Ep. 117 Jamie Confronts Doug about Mysterious Phone Call, MAFS Recap, & Touching Chat with LGBTQIA+ Advocate, Gena Jaffe!

Hot Marriage. Cool Parents.

Jamie Otis and Doug Hehner

Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Personal Journals, Kids & Family

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Today on the podcast we will be discussing a super important topic! Gena (pronounced "Jenna") Jaffe is a mom and lawyer. She and her wife did reciprocal IVF for both of their kiddos - her wife's eggs in Gena's oven. While Gena is a lawyer, she came to learn that there are so many steps involved in the parenting process for a lesbian couple so Gena created a business to help educate the LGBTQIA+ community. Her new business, Connecting Rainbows, is an organization that helps those in the LGBTQIA+ community start, grow and protect their families by offering legal and fertility resources. They provide a directory of attorneys, fertility clinics, surrogacy agencies, and a blog and vlog to learn from real families and experts. You can find her at connectingrainbows.org. Before Gena comes on, Jamie discusses a mysterious phone call with Doug and they recap another exciting MAFS episode! 22:15 - Welcome to HMCP, Gena! 24:12 - How did you discover that you were a lesbian and that your wife was the one? 38:57 - After you met your wife, Jordana, eventually you decided that you wanted to get married and have a family together...what was that conversation like because obviously you would need help since you are both of the same sex? 40:41 - Can you explain reciprocal IVF a little bit more? 47:00 - How do you address the fact that you’re both moms and does one take more of a parental role? How do you present this topic to your children? 49:41 - Do you and your wife know who the donor is for your children? 56:30 - Gena explains how Connecting Rainbows helps people learn what hoops they will need to go through. 59:58 - What does the plus in LGBTQIA+ stand for? Stay tuned for another awesome episode next week! 😊 Connecting Rainbows Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connectingrainbowsorg/ Gena’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/genajaffe/ Connecting Rainbows Website: https://connectingrainbows.org/hello/ And thank you to our sponsors: ThirdLove - Go to thirdlove.com/HMCP to find your perfect-fitting bra… and get 20% off your first purchase! June's Journey - Download June’s Journey free today on the Apple App Store or Google Play. RebateKey - Just go to RebateKey.com to start earning cashback today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Whether it's an under the radar genre or a proper out there podcast, sometimes it's better
0:06.2	when you get weird, especially when it comes to switching up your soft drink, introducing
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0:30.4	All right, I'm Jack Greenlich. I think you can listen to music from relaxing, to
0:35.7	celebrating, to getting yourself prepared. I like all sorts, honestly, I like hip-hop
0:41.0	R&B, and then house music as well, so yeah, there's no guilt in places around here.
0:45.4	Jack wears the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra headphones, enjoying his favourite music with more
0:51.1	immersive sounds than ever before. Wow, the music's just everything isn't it?
0:55.5	Such Bose headphones. Bose, sound is power.
1:13.5	Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of Hot Marriage Cool Parents. Hey guys, hey, this is
1:19.4	Doug Hainer and Jamie N. Otis. Jamie Otis Shainer, as they call her, but we are newly certified,
1:28.6	not insane, certified in scuba. Yeah, as you knew by now, I've been a little insecure about
1:37.2	a lot of things and one of them being, I don't know, that Doug was cheating on me for some reason.
1:43.1	Like, you do a lot of... How did we go from scuba to that? Well, I'm saying that that's the reason
1:47.2	why I wanted to find a hobby, basically, for us to do. Like, there's nothing that we do
1:52.2	together just for fun, other than take care of our kids. Right, and I also realized during this
1:58.6	that Jamie does do a lot of things that I want to do, and I want to start doing more hobbies
2:04.3	that Jamie likes. I would love that because everything that Doug wants to do, like, I've gone swimming
2:09.8	with sharks in a cage under water where sharks just come and attack, not really, but basically,
2:14.9	and then I've gone on ghost hunts. What other crazy things have I done?
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