
Empowered Birth, Love, and Life
I want to educate and empower you to follow your intuition and trust your body and instincts in pregnancy, birth, relationships, breastfeeding, and life.
Episodes
56 episodes
EP 51: TALKING NUTRUTION IN PREGNANCY AND BEYOND WITH JEANNE REILLY AND SLYLAR NELSON
In this episode, I sit down with two incredible dietitians who have created a prenatal and postnatal supplement designed to fully support a healthy pregnancy and postpartum journey. We discuss the high-quality ingredients and the added botanica...
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Ep 50 What It Really Means To Be Radical With Davana May
Davana May embodies the essence of feminine empowerment as a stewardess of the Healing Arts, Wild Birth Keeper, and an Ayurvedic Wellness Guide specializing in Postpartum care. She holds a fervent dedication to advocating for women's autonomy i...
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Ep 49 Kristen Woodruff Awake Nurse Mama
Kristen spent 10 years as a dedicated NICU nurse, providing care to the most vulnerable newborns. However, her journey took a dramatic turn when she was let go for refusing to take the experimental shot. Since then, Kristen has become a trusted...
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Episode 49
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Christian Hypno Birth Guided Meditation and Prayer
I decided to do a longer meditation and was getting so many requests for prayer and hypno birth meditation! I decided to combine this into a 25 minute meditation you can do in pregnancy in your bath, or end of the day and then in labor if you n...
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Episode 50
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Ep 48 Cervical Checks
Cervical checks during labor, while commonly practiced, can often be detrimental to the natural birthing process. These checks involve manually assessing the dilation of the cervix to determine the progress of labor. While the intention behind ...
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Episode 48
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Ep 47 Real Talk With Dr Stuart Fischbein
Dr Stu is a legend in the birth worker community. His journey from OB with a private practice working in hospitals to leading midwives in the art of vaginal breech birth at home, Dr Stu is inspiring many of us in the community that change for t...
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Ep 46 Has Midwifery Changed? With Sara Edwards CNM
Dr. Sara Edwards has devoted her 35-year career to transforming nurse-midwiferyresearch, education, and clinical practice caring for women before, during and after pregnancy and birth. She is also a nurse researcher examining how the mother...
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Episode 46
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Ep 45 No Longer Silent with Midwife Anya Djumabaev (Casteel)
This is years of pent up frustration, but also our deep desire to empower women. If you listen all the way through, it will be a journey of empowerment, education, emotions, fascinating stories, and why we are NO LONGER STAYING SILENT!
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Episode 45
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Ep 44 Gina Mundy A Guide to a Safer Childbirth
Gina Mundy is an attorney specializing in childbirth cases. Forover 20 years, her focus has been investigating and analyzingmistakes that arise during labor and delivery. She has spentcountless hours meticulously scrutinizing childb...
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Ep 43 Dr Joel Gater Warsh
Joel Warsh aka DrJoelGator of the popular parenting Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/drjoelgator/ is a Board-Certified Pediatrician ...
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Episode 43
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Ep 42 Stop the Lies
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor.... I am a doula who has witnessed a plethora of births both completely undisturbed at home and induction at hospital. I come from a place of seeing the hospital births being scarier and less natural. The lies are ...
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Ep 41 The Man's Role in the Postpartum Season with Daniel Grose
I came across Daniel's incredible instagram page https://www.instagram.com/honest_fatherhood/ and I was blown away by how well spoken he was about Empowering men in the journey of fathe...
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Ep 40 Manifesting Your Dream Birth with Jenna Ballard
Jenna began her career in 2006 as a certified personal trainer and mindset coach for celebrities like Ben Stiller, Katy Perry, Jeremy Piven, Saudi Arabian royalty, and the Marciano family (founders of Guess).In 2011, she discovered the w...
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Ep 39 Protecting Our Babies From Mutilation (Circumcision) With Eric Clopper
This episode was such a mind bending and stomach turning episode packed with so much information. If you or anyone you know is "questioning" circumcision or male genital mutilation, I highly encourage you to listen to this episode. We discu...
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Episode 39
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Ep 38 Protocol 7 The Film!
I am so honored to be a part of this important film! Go see it! Purchase it online if you miss it in theaters. Website https://protocol7.movie/Link to Interview with Andy and Alex
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Episode 38
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Ep 37 The Safety of Full Autonomous Pregnancy and Birth with Audrey Ross
On this episode I speak with Audrey Ross an in person and virtual birth keeper, coach, educator, mother, and amazing voice for "wild pregnancy" and "free birth". In this episode we delve into the realms of physiological birth and how meddling d...
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Episode 37
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Ep 36 Trusting Your Practitioner Blindly
Lately my 1 on 1 trauma birth story processing sessions have not been with hospital birth... but home birth or birth center births where the MIDWIFE was acting like and Obstetrician. This is almost worse. With a hospital you are at least aware ...
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Ep 35 Raechal Martin CFT Healing the body
Much like a battery the human body needs to recharge. We are all energy and we are all made up of one working nervous system. Craniosacral therapy has so many benefits for adults AND babies! I have seen the most "coliky" baby become so peaceful...
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Episode 35
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Ep 34 The Body Remembers
"Why would you bring the trauma to the surface if someone remembers their birth without trauma?" My husband asked me this. My answer was "I don't just go around telling everyone they have birth trauma! When someone has PPA/PPD or bondin...
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Episode 34
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Ep 33 Why Should I Hire A Doula?
I'm sure I can speak for most doulas when I say "most dads are not an experienced doulas". That doesn't mean dad isn't support person number 1. Dad should ALWAYS be support person #1. Hiring a doula can offer various benefits during chi...
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Episode 33
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Ep 32 Alison Mak Sacred Birth Symposium
Alison Mak is the co-founder of Sacred Birth Symposium, alongside her husband, and is the proud home birth mama to their baby girl, who inspired and inspires it all.She has spent over a decade on her spiritual and holistic health journey...
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Episode 32
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Ep 31 Somatics and Birth
Somatic work in birth is important for several reasons: 1. Trauma resolution: Somatic practices, such as body-centered therapy or somatic experiencing, can help individuals process and release any physical or em...
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Episode 31
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Ep 30 Kelly's Birth Story
My sister in law found out she was pregnant and never even knew home birth was an option. She had asked me for birth center recommendations and I immediately empowered her to do it at HOME! This birth story was so fun. I was so happy to help he...
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