In this episode, I’m so excited to welcome Megan Blacksmith, a brilliant speaker, NLP Trainer, and co-founder of Zesty and the Becoming Zesty Podcast. Megan is known for helping people create meaningful change from the inside out through her work with Functional NLP — a blend of neuroscience, holistic health, and compassionate coaching.

We explore how our subconscious mind shapes everything we do — from the habits we can’t seem to break to the way we think, feel, and even experience our bodies. Megan helps us understand why so many of our struggles aren’t about motivation or willpower, but about the hidden patterns and stories we’ve picked up along the way.

Megan and I talk about how transformation begins when we stop fighting ourselves and start working with our natural patterns. She shares powerful insights on how emotions show up in the body, how to bring awareness to self-sabotage, and how real change starts with compassion, not criticism.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ How Subconscious Patterns Shape Our Lives: Discover why your thoughts, beliefs, and emotions hold more influence than you think.

✨ The Power of Functional NLP: Learn how Megan blends the science of the brain with functional medicine for faster, more aligned change.

✨ Why Fighting Yourself Doesn’t Work: We talk about how trying to “fix” yourself actually blocks growth — and what to do instead.

✨ Tools for Gentle Transformation: Megan shares practical ways to begin shifting patterns from a place of compassion and self-trust.

This conversation is a beautiful reminder that transformation doesn’t have to be hard — it can be gentle, loving, and deeply aligned. 💛

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The new office is officially open! It’s not totally finished yet, but it already feels so full of love and new energy. I’ve been waiting to share this episode with you because it’s all about one of my favorite healing practices ever: EFT Tapping, also called the Emotional Freedom Technique.

If you’ve been feeling stuck in your fertility journey — like you’re doing everything right but still not seeing progress — this tool might be a piece that’s missing. EFT is a gentle, hands-on practice that helps calm your nervous system, regulate emotions, and release the stress that can silently affect your hormones, energy, and reproductive health.

I’ve used EFT for years in my own life and with patients, and I’ve seen how it helps women move from emotional exhaustion to true peace and clarity. Today, I’m sharing not just the “how,” but the “why” behind this incredible tool — and how you can start using it right now.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨Understanding EFT Tapping: Learn what EFT really is, how it works through acupressure points, and why it’s such a simple yet profound technique for emotional and physical healing.

✨From Pain to Peace — My Story: I share how EFT became part of my own healing after dealing with chronic pain and anxiety — and why it’s still my go-to tool for daily regulation and stress relief.

✨Science-Backed Healing: EFT isn’t just emotional work — studies show it helps calm the amygdala, activate the prefrontal cortex, and support long-term resilience and balance in the body.

✨The Emotional Side of Fertility: Discover how unprocessed stress, grief, and overwhelm can impact your body’s readiness to conceive, and how tapping creates emotional safety for true healing.

✨The 30-Day EFT Challenge: I’m hosting a free tapping challenge to help you explore this tool in real life — to release stress, find calm, and reconnect with yourself during your fertility journey.

Our emotions matter — not just in how we feel day to day, but in how our bodies function, heal, and create life. EFT Tapping is a reminder that emotional healing is physical healing too. I hope this episode inspires you to start tapping, feeling, and releasing what no longer serves you.

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In this episode, I’m joined by the amazing Renae Fieck — a mom of three, feminine leadership coach, and cycle-syncing expert who helps high-achieving women grow their businesses with more ease, flow, and balance. Renae shares her personal journey of building a business that allowed her to live fully now, not someday in the future, after facing her husband’s serious health challenges and raising three little ones.

We explore the world of cycle syncing — the powerful practice of aligning your work, creativity, and energy with the natural rhythms of your body. Renae helps us understand how our hormonal phases influence everything from motivation to focus, and how we can use this awareness to stop pushing through and start flowing instead.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨Understanding Your Cycle: Renae walks us through the four phases of the menstrual cycle and what’s happening in your body during each one.

✨Working With Your Energy: Learn how to plan your tasks, projects, and rest around your body’s natural peaks and dips for more productivity and less burnout.

✨Feminine Leadership in Action: We talk about redefining success, letting go of hustle culture, and embracing a slower, more intuitive way of leading.

✨Creating Space for Rest: Renae shares how giving yourself permission to rest isn’t a luxury — it’s a strategy for long-term growth and joy.

This episode is a gentle invitation to tune into your body, honor your natural rhythm, and discover how much more powerful you can be when you stop fighting your flow. 💛

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Welcome back to The Brilliant Fertility Podcast! It’s been a minute, and wow—life has been a lot lately. Between finishing our new building, trips, and my kids’ soccer schedule, my nervous system has been flooded. And that’s exactly what inspired this episode: exploring how the nervous system directly affects ovarian health and fertility.

In this episode, I dive into a brand-new study from UCSF published in Science, revealing how the nervous system communicates with the ovaries—and what that means for stress, ovulation, and egg quality. You’ll learn how your emotional and physical wellbeing truly shapes your fertility potential.

