She Was Told She Might Never Be a Mom. Now She’s Making Egg Freezing Free | Cofertility’s Lauren Makler
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She Was Told She Might Never Be a Mom. Now She’s Making Egg Freezing Free | Cofertility’s Lauren Makler

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202634 min
  • Interview
  • Health

Having options about fertility changes how you make important life decisions. Most women don't know how many options they have. When a rare diagnosis threatened Lauren Makler’s ability to have children, frozen eggs gave her the peace of mind and freedom she needed. That experience led her to build Cofertility, where women can freeze their eggs for free when they donate eggs to intended parents. In this episode of Superwomen, I sat down with Lauren to discuss the importance of fertility education, the need for more transparency in wom...

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It turned out that I am one of like 150 people on the planet with a super rare abdominal disease. And as someone who always wanted to be a mom, my first question wasn't like, will I live with this disease? It was instead, will I have kids someday? Hey everyone, welcome back to Superwomen. Today's guest is the co-founder and CEO of

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co-fertility, Lauren Maclaur. We talk about what a woman actually needs to know at a very young age to prepare for her fertility journey and how they've just had their hundredth baby using donor eggs and why women's health care needs to be addressed and needs to change and how co-fertility is helping achieve that.

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Take a listen. No matter your age, no matter your goals, there's information inside your body that you can have access to. I talk about bootstrapping all the time and I only want people to bootstrap.

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