Mind Over MRKH

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Ellamae and Natalia

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Join Ellamae and Natalia on this special International Women’s Day episode as they celebrate womanhood beyond diagnosis. They share personal stories of resilience, creativity, and the power of giving within the MRKH community. Discover how advocacy links to personal growth and hear about groundbreaking events like the MRKH One global gathering. The episode delves into the realities of womb transplants and explores diverse expressions of womanhood. Whether you're navigating your own journey or supporting others, this episode offers inspiration and a reminder that every story deserves to be heard. Tune in for insights on identity, resilience, and redefining womanhood.

Welcome to this podcast episode with Molly McGlynn, with host Ellamae from Mind Over MRKH! Follow us on Instagram and TikTok for bonus Qs on camera!

This episode is sponsored by Mira which is a hormone tracking device using urine samples which links to an app, where you can obtain detailed knowledge of your hormones throughout any day. Keep an eye on our Instagram where we'll be telling you loads more!

All of our podcast sponsorships are reinvested into our wider MRKH work.

To donate to our MRKH work, please visit our Mind Over MRKH not-for-profit crowdfunder

Molly McGlynn is an Irish, Canadian and American writer, director and producer.

Her first feature film, Mary Goes Round, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017 and has screened at dozens of film festivals and won multiple awards, including the Panavision Independent Cinema Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, Best Feature Film at the Vail Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at the Annapolis Film Festival. The film was nominated by the Directors’ Guild of Canada for awards in Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Feature Film and Best Editing in a Feature Film. In January 2019, she won the Stella Artois Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association which recognizes an emerging Canadian talent who is positively affecting the direction of Canadian cinema.

Selected television credits include Workin’ Moms (CBC/Netflix), The Wonder Years (ABC/Hulu), Grownish (Freeform), Grace and Frankie (Netflix) and The Big Door Prize (Apple). Additionally, she was the producing director on Season 2 of Bless This Mess. Most recently she served as an Executive Producer and directed all six episodes os Irish Blood (Acorn/AMC) starring Alicia Silverstone.

Her second feature film, Fitting In, (fka Bloody Hell), starring Maddie Ziegler and Emily Hampshire, had its World Premiere at SXSW in the Narrative Spotlight section in March 2023. Its International Premiere was at the prestigious Deauville American Film Festival and its Canadian premiere was at the Toronto International Film Festival. It won Best Canadian Feature Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival and was nominated for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film by the Directors Guild of Canada. In 2025, Fitting In was nominated for a GLAAD award for Outstanding Film – Limited Theatrical Release.

Fitting In was released theatrically in the US (Blue Fox Entertainment) and Canada (Elevation Pictures) in February 2024 and is available in the UK and Ireland in September 2024. It is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

Podcast Artwork by Jewel Waara, an MRKH advocate in Canada. Podcast sound by Issie and Kayley, MRKH advocates in the UK.

We are so excited to be sharing this exciting event for this pre-launch episode ⁠Get your tickets now⁠ and ⁠read all about it!⁠ We are relaunching our ⁠podcast ⁠with a special invite to a global event that we are proud to be co-creating, along with multiple other organisations, MRKH One.19th February is Carl Rokitansky's Birthday and today we are celebrating the birthday of him, and the birth of MRKH One, a global event.

REGISTER HERE:

https://events.humanitix.com/mrkhone2026

You Are Not Alone.20th - 22nd February (timezone dependent)

A 24-Hour Worldwide Online Event

The Power of One.
One diagnosis. One day. One community that stands together.

International MRKH Day exists to shine a light on every person impacted by MRKH — their journeys, voices, and dreams.
It is a day where our community comes together across borders to be seen, heard, and held with compassion, understanding, and hope.

This global event brings that mission to life.

MRKH is rare — but the experience is not.

From diagnosis to identity, from fertility to relationships, from isolation to resilience — the MRKH journey is shared across countries, cultures and generations.

On this one powerful day, the world will pause to say:

You matter. Your story matters. You are not alone.

A continuous 24-hour global program featuring:

• Lived-experience advocates from around the world

• Medical specialists & researchers

• Psychologists & wellbeing professionals

• Regional spotlights across continents

• Trauma-informed panels, education and connection spaces

• Some sessions delivered in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

• Webinar style sessions to protect participant confidentiality.

Join for one session or stay for many — the program flows across time zones so everyone can belong. One ticket gives you full access to the 24 hour event.

This event is for:

• People with MRKH

• Parents, partners & loved ones

• Healthcare & allied health professionals

• Advocates, researchers & students

• Anyone who believes lived experience should shape care

This space will be:

• Compassion-led

• Inclusive

• Trauma-informed

• Evidence-based

• Community-centred

You will never be pressured to share — but you will always be welcome.

The Power of One begins with you.

One diagnosis.
One day.
One global community standing together in courage, connection and hope.

Our MissionWhy This Day MattersWhat To ExpectWho This Event Is ForOur Promise To YouJoin The Global Community

THE POD IS BACK! With some older episodes that I have never got round to editing!

Elsie is an amazing advocate of MRKH, having gone viral on TikTok talking all things vaginal dilation!

