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Teaching2025-04-21·10 min

EP321: Fertility F*ck Up: You Aren't Who THEY Say You Are

EP321: Fertility F*ck Up: You Aren't Who THEY Say You Are

Rosanne challenges women to stop identifying as 'fertility fuck ups' and reclaim their true identity on the journey. She teaches that you are not your diagnosis, statistics, or past failures - you get to decide who you are and call the shots on your fertility journey.

The Fertility Fuck Up Identity Trap

Rosanne explains how women on fertility journeys, especially high achievers, start internalizing negative labels and seeing themselves as failures. She describes how successful women become unrecognizable versions of themselves, circling the drain of fear and doubt after failed treatments and losses.

Reclaiming Who You Really Are

The core teaching centers on rejecting external labels and statistics to decide for yourself who you are on this journey. Rosanne shares her personal shift from seeing herself as a fertility failure to a woman stepping into the next level of who she was becoming, which led to conceiving Asher at 43.

Reframing Medical Labels

Practical strategies for handling negative medical terminology like 'geriatric,' 'poor responder,' or 'difficult case.' Rosanne teaches using 'yes and' statements to reclaim these labels or rejecting them entirely in favor of your chosen identity.

The Choice Before You

A call to action to write out your new identity and decide whether you'll be defined by others' opinions or step into being fearlessly fertile. Rosanne emphasizes loving your dream enough to reject garbage labels and take responsibility for your own identity as a grown woman.

Questions This Episode Answers

How do I stop feeling like a fertility failure after multiple failed treatments

We aren't our diagnosis, ladies, and we aren't our past. We aren't our statistics. We aren't what they say we are. You get to decide on this journey exactly who and what you are.

Rosanne Austin2:24

Recognize that you are not your diagnosis, statistics, or past failures. You get to decide who you are on this journey - you're not a fertility fuck up, you're a woman with a dream who calls the shots.

How to deal with negative fertility labels from doctors

Maybe you might say, yeah, I'm a poor responder to shit that doesn't work for me. Maybe you'll reclaim that label that way.

Rosanne Austin7:01

You can reframe labels with 'yes and' statements like 'I am a poor responder and I will find the right solution for me' or completely reject them by saying 'I'm a poor responder to shit that doesn't work for me.'

Why do successful women struggle with fertility identity issues

You take somebody who's a go getter absolutely slain in their lives, but as the months and the years and the treatments stack without a positive pregnancy test that turns into a baby, you can really take on this heaviness, this darkness.

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High-achieving women who've been golden children professionally find fertility struggles particularly unnerving because they're used to succeeding. The journey can turn go-getters into entirely different people filled with fear, doubt, and negativity.

What identity should I choose on my fertility journey

Are you gonna be the woman who keeps going, that you're gonna be the woman who figures it out. You're gonna be the woman that stops asking how, but steps into her vision and allows the how to come to her.

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Choose to be the woman who keeps going, figures it out, steps into her vision, and stops apologizing for the inconvenience of her dreams. Be fearlessly fertile, not a fertility fuck up.

How to stop internalizing fertility failures

Take some time to write out who are you from here on out on this journey. Are you gonna be who they say you are, or are you gonna be the woman who claims and steps in to being fearlessly fertile?

Rosanne Austin8:34

Take time to write out who you are from here on out. Decide whether you'll be who they say you are or step into being fearlessly fertile. Love your dream enough to step out of garbage labels and reclaim your true identity.

How to Reclaim Your Fertility Identity

A process for stepping out of negative fertility labels and into your true identity as a woman with a dream

  1. 1

    Recognize the labels you've taken on

    Identify what labels like 'geriatric,' 'poor responder,' or 'difficult case' you've internalized about your fertility.

  2. 2

    Decide who you want to be

    Choose whether you'll be the woman who gives up or the woman who keeps going and figures it out.

  3. 3

    Write out your new identity

    Take time to write out who you are from here on out - are you who they say you are or fearlessly fertile?

  4. 4

    Reframe existing labels

    Use 'yes and' statements to reclaim labels: 'I am a poor responder and I will find the right solution for me.'

  5. 5

    Step into your vision

    Stop asking how and step into your vision, allowing the how to come to you through resourcefulness and creativity.

All Teachings 5

TeachingEmpowering2:24

You are not your diagnosis, statistics, or what medical professionals label you as - you get to decide exactly who and what you are on your fertility journey

Rosanne conceived naturally at 43 after years of treatment failure by shifting from seeing herself as a fertility failure to 'a woman stepping into the next level of who she's becoming'

TeachingChallenging2:45

Taking on negative fertility labels turns high-achieving women into entirely different people, causing them to circle the drain of fear, doubt, and negativity

Rosanne has observed over 11+ years that women who are go-getters slaying in their careers become heavy and dark after months and years of treatments without success

TeachingFierce7:31

If you don't reclaim your identity on this journey, other people get to decide who you are and you'll take on everything people say about you and your fertility

Rosanne emphasizes 'We're grown, sisters' and teaches that taking responsibility for your own identity is essential, as she learned when she stopped being terrorized about people finding out she was struggling with fertility

ReframeEmpowering6:30

You can reframe negative medical labels with 'yes and' - like 'I am a poor responder and I will find the right solution for me' or 'I'm a poor responder to shit that doesn't work for me'

Rosanne teaches specific language patterns to reclaim labels like 'geriatric,' 'poor responder,' or 'difficult case' rather than accepting them as absolute truth

TeachingEmpowering7:41

You have to love your dream enough to step out of the garbage labels and step into being the woman who you truly are - the woman with a dream

Rosanne teaches that whether you're the woman who found the love of her life and is having a baby, or decides to be a single mom by choice, you must take responsibility for your own identity

Episode Tone
3 empowering1 challenging1 fierce

Key Teachings 5

You are not your diagnosis, statistics, or what medical professionals label you as - you get to decide exactly who and what you are on your fertility journey

2:24

Taking on negative fertility labels turns high-achieving women into entirely different people, causing them to circle the drain of fear, doubt, and negativity

2:45

If you don't reclaim your identity on this journey, other people get to decide who you are and you'll take on everything people say about you and your fertility

7:31

You can reframe negative medical labels with 'yes and' - like 'I am a poor responder and I will find the right solution for me' or 'I'm a poor responder to shit that doesn't work for me'

6:30

You have to love your dream enough to step out of the garbage labels and step into being the woman who you truly are - the woman with a dream

7:41

Perspectives 2

Medical labels like 'geriatric,' 'poor responder,' or 'difficult case' define your fertility potential

CONSIDER: These labels are just opinions that you can reframe with 'yes and' or reject entirely - you get to decide what they mean for you

Failed treatments and losses make you a fertility fuck up

CONSIDER: You are not your past failures or statistics - you are a woman with a dream who gets to call the shots on your journey

Quotable Moments

We aren't our diagnosis, ladies, and we aren't our past. We aren't our statistics. We aren't what they say we are. You get to decide on this journey exactly who and what you are.

Rosanne Austin2:24

If you don't reclaim your identity on this journey, other people get to decide who you are.

Rosanne Austin7:31

I'm not a fertility fuck up. I am a woman who is stepping into the next level of who she's becoming.

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You have to love your dream enough to step out of that garbage and step into the woman who you truly are.

Rosanne Austin7:41

We're grown, sisters. We are grown. We don't need to be taking on labels that other people put on us.

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