Speaker 1: A good pickup with Britt Hogley.
Speaker 2: And Laura Beirn Radio Work, Our Windows, My World, Reason.
Speaker 3: The dust only good, bab, I don't much, but yeah
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 4: I'll big get and what I want. It don't matter where.
Speaker 4: This is the pick up.
Speaker 1: Hi, guys, it's the pick up with Britt Hackley and
Speaker 1: Laura Birn.
Speaker 3: Hey, guess what I'm doing this weekend?
Speaker 4: Laura?
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm super excited. Yes, that, but that's not what
Speaker 3: I was gonna say. I am going to see in
Speaker 3: the Flesh renee Zeldwiger.
Speaker 4: Oh are you going to that? I'm not going, damn it,
Speaker 4: I was. It's the she didn't invite you? Did she know?
Speaker 3: She she messaged me and said she'd love me.
Speaker 1: The premiere for the new Bridget Jones's movie.
Speaker 4: I think it's on Saturday Sunday.
Speaker 5: I was.
Speaker 4: That's why Laura's not going. She would have turned up
Speaker 4: a date early day.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I was invited, believe it or not. And the reason
Speaker 1: why I wanted to go wasn't for renee Zelwigger. I
Speaker 1: am abst like if I was going to run away
Speaker 1: with a man Leo Woodle like he's the guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's so hot.
Speaker 3: But your other crash was Man Mountain Jason Momola. They're
Speaker 3: two dead, very different people.
Speaker 4: Don't have a type. I just like hot men, anyone
Speaker 4: that gives me attention.
Speaker 1: Have you not seen what's that movie that the TV show?
Speaker 1: It's a White Lotus. No no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: one day, one day. He's in that series, and he
Speaker 1: is so hot that I know that we're getting off track.
Speaker 4: I've also seen that he's super hot. Thank you.
Speaker 3: We need to add he did come out with a
Speaker 3: statement recently so that says he doesn't like to be objectified,
Speaker 3: which is what you have just done.
Speaker 4: Sorry, Leo. I've never objectified my husband.
Speaker 3: But it's interesting because he keeps taking his shirt off
Speaker 3: as well, So I'm.
Speaker 4: Objectifying yourself, Leo. We can't help it. A huge show.
Speaker 3: We've got Angie Kent on the show today. She's gone
Speaker 3: the big you know the show Big.
Speaker 1: Miracles, Little Miracles, almost Obsessed Miracles.
Speaker 3: It's the fertility and IVF show that takes you along
Speaker 3: the journey of women that are going through that process,
Speaker 3: women and families. And Angie's doing it on her own,
Speaker 3: which I think is really cool.
Speaker 4: So we've got her on the show for a bit
Speaker 4: of a chat, Britt.
Speaker 1: There is a TV show that I am obsessed with, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Big Miracles. We talked about it quite a bit during
Speaker 1: season two and season one, season one. Actually one of
Speaker 1: my really close friends was on there, Courtney, and she
Speaker 1: ended up with her miracle baby off the back of
Speaker 1: this TV show. And it is honestly one of the
Speaker 1: most incredibly beautiful, feel good shows that there is around
Speaker 1: fertility and the journey towards motherhood and parenthood. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: has a look at IVF and people's journeys and it
Speaker 1: obviously highlights a lot of the really nice outcomes, which
Speaker 1: we're hyper aware that it doesn't always end up that way.
Speaker 3: But one of Australia's sweethearts is appearing on this season,
Speaker 3: Angie Kent, and we have her on the phone.
Speaker 6: Hi ang Hi girls nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Angie, We're used to seeing you on reality TVs.
Speaker 1: But I have to say, when you made the announcement
Speaker 1: that you're going on Big Miracles, I was shocked and
Speaker 1: I think it's amazing that you're doing this. I'd love
Speaker 1: to know, like, what was it and how did it
Speaker 1: come about that you ended up being a participant on
Speaker 1: this show.
Speaker 6: Look, I always have. I've always wanted to be a lum.
Speaker 6: I didn't know how that was going to show up
Speaker 6: for me, given the fact that I have that many
Speaker 6: chronic and visible illnesses. I'm single, so I was always
Speaker 6: kind of like, look, motherhoods in the future, don't know
Speaker 6: what it's going to look like. So I will do IVF.
Speaker 6: I didn't know when that would happen, and this kind
Speaker 6: of weirdly popped up for me, and I was like,
Speaker 6: this is the universe, this is my time, and I've
Speaker 6: done it. I've done my IVS treatment and it's all happening.
Speaker 4: It's so exciting to hear Satan.
