Julia and Dr. Rebekah Diamond, author of Parent Like a Pediatrician, focus on parenting newborns and children.

Julia and Christina Bailey engage in a heartfelt conversation about the challenges and triumphs of healing from divorce, falling in love, infertility, reciprocal IVF and creating a family in a same-sex relationship.

HeHe Stewart, advocate, educator and founder of Maternity Concierge and The Birth Lounge, joins Julia to discuss pregnancy, informed consent and the education of the birthing process.

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

Majka Burhardt, the author of the book More, joins Julia on Stork'd to explore the joys and challenges of early parenthood.

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

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 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.

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.

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 journalist Meg St. Esprit. Meg is a parent of 4 children: 2 different sets of siblings, all through adoption. She shares her journey through adoption and the dynamic and interwoven way in which her family has integrated loved ones through open adoption.

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.

Aaron Kartchner about fatherhood and what it’s like to be a non-stereotypical stay at home dad. Aaron’s first daughter was born extremely premature at 27 weeks resulting in a 135-day stay in the NICU. Aaron chose to step into the role of primary caretaker.

Tara Krueger has epilepsy and shares how that has impacted the way in which she is raising her children and the family structure they have created around her epilepsy.

Gwen Dittmar shares the incredible journey of healing her body and soul through holistic medicine and how despite being told she would never have children because of PCOS, is now a mom of two.

When Tammy had to decide between staying married or not having a family, she chose divorce and received an embryo donation from her friend, Michael. Tammy’s story highlights the difficult trade-offs we often make but also reveals the beautiful experience of becoming a mom – something she had dreamed of for decades.

Jordana Kier, the founder of LOLA, which is a feminine and reproductive health products company, shares her own maternity leave experience and how LOLA’s parental leave differs from other companies and benefits parents and families.

Welcome to Season Two of the Stork’d Podcast! In this episode, we revisit host Julia Karol’s family building journey and learn more about what has transpired in her story since the last season.