Happy Childless Mindset is the go-to podcast for women navigating life as Childless Not By Choice (CNBC). Here, you'll uncover powerful coaching tools and actionable strategies to help you find joy, fulfillment, and peace in a life that turned out differently than planned.
Through heartfelt conversations and inspiring interviews with other CNBC women, we’ll explore their journeys, insights, and the mindset shifts that have helped them create meaningful, purpose-driven lives without children.
Mothering 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.”
🌿 Why we didn’t pursue adoption — the feeling of not having done “enough,” but also knowing we couldn’t face another painful, uncertain process with no guarantees.
🌱 Redefining legacy: how kindness, love, and the impact we leave on others become our true inheritance.
This conversation is a gentle reminder that being childless not by choice doesn’t mean we’re without nurturing, meaning, or legacy.
👉 Stay tuned for Part 2, where we share some of the tools that helped us and more
8 Aug 2025
The Childless Life: Stories, Support & Celebration with Sandy Michelet
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In 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 will support others who are CNBC (childless not by choice).
Together, we reflect on the importance of celebrating joy—not just surviving grief—and discuss advocacy in the childless community, the impact of World Childless Week, and the work of inspiring leaders like Stephanie Joy Phillips and Jody Day.
Whether you're childless by circumstance, choice, or chance, this conversation is filled with honesty, warmth, and hope.
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6 Aug 2025
Seen as Sad, Treated as Cautionary Tales: The Childless Experience
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In 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 out of Christmas cards and group messages, the lack of authentic representation in media, and how advocacy and care for the world often go unnoticed when it comes from someone who isn’t a parent.
This is a raw and honest conversation about misjudgment, invisibility, and the strength it takes to keep showing up in a world that doesn’t always see — or truly understand — us.
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Stephanie Joy Phillips
Lauren Goyette
Trish Gent
Tony Lynch
Regina Beach
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