A Closer Look at Women's Health
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever stressed about your biological clock or worried what your future fertility might look like, this episode is for you. I’m joined by Kirsten Karchmer, a reproductive health expert who’s worked with over 10,000 couples through infertility and founded Conceivable to make care more effective and accessible.We talk about the signs in your cycle you shouldn’t ignore, what you can start doing now—before you even have a partner—to support your fertility, and how stress, relationships, and self-advocacy all play a role. Kirsten’s advice will leave you feeling informed, empowered, and more in control of your future.
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, I'm so, so excited for today's episode. It is such an important conversation. And I really |
| 0:08.6 | want everyone to take the chance to listen to it, even if you don't think it relates to you. |
| 0:13.3 | I promise it does. And it definitely also relates to someone you know. And so I am so honored to |
| 0:20.0 | welcome Kirsten Karchmer onto seeing other people |
| 0:22.6 | today. She is a fertility expert, a reproductive acupuncturist, an author, and the founder and CEO |
| 0:28.1 | of conceivable. And one of the reasons I'm so excited for this conversation is because |
| 0:34.0 | excited might be the wrong word, but I think I know more people struggling to get |
| 0:39.3 | pregnant than actually getting pregnant. And so I have so many questions. Welcome to seeing |
| 0:46.3 | other people. Thank you for being here. Gosh, that is such a nice introduction. And I'm delighted. I've |
| 0:52.8 | been really looking forward to this conversation today because you're right. We don't think about our fertility. In fact, we spend most of our lives trying to avoid getting pregnant. |
| 1:03.4 | Right. Until we want to get pregnant. That is the most common thing that women have told me over the last. I've been doing this for years. Like, I spent my whole life trying not to get pregnant. |
| 1:12.1 | And now that I want to get pregnant, I could have been doing nothing all those years because |
| 1:16.2 | I, you know, I'm not getting pregnant. |
| 1:18.0 | I wasted so much money on birth control and being worried. |
| 1:21.4 | And so thinking about, as we talk about fertility today, I want you to think about |
| 1:26.6 | it is like, |
| 1:29.3 | fertility means optimal health. |
| 1:34.0 | Like my company is called conceivable, not because it's about fertility, because it's about possibility. |
| 1:36.2 | Right? |
| 1:36.8 | It's about living in possibility. |
| 1:38.1 | And when our bodies are not functioning optimally, our access to possibility and the access |
| 1:43.7 | to our dreams is really compromised. |
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