Robyn Berman is Lead Clinical Midwife at the Ottawa Birth and Wellness Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. Robyn's journey includes paving the way for a birth community as a doula and breastfeeding educator in Halifax, Nova Scotia to deciding to study midwifery at 40 while parenting two young children.

Robyn explains what midwifery care means and how it compares to hospital-based care and her story on becoming a midwife in midlife.

EnPoint founder Chantal Brine describes the experience with mentorship that led to a turning point in her career and an entrepreneurship journey to impact and connect one million people through mentorship. She shared how important it is to ask questions and actually hear the answers, and why mentorship is so important to women, in particular.

Oh Mother! Care Kits founder Nicole Landry on the isolation and loneliness of new motherhood that inspired a business idea and how she manages her expectations as her family and business grow. 

Hillary LeBlanc is a model, blogger, and co-host of the Black in the Maritimes podcast. Hillary shares her story of resilience and finding her identity as she builds a relationship with her African father and explores her identity as a Black woman. She is using the power of her word to advocate for and educate about Black culture and history, particularly in the Maritimes.

Content warning: this episode contains discussion of substance abuse, intergenerational trauma, and sexual assault.

Amanda Rhyno is the founder of Nourished Magnesium, a topical Magnesium-based wellness company.

Amanda shares her own wellness journey and how discovering the benefits of topical magnesium changed the direction of her life from working in the hospitality industry to wellness company founder and the challenges of building a business as a single parent.

Giselle Baumet is an Afro-Latina childbirth educator, a holistic postpartum doula, a trained aromatherapist and herbalist, an energy worker, a lactation educator, a hypnotherapist, women's life coach, CPR instructor, and perinatal mental health specialist AND a mother of four. Giselle shares her path to educating and coaching connection-based positive parenting solutions through inner child self-healing.

How a simple text exchange between Deanne Fitzpatrick, host of the Create Beauty Everyday podcast and April MacKinnon became an explanation of April's business clarity, leadership growth, lessons learned, and leaning into Anointment's niche. 

Amy MacAulay, owner of Embrace Doula, Atlantic Canada's first agency-model postpartum doula mentorship program talks about the increasing demand for postpartum doula support, her shift in focus from birth to postpartum, and her insight on how to create a supportive postpartum plan.

Women need connection. Balance and Burnout coach Wendy McCallum and I tell our personal stories of discovering the need for connection and our experience of building community among women. We discuss why it can be hard to make new connections as we age, and explore ways we can nurture our sense of community as a key to mental wellness, longevity and stress management.

Leadership coach, host of the Mom Is In Control podcast and author of Dying to Be a Good Mother, Heather Chauvin reveals vulnerable truths about womanhood, marriage, parenting, living through stage 4 cancer and running a successful business without burning out.