Controlling Your Own Destiny Through Egg Freezing With Cameron Rogers
Today’s wonderful guest is Cameron Rogers! Cam has built her career advising high net-worth clients on professional investing and wealth management, and recently made the decision to invest in her future through egg freezing. First off, she shares her thought process behind her choice and the social components that she has faced as a single, career-minded woman. She explains the emotional, physical, and financial investment that fertility preservation requires and talks about how meaningful community was during the process. PS - this is a great episode to listen to if, like me, you have ever felt pressure from others to start a family!
In This Episode:
[04:32] About Cam Rogers and her process leading up to freezing her eggs.
[16:12] Cultural pressures related to dating, career success and other life choices.
[19:49] Cameron’s egg freezing experience.
[24:33] Julia’s experience with freezing her eggs.
[26:20] The emotional and financial components of egg freezing.
[39:00] What does family mean to Cam?
Takeaways:
Egg freezing is a physical, financial, and emotional investment in a possible future – one that isn’t even defined or a promised future.
Women often experience hurtful societal pressures from family and friends to be in a relationship or start a family by a certain age. This pressure is usually compounded by a woman's own personal desires for a family which can make egg freezing deeply personal and isolating. In Cameron’s experience, she was privileged to have felt and found a supportive community during the process.
In a perfect world, every young woman in her early twenties would start saving for egg freezing. In a more perfect world, we wouldn't have to because insurance programs would cover it.
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