Freezing Time: Fertility, Autonomy, and Owning Your Future | Katie Duke, NP

As a Woman

Natalie Crawford

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Natalie Crawford is joined by nurse practitioner, creator, and advocate, Katie Duke, for a deeply honest conversation about fertility, career, and taking control of your future. Katie opens up about her egg freezing journey from the emotional highs and lows to the unexpected medical hurdles and everything in between. 1. Understanding Egg Freezing - What is egg freezing? - Misconceptions about fertility and timing - The importance of reproductive autonomy 2. Navigating Fertility Clinics - The difference between clinical approaches - Red flags in medical care - Importance of personalized medical experiences 3. Personal Fertility Journey - Katie's decision to freeze eggs at 36 - Challenges with different fertility centers 4. Empowerment and Choice - Owning your reproductive decisions - Breaking the stigma around fertility conversations - Encouraging women to explore their options Follow Katie Duke on Instagram ⁠@thekatieduke Check out her website https://www.katiedukeonline.com/ Want to receive my weekly newsletter? Sign up at ⁠⁠⁠⁠nataliecrawfordmd.com/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ to receive updates, Q&A, special content, and freebies If you haven’t already, please rate, review, and follow the podcast to be notified of new episodes every Tuesday. Plus, be sure to follow along on Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠@nataliecrawfordmd,⁠⁠⁠⁠ check out Natalie’s YouTube channel Natalie Crawford MD⁠⁠⁠⁠, and if you're interested in becoming a patient, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠Fora Fertility. Join the Learn at Pinnacle app ⁠to earn FREE CE Credit for listening to this episode! This episode is brought to you by The Pinnacle Podcast Network! Learn more about Pinnacle at learnatpinnacle.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	you thought, well, I can just freeze my eggs, almost took this fertility piece for granted,
0:04.6	and suddenly, whether you wanted kids or not, you start looking at it like, wow, what made
0:10.0	you start thinking about egg freezing? Where was this on your radar? The decision of me leading up to
0:14.5	why froze my eggs was, I think, something that is relatable to a lot of women in the sense that
0:19.6	I love where my career is right now
0:21.6	and I'm not ready to have children at this moment.
0:23.6	Maybe I want them in the future, maybe I don't.
0:26.6	And this is where I was completely wrong because I was so tunnel visioned and I honestly felt
0:31.6	very pigeonholed into as long as the eggs you're frozen or viable, you're good to go.
0:36.6	Completely ignoring the fact that I'm the vessel.
0:39.9	I also need to be viable.
0:41.8	I also need to have an environment because, listen, it's not just the eggs themselves.
0:48.8	Welcome back to the As a Woman podcast.
0:51.0	I'm Dr. Natalie Crawford, and today we're talking about a topic that so many
0:54.2	women are thinking about, but not enough of us are talking about out loud.
0:58.1	Egg freezing. Joining me is the incredible Katie Duke, nurse practitioner, creator, and
1:03.1	fearless voice in health care and beyond. She's here not just as a clinician, but as someone
1:07.5	who's frozen her eggs herself and is ready to share the why, the how, and the very
1:12.1	real story behind it. In this episode, we're diving into the facts about egg freezing, what it is
1:17.9	and what it isn't, how to make an empowered decision when your life path doesn't follow a perfect
1:22.5	timeline, and why owning your fertility is about power not panic. If you've ever wondered whether egg freezing might be right for you
1:29.2	or you just want to hear women talk honestly about choice timing and reproductive autonomy,
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