenge everything you think you know. Fertility limits are often presented as facts — but they are not destiny.

In this powerful episode, I break down why declaring “fertility limits don’t apply to me” is more than a mantra.

It’s a strategic mindset shift that changes how you show up, how you make decisions, and how you ultimately experience your fertility journey. Women who beat fertility statistics and get pregnant after 40 aren’t lucky. They think differently. And that difference matters.

Ready to be that woman? 

Submit your application to be considered for my curated, elite Fearlessly Fertile Method invitation-only programs: https://get.frommaybetobaby.com/bss-app

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[00:00:00] Hey, gorgeous. If you want success on your fertility journey, you’ve gotta have the mindset for it. It’s time to kick fear, negativity, doubt, shame, jealousy, and the whole clown car of low vibe, fertility, journey BS to the curb. I’m your host, Roseanne Austin, fertility Mindset Master, former prosecutor and recovering type a, control freak, perfectionist.

[00:00:20] I use the power of mindset to get pregnant naturally and have my baby boy at 43. Despite years of fertility treatment failure, I help women across the globe beat. The odds on their fertility journey, just like I did, get ready for a quick hit of confidence, joy, feminine, bad assery, and loads of hell Yes.

[00:00:37] For your fertility journey. It’s time to get fearless, baby fearlessly fertile. Let’s do this. Welcome to the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast, episode 3 54. Fertility Limits Don’t apply to me. Your new mantra loves. I’m so just so thrilled to be here with you this week. [00:01:00] Because man, we are getting super close to the end of 2025, and I thought one of the greatest gifts that I can give you over the course of the next few weeks are some ideas for you to really start to set yourself up for looking at yourself, your journey, your baby, the possibilities for yourself in a completely different way.

[00:01:22] And the first one that I wanted to share with you is this, fertility limits don’t apply to me. It’s a bold fucking statement, but if you’re serious about getting and staying pregnant and you have a history of quote unquote failure, or the statistics, which I don’t even know, care about that shit anymore, like if you’ve been listening to this podcast, you are hearing from women left and right in various ways.

[00:01:48] All united by the power of mindset who are making statistics, their age, their diagnosis, fucking irrelevant. Yet we are consistently handing our power [00:02:00] over to people possibly well intentioned with white coats on telling us that shit’s not possible. But every freaking day, we are seeing proof of this that not only is having a baby with your litany of diagnoses.

[00:02:16] And in your forties, in your fifties possible. In today’s world, it’s fucking normal. It’s important that you start to shift your paradigm around this topic. That starts with what you’re telling yourself about your possibilities. This isn’t something random that you’re just gonna say. It’s really an idea and an identity that you must begin to ingrain within yourself.

[00:02:45] Fertility limits don’t apply to me. They just don’t say it. Say it to yourself right now. Fertility limits, they don’t apply to me. And if English is not your native tongue, fucking say it in your mother tongue. [00:03:00] Try it on for size because most of the time on this journey, we are getting hit left and right with tons of limitations, tons of reasons why we can’t do this, and if you are actually going to position yourself for success.

[00:03:14] It’s going to require that you start planting the seeds in your own head for a completely different reality. If you need a reminder, we are the ones that create our experience on this journey. People are gonna try to tell you, oh, that’s bullshit. No, it’s not. You can have two people sitting next to each other in the same fertility clinic having two fucking diametrically opposed experiences.

[00:03:40] One that is in a place where she knows how the story ends, she’s gonna tell herself, Nope, I don’t care what it takes. I don’t care how long I’m not leaving without my baby. And then you’re gonna have somebody else who’s scared of her own shadow, full of fear, doubt, worry, shame, jealousy, because she hasn’t done the work.

[00:03:56] She has not. Awakened the awareness [00:04:00] within her to understand she’s controlling the experience. And not only is she controlling the experience, she can control the team that she brings in with her. Look, when you’re serious about a goal, you are not gonna go in there like solo. You’ve got to start building a team around you that believes in you.

[00:04:17] And part of that is having a team that is rooted in the notion fertility limits don’t apply to me. Think about that. If we just step out of this for one moment and apply that idea to the way you select your team. Who are the physicians that you might bring in? Who are the coaches that you might bring in?

[00:04:39] You’ve gotta make sure that anyone that has a front row seat on your journey is not a hate and ass bitch. You’ve gotta make sure that that person isn’t quietly throwing shade on your ass in the chart. You want all hands on deck. Everybody’s fricking ovaries deep on a hell yes to you and your vision.

[00:04:59] [00:05:00] Now that doesn’t mean that there aren’t maybe some tweaks, some subtle. Shifts in the plan and some flexibility. But at the end of the day, if you are a woman who has ingrained in her heart, mind, body, and soul, that fertility limits don’t apply to me. Watch what kind of results you start to create. When you come from that mindset, you are gonna be.

[00:05:20] Far more selective about who you bring in. You’re gonna ask different questions. You’re gonna feel a different sense of empowerment, license agency, and more importantly, some fucking authority. I’ve watched women from ages 28, which sounds really young, like who struggles there, but you’d be surprised. Two.

[00:05:37] Fucking 54, or make stats, age, diagnosis, fucking irrelevant. Part of what you can start doing for yourself is really take the stand. Fertility limits don’t apply to me. I know that’s probably gonna be rattling some chains for some of you, but if you don’t take [00:06:00] up space on your journey and more importantly in your own mind about what you are gonna do with your life, what you’re gonna do with your time on this journey, what the fuck are you doing?

[00:06:13] This is the power of mindset, like this is the thing that so often is the missing link. Is your attitude, your belief in yourself, the way that you approach this, the way that your own belief system is impacting your nervous system. Are your thoughts keeping you in fight or flight, or are you thinking like a woman?

[00:06:34] Who does not believe that limits apply to her? Think about it ladies. We see people in so many different walks of life who either accept limitations or fucking bust through them. Which side of the aisle you end up on is entirely up to you. I have seen through my own work. I mean, you’ve seen these women on this podcast.

[00:06:57] In my own coaching practice, I [00:07:00] see women rise like the fricking Phoenix. They are completely making their past irrelevant by beginning to play with this idea that. I can go beyond the limits of fertility medicine. I mean, that’s the essence of what I do every single day when I am coaching. I am helping women take themselves beyond the limits of fertility medicine.

[00:07:22] So I want you to take some time. I know that this could be a little bit challenging around the holidays, but you know what? Here’s the deal. There’s never been a better time for you to be fucking crystal clear. On who you’re gonna be in 2026. Are you gonna be the woman that accepts limits on her fertility, or are you gonna be the woman that busts right through any limits that are presented to her and gets to the end of the year pregnant or holding her baby?

[00:07:53] Think about it exactly a year from now, December. 2026, you could be in a [00:08:00] very different position. You could have a big old belly, you could be holding a baby. All of those things are possible. And from where you stand today, the landscape is wide open. Who fills that landscape? You Say it again. Fertility limits don’t apply to me.

[00:08:19] Say it with gusto. Say it with flare. Say it in a way that you can get emotionally attached to this idea. I know that there are gonna be some of you that hear this and say, but what if I’m wrong? Well, what if you’re fucking right? You know what living this journey in fear and doubt has done to you mentally, you feel what it’s done to you physically.

[00:08:41] Remember, your body follows your mind. And you know, you look at athletes who are in the gym throwing thousands of three-pointers like Steph Curry, Venus Williams, you know, was out there working, you know. Their mental game is freaking [00:09:00] everything. How does that not apply to your journey? Try on this idea.

[00:09:05] Give yourself the opportunity to walk with the stance of a woman that says, Nope, those limits don’t apply to me. Think about people you admire in many different walks of life. Do they walk around in limitation? Do they anticipate failure or are they expecting. Success in that simple statement. Fertility limits don’t apply to me.

[00:09:27] It says a lot. It says a lot about you. It says a lot about what you think of yourself, and it also says a lot about how ovaries deep you’re willing to go. Are you willing to break the rules and be the woman who gets pregnant easily in her forties or fifties? Are you willing to be the woman that is done with these arbitrary limits based on age, time, money, you name it.

[00:09:57] I bet that every single one of you could probably [00:10:00] rattle off at least 15 reasons why you can’t do this. And they’re all based on the fucking past. If you want to create a different fertility future, it starts with the premise that not only do you deserve a different future, but that you, yes, you can actually have a different future.

[00:10:21] Play with the sound of that statement. How does it make you feel? What does it feel like? Reverberating in your mouth? How does it hit your tympanic membrane? Notice how you feel in your body as you say it. Fertility limits. They don’t apply to me. Fertility limits don’t apply to me. Those limits, yeah, they don’t apply to me.

[00:10:43] Not one bit. Try it out in many different ways. Say it in funny voices if you have to, but this is the genesis of your shift in identity that begins now by claiming the identity of a woman for whom [00:11:00] fertility limits. If they just don’t apply, this is a skillset, ladies. I know that you’re gonna be like, well, Rosanna feels great for me to play with this idea, but what next?

[00:11:09] What you have to do next, now that you say those words. Is begin to learn the skillset of backing those words up with the way you think consistently on a daily basis with the actions that you take as a result of those thoughts and beliefs, and start to create new results, thoughts, beliefs, actions, results.

[00:11:30] It’s logical, linear and true. This is a mantra that gets you started, but it is your decision to actually be that woman that’s gonna make all the difference in the world. Mama. Fertility limits, they don’t apply to me. And if you want my help getting there, that is what my ladies are internet famous for doing all over the world from ages 28 to 50, fucking four.

[00:11:54] Go to my website www.frommaybetobaby.com and apply for an [00:12:00] interview there. My methodology is help women around the world make their mom dreams come true and their results speak for themselves. Mama, if you don’t have a mindset for success on this journey, baby, you got a gaping. Hole in your strategy. If you truly want to be the woman for whom fertility limits don’t apply.

[00:12:18] Who breaks the rules and is laughing all the way to her nursery, www.frommaybetobaby.com. Till next time, change your mindset. Change your results. Love this episode of The Fearlessly Fertile Podcast. Subscribe now and leave an awesome review. Remember the desire in your heart to be a mom is there because it was meant for you.

[00:12:41] When it comes to your dreams, keep saying hell yes.

If you’re trying to conceive and feel overwhelmed by restrictive diets, confusing nutrition advice, or hormone imbalances that “look normal” on lab work, functional nutrition may be the missing piece.

Functional nutrition is a root-cause approach to healing that uses personalized nutrition, lab interpretation, and lifestyle strategies to reduce inflammation, balance hormones, and support fertility. Instead of generic diet plans, it focuses on what your body specifically needs.

In this episode, functional nutrition practitioner Katie Keen shares how she reversed chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, PCOS, and hypothyroidism after being told everything was “fine.” Her healing journey led her to help other women address gut health, hormone imbalance, and metabolic dysfunction in a way that feels practical — not extreme.

• What is functional nutrition?
• Can nutrition really improve PCOS and fertility?
• How does gut health affect hormones?
• Why do my labs look “normal” but I still feel off?

This conversation breaks it down in a way that’s relatable, empowering, and actionable.

Because supporting your fertility isn’t just about mindset — it’s about creating a body that feels safe, nourished, and ready.

Join me for a super cool, NOT boring conversation with my friend Katie Keen.

Don’t forget…your body follows your MIND. Let me help your ass.

Submit your application to be considered for my curated, elite Fearlessly Fertile Method invitation-only programs: https://get.frommaybetobaby.com/bss-app

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Yes. Functional nutrition can support fertility by reducing inflammation, improving gut health, stabilizing blood sugar, and balancing hormones. Conditions like PCOS, insulin resistance, and hypothyroidism often respond well to targeted nutrition and lifestyle changes.

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• Insulin resistance

• Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s

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• Gut issues (bloating, reflux, constipation)

• Fatigue and poor sleep

• Hormone imbalance

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[00:00:00] Hey, gorgeous. If you want success on your fertility journey, you’ve gotta have the mindset for it. It’s time to kick fear, negativity, doubt, shame, jealousy in the whole clown car of low vibe, fertility, journey BS to the curb. I’m your host, Roseanne Austin. Fertility Mindset Master, former prosecutor and recovering type a control freak, perfectionist.

[00:00:20] I use the power of minds. That to get pregnant naturally and have my baby boy at 43. Despite years of fertility treatment failure, I help women across the globe beat the odds on their fertility journey just like I did. Get ready for a quick hit of confidence, joy, feminine, bad assery, and loads of hell.

[00:00:37] Yes. For your fertility journey, it’s time to get

[00:00:39] fearless, baby fearlessly fertile. Let’s do this.

[00:00:46] Welcome to the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast, episode 3 53. A not hella boring conversation about functional nutrition with Katie Keen loves. I’m so excited to be here with you this week as I [00:01:00] share a very special conversation I had with my friend Katie Keene, and what I love about Katie.

[00:01:07] Look, this topic of what we eat on this journey, how we can improve our health and vitality, like it can get super overwhelming. It sounds like a lot of deprivation and around this time of year it can be like, nah, I’m just gonna totally screw off on my diet and enjoy the holidays and all that good stuff.

[00:01:25] We can just get so exhausted by these topics and when it seems like we are following so much rigidity on this journey, it can just be like, I’m not dealing with that. But what you’re gonna love about my conversation with Katie is she does not come at it from a high horse. Like she’s not a high horse rider.

[00:01:41] What she is, is somebody who earned her expertise, not only through her education, but actually having lived a healing journey. That’s what I love when it comes to experts. I only have people on this podcast that really walk the talk. And Katie found out that her [00:02:00] body was overwhelmed with inflammation.

[00:02:02] She was gaining weight, her health was all fucked up. PCOS like. All these autoimmune conditions, and what she was able to do was quite literally heal herself. What her mission is now is helping women heal themselves. I thought it would be a great idea to have her come on, share a little bit about herself, share about her own healing journey, and empower you to look at the subject of.

[00:02:27] Functional nutrition, which is deeply connected to finding root cause and is a wonderful supplement to any functional medicine stuff that you might be doing. It really takes it to the next level. We have so much information that we’re having to process on this journey that when you can have somebody like Katie come in, explain these things like a human being.

[00:02:51] Really speak to the heart of why you’re healing. It’s truly a gift. So here is my conversation with Katie.

[00:02:58] Katie,

[00:02:59] [00:03:00] I’m so excited to have you on the podcast because. I love featuring experts that have actually walked a health journey. Yeah. Because I think it brings a perspective that’s not just clinical or academic.

[00:03:18] Yeah. And look, there’s value to that, but I think that there is a relatability that comes from actually having done the work to heal your. Self that really empowers you to not only connect with people on their own health journey, but really be able to coach at a level of knowing. Absolutely. So I’m so excited to have you so.

[00:03:43] Why don’t you share a little bit about yourself with a fearlessly fertile audience, and then we’ll get to what the hell functional nutrition is. So we’ll start there.

[00:03:54] I started out maybe about 10 years ago or so now, just feeling [00:04:00] completely off. I was gaining weight and losing weight, and gaining weight, and losing weight, and I could just never get control of what was going on.

[00:04:08] I was having. Tons of symptoms, um, fatigue, insomnia, um, problems with my menstrual cycle, gaining weight and losing weight. I could never keep the weight off and knew something was going on, but I really didn’t know what it was. So I went to my ob, GYN, and she ran some blood tests and of course came back with the, everything looks fine every single time, four months, and.

[00:04:38] About six months after that, I went back and just said, nothing’s fine. I don’t feel good. I need some help. I cannot keep this weight off. I know what I’m doing. I’ve always been educated in working out and nutrition and just nothing is working for me. And she said, at that time, it’s all in your head. She gave me a card [00:05:00] to the therapist in the building next door and told me that I needed to go talk to somebody.

[00:05:06] Shut up.

[00:05:07] Yes. Shut up.

[00:05:09] Up. Okay.

[00:05:10] Yes.

[00:05:11] Let me just stop you for one second. Yep. So many women listening to this are gonna relate to that.

[00:05:18] Yeah.

[00:05:18] The fact that you, you knew something was off.

[00:05:21] Yes.