Due to some tech difficulties last year when recording this episode, we will be re-recording some of the later questions and answers.

I am in so much awe of Elsie's advocacy journey online, she will be helping so many people!

vavawomb.com/mindovermrkh

WE ARE BACK WITH AN MRKH POWER HOUSE!

A big welcome to Frost!

During her youth, she performed opera at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Sydney Opera House,

and others, as the youngest member in the concert ensemble of Grammy Award winning Choir,

Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Now, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, as a second year student at

PRATT Institute, obtaining her Film BFA and minor in entrepreneurship while actively pursuing

several projects, such as her LLC freelance company. Born in San Francisco, raised in New

York City. Global Traveler, Avid explorer, and multilingual.

She aspires after the works of Barbara Kopple and Agnes Varda, with a strong interest in documentary filmmaking.

Follow the documentary @mrkhdocumentary and Frosts main instagram @frosttmartin.

Big thanks to MRKH Connect for sponsoring this Podcast.

Elizabeth is an MRKH advocate in Nigeria, one of the first women with MRKH in Nigeria to raise awareness and form a support network. Elizabeth is 26 and was only officially diagnosed with MRKH last year. Read a short blog from Elizabeth she did for MRKH Connect here and listen to the full episode to hear her story!

This Podcast is sponsored by our wonderful friends @MRKHCONNECT who are raise funds to connect, research and fund MRKH support and awareness. 

Listen to our full trailer here! 

Find out more about Mind Over MRKH

Sorry about my intro, issue with the sound and will resolve ASAP!

An extra special long episode because Marianne has a big story to tell.

On this episode we cover:

We get to meet a very special guest, her daughter Lydia. And this is a fully candid episode with minor edits for anyone considering womb transplants, picked for trials, to hear an honest, raw account of womb transplants from someone that's been through them. From her voice, not through a media lense. From her heart, not through click bate. 

If you have any questions for Marianne, let us know! 

This Podcast is sponsored by MRKH Connect

Archana AKA Purbi is an MRKH warrior from India. She is the founder of Indian MRKHers Corner and MRKH India Facebook group. She is also a BYMRKH Ambassador representing India Globally. For a living she works at PepsiCo and has 13 years experience in social media analytics, consumer insights and strategic consulting with different companies and industries. 

Find out more about Purbi over on Instagram @purbi_mrkh_india

Sponsorship:

This Podcast is receiving regular sponsorship from our friends and charity MRKH Connect. 

Listen to our full intro here

MRKH Connect is a UK charity designed to connect those with MRKH and provide support to those with MRKH and their families through events, resources and public outreach to raise awareness for MRKH.  Their private Members area provides a safe space for those with MRKH from all over the world to connect and share together in a safe environment and find comfort talking with those who truly understand what having MRKH is like.

 Excited to be speaking to our friend Evangeline (Evie) Plumb, she is a Digital & Creative Strategist + Sex Educator.

She has a keen interest in all things pleasure, sex ed and illustration and is qualified in teaching RSE (sex education) through ACET + a proud ambassador for the youth-led charity - Fumble.

Evie created Cliterally The Best in July 2020 amid the pandemic in the hope to help others who have also been failed by their sex ed (or lack of) and unlearn all the myths surrounding their bodies and sex in a shame-free way.

She was also recently nominated for the Brook & SH24 NHS sexual health awards and has been featured in Forbes magazine for her mental health illustrations!

She currently works full-time for the wonderfully sustainable period, sex & bladder care brand, Here We Flo and runs Cliterally The Best as a side hobby!

To keep up-to-date with her latest content, follow her on the Sex Positive Instagram + checkout The Sex-Positive Blog for the latest articles.

Plus after finding herself allergic to all lubes, Evie created her own all natural, water-based aloe vera lube!

Check out this episode for Mind Over MRKH where Evie and Ellamae chat about all things Cliterally The Best, pleasure, orgasms, consent and more!

Episode 12: Joaneva is a woman with MRKH and the founder of MRKH Africa Foundation. She grew up in Kenya and this is a little about her lift with MRKH.

After being diagnosed with MRKH as a 23 year old woman, Joaneva began to research MRKH and not long after diagnosis' she was helping others in Kenya to form connections and built her foundation, MRKH Africa. 

Joaneva talks about how she felt utterly broken, so much so that to touch her skin would hurt - she was empty and felt alone. She tells us about how faith has healed her, along with connecting with others and climbing her own mountain of advocacy. She tells us what being a woman means to her- so much more than a body!

So many beautiful, wise, words. I had shivers and tears as we spoke!

Follow Joaneva here on Instagram, and find support in Africa here

Sponsorship:

This Podcast is receiving regular sponsorship from our friends and charity MRKH Connect. 

Listen to our full intro here

MRKH Connect is a UK charity designed to connect those with MRKH and provide support to those with MRKH and their families through events, resources and public outreach to raise awareness for MRKH.  Their private Members area provides a safe space for those with MRKH from all over the world to connect and share together in a safe environment and find comfort talking with those who truly understand what having MRKH is like.