Podcast appearances and mentions of lauren mackler

While Lauren was pitching Uber Health to their executive team, she felt a sharp, irregular pain in her stomach. With testing and a diagnostic surgery, she was diagnosed with an incredibly rare disease and was told she may not be able to have a biological child. As you can imagine, her first questions were: how do I navigate this disease? But also, how will I build a family some day?  Because so little is known about this disease, it was unclear if she could pursue egg-freezing, so she started looking into donation  and what stuck out to her was how antiquated and, for a lack of a better word, “icky” the traditional system felt.  While, ultimately, she was very fortunate to have her sister freeze her eggs and donate them to her to potentially use later, and was able to conceive her baby girl unassisted, she never stopped thinking about egg donation. I spent months thinking about the costly, and emotionally and physically taxing feats people go through to build a family, and couldn't believe no one has been talking about this and yet, egg donation is at the crux of so many other pieces of the industry. It's an essential part of LGBTQ+ family planning, it goes hand in hand with egg-freezing, and it's part of the process for many couples who go through infertility.  That's why in 2022, she founded Cofertility, to reshape fertility preservation and third-party reproduction so it's more accessible, human and community-driven. The company offers a destigmatized, scalable approach to egg donation, which reshapes the cost structure of egg-freezing by matching women who want to freeze their eggs with families who could not otherwise conceive and by donating half, women can freeze their eggs for free. Since their launch last fall, tens of thousands of people have applied to be a part of their egg-freezing programs, and they have activated hundreds of donors. They've also taken a firm stance against the historical, predatory practices that involve cash compensation and failing to provide fertility education for the donor's own reproductive future. In the egg-sharing model, which is what their Split program offers, there is a focus on shared outcomes rather than financial gain. All members get access to their online community, where people talk openly about their egg-freezing experience and support one another through it in real time and they welcome all intended parents — single or coupled, regardless of what brought them here — and support them with compassion and respect for whatever path is best for them.   Key takeaways from the podcast that listeners will learn today: The way we build families is more dynamic than ever and looks different for everyone. Cofertility exists to honor that and offers a destigmatized, scalable approach for bringing egg donation and egg-freezing together.  It's our goal to fix the broken egg donation system. Matching with an Egg Donor should be a positive experience. If you're looking for an egg donor — either due to infertility, cancer, a genetic condition, or not having eggs — you may already feel like the odds are stacked against you. The last thing you need is to feel like you're “shopping” for a human who plays a critical role in your family-building journey. And we'll never make it feel that way. We agree with ASRM that egg donor compensation can open the door for exploitation. Plus, a 2021 Harvard study found that 62% of donor-conceived adults felt the exchange of money for donor gametes was wrong, and 41% were troubled by the fact that money was exchanged around their conception. By allowing our donors to freeze their eggs as part of the process, our unique model honors everyone involved. Lauren speaks to intended parents struggling with second infertility all the time at Cofertility, and it's something her and her husband are going through right now on their journey to baby #2. It can be especially frustrating as it's surprising and stressful, but it's estimated that nearly one-third of the women who experience infertility are impacted by it. Favorite baby product or new motherhood product? What would you buy for someone who was currently pregnant or a new parent?:  The Snoo and taking Cara Babies' Sleep Schedule Who is Lauren? Lauren Makler is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cofertility, a human-first fertility ecosystem rewriting the egg freezing and egg donation experience. Previously Lauren was an early Uber employee and founded Uber Health, a product that enables healthcare organizations to leverage Uber's massive driver network in improving healthcare outcomes through patient transportation and healthcare delivery. After a rare disease diagnosis, Lauren's fertility journey led her to believe that everyone should have the opportunity to freeze their eggs–and that there should be better access to egg donors. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their miracle baby girl. Website: https://www.cofertility.com/   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cofertility/ + https://www.instagram.com/familybyco/ + https://www.instagram.com/freezebyco/ + https://www.instagram.com/laurenmakler/  Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/cofertility/  Other: https://twitter.com/cofertility + https://www.linkedin.com/company/cofertility/  XOXO -Heids We have seats available in Birth Story Academy. Join today for $20 off with code BIRTHSTORYFRIEND at https://www.birthstory.com/online-course!  Resources: Birth Story Academy Online Course Shop My Birthing Workbooks and Guides I'm Heidi, a Certified Birth Doula, and I've supported the deliveries of over one thousand babies in my career. On the Birth Story Podcast, I'll take you on a journey through your pregnancy by providing you education through storytelling. I provide high-level childbirth education broken down to make it super digestible for you because I know you are a busy parent on the go. Plus, because I am so passionate about birth outcomes, you will hear from many of the top experts in labor and delivery. Connect with Me! Instagram YouTube My Doula Heidi Website Birth Story Media™ Website  