[00:05:21] You have somebody in a white coat with this air of authority. Mm-hmm. Telling you it’s all in your head.

[00:05:28] Yes.

[00:05:28] What was that like?

[00:05:30] Yeah. Oh, it was awful. Like I cried at that whole appointment because it was like. Lady look at me like, look at me. I even ex, like there was so much weight on me at that time. I was probably at that time about 30 pounds over, but like have lost and gained and the weight would come back so rapidly and I was walking.

[00:05:51] Lifting weights like I was carb cycling. I was on keto. I was, I tried everything in the book and the weight would just [00:06:00] come right back. I’m not an idiot when it comes to nutrition, and I would try to explain that to her over and over, and she just did not want to hear it. She had no help for me. So, fast forward maybe like a year later, I pretty much gave up.

[00:06:16] But fast forward about a year later, I was talking to one of my friends named Roseanne Austin, and, and she said, you have to see my functional medicine doctor. And at that time I was like, what is functional medicine? Like, what even is that? And you said, girl, it’s gonna change your life. Just go see her.

[00:06:38] And I said, I’m gonna do that. So I made an appointment. I went and saw her and I am not joking in that appointment. She, you know, it was about an hour long taking my health history and all those things. She ordered some blood work. I went and did the blood work and in that one and a half years following that, I lost 50 [00:07:00] pounds and completely fixed myself.

[00:07:04] It was insane. She diagnosed me with leaky gut, non-alcoholic fatty liver, PCOS, insulin resistance, hypothyroidism, that I actually look back now and think I had since I was in my twenties and yeah. But there was nothing wrong with me. Ask my ob, GYN,

[00:07:25] it sends me into orbit. Oh

[00:07:28] yeah.

[00:07:28] I mean, but clearly like you are not the only one.

[00:07:31] I know. I certainly wasn’t the only one. No,

[00:07:33] no.

[00:07:34] It blows my mind how little deference there is in traditional allopathic medicine. Yeah. To somebody being in tune with their body, feeling like something is off.

[00:07:46] Yes. And that you

[00:07:46] have to go outside of the matrix mm-hmm. In order to find that kind of help.

[00:07:53] Mm-hmm. So you go to functional medicine, doctor, you start. Working [00:08:00] on yourself. You see these fucking incredible results,

[00:08:03] right?

[00:08:04] What did you do next with that? Because clearly you did something

[00:08:07] right. Oh, I didn’t even mention my chronic inflammation that was off the charts. She hadn’t even seen inflammation like that on any of her patients like in the past year.

[00:08:18] Yeah, so she literally just put me on a nutritional protocol and like I said, I was already pretty well educated in nutrition, so that was pretty easy for me to follow. She put me on that nutrition nutritional protocol while we fixed, um, my leaky gut. Which in turn fixed my liver and in turn took down all of my chronic inflammation, and then everything just fell into place.

[00:08:46] I’m not kidding when I say I’ve never had results like this before. Every single day when I got on the scale every single day of the week, my weight was going down because my inflammation was just dropping and dropping [00:09:00] and dropping. She put me on two thyroid medications to bring that back into balance.

[00:09:05] But besides that, it was all just supplements and food.

[00:09:08] It blows my mind that this, in this day and age, especially Katie, that we could go for so long in suffering and just tolerate it as normal.

[00:09:19] Yes. And yeah, that’s, that’s why after that whole experience of a year and a half of going through all of that, I said.

[00:09:27] To my husband one day, how can I help people in the same way that I was helped? Bifunctional medicine without becoming a doctor. ’cause I don’t really have time for that or the years for that. How can I help people in the same way? So I started doing some research behind that and I have that experience with nutrition.

[00:09:51] It’s something that I studied in college and just something I was always passionate about. And literally one day just said, is functional nutrition [00:10:00] like a thing? So I Googled that and just looked into it and looked into a bunch of different programs and landed on one that I was like, this is it. And my husband said, go for it.

[00:10:11] So I did.

[00:10:12] Oh, so today you are helping people through functional nutrition.

[00:10:17] Absolutely.

[00:10:19] Wow. So what does that really mean, Katie? Because people will get online they’ll, or they’ll Google, they’ll chat GPT or Grok something that says, okay, this is a functional diet. But I think you and I both know. That ain’t it?

[00:10:34] No. So functional nutrition, the title is a little misleading because it sounds like, oh, I’m just a nutritionist. You’re gonna go to me and I’m gonna, you know, put you on a diet or whatever It, it’s actually very different. So functional nutrition is actually a holistic and personalized approach. Where you are deep [00:11:00] diving into the root causes behind what’s causing the imbalances in somebody’s body, and then fixing those imbalances by different protocols or like nutritional.

[00:11:15] Tailored nutritional plans and lifestyle strategies. So it’s, it’s a lot more than just nutrition. It’s your whole health history. It’s the reason why you’re feeling the way you’re feeling. And then food and supplementation and lifestyle strategies behind that are what fix it, exactly how I fixed myself.

[00:11:37] I think that’s really fascinating because I did nutritional testing at the beginning of this year and people think that. Fixing your gut or or changing your diet is a destination. And it’s like, no, dude, it’s a journey.

[00:11:52] Right. ‘

[00:11:52] cause I had done testing in the past, but when I tested this year, my needs were completely different.

[00:11:59] Yep. And I was [00:12:00] blown away. Mm-hmm. By what I was sensitive to in 2025 that I was not sensitive to In 2022.

[00:12:08] Yes.

[00:12:08] In just that short period of time. So. I think it’s important that people understand that you’re not going to do this for like three days and Okay, check the box. Right? Like this is a lifestyle change.

[00:12:19] Right, right. And and also a lot of the protocols that people will go on in the beginning can be temporary things. Like at first when I had to cut out. Gluten and dairy and eggs and sugar and alcohol and all the things that was temporary while I was fixing my gut. But because it made me feel so good and I knew what it was doing for my body, I drug that protocol out way longer than she wanted me to, and then stopped that about around a year and a half.

[00:12:54] I decided to reintroduce some of the foods and I reintroduced gluten [00:13:00] as the last one. Well, my chronic inflammation spiked up again, so we knew by that that my body didn’t like it at all. So I cut the gluten back out. Um, now I’m just gluten-free. I was able to introduce dairy that doesn’t disagree with my body.

[00:13:17] Um, I eat some sugar and, um, I don’t drink alcohol anymore. That was just a choice that I made. But, um, yeah, it’s, it’s very temporary. It’s not these really harsh things that people are scared to deep dive into because they think like, well, I’m not gonna go the functional route, because they always make you cut out everything.

[00:13:37] It’s, it’s just temporary.

[00:13:39] Well, and I think that’s an important point that you’re raising because people tend to think in very extreme terms of deprivation.

[00:13:47] Right.

[00:13:47] And it’s like a, it ain’t deprivation when you start to see a result.

[00:13:52] Right. And when your body is not cooperating with what you’re eating.

[00:13:56] It’s probably something that you should stay away from. [00:14:00]

[00:14:00] Yeah. I’m telling you, like having retooled my own protocol this year. Mm-hmm. Like I, I was seeing results in I would say about 11 days.

[00:14:08] Yeah.

[00:14:09] Like that’s the kind of thing. Yes. Because, and, and with stuff that I was like. UTF.

[00:14:14] Mm-hmm.

[00:14:14] Like, you know, ’cause we were eating very cleanly, generally speaking, like on the straight and narrow.

[00:14:20] Mm-hmm.

[00:14:21] But when I actually got information instead of just Googling something or going to chat GPT, I could get. Something that was specific to me because I had done blood work, right? That gave me like, I don’t know, it’s like 180 page report,

[00:14:36] right?

[00:14:36] Like showing you all of these different either nutritional deficiencies, supplementation, deficiencies, like so that you could more strategically and accurately.

[00:14:48] Supplement for what you need or change certain things. Mm-hmm. Because not everyone needs to be freaking dairy free.

[00:14:54] No. And it can come down to, um, people are like nutrient [00:15:00] deficient. It can just be because nowadays the foods that everybody’s eating, all the chemicals that are in things, or even our soil is so nutrient deficient, depleted that.

[00:15:12] Even if you’re eating clean, you can still be missing a lot of the key nutrients and your body can be reacting that to that, and you don’t even realize that that’s what the issue is.

[00:15:22] That’s, that’s completely true and I, and I really encourage women to not just follow what some blog post says to do.

[00:15:30] Right. Like, go and do the investigation because

[00:15:33] Right.

[00:15:34] Everybody is unique and what worked for Jane Doe over here may not work for negative Nancy. Right, right. Like especially on the fertility journey with, with this system of fertility. That’s so. Delicate. Mm-hmm. And is really dependent on not being in fight or flight, because so many of, so many of the markers of inflammation can create all these different things in our nervous system.

[00:15:57] Yeah. It’s like this is a whole system. Mm-hmm. [00:16:00] We’re not just talking about your uterus and your ovaries. When your body is struggling, it’s going to redirect resources to something else because it, it’s in crisis.

[00:16:09] Yeah. That’s why I like functional nutrition, because it’s. Everybody’s unique, and it’s a whole body approach.

[00:16:16] Like in my schooling, it was a total body approach. We went over, you know, brain, yes, we went over gut, but we went over, you know, reproductive, we went over the endocrine system, we went over everything because it. Everything works in sync together. And a lot of people don’t really understand that. They think like, oh, well my gut’s just messed up.

[00:16:34] I’ll just fix that and I’m good to go. But there’s so many more issues that come up when one thing is outta balance, especially gut since it’s connected to your brain and everywhere else, that there’s just more to it. And so functional nutrition is like that detective deep dive behind everything, and I can connect dots that people never even realized were there.

[00:16:56] Yeah, I think it’s also interesting that we take a look [00:17:00] at our overall stress level. I think people, oh, absolutely accept. This level of stress that in, if we take a step back, we look it, it’s actually unacceptable.

[00:17:11] Mm-hmm.

[00:17:11] Because that’s when we start to go to convenience foods. We, we cut corners and mm-hmm.

[00:17:16] You know, we find ourselves exhausted. It’s like,

[00:17:18] yeah.

[00:17:19] When you can take an approach that you’re talking about and say, Nope, I’m gonna make this lifestyle choice. I’m gonna make this decision to do something different. It, it’s not. Something that is about deprivation or being in a constant state of perfectionism.

[00:17:35] ’cause that’s the other thing that can start to happen is people fear going into this area because they think their life is gonna be turned upside down. But you and I both having healed in different ways, it’s like, uh oh no. Once you start to see the result, this is not difficult. Right? So why don’t you share a little bit about.

[00:17:55] Some of the things that functional nutrition can help you see [00:18:00] results with, and especially more related to fertility.

[00:18:03] I, um, I specialize in PCOS, hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s, and with all of that comes insulin resistance, the inflammation, and the GI issues. Right away when people, um, start on a protocol and start eating better, taking the nutrients that they’re deficient in or, um.

[00:18:28] They will, it’s not just the energy, but it’s the sleep. You don’t even realize sometimes how horrendous your sleep is until that’s fixed. Like I suffered from a horrible insomnia that’s gonna get better. But also, um, your inflammation is gonna go down. You’re gonna notice that in like your joints every morning when I woke up, my hands felt swollen and I never even put two and two together that that was the inflammation like.

[00:18:55] It just, you know, when your fingers feel like sausages, that’s what it felt [00:19:00] like. Never dawned on me that it could be inflammation inside of my body until she pointed that out. Um, it can be constipation, diarrhea, just any GI issues. Um, heartburn like the, the acid reflux, all of that. Um, go along with the GI issues.

[00:19:17] Um. But also, uh, like with PCOS, it’s going to lower the stress in your body and take a lot of those symptoms away as well. Um, this, I, it’s funny because with my PCOS, I didn’t actually have a lot of the normal symptoms that people get with PCOS, but it was my insulin resistance. That was the big key factor that she noticed that pointed to that.

[00:19:44] So something I work on big time is blood sugar balance, and that on its own is gonna help your PCOS, but it makes you feel so much better throughout the day because those meals are balanced. You’re not getting like that hangry feeling [00:20:00] all the time that a lot of women get. It’s just, it’s an overall. Um, feeling in your body of just feeling better.

[00:20:10] And that is so hard to put into words because everybody is so different, but it’s just feeling better.

[00:20:16] Well, and I, I think to put an even finer point on that, it’s fricking vitality,

[00:20:22] right? And,

[00:20:22] and I think that for women who are struggling with fertility and women who wanna give themselves the best possible chance.

[00:20:30] Of conceiving having vitality. I mean, life attracts lives.

[00:20:35] Right.

[00:20:35] You know, and, and it’s so funny because I, I know how that feels, because I was just doing all kinds of crazy things when I was living my journey, like I did. Nobody even talked to me, Katie, about getting any nutrition testing. Nothing.

[00:20:53] Yeah.

[00:20:53] And, and he just said, oh, go eat healthy. But the reality is, is if you have a thyroid condition or you have certain conditions, you [00:21:00] shouldn’t be eating cruciferous veggies.

[00:21:02] Right,

[00:21:02] right. Like there’s, there’s

[00:21:03] or

[00:21:03] gluten. Yeah.

[00:21:04] Right,

[00:21:05] right,

[00:21:05] right. And so it. The more you can have real data behind what kind of protocol, nutritionally or through supplements can, can, like what’s right for you.

[00:21:19] I think you can just make the best choices as opposed to just taking a shotgun approach,

[00:21:24] right,

[00:21:24] and doing whatever.

[00:21:26] Right. It’s really working on your metabolic health. Which so many women like yo-yo diet, or they’re constantly just, I need to, I’m trying to get skinny. I’m trying to get skinny. It’s all about their weight, but really metabolic health is everything.

[00:21:43] It’s your fatigue, it’s your energy, it’s your sleep, it’s your libido, it’s your metabolism. It’s all of those things. So functional nutrition. Helps all of that come into balance. Yeah.

[00:21:54] But I love that you’re out there sharing this because you can take it that one step beyond, I [00:22:00] still see a functional medicine doctor.

[00:22:02] Right. But, and they’ll have protocols, but not the way that you will dig down and fricking nerd out.

[00:22:08] The thing is, like functional medicine doctors, like I’ve even talked to my functional medicine doctor about this. It’s like the nutritional protocols that you’re put on a lot of times, um, at the doctor.

[00:22:20] People walk away not really knowing what that is like, they’ll say, oh, go more Whole 30 or Go Paleo or, but there’s no specific information really behind that. And so unless you’re gonna come home and completely deep dive and stress out and. Freak out and don’t know if you’re following it to a T. That’s what functional nutrition is for.

[00:22:43] I do that deep dive for you, and then I help you with whatever protocol that you’ve been put on. If you have hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s or PCOS or insulin resistance. Everybody’s going to be eating a different way, and that’s something that I can guide you in. But also along with all of [00:23:00] that. Toxin education is something that I took a deep dive into that I add onto my program because I just feel like.

[00:23:08] Functional medicine touches on that. But I go into a deep dive of education and guidance on um, toxins as well, because that is something that even if you are a bodybuilder and you’ve got it down pat and you are buff and you work out and you eat clean and you do all these things, but your body just for some reason, you have insomnia, you have some fatigue, you have these different things.

[00:23:33] People don’t also realize that toxins is also. Completely. Involved in all of this as well.

[00:23:42] That’s the, that’s the thing that a lot of women, I mean especially women who are short on time and are super busy, you know, you think you can go to a jack of all trades, right? And it’s not the way to go. Yeah. The reality is, is that you are gonna bring in a functional medicine doctor for one specific [00:24:00] task.

[00:24:00] Mm-hmm. You are gonna bring in Katie Keen, right. Functional nutrition expert in for another thing, because everyone is gonna offer you something different. In your healing journey. And that’s what I love about, you know, going to somebody like you that is very narrow in scope. You, you don’t use a scalpel for everything, right?

[00:24:21] Yeah. You’ll use a scalpel for certain things and other tools for others. And I think it’s really cool to be able to narrow down, uh, with somebody that’s a subject matter expert on that specific. Topic,

[00:24:34] right. I have functional medicine doctors that are now referring their clients to me because they realize that the information that they were getting is just a little broad and people need so much more help, or they walk away so frustrated that they end up giving up on the protocol and they end up not fixing the issue that they went to the doctor for that they spent so much money on trying to help.

