Adam Hooper
Sperm Donation World
The fertility world a multi-billion dollar industry, run by so-called professionals we put our trust in? But should we? there is a lot about the IVF world that they don't want us to know about while controlling us with fear. We explore alternative avenues and speak to various guests and listen to their stories. For more information http://www.spermdonationworld.com
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Adam Hooper
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Apr 7, 2025
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Episodes
Episode 55: Polygyny Ambitions 07.11.2022 2:02:29
Residing in the very liberal grounds of Queens, New York we find the right-winged Jaye Wilde. He identifies as anti-abortion and pro-life. He is very passionate about his human rights to say no to what he calls the death shot. and discusses his views and theories on human population control. Jaye formed a long-term relationship in his late teens and got married, but like many marriages in society...
Episode 54: The Alpha Male Donor 02.11.2022 2:22:53
Living it up in southwest Florida resides "Hunglo Wang", he is what identifies himself as an Alpha male. He has lived the highs and lows of a male entertainer during his college years, to getting married and to divorce where his ex-wife abducted the kid away from him. He found himself in a place where he didn't want to continue making previous mistakes and became a donor, particularly...
Episode 53: Circle of Life 14.07.2022 59:09
Paul Seils Jnr from Noosa in Queensland is the eldest of 4 siblings. He had gotten married and took on 2 step-children, after a few years of marriage his then partner said she wasn't prepared to have any more children, and eventually, the marriage dissolved. Paul was back single and the opportunity for his own biological children may have passed. It was then a friend recommended Sperm...
Episode 52: Wonder Woman 26.06.2022 38:17
Daniela Chavez. 39, from Southern California, identifies as Trans female, and in this episode, we explore this in hope of possibly inspiring more trans females to consider sperm donation. Daniela first found out about sperm donation via an ex-friend who she offered to help but to her shock was declined as she elected to want to use a stranger. She iss still looking to do her maiden donation and ha...
Episode 51: Reaching Valhalla 24.06.2022 1:02:39
Johanna, from Gothenburg, in Sweden first featured in episode 14, back in early 2019. She had her choice of matching with any known donor in the world and ultimately picked a donor from Perth, Western Australia. What started off as an optimistic yet hopeful story ended up having so many twists and turns that many others would have perhaps given up, this is a tale of all good things that come to th...
Episode 50: From Brisbane to Perth to have a Baby 21.06.2022 1:10:02
Ingrid Stefaniw, 35, who now resides in Brisbane, after traveling abroad and living overseas as a health professional worker which allowed her that flexibility. From the age of 30, she set herself a timeline to find a partner to start a family she gave it a good hard crack, going on over 85 dates on various dating apps with none of them worthy of being her baby’s father. Like a lot of people, she...
Episode 49: After 10 IUI failures, we needed a new plan 21.06.2022 47:46
Angela Deliso, 35, from California, always knew deep down she was attracted to women, and with the expectations of society, like many didn’t come out to herself for some time. In 2015 she signed up for a dating site where she met her partner Dee and fell in love and got married. Like most love stories the conversation of children came up and before they knew it they were buying vial after vial fro...
Episode 48: Donating with a Disability 09.05.2022 57:43
"AJ" from Los Angeles has spent almost a decade Wheelchair-bound from a freakish accident down at the beach one day just shy of his 24th birthday. Coming from a Mexican-Latino heavily religious family, he always dreamt of becoming a parent one day, and with that unfortunate event that transpired, his fathering aspirations had to be let go. Along the way, he stumbled across the idea of becoming a s...
Episode 47: Fertility Fraud, Doctors impregnating their own patients 08.05.2022 2:35:14
On the Eve, of the Netflix premiere release of Our Father, which highlights the fertility fraud of Doctor Donald Cline from Indianapolis who sired countless amounts of children without patient consent. What better time to speak to a person that found themselves a victim of similar circumstances meet Eve Andrews Wiley from Texas who shares her story and her own hardships from being doctor-conceived...
Episode 46: Uprooted 06.03.2022 1:21:47
Imagine living almost half of a century and finally being told you were conceived with the assistance of donor sperm back in 1945 in Boston. Well, this is what happened to Peter J Boni, while his mother was recovering from a stroke in her mid-70s it was finally time to tell the big family secret. Peter shares with us his story from becoming an established CEO in the tech world, to losing the man t...
Episode 45: Donor Child 27.12.2021 58:21
Emma Grønbæk is a Donor Conceived Person (DCP) born in 1996 with the assistance of donor sperm acquired from the Cyros International Sperm Bank in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is now an Author of the book "Donor Child - A Child of Love". In this episode, we speak to her about her book and her own outlook on what it's like being donor-conceived from a positive perspective. Emma shares with us tha...
Episode 44: A Heterosexual couple journey - 4 donor babies over 12 years 30.08.2021 2:09:55
Using an Alias "Lily" for privacy reasons from the East Coast of the U.S we explore a journey of a mother who is in a heterosexual relationship married to a man that had a vasectomy who previously had two children with a previous partner. This newly formed relationship ignited a spark for Lily to have her own children and spanning over 12 years with a 4th child almost here she has well and truly a...
