Launching May 6th 2024 🚀
Our founders promise to every listener downloading this podcast is simply this;
‘Regardless of your agency choice (or not) please listen to these carefully and honestly crafted episodes, with an open and fair mind. Whether you have chosen your agency, whether your mid journey, whether you've completed your family building experience or perhaps not - dive in and trust some of the experts and hear the unspoken opinions of surrogacy. Guests include human rights lawyers, die hard feminists fighting for women's rights, leading IVF specialists, Leading Obstetric Consultants desperate to improve surrogacy as well as our team. Please utilise the experts valuable words spoken in each episode. With surrogacy on the rise in Mexico City we need to make sure no woman or child is harmed in the process. Surrogacy is daunting enough, and the fear is real - for everyone. So let's do it safely and with respect. We’re always here to answer any questions you have, regardless. Let’s bust those myths, educate and try and offer some guidance. Please listen, share, engage. And best of luck, whatever path you choose’.
Michael and Wes Johnson-Ellis
Michael and Wes Johnson-Ellis, Dads to two children via surrogacy with a Mexico City journey planned for 2024, and founders of My Surrogacy Journey They continue to help support and advocate for those needing surrogacy as a way to family build, whilst making sure surrogates that choose to help others do this by their own will - meeting strict social economic assessments as well as clinical, legal and additional social assessments designed to protect everyone. Their passion to set a new standard in Mexico is testament to work they do in public and behind the scenes, to make surrogacy understood and
safer.
This podcast was recorded at My Surrogacy Journey's Mexico City offices in Polanco, edited by Steve Randall and brought to you by Talulah and The Duke Productions.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Launching May 6th 2024 🚀
Our founders promise to every listener downloading this podcast is simply this;
‘Regardless of your agency choice (or not) please listen to these carefully and honestly crafted episodes, with an open and fair mind. Whether you have chosen your agency, whether your mid journey, whether you've completed your family building experience or perhaps not - dive in and trust some of the experts and hear the unspoken opinions of surrogacy. Guests include human rights lawyers, die hard feminists fighting for women's rights, leading IVF specialists, Leading Obstetric Consultants desperate to improve surrogacy as well as our team. Please utilise the experts valuable words spoken in each episode. With surrogacy on the rise in Mexico City we need to make sure no woman or child is harmed in the process. Surrogacy is daunting enough, and the fear is real - for everyone. So let's do it safely and with respect. We’re always here to answer any questions you have, regardless. Let’s bust those myths, educate and try and offer some guidance. Please listen, share, engage. And best of luck, whatever path you choose’.
Michael and Wes Johnson-Ellis
Michael and Wes Johnson-Ellis, Dads to two children via surrogacy with a Mexico City journey planned for 2024, and founders of My Surrogacy Journey They continue to help support and advocate for those needing surrogacy as a way to family build, whilst making sure surrogates that choose to help others do this by their own will - meeting strict social economic assessments as well as clinical, legal and additional social assessments designed to protect everyone. Their passion to set a new standard in Mexico is testament to work they do in public and behind the scenes, to make surrogacy understood and
safer.
This podcast was recorded at My Surrogacy Journey's Mexico City offices in Polanco, edited by Steve Randall and brought to you by Talulah and The Duke Productions.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wes and Jess are pleased to be joined in this episode by attorney Tifany Markee and Rijon Charne as they discuss the steps needed post-birth to confirm your child's US citizenship, bring them home, and whether any additional legal steps are needed once you are back in the US.
Tifany Markee
Tifany is an immigration attorney based in San Diego, founding parter at Milner & Markee, LLP, and specializes in immigration law specifically for foreign-born children. Over 20 years ago, Tifany expanded her practice to include International Adoption and surrogacy, and has become one of only a handful of attorneys in the US with this specialized focus. She has represented clients before USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services), the US State Department, and the United States Federal District Courts among others. Tifany is the current co-chair of the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys’ International Committee, and is also the proud mom of two international adopted children herself.
Rijon Charne
Rijon is a fertility attorney and the founder of Sunray Fertility Law. She obtained a dual degree in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin, later earning her Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego Law School. After being diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Rijon underwent fertility preservation treatments, and this life-changing experience introduced her to the field of fertility law and Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). Rijon now specializes in ART and fertility law, supporting both domestic and international journeys.
This podcast was recorded at My Surrogacy Journey's Mexico City offices in Polanco, edited by Steve Randall and brought to you by Talulah and The Duke Productions.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.