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Living Well with Janet: How I Prepared My Body for Egg Freezing

hot pursuit by AsianBossGirl

Emily, Madelyn, Jen

Relationships, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

June is Infertility Awareness Month. Around this time last year, I was just beginning my egg-freezing journey. How did I prepare for the experience? Did I take supplements? How did I exercise? Who was my support system? In this episode, I offer a high-level checklist of the key ways that I prepared myself for this significant endeavor. If you're interested in my full story with extensive details, check out: Ep 183: Janet’s Egg Freezing Journey - Giving Yourself Time to Start a Family and Ep 208: Checking In with Janet 6 Months Post-Egg Retrieval on the main AsianBossGirl show. __________________________________________ Host: Janet Wang Editor: Victoria Cheng __________________________________________ C O N N E C T W I T H U S • Subscribe and Follow us @asianbossgirl on Apple Podcasts/Spotify/Amazon Music/YouTube/Instagram/Twitter/Facebook • Listener Survey: Let us know your thoughts on the podcast here • Shoutouts: Give a shoutout on the podcast here • Email: hello@asianbossgirl.com __________________________________________ S U P P O R T U S • Merch: asianbossgirl.myshopify.com • Donate: anchor.fm/asianbossgirl/support • More about us at asianbossgirl.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, I'm Janet, a yogi, meditator, plant-forward eater, and all-around wellness

0:10.6

enthusiast.

0:11.6

As a second-generation Asian-American woman who has and continues to manage periods

0:16.4

of anxiety, depression, burnout, and stress, I often find myself experimenting with Western

0:21.1

health trends against the context of the Eastern philosophy I was raised with.

0:25.1

Join me as I explore different health and wellness topics to enrich my own ever-evolving

0:29.3

personal practices, and in turn, hopefully benefit some of you in your own journeys to

0:33.6

living well.

0:42.9

Hi everyone, welcome back to Living Well with Janet.

0:51.6

Around this time last year, I was just beginning the process of freezing my eggs.

0:57.4

Now I shared my experience pretty extensively on the main ABG podcast.

1:02.5

Once in episode 183, Janet's egg freezing journey, giving yourself time to start a family,

1:07.8

where I went into a lot of detail about why I decided to freeze my eggs, and pretty much

1:12.7

every step of the way what I experienced.

1:15.4

We also released episode 208, checking in with Janet's six-month post-agre retrieval,

1:21.0

and this is where I had additional reflections on the experience and went through more of

1:24.8

the emotional aspects and some of the physical effects afterwards.

1:29.0

So if you want the full story of my experience, you can check out episode 183 and episode

1:33.9

208 of our main show, ABG.

1:36.9

But in this episode of Living Well with Janet, I want to offer a shorter, brief, and more

1:43.0

concise, almost like a checklist of ways that I prepared my body for egg freezing.

1:47.8

Now I want to emphasize that everything I'm about to share is based on my own personal

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