The BIRTHFIT Podcast

Leah Barto is discussing her current role as a mother of two young children, ages six and three and a half. She is in a transitional phase where her kids are no longer babies but still require significant attention. Alongside her parenting duties, Leah works part-time with BirthFit, where she helps develop and oversee their online programs as the company switches to a new platform.

She also continues working as a doula but has scaled back, focusing only on close friends and home births to align with her current priorities. Leah emphasizes how she and her husband have made intentional decisions, based on their family values, to prioritize being present in their children's lives. This has included financial sacrifices and shifting responsibilities so that she can stay home and nurture their children, a role that feels deeply aligned with her heart and purpose.

If you’re interested in optimizing your lifestyle practices, such as fitness and mindset, to align more with your biology, then email us ([email protected]). My team and I would love to work with you to support you on your BIRTHFIT journey. 

In this episode, Lindsey rides solo, discussing the seven foundational lifestyle practices we utilize in all seasons of the motherhood transition. 

Lindsey also shares a personal story of how her birth with her daughter exponentially healed her. 

If you’re interested in optimizing your lifestyle practices, such as fitness and mindset, to align more with your biology, then email us ([email protected]). My team and I would love to work with you to support you on your BIRTHFIT journey. 

🎙️Support the BIRTHFIT Podcast: https://nonprofit.birthfit.com

💪 Looking for general strength and conditioning programming designed for women in all seasons of life? Join our B! Community membership: https://birthfit.com/b-community

🤰Looking for a Prenatal Exercise Program to fit your modern lifestyle and biological needs? Six ways to support your pregnancy: https://birthfit.com/b-prenatal

🤱Do you have a desire to rehab your core and pelvic floor intentionally? We're here to support you: https://birthfit.com/b-postpartum

📚Want to learn how to coach pregnant and postpartum women? The BIRTHFIT Coach Course is the only holistic, nervous system-focused, functional training certification for women in the motherhood transition. Join the waitlist: https://birthfit.com/become-a-coach

Thomas P. Seager, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering & the Built Environment at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.  He has authored over 150 scientific articles, you can read more about his work on human resilience, personal psychology, and entrepreneurship at his personal blog.

In this episode, Lindsey and Thomas discuss the benefits of the cold plunge relating to metabolic health and preparing for conception, birthing in the cold, newborns and cold, and even postpartum and cold.    Thomas recently published the first limited edition of Uncommon Cold: The Science & Experience of Cold Plunge Therapy.  The first printing is sold out, but an updated second edition will be available on Amazon in the summer of 2024.

🎙️Support the BIRTHFIT Podcast:https://nonprofit.birthfit.com/

💪 Looking for general strength and conditioning programming designed for women in all seasons of life? Join our B! Community membership: https://birthfit.com/b-community

🤰Looking for a Prenatal Exercise Program to fit your modern lifestyle and biological needs? Six ways to support your pregnancy: https://birthfit.com/b-prenatal

🤱Do you have a desire to rehab your core and pelvic floor intentionally? We're here to support you: https://birthfit.com/b-postpartum

📚Want to learn how to coach pregnant and postpartum women? The BIRTHFIT Coach Course is the only holistic, nervous system-focused, functional training certification for women in the motherhood transition. Join the waitlist: https://birthfit.com/become-a-coach

Heard about tongue ties? Well, this is a whole new perspective. Dr. Neel works with some of the leading doctors, and oftentimes, they seek his opinion before a tie release! In this episode, Dr. Lindsey and Dr. Neel get into embryonic development, tongue ties, DRA, pelvic floor, and his upcoming course!

🎙️Support the BIRTHFIT Podcast:https://nonprofit.birthfit.com/

💪 Looking for general strength and conditioning programming designed for women in all seasons of life? Join our B! Community membership: https://birthfit.com/b-community

🤰Looking for a Prenatal Exercise Program to fit your modern lifestyle and biological needs? Six ways to support your pregnancy: https://birthfit.com/b-prenatal

🤱Do you have a desire to rehab your core and pelvic floor intentionally? We're here to support you: https://birthfit.com/b-postpartum

📚Want to learn more? Check out Dr. Neel’s COURSE.

In this episode, Dr. Lindsey discusses the nervous system with the bold and beautiful Dr. Scherina of IWC out of Orlando, FL. Dr. Scherina is a phenomenal Network Chiropractor specializing in moms, babies, and the whole family. She puts out a ton of legit content on social and delivers excellent care to all that come through her office doors. Dr. Scherina is a living legend in the chiropractic community.

