This content was created by Erica Hoke. This content was uploaded by Erica Hoke. This is a YouTube video titled "Why share your story of overcoming" (uploaded 2021-06-17). It’s a solo morning-style talk by the channel host aimed at women facing infertility: she explains why sharing personal infertility stories can offer hope, describes a book collaboration that will collect 20 global stories of overcoming infertility, encourages women to contribute their stories, and asks viewers to subscribe and follow the link in the comments for the collaboration. The recording is a single-speaker motivational/awareness piece focused on supporting women through infertility journeys.
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Good morning, everybody. Hopefully I'm gonna keep you company this morning on your drive or while you have your morning coffee. I wanted to chat a minute this morning about why share your story at all. And so when we're talking about stories, I don't know a single person on the planet that hasn't overcome something, hasn't walked through something. So sharing your story can be so impactful, um, as a lifeline, a line of hope to other people who are in the same situation. And so if you've watched me for just a few minutes, you know that my passion is reaching back into the fire and helping those women on their infertility journey take steps closer to getting the positive pregnancy test that they're, they're praying for. And so why am I— that's why I'm reaching back. Into the fire is to help those women. So one of the ways that I'm doing that is through my book collaboration, and we are going to collect 20 stories from women all across the globe about how they overcame their infertility through a variety of ways. So, so many women walk out of their doctor's offices. I hear these stories every day, they walk out of the doctor's office and they're told, you can't get pregnant, we can't help you. So I want to remind you, if a doctor tells you that you can't get pregnant, it just means they can't help you. It doesn't mean that you can't get pregnant. It doesn't mean that there's not hope. And I really want to drive that point home to these women. So many people that I talk to on a daily basis share this same sentiment, and certainly these women who are in the book collaboration have had other amazing stories like mine, different from mine, all kinds of scenarios where they have overcome infertility after we have been given absolutely impossible odds, less than 1%. So if you have a, an amazing story that you want to share about your infertility journey, maybe people don't even know really that you had an infertility journey, Um, maybe you've decided now that you've healed some that you do want to reach back into that fire and you do want to help another woman who has basically gone home and given up. So many women do because the way that it's presented to them is that they can't do IVF and they can't do IUI, and because of that they won't be able to get pregnant. And we're here to tell you, these women and I, Um, are here to tell you that that's simply not the case, that there's so much hope for you, that there's so many things that are in your control. So if you're watching on YouTube and you like the content that I'm putting out, I will be here as close to 8 o'clock as I possibly can every morning. And go ahead and hit that like and subscribe button, hit the bell for notifications. If you're watching on Facebook and you want to get better notified, go ahead and search me out on YouTube and get subscribed so you get the notifications when I go live. I've dropped the link to the book collaboration here in the comments, and, um, and if you have any questions, of course, just reach out to me. I will see you. Have a great day. Bye-bye.
