About Fertile Ground: A mind-body approach to getting pregnant - without it taking over your life.
You've done everything "right." Now it's time to do what actually works. Fertile Ground is where you'll learn the mind-body approach proven to increase your chances of pregnancy by 55% — not through more tracking or control, but through rebuilding trust in yourself, your body, and life itself. It's a space to slow down, feel what's real, and trade control for connection. Because when you stop trying to earn your baby through effort and start allowing life to meet you halfway — everything falls into place.
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Spenser Brassard | Certified Life Coach, Mind-Body Fertility Expert, Mama-B
Episode 169 - HELD IN HER STORIES: Dana Stopped Waiting. Life Didn't.
Okay so this isn't one of those "just checking in 😇" message.
It's the last day to join FMBM. Like, ever.
No reopening.
No "maybe later."
It's *closing time* 🎶
And I wanted to send something that actually felt like me.
Which is why I'm ending the HELD IN HER STORIES series with a story from a lovely FMBM graduate, Dana.
Dana talks about how, very quickly into TTC, the pressure took over. How age narratives, fear, and scarcity turned something so special into an emergency.
She joined FMBM because even more than wanting a baby, she wanted herself back.
⭐️How surrender sounded nice… but felt impossible.
⭐️How reading my book gave her the first sense of relief she'd felt in a long time.
⭐️And how joining FMBM didn't magically make things easy – but gave her a place where she didn't have to pretend she had it together – so she could unravel what wasn't working.
What stood out most to me in this conversation is how clearly she describes the shift: Nothing changed because she tried harder. Things changed because she stopped fighting herself.
FMBM gave her the space, support, and surrender to face the fear underneath the urgency, and to learn how to be with uncertainty w/o turning on herself.
And guess what? She's now weeks away from giving birth 🥹
But the part that matters most to me? She learned how to trust herself before life resolved anything.
That's the heart of Fertility Mind-Body Mastery. Not just getting pregnant. But knowing you can feel relief on the way to what you want the most. You can stop waiting to get your life back ❤️
So if you've been listening… reading… circling… If something in your body keeps saying this feels different —
I just want you to know: This is the absolute last day to join Fertility Mind-Body Mastery.
And my honest question for you is:
Do you want to keep resisting this experience…
or meet yourself inside it?
👉 LISTEN NOW!
9 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
Episode 168 - HELD IN HER STORIES: Chelsea's leap of faith.
If you've ever hit that one-year mark and thought, "Okay. That's it. Something's wrong with me…" this episode is going to land in all the cells of your body.
In today's Held in Her Stories episode, I sit down with Chelsea — one of the incredible women inside Fertility Mind-Body Mastery — and she lets you into the real behind-the-scenes of her journey:
Not the polished Instagram version.
The crying to a friend because it's been a year version.
The buying every book, every supplement, every device version.
The "I'll try anything that worked for someone else" version.
You know… the human version.
Inside this episode, we go there:
The moment she realized she'd spent so much money trying to "do it right"… and why none of it actually touched the part of her that was truly hurting
What it really means to be "in tune" with yourself when you're TTC (hint: it does not mean you're pregnant yet, and it does not mean you never have fearful thoughts)
The HUGE shift that happened when she stopped outsourcing her decisions to doctors, family, and the internet — and started trusting her own channel again
The wild sign she and her husband received on a hill in San Francisco… from a dog… with the exact name they want to give their baby 😭
How FMBM helped her go from critiquing her body (former dancer life, mirror always on "what's wrong") to thanking her body for a cycle and feeling her emotions as proof that she's alive
This isn't a story about someone who did one mindset shift and got pregnant overnight.
This is about a woman who reclaimed her self-trust, her body, her voice, her creativity, and her life while still on the journey to her baby.
Meaning, you don't have to keep waiting to feel good.
Listen if…
You've bought all the things, done all the things, and still feel like you're failing somehow
You secretly believe you have to be perfectly healed / perfectly positive / perfectly self-loving before your baby will come
You're tired of fertility content that talks at you instead of making you feel less alone and less broken
This episode is a love letter to the part of you that is so done performing and so ready to be loved and accepted — exactly as you are.
Let it release all that tension while you go for a walk, fold laundry, or lie in bed doing absolutely nothing productive.
You get to be human here. AND incredibly fertile.
👉 LISTEN NOW!
2 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
Episode 167 - HELD IN HER STORIES: How Macey took the baby off the pedestal.
If you've ever thought…
⭐️"I should be further along by now."
⭐️"Once I finally get pregnant, then I'll feel okay."
⭐️"If I don't control this, it won't happen…"
…then this week's Fertile Ground episode is for you.
It's part of my Held in Her Stories series — real women, real fertility journeys — and this one with my client Macey is… a lot. In the best, most honest way.
Macey got pregnant the very first month she tried. Then she miscarried two months later.
She was still bleeding from her loss when her best friends announced their pregnancy — the friends she had always dreamed of being pregnant with at the same time.
From there, she went straight into:"I need to get pregnant again. I need to catch up. I need that baby back. Once I get that baby, I'll be okay."
Every period felt like reliving the miscarriage. Every cycle felt like proof she had "failed" again.
Until she found my book Fertile Ground, and then joined Fertility Mind-Body Mastery — not because she was in a good place, but because she was miserable and would've tried anything to feel even a tiny bit of peace again. (Hint: You don't have to feel perfect to ask for help!)
In this episode, Macey shares:
The moment she realised her suffering was coming more from her perspective than from her circumstances.
How she went from obsessively needing a baby to realising, "If I never had kids, my life is actually… beautiful."
The difference between clean grief ("I'm sad this didn't happen") and dirty grief ("I messed up, I failed again").
How she stopped treating her body like an enemy and started seeing it as a teammate.
The wild month she genuinely found herself looking forward to her period — not because she didn't want a baby, but because she knew she could hold herself through whatever came.
Why getting a puppy instead of waiting for a "hypothetical baby" became a nervous-system-level turning point… and what happened right after. 😉
This is not a before-and-after "I suffered, then I did this program, and now everything is perfect" story.
It's a story about:
✨Letting go of the pressure to prove you're worthy.
✨Taking the baby off the pedestal (without pretending you don't want it).
✨Learning that you don't have to be "doing more" to deserve love, support, or a beautiful life.
✨What it actually looks like to get your life back while you're still on the fertility journey.
If your heart has been heavy lately…
If the holidays amplify the ache…
If you feel like everyone else is "moving on with their lives" while you're stuck in baby limbo…
I would love for you to curl up with a tea, take a deep breath, and listen to this conversation. It's soooo healing!
👉 LISTEN NOW!
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Episode 169 - HELD IN HER STORIES: Dana Stopped Waiting. Life Didn't.
Published 16 Dec 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You know, you have talked about shame at the beginning of this podcast, but how have you learned to respond to yourself when you notice patterns that aren't necessarily in favor of your ideal life. Yeah, I think it was certainly a process. And what I would say about about this more than anything else that I've ever done is it actually did allow me to integrate change. Because there are so many times I heard the things on a podcast or I read the things in a book and it sounded good. And this is how you surrender and this is how you change this and this was the first time I was able to actually like integrate change into my life and hold on to it in a way that actually really reframed how I saw myself and saw life as a whole. […]
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