YDGM Ep 32: Chantal Challenger, life as a mum and an expat.
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Chantal Challenger lives a different life from many of us, traveling around the world with her husband and two kids. She and her husband work in the hospitality/hotel industry, and have chosen a life as expats currently living in Jakarta. She shares about how they chose to move from their home in Australia, and how they’ve adapted to raising their family in a different culture.
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YDGM Ep 31: My husband Julian Wiseman talking about his book on Port Vintages.
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My husband Julian Wiseman and me chat about his new book. If you are a wine lover and you also enjoy port, this episode is so interesting with so much information about wine and Vintage Port. And you will see how much of a port geek he is.
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YDGM Ep 30: Keith Wassung
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Keith Wassung knows more about chiropractic than most chiropractors. He's been spreading information about chiropractic for over 30 years through his educational material, photos, slides, and website to help people learn more about chiropractic. He's a father of six, so that makes him an expert in fatherhood! Listen to this awesome episode as Keith talks about his life and love for chiropractic. It was great to learn so much about him!
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YDGM Ep 29: Thomas Waller DC
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Chatting with chiropractor extraordinaire Thomas Waller DC about fatherhood, chiropractic, and his mission in life. Tom’s the kinda guy that you can hang out with, have a beer with, and chat about anything. His energy fuels you each and every minute. He’s also the guy you could call up and ask his advice and he’d stop and give you his 100% with a solid answer. And he’s also the guy you’d see on a stage in front of thousands of people. He’s unstoppable.
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YDGM Ep 28: Craig Peterson, an American living in Rome
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Craig Peterson is American who lives in Rome Italy. He’s 35 years old and he’s a Network Spinal Chiropractor. He is not a father, and he’s in a relationship with a woman who doesn’t want children. He’s thought about having kids, and it was his current girlfriend who gave him the deeper thought of why he wants kids, and why not live life without having kids.
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YDGM Ep 27: Brendan Waddington on Fatherhood
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Brendan is a naturopath, soft-tissue therapist, personal trainer, and he also helps miners by coaching them on their health. When I asked him to be on my podcast, he didn't think I'd be interested because he's not a father. Naturally, it's what people would think, but I was very keen on having men who are not fathers to talk about their views on the subject. Brendan mentions that he definitely wants kids eventually, and it was interesting to hear how he thinks and feels about fatherhood.
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YDGM Ep 26: Julian D A Wiseman AKA My Husband
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My husband and I talk about a lot of things sort of relating to fatherhood.
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YDGM Ep 25: Lillian Lartey
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Lillian Lartey is a personal trainer, massage therapist, and I consider her a life coach for women because she is so grounded in her values and commitment to having an extraordinary life. As a life coach, she has helped women, many of them mothers, to focus on themselves and to achieve happiness, building back their health, self-esteem, and love for life.
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YDGM Ep 024: Drea Clark
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Drea Clark lives in LA and works in film. She's my sister's best friend from highschool and we've known each other for a really long time. I asked her to be on my podcast for this current series of conversations with women who are not mothers, and she was totally enthusiastic to participate. I knew it would be a fantastic conversation, a fun one too, because Drea is just so articulate in just about anything. You ask her about anything, and she'll have something to say about it.
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YDGM Ep 023: Angie Dairou
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Angie is a successful therapist, working with individuals as well as companies, big and small. This episode was awesome, with so many interesting and thought-provoking nuggets of wisdom, ideas, and stories about motherhood and how we can shift our perspectives about it in the context of applying it to roles of leadership and life in general.
info_outlineSarah Keen had no idea her first pregnancy would end up being one of the most challenging experiences in her life.
Her son was born premature at 33 weeks.
“Having had a cesarean and, you know, an emergency cesarean, without any labor because a lot of people said, ‘oh, did your waters break? and did this happen, and how often were your contractions,’ and I didn’t have any labor at all. I was literally pregnant, rushed into theatre, and then the next minute in the recovery room, and without my baby. Because that’s the other thing, because of the way they take them away to special care, or intensive care. They take the baby straight away, but nobody told me. Everyone knew it would happen, but nobody told me, and I presume it’s because they always assumed somebody else had.”
Today’s episode is Sarah sharing her very scary and personal story of her first born son, who was born premature at 33 weeks because her placenta had stopped growing. Her condition was a placental insufficiency, more specifically an absent end diastolic flow. The doctors discovered that her baby was SGA (small for gestational age), and she had to be monitored daily. This lead to a cascade of chaos, from rushing into an emergency cesarean, and into motherhood, breastfeeding, and bonding with her new baby.
“I had this thing in my head the whole time. He’s gonna die. He’s gonna die. He’s not gonna make it. I’m not gonna get to see him. The only reason why they are keeping me away is because he’s gonna die. What the hell is wrong with me? I’m not feeling it. What the fuck is going on? And for me, as soon as I saw him I got it. And I was like, it’s OK; I do love my child.”
It’s an emotional story, and also filled with courage, inspiration, love, discovery, and joy.
Her second pregnancy was unexpected, and she speaks about how she had to face her unhealed wounds from her first pregnancy, which triggered her PTSD. She envisioned growing her baby as far as her body could take her, planned a home VBAC birth, and wanted to bask in the enormity of her beautiful pregnant belly.
Tune in to listen to what happened, what she learned, and her amazing inspiring story of strength and a mother’s love.
Powerful beautiful stuff!
To connect with Sarah, visit her website http://pregnancypodcast.co.uk/. Also tune in to her podcast called Pure Natural Pregnancy on iTunes.