#51: Faith and Fertility: A Holistic Approach to Reproductive Health — Ann Shippy

What you’ll hear in this episode:

- How Ann went from IBM chemical engineer to functional medicine doctor

- Why conventional medicine often rules things out but misses root causes

- The preconception lens and why baby health starts before pregnancy

- Why paternal health matters and how sperm quality and toxin exposure shape outcomes

- The biggest fertility disruptors, especially toxins, hormones, gut health, and nutrient status

- Focusing on clean inputs, detox support, and metabolic basics before biohacks

- Meditation as a core practice, including tools like neurofeedback to deepen consistency

- Love as a real “field” and why spiritual experiences are lifting the veil to reveal a deeper reality

- Psychedelics and near-death experiences as catalysts that can shift fear, expand awareness, and reframe healing

About Love Conquers Fear:

In an era of exponentially evolving AI and robotics, one question looms: Will humanity make it? Love Conquers Fear is where leadership meets love, technology serves humanity, and vision becomes action. Host, Brett Alexander Hurt, tech entrepreneur and investor, sits down with some of the world’s most influential people to ask: Will we unite to create the Age of Abundance for All? These conversations are calls to action, awakening leaders everywhere to rise and help humanity choose the Light.

Follow Brett Alexander Hurt on:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bretthurt/

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Medium: https://databrett.medium.com/

Substack: https://brettahurt.substack.com/

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About Ann Shippy:

Ann Shippy is a functional medicine physician and author of “The Preconception Revolution”. A former IBM chemical engineer, Ann brings a systems lens to root-cause medicine — connecting toxins, hormones, gut health, nutrients, and epigenetics to real-world outcomes. Her work blends advanced testing with practical lifestyle protocols to help families prepare for pregnancy with more clarity, resilience, and intention.

Timestamps:

0:00:00 — Preview

0:00:51 — Intro: A World Appears, consciousness, Brett's new book

0:08:45 — Welcome Ann Shippy

0:11:58 — Ann's health journey, functional medicine, spiritual health

0:24:07 — Formative influences, human suffering, infinite love

0:35:29 — Love receptors, DNA amplification, metaphysics, reconciling science and spirituality

0:46:25 — Restorative states, meditation, neurofeedback, intuitive superpowers

0:56:05 — Declining fertility, preconception prep, spiritual layer of intentional conception

1:06:31 — Spark of light, microbiome, epigenetics, self-love, past lives, new souls

1:16:39 — Psychedelics, transcendent journey, emotional healing, Team Humanity

1:29:28 — Bhutan, awakening vs. zero-sum thinking, heart shift

1:36:55 — Closing reflections

Books mentioned in this episode:

- A World Appears — Michael Pollan

- Lights On — Annaka Harris

- The Secret of Secrets — Dan Brown

- How to Change Your Mind — Michael Pollan

- The Preconception Revolution — Ann Shippy

- Proof of Heaven — Eben Alexander

- An End to Upside Down Thinking — Mark Gober

- Big Mind Big Heart — Dennis Genpo Merzel

- Fearlessness — Anthony de Mello

- Awareness — Anthony de Mello

- A Life Decoded — J. Craig Venter

- Many Lives, Many Masters — Brian Weiss

- Journey of Souls — Michael Newton

- LSD and the Mind of the Universe — Christopher M. Bache

- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself — Joe Dispenza

- The Alchemist — Paulo Coelho

Links:

The Telepathy Tapes (S2): https://tinyurl.com/2khfa57m

“How to Change Your Mind” doc: https://tinyurl.com/5bvxm7er

Do More Good’s “ROI of Why” conference: https://tinyurl.com/4jjc8kk7

“Inner Worlds Outer Worlds” doc: https://tinyurl.com/yd8ae57h

Dr. Masaru Emoto’s rice and water experiment: https://tinyurl.com/4sexpxvm

Spark of light at fertilization: https://tinyurl.com/bdzhyecr