In this episode I speak with Sharon Robinson. Sharon is originally from the US where she lived mostly in the Southeast. She was a physical therapist living in Georgia when she had her 2 birth children with midwives in South Carolina. A few years after they were born, she felt called to study midwifery herself. After graduating with a Masters Degree in Midwifery from SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn, she and her family went to Cambodia. While in Cambodia, Sharon also worked alongside a Cambodian midwife providing care to some of the pregnant women she met through her work and in the community. After Cambodia, she and her family (then plus one adopted Cambodian son) moved to New Zealand where she hoped she could provide midwifery care in a way that aligned with her calling. She has now practiced midwifery in New Zealand for over 20 years and is a strong advocate for women's choice. She has also traveled quite extensively assisting women with births in Tonga, Mexico and the Amazon Jungle in Peru.

Sharon has recently been diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and she reports being "well." In fact, she says, she is happier than she's been since she was a child.