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Happy Childless MindsetMothering Beyond Children | Pets, Adoption & Legacy with Lana (Part 1)In this episode of Happy Childless Mindset, I sit down again with Lana for a heartfelt conversation about what it means to nurture, love, and leave a legacy without children.In Part 1, we talk about:🐾 How our pets give us the chance to mother, care, and experience deep love.💬 Navigating questions like “Do you have kids?” or “How many children do you have?” — why our responses change depending on the person, the context, and how safe or comfortable we feel in sharing our story, plus what we wish others would say after hearing “no, I don’t have kids.”
2025-09-2632 min
Real Unicorns Don't Wear PantsBe Coached : How to Monetize Your Heart Centered BusinessIt's no secret that heart centered entrepreneurs love helping others - but they don't always love charging to help others. But the proof is in the Unicorn pudding... when people pay, they pay attention. That's why Nicole is ripping off the band-aid and giving you a front row seat to a LIVE coaching session with one of her badass Unicorn Clients, Laura Bignasco, as they work through the pieces of monetizing the results you have in a way that feels ethically aligned with your core values. If you're looking to create a monetization strategy for yo...
2025-09-2542 minHappy Childless MindsetThe Childless Life: Stories, Support & Celebration with Sandy Michelet✅ My Facebook group ---- 👉 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/ ✅ Website -- 👉 👉 👉 https://happychildlessmindset.com/✅ Support me and this podcast --- 👉 👉 https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindset ✅ Linktree --- 👉 👉 https://happychildlessmindset.com/linksIn this episode of the Happy Childless Mindset podcast, I talk with Sandy Michelet about her childless-not-by-choice journey. She shares how she began with a blog and ended up creating The Childless Life—a thriving Facebook group for childless women seeking support, connection, and celebration.We also talk about Sandy’s upcoming book, which features powerful childless stories from around the world, and her hopes for how it wil...
2025-08-0853 minHappy Childless MindsetSeen as Sad, Treated as Cautionary Tales: The Childless Experience✅ My Facebook group ---- 👉 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/ ✅ Website -- 👉 👉 👉 https://happychildlessmindset.com/✅ Support me and this podcast --- 👉 👉 https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindset ✅ Linktree --- 👉 👉 https://happychildlessmindset.com/linksIn this 6th episode of Childless Conversations, Nicole and I open up about the deep frustration of feeling invisible in a world built around motherhood. At work, in friendships, in holiday traditions — we’re often overlooked. But when we are noticed, it’s not much better: we’re seen as sad, broken, or even threatening to the ideal of the nuclear family.We talk about the sting of being left...
2025-08-0644 minHappy Childless MindsetThe Healing Power of Rituals: Navigating Triggers, Boundaries, and Joy in CNBC Life✅ My Facebook group ---- 👉 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/ ✅ Website -- 👉 👉 👉 https://happychildlessmindset.com/ ✅ Support me and this podcast --- 👉 👉 https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindset ✅ Linktree --- 👉 👉 https://happychildlessmindset.com/links In this episode, Anne and I talk about how we celebrate our CNBC (Childless Not By Choice) lives while navigating a world full of potential emotional triggers. We explore the power of rituals—both those that help us process grief and those that support our daily self-care. We discuss how to set and uphold boundaries with love, how to understand ourselves more deeply, and how...
2025-08-0149 minHappy Childless MindsetNot by Choice: Sharing CNBC Stories on YouTube with Carrie Brauninger✅ My Facebook group ---- 👉 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/ ✅ Website -- 👉 👉 👉 https://happychildlessmindset.com/✅ Support me and this podcast --- 👉 👉 https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindset ✅ Linktree --- 👉 👉 https://happychildlessmindset.com/linksIn this episode of the Happy Childless Mindset podcast, I sit down with Carrie Brauninger - @sondersisterhood - to talk about what it’s like to be childless and single over 40 — and how creating content on YouTube has brought both of us fulfillment, connection, and purpose.We explore the importance of representation for childless-not-by-choice women, how most online spaces still revolve around parenthood, and what it means to find visibility, community, and creativ...
