Birthworker Podcast — The Business Podcast for Doula Entrepreneurs

Ready to completely up-level your ability to advocate for your doula clients by learning this ONE THING?

In this episode, Dr. Kirstin Small and I will be talking about the widespread use of fetal monitoring in pregnancy and labor, and why it doesn’t line up with the evidence.

The systems of power in obstetrics use cherry-picked evidence to push procedures/practices (like fetal monitoring) that benefit them financially, and protect them from litigation. If they aren’t sharing the WHOLE truth of what the evidence says…it makes you scratch your head and ask, “Who is really benefiting the most here?”

Dr. Kristin Small is a retired specialist obstetrician and gynecologist. She currently works as an educator, writer, and researcher. She strives to promote and protect respectful maternity care for women, babies, families, and their care providers through education and research. Dr. Small has performed extensive research on Central Fetal Monitoring for her PhD, and continues her research today.

If you want to be able to advocate for your clients when they need you the most, then you wanna listen up!

Visit Dr. Kirstin Small’s website: https://birthsmalltalk.com 

Resources mentioned:

>> Dr. Small’s Doctoral Thesis: Social Organisation of the Work of Maternity Clinicians Related to a Central Fetal Monitoring System

Ready to turn your passion for birth into a crazy successful doula career? I’ve got you. Click here and join me inside Birthworker Academy.

Check out this episode’s full show notes or read the transcript at www.birthworker.com/19 or follow along over on Instagram @theautonomymommy or @birthworkerpodcast

If this episode lights you up, I’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I’ll send you a little surprise as a thank you.

Your feedback helps this podcast grow and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

 
Additional Resources You'll LOVE...

If you're not a doula yet, but you're feeling the call to birthwork... download my FREE Birthwork Blueprint E-book for aspiring doulas!

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram at @birthworkerpodcast for more. 

If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. 

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Dear doulas, it’s okay to do this work for money…and it’s okay to make a lot of money doing it. 

It’s about damn time we tended to this money-wound that is running rampant in birthwork… It’s time we help each other make more money, so we can serve more women, support our families, and not burn out in the process!

Today I’m sharing The Simple Framework to Mind-Blowing Success as a Doula.

And - spoiler alert - it has nothing to do with birth, and everything to do with overcoming your fear of investing in yourself. 

If you’ve been wondering how to achieve your business goals faster, with less stress, and have a whole lot more fun doing it, then get out a pen and paper, this episode is for you.

Press play so you can learn how to grow your business to a level you’ve only ever dreamed about. 

Resources mentioned:

>> Click here to join the Birthworker Membership!

Ready to turn your passion for birth into a crazy successful doula career? I’ve got you. Click here and join me inside Birthworker Academy.

Check out this episode’s full show notes or read the transcript at www.birthworker.com/18 or follow along over on Instagram @theautonomymommy or @birthworkerpodcast

If this episode lights you up, I’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I’ll send you a little surprise as a thank you.

Your feedback helps this podcast grow and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

 
Additional Resources You'll LOVE...

If you're not a doula yet, but you're feeling the call to birthwork... download my FREE Birthwork Blueprint E-book for aspiring doulas!

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram at @birthworkerpodcast for more. 

If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. 

Your feedback helps this podcast grow, and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

How many birth-related certifications will you need to feel like you’re “good enough?”

I see too many doulas slip into the self-limiting mindset of “I’m not good enough…” or “I don’t have enough knowledge yet…” and I’m really over it. 

So, if you’ve been wondering how to leave your self-limiting beliefs behind, then get out a pen and paper, this episode is for you.

And if you’re tired of feeling like you’re not enough, then you wanna listen up!

Resources mentioned:

>> Jump on the waitlist for the Birthworker Membership! Our business-focused coaching program for birthworkers who are ready to take their business to the next level.

Ready to turn your passion for birth into a crazy successful doula career? I’ve got you. Click here and join me inside Birthworker Academy.

Check out this episode’s full show notes or read the transcript at www.birthworker.com/17 or follow along over on Instagram @theautonomymommy or @birthworkerpodcast

If this episode lights you up, I’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I’ll send you a little surprise as a thank you.

Your feedback helps this podcast grow and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

 
Additional Resources You'll LOVE...

If you're not a doula yet, but you're feeling the call to birthwork... download my FREE Birthwork Blueprint E-book for aspiring doulas!

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram at @birthworkerpodcast for more. 

If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. 

Your feedback helps this podcast grow, and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

Have you thought about what you’re going to do when you reach the point where you can’t be on call anymore?

If you’ve been wondering how to sustain your doula career through motherhood, vacations, and well, just life…then get out a pen and paper, this episode is for you.

Being on call can be extremely challenging during certain seasons of life…and what many doulas don’t realize in time (before they abandon ship) is that there are sooooo many facets to birth work beyond supporting births in person!

Press play so you can learn how to have a fulfilling, burnout-proof career in the birth world without sacrificing your lifestyle.