CONNECT with Dr. Scherina:

Website: https://www.drscherina.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drscherina/?hl=en

🎙️Support the BIRTHFIT Podcast:https://nonprofit.birthfit.com/

💪 Looking for general strength and conditioning programming designed for women in all seasons of life? Join our B! Community membership: https://birthfit.com/b-community

🤰Looking for a Prenatal Exercise Program to fit your modern lifestyle and biological needs? Six ways to support your pregnancy: https://birthfit.com/b-prenatal

🤱Do you have a desire to rehab your core and pelvic floor intentionally? We're here to support you: https://birthfit.com/b-postpartum

📚Want to learn how to coach pregnant and postpartum women? The BIRTHFIT Coach Course is the only holistic, nervous system-focused, functional training certification for women in the motherhood transition. Join the waitlist: https://birthfit.com/become-a-coach

In this episode, Dr. Lindsey shares her experience in taking Dr. Alyssa’s course called Thriving Foundations. Dr. Lindsey shares how she started to introduce solids to her baby girl around 7.5 months and how the Thriving Foundations course gave her confidence. Dr. Alyssa, the pharmacist, shifted and listened to God’s calling to create a course while raising 3 boys of her own. She wanted something straight to the point and digestible as far as information goes for introducing solids to your little one.

CONNECT with Dr. Alyssa:

Website: https://thrivingfoundations.org/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thrivingfoundations/?hl=en 

Dr. Alyssa's offer: FREE Holistic Baby-Led Weaning® guide: https://thrivingfoundations.org/blw-free-guide

🎙️Support the BIRTHFIT Podcast: https://nonprofit.birthfit.com/

💪 Looking for general strength and conditioning programming designed for women in all seasons of life? Join our B! Community membership: https://birthfit.com/b-community

🤰Looking for a Prenatal Exercise Program to fit your modern lifestyle and biological needs? Six ways to support your pregnancy: https://birthfit.com/b-prenatal

🤱Do you have a desire to rehab your core and pelvic floor intentionally? We're here to support you: https://birthfit.com/b-postpartum

📚Want to learn how to coach pregnant and postpartum women? The BIRTHFIT Coach Course is the only holistic, nervous system-focused, functional training certification for women in the motherhood transition. Join the waitlist: https://birthfit.com/become-a-coach

Dr. Lindsey interviews Dr. Cleopatra in this intimate, soul-fully connected episode. Dr. Cleopatra is a scientist and tenured USC professor who pioneered the field of fertility biohacking and creating super babies. To date, Dr. Cleopatra has scientifically studied tens of thousands of women and families, and has helped women in 23 countries on 6 continents have their super babies. She has created what is called the PRIMESTER program, which you can find directly from her website- https://fertilitypregnancy.org/. If you are someone who is 35 years or older and trying to conceive, this episode is a MUST!

CONNECT with Dr. Cleopatra:

Website: https://fertilitypregnancy.org/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doctorcleopatra/  Dr. Cleopatra's Offer: https://fertilitypregnancy.org/checklist-fertility-supplement-tips-to-reduce-miscarriage-risk/

🎙️Support the BIRTHFIT Podcast:https://nonprofit.birthfit.com/

💪 Looking for general strength and conditioning programming designed for women in all seasons of life? Join our B! Community membership: https://birthfit.com/b-community

🤰Looking for a Prenatal Exercise Program to fit your modern lifestyle and biological needs? Six ways to support your pregnancy: https://birthfit.com/b-prenatal

🤱Do you have a desire to rehab your core and pelvic floor intentionally? We're here to support you: https://birthfit.com/b-postpartum

📚Want to learn how to coach pregnant and postpartum women? The BIRTHFIT Coach Course is the only holistic, nervous system-focused, functional training certification for women in the motherhood transition. Join the waitlist: https://birthfit.com/become-a-coach

In this short episode, Lindsey shares a bit on belief and trust and how to cultivate trust within our bodies. She shares her daily prayers that she did daily throughout pregnancy. Lindsey believes that every woman can have the birth that she truly desires, but the action around making that happens starts long before labor starts.

