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Maybe Someday

Maybe Someday is a podcast about deciding whether to have a child in a culture that makes motherhood seem mandatory. Host Sarah Dobson speaks with guests about the personal and political dimensions of... Read more

Ranked #1

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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

48mins

Ranked #2

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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

1hr

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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

1hr 2mins

Ranked #4

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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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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

48mins

Ranked #6

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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

6mins

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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

48mins

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Ranked #19

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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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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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