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Rai Hyde

Chief Growth Architect at ELEVATE and founder of Cornell Content Marketing & Chiron Consulting; six-time egg donor and former corrections counselor turned marketing psychology strategist.

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APPEARANCES

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PODCASTS

Aug 4, 2026

What It’s Really Like to Be an Egg Donor

Aug 4 · 44m

Eloise DrainHOST

17:12

But how was the retrieval and the experience of how many eggs you received, or not you received, but you were able to get retrieved and all of that?

17:25

My first donation, which was in Ohio, that one from... what I later learned was pretty normal for a donor.

17:36

I think I ended up donating 27 eggs in my first one and it was very successful.

17:42

I was really uncomfortable the day of, you know, you're kind of like ready for the bloating to be done and the swelling to go down and all of that.

17:49

But I remember that clinic and that staff and they were just so sweet.

17:53

They were very compassionate.

17:54

They wanted to make sure I was comfortable.

5 MINS LATER

Eloise DrainHOST

23:06

So, and so what about the, the fifth and sixth donations? Did you experience any problems with those?