What's up, Badi Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

things, and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club. When you read stories about celebrities in their like mid to late 40s, if they haven't

frozen eggs previously, they're using donor eggs.

Nobody gets pregnant with twins at 48 without either using their frozen eggs or donor eggs.

So this is the part of the culture around these issues that is so horrible because, you know, they look at Naomi Campbell who had a baby.

Like, she almost certainly used a surrogate.

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch.

On this week's episode we have with us today, Leslie Shrek, who is an author, an angel investor,

working at the convergence of health and technology.

She is the author of two books, Bumpin, and Fertility Rules, where she mixes the latest clinical research with practical

advice for pregnancy and fertility. And today we are going to be hearing about Leslie's

fertility and pregnancy journeys and discuss the common yet rarely talked about experiences.

So thank you so much for being with us today. Thanks for having me. It's great to be here.

Well, why don't you go ahead and give our listeners a short summary of who you are and what you do?

My name is Leslie Schrock. I am indeed an author and angel investor. I'm mostly in health and technology

companies. I've worked in that space for over a decade now,

and I've now written two books on reproductive health. My first was motivated by a very

complicated pregnancy journey involving three losses at various times. And I really felt at the

time that I was going through it, I had a great network of health providers. I had

resources. I had access to everybody. You know, I was really fortunate in that, you know, it was my

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