Friends With Fertility

This episode we are joined by Ashley Wray, creator of Mala Collective and meditation coach.

Meditation isn’t always easy. When Ashley first started meditating she found it difficult and frustrating at times to focus. But now she has grown to not only accept when her thoughts wander, but to enjoy it as it gives her another chance to practice refocusing her mind. 

Now Ashley is running her own business to help others reconnect with themselves. Through mala beads and meditation coaching, Ashley guides others through their meditation journeys to help them heal, overcome their fears, and learn to love and cherish themselves. 

Joins us this week as Ashley answers all of our questions around meditation and teaches us how to return to our true selves. 

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IG: @malacollective

IG: @ashley__wray

Website: ashleywray.co

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This episode we are joined by Monica Cox, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and Infertility Expert. 

Monica was told that she had unexplained infertility and was recommended IVF treatments. After two failed rounds that she and her husband paid for out of pocket, Monica became frustrated that the doctors weren’t trying anything new. That’s when a friend recommended her to a functional medicine practitioner.

Gut health was never something that Monica thought would be an issue. She had a healthy diet, or at least she thought she did. From there, Monica went on a journey of altering her diet and lifestyle to improve her gut health. The mother of two now uses her knowledge and experience to guide other women with infertility and help them find the information that she struggled so much finding herself. 

Joins us this week as Monica shares her journey of infertility and how changing her diet was her key for success. 

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Find Lacey:

IG: @findingfertility

Website: findingfertility.co

Podcast: Finding Fertility

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This episode we are joined by Lacey Madison, Marketing and Business Consultant and CEO of Soho Luxe Media. 

At the young age of 21, Lacey already has 7 years of business experience, is running a successful media company with her partner, and is expecting a baby boy. When she first found out she was pregnant, Lacey was overjoyed with her miracle baby, but soon started to feel the anxiety around having a baby and running a business. 

Now in her third trimester, Lacey and her partner are doing everything they can to prepare for the fourth quarter of the business year and their first child. Although she has a plan in place, Lacey knows that life comes with unexpected twists and turns. 

Join us this week as Lacey shares her experience of running a business and preparing for motherhood with all of its twists and turns. 

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Website: ByLaceyMadison.com

Instagram: @laceymadison_

YouTube: Lacey Madison

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In this episode, we are joined by Lauren Hubert, the Sorority Nutritionist. Lauren is a registered dietitian and online weight loss coach and is currently on a mission to change the way we talk about weight loss and the modern “diet culture”.

After gaining nearly 20 pounds as a freshman, Lauren was left struggling with her self-confidence and insecurity. Determined to lose weight, she began running for hours every day and cutting out calories from her diet, leading her to be super restrictive with her food choices and even scared to grab a drink with her sorority sisters. It wasn’t until she began studying nutrition that she realized her diet was a hot mess express and she was going about eating/exercising all wrong!

Join us as we discuss how Larens expertise also relates to the world of pregnancy, postpartum and your TTC journey!

It’s never too late to get healthy!

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Find Lauren:

Website: https://thesororitynutritionist.com/ 

IG: @sorority.nutritionist

Podcast: https://thesororitynutritionist.com/podcast/ 

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This episode we are joined by Monica Bivas, a mindset and holistic fertility coach, speaker, and author of the book The IVF Planner: A Personal Journal to Organize Your Journey Through In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) with Love and Positivity. 

Monica had never planned on having children until she met her husband and his daughter from a previous marriage. Spending time with her step-daughter sparked her maternal instincts. But when she started trying for a baby at 32, she did not realize it would be such a difficult journey.

Through IVF treatments, Monica was able to have a healthy baby girl, but when they tried for another four years later, her baby was stillborn. Monica tried to push away the grief and fill the hole in her heart by trying for another baby right away. This only caused her more pain and loss. She had to learn how to properly grieve and feel her emotions so that she could heal. 

Through her work and her books, Monica creates a safe space for people to fully experience their feelings, good or bad, and believes your mindset plays an important role in your fertility journey. 

Join us this week as Monica shares her story of loss and how she had to come to terms with her own feelings before healing and moving on. 

If you enjoyed this episode of the Pretty Little Tribe Podcast, make sure you rate us five stars wherever you're listening, and we’ll see you next week! 

Find Monica:

Website: MonicaBivas.com

Facebook: Monica Bivas

Book: The IVF Planner

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In today’s episode we are joined by Alison Prato, a mother of two, journalist, creator of Infertile AF the podcast, and co-founder of Fertility Rally.

Alison had her first child at 35 with no complications. When she and her husband began trying for a second child at 38, she had no idea that her age would make things more complicated. 

She experienced recurrent pregnancy loss and had four miscarriages before she was able to have her second child through IVF. The loss and struggle to stay pregnant put pressure on her marriage and made Alison feel lost and alone.