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Study Summary

Science Study

Journal Prompts: 

1. What are 3 things you are grateful for today and why? 
2. What is your current relationship to stress? How are you aware of stress in your mind and body? 
3. What resources, people, or places feel most supportive to you? What does that support look like and feel like?

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ Groundbreaking Study on the Nervous System–Ovary Connection: Discover how researchers identified glial cells and sympathetic nerve endings inside the ovary, showing a direct link between stress and ovarian function.

✨ Why Stress Impacts Ovulation: Learn how chronic stress hormones and “fight-or-flight” responses can suppress ovulation, alter egg maturation, and affect fertility outcomes.

✨ Understanding Sympathetic vs. Parasympathetic Balance: I break down how your body shifts between “fight or flight” and “rest, digest, and heal”—and why the latter is where conception thrives.

✨ Real-Life Nervous System Tools for Fertility Support: I share my favorite nervous system regulation practices—like journaling, tapping (EFT), and somatic awareness—to calm your body and support hormonal balance.

✨ Why Emotional Safety Matters in Fertility: We talk about how trauma, perfectionism, and people-pleasing can keep your body stuck in stress mode, and how creating a sense of safety can unlock your fertility flow.

This episode is a beautiful reminder that fertility is not just about hormones—it’s about the whole body, mind, and nervous system working in harmony.

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I’m so excited to share this beautiful conversation with Rebekah Kiger—a Trauma-Informed Master Mindset & Money Coach who helps women heal their relationship with money so they can create wealth with ease instead of burnout. Rebekah’s story is incredibly inspiring: from growing up below the poverty line and becoming a young mom at just 18, to transforming her life, building multiple six-figure businesses, and retiring from her corporate job at only 32. Today, she guides women to rewrite their money stories and step into true financial freedom.

In this episode, we dive into the energetics of money and how it connects to our nervous system, our sense of safety, and our ability to receive. Rebekah shares her wisdom on how past trauma can shape the way we interact with money and why healing these patterns is the key to stepping into abundance with more flow and less stress.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ How Rebekah shifted her money story from survival to financial freedom

✨ The powerful link between trauma, the nervous system, and your money patterns

✨ Why traditional “hustle harder” approaches to wealth can keep you stuck in burnout

✨ How to reframe your beliefs around money so that it feels safe, supportive, and expansive

✨ Practical tools and mindset shifts you can use to start creating a healthier relationship with money today

Rebekah brings so much compassion, honesty, and empowerment to this conversation. If you’ve ever felt like money is stressful, overwhelming, or just out of reach, this episode will give you hope, clarity, and a whole new way to look at what’s possible. 💛

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In this episode, I’m diving into a controversy  that’s been showing up everywhere lately- Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM) vs. IVF. 

If you’ve been scrolling through your social media feed and noticed some heated debates on these two approaches, you’re not alone. It can feel confusing and overwhelming to sort through the noise, especially when what you want most is a clear path forward in your fertility journey.

So, what exactly is restorative reproductive medicine? How does it differ from IVF? And most importantly, what does this mean for you as you make decisions about your own body and family-building journey? My goal in this episode is to unpack the controversy, highlight the strengths of both approaches, and bring you back to what really matters: your empowerment, your options, and your ability to choose what feels best for you.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

🌿 What is Restorative Reproductive Medicine (RRM)?: A look at how RRM identifies and treats underlying health conditions to restore fertility.

💡 The truth about IVF as a tool, not an ideology: Why IVF is a scientific miracle for many, and where it shines as the best option.

⚖️ Finding the middle ground: Why demonizing one approach over the other does a disservice to hopeful parents.

🧩 The importance of individualized fertility care: From nutrition and hormones to autoimmune conditions, there’s no one size fits all that works for everyone.

❤️ Your choices matter most: Why empowerment, compassion, and personal alignment are at the heart of successful fertility journeys.

At the end of the day, both RRM and IVF can be powerful tools. My mission is to give you clear information, grounded strategies, and the encouragement to choose what feels best for your unique path. Whether your journey includes natural fertility support, restorative medicine, IVF, or a combination of approaches, there’s room for all of it.

Sending you so much love as you navigate your journey. 

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I honestly never thought I’d record a fertility podcast episode about a Netflix movie called K-Pop Demon Hunters—but here we are. This story surprised me in so many ways. At first glance, it looks like lighthearted pop culture fun, but underneath the catchy songs and animated action is a powerful message about authenticity, voice, and healing old patterns.

In today’s episode, I’m sharing how this film unexpectedly ties into the fertility journey. Because whether you’re trying to conceive, breaking free from generational trauma, or simply longing to feel more like yourself, the deeper lessons of this story can help us all remember what it means to stand in our truth.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ Authenticity as the highest frequency: why showing up as your true self raises your vibration and supports healing on the fertility journey.

✨Breaking generational patterns: how the characters’ struggles mirror the subconscious beliefs and wounds many of us inherit and carry.