[00:24:59] [00:25:00] But then there’s no follow through.

[00:25:02] I think you raise another good point there is that the reality is, is that the, the current medical system is not geared toward this kind of information. You have to go outside of it. You’ll get some very general information,

[00:25:16] right.

[00:25:17] That never quite hit the mark. Look, the, the mo, the, the average model is to say, is this covered by my insurance?

[00:25:24] And it’s like, yeah. Do you think your insurance company cares about whether or not you’re Well,

[00:25:29] no.

[00:25:29] Right. They don’t. They don’t. They don’t

[00:25:31] get you off all those medications. Are you kidding?

[00:25:33] Yeah. Because they get a kickback for that stuff.

[00:25:35] Exactly.

[00:25:37] The reality is, is that if you want to have a fresh perspective, you have to get outside of the system.

[00:25:43] Right.

[00:25:43] And I think one of the most empowering things that. Any woman can do on her fertility journey or any healing journey that she’s on is get out of the system, start looking. For the truth that’s outside of the system, the often inconvenient [00:26:00] truth. Yeah. That says you can heal, you can make these adjustments.

[00:26:04] It doesn’t have to be painful. It can actually be fun. I mean, right. Ladies, those of you listening, like I know Katie from way back and she’s one of the most relatable, hilarious people. We actually both have a background in law enforcement and criminal justice. I think that. Watching you in your own transformation.

[00:26:23] Yeah.

[00:26:24] And having had to heal on your own, gives you a relatability and, and frankly, softer touch that I think is really needed out there. Right. You know, as people break out of the matrix and they start to explore functional medicine and root cause, and then thereby functional nutrition. You really do need some handholding.

[00:26:50] I know there are people that were hardheaded like me, an attorney like, ah, you know, I can pass the California bar. I don’t need all this. And it’s like, whatcha talking about?

[00:26:59] Right?

[00:26:59] [00:27:00] You are a subject matter expert in what you do, but when it comes to this, we have to have the humility to be able to take a step back and say, actually, I don’t know.

[00:27:09] Much.

[00:27:09] Right? Right. I like to take the approach with people of giving you as much assistance or as little assistance as you want. Like if I give you all the information and you wanna run with that and you only wanna do those 30 minute check-ins once a month, totally fine with me. But if you’re also that person that you’re at the grocery store and you’re freaking out because you’re like, is this salad dressing clean?

[00:27:32] I can’t tell. Like I allow access to me by my clients. When they need it, because I totally understand what it’s like going through this and the changes that I want these women making are for life, not just a temporary diet or a temporary thing, like 30 to 60 days or the 12 weeks that I work with somebody or the six months that I work with somebody and then you’re done.

[00:27:57] No, there’s no end [00:28:00] goal to this thing. The end goal is the rest of your life and hopefully that’s a very long life. That’s where we’re trying to go. It it is for life. And what is. Great about it is you are now gonna know how to feed your kids, how to feed your family, how to remove the toxins from your house that are going to disrupt your daughter’s hormones or your son’s hormones, or you know, causing all those respiratory problems or other things that happen with toxic chemicals in your home or on personal care products and in your food.

[00:28:31] So I like to give everybody like a well balanced overall education and then. They can do with that without what they want, but it’s for life. It’s for your family’s life. Like it’s kind of a, it’s for you, but it’s really for everybody in your household when it comes down to it. Because you are gonna be learning how to cook the right kinds of foods that your whole family is going to want to eat and should be eating because it’s going to fix their health in turn.

[00:28:58] I, I think that’s a extremely [00:29:00] important point as well, because when I started making changes, even the changes that I made this year in 2025, it had a ripple effect. Yeah. We slowly started to remove, I mean, I was already gluten-free, but Right. We started to remove gluten from our house. Mm-hmm. And now like.

[00:29:18] You know, Brandon, he can’t be stopped with his cookies, right? Like, so he’s not giving that up too easily.

[00:29:23] Brandon, I’m gonna mail you some gluten-free cookies that are actually good.

[00:29:26] Yeah, yeah. Well, and it’s funny though because I’ll modify things and then he’s like, oh, this is good. And he doesn’t know that it’s gluten-free and it’s like kinda looks at the funny,

[00:29:36] you just don’t tell ’em.

[00:29:37] They don’t know the difference because it’s good.

[00:29:39] They don’t. Yeah, they

[00:29:40] don’t. I always tell the kids, I tell the girls like, do I cook anything disgusting? Just eat it. Just eat it. You’re gonna like it. Don’t look at me like I’m crazy. And they always like it.

[00:29:50] I love your point about it’s for your family because the women listening to this.

[00:29:56] Are nuanced enough to understand that everything [00:30:00] that you’re doing isn’t just about getting pregnant. Mm-hmm. And clearing that inflammation that can be telling, giving your body the wrong message and saying it’s not safe to get pregnant. What what you’re doing is creating an environment before you get pregnant.

[00:30:14] Right When you get pregnant for the duration of your pregnancy, that’s not only good for you, but it’s good for your unborn baby. This is the kind of thing exactly to your point that ultimately has a ripple effect throughout their entire lives. I mean, you would be so proud of Asher. He actually reads labels like he’s.

[00:30:32] That’s amazing.

[00:30:34] Yeah. He, well, he, he kind of, when, when he, when we were telling him about food dies, like, and explaining to him how dangerous they were, he kind of freaked out. Right. Like in a good way. But if,

[00:30:44] if some of the info can be a little bit scary, like for kids, I mean, it, it is a little hard, but like, you want them to be educated about it.

[00:30:51] Like the girls always say like, mom. There was red dye 40 in that, so I did not touch it.

[00:30:58] Well,

[00:30:59] that’s, and I’m good [00:31:00] girls. Good girls.

[00:31:01] Well, but what that does is empower them,

[00:31:04] right?

[00:31:04] So. Asher freaked out when we told him a little bit about that, but he felt empowered. And so

[00:31:09] right

[00:31:10] now he’s learned and he’s only eight.

[00:31:12] Mm-hmm. To look at a label and decide for himself if there’s soy in there. Yeah. If he wants to eat something with soy in it. Right. And if he makes a decision. That that’s not for him. I mean, I make that decision when I’m with him, like he’s not eating soy. Right. But that he’s empowered when he is at school, if there are treats available, that he can make a really educated decision and not just out of dogma, but understand.

[00:31:41] Why he’s making that choice. I mean,

[00:31:43] right.

[00:31:43] It builds confidence in them. It builds authority, license, and agency that I think is beyond their years, but it, you know, is really

[00:31:52] gonna help. Well, and then just that, like that ripple effect you were talking about. Just imagine now Asher, when he gets married and has kids, he’s [00:32:00] now gonna pass that on to the I know, I know, I know.

[00:32:02] I can’t, I can’t even, I can’t even picture it. I can’t even, but. You know that wife of his, that you’re gonna, she

[00:32:08] better be a good cook and she better have gone through Katie’s program.

[00:32:12] Yeah, she better have. Um, but like he’ll be able to pass that on to his family and from the time his children are born, like they’re gonna be in a non toxin environment eating healthy foods.

[00:32:24] And that is just so much better for the bloodline. If you think about it,

[00:32:28] it really does become a mother’s responsibility to begin to educate herself so that. Before you’re pregnant, during your pregnancy, after your pregnancy, and into your motherhood, that you’re making really great choices. So why don’t you share with the women listening a little bit about, uh, how you work, where to find you, and how somebody can get started.

[00:32:53] Okay, so my website, um, has all the information about the, the two different programs that I run. [00:33:00] So I run a program called the Total Body Reset that is a 12 week program, or you can extend that program and turn it into a six month program. And that’s the Total Body Reset, VIP. So the program pretty much breaks down.

[00:33:16] Um, I meet with the client. Um, over Zoom and we go through a full in-depth assessment that is your whole entire health history, very similar to what they would do at functional medicine. Um, at that time is when I completely break down the program for you, explain to you exactly what we’re gonna be doing in the amount of time that we’re together, um, and also go over all of your goals because not everybody wants to lose weight.

[00:33:45] Not everybody, um, you know, has the same issues. So then I will functionally read your most current lab work that you have. If you don’t have lab work that can be ordered, um, that is an additional cost, [00:34:00] but lab work can be one of those things that you went and got it done at your regular doctor or your ob GYN.

[00:34:07] They told you, like they had told me everything looked fine, but I can look at it through a functional lens and tell you. Well, this may be in range for what your doctor learned in medical school, but functionally it’s not because it’s not optimal for your body if you’re having all the symptoms of something, but your blood work is coming out fine.

[00:34:31] Mm. We’re still gonna work with that.

[00:34:34] I love that you focus in on that too. Yeah. Because when I started seeing, and it’s so, it’s so interesting to me when I started seeing functional medicine practitioners and I would hear somebody say, well, yeah, that’s within range, but you have to understand those ranges are based on sick people and like,

[00:34:50] right.

[00:34:51] I was like.

[00:34:53] I also learned recently that your, the ranges that they look at are based on a [00:35:00] certain age range in the state that you like live in. So it can be completely different all across the whole country Also. Oh man. Which makes zero sense. Zero sense.

[00:35:13] Wow. So you can be like living in this like subclinical state,

[00:35:18] right.

[00:35:19] For a period of, and have no idea.

[00:35:22] Mm-hmm. That that’s the reason why they’re telling you like, well, you’re within range. And you wanna go like, what range is this? Because I feel like garbage. What range are you reading anyway? So then what we’ll do, well,

[00:35:36] I love that you go through that in your

[00:35:37] program. Yeah.

[00:35:38] Yeah. So then what we’ll do is we will address your gut health. Um, a lot of people. Also don’t realize they have gut health problems because nowadays, um, acid reflux or getting bloated, constipation, diarrhea, all those things, it’s so, everybody’s like, it’s so normal. That’s just normal. I just, I [00:36:00] always have reflux.

[00:36:01] I’ve had it since I was younger or I have always had, um, you know, stomach aches after I ate dairy. Or I get bloated all, every single night after I eat dinner, or, oh, yeah, I’ve suffered with constipation. I go to the bathroom every three days. I’ve been like that for years now. It’s just my normal, yeah, that’s not normal.

[00:36:22] That’s, that’s not normal. I don’t want you to think that’s normal. I don’t know who told you that was normal. Please don’t believe that’s normal. We’re gonna address your gut health, whether you think there’s something going on or not, because every single person on earth who consumes food period has something going on in their gut.

[00:36:41] It just is what it is nowadays with food, period. It just is what it is.

[00:36:45] Well, and it’s good to have a baseline, right? Right. So that you can eliminate some of these things. Ladies, I’m telling you, having done this myself, there is so much relief. And a sense of control and a sense of direction [00:37:00] that comes from taking the time to investigate this and walking through this in the way that Katie’s talking about.

[00:37:06] Right. Right. Um, from there we’ll move on to a very individualized. Tailored nutrition plan or protocol, um, especially just for you because of the things that we learned in your hes, uh, health history through your blood work, through what I know about your gut health. Um, that nutrition plan is gonna be tailored just to you, and I’m gonna be able to walk you through that with.

[00:37:33] Teaching you about, um, meal prepping or ingredient prepping meals for your family. Um, breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack ideas. I’m not gonna just throw it at you and leave it to you to figure it out. That’s something that I’m gonna completely walk you through and hold your hand if you want the handhold. Um, and then at the very end, I do a very deep dive.

[00:37:55] On the toxin education. I feel like that nowadays [00:38:00] is something that not a lot of people know about, but that everybody needs to be educated about because you need to decide in your family what toxins you wanna be exposed to, and you may not even understand that you’re being exposed to as many toxins as you’re being exposed to.

[00:38:16] Like a little fun fact that I like to tell people is, do you wet dust in your house? And they say, what does wet dusting mean? I say, do you dry dust? And they say, yeah, I dry dust all the time. But do you wipe the same services down with a wet cloth afterwards? No, why would I do that? Because there are so many toxins from your air in your house, from the cleaners that you use, from your skin.

[00:38:45] If you’re using toxic chemicals on your skin, your skin sheds. Those dust particles are just sitting toxins in your house and you are breathing that. Every day. Totally insane. So I love to go on that deep dive, [00:39:00] but I also like to explain to people, don’t stress out too much about the toxins, because you’re gonna kill yourself from stress quicker than the toxins are gonna kill you.

[00:39:10] So it’s very much about that 80 20 when it comes to products. Like if you’ve tried every single mascara that’s clean on the market and you’re just like, girl, I gotta go back to my. Whatever mascara, use the mascara. But as long as you are cutting out as many things as you can, n not even fully non-toxic, just lowering your toxins in the products that you’re using, you’re winning.

[00:39:38] You’re winning.

[00:39:39] I think that’s so smart. And I love the bespoke white glove option for working with you because Well, and I’m the kind of person like, look, I don’t have time to figure this out on my own. Right. Right. And where do I have any interest? Right. I, I want to go to an expert, tell me what to do.

[00:39:56] Right. I’m going to do it because I don’t have time [00:40:00] to go. Right.

[00:40:00] And not a lot of people like to nerd out and deep dive into things. I just happen to be one of those people. Yeah. That when I wanna know about something I have to know. Everything about the subject and I like teaching about it, you know, and other people just like, that’s so far out of the realm of what they’ve got room in their brain for.

[00:40:18] Like they need an expert to give ’em the information and walk ’em through it and make it happen. And then you’re gonna know the stuff, you know, after I teach it to you. But it’s, it’s the handholding along the way that will. You know,

[00:40:30] I think, I think that’s important for accountability as well to really get on board with that.

[00:40:36] Right. And, and to really get into a place where not only are you having this testing done, that you’re learning exactly what to do with it, how to empower yourself, have accountability, have a place to go with your questions. Mm-hmm. Uh, that isn’t just some canned solution, but that is truly bespoke and white glove.

[00:40:53] That always, that always gets me when I, when I hear those things, I’m all over it.

[00:40:57] Right.

[00:40:57] So that’s great. And we’re gonna put a link. [00:41:00] To your website in the show notes. What are some points that you would like the women listening to take away from our conversation here when it comes to functional nutrition?

[00:41:12] Well, first of all, it’s. Nowadays, everybody thinks that not sleeping, being tired all the time, being stressed all the time is normal. It’s normal. All of these imbalances that our people are feeling nowadays, you, it’s almost like you just get so used to it that it’s your normal. It’s not normal. I don’t want anybody to ever think that they can’t live their optimal life, that they can’t feel great all the time and have their energy back and be able to play with their kids, or, you know, not fall asleep on the couch at night, at seven o’clock after their exhausting day at work.

[00:41:50] Like it’s, it doesn’t have to be that way, and I just want women to get that feeling that I had when I [00:42:00] finally. Put all those pieces together and like the whole puzzle of what was going on and fixed it and it was amazing. Like I feel 20 years younger, I can’t believe that all of these things were wrong with me and it, it just doesn’t have to be that way.

[00:42:16] All of us should be in our optimal health where we. Are living our best lives and we have that longevity. Like when we have kids, we want our family to have us around for a very long time. I wanna be around for my grandkids. That’s super important to me. So it’s not about being skinny, it’s not about being on a diet.

[00:42:35] It’s about fixing yourself from head to toe inside out, and just being the best version of yourself that you can be.

[00:42:42] Ooh. I love that. And the women in my community, we all, all, all have an agreement that we’re all gonna live to 130. We’re gonna be

[00:42:50] faithful,

[00:42:50] we’re gonna be rich, everything’s gonna be working out for us.

[00:42:53] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:42:53] And I think what you teach and what you do in the world is such an integral aspect of that. So [00:43:00] thank you so much, Katie, for Yeah.

[00:43:01] Thank you so much for having me.

[00:43:03] Yeah, it’s great and I, I really am inspired by what you’re doing and I really hope that the women reach out to you, bust down your door and, and really get that kind of support that is so necessary to be making educated choices.

