So, You Want to Freeze Your Eggs (Part 1) with Cofertility CEO Lauren Makler
The WoMed
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In our first official episode with the Cofertility team, your hosts are joined by CEO and Co-founder Lauren Makler to talk about all the amazing things the company is doing, showcasing exactly why D and Jac knew they needed to work with them. First, Danielle provides an update on their egg freezing journey, including a delay caused by the discovery that she is severely anaemic. Lauren also opens up about her health and fertility struggles, and shares what Cofertility is doing to address the access issue around egg freezing with Freeze by Co's Keep and Split programs—the latter offering people the opportunity to freeze for free if they donate half to a family that can’t otherwise conceive. They discuss the large-scale financial issue with egg freezing, and the lack of diversity amongst egg donors. Plus, they touch on the stigma involved with egg donation being rooted in cash compensation, and a 2021 Harvard study that found donor conceived individuals struggle with the idea that their parents paid for their conception. Lauren is adamant about raising awareness—not fear mongering—and we are honored to be joined by her today as she shares Cofertility’s mission to make egg freezing more accessible.Â
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:17.3 | Happy Friday, woman, fam. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm so pumped. Jack, are you pumped? |
| 0:22.4 | That it's Friday, always. |
| 0:24.3 | Well, that. |
| 0:25.1 | And this is our first official episode with Freeze by Co, Co, CoFertility, that is helping to do our egg retrieval. |
| 0:36.0 | And it's going to just drop so much knowledge and we just get to |
| 0:40.4 | talk about all the amazing things that co-fertility is doing. I'm so excited to dig in on this episode. |
| 0:48.1 | A hundred percent. You actually touched on this a little bit in our episode last week when we were |
| 0:52.9 | doing all the updates that we're so excited |
| 0:55.7 | to just share the knowledge. We are so lucky to have all of the experts come on. And so this is the |
| 1:00.9 | beginning of a five or six part series that we're going to be doing simultaneously for the next |
| 1:07.0 | month or so following our journey of egg freezing. And this is the big kickoff. |
| 1:13.0 | So to kick off this series, we are interviewing the CEO and co-founder of co-fertility, Lauren |
| 1:19.2 | Mackler. What a freaking powerhouse. I could like sit and talk to her all day just throughout |
| 1:27.1 | her vision and like passion through creating |
| 1:29.7 | cofertility. And just hearing her own personal story throughout this was like really resonating. |
| 1:38.6 | Absolutely. We are big manifesters here on the podcast. And so it was really interesting to hear |
| 1:43.5 | her story about |
| 1:44.5 | how she's struggled with her own fertility journey and how she's had such a successful career |
| 1:50.7 | leading up to starting co-fertility. So really cool to hear all of that. We also during this |
| 1:58.9 | series want to give everybody as close of a real-time update with what is going on with D&I in our egg freezing journey. |
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