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Real Talk, Whole Life

How Much Control Do You Actually Have Over Your Fertility?

Real Talk, Whole Life

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

How much of fertility is truly in your hands and how much comes down to age and genetics? Reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Jaime Knopman joins us to break down egg freezing, IVF, embryo preservation, and what actually impacts fertility (hint: it’s not just your lifestyle). We also talk about guilt, stigma, perimenopause, and why informed choice matters more than blame. An honest, empowering conversation about what it really means to own your fertility at any stage of life. Find Dr. Knopman: Own Your Fertility: From Egg Freezing to Surrogacy, How to Take Charge of Your Body and Your Future - out now, everwhere books are sold! instagram.com/drjaimeknopman Find Stacy: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠realeverything.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/realstacytoth⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠missionmakersart.com⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠missionalchemists.com⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Listeners, welcome to Real Talk Whole Life. Today we have Dr. Jamie Notman on. She's a reproductive endocrinologist, fertility advocate, and author of the new best-selling book, Own Your

0:53.5

Fertility. And Jamie and I were just

0:56.6

talking before we started the show. And I'm very much in a different phase of my life than

1:01.1

having children. And I think a lot of us listeners are also in that phase of life. But I personally

1:09.3

think that fertility, the word, gets such a bad

1:13.0

rap as being only associated with when you're trying to have children and not how it impacts

1:19.3

your overall well-being and health through your entire life and the different phases of

1:26.9

your fertility, puberty through menopause.

1:30.6

So I'm excited that you're here today, Jamie, to talk with us about all of that and what you see

1:38.2

going on in your world and the practice and all of those things. Can you tell listeners a little bit about

1:44.9

yourself and the work that you do? Sure. At least that my name is Jamie Notman. I'm a fertility

1:49.3

doctor. I work at a fertility clinic in New York City. I said that I used to call myself an

1:54.6

infertility doctor and now I call myself a fertility doctor because much of my time is spent

1:59.9

helping women and couples preserve their

2:02.0

fertility rather than treat their infertility. So the fertility preservation is an umbrella term

2:07.6

and is inclusive of egg freezing, embryo freezing, and sperm freezing. We very rarely sperm freeze

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