I'm Dr. Shannon Ritchie.

I'm a doctor of physical therapy, fitness trainer, and founder of Ethelop Fitness.

In the Dr. Shannon show, you'll learn applicable tools to improve your health based on science.

Welcome to the show.

Welcome back, everyone. Today we have Peyton on the podcast, and we have been wanting to do this podcast for a really long time now.

Just a quick disclaimer before we get into this episode, we will be talking about fertility, about IVF, about loss. So if that's something that you feel like you're not in a place to listen to right now, feel free to leave this conversation and come

back to us when you're ready. But we really, we were going to talk about this right after we interviewed a fertility doctor because

we wanted the two episodes to be kind of back to back so that you could reference the kind

of science of fertility with the conversation with the fertility doctor, but she was sick.

And so we're trying to reschedule with her.

And Peyton and I are just realizing we just kind of want to get this information out. And I know Pey trying to reschedule with her. And Peyton and I are just realizing, we just kind of want to get this

information out. And I know Peyton, this has been something that's been kind of painful for you to sit on and not talk about publicly because it sort of feels like maybe you're hiding something or something.

Right. No, it's it's definitely been an interesting almost year, really, of feeling like I have this huge thing that's happening in my life.

And I feel like I am an open book, especially to, I mean, to everyone, but especially to members.

And it feels like a really big thing that no one knows about except those that are close to me, which is totally fine. And that's a normal

thing. But we're in this interesting position of we have these members and these people who are

seeing us day in and day out and they feel almost like family to me. And so I feel almost this

responsibility in a way to share what's been going

on with me. And not from a place. I feel really good about having this conversation now. I feel really

excited about having this conversation. But I think it's an important one to have because of those

reasons. Yeah, totally. And you show up and teach every

single week. Right. And there have been so many weeks where, you know, you were crying and we were

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