Episode 14: Stephanie Arnold

Jul 8

She is a best-selling author, speaker, former Emmy-nominated television producer — and someone whose story asks a question most of us hope we never have to answer: What happens when your inner knowing is right…and no one fully believes you?

In this episode of Mostly Together, I sit down with Stephanie Arnold, author of 37 Seconds and the woman whose near-death story was featured on Netflix.

While pregnant with her second child, Stephanie became convinced that something was going to go terribly wrong during delivery. But this wasn't just a passing fear, or anxiety — it was a knowing. She believed her baby would be fine, but that she would die on the operating table.

And then she did.

This conversation lives in the space between intuition and advocacy.

It’s about motherhood, medical trauma, survival, and the courage it takes to keep using your voice when the people around you don’t fully understand what you’re trying to say.

Stephanie opens up about the warnings she felt before giving birth, the amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) that led to her near-death experience, the extra precautions that helped save her life, and what it means to trust your body before the data catches up.

At its heart, this is a conversation about speaking up — not because you’re trying to be difficult, dramatic, or right, but because your life may depend on it.

In this conversation, we talk about: