#275 OLIVE series: Jessica Hepburn on Life After IVF (#2)

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Hello and welcome to this special OLIVE mini series — all around the topic of my debut novel OLIVE which is out TODAY! In lieu of a launch party, I’ve decided to release this 4-part series on 4 different women’s varying experiences and attitudes towards motherhood, based on the topics within the book.

The novel centres around Olive and her three best friends, Bea, Cecily and Isla. Bea is a mum of 3 who loves her busy chaotic home, Cecily is newly pregnant feeling apprehensive and excited, Isla is struggling with her fertility and undergoing IVF treatment. Olive knows that having children is not for her and recently broke up with her longterm boyfriend because he wanted to try for a baby and she didn’t — and this book explores the obstacle course of adulthood, navigating key life milestones, and how their friendships grow and change as they each figure out their own paths

Today's guest is Jessica Hepburn is author/ arts producer, adventure activist — and one of the UK's leading patient voices on fertility, infertility, the science of making babies and modern families. Having been through eleven rounds of IVF, she has become a pioneer in raising awareness of what it means to struggle to create the family you long for, and how to live as big and bravely as possible when life doesn't go to plan. I absolutely love this episode and hearing about Jessica’s story.

You can find out more about Jessica on her website, and order both her books here: https://www.jessicahepburn.com/books

Thanks for listening and you can now buy OLIVE from your favourite retailer.

Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/olive/emma-gannon/9780008382728

Hive: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Emma-Gannon/Olive/24224499

Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Olive-Emma-Gannon/dp/0008382727/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1570034665&sr=1-5&tag=smarturl-gb-21

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0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to this very special mini series all around the topics of my
1:08.3	debut novel Olive which is out today. In lieu of a launch party I decided to release this four-part series
1:16.4	featuring four different women and their varying experiences and attitudes towards
1:21.0	motherhood. It's sort of centered around
1:23.4	olive who's the main character who's child free and her three best friends, B
1:27.5	Cessily and Eilah, who were all going through their own versions of motherhood.
1:32.1	So today's guest is Jessica Hepburn.
1:35.1	Jessica is an author, an arts producer, and she is an adventure activist, a phrase that she
1:41.3	has coined herself. She used to work in the theatre business and
1:44.8	she is now one of the UK's leading voices on fertility, infertility and the science of
1:51.4	modern families. She went through 11 rounds of modern families.
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