Speaker 3: I love that you're sharing the journey so that so
Speaker 3: many other women in your situation feel less alone and
Speaker 3: know it's okay, and they get an insight into how
Speaker 3: it happens.
Speaker 4: But you just mentioned you.
Speaker 3: Are single, but you have done embryos, which means there
Speaker 3: does have to be some sperm involved somewhere. Talk to
Speaker 3: us about how that process was and is it someone
Speaker 3: that you knew. Did you go through like a random
Speaker 3: sperm donation?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I had to go through the whole selection
Speaker 6: of a donor, which I am the most indecisive person
Speaker 6: in the world, Like I couldn't even pick what I
Speaker 6: have for lunch. That's why I don't even know how
Speaker 6: I managed to do The Bachelor, because thinking some of
Speaker 6: the end was like the worst thing for me was
Speaker 6: harder than that because I had to pick somebody that
Speaker 6: is half of my child, even though they won't be there,
Speaker 6: they're half of my baby. So it took me way
Speaker 6: longer than I'm sure production would have liked me to. Okay,
Speaker 6: but that's just me. I took my sweet alf time.
Speaker 1: I'm imagining you getting pushed along by The Bachelor production
Speaker 1: to the just choose someone, but in this case, it's.
Speaker 4: Like, just choose some DNA.
Speaker 1: Come on, there's so much as with this though, how
Speaker 1: much information do you get? So when it comes to
Speaker 1: sperm donation, Like, I know there's different rules for different places,
Speaker 1: but in Australia, how much info do you get on
Speaker 1: the donor sperm on the you know, the guy who's contributed.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, so much right, so iron woo, Like
Speaker 6: the profiles were so in depth and so intense that
Speaker 6: you could go back to look at their grandmother and
Speaker 6: grandfather's health history. So you best believe I did my
Speaker 6: father of the family has so many mental health and
Speaker 6: physical health issues, so I was just like going back
Speaker 6: making sure we don't double up. I fully went off health,
Speaker 6: but I also went off how much I felt like
Speaker 6: you could be my best mate and I would want
Speaker 6: to have a baby with you. I'm queer, so I
Speaker 6: date everybody. So it wasn't necessarily me looking at the
Speaker 6: profiles and going, oh, look, I want to date this dude.
Speaker 6: It was more like, you could be my best mate
Speaker 6: and I would love to have a baby with you.
Speaker 6: That's kind of how I ended up having to go
Speaker 6: into it.
Speaker 3: And you don't get any aesthetics, do you in terms
Speaker 3: of like you don't get pictures? Do you get baby
Speaker 3: pictures or is it just like your oh you do.
Speaker 6: No, you get baby pictures and you don't get know
Speaker 6: what they look now, do you the current ones? No? No,
Speaker 6: no way, Because say, for example, if I picked someone
Speaker 6: here in Australia, if I like I could run into
Speaker 6: him down at the street and Sidney or baby Daddy,
Speaker 6: I'd be like, hey, thanks for the storm, but no,
Speaker 6: I don't know what this person looks like now. I
Speaker 6: just know what they look like as a baby. And
Speaker 6: you also get like you know her color, eye color,
Speaker 6: ethnicity in all of that, and then you can kind of,
Speaker 6: you know, just envision what baby daddy is going to
Speaker 6: look like. We sperm don'tut he's not a baby daddy
Speaker 6: because he may have nothing to do with the baby.
Speaker 6: But you know, it's time more real.
Speaker 1: All Hey, Angie, this is so fascinating to me. Do
Speaker 1: you mind sticking around. We're gonna play a couple of songs.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna come back because I want to hear more
Speaker 1: about this.
Speaker 6: Sounds good, gal, Angie.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you're allowed to tell us this
Speaker 3: or if this is coming up on the episode, but
Speaker 3: is this something you are actively doing now in terms
Speaker 3: of you are implanting this embryo or are you freezing it
Speaker 3: and putting it on ice.
Speaker 6: For like a later eight that?
Speaker 7: I feel like that's a watch that's a spoiler.
Speaker 4: All right, Is Angie pregnant yet or not? Okay, we'll
Speaker 4: leave that for the show. Okay, leave for the show.
Speaker 6: But also I feel like I don't want to say
Speaker 6: that because people spot me out and about and I'm
Speaker 6: having it. No, I'm not pregnant right now. I'm just
Speaker 6: going to say that. Yeah, if I go out now
Speaker 6: and I'm having a drink for my birthday. Then they're
Speaker 6: going to be like, han on a minute, ye just
Speaker 6: got pregnant's having a speaky champagne. So no, I'm not
Speaker 6: pregnant right now.
Speaker 4: How long have you been thinking about this?
