What if your path to motherhood didn’t look anything like you expected… but led you exactly where you were meant to be?

In this deeply moving and expansive conversation, I sit down with Alexandra Dominguez—an adoptee, adoptive mother, IVF mom, and now a guide for alternative family building—to explore the many paths to becoming a parent.

We met by chance at the gym (proof that synchronistic connections are all around), and from the moment Alexandra began sharing her story, I knew it needed to be heard.

Her journey spans IUI, unexplained infertility, adoption, a devastating disrupted adoption, IVF success, and now embryo donation—a full-circle story that highlights the complexity, grief, trust, and beauty of building a family in non-traditional ways.

This episode is for anyone navigating fertility challenges and wondering: Which path is right for me?

In This Episode, We Talk About:

• Alexandra’s experience with unexplained infertility and PCOS
• Why she chose to step away from fertility treatments and pursue adoption
• The emotional reality of a failed/disrupted adoption (and how she moved through it)
• The powerful moment that led her to her son just one month later
• How her body shifted after becoming a mom—and led her back to IVF
• Her IVF journey, including retrieval, OHSS, and a successful first transfer
• The importance of listening to your body and intuition on your fertility path
• The financial and emotional realities of adoption vs. IVF
• What it means to donate embryos—and her decision to give her remaining embryos to a close friend
• The concept of compassionate embryo transfer
• Why community and support are everything during fertility and adoption journeys
• Her new work helping others navigate IVF, adoption, surrogacy, and alternative family building

Connect with Alexandra:

Alexandra is now supporting individuals and couples as they navigate their own paths to parenthood through her work in alternative family building.

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@SonrisaFamilyBuilding

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In this episode of Soulful IVF, I welcome Kate Ryan for an honest and healing conversation about IVF, infertility, egg donor conception, pregnancy after loss, and nervous system healing.

Kate shares her powerful 6-year fertility journey, including 3 IUIs, 5 IVF cycles, diminished ovarian reserve, endometriosis, pregnancy loss, and the emotional rollercoaster of infertility treatment.

After years of setbacks, grief, and emotional burnout, Kate and her husband were led to consider egg donation, a path that ultimately brought them their son through one embryo and one successful transfer.

This conversation beautifully explores what happens emotionally during infertility — the fear, isolation, resentment, loss of self, and the constant waiting for “the other shoe to drop.”

Kate also vulnerably opens up about her experience with pregnancy anxiety after infertility and postpartum depression after finally becoming a mother, something so many women silently struggle with after fertility treatment.

Together, Kate and I dive into the healing practices that helped her reconnect with herself:

• meditation
• breathwork
• nervous system regulation
• movement and somatic healing
• music and sound healing
• creative writing
• Reiki and spiritual tools

Kate shares how these practices helped her move from survival mode into healing and inspired her beautiful book, The Story of Us, a children’s book that celebrates all paths to family building, including assisted reproduction and donor conception.

This episode also includes a beautiful guided meditation and calming mantra practice to support women navigating IVF, infertility, pregnancy after loss, or motherhood after a long fertility journey.

If you are looking for fertility mindset support, emotional healing during IVF, or hope after infertility, this episode is for you.

What We Cover in This Episode

• IVF support and infertility healing
• 3 IUIs and 5 IVF cycles
• diminished ovarian reserve and endometriosis
• pregnancy loss and fear after infertility
• egg donor conception journey
• one embryo, one transfer success story
• pregnancy after infertility anxiety
• postpartum depression after IVF
• nervous system regulation during fertility treatment
• meditation and breathwork for IVF stress
• fertility mindset and trust
• healing through creativity and sound
• all paths to motherhood and family building

Resources + Connect with Kate: Explore Kate’s book, free breathwork, meditations, and her Intentionality in Infertility course at:
storyofus.love

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In this heartfelt and healing conversation, I’m joined by Jennifer Edmonds, founder of Element Pilates and Yoga, based in Sydney, Australia.

Jennifer shares her powerful personal fertility journey — from being told she had gone through early menopause, to navigating IVF, loss, secondary infertility, and ultimately discovering the profound impact of fertility yoga, breathwork, meditation, and nervous system regulation.