That’s why Alison created her podcast, where she gives people a platform to share their journeys with infertility and family building. She wanted to create something that was informative and entertaining while also normalizing the topic so that other people can see that they are not alone in their journeys. 

Join us this week as Alison tells us how she is contributing to the conversation of normalizing infertility and showing people they are not alone. 

If you enjoyed this episode of the Pretty Little Tribe Podcast, make sure you rate us five stars wherever you're listening, and we’ll see you next week! 

Find Alison:

Instagram: @infertileafstories

Instagram: @fertilityrally

Website: Infertile AF the podcast

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In today’s episode, we are joined by Kate Morton, a registered dietician and founder of Funk It Wellness. 

Kate spent 10 years on birth control from age 14 to 24. When she finally went off of it, she was experiencing PMS symptoms for the first time, and they were intense. As a dietician, Kate started to do her own research to get her cycle back to normal. 

That’s when she discovered seed cycling, where you eat certain types of seeds every day depending on where you are in your menstrual cycle. After just a few months, Kate found her painful PMS symptoms started to go away. 

Kate was so impressed with the results of seed cycling that she created her own business, Funk It Wellness, to make seed cycling easy and accessible to anyone that wants to try it. 

Join us this week as Kate answers all our questions about seed cycling and learns how the foods we eat affect our cycles. 

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Find Kate:

Instagram: @carbsandkate 

Instagram: @funk.it.wellness 

Website: FunkItWellness.com 

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In today’s episode, we are joined by Jenica Parcell. Jenica is a wife, mom of 2 IVF miracle twins, Infertility Coach and host of the Fearless Infertility Podcast.  

Jenica and her husband struggle with infertility for several years, going through 3 IUI’s and 3 rounds of IVF to eventually conceive their miracle twins, Harris and Goldie. After experiencing the struggles of infertility in silence for so long, they finally made the decision to share their story. 

After sharing their story online, they were surprised by how many people were actually struggling through the same journey. Since then she has been able to connect with thousands of others who are also struggling with infertility! 

Join us as we talk about Jenica’s infertility journey, her thoughts on listening to your body, instead of whatever one is telling you to do, and all of her amazing projects that are in the works! 

If you enjoyed this episode of the Pretty Little Tribe Podcast, make sure you rate us five stars wherever you're listening, and we’ll see you next week! 

Find Jenica:

Instagram: @thesliceofsun.infertility 

Website: https://thesliceofsun.com/ 

Podcast: https://thesliceofsun.com/blogs/podcast 

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Today’s Pretty Little Tribe Episode is JAM PACKED with so many topics, that no one is talking about. 

We are joined by Lauren Lobley, a mother of 2 on a mission to support other mamas in this enduring journey through motherhood! 

As a certified health coach, published cookbook author and yoga studio co-owner of 5 Point Yoga in Malibu, CA, Lauren's world was rocked off its axis when she became a mom in 2016 to her daughter, Madison Grace. She knew it would be challenging, but she wasn't prepared to be met with feelings that didn't seem welcome: resentment, anger, fear, a deep sense of loss and grief over her identity pre-child, and a sense of confusion as she tried to navigate who she was now.

She identified an inexcusable lack of support by her care providers as a new mother and after the birth of her second child, Liam Edward, in 2019, she decided she wanted to be a part of a movement to change that. The Mom Feed Podcast was born just 6 months after her son was, and with it came raw, honest conversations with experts in all fields pertaining to motherhood and parenting.

Join us as we talk about some very important issues that you need to be aware of and start setting your expectations for! 

If you enjoyed this episode of the Pretty Little Tribe Podcast, make sure you rate us five stars wherever you're listening, and we’ll see you next week! 

Find Lauren:

Instagram: @themomfeedpodcast 

Website: https://themomfeed.com/ 

Podcast: https://themomfeed.com/podcast/ 

Doctor Mentioned: 

Dr. Dawn DeSylvia, MD

Diplomate, American Board of Family Medicine

https://thecenterforwholehealth.net/about-our-team/ 

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In today’s Pretty Little Tribe Podcast episode, we are joined by Rachel Nielson. 

Rachel is the host of the @3in30podcast. A podcast where she gives her top 3 parenting tips in 30 minutes! 

We all know that struggling to conceive has become an ever-growing commonality amongst women, and Rachel is no exception. When Rachel was just 25 years old, she and her husband knew what her journey would look like with not being able to conceive on their own. They made the decision to embark on their adoption journey AND IVF journey at the same time, and she can tell you it was a wild one! 

Join us as Rachel speaks about her open adoption with her oldest son and also her IVF journey with her younger daughter.

If you enjoyed this episode of the Pretty Little Tribe Podcast, make sure you rate us five stars wherever you're listening, and we’ll see you next week! 

Find Rachel:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/3in30podcast/ 

Podcast: https://3in30podcast.com/ 

Flecks of Gold Journal: 3in30podcast.com/flecksofgold

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