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Episode 048: Your Fertility Doctor
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about choosing your fertility doctor. Learn what it takes to become a double board certified OB/GYN and REI and why this is important. Understand what qualities to look for when choosing a doctor and a clinic. Listen to what it is like to have a patient leave your care (which will always happen - you can’t be everything to everyone).
Episode 047: Protecting Your Professional Persona
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she discusses the importance of protecting your professional persona. Learn about why you should brand yourself and discover branding basics. Listen to her discuss intellectual property and the importance of protecting your creativity.
Episode 046: Women in Medicine
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about life as a woman in medicine. Listen as she talks about society, gender bias, motherhood, appearance, and more. Learn how you can better support the tribe of women. And remember, if they can’t see you - they can’t be you.
Episode 045: Find Your Tribe
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about your tribe. Listen to her discuss why you need one, how to fine one, and how to lean in to those friendships. Learn why it is ok to let some friends go - because you can’t be everything to everyone. Find your tribe, love them hard.
Episode 044: LGBTQ+ Family Building: Lesbians
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she starts a series about LGBTQ+ Family Building with a series about lesbian couples. Listen as she talks about options for same sex female couples including sperm donation (anonymous or known donor), Intrauterine Insemination (IUI), In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), InvoCell, and Reciprocal cycles. Learn more about what options exist to help all families grow (more episodes in this series coming up!).
Episode 043: Self Care
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about self care. What does it really mean to take care of yourself? Think about how you cope with stress, how you take care of your body, and how you simplify your life. Recognize that taking care of yourself first requires that you know what you need.
Episode 042: A Doctor Gets Breast Cancer
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks with Dr. Meadow Good about her current journey with breast cancer. Meadow is a board certified OBGYN and urogynecologist who is a huge advocate for women. Meadow was diagnosed with breast cancer 10 months ago while breast feeding her 2nd baby and has been fighting to improve her health, beat her disease, and live her best life ever since. This episode is a about sex, medicine, motherhood, cancer, and living the authentic life.
Episode 041: Fear of Failure
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about failure. She is talking about how fear holds us back from our own success by limiting our creativity and placing restrictions on your potential. Hear her keys to breaking out of this cycle.
Episode 040: Infertility and Stress, with Dr. Lora Shahine
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about the links between stress and infertility with Dr. Lora Shahine, a board certified REI. Listen as they talk about mental health and trying to conceive. What role does stress, anxiety, and depression play in conception? Can stress prevent you from getting pregnant? What can you do about it?
Episode 039: Life as an REI
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about her path to becoming a Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility physician. Listen as she talks about the struggles along the way, the choices she made and what it takes to become double board certified in OBGYN and REI. Listen as she describes the day in and day out of what she does, and why she believes that you should choose a job you are passionate about and make the life work for you. Also, it gets pretty vulnerable.
Episode 038: Imposter Syndrome
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about “Imposter Syndrome.” What is imposter syndrome? How is it holding you back? What can you do about it? Change your mindset and accomplish your goals.
Episode 037: Cervical Cancer
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about cervical cancer. Learn what cervical cancer is, the symptoms, all about Pap smears, what is HPV, and why Cosmo got it all wrong. Don’t make the mistake of failing to educate yourself about a disease that should be prevented or detected early. Educate yourself.
Episode 036: The Productive Life
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she describes the productive life. What is a productive life? How can you be productive? What are the keys to success? How can you make progress on productivity?
Episode 035: Fertility and Nutrition, an interview by Dr. Danielle Belardo
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she discusses fertility and nutrition with Dr. Danielle Belardo, a board certified internal medicine physician and cardiology fellow @theveggiemd. Previously on Nutrition Rounds, listen to Dr. Crawford and Dr. Belardo discuss plant based eating and the impact it has on women’s health. Learn more about the science behind why you should eat more plants as a woman. Special thanks to Kasey Johnson who helped with the original editing and production.
Episode 034: Endometriosis
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she discusses endometriosis. Endometriosis is associated with pain, infertility, and inflammation. Learn what endometriosis is, how it is diagnosed, what it means, and what you can do about it. Listen as she describes how she counsels her own patients as a fertility doctor.
Episode 033: Burnout
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she shares her burnout story. Listen to her talk about what burnout is, what the signs are, and what to do about it. Is this you or someone you know?
Episode 032: IVF Q&A
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she answers commonly asked questions about IVF and FET. After listening to the IVF and FET episodes, do you still have questions about in vitro fertilization of the embryo transfer process? Listen to what other women are asking and answers from an expert.
Episode 031: Woman in a Man's World with Dr. Pamela Mehta
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford with special guest Dr. Pamela Mehta as they discuss life as a woman in a man’s world. Dr. Mehta is an orthopedic surgeon who has suffered from gender bias and maternal discrimination and left to start her own practice. Listen as they talk about starting a family in medicine, struggling with infertility, and advice for taking control of your career and balancing career and family. Learn more about the upcoming Pinnacle Conference.
Episode 030: Ovarian Reserve
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about ovarian reserve. Are running out of eggs? Should you get your fertility tested? What does that really mean? Listen as she describes what measurements of ovarian reserve are really testing. Learn about AMH and antral follicle count (AFC) and how you can’t verify fertility with these tests. Learn what low tests of ovarian reserve mean and what you should do about this. Can you improve your ovarian reserve? Learn more now.
Episode 029: Set Some Boundaries
Join host Dr. Natalie Crawford as she talks about boundaries. Understand the importance of saying no and that you are not obligated to please other people. Learn to look at opportunities with enthusiasm and evaluate if something is right for you or not. Change your mindset and focus your life. Set some boundaries so you can be free to be yourself and be happy in the process.