Today’s wonderful guest is Cameron Rogers! Cam has built her career advising high net-worth clients on professional investing and wealth management, and recently made the decision to invest in her future through egg freezing. First off, she shares her thought process behind her choice and the social components that she has faced as a single, career-minded woman. She explains the emotional, physical, and financial investment that fertility preservation requires and talks about how meaningful community was during the process. PS - this is a great episode to listen to if, like me, you have ever felt pressure from others to start a family!

 

• [04:32] About Cam Rogers and her process leading up to freezing her eggs.
• [16:12] Cultural pressures related to dating, career success and other life choices.
• [19:49] Cameron’s egg freezing experience.
• [24:33] Julia’s experience with freezing her eggs.
• [26:20] The emotional and financial components of egg freezing.
• [39:00] What does family mean to Cam?

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

 

• Egg freezing is a physical, financial, and emotional investment in a possible future – one that isn’t even defined or a promised future.
• Women often experience hurtful societal pressures from family and friends to be in a relationship or start a family by a certain age. This pressure is usually compounded by a woman's own personal desires for a family which can make egg freezing deeply personal and isolating. In Cameron’s experience, she was privileged to have felt and found a supportive community during the process.
• In a perfect world, every young woman in her early twenties would start saving for egg freezing. In a more perfect world, we wouldn't have to because insurance programs would cover it. 

 

Resources:

 

@camrogers33

 

https://www.ellevest.com/private-wealth-management/how-were-different

 

https://instagram.com/ellevest

 

BIO:

 

Cameron has built her career advising both high net worth individuals and some of the country’s largest institutional investors. At Ellevest, she advises clients around matters including generational transitions of wealth, investing for financial and social impact, and institutional investment strategy. She has more than a decade of professional investing and wealth management experience, most recently at J.P. Morgan. Cameron has degrees in finance and international business from Georgetown University, and is a CFA charterholder. She is a board member for the Beyond Sport Foundation, an organization that celebrates, supports, and provides funding for organizations using sport to help make the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) a reality. She is also involved with Women for Women International.