✨Facing what we’ve denied: the reminder that we can’t heal or shift until we stop resisting and start accepting what is.

✨The power of voice: how losing and reclaiming one’s voice in the movie mirrors the way our subconscious masks show up in real life.

✨Collective healing: why coming together in truth and authenticity awakens us and creates ripple effects in the world.

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Last week, I needed an escape. After months of uncertainty about our build and feeling overwhelmed, I took myself on a solo date to the forest. And it was magical.

What if slowing down, stepping outside, and immersing yourself in nature could boost your fertility? What if time among trees could lower stress, regulate your nervous system, balance hormones, and improve your chances of conceiving? In this episode of The Brilliant Fertility Podcast, I dive into the practice of forest bathing and the ways it can support fertility, health, and well-being.

Forest bathing, or Shinrin Yoku in Japan, is about tuning into your senses and connecting with green spaces. It’s not hiking or exercise—it’s pausing, breathing, and letting nature restore your body, mind, and spirit. Research shows forest bathing reduces stress and may support fertility by improving hormone function, immune balance, and pregnancy outcomes.

What was one of the stressors that drove me to the forest? Money. We don’t know our final build costs/mortgage yet, which feels soooo uncomfortable for a planner like me. When my biz mentor James Wedmore announced a 30-day money mindset challenge, I knew I had to join. If money stresses you out too, join us! (He’s offering a results guarantee if you do the work.)

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Forest Bathing Resources 

• Health Promotion and Disease Prevention 
• Stanford's Longevity Center
• 20-5-3 Rule

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

🌳 What forest bathing really means — how it engages your senses, creates mindfulness, and restores balance.

🌱 The link between stress and fertility — why lowering cortisol helps conception.

🌼 Immune system & fertility connection — and how tree compounds may play a role.

🌿 Practical, everyday ways to try it — even with walks or houseplants.

💑 Couples benefits — how nature time improves sperm quality, lowers stress together, and strengthens connection.

This is your invitation to create more space, calm, and connection—because your fertility journey doesn’t have to feel like a hustle. Whether it’s a walk in the park, a trip to the mountains, or placing your hands on a tree, forest bathing is a nurturing practice that supports both your nervous system and reproductive health.

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This week on The Brilliant Fertility Podcast, I’m diving into what it means to expand your emotional capacity and stay grounded in hope during overwhelming times. Trying to conceive can already feel like a rollercoaster—and when you add in the heaviness of world events, political stress, and daily challenges, it can leave you feeling exhausted, fearful, and emotionally drained. But the truth is, emotional resilience is a key part of preparing your body, mind, and heart for pregnancy.

In this episode, I share my own reflections as a mother, doctor, and fertility advocate on how we can continue to show up for ourselves and the next generation—even when the world feels upside down. Together, we’ll explore how to honor your feelings without letting them consume you, and how to use simple practices to restore balance, safety, and hope.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨Fertility and Emotional Resilience: Why your body’s wisdom is deeply connected to how you process collective stress and personal challenges.

✨The Power of Now: How being present, inspired by Eckhart Tolle’s teachings, can help you release fear and anxiety.

✨Practical Action Steps: Simple ways to take meaningful action (like contacting representatives or using the Five Calls app) to ease anxiety and step into empowerment.

✨Community and Connection: Why building a safe, supportive community is vital for fertility and emotional well-being.

✨Tools for Nervous System Regulation: From EFT tapping to movement and journaling, learn how to release emotions in healthy ways.

If you’ve been wondering how to move forward with hope when life feels uncertain, this episode will give you comfort, encouragement, and practical strategies. You’ll be reminded that holding the vision of your future child is one of the most powerful acts of love and hope you can offer in these times.

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Do you ever feel like no matter how hard you try, your healthy habits just won’t stick? In this episode, I continue our conversation on habits—why some patterns keep draining your energy and how to finally create small, nourishing changes that truly support fertility.

This isn’t about perfection. It’s about compassion, safety, and building a strong foundation for your body and mind. I’ll walk you through how habits form, why your nervous system sometimes resists change, and the exact steps to shift into routines that make you feel more grounded, hopeful, and supported on your fertility journey.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

🌿 Why habits matter for fertility: how daily routines reduce stress, regulate hormones, and create predictability your body craves.

💭 The biggest barriers to new habits: from all-or-nothing thinking to guilt loops, and why it’s not about willpower.

🪷 Simple fertility-supporting practices: like journaling, gentle yoga, protein-rich meals, and breathwork to nourish energy.

🫶 The role of emotional safety: why nervous system regulation is key to making habits last.

💞 Connection as a habit: how supportive relationships help you feel safe, seen, and less alone.

🌟 Celebrating small wins: why every tiny step counts and how returning to the habit is the practice.

This episode is a gentle reminder: habits are here to support you, not to overwhelm you. By starting small, stacking wisely, and celebrating along the way, you’ll strengthen your energy and create the foundation your fertility deserves.

Pick one tiny, compassionate habit this week—and let me know what it is! I’d love to celebrate it with you.

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