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EP.96 - Living the Life Unexpected with Jody Day, Best Selling Author, Founder of Gateway Women

06 Mar 2021

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Welcome to the #SPAITGIRL Talk Show with Yvette Le Blowitz Episode 96 - Living the Life Unexpected with Jody Day, Best Selling Author, Founder of Gateway Women How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children 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, 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. Jody Day's book, Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children' was initially self published in 2013 and was an Amazon best seller in 24 hours. It is now published by Bluebird/PanMacmillian UK and in 2020 went into it's 2nd edition. 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. Gateway Women's signature healing workshops for childless women looking to heal their hearts and create a new dream for their life is called 'The Reignite Weekend'. It is now running as a live, facilitated weekend online in Australia. The first one takes place on the weekend of 6th and 7th of March and it will also be running on July 17th and 18th and 2rd and 3rd of October 2021. Booking for July/October weekends is not yet open but you can find details of them on the home page of the Gateway Website at www.gateway-women.com and express your interest. Gateway Women also has a year-long mentorship program called 'The Online Bee' which is open to women from all over the world. Enrolment for that is happening now and the course starts on April 1st. The Gateway Women website has a page of resources collected from around the world for childless men. It includes the fact that World Childless Week has a whole day of programming each year called 'Men Matter Too' and also features the closed Facebook group for childless men created by Australian Michael Hughes and Brit Andy Harrod called 'The Clan of Brothers'. 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 - things we can do to support our Childless Women or Men globally especially during a global pandemic Plus we talk about so much more of course.... ----- Grab a copy of - Living the Life Unexpected by Jody Day, Best Selling Author by searching for it - via our #spaitgirl affiliated online book store - Booktopia *click here ----- Hashtag #spaitgirlpodcast //#spaitgirl + tag @spaitgirl - to share when you listen to this podcast episode ---------- TUNE INTO THE - Episode 96 available on Apple, Spotify, Google, Libysn + more or search for #spaitgirl on any podcast app -------- Available to watch on Youtube Channel - Spa it Girl Press the Play Button Below ------ Stay in contact with our Podcast Guest: Jody Day, Founder of Gateway Women Website: www.gateaway-women.com Instagram: @gatewaywomen ---- IN SUPPORT - Little Random Act of Kindness After you tune into this episode I would LOVE for you to - subscribe to the #spaitgirl podcast show with Yvette Le Blowitz - leave a 5* rating and review - tell a friend, family member, or anyone you meet along the way too. ---------- Subscribe to #spaitgirl Website: www.spaitgirl.com Instagram: @spaitgirl ------ Stay In Touch with Podcast Host Yvette Le Blowitz Instagram @yvetteleblowitz ------- For Your Chance To Be Featured at www.spaitgirl.com Email: [email protected] with your proposal Be Social - Hashtag #spaitgirl to share what you are up to --------- Please note - Affiliated Links included in this spaitgirl.com blog post includes affiliated links with Amazon.com and booktopia.com.au- should you order any books from Amazon.com or Booktopia.com.au via the links contained in this blog post spaitgirl.com will receive a small paid commission fee from the online book stores.

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EP.96 - Living the Life Unexpected with Jody Day, Best Selling Author, Founder of Gateway Women

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