🎙️Support the BIRTHFIT Podcast: https://nonprofit.birthfit.com/support

💪 Looking for a general strength and conditioning programming designed for women in all seasons of life? Join our B! Community membership: https://birthfit.com/b-community

🤰Looking for a Prenatal Exercise Program to fit your modern lifestyle and biological needs? Discover six ways to support your pregnancy: https://birthfit.com/b-prenatal

🤱Do you have a desire to rehab your core and pelvic floor intentionally? We're here to support you: https://birthfit.com/b-postpartum

📚Want to learn how to coach pregnant and postpartum women? The BIRTHFIT Coach Course is the only holistic, nervous system-focused, functional training certification for women in the motherhood transition. Join the waitlist: https://birthfit.com/become-a-coach

Anisa Woodall is a holistically-minded Certified Nutritionist and natural mama of 2 adventurous boys living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Her life's purpose is to inspire and educate women to live, eat and move with intention and confidence so they can create the family of their dreams and thrive along the journey.

In this episode, Lindsey gets right to the point with pre-submitted questions from our BIRTHFIT Community (via Instagram and our monthly membership). Anisa shares her preconception wisdom as she answers questions about PCOS, Endometriosis, age, egg quality, and an animal based diet.

Anisa is all about identifying and addressing the “smoke” before your “house is burning down” and has a keen ability to listen and pinpoint areas of improvement that helps her clients heal and improve faster.  

Many of you have reached out asking Lindsey to make a preconception program…Well, this is her top recommendation. Pair Anisa’s Resilient Motherhood course with our B! Community Monthly Membership and you have a beautiful, nutrient dense preconception plan with movement!

✨ Resilient Motherhood Course: https://anisawoodall.lpages.co/masterclass/?affiliate=birthfit

🎙️Support the BIRTHFIT Podcast: https://nonprofit.birthfit.com/support

💪 Looking for a general strength and conditioning programming designed for women in all seasons of life? Join our B! Community membership: https://birthfit.com/b-community

🤰Looking for a Prenatal Exercise Program to fit your modern lifestyle and biological needs? Discover six ways to support your pregnancy: https://birthfit.com/b-prenatal

🤱Do you have a desire to rehab your core and pelvic floor intentionally? We're here to support you: https://birthfit.com/b-postpartum

📚Want to learn how to coach pregnant and postpartum women? The BIRTHFIT Coach Course is the only holistic, nervous system-focused, functional training certification for women in the motherhood transition. Join the waitlist: https://birthfit.com/become-a-coach

Diane Lee is a physiotherapist in Canada. She specializes in manual therapy focusing on prenatal and postpartum women. Lindsey discovered some of her research contributions when she was looking for research on Diastasis Recti Abdominis (DRA). Diane has studied DRA extensively. She has determined that IRD (Inter Recti Distance) does not matter when assessing DRA. Diane states that depth tells the story of functionality.

If you’re at all interested in DRA (and prolapse), this episode is a must listen! 

A bit on Diane…She graduated with distinction from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor degree in the Science of Rehabilitation in 1976. She has been a member of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association since 1976 and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Therapy since 1981 (FCAMT). She completed  certification in Intramuscular Stimulation (IMS) in 2001, Yoga teacher training in 2012, pelvic floor certification in 2013 and was recognized by the Canadian Physiotherapy Association as a clinical specialist in Woman’s Health in 2016. She is well published (books, chapters and journal articles) and the innovator of two pelvic support belts for which she holds the patent; The Com-Pressor and the Baby Belly Pelvic Support (www.babybellypelvicsupport.com). Diane owns, directs and is a practicing physiotherapist at Diane Lee & Associates (http://www.dianeleephysio.com). She has continued to maintain an on-going clinical practice for over 40 years and while she follows the research evidence closely, she draws from this deep clinical experience for her teaching and lecturing in the clinic, in Canada and internationally.

✨ https://learnwithdianelee.com/team/diane-lee/

🎙️Support the BIRTHFIT Podcast: https://nonprofit.birthfit.com/support

💪 Looking for a general strength and conditioning programming designed for women in all seasons of life? Join our B! Community membership: https://birthfit.com/b-community

🤰Looking for a Prenatal Exercise Program to fit your modern lifestyle and biological needs? Discover six ways to support your pregnancy: https://birthfit.com/b-prenatal

🤱Do you have a desire to rehab your core and pelvic floor intentionally? We're here to support you: https://birthfit.com/b-postpartum

📚Want to learn how to coach pregnant and postpartum women? The BIRTHFIT Coach Course is the only holistic, nervous system-focused, functional training certification for women in the motherhood transition. Join the waitlist: https://birthfit.com/become-a-coach