What happens when the determination that helped you build a successful career cannot guarantee the family you dreamed of creating?

In this episode of Wellness in Every Season, Autumn speaks with Dr. Marline C. Duroseau—fertility advocate and coach, author, TEDx speaker, leadership executive, resilience expert, and founder of MCD Business Enterprise. Drawing from her own infertility journey and doctoral research on women leaders navigating infertility, Dr. Mar explores the painful intersection of ambition, reproductive health, stress, grief, identity, and workplace expectations.

Together, they discuss why telling women to “just relax” is rarely helpful, how fertility struggles can affect concentration and performance at work, and why many women feel forced to choose between career growth and family-building. Dr. Mar also shares how high-achieving women often continue performing at extraordinary levels while privately carrying medical appointments, pregnancy loss, hormonal changes, emotional exhaustion, and uncertainty.

This conversation offers space to reconsider success, create a Plan B without viewing it as failure, listen more closely to your body and intuition, and separate your true desires from cultural, religious, workplace, and family expectations.

Dr. Mar also discusses motherhood beyond pregnancy, asking for support, emotional regulation, workplace flexibility, and why women do not need to prove their strength by carrying everything alone.

Connect with Dr. Mar at mcdbe.com, follow @mcdbe and @ladymarduro on Instagram, find her on LinkedIn and YouTube, and watch her TEDx talk, The Secret Battle Behind Powerful Women Leaders.

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