Looking back on your choices
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Antonia Banewicz is a mindset coach and entrepreneur. She helps her clients, who are feeling low, have better days. Why? Because she has had so many of those days herself. She has created concrete steps and services to help her clients feel hopeful and happy again.
In her free time, she enjoys morning coffee with her husband, playing with Piper and Pippen, her two Australian Blue Heelers, and visiting the ocean.
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When I talk to people who are grappling with the decision not to have a kid, one of the worries I hear most often is about whether they’ll regret the decision when they get older. Will they feel they missed out on something? Who’ll look after them? What will their legacy be?
Because most of the conversations I have on this show are with people whose ‘fertility expiration date’ hasn’t yet passed, this isn’t a topic that we’ve covered in much depth. Except ,of course, as a hypothetical.
So for today’s episode I’m introducing you to Antonia Banewicz. Antonia shares the story of her unconventional upbringing, trying to make it as an actor in New York, and the choices she made about having kids. Now that Antonia’s in her sixties, she shares what it’s like to look back on those choices.
Discussed in episode 38 with Antonia Banewicz
The early part of Antonia’s life and the plans she had for herself
How having an eccentric mother impacted the way Antonia sees motherhood
Getting married later in life, facing the inability to have children, and adoption
Realizing it’s okay to not want to have kids, even when the world tells you that being a parent is necessary
Reveling in the excitement that comes with being childfree
What it was like for Antonia to watch her mother give up on her own dreams to raise her and her sister
The most satisfying part of Antonia’s childfree life
How Antonia has come into her own and has learned to stand in her authenticity