Today we’d like to introduce you to Aria Simuel.
Hi Aria, so excited to have you on the platform. So, before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
My Co-Owner Ciara Langston and myself met in high school and then came to Los Angeles for college where we became inseparable through each of our lives milestones. In 2013 Ciara decided to embark on a surrogacy journey, I myself was there every step of the way. Ciara did a total of 6 journeys totaling in 3 babies. In 2016 Ciara spoke on starting Her own agency which later in 2020 at my bachelorette’s party we put our visions together and created a business plan to create the surrogacy agency Modernly Ever After LLC. I became the 1st surrogate under our agency delivering a health baby girl for our first family out of Michigan. Ciara and myself are the youngest and WOC (women of color) owned agency in the country and on the west coast. We are extremely proud to be a part of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) community. We are excited to help make parenting possible for those who face challenges growing a family.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Ciara and myself have had a few challenges since starting Modernly Ever After LLC. Some of our obstacles that we faced with the startup were not having seed money to help fund the start of the agency needs. We both work in traditional 9/5 settings and funded our business that way.
When trying to come up with a name for our agency we picked the name HATCH which later caused problems due to another agency taking the name and trademarking it before we got the chance to. This caused us to have to rebrand completely after spending money on things with the name HATCH creating handles for social media and our website.
Part of learning the ins and outs of the business we tried to reach out to others in the community and initially it wasn’t a lot of support coming our way.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
Our Agency is a full-service Surrogacy and Egg Donation Agency. We help create families the modern way (Utilizing Assisted Reproductive Technology).
We help educate and guide our Intended Parents Surrogates and Egg Donors throughout their whole journey.
From our personal experience we seen the good and bad throughout this industry and we understand that parenting can seem out of reach for many dealing with infertility or reproductive loss. Same sex couples and more.
We seen the need to make parenting possible with affordable pricing and also having a great bed side manner to all of our clients…
What sets us apart from others we are one of the 4 Women of Color owned agencies and the youngest. We both have experienced surrogacy first hand both agency guided and independently. We have made our agency more Affordable and based more on helping families grow.
We’d love to hear about how you think about risk taking?
Without risk there is no reward. With every risk we take there are no losses, only learning experiences. Being in an industry where there aren’t many people who look like you, it can be very intimidating. We took the risk to dive right in the industry with little to no direction, guidance and support from our peers and colleagues.
We also decided not to take out any loans and funded everything for our business with our 9-5 jobs without knowing if we would receive a return on our investment. We only knew that we wanted to help families grow and help as many as we can. With having that mind set and doing something for purpose there is no way you can fail.
Pricing:
- EARN UP TO 85K When becoming a surrogate with MODERNLY EVER AFTER
- EARN UP TO 30K When you become an Egg Donor with Modernly Ever After
Contact Info:
- Email: info@modernlyeverafter.com
- Website: www.modernlyeverafter.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/modernlyeverafter/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/modernlyeverafter
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/modernlyevraft
Image Credits
Aria Simuel
Shaarika Boone
Ciara Langston
Victoria Moreva