Diagnosed with a rare abdominal disease that caused large masses in her abdomen, Lauren was told she may never have biological children. After exploring all of her options, she embarked on the path to motherhood with her husband. While on maternity leave, Lauren Makler, CEO, Co-Fertility Founder decided and felt a new passion for reproductive health care, which led to the creation of CoFertility. *Lauren states: "At its core, egg donation is someone doing something good and providing a life-altering opportunity for a family." "This stigma is a problem on multiple fronts. It discourages women from helping a family grow when that might be something they want to do. It leaves intended parents without options, and it especially hurts the LGBTQ community that needs to rely on egg donation for family planning."-Lauren Mackler on fastcompany.comWe'll be discussing: The stigma of donor conceived persons and donors.How CoFertility is A more thoughtful, human-centered matching, education, and communication platform for families in need of egg donation.How Freeze by Co Empowers women to take control of their fertility timelines by making egg freezing more accessible. Our Split program enables them to freeze for free when they donate half of the eggs retrieved to a family who can't conceive. Family by Co: A more thoughtful, human-centered matching, education, and communication platform for families in need of egg donation.Laurens's Fertility Struggles.What inspired parent company CoFertility?A more human approach leads to better egg donor and intended family match success, was this discovered during your research to build the new initiatives?00:25:00- Article written By Amber Ferguson, reporter/video editor of The Washington Post: Shortage of Black sperm donors in America.Submit your story to me via email at infertilityandme@outlook.com for a chance to record and end the stigma surrounding infertility. Connect with me on Instagram & watch on YouTubeSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/infertility-and-me/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Episode No. 493 features artist Buck Ellison and curator Lewis Tanner Moore. Buck Ellison is included in "Made in LA 2020: a vision," the fifth iteration of the Hammer Museum's biennial. The exhibition, curated by Myriam Ben Salah and Lauren Mackler with the Hammer’s Ikechukwu Onyewuenyi, opens to the general public on April 17 at both the Hammer and The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Gardens. Online and offsite projects by Larry Johnson and Kahlil Joseph, Ligia Lewis, and Justen LeRoy on view now. Ellison is a photographer whose work often engages the social codes (and excesses) of whiteness. "Living Trust," his first monograph, investigates the presentation of white privilege, often through staged and performed pictures. It won the 2020 Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook of the Year Award. Five Made in L.A. 2020 artists have been featured on The MAN Podcast: Monica Majoli and Mario Ayala; Jill Mulleady and Umar Rashid; and Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork. On the second segment, Lewis Tanner Moore discusses painter Louis Sloan, whose work is on view in "Barriers and Disparities: Housing in America" at the Sheldon Museum of Art. Sloan had a long, celebrated career as a painter, teacher and conservator in Philadelphia. Moore curated a survey of Sloan's work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2008.

Coach, best-selling author, and speaker Lauren Mackler discusses how to break free of the stigma of aloneness and shares how to create a sense of wholeness and well-being on your own or in a relationship.

