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Teaching2024-05-20·18 min

EP273 Fertility Success or Failure Is Predictable: Here’s How

EP273 Fertility Success or Failure Is Predictable: Here’s How

Rosanne reveals why fertility success or failure is predictable based on one key factor: the excuses you make versus the excuses you refuse to tolerate. She breaks down how successful women stop making excuses about money, age, partners, and past failures, while those who fail remain trapped by their limitations.

The Predictability Principle

Rosanne reveals her core observation from 10+ years coaching thousands of women: fertility success or failure is completely predictable based on the excuses you make versus refuse to tolerate. This isn't about fate or medical factors, but about the limitations you choose to live by.

The Excuse Anatomy

Breaking down the most common excuses - money, age, partner resistance, past failures - Rosanne shows how each excuse becomes the exact reason women quit. She challenges the false choice between treatment and support, using Serena Williams as an analogy for why elite performance requires comprehensive preparation.

The Loyalty Test

Rosanne confronts women about misplaced loyalty to inherited beliefs rather than their fertility dreams. Whether it's following mother's money rules or allowing partner negativity to dictate decisions, she demands clarity about who truly has authority over your reproductive choices.

The Age Factor

For women in their 40s, excuse-making becomes a luxury they cannot afford. Rosanne delivers a fierce wake-up call about the urgency required for advanced maternal age, emphasizing that time constraints demand immediate elimination of limitations and full commitment to resourceful action.

Questions This Episode Answers

How can you predict fertility success or failure

Your fertility success or failure is predictable because it is indicated by either the excuses you make or the excuses you refuse to tolerate.

Rosanne Austin3:45

Fertility success or failure is predictable based on the excuses you make versus the excuses you refuse to tolerate. Women who stop making excuses about money, age, partners, and past failures become successful, while those who remain committed to their limitations will quit for those exact reasons.

Why do some women choose excuses over fertility success

Some people want their excuse more than they want their success because the excuse makes them feel like they have control. It makes them feel like they're being responsible.

Rosanne Austin10:31

Some women want their excuses more than success because excuses make them feel in control and responsible. The excuse provides a sense of safety, even though it's actually blocking them from achieving their dreams of motherhood.

Should I choose between IVF and fertility coaching

Does Serena say, well, I can either show up to Wimbledon or I can get some coaching to be prepared for Wimbledon? Like, are you fucking kidding me?

Rosanne Austin13:16

No, fertility treatment and coaching work together in a 'yes, and' approach. Just like an elite athlete wouldn't choose between showing up to Wimbledon OR getting coaching, you shouldn't choose between treatment OR support - you need both for the best chance of success.

How does age affect fertility success mindset

If you're a woman trying to have a baby in your forties, you cannot afford excuses. You can't afford to make the same excuses you made when you were twenty when you're trying to have a baby at forty eight.

Rosanne Austin16:53

Women in their 40s trying to conceive cannot afford to make the same excuses they made at 20. Time becomes a factor that demands immediate elimination of excuse-making and full commitment to resourceful action.

What if my partner doesn't support my fertility decisions

Your partner may not like it, but why does your partner get the vote to trump you? Why does your partner have that much power over you and your vision that they basically collapse that possibility for you?

Rosanne Austin14:08

Allowing your partner's negativity to completely derail your fertility journey means you're not truly committed. While relationships matter, giving your partner veto power over your deepest dreams indicates misplaced loyalty and lack of boundaries.

How do I stop making excuses about money for fertility treatment

Where is your loyalty? Is your loyalty to your dream or is your loyalty to your mother's rules about money?

Rosanne Austin11:01

Question whether you're more loyal to your mother's money rules or to your fertility dreams. If your mother never faced fertility challenges requiring different investments, her financial rules may not serve your situation. Successful women become resourceful and find ways to invest in their success.

How to Predict and Prevent Your Own Fertility Failure

A practical method for identifying and eliminating the excuses that will cause you to quit your fertility journey

  1. 1

    Make your excuse list

    Write down all your current excuses - money, age, partner resistance, past failures, medical statistics. This list shows exactly why you will give up.

  2. 2

    Identify your loyalty conflicts

    For each excuse, ask: Am I more loyal to this limitation or to my dream of motherhood? Examine whose rules you're following.

  3. 3

    Reframe limitations as problems to solve

    Instead of staying stuck at the problem level, ask 'How can I get a solution to this?' Become resourceful rather than resigned.

  4. 4

    Set boundaries around your vision

    Stop allowing external factors like partner negativity or family money rules to have veto power over your fertility goals.

  5. 5

    Choose possibility over limitation

    Make the conscious decision to want your success more than your excuses, knowing this choice predicts your outcome.

All Teachings 10

TeachingChallenging3:45

Fertility success or failure is completely predictable based on whether you make excuses or refuse to tolerate them

After observing thousands of women over 10+ years, Rosanne has identified consistent patterns where women who beat insane odds stopped tolerating their own excuses, while those who failed remained committed to their limitations.

