Today we talk with Tara Withey of episode 2. She tells tales of business adaption through the covid-19 pandemic. She talks about Alice Turner and other various doulas that helped pull everyone through the transition to online support and learni

Episode 20: Girl, Stop Apologizing Book Review

Oct 30th, 2020 12m 10s

Hello everyone and welcome to the all about doulaship podcast! Today I’m starting something new to help us all become better business people, book reviews! Now just to be clear, I don’t plan on getting rid of the personal interview portion of t

Episode 19: Hello Baby Baltimore

Sep 1st, 2020 1h 6m

Hello Everyone!I hope you all are thriving in this hot mess we're calling 2020. Today you're going to listen in on an educational advocacy conversation with Taiwo & Wale Ajao. They lead Hello Baby Baltimore, a Health Communications initiative s

Episode 18: All Boats Rise in a Tide

Apr 30th, 2020 40m 59s

Hello Everyone!I hope you all are well in this crazy time. Today I chatted with Rachel Carbonneau, MA. She is a Certified Birth Doula, CD(DONA), an Evidence Based Birth® instructor, and a certified parenting coach. Rachel is the owner and dire

Episode 17: Just Go For It!

Mar 1st, 2020 53m 17s

Hello Everyone!Today we're talking with Haley Parizo the owner of Island Doula, located in Northwestern Vermont, where she resides with her husband and two young children. Stemming from a lifelong passion for all things pregnancy, birth, and ba

Episode 16: Discovering their Desires

Jan 17th, 2020 42m 48s

Good Afternoon All,Today I talked with Christi Stoltzfus of BellissiMama Doula Services in Lancaster County, PA. She is a certified doula through Birth Arts International that has had the pleasure of supporting women and their families since 20

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Episode 15: Happy New Year!

Jan 1st, 2020 21m 56s

Good Morning Everyone! Today is just a short snippet of me talking with you all about the past, present, and future of this podcast. I talk about my favorite conversations and resources mentioned in the episodes so for (see below), what I'm doi

Episode 14: I'm the Guide

Nov 17th, 2019 30m 42s

Today we talk with Rachel Mueller of NEAR to you Midwifery and Doula Services. She's a DONA certified birth and postpartum doula, certified lactation counselor, evidence based birth instructor, and a Lay midwife. We have a lovely conversation a

Episode 13: Let Your Passion Guide You

Oct 15th, 2019 46m 54s

Today we talked with Sarah Popviker. After giving birth to four boys without a birth companion, she had an eye opening experience when her fifth son was born with continuous and comforting support throughout her labor. She realized that many wo

Episode 12: I Can't Be the Only One

Sep 14th, 2019 47m 4s

Hello All and Welcome Back!To start the new season off we have a lovely interview with Jennifer Sierant. She's married with 2 children working as a parenting worker for almost 10years. She started in the birth field as a Certified Lactation Con

Episode 11: I Can Do Anything for Five Minutes

Jun 15th, 2019 51m 58s

Today we talk with Jenifer Kula all about her pathway to becoming a doula, finding mentors, and doula business classes. Jenni Kula is a birth and postpartum doula and owner of Mindful Mama Birth Services. As a doula, she provides physical, emot

Episode 10: One Doula's Journey

May 14th, 2019 44m 24s

Today we talked with Kayla Rogers from Divine Lotus Doula Services. She was born and raised in Buffalo and reside there with her husband and 3 daughters. She decided to become a Doula while pregnant with my second daughter, after having an ama

Episode 9: The Birthwork Cycle

Apr 15th, 2019 39m 9s

Today we talk with Nichole Virag. Nichole is a birth doula and birth photographer here in WNY. Before birth work she worked with trauma survivors as a social worker and that work really informs what she does as a doula. Then she started doing b

Episode 8: The Bridge to Your Fertility

Mar 15th, 2019 53m 58s

Today we talk with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack all about the Fertility Awareness Method. She’s a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner who teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth

Episode 7: Edit Your Life (Stop Saying Yes!)

Feb 15th, 2019 42m 53s

Today I chatted with Stacey Austin, a license acupuncturist. We conversed about how acupuncture can help in the fertility, birth, and postpartum world, when to recommend a client to an acupuncturist, and how choosing happiness is the way she's

Episode 6: Decisive Mindfulness

Jan 15th, 2019 54m 38s

Today I have a chat with the co-founders of Bebo Mia (a seven figure doula+ training & support business), Natasha Marchand and Bianca Sprague. Both are doulas become doula trainers and we get into the nitty gritty of how their journeys began an

Episode 5: Tying your Passions Together to find your Niche

Nov 12th, 2018 53m 24s

Today we talk with Sujata Martin; she is an occupational therapist by training, a birth doula by certification, and a birth photographer and postpartum doula by interest. We chat about what it's like to be a new doula, juggling all of her inter

Episode 4: Positivity to Fuel Your Fire

Oct 15th, 2018 48m 22s

Today we talk with a chiropractor from Western New York, Dr. Ashely, all about her life's passion. She works with pregnant women throughout their pregnancies to have happier, healthier birth and postpartum transition into motherhood. She also w

Episode 3: An Update 10/11/2018

Oct 11th, 2018 5m 11s

Megan is giving you a quick update on where the podcast is going.

Episode 2: Love Them Through It

Aug 10th, 2018 40m 58s

Today we’re here to welcome our guest Tara Withey! She is a certified doula and childbirth educator who has been serving Western New York since 2010. She’s trained with Cascade Christian Childbirth Associates, Madriella, Stillbirthday, Childbir