Choosing Motherhood, My Own Way with Two-time Cancer Survivor Asha Mevlana
LadyGang
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4.6 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Becca sits down with one of her closest friends, Asha Mevlana, for an honest conversation about becoming a single mom by choice. Asha opens up about choosing the sperm donor route, raising her son with complete honesty about his story, building the village of support every parent needs, and the life lessons she's determined to pass on. It's a heartfelt, eye-opening episode about redefining what family looks like, and why there's no one right way to become a parent.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, welcome to the baby gang. I'm your host, Becca Tobin, and thank you to our |
| 0:09.7 | presenting sponsor, BetterHelp. Wow, this is the 10th episode. The series will be complete after this |
| 0:17.7 | episode, but I just wanted to say, thank you, thank you, thank you so much for those of you who have listened, for those of you who have sent DMs, or just commented on the little reels on Instagram, or just listening and you are quietly there observing. I love this community. I love that I've been able to be here on the Lady |
| 0:40.8 | Gang feed for 10 years talking about my life into marriage and fertility and parenting. The resources |
| 0:49.8 | that I brought here are resources that I've wanted to bring for so long, whether it's the experts |
| 0:55.3 | or just friends of mine like today who have a really cool story. And I think that just talking about |
| 1:02.2 | this is important and somebody, the right person, the right people always find it and they always hear |
| 1:09.7 | it. And I'm so incredibly grateful. This is not the end. |
| 1:14.4 | This is just the end of this series. And I hope you all have a beautiful summer. And I'm going to |
| 1:20.7 | see you back in the fall. I'm not sure when. Because I'm having another baby. But I promise you, there will be more of this coming to you |
| 1:30.8 | in some capacity. In the meantime, please enjoy my wonderful, courageous, beautiful friend, Asha. |
| 1:44.1 | Our guest today is a violinist, adventurer, and entrepreneur, best known as the lead violinist for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, a two-time breast cancer survivor, world traveler, and single mother by choice via sperm donor. |
| 1:56.1 | Asha has built in an unconventional life centered on creativity, resilience, and saying yes to new adventures. |
| 2:02.2 | Please welcome Asha Mevlana. Asha, hi. The audience should know that we lived on a tour bus together |
| 2:10.7 | doing the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. We joined in 2010, 11. |
| 2:18.3 | I think it was 11, yeah. |
| 2:19.4 | It was both our first years. |
| 2:21.7 | She's this insanely badass violinist, and I was basically lip-sinking and dancing the whole time. |
| 2:27.7 | But it was the most fun adventure ever. |
| 2:30.8 | And Asha, myself and our friend Jody, who is also on the tour, you really bond when you live on a |
| 2:36.7 | freaking tour bus for months at a time. But then we decided to travel together to Israel because I got |
| 2:43.2 | dumped on that trip. And I thought, fuck it. Yeah. We're all single. |
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