Send us a Text Message. Join Marielle Schuberth, 3 time experienced surrogate and Intake Manager for Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with Donnye Sabo- 2 time experienced surrogate and Director of Operations for Fertility and Family. Listen as they discuss: Donnye's 2 twin surrogacy journeys.  How Donnye's experience has led her to advocate against DETs. Why education about the process is just as important for Intended Parents as it is for Surrogates. Let's normalize surrogacy through education and open discussion! Follow Surrogacy Mentor on Instagram , Facebook, YouTu ..read more

Send us a Text Message. Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with her former Intended Mother, Nicole. Listen as they discuss: What brought Nicole and her partner Molly to surrogacy.  How Nicole, Molly and Carey found each other without an agency. Each of their perspectives on navigating their independent surrogacy journey. What their relationship is like now, almost 10 years later!  Let's normalize surrogacy through education and open discussion! Follow Surrogacy Mentor on Instagram , Facebook, YouTube and TikTok Take o ..read more

Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor, as she speaks with Alex Kornswiet, known as @ourbeautifulsurprise on social media and mom of three and founder of The Empowered Space. Listen as they discuss: Alex's personal journey through infertility, recurrent pregnancy loss, and surrogacy, and how these experiences shaped her approach to motherhood and her professional life. Why Alex developed her company, The Empowered Space, and its exclusive, one-on-one program for intended parents aiming to ease their transition into parenthood. The importance of finding acceptance ..read more

Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with author, educator, and consultant Rachel Ginocchio, MPH. Listen as they discuss: Sex education in schools today and the need for assisted reproduction, including insemination, IVF, donor conception, and surrogacy to all be included in classroom instruction. Why Rachel wrote her book: Roads to Family: All The Ways We Come To Be (and how our founder, Carey, was able to contribute her surrogacy story to it!) Why it's important to expand our definition of reproduction and family building in ..read more

Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with Tawni Boedeker, experienced surrogate and Coordination Manager for All Families Surrogacy.  Listen as they discuss: Tawni's experience with a late term termination as a surrogate in her first surrogacy journey. How she and her intended parents leaned on each other to honor the hard choices that needed to be made in their situation. How this  experience shaped Tawni into the coordinator she is today. Let's normalize surrogacy through education and open discussion! Follow Surrogac ..read more

Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with Licensed Clinical Social Worker and PMH-C,  Karyn Rosenberg.   Listen as they discuss: The stigma behind a psychological evaluation, and why it shouldn't feel intimidating. Why Karyn refers to them as psychoeducational screenings over psychological evaluations. What you can expect during these evaluations. Explaining the personality tests, and why the questions are so bizarre. Let's normalize surrogacy through education and open discussion! Follow Surrogacy Mentor on Instagram ..read more

Join Marielle Schuberth, 3-time surrogate and Intake Manager for Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with experienced GC, IVF Mom of 2 and Certified Life and Fertility Coach, Alison as they discuss discuss:  Alison's personal struggle with infertility. How that struggle led her to gestational surrogacy and starting a career as a Certified Life and Fertility Coach with The American Association of Drugless Practitioners.  Why she feels it is important to be educated and committed to the surrogacy process. How the experienced surrogates at Surrogacy Mentor navigate these ..read more

Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with SEEDS panel member and GS Moms Surrogacy Agency Owner Lisa Stark Hughes. Listen as they discuss: The history of surrogacy in religion. How different religions view surrogacy.  How religion played a big part in the new Alabama Supreme Court ruling on IVF. Why personal and religious views on abortion should have no place in politics. Referenced Statements regarding Alabama Supreme Court Ruling on IVF: SEEDS statement  Resolve's statement  Let'sormalize surrogacy through educ ..read more

Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Specialist Dr. Susanna Park of the San Diago Fertility Center.    Listen as they discuss: Why medical screening is so important for a GC. Dr. Park's take on transferring more than one embryo at a time. Why there is no such thing as a "perfect surrogate" candidate and how to manage IP expectations when looking for a good GC candidate. Let's normalize surrogacy through education and open discussion! Follow Surrogacy Mentor on Instagram ..read more

Join Carey Flamer-Powell, Founder and Director of Surrogacy Mentor and Modern Parent Mentor, along with current SEEDS President and International Fertility Law Group partner Molly O'Brien, Esq.   Listen as they discuss: How Molly plans to implement change in the surrogacy industry with her new role as the President of SEEDS. How Molly's job in film production led her to starting law school. What a "worst case scenario" can look like during the legal process.  Let's normalize surrogacy through education and open discussion! Follow Surrogacy Mentor on Instagram , Facebook and TikTok ..read more