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Black Girls Guide To Fertility

English, Parenting, 1 season, 40 episodes, 19 hours, 27 minutes
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Playwright and Screenwriter, Sonhara Eastman, gives you an in-depth look into the anger, shame, envy and hope of someone battling infertility by sharing her own experiences.
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Ovulation, Pregnancy & Science

Sonhara chats with infertility veteran and scientist, Amy Beckley, who discovered how to heal herself and build a family. 
3/6/202322 minutes, 25 seconds
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Planning, Praying and Hoping

Sonhara talks with author Ana Rhoden about hormonal imbalances and her path to conception. 
1/19/202321 minutes, 24 seconds
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Laughing through the pain

Sonhara talks with comedian, actress, and writer Daheli Hall about her upcoming show, where she shares her journey on not getting pregnant.
12/2/202227 minutes, 17 seconds
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Army Wife: Fighting Endometriosis

Sonhara speaks with Stephanie Frazier, an actress, and army wife fighting endometriosis. 
11/10/202231 minutes, 20 seconds
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The Bloodline: Myths & Healing from a Cyst

Sonhara talks with registered Nurse, Shenae Dawkins, about health myths, healing from a cyst, and loving yourself. 
10/27/202224 minutes, 16 seconds
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Fashion & Fertility

Sonhara talks with Dalia, founder of 6 feet of fashion about fashion, fertility, weight loss and options when conceiving. 
4/28/202224 minutes, 53 seconds
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Counseling & Infertility

Sonhara talks with Andrea Bryman of Bryman Counseling about mental health, infertility and counseling.
3/31/202232 minutes, 18 seconds
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Yoga & Fertility

Sonhara chats with Kiyona, a yoga instructor and fertility advocate, on a path to wellness; mind, body, and spirit. 
3/3/202222 minutes, 6 seconds
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Matchmaker: Egg Donor & Surrogates

Sonhara talks with Jenna Deford of the Guidance Agency where they discuss egg donors, surrogates, and matchmaking services. 
2/3/202217 minutes
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Non-Toxic: Designing a safe space to optimize fertility

Sonhara talks with Debra of Vegan Design about creating a non-toxic home-life to optimize fertility. 
9/29/202126 minutes, 55 seconds
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Pregnancy After 40

Sonhara talks with attorney and founder of Pregnancy After 40 about conceiving and the misconception that women aren't fertile in their 40's. 
8/26/202147 minutes, 4 seconds
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I'm a Motherf@#$ing Superstar so where are my babies

Sonhara talks with Actress & Director, Valeka Jessica about her fertility journey, where she gets very candid on the ups and downs of conception. 
8/19/202154 minutes, 18 seconds
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The Colorless Womb

Sonhara talks with author Kim Gowdy about her path to becoming a mom and why it's important to look beyond color. 
7/6/202131 minutes, 26 seconds
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Single Ladies: You are so beautiful! Do you have kids?

Sonhara talks with her friend who is currently single and wants to become a Mom.
6/1/202124 minutes, 41 seconds
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Hidden Gems: A Holistic Approach

Sonhara talks with Reid Forrester, owner of Hidden Gems about infertility, holistic practices, and the power of the womb. 
5/20/202135 minutes, 8 seconds
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The Effects of Mother's Day & Re-positioning to become a Parent

Sonhara chats with best friend Missy and sister Kianne to discuss the effects of Mother's Day and repositioning to become a parent. 
5/9/202138 minutes, 45 seconds
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Coming to Term

Sonhara talks with Screenwriter, Nzinga Kemp, about the rocky road to carrying full term while balancing a career in Hollywood. 
1/14/202124 minutes, 23 seconds
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Non-viable: Let's talk secondary infertility

Sonhara talks about secondary infertility with Poet and Teacher @brittanyrogers, who discovered the difficulties of conceiving after birthing two children.
12/23/202016 minutes, 23 seconds
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Let's talk PCOS

Sonhara Eastman talks with Essence Payne Randle, founder of Cajun Cysters about PCOS and walking for awareness. 
12/3/202022 minutes, 45 seconds
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Starbucks, Dancing & Infertility

Screenwriter, Sonhara Eastman, talks with Dancer Princess Johnson about her infertility battle and how Starbucks paved the way for her to start a family. 
11/19/202027 minutes, 42 seconds
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We can wear white!

