As this year comes to a close, many people on a fertility journey reach a painful realization: a positive pregnancy test before the end of the year just isn’t possible. That moment can bring grief, frustration, and a sense of hopelessness, or even the thought of “Why even keep trying?” If you’ve been feeling stuck, discouraged, or unsure how to move forward, this episode is for you.

2025 has felt especially heavy for so many, filled with loss, uncertainty, and experiences that pushed people to their limits. While we can’t change what this year held, we do have choice in how we prepare for what’s next. In this episode of The Brilliant Fertility Podcast, I share three gentle, powerful steps to help you clear physical, emotional, and energetic space as you intentionally prepare for 2026. This is not about forcing positivity—it’s about honoring what you’ve been through and creating room for healing, hope, and fertility.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ How Year-End Fertility Pressure Affects the Nervous System: I explore why the realization that “this year is off the table” can impact motivation, self-care, and emotional resilience during infertility.

✨ Why 2025 Felt So Hard & How to Release It: We talk about collective heaviness, grief, and the sense of shedding that many experienced this year, and how you can consciously move forward.

✨ Step One: Clearing Physical Space to Create Fertility Flow: I explain how organizing and decluttering—even ONE small space—can shift stagnant energy, reduce overwhelm, and support hormonal and emotional balance.

✨ Step Two: Letting Go of What No Longer Serves You: Through journaling and reflection, I guide you to identify beliefs, habits, and emotions you’re ready to leave behind as you close out 2025.

✨ Step Three: Designing Your Ideal 2026: I invite you to imagine what you want—sensory details included—while noticing fears, resistance, or subconscious beliefs that arise around pregnancy and joy.

✨ Understanding Subconscious Beliefs in Infertility: We discuss how unspoken fears, medical trauma, and scarcity thinking quietly shape fertility outcomes—and how awareness is the first step to release.

✨ The Role of Intuition and Safety in Conception: I share why intuition, nervous system support, and feeling safe in your body are essential foundations for fertility and healing.

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This episode is a sticky one and an important one. I’m exploring the rising rates of infertility we’re seeing globally, what might be contributing to this shift, and most importantly, the steps we can take to protect our fertility, our environment, and our sense of hope.

There’s a mix of existential anxiety and empowerment woven into this conversation, because that’s exactly where so many of us live on the fertility journey. 

My intention, as always, is that you leave feeling more grounded, more informed, and more connected… both to your body and to our shared humanity.

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What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ Why infertility rates are rising worldwide: I walk through the updated data (from 1 in 8 to nearly 1 in 6), what this means for fertility awareness, and how this shift shows up for real people on their TTC journey.

✨ How environmental toxins impact conception: We explore PFAS “forever chemicals,” pesticide exposure, clean water, nutrient-dense food, and how environmental health directly affects egg quality, sperm health, hormone balance, and long-term fertility outcomes.

✨ The emotional toll of living in an overwhelming world: I talk about navigating doom-and-gloom headlines, how the nervous system contracts under stress, and why taking breaks from the news can be a powerful fertility support tool.

✨ New technologies, AI, and the fear of the unknown: A gentle dive into artificial intelligence, planetary resources, and why so many of us feel unsettled…and how to hold that tension without shutting down.

✨ What you can do to support your fertility (even when the world feels heavy): From conscious environmental choices to community, mindfulness, detox support, and regulating your nervous system - the small but meaningful steps that truly matter.

Even though some of these topics feel big, heavy, or existential, you are not powerless. You are not alone. And you were never meant to do this journey in isolation. The babies coming through right now are wise, intentional souls. They are choosing you! They are choosing this moment in history for a reason, even if it makes no logical sense to us at the moment.

If you need real human connection after this episode, I’m here. You can always send me a DM or reply to the email you got about this episode. Sending you so much love, strength, and hope as you navigate your fertility journey. 💛

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This time of year brings up so many feelings…some joyful, and some overwhelming. And for those who are TTC, the end-of-year fertility anxiety can really sneak in. In this episode, I talk about the pressure December can create, why time feels so emotional on a fertility journey, and how to reconnect with trust, intuition, and your own inner knowing when everything feels “behind schedule.”

I’m sharing a personal story from my own TTC experience, as well as the beautiful pregnancies, miracles, and transformations happening inside the Brilliant Fertility community. My hope is that this episode gives you more than comfort — that it gives you a felt sense of possibility, hope, and relief.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ Why the final month of the year can trigger fertility anxiety: Discover the psychology behind timelines, comparison, and the pressure we put on ourselves when December rolls around during the TTC journey.

✨ My own story of conceiving after a hard year: I share what it felt like to face a December without a positive test — and how I eventually conceived after releasing pressure and reconnecting with trust.

✨ Real fertility success stories from this season: Hear stories about pregnancy after loss, thyroid issues, and long timelines — and what helped shift their journey.

✨ The role of intuition and nervous system regulation in conception: Learn how connecting with your body, listening to your inner voice, and calling in your baby’s spirit can support your conception journey.

✨ Why consistency matters more than perfection: Understand how nutrition, sleep, acupuncture, thyroid support, vitamin D, and emotional wellbeing work cumulatively — not instantly — and why the “small things” matter.

Even if this month feels heavy, uncertain, or full of grief, you are not behind. Your body is not behind. Your timeline is not wrong. There is room for hope, healing, and magic. Stay consistent with the things that support you, give yourself grace, and remember that so much can change in the course of a few months.

If you feel called to go deeper, you can schedule a discovery call with me, explore the Brilliant Fertility Program, or simply stay connected for new offerings coming next year. Sending you so much love this December. ❤️

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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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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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