Speaker 1: How long has this been something that has been something
Speaker 1: that you wanted to do and something that you knew. Okay,
Speaker 1: i may have issues with fertility coming up in the future,
Speaker 1: and I've got to do something about the preservation of that.
Speaker 6: Now, that's a really good question. I have probably been
Speaker 6: thinking about this since I really started to take time
Speaker 6: to invest in my body and understanding what was going
Speaker 6: on internally. I suffered so much with all this pain,
Speaker 6: and you know, I had no idea where it was
Speaker 6: coming from. And then I found out I had, you know,
Speaker 6: endometriosists and pcos and you know, the list goes on.
Speaker 6: And I work so closely with my Women's Health Crack
Speaker 6: and a beautiful team I've cultivated, and he actually said
Speaker 6: to me, looks, I think if you want to have
Speaker 6: a baby, which he knows that I do, let's look
Speaker 6: at IBS. Then it almost as if I as soon
Speaker 6: as I put that out there, I got the call.
Speaker 6: I don't know if it's because they've seen me be
Speaker 6: very vocal about my chronic invisible illnesses and they were like,
Speaker 6: would you like to document this be the person that
Speaker 6: speaks about, you know, doing it solo with having all
Speaker 6: these chronic invisible health conditions. And I was like, oh
Speaker 6: my god, I'm a single mum. That stuff is expansive
Speaker 6: and of course I would love to share this experience.
Speaker 6: So it's all kind of like rolled in as this
Speaker 6: like delicious little package, and I just thought, I've got
Speaker 6: to do this now and it's ready therefore me so
Speaker 6: for when I'm ready to implant one of my baby.
Speaker 5: But just say that it's so amazing.
Speaker 3: It's crazy to hear, isn't it that It's like you're
Speaker 3: in the process.
Speaker 4: It's exciting.
Speaker 3: But have you thought about or when you choose your sperm?
Speaker 3: Are there different categories in terms of like a category
Speaker 3: of sperm donors that want to be anonymous and never
Speaker 3: have any connection or anything to do with it, or
Speaker 3: and then there is there a category of like, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm a sperm donor, but also like would love to
Speaker 3: be involved if you want me to. And then how
Speaker 3: did you make that decision.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so there is Some of them very much are
Speaker 6: like no, you know, no, thanks, don't want anything to do,
Speaker 6: which is totally fine, and then others are more like,
Speaker 6: you know, if it's something that you would love, I
Speaker 6: would love to be involved, which I think that will
Speaker 6: happen for me once I navigate what it's like to
Speaker 6: be a mum on my own show. Yeah, and then
Speaker 6: down the track, I think it's I think I would
Speaker 6: like for my baby to have that option, and I'm
Speaker 6: grateful enough that I did pick somebody that very very
Speaker 6: much wants to be a part of out of it.
Speaker 6: So yeah, it's really beautiful.
Speaker 3: Angie.
Speaker 1: How do you feel, I mean, obviously we saw so
Speaker 1: much of you on The Bachelor and like your quest
Speaker 1: for love and everything else that goes with that show.
Speaker 1: Bachelorette their Bachelorette of course, Sorry, I know they just
Speaker 1: conflate the two. But you know, obviously going through this
Speaker 1: process alone and having a baby on your own, raising
Speaker 1: a baby as your single as a single mum will
Speaker 1: in some ways impact your dating life. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about that or are you at a point where
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm going to put the dating life on hold,
Speaker 1: Like how does that work for you?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, that's you know what I've kind of
Speaker 6: thought about it. But I think because this whole process
Speaker 6: has been so overwhelming and the fact that I can
Speaker 6: even have the opportunity to you know, create embryos, it
Speaker 6: has kind of laid dormant. I guess in the back
Speaker 6: of my brain, like imagine if I found someone and
Speaker 6: it's like, oh, hey, by the way, I'm through, I'm pregnant,
Speaker 6: and they're like, oh, okay, off whoa. But for me, dating,
Speaker 6: even though I did yes, date twenty dudes at one point,
Speaker 6: dating isn't really high up for me, to be honest,
Speaker 6: it never has been. When again, when that opportunity was
Speaker 6: presented to me, I was like, signed from the universe,
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I'm supposed to date these dudes. This
Speaker 6: is this is it. I'm more of that person. I
Speaker 6: don't really actively search for it. If I do fall
Speaker 6: in love one day, again, great, If I don't, I
Speaker 6: feel like my baby is going to be the love
Speaker 6: of my life. I'm the love of my life. Well
Speaker 6: I'm working on doing the love of my life. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's an ongoing thing and if anybody else eventually kind
Speaker 6: of fits in with my family that I've made my
Speaker 6: modern family. Then that again is the universals thing.