2025-07-2653 minHappy Childless MindsetWhen Grief Resurfaces in a Life We've Grown to Love✅ My Facebook group ---- 👉 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/ ✅ Website -- 👉 👉 👉 https://happychildlessmindset.com/✅ Support me and this podcast --- 👉 👉 https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindset ✅ Linktree --- 👉 👉 https://happychildlessmindset.com/linksIn this episode — the fifth of Childless Conversations — Nicole and I talk about what happens when hard days hit, even in a life we’ve both come to love.We share honestly about how grief still shows up, how “being happy all the time” isn’t realistic — and can even be a sign of depression — and how we hold space for truth without l...
2025-07-2341 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless, Auntie, Wife, Social Worker, Dog Mom. Stephanie ReardonMy Facebook group ---- 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/ In this episode, Stephanie and I have a lovely, open conversation about her choice to speak with her family about being childless and not pursuing adoption. We talk about the pill and how poorly we were educated about our reproductive health, her work as a social worker with elderly people, her fur babies, and more.Stephanie and I have been talking for a few months now, and I can tell you—she is kind, joyful, honest, and humble.
2025-07-1849 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless Trailblazer Jody DayMy linktree 👉👉https://happychildlessmindset.com/links In this episode, I sit down with Jody Day—perhaps the most recognizable face in the childless community—for a heartfelt and wide-ranging conversation. We explore the origins of her work and the unmet needs that first inspired her to speak out, as well as the deep love so many of us carry, even when the children we longed for are not part of our lives.Jody also shares details about her powerful new project, AlterKin (Alternative Kinship Net...
2025-07-1152 minHappy Childless MindsetWorld Childless Week founder - Stephanie Joy PhillipsTo join Happy Childless Mindset FREE Facebook group ---- 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/In this episode Stephanie and I have an authentic, honest and relaxed conversation about grief and all the emotions that being childless can hold, about how there are so many ways of ending childless, about how World Childless Week was born, about the chidless and the childfree community, the stories, the sadness and the joy.Steph is warm, relatable, humble despite being one of the pillars the whole childless not by choice community relays on. Proving tha...
2025-07-0452 minHappy Childless MindsetSex being ChildlessCheck out my website ---- https://happychildlessmindset.com/In this episode Lauren and I talked about reconnecting with our body being chidless, how to befriended said body, masturbation, pleasure, limiting beliefs and more.About LaurenLauren Goyette is a certified sex, love, and relationship coach, podcast host of Desire Dialogues, and the founder of LNG Coaching. Known for her radically honest, pleasure-forward approach, Lauren helps low-libido individuals and bored-as-hell couples reignite their spark, reconnect with their bodies, and create sex they actually WANT to have...
2025-06-2730 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness and Kundalini YogaSupport me and this podcast ---- 👉 https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindsetTo join my FREE Facebook group ---- 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/In this episode Trish and I talk about our anxiety, over working, meditation and of course being childless.About Trish:Trish is an integrative life coach who helps perfectionists living in stress and anxiety stop rushing through life. With over two decades of experience as a registered nurse, she masterfully blends evidence-based science with powerful spiritual practices to create a holistic approa...
2025-06-2057 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless due to Child LossSupport me and this podcast ---- 👉 https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindsetTo join my FREE Facebook group ---- 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/In this episode Tony talks about his life, being chidless, letting go of his son's ashes. He asks and shares what grief is for him, the blind spots he has, what he enjoys and the importance of self love and more.About Tony:Tony Lynch ,is the founder of the non-profit Memories of Us Ltd/ the global grief networ...
2025-06-131h 06Happy Childless MindsetChildlessness and Happy Trails in Colorado - Megan CutterSupport me and this podcast ---- 👉 https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindsetTo join my FREE Facebook group ---- 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/In this episode Megan and I talk about how she and her husband moved to Colorado, and that let them reframe their childless life into one full of nature, trails and happiness. We shared painful things that we went through but we also laught and had a great time having this conversation.Megan Cutter Seeing the beauty of this world, Megan Cutter explores photog...
2025-06-0648 minHappy Childless MindsetMS (Multiple Sclerosis) and remaining positiveSupport me and this podcast ---- 👉 https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindsetTo join my Facebook group ---- 👉https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/In this episode Regina and I talk about our happiness even when life is hard and didn't go as we wanted to. Regina is childfree and has MS and yet she has a positive attitude that lets her enjoy the life she does have.Regina Beach is a disabled poet and essayist. Originally from the American midwest, she now calls...
