206: Heather Huhman: Beating Infertility

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Once Heather R. Huhman and her husband developed their careers enough to feel financially solvent, they decided it was time to start building their family. Unfortunately, the journey to motherhood was long and traumatic. In five years, Heather endured seven embryo transfers (three retrieval cycles with fresh transfers, four frozen transfers), four miscarriages, and stillborn twins before finally giving birth to her daughter Aurora prematurely in January 2016. Inspired by her own painful experience with infertility and pregnancy loss, Heather launched a twice weekly podcast called Beat Infertility in June 2015. The show features both infertility warriors and fertility experts to empower listeners to educate themselves and become their own self-advocates. In her professional life, Heather is the founder and president of Come Recommended, a PR company, and a regular contributor to Entrepreneur and Inc. Magazine. She resides in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband, their daughter, and their dog, Mackenzie. I have been deeply touched by Heather’s story and I am so grateful to have her on the show to share her experiences with infertility and relating to so many mothers who struggle with loss and grief around pregnancy. Listen in to hear Heather share: Her infertility story of enduring multiple miscarriages and stillbirths Her happy ending, that was still fraught with trauma Why she started an infertility podcast in the middle of her infertility journey How she thinks her podcast changed the course of her infertility The unexpected gifts and lessons of infertility What you can say to someone who is be going through infertility or has suffered a loss Links Mentioned: Heather’s Website: HeatherHuhman.com Heather’s Podcast: BeatInfertility.co Sara’s Interview on Beat Infertility Heather’s infertility journey: Ep 109, 110, 111 Beat Infertility on Twitter Beat Infertility on Facebook Beat Infertility on Instagram Thank you to our sponsors: Freshly: For fresh, fully cooked meals delivered right to your door. Save $25 off your first order of 6 meals at Freshly.com/podcast KIND: For healthy, delicious snack bars go to KINDsnacks.com/shameless to get 10 KIND Bars for free – just pay shipping! Bissell: For the easiest and most mess-free way to bathe your dog at home go to: BISSELL.com/shameless. Use the code SHAMELESS at checkout to get two FREE bottles of no-rinse shampoo with your order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 206 with Heather Human. Show notes for this episode,
0:05.7	including all links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to shamelessmom.com and clicking on
0:10.2	episode 206.
0:16.0	Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and other passionate,
0:21.9	dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood and living the life of your
0:26.2	dreams. I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day, because if you aren't
0:31.6	building a life you're extraordinarily proud of, what kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in.
0:40.2	Once Heather Human and her husband developed their careers enough to feel financially solvent, they decided it was time to start their
0:44.5	family. Unfortunately, the journey to motherhood was very long and traumatic. In five years,
0:50.1	heaven endured seven embryo transfers, three retrieval cycles with fresh transfers, and four
0:55.1	frozen transfers, four miscarriages and stillborn twins before finally giving birth to her
1:01.0	daughter Aurora prematurely in January 2016. Inspired by her own painful experiences with
1:07.2	infertility and pregnancy loss, Heather launched a twice-weekly podcast called Beat Infertility in June of 2015.
1:14.6	The show features both infertility warriors and fertility experts to empower listeners to educate themselves and become their own self-advocates.
1:22.9	In her professional journey, Heather is the founder and president of Come Recommended, a PR company, and a regular contributor to entrepreneur and ink magazine.
1:31.4	She resides in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband, their little daughter, and their dog, McKenzie.
1:36.9	I've been so touched by Heather's story, and I'm so grateful to have her on the show to share her experience with infertility,
1:42.3	and just to talk about her experience in relating
1:44.4	to so many other mothers who struggle with loss and grief around pregnancy. I've known Heather in the
1:50.2	online world for a while now as we've shared our stories with each other and with our communities
1:54.3	and it's been really inspiring just to see how graceful she is in how she shares and how she listens
2:00.4	and you'll just hear in her
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