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Madness Cafe240. Mission: Motherhood with guest Cheri BergeronJoin the conversation by letting us know what you think about the episode!Cheri Bergeron always knew that motherhood was in her future. Indeed, she made it her mission to become a mother. Cheri chronicles all that she went through on the way to motherhood in her memoir Mission Motherhood: Writing A New Fairy Tale of Love and Family. Tune in to this candid discussion to learn about all that our guest goes through to build her family. "If the glass slipper doesn't fit, screw the fairy tale! Become a mother on your own terms."
2026-02-1953 min
Mama Making PodcastCheri Bergeron | Mission Motherhood: IVF after 40 & Solo Parenting by ChoiceWhat if the life you planned doesn’t unfold the way you imagined — but something equally powerful emerges in its place?In this episode of The Mama Making Podcast, I sit down with author, speaker, and founder of Cheri’s Choice, Cheri Bergeron, to talk about infertility, IVF after 40, egg donation, and ultimately choosing solo motherhood.Cheri shares her journey from building a successful career in Silicon Valley to realizing that the timeline she assumed she had for motherhood wasn’t guaranteed. We talk about the emotional weight of fertility treatments, the decision to use an egg d...
2026-02-1832 min
Perinatal & Reproductive PerspectivesMotherhood, My Way: Choosing Fertility, Family, and a Life on My Own Terms Part IIThanks for stopping by! We'd love to hear from you. Part Two of Motherhood, My Way continues the conversation with Cheri Bergeron, moving deeper into the realities of choosing yourself while navigating fertility and the path to motherhood.In this episode, Cheri reflects on what comes after the decision—the emotional weight of waiting, the strength required to keep going, and the inner shifts that happen when plans don’t unfold as expected. We talk about surrendering control, releasing comparison, and learning how to hold both hope and disappointment at the same time.
2025-12-2932 minPerinatal & Reproductive PerspectivesMotherhood, My Way: Choosing Fertility, Family, and a Life on My Own TermsThanks for stopping by! We'd love to hear from you. In this episode of Motherhood, My Way, we sit down with Cheri Bergeron for an honest and compassionate conversation about fertility, hope, and pursuing motherhood on your own terms.Cheri shares her insights on navigating the emotional and physical realities of the fertility journey—especially for women walking the path solo. Together, we explore what it means to trust yourself, advocate for your body, and redefine timelines when the desire for motherhood doesn’t fit the traditional script.This episode speaks to the grie...
2025-12-1642 min
The Advisor with Stacey ChillemiWhen the Fairytale Breaks: Motherhood on Your TermsWhat if the story you were given about love, family, and motherhood was never meant for you?
In this episode, host Stacey Chillemi and guest Cheri Bergeron explore how to face adversity, release painful “fairytales,” and create motherhood on your terms — with compassion, clarity, and courage. This is a calming, practical conversation about real-life grief, resilience, and rebuilding a life that feels true to you.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to:
🌱 Spot the limiting stories and “fairytales” that keep you stuck
🧠 Gently rewrite your inner narrative after disappointment or loss
💛 Build self-worth and...
2025-12-1232 min
IVF Prep at HealthYouniversityYour Baby, Your Way! with Cheri BergeronIn this powerful episode of Health Youniversity, discover how to build your family on your own terms—with or without a partner.Join us as we sit down with Cheri Bergeron, author, life coach, and founder of the nonprofit Cheri's Choice, who shares her inspiring journey from corporate IT professional to fierce advocate for women pursuing alternative paths to motherhood.Learn why the traditional "fairy tale" of marriage-then-motherhood no longer serves modern women, and discover the options available to you that you may never have known existed. Cheri shares her personal story of becoming a mo...