[00:43:16] Yeah. About how to support themselves in this area. And I just think it’s great. So thank you for coming on.

[00:43:23] Of course, you can also go on my website. I do a free 30 minute consultation. For anybody that wants to discuss the program before committing and signing up for something and see if we’re right to work together.

[00:43:34] I think that’s so smart. It’s gotta be a fit. Yeah. But I know that working with you is gonna be fantastic, so thank you so much.

[00:43:40] Yeah, awesome. Thank you so much. Roseanne

[00:43:42] loves wasn’t my conversation with Katie? Absolutely fantastic. I love that we could talk about the subject of functional nutrition and doing right by ourselves, our bodies and our babies, our families in a way that’s approachable and is being taught by somebody who.

[00:43:58] Really lived a healing [00:44:00] journey, man, that gives you some massive street cred. So I hope that you check out Katie’s work. We’re gonna have a link to her website and contact information in the show notes. So do not forget to reach out to Katie. She’s gonna be an amazing partner with you and helping you work on the physical stuff, just as important as the physical is what’s going on between your ears.

[00:44:23] And if you want my help with that, go to www.frommaybetobaby.com and apply for an interview there. My methodology is help women around the world make their mom dreams come true and their results, and speak for themselves. If you don’t have a mindset for success on this journey, baby, you gotta keep a hole in your strategy.

[00:44:40] You wanna have the whole approach, mind and body work together. Your body follows your mind, sister. So go to www.frommaybetobaby.com. Don’t start 2026 off in chaos and no plan. You want to be the woman who says a big hell yes to making 2026 your year [00:45:00] till next time. Change your mindset. Change your results.

[00:45:05] Love this episode of The Fearlessly Fertile Podcast. Subscribe now and leave an awesome review. Remember the desire in your heart to be a mom is there because it was meant for you. When it comes to your dreams, keep saying hell yes.

Gratitude and faith on your fertility journey aren’t abstract ideas — they are practical tools that shape how you think, feel, and show up as you move toward pregnancy.

There are few things that will draw your baby in like gratitude and faith. But what do those things really mean and how do they, from a PRACTICAL standpoint, actually magnetize you to your baby?

I’m breaking it down in this timely Thanksgiving week episode.

While you may think you know what those words mean in general, do you actually know how they FEEL?

Listen to this episode to find out!

There are only a few weeks left in 2025. Will 2026 finally be the year you get to be a mom?

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Gratitude and faith on your fertility journey mean choosing to stay grounded in possibility instead of fear. Gratitude helps you acknowledge what is still working in your life, even during challenges. Faith allows you to trust that your story is still unfolding, even when you don’t have immediate evidence.

Gratitude improves your fertility journey by helping regulate stress and shifting your focus away from scarcity. When you practice gratitude consistently, you support nervous system balance, emotional resilience, and clearer decision-making — all of which are critical during fertility treatment.

No. Gratitude is not pretending everything is fine. It’s acknowledging reality while also recognizing what is still good, supportive, or possible. Gratitude and faith on your fertility journey allow you to hold both truth and hope at the same time.

Faith helps you endure uncertainty. Fertility treatment often involves waiting, setbacks, and unpredictable timelines. Faith provides emotional stability and helps you stay committed even when results aren’t immediate.

Your mindset influences stress levels, behavior, persistence, and the way you advocate for yourself medically. Chronic stress can impact hormone regulation and overall well-being. A strong fertility mindset supports emotional balance and long-term consistency.

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[00:00:00] Hey, gorgeous. If you want success on your fertility journey, you’ve gotta have the mindset for it. It’s time to kick fear, negativity, doubt, shame, jealousy, and the whole clown car of low vibe, fertility, journey BS to the curb. I’m your host, Roseanne Austin, fertility Mindset Master, former prosecutor and recovering type a, control freak, perfectionist.

[00:00:20] I use the power of mindset to get pregnant naturally and have my baby boy at 43. Despite years of fertility treatment failure, I help women across the globe beat the odds on their fertility journey just like I did. Get ready for a quick hit of confidence, joy, feminine badassery, and loads of hell. Yes.

[00:00:37] For your fertility journey, it’s time to get fearless, baby fearlessly fertile. Let’s do this.

[00:00:46] Welcome to the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast, episode 3 52, the Thinking Woman’s Guide to Gratitude and Faith on Your Fertility Journey. Hey, loves, I’m so excited to be here with you this week, as [00:01:00] it is Thanksgiving week here in the States, and I thought it was the perfect time to be talking about. Gratitude and faith, particularly within the context of the fertility journey, the holidays, all that good stuff.

[00:01:14] And I know this time of year can put us in a position where we have a lot of mixed feelings, but there are two feelings I want you to really focus in on if you’re fucking smart as you live the next. Month and a half. That is gratitude and faith. I’m not coming at gratitude and faith from a goody two shoes, Pollyanna perspective, because trust me, if you’ve listened to this podcast long enough and you’ve heard the series that I did.

[00:01:45] On faith, it took me a minute to really shape my relationship consciously with both gratitude and faith. So I wanna give you something you can sink your teeth into here. Gratitude and faith are both functional [00:02:00] and practical, not only in our lives, but as we live this journey. When I speak of gratitude, I’m not talking about.

[00:02:08] Perfunctory, thank you for the bullshit cat sweater for Christmas or, or something like that. In my opinion, it’s not about being polite and just the memorized thing. Thank you for that. That we do. It is about the present moment, the experience of being truly in the experience of receiving a thing. Being in the presence of other people that you love or maybe just even appreciating a moment that you are in.

[00:02:42] I really see gratitude as something that we experience from the neck down. My ladies know, neck down. This is a. Spiritual and physical experience rather than something that we just sort of toss aside and rubber stamp it with some polite [00:03:00] response. You can say thank you to somebody for something but not feel gratitude.

[00:03:05] I see these things as two very distinct experiences. Faith is similar, but we’ll get to that in a moment. Both faith and gratitude I see as distinctly feminine. I know that if you’re part of my audience, lovably type A control, freaky professionals who are slaying it in their careers, almost all of you know and can do the masculine thing super well.

[00:03:32] That’s like your go-to the masculine keeps us out of really feeling. This is why the feminine is so critical, not only on this journey, but when we are in the experience of gratitude and faith. The feminine side of us, which is responsible for our creativity, our intuition, our spirituality, our receptivity, all of these things that are critical on the fertility journey.

[00:03:58] We have got to [00:04:00] call upon that side of us if we truly want to have a lasting relationship with gratitude and faith. Remember, neck down, neck down. This isn’t an intellectual exercise. You don’t. Need those faculties at this moment, I really want you to feel into what I’m sharing here. When we talk about gratitude, as I was saying, it’s a feeling.

[00:04:25] Gratitude is rooted in as much the present moment. As it is in the past or the future, which is why it’s such a deep experience. It’s more than just thank you. When we’re in a dark place on this journey, it, it can seem like I, I got nothing to be grateful for. My life is shit. Gratitude does not require you to be in denial about anything that’s showing up in your life, frankly.

[00:04:54] Gratitude is an acknowledgement of what is true. What’s different here [00:05:00] is it’s not just true that you’re grateful for the gift or grateful for the experience. It’s all of it. The good, the bad, the ugly, the indifferent. It is saying a yes, and this is why gratitude. I mean, you can hear people talk about being grateful for some of the darkest moments.

[00:05:18] It’s not just in retrospect. You can be grateful for just terrible things in your life because of what they open up and represent and the pivot that they can offer you. This is why gratitude is so much more than just thank you. You can be experiencing something really just. Challenging or downright ugly.

[00:05:41] But in that moment when you can find even a shred of gratitude, what you’re saying is yes, and yes, I am in a dark place and I can be grateful In this moment I. I may not have all of me grateful, but I can get a shred of gratitude [00:06:00] that is gonna keep me rooted in the truth. And if you’ve never heard of the law of polarity, basically what that’s saying is, is that the good and the bad exist at the same time.

[00:06:09] In the same place. It’s really about where we put our attention. You can be in the depths of a disappointment, or maybe you are in the process of a loss, or maybe you found out some news that you didn’t wanna get. That is the clutch moment where you’re either gonna go into the cave of victimhood or you are going to be able to say, okay, yes.

[00:06:34] I accept that I just heard this, and I can be grateful for even a shred of what is happening right now. I don’t know exactly how I wanna use this. I don’t know how this is gonna work out for me exactly, but in this moment without any drama attached to it. I can be grateful for what has come into my life, even this fucking experience.

[00:06:57] I know that that can sound to some that are [00:07:00] still kind of licking their wounds and attached to their victim hood. That can sound a whole, like a whole lot of denial, but what I’m talking about here is fucking emotionally mature. It’s being in a place where you can see the whole constellation of facts, not just the ones that your self-sabotage pattern will deceive you into clinging to.

[00:07:20] There is something good in everything, and sometimes I get it. We practically throw our backs out to find it, but your ability to access your gratitude in any given moment means that you can live your fertility journey or any challenging situation in some fucking peace. And you can’t tell me that we aren’t all looking for a way to find peace when we’re living this journey.

[00:07:45] So here’s what this looks like. It’s, remember, it’s a yes and none of gratitude. Sincere gratitude is about denial. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It is an acknowledgement of what is. [00:08:00] Being grateful for what is, but it requires that you discipline yourself to see the whole picture or imagine something that is beyond the current circumstances.

[00:08:12] Your current circumstances may look like shit, but they are no indicator of what is to come. When you get so focused on the negative that has happened for you, you completely, as the great Earl Nightingale said, you miss the, the field of diamonds that has been scattered throughout your life. There is good that has happened in your life and there is more good to come.

[00:08:38] So what gratitude does is keep you grounded in facts, all of the facts. It’s just the emotionally mature thing to do. Okay. Sorry. I know some people like to stay in their victim hood, but not women who succeed on this journey. So here’s how this might look. You might say something like, you know what? Ooh, ooh, I’m so mad [00:09:00] that this is happening right now, but I’m gonna take some small part of me and I’m gonna be grateful for this moment.

[00:09:07] I am grateful for this moment that I have access to my gratitude, even if it’s really hard for me to do right now. I am going to be grateful. In this moment I acknowledge that this is not what I wanted and I’m going to be grateful. You see how simple that is? None of its denial, but when you get to that place, you can find the door to peace.

[00:09:36] It’s a really beautiful thing that when this came into my life, when I really understood that gratitude is a feeling and it is something that like, let’s be honest, gratitude is a little vulnerable because it means that you’re letting go. Of your pathological need to be right. Letting go of your pathological need to be a victim.

[00:09:57] Your pathological need to blame [00:10:00] somebody, and instead with gratitude, you are taking license, agency responsibility and authority back from any circumstance, and you are choosing to be grateful in that moment, even if you’re like, oh my God, the world is burning around me. Okay, in this moment. I am gonna be grateful for this experience.

[00:10:21] I don’t quite know how I’m going to use it moving forward, but I know things are working out for me. Yes, and I’m in pain and I can be grateful for this moment. I can be grateful for this experience. I know somewhere somehow it will serve me. This is so important because the more we can access that gratitude, the more we can stack truths in our lives that ultimately fuel our faith.

[00:10:49] And it is deeply feminine. It’s deeply feminine to be in this place. It’s so critical that we start training within ourselves a [00:11:00] state of gratitude because the feminine knows there’s more. Your intuition, your faith, that we’ll get to. And all of the part of you that dreams and knows this baby is meant for you.

[00:11:12] Is grateful. Gratitude is the expression of the highest form of yourself. It’s the highest personality you have. It’s the highest version of you. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t get upset. I mean, you’re, you’re not lobotomized by being in gratitude. You are just saying. Yes. And the really cool thing about gratitude is it exists in the past.

[00:11:38] It exists in the present moment, and that creates also future momentum, forward future momentum. When we’re trapped in our anger and our rage and our victimhood, we stay stuck. In the past, what we stack is the shit that has happened in our past, and the tragedy in all that is as completely [00:12:00] myopic. It blinds you to this whole other constellation of truths, which there has been good in your life, and there is a silver lining to everything.

[00:12:09] Now, it may take us a second to get to that place, but gratitude is the thing that will keep you in the present and moving forward. It is a representation of the most expansive version of you, the most emotionally mature of you, and that part of you that you’re going to need as a mom. It keeps you present because look in how fast we move as a society.

[00:12:35] It’s just onto the next thing, onto the next thing. We never take that moment. But you know, when you’re in the presence of somebody that is expressing real gratitude, you can feel that energy. You can feel that person that is looking at you holding the gift that you gave them or being really happy about a favor that you did.

[00:12:58] You can feel it when they say [00:13:00] and look you in the eye and say, thank you. Thank you for what you’ve done. Thank you for what you gave me. And it is just electric. When you feel that the more time you spend in that energy, the more you can be expectant, the more you can be excited about the future, the more your energy goes up.

[00:13:25] This is why gratitude is so insanely practical, not just on this journey, but in your life. It is consistently moving you to a higher frequency. It’s taking you to a place where you just feel different. You’re not stuck down. In the low vibe place of nothing works out for me. My life sucks, and so on. The more gratitude that you stack, the more time that you spend really being in the present with what you are grateful for.

[00:13:55] You also start building a case for your faith. I know that people get [00:14:00] prickly around the subject of faith, but I see gratitude and faith as something that’s, it’s truly practical, not parochial. I don’t see us needing a ton of rules around this other than to be in the present moment and allow ourselves to have the experience of both gratitude and faith.

[00:14:20] The more gratitude you stack, the more reasons you fucking have to have faith, right? If you made a list of all the good shit that has shown up in your life, you’d have every fucking reason to have faith. But this is why when we get so sold on our own drama, our own stories, we get so disconnected from that and we get this skewed view of the world when you are with friends and family during this time, over the next month and a half in the holiday season, I really encourage you to look people in the eye.

[00:14:52] And when somebody has done something wonderful for you, you don’t have to make a big deal about it, but. [00:15:00] Share a moment with them. Be in the present moment and say Thank you. Thank you so much for what you’ve done. That’s all you have to say. You don’t have to give them a speech. Thank you so much. See that?

[00:15:14] Can you feel that? Ooh, that feels so good. And when you stack enough of those things, you can find yourself in an unfamiliar place, possibly of faith. Now, I’ll tell you, when I was on my own journey as a prosecutor, I mean everything looked like shit. I scoffed at faith. I thought it was superstition. Oh, I have so much compassion for that version of me.

[00:15:35] But the truth is, faith is what comes from looking at all of the good and being able to say, you know what? Things do work out for me. And even beyond that, like if, if you take what I share with you all the time, and I say the desire in your heart to be a mom is there because it was meant for you, what that statement is really focused in on.

[00:15:59] Is [00:16:00] you are meant for so much more. There’s so much good that is meant for you. You, in and of yourself are a miracle. Whether you feel that way today or not, borrow a cup of my faith if you need to. But what are the chances of your mom’s egg being hit by your dad’s sperm and they create you, your unique soul, your unique personality?

[00:16:21] You are a miracle. A really big thing. If you stop and think about that, everything about your life is geared for more. We are built for more. It’s incredible what happens when we are in moments where we can experience gratitude. They are daily, sometimes, many times a day. A reminder of how much good there is out there.

[00:16:46] And I know social media, the news will have you believe that the world is a fucking shitty place, but you have the ability as a thinking woman. To choose something else. You can choose your faith over [00:17:00] your fear. You can choose your faith over everyone else’s worry, over everyone else’s drama, and have the quiet self possession to say, things work out for me and the only evidence that I need is my own life.

[00:17:14] Look at all these amazing things that have happened. Yeah, there have been some dark shit, right? There’s been some terrible things that have happened. There’s been some hard lessons for me to learn. But even with those, it’s yes and yes. I went through crazy times, but look at where I am now. Ladies, there is evidence and and reason to have faith all over your life as you live it.

[00:17:37] Right now the question is, where is your focus? And because faith and gratitude are so deeply feminine, you’ve never needed them more. The fertility journey is all about the feminine. You conceiving and having your baby is the most fucking feminine thing you will ever do. Conceiving is all about receiving.

