Sep 23, 20267 minS10
Grindr is offering eligible employees up to $300,000 in family-building support for fertility treatment, IVF, surrogacy and adoption. Yes. Grindr. In this first IVFDADDIES SHOUTOUT, Julio Gaggia looks at what started...
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IVF DADDIES
Hosted by Richard Westoby & Julio Gaggia · society · EN
About this Podcast:
The fertility industry will take $200,000 from you before anyone explains what you're actually doing. We fix that. IVF. Surrogacy. Egg donation. Real costs. Real timelines. What clinics don't tell you. What lawyers bury in contracts. What no one warns you about until it's too late. Richard Westoby navigated this for 14 years. Julio Gaggia decoded it so you don't have to start from zero. Start with Episode 1. Hit follow. Then make better decisions. No clinic deals. No referral fees. No false hope. The independent reference system for IVF, surrogacy and egg donation.
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What is IVF DADDIES about?
The fertility industry will take $200,000 from you before anyone explains what you're actually doing. We fix that. IVF. Surrogacy. Egg donation. Real costs. Real timelines. What clinics don't tell you. What lawyers bury in contracts. What no one warns you about until it's too late. Richard Westoby navigated this for 14 years.
Who hosts IVF DADDIES?
IVF DADDIES is hosted by Richard Westoby & Julio Gaggia. The show has published 99 episodes to date.
What has IVF DADDIES covered recently?
Recent episodes include "103) GRINDR’S $300K FAMILY-BUILDING BENEFIT" (23 September 2026, 7 minutes), "102) FINANCING IVF OR YOUR MONEY BACK WITH SUNFISH CEO ANGELA RASTEGAR" (16 September 2026, 31 minutes), and "101) CAN SCIENTISTS MAKE A 42-YEAR-OLD EGG WORK LIKE IT’S 22?" (9 September 2026, 24 minutes).
How often does IVF DADDIES publish?
IVF DADDIES publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 24 minutes across 99 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on IVF DADDIES?
Booking probability for IVF DADDIES is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. IVF DADDIES requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. IVF DADDIES's contact route on record: verified email.
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The strongest fits for IVF DADDIES are Outpatient Clinics. IVF DADDIES has a society audience.
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Richard Westoby & Julio Gaggia hosts IVF DADDIES, a society podcast with 99 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- Sep 16, 202631 minS10
How much does IVF really cost, and what happens when treatment fails but the money is already gone? Before founding Sunfish, Angela Rastegar watched intended parents sell their 401(k)s and struggle to finance fertility...
- Sep 9, 202624 minS10
What if scientists could target one of the main reasons IVF becomes less successful with age? As eggs get older, the biological “glue” holding their chromosomes together begins to deteriorate. Chromosomes can separate...
- Sep 2, 202622 minS10
It is the question every gay intended parent is afraid to ask: What happens if your surrogate changes her mind? At 20 weeks, one surrogacy journey became the nightmare nobody believed would happen. The contracts were...
- May 29, 202627 minS100
Fresh or frozen? It sounds like a logistics question. It's not. Richard gets asked this constantly, and the answer almost always depends on something the clinic never asked first: what do you actually want your family...
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- May 22, 202626 minS9
Before you sit down with your doctor and they start talking about genetic testing, there is a conversation that should happen first. Richard has it with hundreds of patients every year. This is that conversation...
- May 13, 202633 minS9
SPOTIFY DESCRIPTION You've done the research. You've read the blogs. But there's a specific moment in the IVF journey that almost every gay man gets blindsided by and it's not the one you think. Dr. Michael Gornaccia of...
- Apr 29, 202634 minS9
Candy Crash spent 25 years believing she was not allowed to want a family. Ten weeks ago, she became a dad. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Parenthood Journey 01:16 The Emotional Growth of Becoming a Parent 03:21...
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95) EGG DONATION & SURROGACY: WHAT NOBODY TELLS YOU BEFORE YOU SPEND $200,000 - IVFDADDIES
Apr 22, 202632 minS9Most people start this journey knowing the cost. Nobody warns them about everything else. Katy Encalade has been a surrogate herself. Now she runs one of the most respected egg donation and surrogacy agencies in the US...
- Apr 1, 202612 minS9
The legal ground under surrogacy is shifting. For once it is shifting in your favor. If you are LGBTQ+ and you have been quietly terrified about what this administration means for your family, this is the episode that...
- Mar 18, 202639 minS9
Your embryo grade is not what you think it is. Embryologist Emanuela Molinari has spent her career inside the lab watching families make critical decisions based on information they do not fully understand. This episode...
- Mar 11, 202615 minS9
Everyone talks about the embryos. Nobody talks about what happens to the relationship. IVF puts a number on your family. Success rates. Grades. Transfer windows. And somewhere inside all of that data, the relationship...
Episode #2
91) HE REPORTED ON FAMILIES WORLDWIDE THEN BUILT ONE THROUGH SURROGACY: PEDRO ANDRADE'S TRUTH
Mar 5, 202640 minS9He spent years reporting on how families are built around the world. Then he had to build his own. Pedro Andrade is a journalist and television host who has documented cultures across six continents. But nothing...
- Feb 11, 20262 minS9
Surrogacy is not just a medical process. It is infrastructure. And right now that infrastructure is being rebuilt whether the industry is ready or not. IVF Daddies investigates what has actually shifted in the surrogacy...
Episode #9
88) THE MAN WHO CHANGED SURROGACY LAW: RON POOLE-DAYAN ON POWER, MONEY AND WHO CONTROLS YOUR FAMILY
Jan 22, 202623 minS8One man helped move gay fatherhood from legal impossibility to corporate insurance policy. This is the conversation about what that actually cost and who controls the infrastructure now. Ron Poole-Dayan founded Men...
Episode #8
87) THE FERTILITY LIE CELEBRITIES WON'T TELL YOU: A REPRODUCTIVE DOCTOR BREAKS THE SILENCE
Jan 15, 20269 minS8Kim Kardashian froze her eggs on camera. Janet Jackson had a baby at 50. The message millions of women absorbed: you have time. The message reproductive doctors are exhausted from correcting: you do not. Dr. Brooke...
- Jan 7, 202635 minS8
No rulebook. No legal framework. No guarantees. Just two people who refused to stop. This episode is not a success story with a tidy ending. It is what actually happens when the system was not built for your family and...
- Dec 18, 202525 minS8
When politicians control reproductive healthcare, families pay the price. A public health doctor who has spent his career on the frontlines is done staying quiet about it. Dr. Demetre Daskalakis has worked inside some...
- Dec 2, 202514 minS8
Ryan Murphy made a TV show about divorce, power, and reproductive rights. And accidentally created the most important IVF conversation mainstream America has had in years. Kim Kardashian froze her eggs on camera. Now...
Episode #3
82) BRAVOCON, BRAVO CELEBRITIES AND THE LGBTQ+ FAMILY REVOLUTION HAPPENING ON REALITY TV RIGHT NOW
Nov 25, 202534 minS8Something shifted. And if you were paying attention at BravoCon, you felt it. The storylines dominating reality TV right now are not just entertainment. They are the most powerful visibility machine the LGBTQ+ community...
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