2025-12-0932 min
The Butterfly of Why18. Rewriting Motherhood: Screw the Fairy Tale w/ Cheri BergeronCheri Bergeron’s path to motherhood wasn’t a fairytale—it was a fight, a reckoning, and ultimately a rising. From infertility and loss to a landmark legal battle over donor conception, her journey sparked a mission to help women choose motherhood on their own terms.In this conversation, Cheri shares the courage, clarity, and quiet truths she gathered along the way. If you’re redefining what family can look like, or longing for permission to follow your own path—this episode is a must-listen! It’s an invitation to screw the fairytale and become a mother on your own
2025-12-0940 min
Fertility ForwardEp 180: Redefining the Path to Motherhood with Cheri BergeronTrigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of pregnancy loss and fertility challenges. Please take care while listening, and pause if you need to. Motherhood doesn’t always follow a traditional script, and you don’t need a fairytale to build a family. In this powerful episode of Fertility Forward, best-selling author, speaker, and life coach Cheri Bergeron joins us to share her extraordinary journey to parenthood on her own terms. From navigating IVF and donor conception to facing unimaginable loss and ultimately winning a landmark custody case in Texas, Cheri opens up about the...
2025-12-0431 min
Finding Hope After Loss | Hope in Infertility and Pregnancy LossTen Years of IVF, Infant Loss, and Pregnancy Loss: Cheri’s Fierce Journey to MotherhoodCheri Bergeron shares her extraordinary 10-year journey through infertility, IVF, pregnancy loss, TFMR, infant loss, and the fierce resilience it took to finally become a mother at 44 and 47. Her path to motherhood was anything but traditional—marked by donor conception, genetic defects, heartbreaking loss, and a precedent-setting legal battle that challenged outdated “presumed father” laws. Through every setback, Cheri found a way to keep moving forward, redefining what it means to build a family on your own terms.Cheri opens up about what it felt like to not lose hope a...
2025-12-0334 min
No Shrinking Violets Podcast for WomenFrom IVF To Empowerment: Rewriting The Path To ParenthoodThoughts or comments? Send us a text!What if the story you were handed about motherhood—find a partner, marry, then try for kids—was never the only way? We sit down with author and coach Cheri Bergeron to unpack how she pursued a corporate career, watched the clock get louder, and then chose a different path: IVF with donor eggs, navigating loss, and ultimately becoming a single mother by choice. The conversation is raw and generous, tracing the moments that broke her heart, the legal fight that tested her rights, and the decisions that rebuilt her life...
2025-11-2535 min
Spoken Word by AnamikaMon CheriCheri Bergeron is a former tech executive and entrepreneur turned bestselling author, speaker, trained life coach, and founder of the nonprofit Cheri's Choice. Following her ten-year struggle with infertility that involved multiple rounds of IVF, donor conception, genetic defects and child loss, she successfully gave birth to her children at the ages of 44 and 46. Driven by these experiences, Cheri wrote the #1 Amazon bestseller Mission: Motherhood to let women know they aren’t alone in this struggle. Through her nonprofit, Cheri now helps women navigate non-traditional paths to motherhood on their own terms—with clarity, confidence, and choice. She lives with her...
2025-11-1605 min
Spoken Word by AnamikaMon CheriCheri Bergeron is a former tech executive and entrepreneur turned bestselling author, speaker, trained life coach, and founder of the nonprofit Cheri's Choice. Following her ten-year struggle with infertility that involved multiple rounds of IVF, donor conception, genetic defects and child loss, she successfully gave birth to her children at the ages of 44 and 46. Driven by these experiences, Cheri wrote the #1 Amazon bestseller Mission: Motherhood to let women know they aren’t alone in this struggle. Through her nonprofit, Cheri now helps women navigate non-traditional paths to motherhood on their own terms—with clarity, confidence, and choice. She lives with...
2025-11-1605 min
Make Your Day RicherThe Fertility Talk You Never GotWe're starting the week with one of the most important and personal conversations we’ve ever had on the show. My guest is the inspiring Cheri Bergeron, founder of the non-profit Cheri's Choice!Cheri came to this mission after a difficult personal journey of 10 years of infertility, loss of children, and a landmark custody battle. She realized that while we teach sex education in schools, we absolutely skip fertility education.She’s here to talk about the huge information gap that exists, why women are often left to navigate a $3...
