Infertility, IVF, Silent Endometriosis, Adoption, Surrogacy and Creative Living with Riki Lindhome

Self-Helpless

Crossover Media Group

Comedy, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Delanie Fischer is joined by Emmy-nominated songwriter, comedian, writer, and actress, Riki Lindhome, to discuss her personal experience with infertility and the diverse avenues she explored to become a parent—including egg freezing, IVF, adoption, and surrogacy. They also delve into Riki's creative process, and how it's evolved since becoming a mom.

Plus:

+ An Inside Look at the Surrogacy Process

+ The Moment Riki Met Her Son

+ How She Organizes Her Creative Ideas

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0:00.0	I'm no good. I take in good advice and I'm self-careless, so don't tell me twice that lately I've been so
0:11.4	stuck in my head that I forget just about everything my therapist said. Maybe I'm self-helpless.
0:24.5	Hey everyone, welcome to Self-Halpless.'m Delaney Fisher, and today I'm chatting with Ricky Lindholm. As many of you know, Ricky is an Emmy-nominated songwriter, comedian,
0:29.6	writer, and actress. To mention just some of her work, she's half of the comedy band Garfunkel and Oates.
0:35.2	She co-created and co-starred in the TV show Another Period.
0:38.7	She's in the hit show Wednesday, and she's now touring one of her latest projects,
0:42.4	The Musical Dead Inside, which is all about her personal experiences with fertility,
0:47.0	which is the topic that we're really focusing on today.
0:50.2	So Ricky shares about how she pretty much did all of the things in order to have a kid.
0:55.0	She tried naturally, froze her eggs, went through in vitro, tried adoption, had a failed
0:59.9	adoption.
1:01.0	And right before she gave up completely on becoming a mom, she ended up going down the path
1:06.1	of surrogacy.
1:07.1	I was so curious about this process because in the seven years of doing self-helpless, we've never talked about surrogacy.
1:14.2	So I really appreciated her opening up so much about all of it.
1:19.3	I mean, how it worked for her, how she felt about everything, getting a diagnosis around, you know, why she was struggling with fertility in the first place, how long that
1:28.2	diagnosis took. And then we also chatted about her as a creative, what is her creative process
1:33.9	like, how it's changed or remained similar since becoming a parent behind the scenes of some of her
1:39.7	most significant relationships, sharing about her long-term friendship and creative partnership
1:44.1	with Kate McCoochee of Garfunkel and Oates, as well as being married to fellow creator significant relationships, sharing about her long-term friendship and creative partnership with
1:44.4	Kate McCoochee of Garfunkel and Oates, as well as being married to fellow creator and comedian,
1:49.2	Fred Armisen. I especially appreciated the things Ricky said about where she's currently at with
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