This episode is for the woman who feels like she has been doing everything right… the appointments, the supplements, the protocols, the pushing… and still feels disconnected from her body and herself.

Together, we explore what happens when we shift from doing to being, from forcing to trusting, and from control to possibility.

This is a conversation about healing, rest, body trust, and remembering that your life does not need to be placed on hold while you walk this path.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Jennifer’s deeply personal fertility story, including IVF, miscarriage, and natural conception
• Being diagnosed with early menopause and the emotional impact of that news
• How fertility yoga became the missing piece in her journey
• The connection between stress, cortisol, sleep, and hormone health
• Why high-achieving women often struggle on the fertility path
• The nervous system’s role in conception and healing
• The power of slowing down and asking your body what she truly needs
• Rebuilding trust after feeling like your body has “failed”
• Why rest is productive and essential
• The mindset shift from doing more to allowing more
• Holding onto joy and not postponing your life during IVF
• Trusting in possibility, timing, and your baby’s path to you
• Mantras and practices that helped Jennifer stay grounded

BIO:

Jennifer is a Yoga, Pilates, Meditation & Breathwork teacher who specializes in fertility & women’s health. During a long & difficult fertility journey of her own, Jennifer eventually found the practice of Fertility Yoga. This practice was able to ease her anxiety while TTC, relieve chronic insomnia, re-balance a thyroid condition…and eventually it helped her to fall pregnant naturally. She now runs an online business, Element Pilates & Yoga, helping women all over the world to overcome fertility challenges & find their way to motherhood.

Connect with Jennifer https://www.elementpilatesyoga.com/

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Honored to have this conversation about grief, healing after loss, holding onto faith and pursuing one's dreams with my friend Miranda. May it support you as you navigate through your fertility path and other life challenges.

Miranda's Bio:

Miranda Cuellar is a proud New Yorker who moved her life to Colombia three years ago to intentionally create her dream life. As a Virtual Assistant, she supports business owners by saving them time, bringing structure to their ideas, and helping their visions come to life with ease and organization.

With over seven years in the demanding entertainment industry — from Broadway to TV/film and live events — Miranda brings calm, precision, and a strong behind-the-scenes skill set into every business she supports.

Alongside her professional success, Miranda has walked through profound seasons of grief, including the end of her marriage due to his drug addiction, the loss of her husband to overdose, rehoming her beloved dog, and her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. These experiences reshaped her perspective on life and have deepened her faith in God.

Connect with her on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/your.assistant.mirandac/

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In this personal episode Lisa sits down with her longtime friend Dana to talk about her fertility journey and the profound shifts she experienced along the way.

Dana shares how, as a driven and successful woman in her late 30s, she made the proactive decision to freeze her eggs while still searching for her life partner. Soon after she met her partner and continued her IVF journey —facing fertility challenges and loss along the way.

Like many high-achieving women, Dana initially approached fertility the same way she approached everything else in life: with determination, strategy, and effort. But over time, she realized this journey required a different approach.

Through working with Lisa as her IVF "mindset and energetics coach," participating in a monthly Moon Magic and Manifestation circle in 2024, and connecting with other women walking a similar path, Dana began to shift into a more grounded, supported, and intentional experience.

She also gained insights through personal chakra readings and newfound awareness to her throat chakra, which helped her use her voice and become a more powerful advocate for herself throughout her fertility treatment.

Dana also shares how building a holistic fertility team—including supportive practitioners and professionals—allowed her to feel more empowered and aligned on her path.

Today, Dana is the mother of a beautiful daughter and reflects on how this journey ultimately transformed not just her path to motherhood, but her relationship with presence, trust, and surrender.

Connect with Dana on Instagram @seedbyvisionandco and @day_bydayna.

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What if one of the the missing pieces in your fertility journey isn’t another item "to-do" but a deeper understanding of your own body?

If you’re doing all the things—tracking, testing, supplementing, pushing through IVF cycles—yet still feeling disconnected, inflamed, anxious, or exhausted… you might be overlooking the foundation: how your body digests, absorbs, and feels safe enough to create life.

Because fertility isn’t just numbers and lab results. It’s vitality.

In this powerful conversation with Ayurvedic practitioner Madison, we demystify Ayurveda—the 5,000-year-old “science of life”—and explore how reconnecting to your body’s natural rhythms can transform not just your fertility, but your entire relationship with yourself.

