Fearlessly Fertile Podcast

For forty years, Dr. Alice Domar has been fighting to prove what most fertility patients already suspect: the mind-body connection is real, it is measurable, and it matters for pregnancy outcomes.
In Episode 396 of the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast, Rosanne Austin sits down with Dr. Domar for a conversation that has been years in the making. Two women from completely different worlds, a Harvard-trained researcher with a PhD in health psychology and four decades of published data, and a former criminal prosecutor who built a twelve-year coaching methodology from the inside of her own seven-year fertility journey, who arrived at exactly the same conclusion.
The mind is not optional on this journey. And the data proves it.
In this episode:
➡ Dr. Domar's origin story: a study out of Bogota, Columbia, a mother's fertility journey, and the research that changed everything starting in 1987
➡ What happened when the first mind-body program results came in: 33% pregnancy rate when IVF success rates were running at 5%
➡ The federally-funded randomized controlled trial that changed the conversation: 52-55% take-home baby rate in the mind-body group vs. 20% in the control group (verified, published in Fertility and Sterility)
➡ A separate Johnson & Johnson-funded study on IVF patients: 52% vs. 22%
➡ Why the fertility establishment resisted this data for four decades
➡ Dr. Domar's landmark study: women with infertility have the same anxiety and depression levels as women with cancer, AIDS, or heart disease
➡ Across virtually every species on the planet, stress shuts down reproduction. Why would humans be different?
➡ High-achieving women on the fertility journey: why outworking it is the wrong strategy
➡ The "blaming the victim" accusation, why it is wrong, and what empowerment actually looks like
➡ What Dr. Domar wants to see in every fertility clinic within the next year
➡ A new 240-person study with results coming soon
➡ "Maybe it's your turn." What Dr. Domar said to Rosanne at the end of this conversation…and she’s right!
STAT VERIFICATION NOTE
The 52-55% vs. 20% figures are confirmed accurate. Dr. Domar's federally-funded randomized controlled trial results were published in Fertility and Sterility. A separate Johnson and Johnson-funded IVF study showed 52% vs. 22%. Safe to cite as verified.
Resources:
✨ Apply to be considered for Fearlessly Fertile Method programs: https://frommaybetobaby.com/pc-strategy 
✨ The Mind of Fertility Documentary: Watch Now: https://go.frommaybetobaby.com/mind-of-fertility

✨ Follow Rosanne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosanneaustinfertility/ 
Rosanne Austin is the premier fertility mindset authority for high-achieving women. A former criminal prosecutor and JD, she spent over twelve years helping women around the world, ages 28 to 54, finally get and stay pregnant, many against less-than-1%-chance odds. The founder of the Fearlessly Fertile Method, author of five books, and creator of The Mind of Fertility docuseries, Rosanne brings courtroom-level precision and the lived authority of conceiving naturally at nearly 44, after years of treatment failure, to the only methodology in the fertility space built specifically for women who succeed at everything except this. Apply to be considered for Fearlessly Fertile Method programs at https://frommaybetobaby.com/pc-strategy.
Trying all of the “physical things” and still not getting and staying pregnant?
Mindset is your next right step.
Apply today to be considered for Fearlessly Fertile Method Programs: https://frommaybetobaby.com/pc-strategy

This is the question Rosanne Austin has been sitting with after twelve years of watching women succeed and fail on the fertility journey.
Where are you making this harder than it has to be?
Not as an accusation. As love. As the most useful question a woman in the thick of it can answer honestly.
In Episode 395 of the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast, Rosanne gets specific about the places where high-achieving women unknowingly pile on unnecessary difficulty: the societal shame of simply being on this journey, the receiving problem that stops accomplished women from investing in their own hearts, the Batman identity that refuses to ask for help, the self-esteem wound that comes from an identity built on success suddenly under attack, and the regret that comes from waiting.
And the one thing you have always had, and can always use.
In this episode:
♀️ Why asking "where am I making this hard?" is an act of love, not judgment
♀️ The societal messages that make women torture themselves for being on this journey (and why the data says something entirely different)
♀️ Women over 40 are in a baby boom. What the most recent census actually shows.
♀️ Why high-achieving women have a specific and underacknowledged struggle with receiving
♀️ The Batman identity: why the woman who has everything together refuses to ask for help
♀️ How an identity built on success makes a fertility setback feel like a catastrophic personal failure
♀️ The regret trap: why it is a lie worth walking away from
♀️ The one thing you can always control: your perception
♀️ A paper-and-pen exercise to do right now
♀️ Why the mind and body work together, and what is currently happening between your ears
Resources:
✨ Apply to be considered for Fearlessly Fertile Method programs: https://frommaybetobaby.com/pc-strategy 
✨ The Mind of Fertility Documentary: Watch Now: https://go.frommaybetobaby.com/mind-of-fertility
✨ Follow Rosanne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosanneaustinfertility/

