A collection of personal stories from women who identify as Childless Not By Choice, for people of the CNBC community and for people who want to learn about the CNBC experience.
Tanya Hubbard specializes in counseling people who are Childless Not By Choice, and she herself is also Childless Not By Choice. The lived experience equips her to hold space for clients with deep understanding. In this episode, we get to listen to Tanya share how she arrived at childlessness. In a rare opportunity, I get to ask Tanya about Tanya. Tanya was my CNBC Life Coach between the years 2021-2024. We spent a lot of time looking at the events unfolding in my life during ...
18 Oct 2026
Ep6. Chaney Williams: Microdosing Motherhood
Chaney Williams has been a full spectrum doula for the past 8 years, and she's been helping people with birthing and raising their children her whole life. Chaney's world is taking a big turn into the unknown at this very moment. In the past year she's come to accept that she will not be able to have her own pregnancy. She's also recently made a decision to give up her doula work and instead focus on being a caretaker in her family, and spending more energy on self-care. She...
3 Oct 2026
Ep5. Annie Simon: Let's Call it "Single"
Brooklynite Annie Simon lives in a multicultural world where all kinds of lifestyles have their place and their people, where difference and diversity is seen with regularity on the street-level. And yet, she also knows what it feels to be othered as someone without children. She describes a quiet sadness in not making a choice to become a mom, and also in not making the choice to be childfree. Even the term childless doesn’t cut it. There’s an in-between category that is more ...
19 Sept 2026
Ep4. Julia O'Reilly: Have You Got Children? No. Fuck Off.
Endo Advocate and Writer Julia O'Reilly (located in Spain) presented a Webinar at this year's World Childless Week entitled: 'You Should Get Pregnant: Endometriosis and Infertility'. She guides viewers through her experience with Endometriosis, and dismantles the myth that a good old-fashioned pregnancy can cure Endometriosis, a whole-body disease that also often leads to infertility. In our podcast conversation, we go a little deeper into Julia's personal story. She tells me to 'Fuck Off' wh...
5 Sept 2026
Ep3. Stephanie Joy Phillips: Bringing a World of Acceptance
In anticipation of World Childless Week (September 14th-20th), we connect with with its Founder, Stephanie Joy Phillips in Worcestershire, England. Steph started World Childless Week ten years ago, after discovering there was no representation for the CNBC community anywhere she looked in the world. She opens up about her own childless experience and the many lessons that came from that. With invisibility often at the core of the CNBC experience, she found that being seen and hea...
22 Aug 2026
Ep2: Narinder Bazen: on becoming a Creator (and not a Mother)
Artist, Death Worker and Founder of Nine Keys School of Death Arts, Narinder Bazen, tells the whole story from the very beginning, for the first time on the mic, on how she came to be Childless Not By Choice. "Where's the people like me, the artist, the neurodivergent person, the queer folk who go through this?" By telling her CNBC story, she invites the next person to share theirs. "When one woman tells her story she frees up the next woman to tell hers, and so on and so on."&nbs...
2 Aug 2026
Ep1: Introduction with Lindsay Bane
Introduction to 'Do you have kids? Short answer: No." I give you the Who, What, Where, When and How behind this concept. Then I have a conversation alone with the Omniscient to kick things off. I expand on my own personal answer to 'the question' and tell you a bit about my devastating and course-altering experience with Thoracic / Diaphragmatic Endometriosis, and how I do and don't have kids, and how it became impossible for me to have a baby in this broken but enduring body. My life c...
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