2025-11-1020 min
The Trauma TherapistThe Many Ways To Create A Family with Cheri BergeronCheri Bergeron is an author, blogger, public speaker, trained life coach, and founder of the nonprofit Cheri's Choice, guiding women through alternative paths to motherhood.Following a successful career in IT, Cheri now helps single women weigh their options, navigate fertility challenges, and build families on their own terms. Her personal fertility journey included becoming a mother without a partner through IVF treatments and donor conception. She won a landmark Texas family law case (Bergeron v. Saunders) that challenged outdated legislation concerning families formed through assisted reproduction.In her memoir Mission: Motherhood, Cheri shares her experiences...
2025-11-0629 min
Professor of Perseverance PodcastEp 282 IVF after 40: Cheri Bergeron’s Perseverance to MotherhoodCheri Bergeron a woman on a mission—literally. She traded boardrooms for baby dreams when she realized the traditional “happily ever after” wasn’t going to show up. Her ten-year path to motherhood was anything but linear: it spanned foster parenting, multiple rounds of IVF, donor conception, genetic defects, premature birth, and child loss. After bringing her two children into the world and thinking the trauma was behind her, she faced an unexpected battle: a precedent-setting Texas Family Court case. Her estranged husband of seven years sued to be recognized as the legal father of her son.
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2025-10-2948 min
Exposing the Hidden RealityDitch the Fairy Tale - Breaking Motherhood BiasDitch the Fairy Tale - Breaking Motherhood Bias - Exposing the Hidden Reality | Season 5 | Episode 12DITCH the Fairy Tales! You know, the ones about Prince Charming, Happily Ever After, and the big "happy family". Today, we're talking about big, bold and important issues with Cheri Bergeron - author, speaker, coach, and founder of the nonprofit Cheri’s Choice.After a successful career in tech and entrepreneurship, Cheri faced a truth too many women discover too late: traditional timelines and fairy tales don’t always line up with biology. Her journey to motherhood wasn’t linear. IVF, ch...
2025-10-1741 min
The Christ-Centered Single PodcastNavigating your Faith Journey through trauma and loss/ Also, How to become a Mom on your own terms
The Christ-Centered Single Podcast with Host Coach B. and Special Guest Cheri Bergeron on Tuesday, October 14th
Topic: Navigating your faith journey in the midst of trauma and loss - How to become a mother on your own terms.
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The Christ-Centered Single Podcast with Host Coach B
Tagline: A Podcast for Women Choosing Wholeness, Purpose, and Christ over Compromise
Expect real conversations, and powerful truths for women walk...
2025-10-1536 min
FertiliTEA with Dr. DMission Motherhood: Rewriting the Fairy Tale with Cheri BergeronIn this episode, Dr. D sits down with Cheri Bergeron, author, life coach, and founder of Cheri's Choice which explores what it truly means to build a family on your own terms. From navigating fertility treatments and foster care to winning a landmark Texas case that reshaped laws around assisted reproduction, Cheri's story is one of resilience, purpose, and redefining what motherhood looks like in today's world. She shares how her book, Mission: Motherhood, was born from her own challenges and triumphs, proving that there's more than one path to creating the family of your dreams. This...
2025-10-0743 min
Create with FranzI asked God why I could not become a motherWhat was wrong with me? Was I not good enough? Would it ever be possible to become a mum and navigate infertility problems, willy nilly partners, costly medical procedures, possible child loss and becoming older or single in the process? The answer is yes - and the strategies we will present you come from Cheri Bergeron, an author and like coach, who went through all the above, and now from the other side, as a fulfilled mum of two, educates and empowers women who feel the call to become mothers. Cheri will show us the man...