[00:17:57] Receiving requires you to be open to the [00:18:00] good that’s coming for you. Not just being this person that’s sitting in a corner saying, man, nothing ever works out for me. How open are you when you’re in that place? Bitterness is going to be the thing that eats you alive and blocks your baby. The more time that you spend in gratitude, the more you stack your evidence from your own life to support that faith, the better you are because you’re gonna need gratitude and faith.

[00:18:29] If you have any intention of being a great mom, your kids are going to challenge you. So many ways, and when they are babies, they grow so fast. Having that muscle be very strong for your gratitude is going to have you savor each and every moment. And I know you’re telling yourself you’re gonna do that now, but this is why.

[00:18:48] If you are already feeling distance from your gratitude, work on it now. Mama, this is the time. If you have any intention of having a baby in 2026. Use this time [00:19:00] now to build up your gratitude. Build up your faith because look, you’ve never needed it more. Once you see those two pink lines or the words pregnant shit, it’s on like Donkey Kong, mama, all of those fears, they’re gonna come back real fast.

[00:19:15] So you are gonna use the gratitude that you cultivated on this journey and the faith that you cultivated on this journey to take you smooth sailing through 40 weeks of pregnancy. This is why gratitude and faith are so critical, not only for an amazing life, but an amazing fertility journey, an amazing pregnancy.

[00:19:33] And the motherhood that you promised yourself, you would cultivate the days of, of managing your life and your fertility journey. By chaos, that shit’s over. For the conscious thinking woman, you’ve got to do better, and gratitude and faith are the key. And when you get really good at both, when you can say, I have faith for something bigger for me.

[00:19:54] I know my baby’s coming. I fucking know how this story ends. Then you can have [00:20:00] gratitude and faith fearlessly. I hope you take these lessons, practice them, bring them to life. Use them as a jumping off point. Be creative. Let your feminine out. Take some beautiful risks with your gratitude and faith, and just watch what comes as a result.

[00:20:18] And if you want my help doing it, sister, the doors to my Fearlessly Fertile full Throttle program are open for just a few more days. Full Throttle is the Beloved 90 Day program that I do with women all over the world. If you want, in the time is now, this is your opportunity to have me take you by the hand and walk you through.

[00:20:39] The first 90 days of 2026, I’m gonna be teaching you all the tips, the tricks, the strategies, and the structures. For thinking like a woman who succeeds on this journey, you gotta cover your bases, mind and body, baby. Your body follows your mind. The key to your fertility success isn’t a treatment, diet, lotion, potion, yoga [00:21:00] pose.

[00:21:00] You’ve done all that shit and you’re not getting the result you want. You. You’ve got to have your mind on board. Your mindset is gonna take you beyond the limits of fertility medicine. Let me show you how. So click the link in the show notes, check out full throttle, and if you feel called, join us. You can make 2026 your year till next time.

[00:21:20] Change your mindset. Change your results. Love this episode of The Fearlessly Fertile Podcast. Subscribe now and leave an awesome review. Remember the desire in your heart to be a mom is there because it was meant for you. When it comes to your dreams, keep saying hell yes.

If you’ve been told you have low ovarian reserve and your odds are “tiny,” this low ovarian reserve success story is for you. Sam went from shame, self-blame, and a 1% prognosis… to holding her baby girl. And the turning point wasn’t more panic, more perfection, or more pushing — it was becoming the woman who and starts leading.

It usually means testing suggests fewer remaining eggs than expected — but it does not automatically predict your outcome or your ability to become a mom.

Yes. Many women do — especially when they stop treating a diagnosis like a destiny and start making aligned decisions instead of fear-based ones.

She stopped negotiating with fear, rebuilt her self-trust, and made decisions based on what felt right — not what sounded “acceptable” to other people.

Because shame keeps you in self-rejection — and self-rejection kills discernment, consistency, and emotional safety (the inner environment you need to sustain this process).

Yes. Mindset is practical: it’s how you interpret reality, make decisions, handle uncertainty, and stay emotionally steady under pressure.

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• EP350: If you keep doing everything right and still feel stuck, you may be unknowingly pushing your baby away. Let’s fix that. 

• EP352: Gratitude and faith aren’t cute quotes — they’re fertility-altering power tools when you know how to use them.

• EP349: Told your embryos aren’t “normal”? Cool story. Liz still became a mom — and this will light a fire under you. 

• EP348: There might be one thing you’re gripping tighter than your baby. Find out what it is — and drop it. 

• EP347: If you’re forcing your way through this journey, you’re missing the actual doorway. This episode shows you where it is.

Are you unknowingly repelling your baby?

If you’re doing everything right on your fertility journey — the treatments, the diet, the supplements — but still not getting pregnant, your energy may be the missing piece.

The idea that we are energetic beings is no longer reserved for spiritual circles. It’s physics. Leading scientists recognize that the energy you bring to any situation directly shapes the results you create — and your fertility journey is no exception.

Low-vibrational emotions like fear, doubt, resentment, and scarcity don’t just feel bad. They create a frequency mismatch between you and the baby you’re trying to call in. And that mismatch can silently block your success no matter how many boxes you’re checking.

In this episode, fertility mindset coach Rosanne Austin breaks down exactly how otherwise intelligent, big-hearted women unknowingly repel their baby — and what you can do to shift your energy, raise your frequency, and start attracting the outcome you want most.

If you’re ready to make 2026 the year your dream of becoming a mom comes true, this episode is for you.

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Unknowingly repelling your baby means that despite taking all the right actions on your fertility journey — treatments, diet, supplements — the energy behind those actions is low-vibrational. Emotions like fear, doubt, resentment, and scarcity create a frequency mismatch that can block fertility success, even when you’re doing everything right.

Yes. Your mindset shapes your energy, and your energy shapes your results. Women who approach their fertility journey with faith, gratitude, and positive expectation — even with worse diagnoses or older age — consistently create better outcomes than those operating from fear and doubt.

According to Dr. David Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness, emotions like fear, shame, resentment, grief, and scarcity are among the lowest vibrational states. These emotions create an energetic mismatch that can repel the very outcome you’re working toward.

A simple exercise is to draw a line down the middle of a page. On one side, list everything you’re doing on your fertility journey. On the other side, write down why you’re doing each thing. If your reasons are rooted in fear, obligation, or resentment rather than hope and excitement, that’s a sign your energy may be working against you.

The energy you bring to fertility treatments matters. Two women can go through the exact same IVF process — one with openness and excitement, one with resentment and scarcity — and create very different results. The treatment itself is only part of the equation; your energetic state is the other.

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A simple exercise is to draw a line down the middle of a page. On one side, list everything you’re doing on your fertility journey. On the other side, write down why you’re doing each thing. If your reasons are rooted in fear, obligation, or resentment rather than hope and excitement, that’s a sign your energy may be working against you.

[00:00:00] Hey, gorgeous. If you want success on your fertility journey, you’ve gotta have the mindset for it. It’s time to kick fear, negativity, doubt, shame, jealousy, and the whole clown car of low vibe, fertility, journey BS to the curb. I’m your host, Roseanne Austin, fertility Mindset Master, former prosecutor and recovering type a, control freak, perfectionist.

[00:00:20] I use the power of mindset to get pregnant naturally and have my baby boy at 43. Despite years of fertility treatment failure, I help women across the globe beat. Odds on their fertility journey just like I did. Get ready for a quick hit of confidence, joy, feminine badassery, and loads of hell Yes. For your fertility journey.

[00:00:39] It’s time to get fearless, baby fearlessly fertile. Let’s do this. Welcome to the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast, episode three 50, unknowingly repelling your baby loves. I’m so excited to be here with you this week as we dive into a [00:01:00] topic that is quite timely, because if you haven’t noticed, we are merely weeks.

[00:01:06] From the end of 2025, I cannot believe it, this year has completely flown by. But when we start to get to this place in the year and we start to get worried, the holidays are coming and we start reflecting on the year that has gone by intelligent, successful. Wise and conscious women are going to start asking the sometimes uncomfortable questions that can lead to outrageous success.

[00:01:40] And the truth is, I want that for all of you listening to this, having lived this journey myself, I know that when you are in the depths of despair or you’re just straight up fucking confused about why nothing is working. Adding another question might just be, just might wake you [00:02:00] on a scream. Okay, I get that.

[00:02:02] But really successful women are good at asking from an unemotional objective perspective, how might I be blocking my own success? And look, if you’re in a place where you don’t even wanna explore that. Skip this episode. Go listen to one of the Miracle Mamas. This episode is for women that are 100% committed to creating new results in 2026.

[00:02:36] In fact, by the time this episode comes out, we are going to be in the throes of our launch of the next cohort of Fearlessly fertile, full throttle. Those are going to be women that are saying a hell yes to committing to making 2026 the year they make. Their dream of being a mom come true, and I’m gonna include a link to that [00:03:00] program in the show notes.

[00:03:01] You have until November 30th to get your butt in that program. I am telling you women are creating some insane results as a result. Of what I’m teaching in that program. So click the link in the show notes if you wanna learn more about that. Let’s go back to this topic of could you unknowingly be repelling your baby?

[00:03:25] So you might be thinking to yourself, for example, what is that all about? Well, I’m gonna explain the idea that you are repelling your baby is not necessarily just based on your actions. Okay? I think if we look objectively at your actions, you certainly on the outside look like a woman who’s serious about having a baby.

[00:03:44] The process of repelling our baby is not solely based on our actions, it’s based on our energy. And I know when you hear energy, you might think, woo woo. Roseanne’s gone off the plot. Here we go. [00:04:00] But you’ve gotta listen up, mama. The wisest scientists, people in the know people that are aware, understand that we are energetic beings.

[00:04:11] This is not relegated to the land of the woowoo. This is physics. We are all energy. And the energy that we are putting out is going to determine what comes back to us. And that’s not just some new agey woowoo saying. A fact. It’s how things come into our lives. It’s what we attract. It’s the energy we bring to any situation.

[00:04:37] So it may be true that you’re doing all the things and you’re doing all the things well, but. What is the energy that you’re doing those things with? What’s the energy that you are approaching your diet? What is the energy that you are approaching your treatments with? What is your energy when it [00:05:00] comes to your fricking mindset, what you think and believe is the thing that’s determining your energy?

[00:05:06] This is why the mindset work is so critical. This is why I see women. Go from years of struggle to pregnant within 12 months that come through my programs because the energy that they had been bringing to their fertility journey up to that point was frankly low vibrational fear-based doubt. Negativity, worry, comparison, and jealousy.

[00:05:30] When you go about this journey in that way, you get those kind of results because your energy, as I will discuss further. Is not at the same place where your baby resides. Now I know you might just be thinking that this journey is just about an egg and a sperm coming together, but they can do that all day in a lab at an IVF clinic, and that does not result in a baby.

[00:05:58] You are the [00:06:00] X factor. The energy that you are putting into this journey, the quality of that energy matters. So this is how you can have two people. One of them is going about this journey with fear, doubt, negativity, and they create exactly the kind of results that you would expect to get in fear, doubt, and negativity.

[00:06:19] And then you can have another person going through their journey with faith, gratitude, joy, expectation, excitement, anticipation. And even though their numbers are worse, maybe they’re older, maybe they’ve got a more terrible diagnosis. They’re the ones that get pregnant naturally in the face of insane odds.

[00:06:41] So your energy matters. So the question becomes, how does somebody unknowingly repel their baby? Even in the face of doing all the things. So let’s dissect how somebody can be doing all the things, but bringing the wrong energy [00:07:00] and thereby repelling their baby. It’s not enough, as I had said earlier, that you’re just doing all the treatments, diets, lotions, potions, whatever.

[00:07:09] You could even be trying to work on mindset. But if you have. Energy that’s behind that, that is negative. Expecting the worst thinking. Everyone is out to get you. Everybody is out to steal your money on this journey, and you’re suspicious, you’re skeptical, and frankly, you just don’t believe this can actually work for you.

[00:07:33] You are going to create those kind of results, you are going to attract those kinds of things into your life, and it’s gonna reflect in the results that you create on this journey. It’s also going to reflect how you feel, so the energy that you do anything on this journey with. Matters. One of the best ways to really get clear on the [00:08:00] energy with which you are taking action on this journey is to make a list.

[00:08:06] If you are committed to fertility success, you have got to look at what you’re doing on this journey objectively. That starts with get out a sheet of paper, draw a line down the middle, and on one side of the page I want you to write all of the things that you are currently doing. In the name of conceiving your Baby, you might be tracking your basal body temperature.

[00:08:33] You might be doing IVF treatments. You might be doing coaching programs, you might be doing yoga, you might be evaluating your supplements, whatever the case may be. Put it on the list. Make a careful, considered and thoughtful list. Get as many things down as you possibly can. And the reason for this is number one.

[00:08:57] We’re often doing a ton of things. We have no idea that we’re [00:09:00] actually doing. We just do ’em. We, they become a habit. We don’t even think about them. It’s really powerful to get these things on paper so you can actually see what you’re really doing with your time on this journey and really getting a handle on all of the different activities so that you can do the second step.

[00:09:21] And that is ask yourself why you are doing the thing. So for everything that you put on your list of things that you’re doing in the name of having your baby, for each one of those things, I want you to write down why you are doing that particular action or behavior or thing. Why are you doing that?

[00:09:43] This is important because it’s going to reveal to you. The belief and therefore the energy that is fueling that particular behavior. I want you to keep your eyes peeled for the [00:10:00] pattern that you’re starting to see. Are you taking 110 different supplements because you’re afraid you might miss one? Are you doing IVF?

[00:10:09] Because you’re afraid that that’s the only way, and maybe you’ve never given yourself a chance to try something different, or maybe you were trying for five minutes before you jumped into IVF. No judgment. Just write it down, because if you’re not honest about all the things that you’re doing and why you are doing them, you will never be in a position to truly assess what the energy is behind what you’re doing, and for you to really ask yourself.

[00:10:39] Is that energy that is going to be repelling or attracting my baby? Repelling or attracting my baby. This is also important because as you go down the list of why you’re doing what you’re doing, that’s gonna give you an opportunity to really feel into this. [00:11:00] Am I doing this because I really want to, am I doing this because I think it’s going to help me move to the next place and I’m excited about it.

[00:11:08] I feel really good about it. I’m curious, or are you doing this with resentment and lack and scarcity? Think about this. You can have two different people approach IVF in two completely different ways. One person is going to approach it as, Hey, this is another opportunity for me to have my baby. This is helping me speed up the process.

[00:11:31] It’s helping me harvest a bunch of eggs at a time instead of waiting for one a month, you know, whatever the case may be. But the energy associated with that is like one of openness, one of curiosity, one of expectation. Excitement. Then you can have somebody else that’s say, oh shit, I really hope that my insurance is gonna cover this IVF because it’s so expensive and I don’t know why I have to do it at all, and I’m less of a woman because I have to [00:12:00] use IVF.

[00:12:00] Like, think about that energy, think about that shit stack right there. Think about the energy, uh, that. That kind of attitude is spewing into your fertility journey. It’s all lack and scarcity. It’s all about limitation, and it’s fucking resentful that you’re even on this journey. Resentment is one of the lowest vibrational things that we can feel, and if you have not done so already, I strongly encourage you to take a look.

[00:12:30] At Dr. David Hawkins map of consciousness, you can just Google that and you can see all of the different emotions that Dr. Hawkins and md actually he passed away in 2012, but you have an MD that mapped human consciousness. And was giving his idea on what kind of energy is associated with each emotion.

[00:12:51] It’s actually quite fascinating, but when you’re in a place of fear, anxiety, lack, scarcity, you are not on the same plane as [00:13:00] this baby. Your baby is all about love. It’s super high vibrational. So if you are way down here and your baby is up here, there is a miss. Match and you will create results at the level of your frequency.

[00:13:13] I love the metaphor and analogy of a radio, an old school radio, and you can turn the dial and it’s gonna move you from station to station, and every single one of those different stations is at a different frequency. And you tune into that frequency, and when you tune into that frequency, you get that kind of music or that kind of news.

