S2 Ep 79: Our Surrogacy Journey with Derek Blasberg and Nick Brown

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Join me in conversation with my phenomenal married friends, fashion journalist Derek Blasberg (@derekblasberg) and Nick Brown (@nickbrown), managing partner at Imaginary Ventures. They share their surrogacy journey, becoming fathers to twins, an emergency in the hospital, and what annoys them about surrogacy - the answer may surprise you!

For more information on surrogacy for gay men, visit Men Having Babies at menhavingbabies.org or DM Nick @nickbrown.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:07.3	Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman. Today I'm having a conversation with
0:13.9	two dads who are in one of my parent groups. I love them so much and their journey of surrogacy
0:22.0	to fatherhood was really beautiful and they were willing to share their experience
0:28.8	to the Raising Good Humans community so that other people who are thinking about surrogacy
0:33.5	or curious about it or interested in supporting other families who are going through surrogacy
0:39.6	can have some resources and a sense of this family's journey. If you enjoyed this episode,
0:47.6	please don't hesitate to write a review or just give it a five stars and of course you can
0:54.5	subscribe to my bulletin newsletter Dr. Lisa dot bulletin dot com and DM me on Instagram
1:02.7	at Raising Good Humans podcast with questions that I can answer on future episodes or on social media.
1:11.8	I'm going to just let you guys do much more of the talking. Will you take us on the journey
1:19.2	of how you came to be parents? Yes of course. Well first of all,
1:25.2	Lisa and I always have to remind myself not to say Aliza like Liza Manelli. Thank you. I
1:30.7	appreciate you reminding everyone because I think people forget it. I want you to feel seen
1:35.6	and heard in this podcast so I promise to identify you correctly. So hello, Aliza. Nick, do you want to
1:43.0	tell this fabulous, fantastic childcare specialist how we became parents or shall I? Why don't you
1:49.7	want to get off? You do it so well. Nick, why don't you say how we met and I'll say how we became
1:54.0	dads? You're blushing. So I came out later in life. I came out in my mid to late 20s and I first
2:01.9	met Derek in my early 20s and we met each other socially and sort of in passing and then about a
2:11.2	decade later after I had, you know, however you want to describe it after I had sort of leaned
2:17.5	into my identity and a being as a gay man. Derek and I were set up on a date and that was eight
2:25.2	years ago. I think it was nine years ago, Nick. Maybe nine. It might have been nine. It was either
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