Speaker 3: Oh, Angie, we're really just rooting for you.
Speaker 4: We are no punting tender. Actually we are.
Speaker 3: We are.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we can't wait to watch it Big Miracles.
Speaker 3: If you're interested in watching the show as a whole,
Speaker 3: or Angie's Journey, it returns Wednesday a nine pm on
Speaker 3: Channel nine and nine.
Speaker 4: Now I know I'm going to be tuning in and
Speaker 4: good luck.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 1: It's time for something that we do on the reg
Speaker 1: here at the pickup, and that is our little wins
Speaker 1: of the week.
Speaker 4: And now we don't want to hear from you with
Speaker 4: your big wins.
Speaker 1: We're not talking about graduations and marriages and birthdays.
Speaker 4: I've got an example.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, hit me my fiddle if completely died at
Speaker 3: home and I thought it was beyond resurrection, and I
Speaker 3: have given it that much love and attention that has
Speaker 3: sprouted and it's coming back to life.
Speaker 4: That for me a little win.
Speaker 1: Your fiddle feg would have come back to life had
Speaker 1: you just neglected it outside. I'm pretty sure it started
Speaker 1: re sprouting when you neglected it.
Speaker 4: No it didn't.
Speaker 3: Don't you minimize the love and effort I've put into
Speaker 3: growing up.
Speaker 4: Don't you minimize how little this win is? This is okay,
Speaker 4: I've never said it was a big one. All right.
Speaker 1: Well, look, if you get through, we get to pick
Speaker 1: a winner from this one. It's the best of the
Speaker 1: little wins and you get a five hundred dollars if
Speaker 1: voucher to spend at chemist ware house. We've got Anita
Speaker 1: on the phone. Anita, what is your little winn of
Speaker 1: the week?
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 5: So I bravely attempted to make toast, something simple, but
Speaker 5: every single time I make toast, the fire alarm goes off.
Speaker 5: So I to fight a new toaster. And I successfully
Speaker 5: made a toast. Even though it was like blindly golden,
Speaker 5: it didn't set the all up.
Speaker 4: I've ever heard in my life. I cooked.
Speaker 3: What I'm getting from this is I need a cook toast.
Speaker 4: All right? Well see, alright, let's go tode Jade. What
Speaker 4: is your little win of the week? Okay?
Speaker 2: So my win actually was yesterday I was grabbing my coffee.
Speaker 2: It was made absolutely divine and just as pretty much
Speaker 2: as a guy in front of me, And unfortunately for him,
Speaker 2: a twenty dollars note did fall out of his wallet,
Speaker 2: which I noticed, I kind of ran after him, and
Speaker 2: as I was running after him with my purple that
Speaker 2: he made coffee and let him know that he dropped
Speaker 2: his twenty dollars. He actually told me please keep it
Speaker 2: because just for being kind and I guess chasing after him.
Speaker 2: So not only did I end up with a beautiful coffee,
Speaker 2: I ended up also with twenty dollars. So I'm now
Speaker 2: speaking to you guys.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna plays the coffee.
Speaker 4: We'll get you everywhere.
Speaker 3: I was wondering where the coffee came into the story,
Speaker 3: but it was just a bit of an add on,
Speaker 3: which is a nice coffee.
Speaker 2: Good coffee, the coffee.
Speaker 4: We've gone from toast to coffee, haven't we? All right? Tasha?
Speaker 4: What is your little win of the week?
Speaker 6: Hello?
Speaker 4: Guy?
Speaker 7: My week is that I finally, after four years of marriage,
Speaker 7: got to beat my husband in ten pin bowling and
Speaker 7: we go all the time. Oh and I've never won,
Speaker 7: and I finally won, and it was beautiful because his
Speaker 7: boss was bowling a couple of lanes down. I just
Speaker 7: made it even better, Tasha.
Speaker 3: The satisfaction, Oh my god, there's nothing better than when
Speaker 3: I beat my film seat. Literally, anything but your.
Speaker 1: Fiance is a professional sportsman, so it's particularly hard to
Speaker 1: beat any sport.
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't think that this is going to be
Speaker 3: a hard pick for me.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. It's not the toast. It's not the coffee.
Speaker 3: It's not the toast. I don't think it's the coffee.
Speaker 3: I'm going ten pin bowling.
Speaker 1: Tasha, You've just won yourself a five hundred dollars if
Speaker 1: boucher to spend at Chemists warehouse.
Speaker 4: So not only did you win ten big bowl, you
Speaker 4: went on the pickup.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, thank you so much. Girls, that's incredible.
Speaker 4: You're so welcome. Thanks for calling in.