TeachingChallenging8:56

Your excuses are an exact prediction of why you will quit your fertility journey

Women who make excuses about money will quit because of money, those who make excuses about age will quit because of age, and those who tolerate partner negativity will give up because of their partner's resistance.

TeachingChallenging10:31

Some women want their excuses more than they want success because excuses make them feel in control

In program interviews, Rosanne consistently observes women who get uncomfortable when called out on excuses and choose to recommit to the excuse rather than face the discomfort of growth.

TeachingChallenging10:51

Using your mother's money rules when trying to conceive is choosing loyalty to limitations over your dreams

Rosanne points out the contradiction of claiming 100% commitment to having a baby while following financial rules from someone who never faced fertility challenges requiring different investment strategies.

TeachingEmpowering12:55

Treatment and coaching work together - it's not a choice between the two but a 'yes, and' approach

Rosanne uses the Serena Williams analogy: elite athletes don't choose between showing up to Wimbledon OR getting coaching - they do both to be prepared for the most important competition of their lives.

TeachingFierce16:53

Women in their 40s trying to conceive cannot afford to make the same excuses they made at 20

Rosanne emphasizes that advanced maternal age requires urgent action and elimination of excuse-making, stating 'you can't afford to make excuses at your age' and 'time's up on that shit.'

TeachingChallenging14:18

Allowing your partner's negativity to derail your journey means you're not truly committed

Rosanne challenges women who say their husband won't let them pursue certain options or is 'down and out' about treatment, questioning why a partner gets veto power over their fertility vision.

TeachingEmpowering8:06

On a planet of 8 billion people, you can find someone similarly situated holding a baby today

Rosanne argues that regardless of how many doctors say it's impossible, statistical outliers exist everywhere, and women should focus on becoming part of the 5% that blows doctors' minds rather than accepting defeat.

TeachingEmpowering12:24

Success is predictable when you stop living by limitation and start living by possibility

Women who eliminate allegiance to excuses step into full power, becoming resourceful problem-solvers who ask 'how can I get a solution?' instead of staying stuck at the problem level.

TeachingEmpowering16:02

The 'how' of getting pregnant is not your business - it will be laid out step by step as you take action

Rosanne explains that while success or failure is predictable based on excuse-making patterns, the exact path to success is revealed progressively as women take committed action without limitations.

Episode Tone
5 challenging4 empowering1 fierce

Key Teachings 10

Fertility success or failure is completely predictable based on whether you make excuses or refuse to tolerate them

3:45

Your excuses are an exact prediction of why you will quit your fertility journey

8:56

Some women want their excuses more than they want success because excuses make them feel in control

10:31

Using your mother's money rules when trying to conceive is choosing loyalty to limitations over your dreams

10:51

Treatment and coaching work together - it's not a choice between the two but a 'yes, and' approach

12:55

Women in their 40s trying to conceive cannot afford to make the same excuses they made at 20

16:53

Allowing your partner's negativity to derail your journey means you're not truly committed

14:18

On a planet of 8 billion people, you can find someone similarly situated holding a baby today

8:06

Success is predictable when you stop living by limitation and start living by possibility

12:24

The 'how' of getting pregnant is not your business - it will be laid out step by step as you take action

16:02

Perspectives 3

Fertility success depends on external factors like age, money, and medical statistics

CONSIDER: Fertility success is completely predictable based on your willingness to stop making excuses and live by possibility instead of limitation

You have to choose between fertility treatment and other support like coaching

CONSIDER: Treatment and coaching work together in a 'yes, and' approach - like an athlete getting coaching AND showing up to compete

Partners should have equal say in fertility decisions

CONSIDER: Allowing partner negativity to veto your fertility vision means you're not truly committed to your dreams

Quotable Moments

Your fertility success or failure is predictable because it is indicated by either the excuses you make or the excuses you refuse to tolerate.

Rosanne Austin3:45

Some people want their excuse more than they want their success because the excuse makes them feel like they have control.

Rosanne Austin10:31

You could have as many doctors as you want telling you it's not possible, but you will find someone on a planet of eight billion people that was similarly situated that's holding a baby today.

Rosanne Austin8:06

Where is your loyalty? Is your loyalty to your dream or is your loyalty to your mother's rules about money?

Rosanne Austin11:01

If you're a woman trying to have a baby in your forties, you cannot afford excuses.

Rosanne Austin16:53

Does Serena say, well, I can either show up to Wimbledon or I can get some coaching to be prepared for Wimbledon? Like, are you fucking kidding me?

Rosanne Austin13:16

Your excuses are incredibly telling, my loves. All you have to do if you wanna figure out, if you wanna predict, if you wanna be the Nostradamus of why you will fail on this journey, just make a list of your excuses.

Rosanne Austin9:27

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