Many people spend years waiting for a “soulmate” to complete them. Others settle for unfulfilling relationships out of fear of being alone. My guest, bestselling author Lauren Mackler, discusses her groundbreaking roadmap to help you achieve greater wholeness and self-mastery on your own and in a relationship. Her best selling book Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness and Transform Your Life is about freeing yourself from the shackles of your life conditioning and reclaiming your innate wholeness. It’s about shedding self-defeating patterns and becoming the person you were born to be. Rather than expect someone else to complete you, Lauren suggests “becoming the partner you seek”—your own cherished soulmate. This is not just a book, it’s a guide with powerful exercises. For more than 20 years, Lauren Mackler has helped individuals, couples, groups, and companies around the world to “live boldly”—helping them to liberate their potential and achieve the vision to which they aspire. She is a coach and psychotherapist, a media commentator for CNN and FOX, blogger for the Huffington Post, creator of Illumineering Coaching, Her work has been covered widely in the media, including NPR, Wall Street Journal, Whole Living, and many other media. Lauren is a faculty member at Babson College, guest lecturer at Harvard, and a featured presenter at Kripalu. Her website is: http://laurenmackler.com

Lauren speaks about the five years of running Public Fiction as an exhibition space in Los Angeles, as well as the on-going print publication of the same name; her collaborations with institutions, curators, and artists; and what it means for the exhibition to be treated as a medium.

Aired Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 2:00 PM ET Mastering the Art of Aloneness Many people spend years waiting for a “soul mate” to complete them. Others settle for unfulfilling relationships out of fear of being alone. My guest, bestselling author Lauren Mackler, discusses her groundbreaking roadmap to help you achieve greater wholeness and self-mastery on your own and in relationship. Mastering the Art of Aloneness is about freeing yourself from the shackles of your life conditioning and reclaiming your innate wholeness. It’s about shedding self-defeating patterns and becoming the person you were born to be. Rather than expect someone else to complete you, Lauren suggests “becoming the partner you seek” – your own cherished solemate. About the Guest: Lauren Mackler For more than 20 years, Lauren Mackler has helped individuals, couples, groups, and companies around the world to “live boldly” – helping them to liberate their potential and achieve the vision to which they aspire. She is a coach and psychotherapist, a media commentator for CNN and FOX, blogger for the Huffington Post, creator of Illumineering Coaching, and author of the international bestseller, Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness & Transform Your Life. Her work has been covered widely in the media, including NPR, Wall Street Journal, Whole Living, and many other media. Lauren is a faculty member at Babson College, guest lecturer at Harvard, and a featured presenter at Kripalu. Website: http://laurenmackler.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lauren-Mackler/68420561175 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LaurenMackler

A Special Quote for Theresa Boundaries emerge from deep within. They are connected to letting go of guilt and shame, and to changing our beliefs about what we deserve. As our thinking about this becomes clearer, so will our boundaries. Boundaries are also connected to a Higher Timing than our own. We’ll set a limit when we’re ready, and not a moment before. So will others. There’s something magical about reaching that point of becoming ready to set a limit. We know we mean what we say; others take us seriously too. Things change, not because we’re controlling others, but because we’ve changed. - From Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go   The People Pleasing Human Pretzel Is the admiration that accompanies mothering everybody in our lives, worth the giant gaping void we get from not taking care of ourselves? More than likely not, but many women don’t seem to change their sacrificial behavior until they feel like they have lost themselves or some even take it to the edge of dying inside. They twist and bend like a pretzel to make everyone else happy, simply because they are able to. So, how do we step out of codependency and save ourselves? By reprogramming ourselves to follow the IAMHABIT #2: having compassion for ourselves first and then sharing ourselves with others.    Newly Single but Not Ready to Mingle Theresa Nutt was divorced for 7 years before she considered dating again. She used the time to rediscover herself while working with coaches and counselors. She figured out who she was, as an adult. She praises the book, Solemate by Lauren Mackler, which she says gave her guidance and confidence as she transitioned and transformed. When she was finally ready to meet men again, she turned to an internet dating site.   Do Women Really Respond to This? Online dating can be overwhelming for the new female user. As soon as she posts her profile, hundreds of responses from “supposedly” eligible bachelors appear in her inbox. It can take days to sort through the half-dressed or sometimes full-frontal photos. Messages with subjects like “How do you feel about friends with benefits?” and “I feel like an axe murdered today” could be comical if they weren’t such a waste of time. As you know, a woman looking for a life partner is serious business.   Things are Not Always What They Seem Researching someone on the internet seems easy enough but it’s difficult to verify anything. It’s extremely important for women to know who they are dealing with when they communicate using an online dating site. If a recent contact tells you he is going golfing with the guys or a new connection tells you he is a soldier in Syria, you have to believe him or the conversation ends. Police say women are generally trusting of other people and, therefore, must be extra cautious. If you are wondering why the police got involved, listen to Theresa share her very personal story of being deceived online by a man for months to the point of being overwhelmed with all he was asking of her. She opens up about how he tricked her into falling for him and into sending him money.   Thanks to A big Curvy World thank you to Theresa Nutt. It took courage to share your story with us. You just might save another woman from wasted time and disappointment. Listeners, if you would like to know more about Theresa and her coaching services, visit her website Closeted Creatives. If you are in the midst of an online relationship and it is starting to make you uncomfortable or you notice a red flag you can contact Scamwarners to see if your prospective mate is a prospective fake.    Share Your Thoughts If you would like to share your thoughts and ideas with me you can connect on twitter with #curvyworldpodcast and/or @iamannpeck. On Facebook, you can join the private Curvyworld group and you have direct, private access through my email: ann@annpeck.com and be sure to check out my website, Annpeck.com. If you would like a copy of my “I Am Habits”, simply text Iamhabits (all one word) to 44222. Let me know how you found out about Straight Talk – I love collecting the stories.

