Jo Bealey is a counsellor, postpartum doula & baby massage instructor. She has a background in well-being and is passionate about creating better mental health for mums. Jo works both online and locally allowing the flexibility for mothers to receive support, with a particular interest in working with birth trauma and postpartum anxiety.

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Kris Emery is a non-fiction book editor for writers, entrepreneurs and speakers who want to extend beyond their current business services and reach more people with their message by self-publishing. With over a decade of working with words for blue-chip companies to bestsellers, Kris guides first-time authors to write a valuable book that they can feel excited to put out in the world.


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Emily is a mother of two and author of the bestselling book Rants in the Dark and Is it Bedtime Yet. She writes about a wide variety of topics, is a fierce activist and uses humour to cope with the challenges of mothering children with disabilities and chronic illness.


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Maddy shares her traumatic first birth story, as well as her healing second birth. Her experience of the impact that different carers have on birth outcomes led her to become a community organiser and she is now Campaign Director for The Parenthood. Parenthood is a community working to make Australia the best place in the world to be a parent. #ParentsUp is their parent-led campaign for better paid parental leave and universal access to childcare.

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Rachael is qualified in culinary arts, and now works as a postpartum doula in Central Pennsylvania. She shares openly about her very challenging pregnancies and postpartum experiences. You'll learn about her successful business and how she has adapted her work to various situations.

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Irena from Slovenia used to be an Attorney but gave it all up to become a nurturer and facilitator. Along with Newborn Mothers Collective, Irena has studied Hypnobirthing, Bowen therapy, childbirth education and baby massage, and now combines it all into caring for mothers and babies not only in pregnancy and childbirth but also during the weeks, months and even years afterwards.

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Heather is from the US but had her first baby in South Korea and was very isolated. Her experience led her to train as a postpartum doula and she now lives in Boston supporting other families having babies away from home. Starting her business has encouraged her to face and overcome some of her own personal struggles with trauma and social anxiety, which has not only improved her business but also her life.

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Trystan was known as the pregnant man and on this podcast, he shares more about the bit after the baby was born. He is warm and open as he shares the challenges and joys along their unique path to becoming a loving family.

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Ria Keller is originally from Germany and now lives in Northern Ireland with her partner and two sons. She started her postpartum business a few years ago but has since moved countries, had a baby and lived through a global pandemic. This has caused her to pivot to offering online postpartum support. We discuss cold water swimming, what it's like having a baby in two very different cultures and the German concept of Zwischen - a time in between.

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Hannah Dahlen is a midwife and academic who has researched and written hundreds of articles on topics including homebirth, freebirth, human rights and birth trauma. On this podcast, I ask her about COVID vaccine safety for people who are pregnant or breastfeeding. You'll learn how vaccines work and what the risks and benefits are.

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