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Why there's no episode today. · The Curve

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  Just to heads up, in this episode we'll be touching on some fertility challenges.
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  So if this topic hits too close to home, we totally understand if you need to set this one out or proceed with care.
• 0:14
  Hi everyone. Today's episode was meant to be about what does it mean for women, the economy, and all of our financial planning.
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  If we look at the idea of having kids earlier in life or later in life,
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  we came across a story that we were originally going to cover in the Curve Weekly.
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  And essentially the headline was that US birth rates have hit a record low in 2025.
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  But what's quite interesting is that while there's all these media headlines that are talking about the fact that
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  women are having less babies and we've got this fertility crisis and there's a whole lot of fear mongering going on.
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  Actually if you look at the statistics, 88% of women who are 45 today are mothers.
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  And that's actually more than 20 years ago.
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  So today's conversation originally, we were going to unpack a lot of these statistics.
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  We were going to talk about the financial implications that this can have.
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  So whether you choose to have kids earlier or later, because there's so much to consider with this conversation
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  in terms of personal finances, financial planning, as well as looking at the whole economy and what's happening.
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  And we recorded this conversation this week.
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  We edited it and we were really excited about putting it out in all honesty.
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  And then Vixen to note this morning to our team Slack.
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  And it said, guys, I'm feeling a little bit worried about this episode.
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  I feel like perhaps we haven't done it justice.
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  And so rather than making a decision in the echo chamber of the curve,
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  we sent this episode to a bunch of people we really trusted.
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  And that was mothers, people have had difficulty with fertility, people of different ages.
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  And what came back was really interesting.
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  And I'm so glad that we paused before putting this out.
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  What it made us really realise is that Vixen, I have a specific perspective experience angle to bring to this conversation.
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  But we're also two mid to late 30s women who don't have kids.
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  And we're both in heterosexual relationships.
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  We've both focused on our career and not had kids yet for various reasons, not just because we're focused on our career,
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  but because we hadn't met the right person till later in life.
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  And what we realised was actually to have this conversation and to do it justice, we really need input from the community
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  and from other people who are in all sorts of different dynamics.
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  Because to truly talk about this conversation, like yes, we've got a huge amount of research.
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  I mean, our prep sheet is like, God, how long is it? It's like eight pages long.
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  That's kind of just the nature of content and podcasting.
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  We really try and make these things timely to talk about them when they're in the news.
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  But we also want to make sure that the quality of what we're putting out is up there.
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  And this conversation with Jessica and I talking about it would not have been that.
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  So we would really love to ask anyone who is listening, who perhaps has considered or gone through adoption,
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  who is in a same sex relationship either considering or not considering kids and the reasons why.
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  Anyone who for fertility reasons hasn't been able to have kids or experienced miscarriages,
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  perhaps chosen by choice not to for financial reasons, anything that you have experienced or someone you know has experienced
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  that might give this conversation a more well-rounded perspective.
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  We would love to hear from you.
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  We have the online, the Curve Hotline, which is where you can leave a voice note.
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  We can totally make these anonymous.
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  You can also send us a DM on Instagram. You could also send us an email.
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  Hello at thecurveplatform.com.
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  We would really welcome any and all perspectives thoughts on this conversation
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  so that we can make sure it is as educational as possible.
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  So thank you in advance.
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  And if you could send this episode to anyone you know, who might be able to offer some kind of insight,
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  that would also be great.
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  So thank you for bearing with us.
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  Well today is not a normal episode.
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  And we will be back from Monday with the Curve Hotline.
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  But in the meantime, we will continue to work on this episode and make sure when we put it out,
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  that everyone is really happy with it.
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  So thank you and we will be back in your ears on Monday.