Send us a text What happens when a proudly private Gen X attorney agrees to become a mom—not because she always wanted to, but because it mattered to her partner? In this episode, we sit down with L, aka @notactuallygolden, a civil rights attorney, TikTok legal explainer, and mom of a 13-year-old, who never planned on being a parent. L walks us through her winding road to motherhood—how she negotiated parenting terms like a lawyer, survived a brutal first year with a baby who projectile vomi...
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Send us a text What happens when a proudly private Gen X attorney agrees to become a mom—not because she always wanted to, but because it mattered to her partner? In this episode, we sit down with L, aka @notactuallygolden, a civil rights attorney, TikTok legal explainer, and mom of a 13-year-old, who never planned on being a parent. L walks us through her winding road to motherhood—how she negotiated parenting terms like a lawyer, survived a brutal first year with a baby who projectile vomi...
The truth About: Going Through 9 Rounds of IVF + Surrogacy with Alison Beder Soloway
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The truth About: Going Through 9 Rounds of IVF + Surrogacy with Alison Beder Soloway
Send us a text A positive pregnancy test felt like the start of a familiar story—until Alison Beder Soloway couldn’t breathe at 32 weeks and doctors discovered heart failure linked to HHT. That moment rewrote everything. She was told carrying again would be too dangerous, and the road to the family she imagined would have to bend. What followed was a years-long relay of nine IVF attempts, cross‑border laws, agency vetting, and the kind of paperwork that decides names on birth certificates. Al...
Do you want the truth?
Send us a text What happens when a proudly private Gen X attorney agrees to become a mom—not because she always wanted to, but because it mattered to her partner? In this episode, we sit down with L, aka @notactuallygolden, a civil rights attorney, TikTok legal explainer, and mom of a 13-year-old, who never planned on being a parent. L walks us through her winding road to motherhood—how she negotiated parenting terms like a lawyer, survived a brutal first year with a baby who projectile vomi...
