Journalist Maressa Brown joins Julia to discuss her new book, Raising Baby by the Stars. She explains how astrology can teach you about your child and support your parenting.

Fiona Kong, an author and a single parent, joins Julia for a conversation about her book titled Home Sweet Homes Journal.

Artist and painter Michelle Armas joins Julia on Stork'd to discuss her unbelievable journey to adopt her daughter.

Elizabeth Carr, author and advocate, is the first IVF baby born in the United States and the first medicated IVF Baby in the world.

Julietta Skoog, co-founder of Be Sproutable, joins Julia to discuss positive discipline.

Amanda Makulec, a medical statistical researcher, joins Julia to share her heartbreaking story of losing her 3-month-old son.

Julia Karol, launches the fifth season of Stork’d! She walks us through some exciting topics coming up in this fifth season. She also shares her parenting journey and how becoming a parent has transformed her.

Welcome to Season 4 of Stork’d! This introduction episode kicks off with the concept of “Choose Your Hard”, assuming that you have access to those choices. Throughout this episode, you will hear snippets of Julia and several of her guests from this upcoming season discussing their family building stories.

I’m speaking with Lauren Wynn about her 8 miscarriages, emergency surgery and ultimately building her family through IVF. What’s more, Lauren’s husband EJ sold much of his prized and valuable sneaker collection to cover the cost of their fertility treatments.

I speak with Chicago blogger and social media influencer, Jen Worman about divorce, dating and solo parenting! Jen opens up about her divorce, her experience dating with kids, and how she has learned the important truth that you can only control yourself.

Nearly 50% of infertility is a male factor, meaning it’s related to men not women. Even with this shocking percentage, it’s not openly discussed. I speak with TJ Peyten who has become an advocate for male factor infertility after she and her husband experienced it first hand.

Chelsea London Lloyd, a comedian, actress and self proclaimed “grief gal” and I chat about her unique relationship with humor and grief. As a child, she grew up with two sick parents and after a long 15 year journey with ALS, her father passed away.

I’m talking with Genevieve Jaffe about her and her wife’s personal experience with creating their family through reciprocal IVF. Gena is a lawyer and founder of Connecting Rainbows and she now advocates for others going through this process and provides legal support for the LGBTQA+ community.

I am joined by Yvette Anderson, co-founder of Anderson’s Meet The Need, a nonprofit she and her husband felt called to create after the loss of their newborn son.

We are joined by Michele Katz. Michele is the founder of the Plus One Adoption Foundation and a mother of 4, two adopted, and two biological children. Michele shares her story about the adoption process and how she is blending cultures in their family.

Today’s conversation with Emily Green is all about the importance of women taking control of their financial destiny as it relates to family planning. We I chat about balancing the trade-offs between your career and personal goals. We talk about the pressures of corporate culture on moms, gender salary gaps, and maternity leave.

In this week’s episode, we are joined by Louise McLoughlin. Louise tells us the story of finding out she was donor-conceived, how she found her biological father and sister, and the feelings she experienced throughout the process.

In this week's season 4 finale episode of Stork’d, we are joined by Tracy Weiss. Tracy is a cancer survivor who lost her chance of having biological children and in so doing, she gives up on the vision she has of a future daughter to be named Moxie.

Welcome to season 3! Today, we discuss the upcoming Season 3 and I share an important life update. In many ways, the start of Stork’d and my own family building journey have run parallel to each other.

I speak with Saundra and Susan who have built a community which they lovingly call their village family. Filled with friends, family and neighbors, the village family was composed to create a diverse and rich environment for their daughter to grow and thrive in.