[00:13:37] You get what you tune into. So if what you’re doing is tuning in to all the reasons why this journey sucks, how you shouldn’t have to pay for it, how you’re shaming yourself for investing the amount of money that you’re investing, and then you’re thinking back to what your dad said about how you should be saving for retirement and then just snowballs.

[00:13:58] Into this pit of [00:14:00] shit and, and look, if you don’t believe me, just take a look. Take an inventory. When you’re making that list and indicating what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, it’s a great opportunity to reflect on your fertility journey history and the results that correspond to it. I can tell you from having lived this journey myself, that being in lack and scarcity.

[00:14:22] Shaming myself for exploring IVF and beating myself up, torturing myself for struggling with fertility at all. It doesn’t surprise me that I was getting the result that I was getting early in my journey. And on the flip side, it doesn’t surprise me that I was more fertile in. Forties. Naturally when I got my head together than I ever was in my thirties with treatment, this is real.

[00:14:49] We can, despite our best efforts, quite literally repel the good that we think we are calling in. By bringing the kind [00:15:00] of energy that is a mismatch to the thing that we are trying to call in, this is how we can unknowingly. Repel our baby. I know that some of you may be like, well, how can you say that?

[00:15:11] This is so hard. This is crazy. Are you blaming me? Well get outta that fucking victim place. If you want to create a different result, you have to be willing to look at the facts. And if you’re doing a shit ton of stuff and you’re doing them from a low vibration, you’re begrudging it. You’re in lack and scarcity, and you don’t just fucking discipline yourself to stay focused on the dream.

[00:15:36] Stay focused on what you want, and start acting like a mama now, because think about the double binding message that you are. Sending out into the universe, into the ether, into the field, if you will. You are going in there begrudging, being on the journey. If you’re begrudging this journey, you’re sending the message, baby, I don’t actually want you, you are making me a grown woman [00:16:00] work way too hard for you.

[00:16:02] Is that really the message that you wanna be sending your baby? Think about that, ladies, listen to me. This isn’t just a physical process. This is why mindset takes women beyond the limits of fertility medicine. Women who are far worse off than you right now are creating incredible results. At a time when medicine has probably given up on them because they stop repelling their baby by the way that they approach their journey.

[00:16:32] This is your opportunity to turn things around, have the courage, and have the humility to look lovingly and objectively at what has gone on on your journey. And if you notice. That. You know what? You know, every time I pay a bill on this journey, I begrudge it. I get pissed, and I get into a place of victimhood asking why should I have to pay to get fertility treatment when there are people that are doing X, Y, and Z?

[00:16:59] And [00:17:00] it’s like. Those people are none of your business. Do you wanna have a baby or not? We are all responsible for our own happiness on this journey, and frankly, in our lives. You get what you expect and you get what you have. The discipline to show up for every fucking day. Put your big girl panties on.

[00:17:20] Mama. You have a baby that you wanna call in. Make sure that your energy matches what you want to call in. You have a beautiful list. I mean, here’s another thing. One of the great things that you can get from doing this exercise is to feel really proud of yourself for all of the amazing things that you have done up to this.

[00:17:41] Point to call this baby in. And when you look at your list of whys, and if there are some whys that don’t really match up with who you are anymore, and it feels like you’re doing it out of obligation or you’re really frustrated by doing it, and you frankly don’t wanna do it anymore, then make the decision that you might not do that.

[00:17:59] Stop doing [00:18:00] shit you don’t wanna do, but know the energy behind the shit that you’re doing and know why you don’t wanna do it. Because when you can be honest and when you can have clean energy on this journey and really know why you’re doing what you’re doing, you discipline yourself to have an amazing attitude about it.

[00:18:23] You will begin to call in the opportunities, the healing the people and the baby that you want, because all of these things come down to your energy shaping your perception. If you are low energy, you will see everything around you as suck ass. When your energy is high and when you’re in a wonderful vibration, you are gonna see opportunity, chances, abundance, faith, gratitude everywhere.

[00:18:53] What this is really saying is if you want to change your experience on this journey, change your energy, [00:19:00] change the energy with which you do it so you are no longer repelling your baby instead. You are attracting this baby. If you don’t like what your list shows, you don’t like all the things you’re doing.

[00:19:13] You don’t like the wise behind what you’re doing and the energy that you’re bringing. The coolest thing ever is you mama have the opportunity and the power to change it. And if you want my help getting there, go to my website www.frommaybetobaby.com and apply for an interview there. My methodologies have helped women around the world make their mom dreams come true, and their results is you’ve.

[00:19:37] Seen over the past couple weeks and we’ll see next week, our living proof that your mindset is the greatest asset that you have on your journey. What’s going on between your ears is showing up on your journey. It’s shaping your attitude toward it. The reality is this, thinking intelligent, smart women are finally tapping into the power of [00:20:00] mindset, and when they do, they make age statistics, their past failures and how long they’ve been trying.

[00:20:08] Fricking irrelevant, and you can do the same. Till next time, change your mindset. Change your results. Love this episode of The Fearlessly Fertile Podcast. Subscribe now and leave an awesome review. Remember the desire in your heart to be a mom is there because it was meant for you. When it comes to your dreams, keep saying hell yes.

What happens when IVF produces no normal embryos — twice?

For most women, two miscarriages and two failed rounds of IVF with zero normal embryos would signal the end of the road. For Liz, a medical professional in her 40s, it was the moment she realized something had to change — not her protocol, not her clinic, but her mindset.

Getting pregnant naturally in your 40s after failed IVF isn’t supposed to be possible. At least, that’s what the statistics say. But statistics don’t account for what happens when an intelligent, driven woman decides to stop letting fear, anxiety, and self-doubt run her fertility journey.

In this episode, Liz shares exactly how she went from no normal embryos, two miscarriages, and two failed IVF rounds to pregnant naturally — within weeks of making one critical shift. She reveals why trusting her intuition over her fertility clinic’s timeline changed everything, and how getting her mindset right made the seemingly impossible, possible.

If you’ve been told your odds are against you, Liz’s story is the evidence you’ve been waiting for.

Yes. As Liz’s story demonstrates, getting pregnant naturally in your 40s after failed IVF is possible. After two miscarriages and two rounds of IVF that produced zero normal embryos, Liz got pregnant naturally at 42 within weeks of shifting her mindset and trusting her intuition over her clinic’s timeline.

Yes. Liz reflects that the intense fear, pressure, and negativity she brought to her IVF cycles may have directly impacted her embryo quality. When she shifted her mindset — releasing stress, scarcity, and self-doubt — her body responded differently, resulting in a natural pregnancy with a healthy baby.

Mindset plays a critical role in fertility success. Fear, anxiety, and self-doubt create a low-vibrational energetic state that can block the body’s ability to conceive. Women who shift from a fear-based mindset to one of faith, peace, and self-trust — as Liz did — consistently create better outcomes, even after years of struggle and failed treatments.

Not necessarily. Liz chose to take a break from IVF after two failed rounds because it no longer felt right for her. Despite being 42 and facing pressure to continue treatment, she trusted her intuition — and got pregnant naturally within weeks. Listening to your gut and honoring what feels aligned is a critical part of the fertility journey.

Low self-worth can silently sabotage your fertility journey. Liz identified that deep feelings of unworthiness — rooted in a previous toxic relationship — showed up in her fertility struggle. Once she did the inner work to recognize her own value and believe she deserved to be a mother, her entire experience shifted.

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[00:00:00] Hey, gorgeous. If you want success on your fertility journey, you’ve gotta have the mindset for it. It’s time to kick fear, negativity, doubt, shame, jealousy, and the whole clown car of low vibe, fertility, journey BS to the curb. I’m your host, Roseanne Austin, fertility Mindset Master, former prosecutor and recovering type a, control freak, perfectionist.

[00:00:20] I use the power of mindset to get pregnant naturally and have my baby boy at 43. Despite years of fertility treatment failure, I help women across the globe beat. Odds on their fertility journey just like I did. Get ready for a quick hit of confidence, joy, feminine badassery, and loads of hell Yes. For your fertility journey.

[00:00:39] It’s time to get

[00:00:39] fearless, baby fearlessly fertile. Let’s do

[00:00:42] this. Welcome to the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast, episode 3 49 From no normal embryos with IVF. Two pregnant, naturally over 40. [00:01:00] Liz’s story loves. I’m so excited to be back with you this week, sharing another testimony of triumph from one of my miracle mamas who absolutely gave the finger to statistics.

[00:01:14] Stage and anything that people were telling her or she was telling herself about what was possible for her. Ooh. That just as thrills me to the core. I love it when women take a stand for what it is that they truly want on this journey. See it through, get the love, get the support, and really engage this piece of the fertility puzzle that takes women beyond the limits of fertility medicine.

[00:01:41] And that’s what my ladies are doing every freaking day. Now Liz, as you will hear, was sneaky littles and, and I called her that on the recording because. The thing is, not everyone tells me right away when they’re pregnant. Some women just go on to live their lives, which is absolutely amazing ’cause this isn’t [00:02:00] about me.

[00:02:00] It’s all about them. But whenever we share a story from one of my Miracle Mamas, you have to understand. What you see here is a tiny percentage of the successes that we have had through my programs. This is simply a celebration of another woman’s generosity. Willingness to share her story, to inspire you.

[00:02:23] There are women all over the world who are running around with fearlessly fertile miracles that you’ll never meet, and that’s why we’re so grateful to the women that choose to share their stories and, and you’re just gonna love Liz. We go back and forth about the things that truly made a difference for her on her journey and why at critical times when it came to making decisions and deciding in her forties what was next for her, despite the fact that she had no normal embryos.

[00:02:54] Miscarriage, multiple failed rounds of IVF that she made a [00:03:00] move that really put her on a trajectory to making her dream come true in a way she was convinced was not possible. So here is my conversation with the amazing Liz. Liz, I was just telling you before we started, the juror sneaky little minks, you just happen to drop in and say, oh, by the way, I had my baby.

[00:03:25] And I was like, what? So I am so excited that you’ve come onto the podcast to share this with the community and just let us delight in this incredible miracle for you. So why don’t you start off by sharing a little bit about how you found yourself on this journey.

[00:03:44] Yes, of course. I’m so excited to, to share this and tell, talk about it.

[00:03:49] Um, I think I’m gonna go back like maybe a little bit further than some people do. Um, back to my twenties, um, I was in a terrible relationship, [00:04:00] um, not, not healthy, and I sort of told myself, I think I knew subconsciously that that was not a good relationship to bring a child into. And I think that that was probably the right thing, but I twisted that in my brain to say, I don’t want kids.

[00:04:17] And it was just easier for me to tell myself, I don’t want kids, rather than kind of deal with the reality. So, so fast forward was with that person for 10 years, but was able to get a divorce and then was kind of on my own for a couple years and just like happy, just kind of being myself and doing my thing.

[00:04:34] Um, I was. Set up with my now husband again, not really looking for anything, but just mutual friends set us up and he was wonderful and amazing and it totally like blew my mind. I couldn’t process that, like I couldn’t. I was like, why does this guy like me? Why is he interested in me? I haven’t done anything for him.

[00:04:55] You know that, that whole like, I need to work and prove myself worthy. [00:05:00] Of this person. I hadn’t done that. He just liked me for me. And so again, like my brain couldn’t process that. So I, I kind of ghosted him after an initial dating period, which is like really immature and not like me at all. I’m usually like very direct and I can deal with anything and have any conversation, but, but I did that and.

[00:05:21] I get for whatever reason in that year, he like kept texting me. Like every couple weeks he would text me or call me and I’m like, no response, nothing. Just ghost. So, so for whatever reason, like a year later I just thought, you know what, I’m just gonna reply. And we went out. He met me and some other friends, um, just at this little restaurant bar in my neighborhood, and my friends were like, Liz, you have got to give this guy a chance.

[00:05:48] He is so crazy about you. And I was like, well, okay, I guess I’ll do it. And, and my husband is like, amazing. He has this amazing big family. And you know, I, I knew he would wanna have kids and I was [00:06:00] always kinda like, eh, you know, I just don’t know. It’s just, I’ve always said, that’s not for me. So anyway, we, we got engaged, got married in November of 22, and I got pregnant in December.

[00:06:14] Not trying, not thinking about it. Sort of again, thinking I wasn’t really sure if I even wanted kids, but the second that I saw that positive pregnancy test, I was like over the moon and like, oh my God, this is so wonderful. And sadly, that did end in a miscarriage a couple weeks later. So then I started going down the horrible like, you know, trail of Google and.

[00:06:41] At the time, I think I was 41. And so, you know, it was doomsday and it was like, you know, the window’s about to close. The only way that this will happen for someone, you know, my age with IVF. So I, I got on it, I did what I needed to do, got in with a fertility doctor [00:07:00] and, you know, started IVF. And again, was like so convinced that, you know, I was not enough and I needed this help for this to happen.

[00:07:10] So, so did IVF in the first round failed. I think we had like three embryos and none of them were normal. So that was really disappointing. Um, all of like my labs and all the. Everything along the way was really good. So I didn’t have, like, you know, I sort of felt like everything was, was right for me to be able to have a baby, but it just wasn’t happening.

[00:07:34] So, so did that first round. And then our, the fertility clinic here had to close for a month in the summer because they just had some maintenance on the lab they had to do. And in that month that they were closed, I got pregnant. Again, not trying, not even like, I wasn’t like tracking my cycle. I wasn’t doing anything ’cause I thought I have to have IVF so, so got pregnant and this is how crazy I [00:08:00] was at the time.

[00:08:00] Like when I saw that I got pregnant, my first thought was like, oh no, this isn’t gonna be good. I know, isn’t that crazy that you would say, oh no, you got pregnant. But I, I was so convinced that I couldn’t have a healthy pregnancy on my own. Yeah, that even when it happened, I was like, Ugh, no, this is just gonna end badly.

[00:08:18] I’m just gonna miscarry again. And sure enough, I did so, so jumped right back into IVF as soon as I could, and that round failed. Um, with that mindset. That’s not really that surprising. Um, so, so, but after that second round, I’ve been listening to you now for, you know. Almost a year at that point, and, you know, read the books and, um, did the program and listened to all the podcasts.

[00:08:47] I mean, binge, the podcast would listen. I mean, like every time I was in the car, that’s what I was listening to. Um, and so after that second round of IVF, I was just like, this just doesn’t feel right. Like, I [00:09:00] just want to take a break. I just kind of wanna live my life and, you know. Just take a breather.

[00:09:06] They may not even let me back into the fertility clinic once I’m 42, but you know, I’m just gonna take that risk. So that was like the end of October of 2022. And I was doing know, take a break, and one morning and late November, I was like, I have a weird feeling. I, I just, I don’t, there’s no way I’m pregnant.

[00:09:31] But I just have a weird feeling. And so I went and took a pregnancy test and sure enough, and this time I didn’t have that sense of doom. I didn’t have that sense of like, oh no, this is just gonna end badly. I was at peace, I was happy. I ran in and told my husband and you know, went, went to the doctor, did all the testing.

[00:09:55] Everything was normal, had the easiest, greatest pregnancy. I [00:10:00] have the sweetest, most beautiful, perfect child. I mean, it just, it was so wildly different so quickly for me, just again, like when I kind of let all the things you were saying, like sink in and just kind of believed in myself, it, I mean, in what felt like, you know, weeks it just happened.

[00:10:24] Wow. Okay. Alright, so we’re gonna unpack some of that, Liz, because that is like a whirlwind. No, but that’s so cool. I mean, and, and I love that we’re, we’re gonna go back and dig in there because you said some things that I know a lot of women listening to this are going to identify with and, you know, so let’s start with this sense of not worthiness.

[00:10:49] Right. Like what man? Like this man is so great. Like, what man would want me? Like, holy shit. Like did you, did you even [00:11:00] recognize that that was happening when you were experiencing it?

[00:11:03] No, not at all. At the time. And I still, I mean, honestly, even like when Matthew proposed, I was like, is he really proposing to me?

[00:11:11] Like I just, I, I didn’t, again, it didn’t process because. It wasn’t my whole like, mental model of like, I’m doing something for this person and, and proving my value. I was just being me and being in a relationship and that was enough for him. In.