Resources mentioned:

>> Jump on the waitlist for the Birthworker Membership! Our business-focused coaching program for birthworkers who are ready to take their business to the next level.

Check out this episode’s full show notes or read the transcript at www.birthworker.com/16 or follow along over on Instagram @theautonomymommy or @birthworkerpodcast

If this episode lights you up, I’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I’ll send you a little surprise as a thank you.

Your feedback helps this podcast grow and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

 
Additional Resources You'll LOVE...

If you're not a doula yet, but you're feeling the call to birthwork... download my FREE Birthwork Blueprint E-book for aspiring doulas!

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram at @birthworkerpodcast for more. 

If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. 

Your feedback helps this podcast grow, and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

What if I told you there is a way to impact 10x more clients than you could physically serve in the entire lifespan of your doula business? 

If you’ve been wondering how to build a sustainable online birth course, then get out a pen and paper, this episode is for you.

Launching a course can seem really daunting… but I promise it doesn’t have to be. In this episode, I’m going to let you in on my practical, 7-phase process to successfully launching an online birth course.

If you’re tired of thinking about making a birth course and just want to FREAKING do it already… then you’re gonna want to press play, now o’clock. 

Resources mentioned:

>> Jump on the waitlist for the Birthworker Membership here www.birthworker.com/join 

>> Get all of my tech and tools for free here https://www.birthworker.com/tools 

Ready to turn your passion for birth into a crazy successful doula career? I’ve got you. Click here and join me inside Birthworker Academy.

Check out this episode’s full show notes or read the transcript at www.birthworker.com/15 or follow along over on Instagram @theautonomymommy or @birthworkerpodcast

If this episode lights you up, I’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I’ll send you a little surprise as a thank you.

Your feedback helps this podcast grow and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

 
Additional Resources You'll LOVE...

If you're not a doula yet, but you're feeling the call to birthwork... download my FREE Birthwork Blueprint E-book for aspiring doulas!

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram at @birthworkerpodcast for more. 

If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. 

Your feedback helps this podcast grow, and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

Are you sick of being on the dreaded content-creation-hamster-wheel? Turns out, there’s a way to make your life a whole lot easier…

If you’ve been wondering how to sustainably run your doula business’s social media, then get out a pen and paper, this episode is for you.

Creating original social media content can be TOUGH. Especially when you want to put out content every. single. day. But I’m here to tell you… it doesn’t need to be so hard. You can make your social media experience seamless and pain-free by implementing the “batching” technique.

Press play so you can stop feeling so overwhelmed and implement the six steps to Instagram batching.

Resources mentioned:

>> Airtable: www.birthworker.com/airtable

>> Get all of my tech and tools for free here www.birthworker.com/tool

Ready to turn your passion for birth into a crazy successful doula career? I’ve got you. Click here and join me inside Birthworker Academy.

Check out this episode’s full show notes or read the transcript at www.birthworker.com/xyz or follow along over on Instagram @theautonomymommy or @birthworkerpodcast

If this episode lights you up, I’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I’ll send you a little surprise as a thank you.

Your feedback helps this podcast grow and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

 
Additional Resources You'll LOVE...

If you're not a doula yet, but you're feeling the call to birthwork... download my FREE Birthwork Blueprint E-book for aspiring doulas!

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram at @birthworkerpodcast for more. 

If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. 

Your feedback helps this podcast grow, and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

Did you know that exercise can positively impact your doula clients’ births BEYOND just the physical stuff?

In this episode, Emily Stanwyck and I will be talking about all the (not so obvious) ways doulas can approach the fitness conversion with their clients.

Committing to fitness can be tricky during and after pregnancy, and it’s easy to want to avoid it altogether… but it’d be a disservice to your doula clients to not talk about the benefits consistent movement has on the entire perinatal period. 

Emily Stanwyck is a mom, wife, birth doula, birth educator, and BIRTHFIT Leader. She began her journey into the birth world through fitness as a BIRTHFIT Coach. Through her work with moms in the gym, she began educating herself and attending births as a doula. 

She has attended many births over the past 7 years, but nothing gave her a greater insight into the birth world than diving head first into her own experience through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum in 2018. 

To put it lightly… Emily is kicking ass in the birth community.

Press play so you can learn how to help your doula clients have an active pregnancy without them dreading every second of exercise.

Follow Emily Stanwyck on Instagram @emilystanwyck

Visit Emily’s website: www.emilystanwyck.com 

Resources mentioned:

>> BIRTHFIT: https://birthfit.com/ 

>> Learn more about Digital Course Academy here.

Ready to turn your passion for birth into a crazy successful doula career? I’ve got you. Click here and join me inside Birthworker Academy.

Check out this episode’s full show notes or read the transcript at www.birthworker.com/13 or follow along over on Instagram @theautonomymommy or @birthworkerpodcast

If this episode lights you up, I’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I’ll send you a little surprise as a thank you.

Your feedback helps this podcast grow and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

 
Additional Resources You'll LOVE...

