231. The Kids Or Childfree One ft. Keltie Maguire

Finding Mr. Height: The Podcast

Ali Jackson

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.2 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Are you struggling with the decision to have children or not? Or worried about making that decision in the future? Clarity coach Keltie Maguire is here to help! She and Ali chat about Keltie’s personal journey with the decision that led her to her current work, how societal pressures impact the choice, and how to have more grace with ourselves during indecision. Is there data on future regret on both sides of this choice? What if you never “just know” one day? What’s the best way to navigate this decision with a partner? These are just a few of the questions this episode gets into!

Before Keltie joins, Ali chats a bit about her own journey being undecided about kids and how her recent binge of Southern Charm’s early seasons brought this topic to the forefront of her mind.

Where to find Keltie: On Instagram @kidsorchildfree, on TikTok @kidsorchildfree, at www.kidsorchildfree.com.

Timestamps: Keltie joins us at around minute 18.

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0:00.0	What comes up are probably like the stereotypes associated with each path.
0:03.9	And I think there can be some truth for some people some of the time.
0:06.7	But for example, with being child free, and we, you know, we just addressed this, but like loneliness,
0:12.4	not having someone to care for you in old age.
0:15.1	Like these are really, I would say most of the concerns that people have around being child
0:18.9	free.
0:19.4	And we could say having kids, but they're, like,
0:21.2	especially future-oriented.
0:33.5	Hello and welcome to other episode of Finding Mr. Hyde the podcast. I am your host,
0:37.0	Ali Jackson. I am bringing you my positive and practical approach to dating that is built from my own experiences in the dating trenches across the years, what I've learned in therapy. And I'm bringing that to you in podcast form every week. I really love doing this. And I'm just so grateful to all of you for being here, for being
0:54.5	listeners. And just thank you so much. I just, I can't, I can't express enough how much
0:59.6	your DMs and comments mean to me. And if you are loving the show, I would so appreciate a five-star
1:05.3	review. That is how advertisers and new listeners find us. It helps grow the show. It helps me be
1:10.3	able to keep doing what I love
1:11.5	doing. And I just really appreciate it so much. This week, I am pumped for the topic.
1:18.4	This has been a long time coming for me personally. I know I've talked a lot on the pod about
1:22.4	how I'm unsure if I want kids or not. And there isn't a lot of content out there about that uncertainty.
1:29.2	There's a lot of content out there in the world about some people who are really sure they want
1:32.9	kids. And there is an increasing amount of content about people who are child free and
1:37.0	choosing to be child free. There isn't a lot in the middle. There's not a lot about indecision.
1:42.4	And in the course of looking into that, I came across
1:45.8	Kelsey McGuire, who is a clarity coach. Her handle is at kids or child free. And she helps people
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