[00:11:29] Wow. You know, I, I love that you highlighted this because everyone thinks that the process of trying to conceive is just when you’re trying to have a baby.

[00:11:38] Like it’s, I I love that you, you brought us back to that because this story that was lingering in your head for a long time, even about your yourself, how could you not have that show up on your journey? Like the way we do one thing is the way we do everything. So if you feel all fucked up about whether or not somebody could love you, how.

[00:11:58] Would that not translate [00:12:00] into questions about whether or not you wanna have a baby or whether you’re worthy of having a baby with ease? I mean, all the stuff that we end up struggling with on this journey. Yeah. So what woke you up to that?

[00:12:10] Well, I think all the questions that you ask of us, I actually sincerely asked of myself and, and you know, it has some uncomfortable.

[00:12:21] Thoughts and, and had to work through all that. But then on, you know, again, on the other side it’s like so much more peaceful and happy and just things kind of flow and work out. Um, once you’ve done that,

[00:12:32] so you allow this amazing man to love you and you get married, where do you think you picked up this idea that getting pregnant would be hard for you?

[00:12:43] I think it was that initial, you know, when I had that, that miscarriage. I, you know, I just, I think it’s like a lot of people, their, their, you know, next step is, well, let me understand this better. Like, what could I, well again, because I’m looking for, what did I do wrong? [00:13:00] Always. So let me go to Google and it’ll tell me what I did wrong or what I need to do, you know, what supplements do I need to take?

[00:13:07] What exercises do I need to be doing? What food do I need to be eating? You know, I thought I could work myself. Into having this healthy baby. You know? Wow. If I just get all the instructions, I will do it and I will follow it to a T. And I mean, just like every, I mean what you always say, everything else in life, we’re able to work hard enough and do the right thing and we kind of get what we want.

[00:13:28] And like, I mean, in my professional, like that is kind of how it’s gone, you know? And so I just took that same formula and applied it to this. It is not the same.

[00:13:40] No. Isn’t that funny, Liz? That like it? Isn’t it funny how it baffles us? Oh, the most feminine thing we’ll ever do in our lives. We simply can’t do like a man.

[00:13:51] We’re not just going to work it. Right? Like, and I love the humility and the humor with which you share that because. I don’t [00:14:00] care how much a woman thinks she understands this concept. Sometimes we have to hear it thousands of times in order for it to truly sink in. And you were just another example of that.

[00:14:11] So, okay, so you get pregnant, you have a miscarriage, you start Googling, and then the next thing is fertility clinic. Somebody help me?

[00:14:22] Yes. And I went there hoping that they would do IVF because again, I was so sure that like I couldn’t do this on my own. I just wanted to go straight to the answer.

[00:14:33] Straight to the, to the thing that was gonna get this accomplished. And you know, of course they were like, well, you know, you’re already 41. We probably would just wanna start you with IVF. And I was like, great. That’s exactly what I wanted to hear. Let’s go. Let’s do it. And so that’s the path we went down.

[00:14:49] And you know, my husband, again, he’s so wise. At one point he was. Shouldn’t we kind of just try this like the natural way for a little while and

[00:14:59] [00:15:00] you’re like, no baby, I’m psychotic. I need to jump right inside. That’s

[00:15:03] exactly, I was like, no, no, no, no, no. That’s not gonna work. This is what we have to do. And of course, and you know, he’s like, okay, you know, he’s all in and like, you know, being supportive, but like his wise, you know, natural reaction was let’s just try, let’s just try this, you know.

[00:15:19] But, um. I’m grateful for him. He was supportive for that and, uh, we, we got to the, we got to the end result we wanted eventually. Right,

[00:15:29] right. Well, okay, so, so you do the IVF, were you shocked that it didn’t work?

[00:15:37] A little bit, yes, because again, all of my labs were so good. You know, like my, my whatever, ovarian reserve, all of my hormones.

[00:15:48] I mean, everything was like what it should be. Um, and even like one of the IVF doctors, she was like, really? You know, all of your numbers are are like a 30-year-old. And so I was [00:16:00] like, okay, well then good. You know, all indications are good. I’m doing the process that’s supposed to work. This is gonna work.

[00:16:08] And yeah, then we got the three, three embryos fertilized. But then when they did the testing, you know, they weren’t genetically normal. So, you know, failed that first round. And then that, like I said, it was almost the exact same thing. I think it was three embryos the second time, and none of them were normal.

[00:16:23] Isn’t that interesting that we run to medicine first, like without completely checking in? Like doing some of the things that like if we really loved and cared about ourselves, like just slow down a minute.

[00:16:40] Right? Right.

[00:16:41] Like give ourselves a little bit of time. I also think it’s fascinating that they still, despite the fact that your numbers were great figure because of your age and your age alone, we should do IVF.

[00:16:54] Exactly. Yeah. And I think, I mean, back to running to the doctors, I think it’s, if you’re coming [00:17:00] from kind of a, a foundation of I’m inadequate, then you, what else do you do? Yeah. You know, of course you’re gonna go look for some outside source because you’re not enough.

[00:17:12] Well, it’s interesting. I mean, I, I love that you shared that because I did the same thing, Liz.

[00:17:18] So no hate on that. Like, I mean, that’s exactly what I did. But I think what we’re bringing attention to is something critical that like, Hey, there’s a bunch of things you can do before that, right? Like, I did the same exact thing. I was like, oh shit, I wanna have this baby. Let’s, I’ve been trying for a minute.

[00:17:38] Let’s go immediately go into to IVF thinking that that was gonna be the answer. And it was devastating to me. When it wasn’t. And then, you know, obviously you and I both, you did a litany of things, but our babies had quite a different way of, uh, showing up one that we hadn’t quite anticipated. So before we get to that.

[00:17:59] I would [00:18:00] love for you to share how did an otherwise reasonable woman like you, Liz, find herself reading about the mindset piece of the fertility puzzle? Like what even had you look at this because from where you were at, you could have said, you know what, that sounds fricking woo woo. I’m not doing any of that.

[00:18:20] That’s crazy. And even though science backs it up, that sounds crazy. I’m not doing it.

[00:18:26] Yeah, and I’m not generally very woowoo, so this, you know, anything that was just not a tangible task that I could do. It was really just like I said before, like looking at myself and doing some hard work and answering some hard questions.

[00:18:43] Anything like that, um, is not my natural inclination. Um, but I think also I was so desperate and I was gonna try. Anything, everything, all of the above that, you know, it was kind of just like, throw it in the grocery [00:19:00] basket. Like, you know, I, I’ll give it a shot. I’m not, you know, and, and like, no shame in my game.

[00:19:05] Like, I will, I’ll do anything. I’m not scared, you know, to take on. Even if it makes me uncomfortable, I’m happy to do it if I think it’s gonna get me where I’m trying to go. So I think that’s why. And I think the other thing, you know, my husband is always like, you’re, you’re the most confident. Person, you’re so confident, you’re so good at your work.

[00:19:25] And I think like for a lot of folks probably listen to you. There’s like, there’s just kind of two sides of you. There’s your professional personality and that can be made me very confident. But like with this stuff, like it’s so different and it, and I was not confident and so I think I was just looking for something to like.

[00:19:43] Uh, just get, get my mind right and help me feel about this the way I feel kind of about everything else in my life and all the other decisions I make and, you know, the way I do things. Does that make sense?

[00:19:54] Yeah, no, it makes total sense. Was there something in you that said, I have to look at this [00:20:00] mind thing because I mean, I get that you were willing to do whatever.

[00:20:04] But y but as you said, like you’ll, you’ll try anything if you think it will work. What made you think this might work in helping you?

[00:20:14] Yeah, I think, um, well first, like you said, there is a lot of data and even if we don’t understand that data, you know, I’m, I’m in healthcare and so we are very data-driven.

[00:20:24] And, uh, if the data is pointing you very clearly in one direction, then you kinda have to, you have to listen. So there was that. But then also, you know, I felt like I kind of checked every other box. You know, I mean, I’ve done everything else. And so it’s like, well, you know, if you, if you’re gonna make all this other effort, then you’ve gotta at least explore this.

[00:20:45] And then once I started listening to the podcast, it was just like. Oh my gosh. Like this makes so much sense. You know? And it’s like, that is so me. And so then like once I kind of got into it, it wasn’t like it was easy. And again, I was like binge listening [00:21:00] the podcast, um. I love that. It was easy once I, once I gave it a shot, it was super, super easy.

[00:21:06] Okay. Well I love that. And, and so what do you think were some of the lessons that you took? Because you didn’t just stop at the podcast, you didn’t just stop at the book. We worked together. You came into the program. I think that was in, was it 20? Early 2023?

[00:21:25] Yes.

[00:21:26] Okay. So it was early 2023. What did you learn about yourself?

[00:21:30] What do you think were some of the biggest ahas for you through having done that work?

[00:21:35] Yeah, I think, um, I think it’s really just kind of those main mantras that you, you talk about all the time. I mean, just being worthy and you can ask for this, like it’s okay for you to want this for yourself. You know, it’s not just your purpose to be here and and live for other people.

[00:21:56] Like this is your life. You need to lead it for [00:22:00] yourself. And I think that was just, it sounds crazy, but it’s like I had never, never framed my own life that way.

[00:22:09] Wow. That’s big, isn’t it, Liz? Like, that’s huge.

[00:22:15] Yeah, Lord. Like thank goodness I wasn’t, I’m still not that person, like with a baby. You know, I mean, like, that would be the worst, worst thing to happen.

[00:22:29] Yeah.

[00:22:29] I, oh my gosh. I love that you just shared that because I say this all the time, like I, and it always makes me emotional when I, when I think about it, I’m like, I am so. Glad I became somebody different from my son because if I didn’t learn what I learned prior to him coming, I would just be repeating the same broken down patterns that got me to this place of despair, not enough, and, and allowing myself to just hand [00:23:00] my authority and my agency over my life to people in white coats that were telling me it was never gonna happen.

[00:23:07] Right.

[00:23:08] Yeah. Um. I just, I’m not really sure. Whenever I listened to the show, I thought, you know. There are so many of the similar, you know, storylines and similar takeaways and I was thinking like, what do I really have to add to this? And you know, I think I’m just adding the same thing. But I also think, like when I was listening, that was so comforting to me.

[00:23:31] Like to have the women, you know, saying the same things over and over again. It kind of just, I mean it not only reinforced it, but it just made me feel like, okay, like this is what works. This is where I need to be. Like this, this does make sense for me

[00:23:45] now. When you started applying what you were learning, did you notice anything changing in you?

[00:23:55] Um, gosh. I mean, that could be down to [00:24:00] such little things as like, I was so like lacking scarcity. I mean, you know, which can be good, right? I mean, I’m like, I’ve never been financially unstable a day in my life, but like. It can be so extreme that it’s, you know, not healthy. And so I think, like I just started letting myself enjoy things, be a little more spontaneous.

[00:24:22] You know, like, if, if you’re not enjoying it, then what the hell are you doing here? You know? Um, so I think that’s definitely one that I, I kinda just cut myself a little more slack and, and try to be a little more patient with myself. Um. And just enjoy things more. I don’t know how else to say it. Um, not everything is like a, a deadline and a, a goal to be accomplished.

[00:24:48] Sometimes it’s just. Enjoying a vacation with your family and just for that, the sake of just enjoying it, that’s all you have to do.

[00:24:57] Imagine that Liz. [00:25:00] No, not everything has to have some crazy goal attached to it. I think that’s brilliant. So did you notice whether or not your husband. Notice that things were changing in you because you two were so close and so committed to this family.

[00:25:17] Did, did he ever mention to you whether or not he noticed things changing in you?

[00:25:24] You know, I think he’s just so like, go with the flow and, and is going to be supportive, like kind of. Almost like he’s gonna let me maybe spin and do some things that I shouldn’t maybe do, and he’s just gonna be there kind of strong and steady no matter what.

[00:25:42] Um, I bet he was actually not surprised at all when I did get pregnant the way I did. You know what I mean? Like that was probably like, well, yeah, that’s exactly what I. Thought it was gonna happen.

[00:25:54] Wow. Did he think it was weird that you were meeting with this coven of women every [00:26:00] Saturday for eight weeks?

[00:26:01] Did did he ever comment on that?

[00:26:04] Um, you know, we usually, I feel like I was listening to it. Usually we have a hunting camp, which isn’t that the most like Alabama thing to say, but we have a hunting camp that we go to on the weekends, and so he would kind of go out and do his outdoorsy thing. I would, you know, do the group and I, so I think he’s just like, you know, whatever.

[00:26:21] You’re smart. If this is something that you think is good. Enjoy. I’m gonna go bush. I

[00:26:28] love it.

[00:26:28] You know

[00:26:28] I love him already and I love hunting camp. There’s nothing better than your man running off to hunting camp camp. That’s when the real cool stuff happens for us. We get quiet, we can study, we can read, we can do all kinds of stuff while they’re doing boy things, so.

[00:26:45] That’s right.

[00:26:46] That’s fantastic. Well, so, okay, so you do the program in 2023. You do. You do another IVF cycle after that. Oh, I

[00:26:56] mean, I finished, I finished the [00:27:00] last IVF cycle at the end of October, and we were still, like, I was still finishing modules.

[00:27:05] Mm-hmm.

[00:27:06] And I just decided I didn’t wanna do another round.

[00:27:09] I wanted to take a break, just didn’t feel right. And literally, I mean, with, in, I mean, within three weeks I knew I was pregnant. So within. Two weeks. I was, yeah.

[00:27:24] Okay, so we’re gonna break that down. Two things, but first of all, by this point you were, were you 41 or 42?

[00:27:35] 23, I guess I was 41. I was still 41. At the end of that year I was 42.

[00:27:42] Oh gosh. I’m gonna mess up my ears. I was 42 when I got pregnant. Yeah.

[00:27:47] Okay.

[00:27:47] Okay. It was in March. Yeah, I got pregnant in that Octo in October, November. Yeah.

[00:27:52] Okay. So at 42 people would’ve told you you were crazy to take a break. I [00:28:00] mean, like, they’re like, lady, come on, chop, chop. We got babies to have like who are you to take a break?

[00:28:05] But what I’m fascinated by is that you said it didn’t feel right to you. Continuing on that crazy train didn’t feel right. What made you listen to that?

[00:28:20] I think it was finally like hearing all the things that you were saying that like, listen to what your gut is telling you. Listen, don’t listen to anybody else.

[00:28:32] If, if your intuition is leading you somewhere else, then go with that. And I was like, you know what, yes, I’m able to do that. I can make that decision. If this doesn’t feel right for me, I don’t have to do it. And I know it’s so simple. It’s so, I know it sounds so silly.

[00:28:50] It’s actually simple, but it’s not easy.

[00:28:53] That’s the thing here, Liz, that I really wanted to like zero in on because you’re dropping these amazing bombs of [00:29:00] brilliance on us because it is simple, but it is not easy. And wait a second, Liz, the non woowoo person is talking about something like intuition, like what happened to you?

[00:29:14] I know, I, I honestly would not have even, I, I would’ve told you.

[00:29:19] That my being does not possess intuition. Like I don’t, that’s not something that is like in my soul, in my being. It’s just not who I am.

[00:29:29] And here you are talking crazy about your intuition telling you IVF wasn’t right. Wow. Okay. So you take a break and then what happened?

[00:29:45] I mean, within weeks I was pregnant.

[00:29:49] And, and again, the moment that I found out that time, I didn’t have that negative sinking doomsday feeling. I, I was [00:30:00] just that second at peace. I knew that we were gonna be okay. I knew that we were gonna have this baby. It was the wildest, wildest thing because again, I mean, a couple months before that, I mean, from July until November, you know, in July when I got pregnant, I was.

[00:30:17] I mean, just in the dumps, I mean, so upset that I had gotten pregnant because I knew I couldn’t have a healthy baby without IVF and you know, just knew that it was gonna have a bad outcome and then it did. But from July to November with your program, I totally, the, the switch flipped. I don’t know. And that pregnancy I just knew was gonna be fine.