Episode 43: Sperm Jacking 19.08.2021 1:25:18
Sonja Thompson was raised in Fargo Dakota, she always knew from a very young age she was attracted to women and is a sucker for a pretty smile and a cute face. So much so that at the age of 23 in Kentucky her then "hot girlfriend" convinced her she was to carry their next child. Previously Soni had no intentions of ever carrying but was talked into it. From there the only question was where to sou...
Episode 42: The Laws in New Zealand for Donor Conception 16.08.2021 50:45
Upon Adam Hooper's pending arrival in New Zealand it's probably best he gets in touch with Nz's most experienced lawyer in the field of donor conception. Introducing Mother of three Jaenine Badenhorst from Rainey Collins Lawyers located in Wellington Who specializes in Litigation and Family Law. In this episode, we learn about the rights of donors and recipients and their partners, we touch on a l...
Episode 41: Achieving Parenthood (As a Single Mother by Choice) 03.08.2021 1:17:15
Samantha J Richardson was brought up in a small town south of Chicago she is the co-author of the book Achieving Parenthood: The Struggles Are Real, The Hope Is Eternal a book that shares various people's insights and journies to parenthood. In this episode, we touch on Samantha's journey from living in countries such as New Zealand and now Australia where we explore her own struggles towards havi...
Episode 40: Another VIC Fertility Clinic to destroy Embryos, are yours safe? Part 2 28.07.2021 1:19:07
Jess and Leroy Natoli met briefly while out one night through a mutual friend, and soon tracked down each other and became officially an item not too soon after, both wanting similar things in life, a mutual goal would be creating a family in the, not near distant future. They began exploring these options that lead them to a Melbourne-based clinic in which they did IVF. The clinic emailed the don...
Episode 39: Another VIC Fertility Clinic to destroy Embryos are yours safe? Part 1 27.07.2021 2:13:38
Lissa Koehler and her ex-partner's first child was born via at-home insemination via a known donor, for a combination of reasons he is no longer an option for future children so they elected to go down the Fertility clinic option. Through an invasive procedure that would involve between30 and 50 internal ultrasounds and other procedures and not to mention extreme medication involved that knocked h...
Episode 38: A Gay man's guide to forming a family 26.07.2021 1:11:48
Tim Gullicksen from San Francisco back in 1989 wanted to help families that were in need of a sperm donor and he came across the California Cryobank there was only one obstacle in his path and that was he is gay, Back then and even now gay men are still not allowed to be sperm donors at clinics in the USA. Tim had to pretend he was straight to bypass their screening process in order to help create...
Episode 37: My Rainbow Tribe 02.07.2021 1:00:47
Shannon Louise Ashton was a pioneer for same-sex women who always wanted children but found out along the way she had no desire to be with a man so had to think outside the box. She started her motherhood journey via the QFG in the early 2000s at a time when it was all very taboo. Almost 2 decades on a couple of relationships along the way, she has fulfilled her rainbow tribe of 5 children using t...
Episode 36: Talking Male Infertility and Children's books 28.06.2021 1:41:50
J.R Silver is the pseudonym UK Author of the Sharing Seeds children's book series. From the Southern part of England, this man married his wife, lost his sister to breast cancer which raised concerns about his own genetics which prompted him to investigate further not only finding out he was the carrier of BRACA1 gene he soon after discovered his semen sample contained no sperm aka Azoosperm...
Episode 35: 2 Bumps Same Love 24.06.2021 2:11:16
Taryn Cumming (South Africa) joins us and she is one half of the 2 Bumps Same Love team. She and partner Kat Buchanan (New Zealand) who are based in Auckland fell pregnant using an online donor almost simultaneously after finding out they both had a low egg reserve and action was required immediately. Along their way they started creating YouTube content and sharing their journey and creating info...
Episode 34: East London Represent 03.06.2021 1:35:03
Growing up in the underground of East London "Abdul Motlib" who is in his early 30s is 3rd generation British of Bangladesh ancestry. After finding out his sperm didn't pass the freezing process at the clinics, he explored donating online via the Ai only method and in that time has helped assist in the creation of 10 births. In this episode we chat about Super Donors, the UK rivalries the impact o...
Episode 33: Clinic Donor withdraws consent and our embryos to be destroyed 25.05.2021 1:29:43
Going by the aliases of Pip and Tara from Victoria, Australia. After a relationship spanning 14 years, it was time to discuss having a child together. They used one of the countries biggest fertility clinics, we talk to them about their IVF journey in-depth about the processes of the counseling, the doctors appointments, surgeries along the way (cysts and polyps) , and then finally gaining access...
Episode 32: Just Blew into the Windy City 19.05.2021 43:02
Chantel Janette Bowen (23 years old) from Chicago Illinois first fell pregnant on graduation night which resulted in her firstborn son back in 2016, 6 months later while planning to recommence her education she then discovers she is pregnant again with a little girl on the way. Four years onwards and with her educational goals met Chantel looks to further grow her family. After doing her research...
Episode 31: Making a Baby with Someone with HIV 09.03.2021 1:32:43
Mark Fisher (Body Positive) and Jane Bruning (Positive Women) who reside in New Zealand collaborated with the New Zealand Aids Foundation in creating Sperm Positive the first HIV-positive Sperm Bank for donors. All in the effort of breaking down the stigma and creating awareness that people with HIV can have children without passing it on to the other party or the child-to-be. We leave...
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