Maybe Someday

Usually, when people talk about living life to the fullest, they mean having adventures and maximizing every moment for excitement. But I think living life to the fullest actually means having the freedom to go where life asks you to go and letting yourself experience the full range of human emotions—not just the pleasant parts.

Join Briena Sash, owner of Wellness Stock Shop, and I this week as we talk about how she lives life to the fullest and how her decision not to have children has played into this. Enjoy!

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Like many of the guests I've spoken with this season, Satya Purna knew she didn't want to have kids. What she did know was that she wanted to be her own boss. So that's what she set out to do.

This was such a rich discussion about honoring yourself and honoring what makes you come alive, following your gut, and thinking critically about the stories you hear—from yourself and from the world around you.

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Melanie Scott, the Intuitive Business Strategist, is my guest this week. She takes a spiritual and intuitive approach to being childfree by choice (and really, to making any life decisions). I think this is an important topic for us to cover on the show.

Over the last year, I have started tuning into my intuition and paying attention to how my thoughts affect my mood and it has truly improved my life. This ended up being such a rich and wonderful conversation about dealing with difficult feelings, trusting your gut, and following your heart, I invite you to join us.

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The focus for this season of the podcast has mostly been on stories about being childfree by choice. I've put myself in the childfree by choice camp because I've decided not to conceive a child or to raise one. But I always feel a bit uncomfortable talking about being childfree because I don't know that I am, exactly. But I don't feel that I have a kid, either.

Tune in this week to hear more about my own journey with stepmotherhood.

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Patricia Qhobela Jenkins always knew she didn't want to have biological kids. When she met and married her husband, she got two "bonus" kids in their teens.

On this episode, Patricia talks about what it was like for her to become a parent to those two kids and to be all in. I very selfishly treated this as an opportunity to get advice from someone who's been where I am now. If you're a step-parent yourself, I think you'll love this conversation, too.

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Jennifer Rogers never felt that ticking biological clock. So she and her husband (who also doesn't want kids) decided to focus their love on their four rescue dogs, their nieces and nephews, and their friends' kids.

On this episode, she shares a lot of hard-won wisdom about what it's like to step outside of the mainstream, what it's like to challenge the belief of "that's just the way things are" and really stop to think for a minute about what you want and why you want it.

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Tia Johnson grew up spending a lot of time with her grandmother and step-grandfather. When they died, Tia went through a period of deep grief and transformation. Tia's spiritual journey after the death of her grandparents helped her to redefine herself, her life, and her outlook on having children. Tia used to second guess becoming a mom because of how unsafe the world is. But after a lot of reflection and a lot of talking with people she trusts, she has changed her mind. She's decided that in spite of all that, she does want children. Now, she juggles a full-time job, running a business, and getting back into the dating scene.

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Sarah reflects on the conversations she's had recently about mixed feelings and potential regret around not having kids. Ambivalence doesn't have to mean that you're indecisive. It means that you're thoughtful and introspective about how you want to live your life.

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Sara Hopkins is ambivalent about having kids. She's decided that she won't have them, but she still struggles with the choice. She wonders why her ambivalence keeps showing up, she wonders what to do about her ticking biological clock, and she wonders whether she might be missing out on "the greatest love of all."

In this wide-ranging conversation, Sara and I talk about ambivalence, loss, friendships, intuition, and creativity.

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Leslie Cason is getting close to her "fertility expiration date", as she calls it, but she hasn't spent a lot of time thinking about it - until now. Our conversation explored ambivalence, grief, legacy, and restlessness towards the end of our fertile years.

Leslie is at the point in her life where she feels the clock running out, but she doesn't want kids badly enough to have them on her own. Still, she struggles with the idea that one day this decision won't be hers to make.

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