E11. Melanie Notkin & Bridget Talk Wasted-Womb Shaming – What It Is and Why It’s Terrible

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Melanie Notkin, founder of Savvy Auntie, the first community for cool aunts, great aunts, godmothers and all women who love kids (but might not have them) discusses her book Otherhood and women who are childless, not by choice, but by circumstance. She and Bridget cover the assumptions people make about childless women, being told that they should have settled if they wanted kids, and how Bridget feels like she kept hitting snooze on her biological clock. Find out how feminism made men lazy, why you’re only as loyal as your options in the age of social media, and how in the battle of the sexes everyone seems to be more confused than anything. Don’t miss an incredibly honest conversation about Melanie’s ability to take the source of her greatest pain – not having children – and turn it into something that helps countless people – women and men.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.
0:02.4	Now available on Apple Podcasts.
0:04.1	Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.
0:08.3	This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.
0:10.9	I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.
0:25.0	the drill.
0:27.0	Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friends, send smoke signals, whatever.
0:32.0	We love your feedback and we want to hear from you.
0:34.4	Thank you for going on.
0:36.4	I mean, I'm a thrilled to be here.
0:40.0	I think this is going to be fun.
0:42.0	I think we're going to have a good time. I think that we like when we connected
0:45.0	We started to have a good time already getting to know each other and I feel like we're about to have like an hour of total Bridget Melanie bonding. I'm so excited for this conversation and we are I feel just kindred spirits right out of the gates like you said and it's interesting.
1:08.0	I really want to dive right into the topic at hand, which is your expertise really and kind of now your whole brand is centered around the well
1:19.1	tell us how tell us tell us who you are.
1:22.8	How did you get here?
1:24.9	So your brand is savvy auntie, right?
1:29.4	Yes.
1:30.5	And how long have you been doing that?
1:34.0	Just over a decade. I launched the summer of 2008.
1:39.0	So it's just over a decade, but I have been an aunt for 17 plus years.
1:47.6	But the brand is centered around the idea that there's this growing demographic of women who are having children later, if at all,
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