2025-09-2837 min
New Mom Talk: A Resource for Pregnant, Expecting Moms & New Moms & PregnancyMotherhood Outside the Norm: Choosing Your Own Path with Cheri Bergeron Ep 113In this episode of The New Mom Talk Podcast, we dive into the world of motherhood outside the traditional mold with our guest, Cheri—a career woman turned single mother by choice. Passionate about empowering women to achieve motherhood on their own terms (Prince Charming not required), Cheri shares her journey and the lessons she’s learned along the way.We cover:What unconventional paths to motherhood can look likeAdvice for women feeling pressured by societal timelinesHow to build and lean on a supportive communityMindset shifts that build resilience during hardships like fertility struggles or l...
2025-09-1022 min
Teatime with Miss LizMiss Liz's A Golden Heart Tee "“Defying the Odds: Cheri Bergeron’s Journey to Motherhood After 40”These teatimes are done with a golden heart of surprises, updates, and open conversations with Miss Liz, just maybe a surprise guest as well, on topics close to Miss Liz's heart. Join us for a time of recharging, reflecting, and releasing through the gold heart of tee. This Teatime with Miss Liz brings forward a story of perseverance, heartbreak, and the unshakable courage to rewrite life’s narrative.At 40, Cheri Bergeron was told her dream of becoming a mother was nearly impossible. The statistics were brutal, the disappointments relentless, and the silence isolating. But Cheri refused to accept that her sto...
2025-08-191h 00
Teatime with Miss LizMiss Liz's A Golden Heart Tee "“Defying the Odds: Cheri Bergeron’s Journey to Motherhood After 40”These teatimes are done with a golden heart of surprises, updates, and open conversations with Miss Liz, just maybe a surprise guest as well, on topics close to Miss Liz's heart. Join us for a time of recharging, reflecting, and releasing through the gold heart of tee. This Teatime with Miss Liz brings forward a story of perseverance, heartbreak, and the unshakable courage to rewrite life’s narrative.At 40, Cheri Bergeron was told her dream of becoming a mother was nearly impossible. The statistics were brutal, the disappointments relentless, and the silence isolating. But Cheri refused to accept that her...
2025-08-191h 00
The Feisty HeroineScrew the Fairytale: Cheri Bergeron on Fertility, Freedom & Finding Her Own Path to MotherhoodIn this powerful episode of The Feisty Heroine Podcast, Rachel sits down with Cheri Bergeron—author and founder of the nonprofit Cheri’s Choice—to unpack the messy, beautiful truth about motherhood on your own terms.From navigating fertility treatments and donor conception, to challenging toxic relationships and outdated societal timelines, Cheri shares her personal journey to becoming a solo mom later in life—and the hard-earned wisdom that came with it.Together, we explore:Fertility education and the myths women still aren't taughtWhat it means to plan for motherhood without a partnerThe emotional...
2025-07-1652 min
2025-04-3025 min
Author HourCheri Bergeron: "Screw The Fairytale"💥 "If the glass slipper doesn't fit—screw the fairy tale." 💥 In this powerful conversation, author Cheri Bergeron sits down with Eric Jorgenson to share the raw, emotional, and deeply personal story behind her new book, Mission Motherhood. After enduring over a decade of heartbreak—including infertility, NICU trauma, and a $250,000 custody battle with a man who wasn't the biological father of her child—Cheri didn't just survive… she turned her pain into purpose. 🎙️ In this episode, you'll hear: Why Cheri says this book "chose her" How she redefined motherhood on her own terms The shocking legal looph...
2025-04-3025 min
Lori & Julia3/21 Mon Hr 2: Julia had to buy something for a friend and the story is even better!
Julia ran into someone special this weekend and it was a blast from the past! On Watch What Happens Live Cheri Oteri talked about doing improv with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Julia's Random Thoughts: ‘Bedscaping’ is the new home trend and You Can Now Sip ‘Bridgerton’-Inspired Tea While Binging Season 2. We are joined by Jennifer Grimm who sings Judy Garland at Chanhassen DT. Hollywood Speak: The Executive Producer is out at Dancing With The Stars and Tom Bergeron had some choice words. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-03-2137 min