If you're not a doula yet, but you're feeling the call to birthwork... download my FREE Birthwork Blueprint E-book for aspiring doulas!

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram at @birthworkerpodcast for more. 

If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. 

Your feedback helps this podcast grow, and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

Hey birthworkers, how far will you let the hospital system push you? When will you decide to make a better path for yourself and your clients?

The process of becoming an OBGYN is long and hard… and it’s easy to get used to the systems of authority, but working the hopital isn’t the “only way.” Nathan shares the story of his career from med school all the way through to putting in his two weeks as a hospital OBGYN. Nathan is *literally* changing the landscape of women’s healthcare outside of the traditional medical system. 

In this episode, Nathan Riley and I will be talking about supporting moms both inside and outside of the hospital system.

Nathan Riley lives in Louisville, Kentucky. He is an OBGYN, ACOG, works as a hospice physician, and has a telehealth practice: belovedholistics.com. 

He also runs a collaborator program for independent midwives, doulas, and other healthcare professionals, which is where he invests the vast majority of his time. In this program, he provides one-on-one consultations, peer reviews, orders meds, labs, imaging and more. 

Press play if you’re tired of hospitals not putting mothers first.

Follow Nathan Riley on Instagram @nathanrileyobgyn

Visit Nathan’s website: www.belovedholistics.com 

Resources mentioned:

>> Sign up for the free class about creating online courses!
>> Indie Birth Sanctuary: https://indiebirthsanctuary.org/
>> Beloved Holistics Collaborator Program: https://www.belovedholistics.com/collaborate 

Download the free resource: "12 ways to make money as a birthworker without being on call 24/7".

Ready to turn your passion for birth into a crazy successful doula career? I’ve got you. Click here and join me inside Birthworker Academy.

Check out this episode’s full show notes or read the transcript at www.birthworker.com/12 or follow along over on Instagram @theautonomymommy or @birthworkerpodcast

If this episode lights you up, I’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I’ll send you a little surprise as a thank you.

Your feedback helps this podcast grow and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

 
Additional Resources You'll LOVE...

If you're not a doula yet, but you're feeling the call to birthwork... download my FREE Birthwork Blueprint E-book for aspiring doulas!

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram at @birthworkerpodcast for more. 

If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. 

Your feedback helps this podcast grow, and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

Have you been dreaming of growing your doula business to $10k months using just your Instagram? 

If you’ve been wondering how to build a wildly successful doula business online, then get out a pen and paper, this episode is for you.

Get ready to look beyond your “follower count” and dive into something that matters a heck of a lot more when it comes to making money online. 

That’s right, we are diving into advanced business strategies!

And I’m sharing the exact steps I would take to make $10k a month as a birthworker if I had to start from scratch today.

If you’re tired of stressing out over your Instagram following, then you wanna listen up!

Resources mentioned:

>> Join me inside Amy’s Porterfield’s $ 47 course-creation bootcamp!: www.birthworker.com/bootcamp

>> {FREE GUIDE} Learn 12 ways to make money using your Instagram account!

Ready to turn your passion for birth into a crazy successful doula career? I’ve got you. Click here and join me inside Birthworker Academy.

Check out this episode’s full show notes or read the transcript at www.birthworker.com/11 or follow along over on Instagram @theautonomymommy or @birthworkerpodcast

If this episode lights you up, I’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I’ll send you a little surprise as a thank you.

Your feedback helps this podcast grow and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

 
Additional Resources You'll LOVE...

If you're not a doula yet, but you're feeling the call to birthwork... download my FREE Birthwork Blueprint E-book for aspiring doulas!

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram at @birthworkerpodcast for more. 

If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. 

Your feedback helps this podcast grow, and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

Wanna know all of my secrets to growing my Instagram from zero to 30,000 followers in less than 2 years?! 

If you’ve been wondering how to get a real grip on your Instagram strategy, then get out a pen and paper and grab some popcorn, this episode is for you.

Instagram is a lovely tool, and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. However, just like any other marketing tool, there are right and wrong ways to use it. I am here to guide you down the yellow brick road and take you to emerald city…AKA cash in your pocket. 

If you’re tired of not seeing results with your Instagram page, then you wanna listen up!

Resources Mentioned:

>> Check out my mentor, Amy Porterfield

Ready to turn your passion for birth into a crazy successful doula career? I’ve got you. Click here and join me inside Birthworker Academy.

Check out this episode’s full show notes or read the transcript at www.birthworker.com/10 or follow along over on Instagram @theautonomymommy or @birthworkerpodcast

If this episode lights you up, I’d love it if you’d rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I’ll send you a little surprise as a thank you.

Your feedback helps this podcast grow and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!

 
Additional Resources You'll LOVE...

If you're not a doula yet, but you're feeling the call to birthwork... download my FREE Birthwork Blueprint E-book for aspiring doulas!

Don’t forget to follow me on Instagram at @birthworkerpodcast for more. 

If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you’re listening from. 

Your feedback helps this podcast grow, and I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you!