There is a moment on this journey that nobody tells you about.
It's not the diagnosis. It's not the failed cycle. It's not the phone call you were dreading.
It's the moment after all of that. The fork in the road.
And what you do in that moment, Rosanne Austin says, will ultimately determine success or failure on your fertility journey.
In Episode 394 of the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast, Rosanne is describing the moment she has watched define hundreds of fertility journeys over more than twelve years. The moment where the subconscious mind shows up with a silver platter of perfectly reasonable, sensible, logical excuses that feel like relief.
And why that feeling is a lie.
In this episode:
📍 What the moment actually looks like (and how you will know when you are in it)
📍 Why your subconscious mind hands you "reasonable" excuses at exactly the wrong time
📍 Why quitting feels so good in the moment and why that feeling cannot be trusted
📍 The fork in the road: old you vs. new you
📍 Who is really encouraging you to quit, and what that tells you about them
📍 Why nobody who has ever succeeded on this journey wants you to fail
📍 The one thing every woman who has beaten less-than-1% odds has in common
📍 How professional women already know how to play the long game, and why this journey is no different
📍 A woman in Italy who was trying for years, faced the moment, and is now having a baby boy
📍 There is a woman out there right now who is far worse off than you, holding her baby. Here's why.
📍 The only thing to do when you are scared shitless and serious about having a baby
Keep saying yes.
Resources:
👉 Apply to be considered for Fearlessly Fertile Method programs: https://frommaybetobaby.com/pc-strategy 
👉 The Mind of Fertility Documentary: Watch Now: https://go.frommaybetobaby.com/mind-of-fertility 
👉 Follow Rosanne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosanneaustinfertility/

For five years, Natalie Fox told herself she didn't want kids.
She avoided her pregnant friends. She avoided the conversation with her husband. She avoided the truth she already knew.
Because the truth was complicated. Two years into their marriage, they found out her husband had zero sperm. He'd had cancer as a child. The doctors had been reassuring. And then the test results weren't.
So Natalie went the other way. Completely. And stayed there for five years.
Until a sister-in-law got married, got pregnant, and Natalie spiraled. And the spiral cracked something open.
She found the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast. She listened for a full year before she pulled the trigger. Every episode, she thought: that's me. That's me. That's me.
And then she did something most women don't do.
She used the money she had saved for more fertility treatment, money set aside after two IUIs and a miscarriage, and she put it into mindset work instead.
"The only thing missing is my mindset," she said. "If I do treatment, it's going to fail."
In this episode:
🤰🏻 The five-year spiral of denial: what protective avoidance actually costs you
🤰🏻 How jealousy is almost always a signal, not a flaw
🤰🏻 Why she used her IVF savings on mindset work and what happened next
🤰🏻 The clinic switch she made mid-program that she never could have done before
🤰🏻 The moment she was told she had too many follicles and had hours to decide: cancel or IVF
🤰🏻 How she went from "I will never do IVF" to "We're doing IVF, with or without you" in a single afternoon
🤰🏻 20 eggs retrieved. 5 frozen embryos. Pregnant on the first transfer.
🤰🏻 The declaration she made during the program: "I will have a baby before 40."
🤰🏻 She had her daughter two weeks before her 40th birthday.
🤰🏻 How she also launched a business while three months pregnant
🤰🏻 What she wants every woman on this journey to know
This is what deciding looks like.
Resources:
📌 Apply to be considered for Fearlessly Fertile Method programs: https://frommaybetobaby.com/pc-strategy 
📌 LIMITLESS Retreat: September 13-15, 2026 | The Woodlands, TX (only a few tickets left): https://frommaybetobaby.com/limitless 
📌 The Mind of Fertility Documentary: Watch Now: https://go.frommaybetobaby.com/mind-of-fertility 
📌 Follow Rosanne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosanneaustinfertility/ 
Trying all of the “physical things” and still not getting and staying pregnant?
Mindset is your next right step.
Apply today to be considered for Fearlessly Fertile Method Programs: https://frommaybetobaby.com/pc-strategy

You will answer this question with a quick, confident yes.
And then Rosanne Austin is going to ask you to sit with it a little longer.
Because the reflexive yes and the lived, bone-deep conviction are two very different things. And on the fertility journey, that gap is costing women months, sometimes years, sometimes everything.
Episode 392 of the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast is Part 3 of the Intelligent Inquiry Series, and Rosanne is asking the question she calls one of the top two most important questions on the fertility journey.
Are you worth it?
Not as a platitude. Not as something you say to feel better. As a real, active, bone-deep conviction that drives every decision you make on this journey.
In this episode:
🔍 Why worthiness is quietly behind every micro-decision you make on this journey right now
🔍 How the presupposition of lack, fear, and scarcity is running your choices without you realizing it
🔍 Why "I'm only doing three cycles because that's what insurance covers" might be the most disempowered sentence a woman can say
🔍 What happens to your decision-making when you actually believe you're worth it (everything simplifies)
🔍 Why time, money, convenience, and other people's opinions stop being the obstacle when worthiness is solid
🔍 The difference between saying "my baby is worth it" and "I am worth it" (both matter, and here's why)
🔍 Permission: where it actually comes from, and why you've been seeking it from the wrong places
🔍 What Rosanne discovered in year seven of her own journey that changed everything
🔍 Why the women who beat insane odds always, always made the same decision first
This is not motivational content. This is the missing piece.
Resources:
📌 Apply to be considered for Fearlessly Fertile Method programs: https://frommaybetobaby.com/pc-strategy 
📌 LIMITLESS Retreat: September 13-15, 2026 | The Woodlands, TX (only a few tickets left): https://frommaybetobaby.com/limitless 
📌 The Mind of Fertility Documentary: Watch Now: https://go.frommaybetobaby.com/mind-of-fertility 
📌 Follow Rosanne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosanneaustinfertility/