Surrogacy Mentor #NormalizeSurrogacy Podcast

Apr 25 2024 6
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Join experienced gestational surrogate, surrogacy industry veteran and award-winning former surrogacy agency owner Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and CEO of SurrogacyMentor.com, as she aims to normalize surrogacy. Joined by her co-host, 3 time gestational surrogate Marielle Schuberth, they aim to spread awareness by educating and sharing personal stories about gestational surrogacy from experienced surrogates, medical and legal professionals, parents via surrogacy and others whose lives have been changed by surrogacy. Let's #normalizesurrogacy !

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Episode 66: The Empowered Space.Navigating Infertility and Surrogacy As An Intended Parent With Alex Kornswiet

Apr 25 2024 43 mins  
Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor, as she speaks with Alex Kornswiet, known as @ourbeautifulsurprise on social media and mom of three and founder of The Empowered Space.Listen as they discuss:Alex's personal journey through infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, and surrogacy, and how these experiences shaped her approach to motherhood and her

Episode 65: Let's Talk About Sex Education with Rachel Ginocchio, MPH

Apr 11 2024 34 mins  
Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with author, educator, and consultant Rachel Ginocchio, MPH. Listen as they discuss:Sex education in schools today and the need for assisted reproduction, including insemination, IVF, donor conception, and surrogacy to all be included in classroom instruction.Why Rachel wrote her book

Episode 64: Navigating a Late Term Termination as a Surrogate

Mar 28 2024 29 mins  
Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with Tawni Boedeker, experienced surrogate and Coordination Manager for All Families Surrogacy. Listen as they discuss:Tawni's experience with a late term termination as a surrogate in her first surrogacy journey.How she and her intended parents leaned on each other to honor the

Episode 63:Surrogate Psychological Evaluations Shouldn't Be Scary- With LCSW Karyn Rosenburg.

Mar 14 2024 32 mins  
Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with Licensed Clinical Social Worker and PMH-C, Karyn Rosenberg. Listen as they discuss:The stigma behind a psychological evaluation, and why it shouldn't feel intimidating.Why Karyn refers to them as psychoeducational screenings over psychological evaluations.What you can expect

Episode 62: Becoming a GC as an experienced IVF Mom, with Alison

Mar 06 2024 31 mins  
Join Marielle Schuberth, 3-time surrogate and Intake Manager for Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with experienced GC, IVF Mom of 2 and Certified Life and Fertility Coach, Alison as they discuss discuss: Alison's personal struggle with infertility.How that struggle led her to gestational surrogacy and starting a career as a Certified Life and Fertility Coach wi

Episode 61: Alabama Supreme Court Ruling and Other Reasons Religion Shouldn’t Be Making Fertility Decisions with SEEDS Board Member Lisa Stark Hughes

Feb 28 2024 48 mins  
Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with SEEDS panel member and GS Moms Surrogacy Agency Owner Lisa Stark Hughes. Listen as they discuss:The history of surrogacy in religion.How different religions view surrogacy. How religion played a big part in the new Alabama Supreme Court ruling on IVF.Why personal and religious vi

Episode 60: What Fertility Clinics Wish You Knew, With Dr. Susanna Park of SDFC

Feb 20 2024 38 mins  
Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Specialist Dr. Susanna Park of the San Diego Fertility Center. Listen as they discuss:Why medical screening is so important for a GC.Dr. Park's take on transferring more than one embryo at a time.Why there is no such thing as a &qu

Episode 59: Catching Up with SEEDS President, Molly O'Brien, Esq.

Feb 15 2024 31 mins  
Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with current SEEDS President and International Fertility Law Group partner Molly O'Brien, Esq. Listen as they discuss:How Molly plans to implement change in the surrogacy industry with her new role as the President of SEEDS.How Molly's job in film production led her to start

Episode 58: Navigating IP relationships with GC Raya

Feb 08 2024 43 mins  
Join Marielle Schuberth, 3-time surrogate and Intake Manager for Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with special guest current gestational surrogate, Raya, as they discuss: What first interested her in gestational surrogacy?The complexities involved with IP/GC relationships.Why she feels it is important to be educated and committed to the surrogacy process.How the exp

Episode 57: Ethical Surrogacy. An Interview Brownstone Surrogacy Agency

Feb 01 2024 26 mins  
Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with Brownstone Surrogacy Founder and Executive Director Jarret Zafran, and Director of Surrogate Services Yesenia Lemus. Listen as they discuss:Brownstone's perspective on the surrogacy process and the surrogacy industryHow Jarret's own road to parenthood inspired him to q