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Episode 96 – Living the Life Unexpected with Jody Day, Best Selling Author, Founder of Gateway Women
Jody Day is the British founder of Gateway Women, the global friendship and support network for childless women with a reach of almost two-million around the world.
A thought-leader of female involuntary childlessness, she’s an integrative psychotherapist, a TEDx speaker, a Fellow in Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School and a former board member at AWOC (Ageing Without Children). A proud World Childless Week Champion she now lives in the Republic of Ireland.
In her book – Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find a Meaningful and Fulfilling Future Without Children, Jody Day addresses the experience of involuntary childlessness and provides a powerful, practical guide to help those negotiating a future without children come to terms with their grief, a grief that is only just beginning to be recognised by society.
Jody Day shares how it is possible to move towards a creative, happy, meaningful and fulfilling future even if it’s not the one you had planned.
Millions of people are now living a life without children, almost double that of a generation ago and the numbers are rising still. Although some are childfree by choice, another others are childless due to infertility or circumstance and are struggling to come to terms with their uncertain future.
Although most people think that those without children ‘couldn’t’ or ‘didn’t want’ to be parents, the truth is much more complex.
Jody Day was forty-four when she realised that her quest to be a mother was at an end. She presumed that she was through the toughest part, but over the next couple of years she was hit by waves of grief, despair and isolation.
Eventually she found her way and in 2011 created Gateway Women, the global friendship and support network for childless women which has now helped almost two million people worldwide.
EP.96 – Living the Life Unexpected by Jody Day *click here to listen on Apple Podcasts
– her personal story about turning 44 and realising her quest to be a mother was at an end
– what inspired her to start Gateway Women
– what inspired her to write her book Gateway Women
– challenges for women or men who are on their own, childless and in lockdown during the global pandemic
– grief, loss, your dreams, hopes, plans of becoming a Mum getting totally crushed
– the power of connection and community
– the importance for sharing our personal stories to help others
– how to find a meaningful and fulfilling future without Children
– things we can do to support our Childless Women or Men during a global pandemic
Plus we talk about so much more of course….
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Jody Day, Founder of Gateway Women
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