Astronaut Kellie Gerardi: "I'm Not on the Same Planet as My Baby"

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Kellie Gerardi joins Real Pod! Kellie is a bioastronautics researcher, a trailblazing astronaut, and one of the first 100 women to fly to space. She’s here to talk about her incredible journey—both in orbit and on Earth—as she prepares for her second spaceflight while navigating pregnancy after a years-long battle with infertility. Kellie opens up about her IVF experience, the emotional toll of multiple miscarriages, and how she found resilience in the unknown. She also shares her perspective on perfectionism, body image, and why seeing Earth from space completely changed her outlook on life. Plus, we get into relationships, boundaries, and how she and her husband support each other’s ambitions while staying true to themselves. This episode is full of powerful insights on chasing big dreams, trusting the process, and embracing the perspective that nothing matters—in the best way possible. Tune in for an inspiring and deeply personal conversation you won’t forget!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.3	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.4	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.9	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.1	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:22.0	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:27.5	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just
0:31.8	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:44.3	Hi, everybody. Before we dive into today's episode, I wanted to hop on quickly. I'm recording this
0:51.4	after the interview with Kelly and the introduction I recorded for Kelly
0:56.7	because if you follow her closely online, you might have seen that she posted that she
1:03.4	unfortunately lost her pregnancy. I am heartbroken for Kelly as I know her whole community
1:09.2	and her family, her husband and she is. She's been so
1:13.3	vulnerable and open and candid about her IVF journey. And when we recorded this interview,
1:19.6	it was actually days, just days before she lost her pregnancy. So when I saw the news and we saw
1:25.7	the news after just being with her, I mean, we were just
1:28.5	devastated for her. You'll hear in today's interview what the IVF journey has been like for her.
1:34.1	She's been open about miscarriages she's had in the past. And all in all, I just think she's such
1:39.4	an incredible person, woman, mother to her beautiful daughter. Many women experience these losses and often feel
1:46.4	very alone. And I continue to just be so moved and inspired by Kelly's openness and vulnerability
1:53.0	online through the good days and the bad days. While we think of Kelly and we keep her in our
1:58.7	prayers and our hearts as she heals and recovers during this time, I'm so grateful that each of you get to hear this incredible interview from her because she is so brilliant and has so much wisdom. And there were so many life lessons and incredible takeaways that I'm still thinking about from her visit. So I just, yeah, I feel really grateful that
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