Ranked #1
Childfree by choice (with Maggie Reyes)
Childfree by choice (with Maggie Reyes)
When Maggie Reyes got married, she and her husband both assumed that they’d start a family eventually. But every time th... Read more
6 Sep 2018
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48mins
Ranked #2
Little Corners (with Tammy Cannon)
Little Corners (with Tammy Cannon)
Tammy Cannon lives near Seattle, WA with her husband and three teens. In the early days, she was at home with her three ... Read more
26 Jul 2018
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1hr
Ranked #3
Grappling with ambivalence (with Sara Hopkins)
Grappling with ambivalence (with Sara Hopkins)
Sara Hopkins is ambivalent about having kids. She's decided that she won't have them, but she still struggles with the c... Read more
27 Jun 2019
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #4
Refusing to repeat the past (with Veronica Armstrong)
Refusing to repeat the past (with Veronica Armstrong)
Veronica Armstrong has a complex and painful family history. That history played an important role in her decision not t... Read more
13 Jun 2019
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47mins
Ranked #5
Defending your childfree life (with Jennifer Rogers)
Defending your childfree life (with Jennifer Rogers)
Jennifer Rogers never felt that ticking biological clock. So she and her husband (who also doesn’t want kids) decided to... Read more
18 Jul 2019
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48mins
Ranked #6
Reflection: Will I regret not having kids?
Reflection: Will I regret not having kids?
Sarah reflects on the conversations she's had recently about mixed feelings and potential regret around not having kids.... Read more
4 Jul 2019
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6mins
Ranked #7
Guiding a Child's Becoming (with Nicole Gulotta)
Guiding a Child's Becoming (with Nicole Gulotta)
Nicole Gulotta is a writer based in Los Angeles. There’s a myth that creative types, writers especially, are solitary cr... Read more
12 Jul 2018
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48mins
Ranked #8
Trusting your intuition (with Melanie Scott)
Trusting your intuition (with Melanie Scott)
Melanie Scott, the Intuitive Business Strategist, is my guest this week. She takes a spiritual and intuitive approach to... Read more
8 Aug 2019
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50mins
Ranked #9
Healing difficult relationships (with Karen CL Anderson)
Healing difficult relationships (with Karen CL Anderson)
Karen Anderson doesn’t remember a time that she ever wanted to have children. She just assumed she'd have them anyway. S... Read more
23 May 2019
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45mins
Ranked #10
Queering parenthood (with Bon Jon)
Queering parenthood (with Bon Jon)
Bon Jon is a self-described queer feral cat. A few weeks ago, in a hot, cramped sound booth at the Vancouver Public Libr... Read more
16 May 2019
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1hr
Ranked #11
Living life to the fullest (with Briena Sash)
Living life to the fullest (with Briena Sash)
Usually, when people talk about living life to the fullest, they mean having adventures and maximizing every moment for ... Read more
23 Aug 2019
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1hr
Ranked #12
Quirkyalone and childfree (with Sasha Cagen)
Quirkyalone and childfree (with Sasha Cagen)
In 2004, Sasha Cagen wrote a book called Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics, based on a term she’d cr... Read more
19 Sep 2019
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49mins
Ranked #13
Changing your mind about having kids (with Tia Johnson)
Changing your mind about having kids (with Tia Johnson)
Tia Johnson grew up spending a lot of time with her grandmother and step-grandfather. When they died, Tia went through a... Read more
11 Jul 2019
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39mins
Ranked #14
Enthusiastically childfree (with Laura Belgray)
Enthusiastically childfree (with Laura Belgray)
Laura Belgray (yes, THAT Laura Belgray) has a very happy life without kids. But she spent a long time on the fence decid... Read more
12 Sep 2019
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53mins
Ranked #15
Many paths to motherhood (with Sonja Overhiser)
Many paths to motherhood (with Sonja Overhiser)
When Sonja Overhiser was diagnosed with a rare hereditary form of leukemia in her mid-twenties, she and her husband Alex... Read more
18 Oct 2018
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40mins
Ranked #16
Reflection: The Voice In Your Head
Reflection: The Voice In Your Head
All of us—mothers and non-mothers—have that voice in our head asking, "Am I good enough?" It's a question about worthine... Read more
5 Jul 2018
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3mins
Ranked #17
Going all in with your bonus kids (with Patricia Qhobela Jenkins)
Going all in with your bonus kids (with Patricia Qhobela Jenkins)
Patricia Qhobela Jenkins always knew she didn’t want to have biological kids. When she met and married her husband, she ... Read more
25 Jul 2019
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55mins
Ranked #18
Devotion (with Carol Egan)
Devotion (with Carol Egan)
In small-town Connecticut in the late 1970s, Carol Egan got pregnant—quite unexpectedly—at 18. In this episode Carol des... Read more
30 Aug 2018
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45mins
Ranked #19
Catalogue Baby (with Myriam Steinberg)
Catalogue Baby (with Myriam Steinberg)
Myriam Steinberg is a writer based in Vancouver, BC. Myriam's in her forties and she's been trying to have a baby on her... Read more
14 Jun 2018
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35mins
Ranked #20
Reflection: The Disappointment of Strangers
Reflection: The Disappointment of Strangers
In this episode, Sarah reflects on her conversation with Maggie Reyes and what it means to be childfree by choice.
13 Sep 2018
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5mins