2025-05-3046 minHappy Childless MindsetChidless Conversations - FriendshipsSupport me and this podcast ---- 👉 https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindset To join my Facebook group ---- 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/ In this episode, Nicole and I explored the complexities of friendship while living childless. We talked about how this experience shapes our relationships, the nuances of loneliness, the pain of ghosting, and so much more
2025-05-2853 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness and the relocation to HawaiiSupport me and this podcast here To join my Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/15DxfETpdt/In this episode Caroline Ellis shares her and her husband decision to move to Hawaii after realizing they are childless, her struggle with her mental health, how taking the "crazy" path was the best thing they could've done, living intentionally,
2025-05-231h 12Happy Childless MindsetChildless and purposeSuport me and this podcastIn this episode Laura Gallagher and I talk about childless purpose, work, healing our childhood and more
2025-05-1638 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless Conversations Mother's Day aftermathIf you can help us keep doing this episodes, you can support us here In this episode Nicole and I talk about Mother's day being childless, pronatalism and antinatalism, businesses and they email campaigns, fears we have and more.
2025-05-1452 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness due to male infertility - Alyssa MorrisonTo join Happy Chidless Mindset Facebook Group 👉 https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1BXgJc5jbo/In this episode Alyssa and I talk about the journey she and her husband went through with male infertility and how they "decided" to remain childless, their heartbreaks, joy, friends among other things.I do stutter a lot in this episode, so, please, be patient
2025-05-0938 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless Voices Choir - Laura CurtisFor more information about my membership send me an email to happychildlessmindset@gmail.com In this episode Laura Curtis and I talk about her PhD in Childless Voices, her journey doing her disertation and her life as a childless not by choice woman, how our voices help us heal and more. Watch the video song Laura and the choir recorded: About Laura CurtisLaura holds a PhD in Music Education and is a lecturer at Western University in London, Ontario. Laura’s research interests include the social and affective impact of group singing on involuntarily childless women, the impact of ch...
2025-05-0359 minHappy Childless MindsetChidless Conversations : Same words diferent interpretationsIn this episode, Nicole and I (Laura Bignasco) dive into how words like happiness, contentment, and mindset can hold vastly different meanings depending on our beliefs, backgrounds, and personal experiences. By unpacking these differences, we’re able to reframe our thinking, deepen our understanding of one another, and open space for personal growth.We also delve into the terms childless and childfree, discussing why and how we choose to use them, and what they mean to us personally.
2025-05-0239 minHappy Childless MindsetChidless Man: Robin HadleyIf you'd like to support this podcast: https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindset In this episode, Robin Hadley and I dive into what it means to be a man, especially in the context of being childless. We explore how this shapes friendships, the ability to nurture, and how he navigates life’s unexpected path. Robin also talks about his book "How is a Man Supposed to be a Man? Male Childlessness - a Life Course Disrupted" , shares about the Childless Men’s community on Facebook, and offers his perspective on finding happiness even when life doesn’t turn out as planned. With h...
2025-04-2556 minHappy Childless MindsetLana Manikowski - So Now What?In this episode Lana and I talked about her new book: So What Now?, about The Other's Day Brunch, and about lots of other things.Lana Manikowski is an author, certified life coach, keynote speaker, and infertility advocate dedicated to helping women thrive after infertility. She is the founder of The Other’s Day Brunch and host of The ‘So Now What?’ Podcast, creating spaces where childless women feel seen, understood, and empowered.After a seven-year journey through fertility treatments—including several rounds of IUI and IVF—that ended without a child, and donor egg and adoption weren’t he...
