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This Week’s Episode (11.10.14): Kersti Bryan

This week’s guest is Kersti Bryan, successful New York-based actress and all-around ray of sunshine. I’ve known Kersti since I was 17, and although we don’t frequently get a chance to connect, when we do, we pick up quickly right where we left off. You get an immediate sense for that on this week’s show…

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Ep. 36: Sarah – Elementary School Teacher (CONFIDENTIAL Series)

Sarah [last name redacted] is an elementary school teacher in the Denver Metro area. We opted to keep this chat confidential because I wanted to capture the life of an elementary school teacher, and she wanted to avoid the long, annoying arm of school bureaucracy. Enter: CONFIDENTIAL Series, and we have a win-win solution. As…

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This Week’s Episode (11.3.14): Sarah – CONFIDENTIAL Series

This week’s guest is Sarah, a second grade school teacher in the Denver Metro area. She is the 3rd entrant into the Confidential Series, and we talk about the life of an elementary school teacher. Why is this episode part of the confidential series? I wanted to feature and highlight the day-to-day work of a…

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Halloween II

What a difference a year makes. Christ, look at where I was last year. Just for fun, here are some of the pertinent pull quotes from that article: “There’s nothing quite like Halloween to bum you out about infertility.” “…my Halloween celebrations the last two years have consisted of me closing myself off in my…

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Ep. 35: Dr. Debra Minjarez – Reproductive Endocrinologist, Fertility Treatment Expert

Dr. Debra Minjarez is a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist for the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine. She has been with CCRM since 2001, and she works with patients experiencing any number of fertility and reproductive issues. My wife and I visited her in early 2013 to discuss infertility treatments and grew to adore Dr. Minjarez…

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This Week’s Episode (10.27.14): Dr. Debra Minjarez

This week’s guest is Dr. Debra Minjarez, Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist for the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Minjarez is also the doctor Kristin and I visited as we began our infertility treatments. On this week’s show we discuss infertility and its many contributing factors, types of treatment, Dr. Minjarez’s role not only as…

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The Blog

Hi! I know it’s been over two weeks since last I’ve written a blog post that wasn’t just me hyping the latest episode of the podcast, and for that I apologize. I apologize not just to you, fair reader, but to myself because I miss it. I love sitting down and hammering out my thoughts…

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Ep. 34: Joe Kempter – Stay-at-home Dad, Domestic Champion, BBQ Dude

Joe Kempter works tirelessly supporting his wife and son. He’s a stay-at-home dad to his 10-month old son, Landon, and on this week’s show we talk about his decision to stay home, what the average day is like for him and his young son, and what it’s like when other parents throw shade at the…

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This Week’s Episode (10.20.14): Joe Kempter

This week’s guest is Joe Kempter, stay-at-home dad to his 10 month-old son, Landon. Consider this episode the b-side of last week’s episode with Steph Antoun, as we flip the script and talk about Joe’s day-to-day life raising his young son, his decision to stay home, and some of the weirdness he gets from folks…

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Ep. 33: Stephanie Antoun – Stay-at-home Mom, Domestic Goddess, Always On-Call

Stephanie Antoun almost never gets a break from her job. She doesn’t get to put in 40 hours and then take off for the weekend, putting off her tasks until Monday morning like so many others. Hers is a job that lasts basically all day, every day. It’s work that many have done, and few…

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