Taking Back Women's Health (Guest: Coach Gessie)

Dear Future Wifey

Laterras R. Whitfield

Christianity, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 130 minutes

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In this deeply moving episode of Dear Future Wifey, Laterras & Ashley R. Whitfield sits down with health advocate and entrepreneur Coach Gessie Thompson for a transparent conversation about faith, resilience, and the fight to become a mother.

Coach Gessie opens up about her 10-year battle with infertility and fibroid complications, sharing the emotional, physical, and financial toll of what she calls her “Million Dollar Baby Journey.” After spending over $1,000,000 in pursuit of conception, she recounts the heartbreak, the hope, and the unwavering faith that carried her through one of the most challenging seasons of her life.

With courage and vulnerability, she shares the miraculous story of how she ultimately conceived—and how that victory transformed her pain into purpose.

Beyond her personal testimony, Coach Gessie explains how her health struggles awakened her passion for advocacy. She discusses how toxins, lifestyle, and wellness education became central to her mission, ultimately leading her to launch a company dedicated to helping families live healthier, toxin-free lives.

This episode is raw, inspiring, and empowering—a reminder that even in prolonged waiting, God can birth purpose, advocacy, and legacy.

If you’ve ever wrestled with infertility, chronic health challenges, or the weight of unanswered prayers, this conversation will strengthen your faith and ignite your hope.

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0:00.0	Yo, it's your boy, B. Titty.
0:21.7	Ashley Renee. G. And Q, your crew with the What Is You Doing Podcast, the only show. When the sports takes a while, the bets are questionable, and the laughs are guaranteed. If you're into sports picks fights, parlay dreams that always go left, pop culture, chaos, and the kind of debates that make you yell at your phone, this is the podcast for you. Catch every episode on all podcast platforms and watch the full unfiltered madness on YouTube. Subscribe now and ride with the crew because if you
0:27.0	ain't tuned in, what is you doing? Here I am at the Devil Awards. Hemorrhaging, being rushed to the
0:34.6	hospital. Picture of what you call Black Excellence. I'm now happily married 30 years old for four years now. Went to the hospital. Picture of what you call black excellence. I'm now happily married,
0:39.1	30 years old for four years now, went to the GYN. And the doctor is like, you have the word that
0:44.6	changed my life. Fibroids. That precipitated my million dollar baby journey. 14 years battling
0:51.2	fibroids. Ten years of infertility.
0:55.7	There's 15 surgeries altogether.
0:57.2	Five IVF cycles.
1:02.2	What I didn't know was that every time I was pumping my body with the hormones,
1:04.7	it was causing the fibroids to grow again.
1:08.6	Finally, after the fifth IVF cycle, I conceive.
1:12.6	And at 21 weeks, the doctor says, Mrs. Thompson, the baby isn't growing the way it should. This is 10 years in. And he said, you might want to consider
1:17.3	terminating the pregnancy. And I said, why he says, because your womb is going to become
1:24.5	a hostile environment. I said, sir, I believe in miracles and I'm not giving up on this baby.
1:31.5	At 30 weeks, the doctor says to me, I just want to apologize.
1:36.1	We weren't trying to scare you.
1:38.1	We have never seen this before.
1:40.5	This baby was not supposed to make it.
1:43.7	And I said to him, I said, it's okay.
1:45.0	I didn't expect you to know my God.
1:48.0	Come on.
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