Welcome to Season 7: IVF Setbacks, Quieting an Overthinking Brain & the Customer Service Crisis
Females Thriving Over ThirtyShow Notes
Season 7 is officially here — and we're kicking off with a completely honest catch-up on everything that's happened since end of April. Soraya opens up about her fourth embryo transfer not working, navigating IVF with endometriosis, doing fertility injections on a Ryanair flight, and the hardest question of all: how do you make peace with the possibility that motherhood might not happen — and protect your mental health while trying? We also get into the customer service crisis (cowboy builders, kitchens that arrive with missing parts, three weeks without Wi-Fi after moving house), and Jasmine's new chapter in her countryside cottage — now officially renamed Raspberry Cottage. Plus: overthinking and how to quiet a busy brain, what it's like to think with aphantasia (no mental images at all), making time for deep friendships in your 30s, and a sneak peek at the Season 7 guest lineup — including investing expert Peter K on whether the OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs are worth your money. Don't forget to Watch Soraya's TEDx talk: https://youtu.be/MkAfq6m8ECw?si=qE1PyTa2NK6A8oa4 In this episode: IVF, endometriosis and egg quality — what Soraya has tried and what's next Coping with fertility disappointment and protecting your mental health The decline of customer service and accountability at work How to stop overthinking (and why your brain won't shut up) Aphantasia: thinking without mental images Moving house, slow living and life in an English village The Females Thriving Over 30 Podcast is the weekly catch-up for women navigating their 30s and beyond — careers, fertility, friendships, money, wellbeing and everything in between. If this episode resonates, share it with a woman who needs it.
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