Sonhara talks with media specialist Tanika Gray about her struggle with fibroids and why we can wear white!
6/15/202024 minutes, 10 seconds
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Keeping it Real: Road to Recovery

Sonhara shares her road to recovery and details the hardship of parenting alone when her husband travels extensively for work.
5/22/202023 minutes, 22 seconds
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A Fight to the Finish: Not so perfect birth

Sonhara Eastman, along with her husband, recap their 7-year fight to conceive and share the life & death labor and delivery experience that led to a near emergency c-section to keep their daughter alive.  
4/19/202057 minutes, 28 seconds
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IVF, Pregnancy & Survivors Remorse

After a long break, Sonhara Eastman is back to share where she's been, along with her tough decision to continue with IVF, which resulted in pregnancy after nearly seven years of trying!
4/7/202033 minutes, 37 seconds
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Increase your chances of conceiving!

Sonhara Eastman chats with author Lisa Hendrickson-Jack on increasing your chances of conceiving.
5/28/201939 minutes, 9 seconds
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Soul Food Sunday: Mother's Day Isn't Always Happy

Sonhara Eastman shares her experiences with Mother's Day and offers ways to cope. 
5/12/201918 minutes, 48 seconds
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Semen Secrets: a wife's silent struggle

Author TJ Peyton shares thoughts from her new book, Semen Secrets, and gives tips on how to deal with infertility when it's not you, but your husband. 
5/6/201926 minutes, 39 seconds
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What is MRKH? And how does it impact fertility!

Sonhara Eastman chats with journalist Janay Cook of Sistah's Surviving Infertility who discusses MRKH and how it impacts the body and fertility.
4/29/201922 minutes, 18 seconds
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Climbing the Corporate Ladder & Fighting for a Family

A conversation with Brooklyn and Keisha, who are best friends climbing the corporate ladder together but interestingly enough did not share their infertility woes while one another until one of them was facing a medical emergency.  
3/23/201934 minutes, 38 seconds
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Don't Just Accept Bad News

An encouraging conversation with, Assata Nzingha, who, at the age of 21, was given a diagnosis of being infertile, had PCOS and was also suspected to have cervical cancer. Devastated, because she always wanted to be a mom, she changed the trajectory of her life by researching foods that were harmful to the reproductive system and started to eliminate them incrementally over time. By the age of 40, she had 4 children.   
12/6/201819 minutes, 18 seconds
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Life After a Miscarriage: How to Cope

Actress, dancer and choreographer, Olivia Crosby, shares her journey of overcoming a miscarriage and how she found her silver lining through it all.
7/8/201816 minutes, 21 seconds
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Soul Food Sunday Edition: There's more than one path to becoming a mother

A Mother's Day conversation with television producer, Denise H., who shares her journey on how she became a mother through adoption. Her faith and fortitude will open your hearts to other paths of becoming a mom. 
5/13/201850 minutes, 46 seconds
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Try This/Try That

Sonhara Eastman shares some of the things she has done to try to get pregnant and gives her opinion on what she thought was beneficial or not. 
4/9/201821 minutes, 14 seconds
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How do Men deal with Infertility? - Part Three

Sonhara Eastman and her husband share how infertility affects their marriage and the best way to rebuild what has been broken.
2/24/201829 minutes, 24 seconds
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How do Men deal with Infertility? - Part-Two

Sonhara Eastman continues to chat with her husband and tries to understand why Men have a hard time accepting that they too can be the problem. 
2/24/201829 minutes, 13 seconds
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How do Men deal with Infertility? - Part One

Sonhara Eastman chats with her husband to better understand how men deal with infertility. 
2/24/201837 minutes, 10 seconds
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Soul Food Sunday Edition - 1/21/2018

An honest conversation with my parents, Harry A. Dawkins III & Sondra Dawkins, to hear how they and other parents cope with seeing their children go through the painful process of infertility.
1/22/201838 minutes, 26 seconds
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My IVF Process: Part Two

Sonhara Eastman talks in-depth about her IVF process; the cost, the results, and the aftermath. 
12/31/201725 minutes, 18 seconds
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My IVF Process: Part One

Sonhara Eastman talks in-depth about her IVF process; the cost, the results, and the aftermath. 
12/31/201725 minutes, 34 seconds
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Coming Out of the Shadows

Meet playwright, Sonhara Eastman, and hear about her nearly six-year battle with infertility and why it's important that Black Women speak up when it comes to this issue.
12/29/201721 minutes, 38 seconds