Dr. Yemi Famuyiwa knew she wanted to be a doctor long before she knew what kind. It was during her third-year rotations at Emory that the answer became obvious. She'd had “a roaring blast” in her OBGYN rotation and couldn't imagine anything else. She went on to specialize in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and has spent decades helping people navigate one of the most emotional experiences a person or couple can face. In this episode, she talks about what she's noticed inside that world — the science, the cultural pressures that leave women suffering in silence, and the grief that has no name.Nullam id diam metus. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante ipsum primis in faucibus. Nullam interdum est erat, rutrum tristique ipsum cursus a.

• What it was like to guide her first baby into the world and how she hopes she never gets over it
• The cultural pressure on women in paternalistic societies to conceive, and what can happen when they can't
• Why men suffer in silence too, and how infertility can challenge a marriage
• Ambiguous loss: the grief that never ends and has no body to weep over
• Why infertility is rising worldwide — and why delaying childbearing is only part of the story
• What she wishes people understood about their own biology before it's too late

• The Quest for Fertility by Dr. Yemi Famuyiwa
• Dr. Nanette Wenger, cardiologist at Emory, who influenced her during medical school
• Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta
• Emory University School of Medicine

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In 2012, Chelsea Coulston had just moved to a new house in a new city with a newborn while her husband was deployed. She turned her focus to decorating her new rental home, and turned to the internet for help. But she wasn’t finding much to inspire her, since most of what existed was meant for people who could make permanent changes. So she started a blog called Making Home Base to share renter-friendly decorating ideas for military families. What followed was a 13-year front-row seat to how the internet went from a wholesome, free exchange of ideas to a massively profitable influencer industry — and why she ultimately walked away.

• How home bloggers were among the first to use Instagram — not to sell, but to send people back to their sites
• How the money worked: sidebar ads to Google AdSense to brand deals to sponsored posts, and what that means for authenticity
• Why Chelsea calls the creator economy the Wild West, and what it actually takes to keep up
• Why everyone with a following is an influencer now and why that comes with responsibility
• What made her walk away, and why she'd reset the whole thing to the early blogging days if she could

• Making Home Base — Chelsea's blog
• Making Home Base on Instagram
• Brick— an app designed to help people limit their time on social media

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Have you ever wondered how the people on reality TV get cast? Dr. Steven Stein is a psychologist who's spent twenty years helping make that call. Working behind the scenes of shows like The Amazing Race Canada and Big Brother Canada, he assesses who belongs, who can handle it, and what might happen when the cameras start rolling.

Hear Steven talk about:

• How casting works: the psychological assessments, the interviews, and how producers narrow thousands of applicants to a final cast
• The personality traits that drive people to apply for reality TV in the first place
• What it really means to be the "villain" and why the best ones know the difference between the game and real life
• The 12 reality TV archetypes he's identified and the quiz he's developed to find out which one you are
• Why social media has fundamentally changed what contestants experience after the show airs
• What reality TV has taught him about behavior, emotion, and how people perform under pressure

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• Multi-Health Systems (MHS) — Dr. Stein's company, which developed the EQ-i emotional intelligence assessment
• Yes, Chef with Martha Stewart — the cooking competition show Dr. Stein describes as one of the more intense sets he's worked on

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