2025-04-2046 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness and the need to restI've been so exited about my work and my podcast that I kinda forgot to rest and recharge. In this episode you can actually listen to it, because I got sidetracked a couple of times hahahaWhere you can find me:IG: https://www.instagram.com/happy_childless_mindset/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1CspGpWb4y/Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindsetEmail: happychildlessmindset@gmail.com
2025-04-1607 minHappy Childless Mindset"My childlessness has a purpose" Uma PatilIn this episode Uma talks how her journey and being chidless not by choice led her to become a holistic healer.About UmaWith over a decade of experience in holistic healing and trauma recovery, Uma is a certified hypnotherapist, mindfulness practitioner, and yoga philosophy expert. She is extensively trained in both traditional therapeutic approaches and alternative healing modalities, including energy healing and trauma-informed mindfulness practices.My Ko-Fi
2025-04-1138 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless Conversations Episode 1: Different paths to the same placeIn this episode Nicole and I compare the two very different paths we went through leading us to the same place of happiness with our lives.We talked about therapy, our childhood, acceptance and more
2025-04-0937 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness, art, mental health - EnniIn this episode Enni and I talk about childlessness, caring for others, ezchisofrenia, psicosis, art, friendships, tarot reading and moreEnni lives life with chronic and severe mental illness, schizoaffective disorder. She also has ADHD, dyspraxia and tic disorder. This all has led to her decision of not having children in her life.She explores her mental health through personal art therapy project, HealingMadnessArt.Where to find Enni: Instagram:@enni.tapionkaski@creating.enni@HealingMadnessArt Where you can find me:IG: https://www.instagram.com/happy_childless_mindset/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1CspGpWb4y/Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com...
2025-04-0441 minHappy Childless MindsetMy accountabilityMaking myself accountable, forgiving others and myself was a game changer and it made a little easier to go through y chidless grief a few years laterWhere you can find me:IG: https://www.instagram.com/happy_childless_mindset/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/354483357023484Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindsetEmail: happychildlessmindset@gmail.com
2025-04-0220 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness can be very creative - Robert NurdenIn this episode, Robert Nurden and I talk about similarities and diferences about being a childless man and a childless woman; about his book and his play; and about our journey.Robert Nurden, 74, is an author and journalist, whose latest book, I AlwaysWanted To Be A Dad: Men Without Children, was published in August 2023 andlaunched at Storyhouse Childless in Chester. It describes the experience of one’sman’s journey through the pain, regret and ultimate acceptance of a life that ischildless not by choice.Robert was a feature writer and sub-editor for the Guardian and Independent, aswell as other nati...
2025-03-2944 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness and the first real shift in how I saw in my lifeI often think December 24, 2014 was the last chance I had to become a mom. As that did not happen, I also feel, it was the experience that finally made me start changing myself into becoming who I am now. I'm still a work in progress but I'm far from how I felt back then.Where you can find me:IG: / happy_childless_mindset Facebook: / laura.bignasco.9 Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindsetEmail: happychildlessmindset@gmail.com
2025-03-2121 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless Story Running and writing as healing journeys. Maggie LacroixMaggie is a librarian working in public health research. In her spare time, she writes romance novels and helps lead a local running club. She lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and two very spoiled cats.Where you can find Meggie: Instagram: @greta.lacroix.writesWhere you can find me:IG: / happy_childless_mindset Facebook: / laura.bignasco.9 Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindsetEmail: happychildlessmindset@gmail.com
2025-03-1536 minHappy Childless MindsetChidless Stepmom - Heather ChalmersIn this epidode Heather Chalmers and I talk about being a Childless Stepmother and more Where you can find me:Instagram : @Happy_Childless_MindsetFacebook: Laura BignascoKo-fi: Happy Childless MindsetEmail: happychildlessmindset@gmail.com
2025-02-1744 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless Happiness AKA: How to choose to be happyBeing childless doesn't mean you have to be unhappy, you can choose to find joy, in this episode I give you some ideas on how and why you should choose it.
2025-02-1015 minHappy Childless MindsetWorld Childless Week People’s Champion 2025 Sandra McNicol
In this episode Sandra and I talk about how she navigated being Childless, the grief, coaching, joy and more.
My bell rang in the middle of our conversation, sorry about that.
Sandra provides individual grief therapy, leads Healing Horseshoes (grief circles with ceremonies and workshops), and helps women find new purpose and fulfillment through her Embracing Us community. Sandra understands how difficult this journey can be and offers empathetic, non-judgmental support based on her own lived (and ongoing) experience.
Contact Sandra via:
Email: sandra@ Childless.Life
Web: www.Childless.Life
Instagram: Childless.Life
Where you can find me:
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2025-01-3128 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless and reframing AKA: Tell yourself a better story
Refraiming our childlessness is a great tool for reaching fulfilment and joy in our CNBC life.
In this episode Fleur Sclarandis and I talk about it, about filling our cup, how we cope with life and more
About Fleur: Fleur is a qualified coach and therapist who specialises in supporting highly sensitive women to develop confidence and emotional resilience so that they can navigate life's challenges without getting thrown off balance! She's also a nature-loving, free-spirited forest fairy who believes that everyone has a little bit of magic inside them! As a former 'self-help' addict who never felt good...
