For 20% off James' programs, go here: https://getfitforbirth.com/becoming-parents/

James Goodlatte is the founder of Fit For Birth, a holistic fitness education company that teaches the Five Holistic Foundations of fertility, pre & postpartum timeframes:

(1) Breathing,

(2) Movement,

(3) Nutrition,

(4) Lifestyle, and

(5) Thoughts.

His philosophies are most often a blend of the ancient wisdom of our ancestors that is now being proven by scientific research today.  He teaches his clients that the vast majority of challenges in life can be remedied by just improving these 5 areas and that these are usually worth looking into before reaching for medications and surgeries.

IN THESE EPISODES:

Join James and Jenn in this five-part series that promises you either to easily begin a simple few minutes of exercise each day or adjust your current routine to ensure that your results are way better than "usual fitness."

James' style of corrective exercises shows how important it is for you to determine which exercises are RIGHT FOR YOU, and you'll be able to do exactly that after participating in this SELF-ASSESSMENT.

Each Segment:

(1) Goals & Needs discussion with Jenn: Determining what's right for you, and understanding corrective exercise

(2) Self-Assessment:  Immediately increase your own body awareness in this short guided self-evaluation!

(3) Core Training: Learn how to implement inner core breathing into your abdominal exercises.

(4) Lower Body Training: Learn the single most important muscle for your lower body exercises.

(5) Upper Body Training:  Learn a few techniques to use the right muscles in your upper body exercises.

ABOUT JAMES:

I consider my work to be "empowering people" to believe in themselves and find what works for them.  As the founder of Fit For Birth, this is done primarily through personal training and health education for pre-conception, pregnant and postpartum moms, as well as continuing education for fitness professionals, birth workers, and other wellness professionals.

FIND HIM HERE:

GetFitForBirth.com

Instagram.com/fitforbirth/

Facebook.com/getfitforbirth

TikTok.com/@fitforbirth

For 20% off James' programs, go here: https://getfitforbirth.com/becoming-parents/

James Goodlatte is the founder of Fit For Birth, a holistic fitness education company that teaches the Five Holistic Foundations of fertility, pre & postpartum timeframes:

(1) Breathing,

(2) Movement,

(3) Nutrition,

(4) Lifestyle, and

(5) Thoughts.

His philosophies are most often a blend of the ancient wisdom of our ancestors that is now being proven by scientific research today.  He teaches his clients that the vast majority of challenges in life can be remedied by just improving these 5 areas and that these are usually worth looking into before reaching for medications and surgeries.

IN THESE EPISODES:

Join James and Jenn in this five-part series that promises you either to easily begin a simple few minutes of exercise each day or adjust your current routine to ensure that your results are way better than "usual fitness."

James' style of corrective exercises shows how important it is for you to determine which exercises are RIGHT FOR YOU, and you'll be able to do exactly that after participating in this SELF-ASSESSMENT.

Each Segment:

(1) Goals & Needs discussion with Jenn: Determining what's right for you, and understanding corrective exercise

(2) Self-Assessment:  Immediately increase your own body awareness in this short guided self-evaluation!

(3) Core Training: Learn how to implement inner core breathing into your abdominal exercises.

(4) Lower Body Training: Learn the single most important muscle for your lower body exercises.

(5) Upper Body Training:  Learn a few techniques to use the right muscles in your upper body exercises.

ABOUT JAMES:

I consider my work to be "empowering people" to believe in themselves and find what works for them.  As the founder of Fit For Birth, this is done primarily through personal training and health education for pre-conception, pregnant and postpartum moms, as well as continuing education for fitness professionals, birth workers, and other wellness professionals.

FIND HIM HERE:

GetFitForBirth.com

Instagram.com/fitforbirth/

Facebook.com/getfitforbirth

TikTok.com/@fitforbirth

Joe is a partner in a Digital Marketing Agency

FIND HIM HERE:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joezeman/

www.valormarketingllc.com

https://www.facebook.com/valormarketingllc

https://www.linkedin.com/company/18501999/admin/

www.askvalormasterminds.com

https://www.facebook.com/askvalormasterminds

https://www.linkedin.com/company/75631573/admin/

https://open.spotify.com/show/3hqj7ggomRfiVAq8DPFHF4?si=484ea0dcd3ab440c

Share your experience! I answer all comments personally and will select one to read at the beginning of the next show.

* Struggled for a year through an ectopic pregnancy and 2 emergency surgeries (lost a tube)

* Found success with holistic herbs and Chinese medicine

* Gained 50lbs and 57lbs with both pregnancies and struggled to lose the weight and feel like me again

* Between being sleep deprived, having 2 boys 23 months apart, and getting mastitis with my 2nd at 3mo PP, I ended up dealing with what I learned was postpartum rage.

* After a spiritual journey for this last year, I discovered I was meant to get into postpartum doula work along with my health coaching - through that work, I created Motherhood Elevated (an online resource guide for moms with over 130+ resources/tools/tips for all areas of health - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and financial).

Alison is a health coach and the creator of Motherhood Elevated, an online resource guide for moms.