Ayurveda teaches that we are made of the same elements as nature—earth, water, fire, air, and space—and that true balance comes from honoring your unique self. When digestion is strong, your nervous system feels safe, and your body is nourished at a cellular level, reproductive health becomes supported naturally.

We dive into concepts like prana (life force), why reproductive tissue is the last tissue to be nourished, and why it’s not just what you eat—but how you digest—that matters most.

If you’ve been operating in survival mode, this episode will gently invite you back into alignment.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL DISCOVER:

• What Ayurveda really is—and why it’s called the “knowledge of life”
• How your unique dosha (Vata, Pitta, or Kapha) impacts your hormones and fertility
• Why digestion is the foundation of egg, sperm, and uterine health
• How increasing prana (life force) can support conscious conception and preconception preparation

Fertility begins with vitality—and when you learn to nourish your body in alignment with its nature, you don’t just prepare for pregnancy… you come back to life yourself.

Madison's Bio: Madison is an Ayurvedic Doctor, Functional Hormone Specialist, and Fertility Educator, as well as a longtime teacher of yoga and meditation. She helps women and couples prepare for pregnancy by balancing hormones, optimizing digestion, and creating the physical, emotional, and energetic conditions for new life to thrive. https://www.shriwellness.com/

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What does it really take to build a family when the path isn’t traditional—and no one gives you a roadmap?

In this conversation you'll get to meet my friend who I recently reunited with at a high school reunion. Toby shares about the personal journey he and his husband took to become parents.

If you’ve ever assumed that becoming a parent is just a series of medical steps and legal checkboxes, you might be overlooking the emotional weight, trust, and intentionality required—especially for same-sex couples navigating IVF and surrogacy.

In this episode, we unpack the parts people don’t always talk about: the vulnerability of choosing an egg donor, the leap of faith in finding a surrogate, and the emotional complexity that unfolds long after the paperwork is signed.

My long time friend, Toby shares how leaning into support, honesty, and empathy became the real foundation of parenthood—and how that journey reshaped not just his family, but the way he shows up for his patients. Dr. Toby is a medical doctor and Adjunct Clinical Instructor at Stanford Children’s Health in California.

BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL DISCOVER:

· What the IVF and surrogacy process actually looks like behind the scenes

· How intentional decision-making plays a role in building a family through nontraditional paths

· The emotional and legal challenges same-sex couples face—and how to navigate them

· How becoming a parent transformed Toby’s perspective on empathy, genetics, and patient care

This is a heartfelt conversation about love, trust, and redefining what it means to create a family—on your own terms.

Connect with Toby here: https://www.stanfordchildrens.org/en/doctor/tobias-g-hays.html

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What if your fertility journey wasn’t asking you to try harder—but to get more aligned?

In this powerful conversation, Human Design expert Anna Nichols shares how understanding your unique energetic blueprint can support your fertility path, regulate your nervous system, and help you stop fighting your body—and start trusting it.

Anna is a Human Design expert, master business strategist, author, and podcast host who helps us explore how Human Design can support you on your fertility path —emotionally, energetically, and spiritually.

Together, Lisa and Anna draw powerful parallels between building an aligned business and navigating fertility with more trust, ease, and self-compassion. Anna vulnerably opens up about her own fertility journey, including multiple miscarriages, and the full-circle healing she experienced years later—revealing how moments that once felt like setbacks were actually guiding her toward deeper alignment.

Key Takeaways:

• What Human Design is and how it helps you understand your unique energetic blueprint
• Why alignment (not force or hustle) matters on your fertility path
• The five Human Design energy types—and how each experiences stress, rest, and decision-making
• How frustration, anger, bitterness, or disappointment can be signals that something is out of alignment
• The role of environment in supporting your nervous system, energy, and fertility
• Why you’re not meant to do everything on your own—and how receiving support is part of your design
• Anna’s personal fertility story, including miscarriage, healing, and divine timing
• How Human Design can help you release self-blame and reconnect with trust in your body

Remember, alignment isn’t just for business—it’s for your body, your life, and your fertility journey too.

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Instagram https://www.instagram.com/iamannanichols/

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamannanichols/

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