74. Aya Kanai, Chief Fashion Director at Hearst
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Aya Kanai is a powerhouse, at the helm of fashion content for Hearst as the publishing company’s Chief Fashion Director. In today’s special live episode, in collaboration with Trellis Health, Aya gets really vulnerable about her journey to have her daughter. We chat about how a miscarriage encouraged her to brave training for her first full marathon (a #hurdlemoment, no doubt), and what it was like for her to go through the egg freezing process. For anyone who has ever had fertility struggles, this episode will remind you that you are definitely not alone. For those who aren’t sure what the whole process entails? Aya spares no details with her open, honest story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hurdlers. Emily Abadi here sneaking in to your podcast feed on a Friday with a super, super special episode of hurdle. |
| 0:11.1 | Today I'm chatting with Aya Knai. She's the chief fashion director at Hearst. She's also a lovely friend of mine. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm so lucky that her and I got to sit down this |
| 0:22.9 | week as a part of Trellis Health's Fertility Boot Camp series. Trellis is an egg freezing fertility |
| 0:29.8 | studio here in New York City. And why this all kind of ties together is Aya and I talked about |
| 0:36.3 | a lot of sensitive stuff, including her decision to |
| 0:39.4 | freeze her eggs, a hurdle moment, which was her running a marathon after having a miscarriage. |
| 0:45.6 | And then, trust me, it ends with a really beautiful story. And a little spoiler alert, |
| 0:51.7 | she's got a beautiful little girl running around. |
| 0:58.0 | So I don't want to bog this down with too much of an intro, |
| 1:02.0 | but I do want to say thank you so much to Trellis for having me. |
| 1:05.4 | If you want to learn more information about Trellis, |
| 1:07.7 | feel free to go on over to their Instagram. |
| 1:10.0 | It's just at Trellis Health. |
| 1:14.6 | It's T-R-E-L-I-S-S health. I just also want to add in another thank you to Aya, not just for showing up and being so willing to sit down with me, |
| 1:19.9 | but for your honesty and your vulnerability. And I know this isn't an easy topic to talk about, |
| 1:26.5 | but I think that that level of vulnerability, |
| 1:30.5 | it's going to impact so many people. |
| 1:34.3 | I have no doubt about it. |
| 1:35.6 | If you want to learn more about Aya and keep up with her and her adorable family, she is |
| 1:39.9 | at Aya Knai. |
| 1:41.0 | That's A-Y-A-K-A-N-A-I. And of course, you know the drill. At Hurtle podcast, |
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