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Prologues

Fertility, Hormone Health, Birth Control, and Advocating for Yourself | with Morganne Skinner

Prologues

Mary Skinner

Society & Culture

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

7. The first guest episode of Prologues! Today we're welcoming a relative of mine, Morganne, onto the pod. Morganne is a fertility awareness educator, RN, and endo warrior. We're talking all things reproductive health, hormone support, fertility awareness, and birth control - plus, as someone who used to work in patient advocacy, Morganne also shares her tips for getting your doctor to take your concerns seriously. WHERE TO FIND MORGANNE: instagram: @fertilitydefined blog: fertilitydefined.com classes, newsletter, endo guide, free consultation all at: linktr.ee/morganneskinner WHERE TO FIND ME: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mary.cj.skinner Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@MarySkinner Snapchat: @mary_skinner1 Business inquiries / submissions for upcoming Q&A episodes: [email protected]

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, welcome back to another episode of prologs. Today is a really exciting episode.

0:22.6

I have my first guest ever.

0:25.4

I'm welcoming Morgan onto the podcast.

0:31.3

She's a relative of mine, and she has a BSN, she's an RN, and she's a fertility awareness educator.

0:37.2

So we're going to chat all things, hormones, reproductive health, birth control, women's health, all of that. So, hello, Morgan. Welcome.

0:41.3

Hello, hello. Thanks for having me. Of course. First guest ever. And I'm recording on this

0:47.4

video call website that is sketching me out a little bit. And I'm just hopeful that this is actually

0:52.7

recording and that we're not

0:54.7

just speaking into the void right now. But anyway, Morgan, can you tell us a little bit about your

1:00.0

background, your education and your job? Like, how did you get into all of this? Yeah. So I've been a nurse

1:07.9

for going on eight years now and I had my own experience with women's health

1:15.1

issues that kind of led me to be a fertility awareness educator. So I was diagnosed with endometriosis,

1:21.6

which not a lot of people know about, but it's actually really common. It affects about one in 10

1:26.9

women.

1:33.5

And it took me 15 years to get diagnosed from the onset of symptoms until I was diagnosed.

1:36.1

15 years to get diagnosed with this condition.

1:40.9

And the last six years of that, I was RRN. So like, I knew about health.

1:42.7

I knew how to navigate the health care system.

1:45.2

It still took me a really long time. In the last two years of that, I was actively searching

1:51.8

for a diagnosis. And I had seen almost 20 different doctors in that last two years trying to figure

1:58.2

out what's going on with me. And for me, the catalyst was that I

2:04.4

started to chart my menstrual cycle. And I started to see like the timing of certain symptoms

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