Fertility Anxiety, Egg Freezing & Dating Under Pressure
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Lauren Makler joins the podcast for a conversation about fertility anxiety, egg freezing, dating pressure, and the emotional weight so many women carry around timelines. From AMH testing and IVF to secondary infertility, miscarriages, and dating in your 30s, we talk about the difference between making empowered decisions versus fear-based ones. Lauren also opens up about her own rare disease diagnosis, the experience that led her to start Cofertility, and why she believes knowledge is power when it comes to fertility and relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | Lauren Mackler, welcome to seeing other people. Oh, I am so excited to be here. I have talked about |
| 0:09.7 | your company on this podcast so many times. So having you here in the studio next to me is truly |
| 0:18.6 | such a pleasure. Thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:21.2 | Oh my God. I'm so excited to do it. So excited. There's so much we're going to talk about today. |
| 0:26.0 | You are the co-founder and CEO. We're just getting right into it. Yeah. Co-founder and CEO of |
| 0:29.9 | co-fertility, which we are going to talk all about. But I have had so many conversations with women |
| 0:35.6 | of all ages about the emotional pressure they're |
| 0:39.1 | carrying around trying to plan their future and how we have been taught about fertility in a way |
| 0:46.2 | that's either like overly reassuring, like you have so much time, everything's going to be okay |
| 0:51.4 | or so scary where you have to figure it out yesterday. So I'm really |
| 0:57.9 | excited to get into all of it. Before we do, can you tell me a bit about what led you to |
| 1:06.2 | co-fertility? Yeah. So I'll start by just saying what co-fertility is, right? So we help women |
| 1:14.1 | freeze their eggs for free when they donate half of the eggs retrieved to intended parents that need |
| 1:19.7 | the help of an egg donor to have a baby. So we are both making egg freezing more accessible |
| 1:24.9 | and egg donation less transactional at the same time. |
| 1:29.3 | This really was born out of the idea that like egg freezing is this amazing science that exists, |
| 1:35.5 | right? Like it is not a guarantee and it is not an insurance policy, but like studies show women |
| 1:42.7 | who do freeze their eggs have more options later |
| 1:45.1 | in life if they choose to have kids later. And yet, cost is the number one barrier, right? |
| 1:51.7 | Like the best time to freeze your eggs is when you can least afford it, right? The younger you are, |
| 1:57.1 | the better your egg quality, the better your egg quantity. And yet most women don't have $20,000 laying around when they're in their 20s and early 30s. |
| 2:06.7 | They just don't. |
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