[00:30:44] Wow. That’s a massive quantum leap from this intense struggle. And two miscarriages at that point, right?

[00:30:56] Two miscarriages to failed. I vfs, sort of [00:31:00] alternating.

[00:31:00] Wow. And then pregnant naturally,

[00:31:05] naturally.

[00:31:08] Wow. And then you were able to do that confidently because when you were pregnant naturally, and what you’re talking about is that you didn’t feel the doom and the gloom.

[00:31:19] No, I, I, there’s no other word. I just peace. I just was so peaceful and so happy, and I just, I mean, I didn’t have a worry, you know, my doctor was like, well, we’ll probably do a few more ultrasounds on you than you know, we normally would. Everything looks great and I mean, I wasn’t stressed ever in that pregnancy.

[00:31:41] I know. And I mean, it was just, it was so perfect. And it was just amazing.

[00:31:49] So you get pregnant and you had a

[00:31:54] baby girl.

[00:31:58] Oh my gosh, Liz. I mean, [00:32:00] what was it like to hold her for the first time?

[00:32:04] Oh my gosh. She is just a nugget of joy and love and I cannot tell you every day we love her more and more. She is amazing.

[00:32:16] Betty is her name. It’s Elizabeth Claire, but we call her Betty after Matthew’s grandmother.

[00:32:22] Oh my gosh. Baby Betty. Oh my gosh. And baby Betty is 14 months now.

[00:32:28] That’s right.

[00:32:31] Oh my goodness. I, this story just thrills me, Liz, that it, I mean, it’s such a story of triumphant, a story of. The payoff of trusting yourself and, and moving beyond the panic and the worry and the antiquated story.

[00:32:51] Now that having a baby in your forties is a scary thing, that you’re too old, that it’s probably not gonna work. I mean, [00:33:00] think about it. Think about this. In the system of IVF, you had multiple embryos that were abnormal. Right? Mm-hmm. Through two rounds of IVF abnormal embryos. There are some women out there that are listening to this that have had a similar experience and are sitting in despair thinking that if under the, the system of IVF, all you can produce is an abnormal embryo, that there’s no fricking hope for you to get pregnant naturally, much less have a, a healthy baby.

[00:33:37] I know. I know, and I mean, looking back and, you know, we’ll never know, but I just feel like that I, I had put so much pressure on myself and I was so negative and stressing out my body, and it just was so, like, such the wrong, there was no way that those embryos could be healthy because [00:34:00] everything, everything that I was putting them through was negative.

[00:34:04] Wow. I mean, that’s some awareness, Liz, because I bet you wouldn’t have been able to say that years ago. Like you’re actually living proof and a living scenario case study of how, okay, you get all this negative crap, you, you run around with a negative story, you create a negative result. Now that’s not blame, it’s just saying, should this at all be surprised?

[00:34:31] Not at all. No, but I think it’s also like, I just feel like so much happened in such a short time. I mean, I went from not thinking I wanted to even have kids to miscarriage IVF miscarriage, IVF pregnant with a baby in like, you know, a year and a half basically. And so, I mean, I think it’s just like how much and how quickly you can change when you kind of get.

[00:34:59] In the right [00:35:00] mindset when you do the program, when you are listening to things that really make sense to you and, and you kind of buy in wholeheartedly. Um, just so much can happen in a, in a very, very short span of time.

[00:35:13] Boom, boom. I, I couldn’t have said it better. Like, I mean, this is the kind of transformation in my work that I see women do on the regular.

[00:35:23] And sometimes it knocks their socks off because they’re like, wait a second. How did I go from years of struggle to this? Like, how is that even possible? But you have to be open, you have to be willing to take chances, Liz. And that’s exactly what you did. And, and, and I commend you and, and all of the women that do this because it takes courage to change.

[00:35:45] It takes courage to be willing to say, Hey, you know what? I might need to look at me. Because I’m not gonna let myself, I’m not gonna let me be the block.

[00:35:56] Right. Well, I remember when I read the title of your [00:36:00] book the first time, I was like, oh, well, rude. Like, I mean, I mean, you really put it that way, but at the same time I was like, I think I know what she’s saying.

[00:36:13] Like I, I, I hadn’t even read yet, but I knew what you were saying. And, and it’s not rude at all. Um, when, when you take it for the, for the, with the intent that it is given and you can kind of own that and, and change, um, yeah.

[00:36:33] I love that list. I mean, like, I, I remember, I mean, it was so cl crystal clear in my head when I came up with a title and really owned that.

[00:36:41] Like I knew that people were gonna get pissed off, but just as you’re saying, I knew my intentions were clean. I’m like, I have to speak to them in a way that they can hear me that is not like the other noise that is going on in their head. Mm-hmm. And, and that was the whole impetus behind. The book, [00:37:00] why I do what I do on a daily basis because I didn’t have somebody to reach in and grab me by the shirt and shake me and say, you are influencing this.

[00:37:09] Yeah. And if you don’t get your shit together, girl, you’re gonna find yourself old, alone, childless, and miserable because you didn’t take the time to look at the one thing that was off. ’cause like you, Liz, we have this in common, like. I would take any supplement, I would do any yoga pose, I would do any of that.

[00:37:29] But the thing that really blew it wide open for me was looking at me. Mm-hmm. Sounds like the same was true for you?

[00:37:36] Absolutely.

[00:37:38] Wow. Okay, so with that said, I mean, you remember listening to this podcast. You binged it. Like, what are some of the things, other than what you’ve said here, or maybe said in another way, what would you wanna share with the women listening when you were listening and binging?

[00:37:57] What did you so desperately wanna hear [00:38:00] from somebody to help you on this journey?

[00:38:05] Um, I think it’s really just getting comfortable enough with yourself, with who you are, with who you are right now, today, without any outside support or medicines or interventions coming in to try to make you something that you’re not.

[00:38:26] You are enough. And if you want a baby, you can have a baby and you’ll have a baby. Um. But you can’t come at it from a, a, um, mindset of control and work and tasks, and it’s, it’s just not that. And. We’ve said a million times. I mean, we’re all very comfortable with that. I mean, if you gimme a to-do list, I can, I will knock it out and get it done faster and better than anybody else.

[00:38:59] [00:39:00] But this is, this is just not that. And so you really have to kind of take some deep breaths and just, um, sit back and enjoy the process if you can. Um. Enjoy. You know, like with the program, enjoy going through those modules and asking yourself some of those questions and, and learning more about yourself.

[00:39:20] I mean, just enjoy that and know that it will make you a better mom when you get there.

[00:39:26] Yeah, that’s so wise, Liz. It, it doesn’t sound to me like there’s only one wise person in your home. I think you and your husband are, have been through something that has developed both of you, and I’m so happy to see you this happy, and I’m so happy that when.

[00:39:43] We’re done. You’re gonna go hold Betty, you’re gonna go cuddle her. And it, it’s just, it’s such a delight. This is why I love doing what I do in the world because I get to see women not only be united with their [00:40:00] children, but rediscover themselves. Because now, like, think about what you and Betty are gonna do together.

[00:40:06] I mean, think about what you’re gonna teach Betty.

[00:40:09] I know. Um. To be her own person and to live her life for herself. And I’m just so excited. I can’t wait. I cannot wait to see what she’s into.

[00:40:21] Oh my goodness. And that’s the thing is like we get so tunnel visioned on just having this baby that a. We spend very little time thinking about the mom that we wanna be when they are here, and I am so just delighted and honored that you trusted me to be part of your journey.

[00:40:40] And now you are going to pass these lessons onto your daughter. Well done, baby.

[00:40:46] No, thank you so much. I really, I really don’t think I would’ve made it without you in the program. I, I wish I could say that I would have, but I just don’t think I would’ve ever gotten there because. I just didn’t [00:41:00] have a different, a different formula to follow and, um, to thank you.

[00:41:05] Oh geez, Liz. It, it is truly my honor and. I hope that you never forget how powerful you are, woman that is, it’s amazing. I mean, you did the seemingly impossible. Now you can go do a bunch of crazy things like you, you like. You can just go out there and say, I had my baby. Everything else is a piece of cake.

[00:41:26] Liz.

[00:41:26] Yeah, it’s true.

[00:41:27] Oh wow. Well congratulations mama. We’re sending you so much love. Thank you for so generously and courageously sharing your story here and go hug Betty for me. Go hug that hunting man for me and I will be so glad to hear more about what you have coming next. So thanks you woman.

[00:41:48] Thank you

[00:41:49] loves.

[00:41:49] Didn’t you just love my conversation with Liz? Isn’t she inspiring and isn’t her nickname for her baby girl Betty? Just, Ooh, you just wanna cuddle them. It is [00:42:00] just, man, I really hope that you take from this conversation, the fact and the inspiration that you never know what you have locked. Up inside of you.

[00:42:12] And sometimes we get so caught up in the old story, the old story of limitation, the old story about age, the old story about what’s possible for us, that we completely overlook the solution that is right under our noses. Liz, she, she’s a creator in her life. She decided to trust her intuition. She made her dream a reality by really leaning in to what she knew to be true.

[00:42:43] She knew she was meant to be a mom, and her gut was telling her that IVF wasn’t for her. Can you imagine if she just kept. Plowing forward with IVF when she knew it wasn’t right for her. By trusting herself, she created an entirely different trajectory [00:43:00] on her fertility journey, and she is hugging her baby Betty today because of the courage she was able to summon and the willingness that she had.

[00:43:09] To change and be better. So if you want me to teach you what I taught Liz, go to my website www.frommaybetwobaby.com and apply for an interview there. My methodology is help women around the world make their mom dreams come true and the results speak for themselves. Baby. If you are not leveraging the power of mindset, you are out of your freaking mind, girl, and I love you enough to tell you.

[00:43:37] When the mind and body work together, you make the seemingly impossible possible. And why wouldn’t you want to make your treatments more effective? Give yourself a better chance of conceiving naturally if that’s what’s on your heart when you’re using a surrogate, when you’re using a donor egg. Why would you not have your head in the game?

[00:43:55] I don’t know. You’d be crazy not to. So go to my website [00:44:00] www.frommaybetobaby.com and apply for an interview there. Till next time, change your mindset. Change your results.

[00:44:09] Love this episode of The Fearlessly Fertile Podcast. Subscribe now and leave an awesome review. Remember the desire in your heart to be a mom is there because it was meant for you.

[00:44:18] When it comes to your dreams, keep saying hell yes.

What do you have to let go of to have your baby?

It’s one of the most powerful questions you can ask yourself on your fertility journey — and most women never ask it.

We’re conditioned to think about what to cut out: sugar, gluten, caffeine, fragrance. But cutting things out is about deprivation. Letting go is something entirely different. It’s about ascension. It’s about releasing the fear, doubt, shame, and scarcity that are keeping you energetically out of alignment with the baby you’re trying to call in.

Here’s the truth: you cannot hold on tightly to a low-vibrational story — I’m not enough, my body is broken, I’m too old — and expect a high-vibrational outcome. Your baby exists at a frequency of love, joy, and possibility. If you’re operating from fear and lack, there is a mismatch. And that mismatch shows up in your results.

In this episode, fertility mindset coach Rosanne Austin poses the question that has helped women around the world blow past the limits of fertility medicine — and invites you to do more than just listen. This is an active episode. Get out a pen and paper, because what you uncover might just be the breakthrough you’ve been waiting for.

The question isn’t what you need to cut out. It’s what you need to let go of.

To call in your baby, you may need to let go of fear, doubt, shame, scarcity, self-blame, arbitrary timelines, the belief that your body is broken, judgment about your age, and what others think of your fertility journey. These low-vibrational stories create an energetic mismatch between you and the baby you’re trying to conceive.

Cutting things out — like sugar, gluten, or caffeine — is about deprivation and operates at a lower frequency. Letting go is about ascension. It means releasing the fear, doubt, and limiting beliefs that are keeping you out of energetic alignment with your baby, so you can rise to a higher frequency and become more receptive to conceiving.

Fear creates low-vibrational thinking, which leads to fear-based action and fear-based results. When you’re operating from a place of fear, doubt, and scarcity, you are energetically out of alignment with your baby. Releasing fear and shifting to a higher frequency of faith, love, and expectation is what opens the door to fertility breakthroughs.

Limiting beliefs like “I’m not enough,” “my body is broken,” or “I’m too old” keep you energetically stuck at a low vibrational frequency. These stories cloud your thinking, shape your actions, and directly impact your results on your fertility journey. Identifying and releasing these beliefs is a critical step toward conceiving.

Rosanne recommends getting out a piece of paper and writing at the top: “What do I have to let go of in order to have this baby?” Then write freely and honestly — listing every fear, story, judgment, and belief that may be blocking your baby. This exercise exposes the subconscious blocks that keep women stuck and opens the door to a new reality.

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Ready to think like the women who beat the odds and become the miracle mamas everyone else calls “lucky”?

• Apply for my curated, invitation-only Fearlessly Fertile Method® experience here: 👉 Submit your application
• If you’re in or approaching your Two Week Wait, get the Luxuriously Low-Stress Two Week Wait self-study course and give those 14-ish days a calm, confident structure.

Women on this journey LOVE to talk about abundance, surrender, “manifesting,” and femininity…but do they really understand what those words mean in practice?

Because here’s the truth: an abundance mindset for fertility isn’t cute affirmations on Instagram. It’s not pretending you’re fine. It’s not bypassing grief. And it’s definitely not waiting around hoping the universe sprinkles baby dust on your life.

Real abundance is lived.
Real surrender is embodied.
Real manifesting requires courage.

Years of personal development, heartbreak, faith, growth, and radical self-honesty have led my closest friends and me to a deeper understanding of what these principles actually look like in everyday life. Not theory. Not fluff. But the gritty, feminine, fearless application of them when your heart is on the line.

In this episode, my dear friend Rachel Burch and I pull back the curtain. We talk about everyday miracles. We talk about non-attachment. We talk about faith. We talk about receiving without shrinking. And we talk about what it really means to cultivate an abundance mindset for fertility—even before you have the baby in your arms.

Rachel is a former attorney and general counsel turned author, podcaster, comedian, and truth-seeker. Together, we explore how high-achieving, logical, skeptical women can open the door to magic without losing their edge.

If you’ve ever wondered:

• Is this manifestation stuff actually real
• Can I be powerful, intelligent, and feminine?
• How do I receive instead of force?

This conversation will stretch you—in the best possible way.

If you’re ready to stop performing abundance and start living it…
I’ll show you how to RECEIVE in a new, feminine, fearless way.

If you want to learn what we know, I’ll teach you how to RECEIVE in a new feminine and fearless way.

Submit your application to be considered for my curated, elite Fearlessly Fertile Method invitation-only programs: https://get.frommaybetobaby.com/bss-app

An abundance mindset for fertility means choosing to believe that your desire to become a mother exists for a reason—and that your journey is happening for you, not against you.

It’s not pretending you’re never sad. It’s not bypassing grief. And it’s not passive waiting.

It’s about:

• Trusting that your growth matters
• Believing miracles can happen in everyday life
• Detaching from timeline panic
• Staying open to support and faith

Abundance isn’t denial. It’s power rooted in belief.

No. Surrender is not quitting.

Giving up says:
“This isn’t meant for me.”

True surrender says:
“I release the timeline and the panic, but I still trust my desire.”

Surrender is about non-attachment—not detachment. You can still deeply want your baby while releasing control over how and when it arrives.

Obsession often comes from fear and attachment. The shift happens when you:

• Focus on who you are becoming
• Strengthen your faith in the outcome
• Learn to feel safe without immediate proof
• Celebrate small “everyday miracles”

Chronologically speaking, you have never been closer to what you want than you are right now. That perspective alone can calm urgency and increase trust.

Ready to think like the women who beat the odds and become the miracle mamas everyone else calls “lucky”?

• Apply for my curated, invitation-only Fearlessly Fertile Method® experience here: 👉 Submit your application
• If you’re in or approaching your Two Week Wait, get the Luxuriously Low-Stress Two Week Wait self-study course and give those 14-ish days a calm, confident structure.