FIND HER HERE: 

Https://liveyourlifeelevated.newzenler.com/f/motherhood-elevated-freebie

www.instagram.com/alisonavayu

www.facebook.com/alisonavayu

www.myxyngular.com/liveyourlifeelevated

www.liveyourlifeelevated.com

https://galas.fm/episode/5e29d1d2-ee89-5c92-bbb8-408b995d6869

Today I was featured on Your Runner Dad’s blog: https://doulainreno.com/miscarriage-divorce-hysterectomy-how-running-got-me-through/

I decided it was a great launch to discuss:

Be sure to leave me a comment sharing your experience with loss and how you overcame it.

Grief survival guide: https://doulainreno.com/grief-survival-guide/

Bereavement resources: https://doulainreno.com/bereavement-resources/

Olivia’s miscarriage episode: https://youtu.be/WW4bvqg-86s

Emily’s episode includes Olivia’s loss, how it changed her business, and cremating first-trimester miscarriages. https://youtu.be/-OZ2X-9lFkE

https://galas.fm/episode/0fe18e4e-78ad-52d0-b964-cc42e2da00c4

Three 2nd-trimester losses

Navigating blood clotting disorders and having an incompetent cervix

Scared to try again and worried as hell when I am pregnant

Sharing my story and how it helps me cope

I want anyone to feel safe and open to speak out about their loss. It's too common of a thing to lose a baby

Her Facebook page is - Miscarriage: Breaking the silence

https://galas.fm/episode/e219e0cb-2d89-5891-8833-d06539897160

It’s time to update what’s going on for me and the podcast! It’s been 9 months since I changed the podcast’s direction from sharing stories of struggle to success to becoming parents.

I spent 12 years as a doula, lactation consultant, and CBE trainer in The Bradley Method and Birthing From Within, and ran LaLeche League meetings with a passion for supporting women who have become Moms. I thought I’d pick up where I left off - 18 years ago - and go to school to become a midwife, but that’s not what happened. Instead, I went back to school to be a doula and breastfeeding counselor again!

I’ve completed some specialty certifications, the first as an adoption doula. With 5 adoptions and 15 years working with social services, I love the idea of helping a biological mom deliver a baby and having support through her pregnancy, delivery, and healing, as well as helping adopting families with the transition, breastfeeding, and relactation, and working with the bio mom. It also opened up being a surrogacy doula which has many similarities.

The other certification that I’m incredibly passionate about is as a bereavement doula through stillbirthday.com As a mama who has experienced 3 miscarriages, including twins at 16 weeks, I decided to make this the pro bono part of my business. I work with women who have or are experiencing miscarriage, fatal diagnosis, stillbirth, or NICU and I can do so much while you’re going through this. I also have a program if time has passed. This has taken off in several directions that I’ll discuss on a specific episode and I love being able to make such a difficult situation, as positive as it can be.

I will be one of the first doulas in NV to become a Molina Medicaid provider and realized through a few other options that most likely 100% of my doula clients will be Medicaid. I’m currently at the end of licensing.

I am also planning on taking training through the hospital as well as opioid drug use training, to work through Medicaid and the hospitals to serve these women.

I thought I’d go back to working predominantly with homebirths, however, God has different plans for me and I am ecstatic! I’ll be serving an almost un-served population of women, and quite honestly - they deserve it.

The first episode of becoming parents: https://youtu.be/2QWHPs94HqM

Casey discusses being a teen mom, our conversations around that, and how challenging it was, being in a broken welfare system, how she got off of welfare, had her second baby, met someone, and had her two boys.

Her son Chase had multiple fractures in his skull, and was in a coma, with 70% brain damage from a babysitter's abuse. He’s doing great as a 6-year-old considering, however, it was a huge life change, including a lawsuit as her second son was being born.

The kids are now 17, 14, 6, & 5. I’m so proud of Casey.

- postpartum depression after the first delivery, colicky baby

- realizing how uncomfortable I was in my own body, breastfeeding in public, and doing artwork of breastfeeding moms, recognized in the newspaper for the series

- mother wisdom unfolding and rocking the paradigm of my marriage

- learning to honor me as a mother, even when being disrespected by the father

- a single mother with teen sons, raising my eldest son after his father disowned him

- learning to make peace even if others want to make war - not being a space of division even when the family is divided

- letting go so my sons can grow - empty nest

Kerri is a Soul Guide, a shamanic healer,  and a spiritual teacher of the Inner Medicine Training which is a Mystery School.

FIND HER HERE:

www.motherwoundbook.com  (receive 17 days of interviews for the Return of Mother Wisdom Series)

www.kerrihummingbird.com

Podcast: www.soulnectar.show

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kerri.hummingbird.sami

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kerri.hummingbird/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/KerriHummingbrd

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrihummingbird/

YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCIvzw9fZaQdLy9jbiCuX2A

Casey is my daughter. She is one of the 5 kids I had long-term in foster care from age 10. She is so brave and strong and I’m so proud of her for sharing her experience in foster care, how it’s still impacting her, as well as her parenting.   

Continuously running away, putting herself in a mental health facility to stay safe and healthy since she couldn’t come “home” to my house. She knew she needed support to move forward in her life.   

We discuss getting pregnant at 16 and how that impacted leaving the foster care system, and how the situation for 6 years has impacted us the next 17 and not in a good way.  She is brave and strong and - yes - I cried.