International bestseller, SOLEMATE: MASTER THE ART OF ALONENESS & TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE by Lauren Mackler (Hay House, Paperback April 2010, Hardcover April, 2009,) lifts the social stigma of aloneness and provides a groundbreaking roadmap for gaining mastery of your life, so you can achieve a sense of wholeness and well-being on your own or in a relationship. It’s about treating yourself well, shedding your self-defeating patterns, and becoming the person you were born to be. Rather than depend on someone else to complete you, Mackler suggests “becoming the partner you seek”—your own cherished solemate.

David interviews Lauren Mackler, author of Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness & Transform Your Life. Lauren has been featured on CNN and Fox News as well as in The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, The London Daily Mail, Marie Claire and The Boston Globe.

About Lauren Bestselling author Lauren Mackler, is a renowned coach, keynote speaker, and popular radio and TV talk-show guest. Over the past 25 years, she has been a psychotherapist, workshop facilitator, corporate consultant, coach, and a leading authority in the areas of personal transformation, relationships, and professional performance. She is the author of the international bestseller Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness & Transform Your Life and fellow author of Speaking of Success with Jack Canfield, Stephen Covey, and Ken Blanchard. In 2001, she founded Lauren Mackler & Associates, integrating her diverse experience to offer coaching programs, workshops, and keynote presentations that help people unleash their greatest potential in their personal lives, careers, relationships, and organizations. Lauren is the host of the weekly Life Keys radio show, every Thursday from 1-2 pm ET on www.hayhouseradio.com. Before entering the personal development field in 1982, Lauren worked in the entertainment industry as a TV host with Matt Lauer on the PM Magazine television show and as a singer with the recording group Tuxedo Junction. Prior to founding LMA, Lauren worked as a coach and consultant at Right Management, served as Vice President of Learning & Organizational Development at Boston Financial, and led Arthur Andersen's New England People Strategy & HR Management consulting practice. She lived in Germany for eight years, where she worked as a mind-body psychotherapist and workshop facilitator. A pioneer in integrating the principles of psychoimmunology and holistic healing in her workshops and counseling practice, her groundbreaking work drew national attention in Germany in the early nineties, including television appearances and media interviews. Drawing from her diverse background, Lauren frequently appears as a keynote speaker and is a member of the National Speaker's Association. She is a guest lecturer at Brandeis University and served as an

Lauren Mackler, an innovator in activating human potential, is a renowned coach, keynote speaker, and popular radio and TV talk-show guest. Over the past 25 years, she has been a psychotherapist, workshop facilitator, corporate consultant, and a leading authority in the areas of personal transformation, relationships, and professional performance. She is the author of Solemate: Master the Art of Aloneness & Transform Your Life and a fellow author of Speaking of Success with Jack Canfield, Stephen Covey, and Ken Blanchard. You can visit Lauren’s website at www.laurenmackler.com.