2025-01-2538 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless and the why behind this CNBC podcast AKA: if you can’t find it, DIY
In this episode, I share the reason behind starting this podcast. Navigating the challenges of disenfranchised childless grief was incredibly difficult, but the uncertainty of what to do next almost left me trapped in that grief. When I couldn’t find much guidance on moving forward after reaching acceptance, I decided to be a resourse for others like me.
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2025-01-1110 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless Community AKA: The most kind and supporting
A few days ago I posted in some Facebook groups for Childless and Childfree, that I was loking for guests to tell their stories here. I was hoping to get 3 or 4 guests, what happened blow my mind. I got over 40 people interested just in the first day! And more so, the kindness and love I got, I can even describe it.Stay tune, a lot of overcoming stories about the life without kids are coming!Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happy_childless_mindset/?hl=esKo-fi: https://ko-fi.com/happychildlessmindseFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1EnVmDmztT/
2025-01-0711 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness and the period AKA: the monthly reminder
Sometimes even when you accepted your CNBC life and are enjoying it, you get caught of guard and got triggered, like it happened to me this month, with me being sick and my period.
Does that happens to you too?
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2025-01-0707 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless and single. The possibility of life. AKA: The one with Laura Bignasco and the fabulo
Lucy and I had a beautiful chat about becoming an optimist person, about being Childless/ Childfree, our grief, how she started her podcast and membership, the love for our pets and more.
She is an inspiration not just for me but also for single women that choose to have an amazing life defying the stereotype of the "sad cat lady"
https://www.lucymeggeson.com/
Where you can, also, listen to her podcast.
Follow her on Instangram: https://www.instagram.com/spinsterhoodreimagined/?hl=es
Where to find me:
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2025-01-0649 minHappy Childless MindsetChidless Coaches: We too had a victim mentality. AKA: How we got unstuck Laura Bignasco and Judy Joh
Often Childless/Childfree not by choice women get stuck in a victim mentality that makes us think that the world is agains us and leave us feeling lonely and angry.
Judi Johnson and I had a chat about this, and how we switch into someone we like to be.
Judi Johnson: https://www.embraceyourfuture.net/
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/httpswww.embraceyourfuture.net
Coping Mechanisms: https://www.embraceyourfuture.net/copingmechanisms
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2025-01-0639 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless, Chilfree, CNBC AKA: Women without kids
Childless not by choice, Childless by circumstances, Childless by choice, Childfree by Choice, Childfree not by choice, CNBC. Diferences and similarities for words that identify as a women without kids
2024-11-2209 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness and targetered adds for CNBC AKA: when you start to feel overwhelmed by the adds
When I started my IG account for the Childless Not By Choice women like me, i got bombarded with fetility adds. I get why, but also TRIGGER!!!! I felt so judge at first, now I changed how I percibe them and it got easier
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2024-11-1510 minHappy Childless MindsetChidless and the question Why don't you adopt? AKA: That annoying, hurtful question
Adoption is never "just" adopt, it's not simple and not choosing to it's an informed decision.
Not that we have to justified ourselves, but here are some of the reason why I did not try to adopt.
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2024-11-1514 minHappy Childless MindsetChidless and the Holidays. AKA: The Holidays are hard for most people
Not only those of us who are Childless Not By Choice have it hard in the Holidays season, and we can still have a peaceful and joyful time
You can find me in:
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2024-11-1515 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless recipe to What makes you happy? What are your ingredients?AKA: What are your ingredients?
2024-10-0608 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness and hat to do with your time when you are CNBCAKA: Thinking out loud about life
2024-09-2815 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless and the question: Who is going to take care of you when you are old? AKA: Ghosts that appeAKA: Ghosts that appeared when I got a cold
2024-09-2023 minHappy Childless MindsetChildless and what is a Happy Mindset for meAKA: My definition of Happiness and how I found it
2024-09-1421 minHappy Childless MindsetChildlessness: my story. AKA: How I ended up being childless not by choice
This is my story, I told it not to play a victim but for anyone that listen to know that life can be hard and if I can be happy, anyone else can too.
Sorry for the mistakes and the stutter, I was so anxious...
Love
Laura
Instagram: Happy Childless Minset
2024-09-0728 min