Hey, everyone, Emily here. You're listening to Five Minute Friday on the show. I, this week has been an emotional week for me. I won't even front. I did something on Wednesday that I've been putting off for a very long time. And that is that I went to spring fertility here in New York to sum up my stance on

where I'm at with whether or not I want to freeze my eggs until basically the last few months,

I was pretty steadfast on whatever is meant to happen in my life is going to happen in my life.

I am in my late 30s now and I had made the

decision for a number of years that egg freezing wasn't in my future. And when I was unpacking

that with a friend, I kept coming back to aside from, I believe what is meant to happen in my life

will happen and I don't want to necessarily mess with that, I kept talking about the cost of it.

And she looked at me and she said, I know that the cost isn't the thing that's going to hold you back from doing this.

What's really going on here?

And the answer was, it was fear.

It's a lot of fear of the unknown. It's fear of this

thought confronting that I'm at this place now that I never expected to be in my life. And that's a

difficult thing to do. I don't talk openly about my personal life very often on here. And I feel so content,

99% of the time doing things on my own. I love being an independent person. I feel very

empowered with what I've been able to do on my own from my personal life to building a business and all of that

is great. And I find myself in this place a lot lately where I just want to share these things

with somebody else. And so I know that going through this egg freezing process is going to remind me of those feelings.

It's going to remind me that I'm doing this on my own right now.

To be clear, I'm not interested in having a child on my own.

I do know other women that have made that decision.

And I think that is such a beautiful, beautiful choice.

It's just not the choice that I'm interested in making.

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