The Birth Geeks' Podcast

Michelle Branco talks with The Birth Geeks about health communications and risk-based language in childbirth education and interactions in pregnancy and early parenting.

In this 5th episode of The Birth Geeks Podcast Hillary chats with social media guru Liz Jostes from Eli Rose Social Media. They chat about the best reason to use social media for your small business marketing strategy, specific tools for better targeting your marketing across platforms and warming up your audience, and why content creation is so important. Liz even shares a few equipment tips and other pearls of serious social media wisdom. As you will hear in the interview, Liz is not only funny but also ridiculously knowledgeable about both social media and how truly tiny businesses work.

In this 4th episode of The Birth Geeks Podcast, Robin interviews Ann Grauer, AdvCD/BDT(DONA), AdvPCD/PDT(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, IBCLC, RLC who celebrates 2019 as her 30th year of working with expectant, birthing and new families. A past president of DONA International (2003-05), Ann created Wisconsin's first hospital-based doula program and has consulted for programs in other states. She trains birth and postpartum doulas through DONA International and Lamaze educators through NYC Lamaze. The 2007 recipient of Lamaze International's prestigious Elisabeth Bing Award. Ann is a mom of two adults and Mamaw to one spirited granddaughter. This episode is full of insights from a seasoned perspective about the childbirth professional path, postpartum doula progress, and why childbirth professionals need to have a more holistic view of our clients.

In this 3rd episode of The Birth Geeks Podcast Hillary interviews Molly Mendota AdvCD/BDT(DONA), LCCE, CLS, SpBCPE. Together they discuss the importance of self-care as a doula and how Hillary tried to skip Molly's lesson about it at a conference! They also talk about different ways that doulas practice, being a doula trainer, and non-profit doula organizations. Molly is a delightfully insightful interviewee who shares her wisdom about ways to make sure we nurture ourselves before we try to nurture other people, and spoiler alert, it doesn't always have to include a fancy spa day!

Last time, you met Robin, but this time, we're going to introduce you to Birth Geek Hillary! She's a wicked smart and funny doula and childbirth educator who brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the podcast. With her background as an anthropologist, she's got a real eye for details that most of us miss on initial observation and she uses her special powers for good.

Of course we wanted to start our podcast with an introduction to who the heck we are! In this episode Hillary interviews Robin Elise Weiss, her fellow Birth Geek so that we can get to know her a little better. Robin was the 20th DONA certified doula (trained by Penny Simkin herself) and is amazingly knowledgeable about all things birth and beyond. She also has some great long-game perspective about changing the birth scene locally and nationally too.

This is a short silly little introduction to our podcast. You can find out more at out website and seriously, we've got some BIG plans coming!