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Stories That Inspire Hope · The World Knowledge

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  Speaker 1: Well, good evening listeners. Thank you so much for coming
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  Speaker 1: on and taking time to listen to Lamenta Vogue podcast,
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  Speaker 1: another episode for you. And today it's a special one
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  Speaker 1: for me because my mom, she was a mom in
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  Speaker 1: her late 30s, early 40s because she struggled with infertility.
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  Speaker 1: So it took her 12 years to have me. And
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  Speaker 1: then shortly after me, she had my sister. I'm on
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  Speaker 1: a run. You know, I'm just trying to get it out. I'm,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sad. It sucks. But like, you never were like,
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  Speaker 1: it's never like, Oh, the world is, is black and
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  Speaker 1: dead and there's just nothing left. You know, there's like
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  Speaker 1: there you're offering this alternative for, I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times it is just like, it feels like a
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  Speaker 1: dark tunnel you go through, but with the way you
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  Speaker 1: present it, you have so many shafts of light that
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  Speaker 1: like come through your tunnel and, And so I think
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  Speaker 1: it helps with people who are going through that too,
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  Speaker 1: that hopefully they can like feel like, oh, someone understands,
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  Speaker 1: but they haven't given up. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: give up, you know? Yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: And if I can be, I posted something I think
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  Speaker 2: yesterday about keep going. And someone commented on TikTok saying,
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking this as my sign to Try again. I
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  Speaker 2: wasn't going to try. I'm going to try again because
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking this as my sign or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: And I read that and I was like, that is
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  Speaker 2: exactly why I'm posting. That's exactly why I'm doing this
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  Speaker 2: and putting myself out there like this. Because if I
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  Speaker 2: can just help even one person feel better about their
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  Speaker 2: situation with infertility, like in this dark tunnel, I can
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  Speaker 2: spread a little bit of light. That's what matters, right?
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the day, I want people to
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  Speaker 2: feel like they're not alone because I'm right there with you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, just to kind of, because I think
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  Speaker 1: a great way to kind of conclude this is for
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  Speaker 1: people listening who may be struggling with infertility or even
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  Speaker 1: just miscarriages and want to find a community where they
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  Speaker 1: can talk. And you were telling me about this app.
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  Speaker 1: Can you tell me a little bit more and like
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  Speaker 1: just the audience about what this app and your vision
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  Speaker 1: for it and just a little bit more so if
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  Speaker 1: people want to join or look into it, that's something
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  Speaker 1: they can do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, my husband and I are building
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  Speaker 2: an app called Venn, kind of like a Venn diagram.
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  Speaker 2: We also just learned recently that Venn is like Norwegian
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  Speaker 2: for friend. So that was a happy coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, so it's the entire basis around the app
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  Speaker 2: is that the reason we're building it is because social
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  Speaker 2: media isn't social anymore.
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  Speaker 1: No. That's good.
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  Speaker 2: We need connection. People are craving connection with people that
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  Speaker 2: actually understand what they're going through. And so, yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: app will... do the work for you in that sense,
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  Speaker 2: where you pick a topic. We've got 10 topics. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just infertility. We've got, you know, 10 different topics.
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  Speaker 2: We're just focusing on infertility now because that's what I know, right?
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  Speaker 2: I know infertility and that kind of thing. But it's,
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  Speaker 2: and it was originally built for infertility, but we broadened
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  Speaker 2: it to be for everyone. But yeah, you can go
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  Speaker 2: and join a group. It's a free app. Anyone can
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  Speaker 2: download it. But yeah, you join a circle, you answer
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  Speaker 2: filtering questions, which then place you into a circle with
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  Speaker 2: people that answered the questions the same way that you did.
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  Speaker 2: So you know that you're only in a group with
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  Speaker 2: people that actually understand what you're going through. So you
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  Speaker 2: can talk about, it's not a Facebook group where you
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  Speaker 2: have someone that's been trying for three months and then
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  Speaker 2: someone that has been trying for their fifth kid. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, okay, well, we're in different situations. With Ben,
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  Speaker 2: you're actually in a circle with people that you know, I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I've been going through IVF. This is my fifth time.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where my first kid, it's like, that's
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  Speaker 2: your circle. Those are the people you're talking to are
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  Speaker 2: people that actually are in that same situation. So yeah, um,
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  Speaker 2: there's a wait list right now. So to download, we, we,
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  Speaker 2: we are launching June 15th. If you want to join
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  Speaker 2: the wait list, um, it's findmyven.com. And yeah, that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of the, that's the spiel about it. We are also
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  Speaker 2: taking on founding creators right now. So if you want
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  Speaker 2: to be a founding creator, there's an application on the website, but.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is so exciting. I can't wait. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what an amazing idea. So yeah, I like anyone listening,
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  Speaker 1: you should check it out. Cause I definitely would. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: but thank you. You know, Maddie, thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for this. You have, you're so, it's been so great
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  Speaker 1: to talk to someone who's so unsocially social, if that
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  Speaker 1: makes sense. Like there's so many influencers and over the
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  Speaker 1: years I've done this podcast, I've really tried to have
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  Speaker 1: guests who I know will be honest and real. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just so great to have someone just be like