Tirza Jova, the founder of Milk by Mom in Phoenix, AZ, empowers breastfeeding mothers through her innovative breast milk freeze drying service available nationwide. With an MBA and 17 years in international business, she’s modernizing breastfeeding practices. Tirza's mission extends beyond local borders, educating nationwide on the advantages of freeze dried breast milk and the freedom and flexibility freeze-drying provides while maintaining the benefits and security of breast milk. 

Listen as Tirza discusses with Ellen and Jenn:

• Her background working in corporate American with medical device companies.
• Starting her family and navigating the obstacles of breastfeeding and pumping while traveling. 
• Learning about this technology – freeze drying breast milk – a true gamechanger.  
• Digging into the science and research, including the superior nutritional benefits over traditional freezing. 
• Starting Milk by Mom and enjoying bringing this innovation to other moms. 
• The logistics of Milk by Mom’s convenient shipping process, and customers receiving back a shelf-stable powdered form of mom’s breast milk. 
• Other benefits, including improved taste for high lipase breast milk and lasting for three years! 

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Learn more about Milk by Mom: https://www.milkbymom.com/

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Rachel is the owner of Adi Shakti Yoga; Therapy located in Longmont, Colorado. She has been practicing psychotherapy since 2014 and has 10 years of experience offering compassionate supportive counseling. She is a registered yoga & meditation teacher and has led women's groups and retreats.

Having been a single parent, as well as raised children in a blended family, she is now the mother of a young son born in the country of Georgia thanks to a surrogate mother and an egg donor. Through her psychotherapy practice called Nurture Yourself, Nurture Your Child, she is available to work with mothers, intended mothers, aspiring mothers, grandmothers, and any woman wishing to heal their inner child. She uses somatic practices, parenting approaches, attachment theory, and many other tools to help you find perspective on the broad spectrum of parenting possibilities as you learn to heal your own childhood and nurture yourself, your children, your relationships, and your work in the world. She is especially interested in helping other intended parents on the challenging and exciting journey of surrogacy.

Listen as Rachel discusses with Ellen and Jenn:

• Entering a second marriage in her mid-40s and very much wanting a child together.
• Struggling with monthly disappointments.
• Receiving an inheritance that allowed for the discussion of surrogacy.
• Having reconnected with a half-sister, exploring the possibility of her donating her eggs.
• Her husband having a long-time interest in Georgia, they were intrigued to learn that
• surrogacy was legal and supported in the country.
• Facing fears related to war in the region; but increasing her resolve after connecting and
• raising money for a non-profit.
• Enduring the ups and downs of an international surrogacy journey.

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Check out Rachel’s Substack: https://rachelrwilson.substack.com/

Learn more about Kundalini Yoga for Recovery: https://www.ky12step.com/nurture

Learn more about our podcast: https://iwanttoputababyinyou.com/

Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: https://www.brightfuturesfamilies.com/

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During the height of Covid, Melissa had the opportunity to take care of a baby born through surrogacy to a Chinese Intended Father. What was supposed to be a five week role turned into a nearly six month adventure of a lifetime and led to a deeply meaningful relationship between two families across the globe. It's a beautiful story of how the gift of surrogacy makes THE most amazing families and changes (so many) lives for the better.

With over 20 years of experience in marketing & business development, across the US and internationally, Melissa began her professional journey in Assisted Reproductive Technology as Events & Operations Director for Men Having Babies, the international nonprofit organization dedicated to providing its members and prospective parents with education and financial support throughout their surrogacy journeys. While at MHB, she had the extraordinary honor to produce conferences all over the world, inviting thousands of intended parents and leading service providers in the field to gather for educational forums and community building, concentrated on surrogacy and ART opportunities.

Melissa has also served as Director of Marketing and Business Development for several international surrogacy programs, focusing on growing the outreach program for qualified surrogates and donors by developing broad-scale events and marketing programs, as well as building strong relationships with partnering fertility clinics and ART professionals around the world.

Four years ago, Melissa founded a full-service creative agency helping businesses develop and deliver their brand promises. [

https://compasscreativeconsultants.com/]

She feels so fortunate to work with many thriving small businesses, and in particular to collaborate with those in the ART space and is immensely grateful for the meaningful work she is privileged to do on behalf of building families and to be a part of this beautiful, collaborative community of professionals.

Angela Rastegar is the founder and CEO of Sunfish Technologies founded in 2022, a financial platform focused on making parenthood affordable for all types of families. Sunfish’s mission is to bring financial inclusion to the ART (assisted reproductive technologies) community via a full service financial planning toolkit including loans, guarantees, grants, and guidance. Sunfish works directly with numerous IVF clinics, surrogacy agencies, and egg banks. The leadership team has expertise in health tech, fintech, consumer lending, and assisted reproduction. Angela has spoken at several recent events on the state of the economy and how it impacts consumer affordability in fertility, and the landscape of innovation on financial tools for assisted reproduction. Angela was most recently a Director at Circle Surrogacy and Egg Donation, and she holds a BA in Human Biology from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Listen as Angela discuss with Ellen and Jenn:

• Having experience building other companies.

• Seeing couples going through surrogacy and IVF shift in excitement when it comes to finances.

• Recognizing the need for more financial assistance tools when it comes to family building.

• Assisting families to find benefits through clinics or employers, grants, and other resources to help relieve financial stress.

• Navigating and balancing patient-doctor care with the increasing prominence of AI.

• Seeing hope that technology will reduce financial inflation.

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Learn more about Sunfish: https://joinsunfish.com/

Checkout Sunfish on social media: https://www.instagram.com/joinsunfish/; https://www.facebook.com/joinsunfish

Learn more about our podcast: https://iwanttoputababyinyou.com/

Learn more about our surrogacy agencies: https://www.brightfuturesfamilies.com/

Get your IWTPABIY merch here! https://iwanttoputababyinyou.com/merch

Learn more about Ellen’s law firm: http://trachmanlawcenter.com/