The Heart Next Door

What happens when we lead with love? In this episode of The Heart Next Door’s Future of Maternal Health Roundtable Series, we’re talking about what becomes possible when we come together—not because we have all the answers, but because we care deeply about one another. This is a conversation about the power of people choosing to show up, stand beside one another, and build something better together. Because the village has never just been about resources. It’s about love. It’s the person who says, “I see you.”

The provider who takes an extra moment to listen.
The organization that opens its doors.
The advocate who keeps showing up.
The community that reminds a mother she doesn’t have to carry it all alone.When we choose to collaborate, we’re choosing to care for one another in a bigger way.

In this conversation, we invite you to think about what it means to:

🤍 Listen with compassion
🤍 Make room for one another
🤍 Share what we have
🤍 Lift each other up
🤍 And build a village where every mother and family feels seen, supported, and loved

At The Heart Next Door, we believe no mother should have to navigate pregnancy, birth, or postpartum alone.And we believe the future of maternal health isn’t only about changing systems.It’s about changing how we show up for each other.

So as you listen, we hope you’ll ask yourself:How can I love my village a little better?Because real change can start with something as simple—and as powerful—as showing up.

Real stories. Real connection. Real love.Thank you for being here.

Thank you for listening. 🤍

The dads are in the building this month and the conversation is going to be GOOD!! 🔥 On Tuesday, June 30th at 7pm EST, The Heart Next Door hosted Session 4 of our Future of Maternal Health Roundtable. In honor of Father's Day, We're bringing together a powerhouse panel of fathers, innovators, healthcare leaders, and maternal wellness experts to talk about what it really takes for families to thrive.

Because maternal health isn't just about mothers. 
It's about the partners who advocate.
The fathers who show up. The communities that support.
And the leaders working to create a future where every mother makes it home.

Featured Panelists:

✨ Alex D. Tremble, Founder & CEO, GPS Leadership Solutions, bestselling author, leadership expert, and father helping organizations create cultures built on trust, accountability, and growth.

✨ Dr. James A. Washington III., Project Director at Morehouse School of Medicine, minister-scientist, AI innovator, and workforce development leader advancing ethical technology, community health, and intergenerational impact.

✨ Shardae Herriford, M.Sc, Perinatal Wellness Specialist, Founder of The Baby Bond, Full Spectrum Doula, Childbirth Educator, and maternal health advocate dedicated to improving outcomes for parents and babies.

This is Episode 3 of our Future of Maternal Health Roundtable series, and this conversation is bringing together maternal health leaders across the U.S. with a global perspective because the future of maternal health will require ALL of us.

May is a month where we honor mothers, doulas, midwives, and Memorial Day… but we also have to sit with the truth:

🚨Nearly 1 in 5 birthing people experience a maternal mental health condition like postpartum depression or anxiety, yet most go undiagnosed or untreated. Why are mothers still falling through the cracks in a world full of people who love them?

In this session, we’ll unpack it together with the voices of leaders who are actively working to solve it.

The Future of Maternal Health Roundtable Series | Episode 3

🗓 Tuesday, May 26th at 7pm EST
🎙 Session Topic: “The Invisible Weight: Maternal Mental Health, Community Support & the Village That Heals” 

🔥 Your panelists:

Angelene Love-Adams - Full-spectrum doula, lactation specialist & co-owner of Wrapped in Love Doula & Lactation Services. Doing frontline work to reduce Black and Brown maternal mortality in Michigan through culturally rooted care and birthworker development.

Joycelina Imafidon, DrPH, MPH, MA - Maternal health policy expert based in Atlanta with a DrPH from University of Alabama at Birmingham and MPH from UCLA. Her work spans the U.S. and West Africa, centering community healing and mental health for Black women and families of color.

Veronica Brown, FNP-C, MSN - Owner of The Wellness Lounge in Canton, Michigan and Family Nurse Practitioner with 15+ years in women's health, sexual wellness, and holistic postpartum care. She brings the conversations most people avoid.

In this powerful episode of The Heart Next Door Podcast, I sit down with award-winning Self-Leadership Expert and Core Energy Coach Vanessa Pereira for a heartfelt conversation about identity, emotional wellness, and what it means to reclaim yourself without guilt.

Together, we explore the cycles of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and over-performing that keep so many women disconnected from themselves—and how learning to lead yourself with compassion can transform your health, your relationships, and your life.

At The Heart Next Door, we believe maternal health is about more than pregnancy and postpartum. It's about caring for the whole woman, mind, body, and spirit, because when women are well, families and communities are stronger.

If you've been pouring from an empty cup, this conversation is your invitation to pause, breathe, and remember that you deserve the same care you so freely give to everyone else. Your cup matters, too.

Schedule a free call with Vanessa at https://calendly.com/feel-that-shift/...

Learn more about The Heart Next Door at https://heartnextdoor.com/

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Pregnancy changes everything—but too often, mothers are sent home with little guidance on what warning signs to watch for, how to advocate for themselves, and how to navigate recovery after birth. In this powerful episode of The Heart Next Door Podcast, Terranie Clarke sits down with Dr. Lahnor Powell, Naturopathic Doctor, doula, public health advocate, and founder of Love and Lullabies, to discuss how preparation can transform pregnancy and postpartum outcomes. Drawing from her expertise in women's health, clinical nutrition, functional medicine, and maternal education, Dr. Powell shares practical strategies for supporting the body before, during, and after birth. Together, we explore maternal advocacy, recognizing warning signs, holistic wellness approaches, postpartum recovery, and why every mother deserves tools that help her stay informed and empowered. We also introduce My Pregnancy Journal—a clinician-designed pregnancy and postpartum journal created to help mothers track symptoms, vital signs, fetal movement, recovery milestones, questions for providers, and more. Think of it as having a doula in your pocket. Whether you're expecting, postpartum, supporting a loved one, or passionate about improving maternal health, this conversation offers actionable insights that could make all the difference. Because preparation isn't just about birth—it's about helping mothers make it home safely. Listen now and join the movement to build a future where no mother dies giving life. To learn more about Dr. Lahnor Powell visit https://okanacare.com/ To learn more about The Heart next Door visit https://heartnextdoor.com/

In this episode, I sit down with Marta Spirk — triplet mom, TEDx speaker, best-selling author, professional singer, and speaking coach — for a powerful conversation about motherhood, identity, entrepreneurship, and the courage it takes to use your voice.

After leaving Brazil to start a new life in the United States with her American husband, Marta navigated motherhood far away from the support system she once knew. Her journey into becoming a mother to triplets, while building a business and finding her voice, is both deeply moving and incredibly inspiring.

Together, we talk about the power of storytelling, what it means to truly be seen and heard, and how women can transform their lived experiences into impact, influence, and income. Marta also shares how she helps women entrepreneurs craft signature talks that not only move audiences—but open doors.

This conversation is for every woman who has ever questioned whether her story mattered enough to share.

Spoiler: it does.

To connect with Marta visit: https://www.martaspirk.com/

To join The Heart Next Door visit: https://heartnextdoor.com/

You answered the texts.
You made the appointments.
You held the baby and the budget.
You ran the meeting AND remembered the pediatrician appointment.
You made it all look easy.
Now name one thing you did for you this week. 🤔 

Here's the part nobody is saying out loud: The chronic stress, unresolved trauma, and burnout women carry in our bodies show up as hypertension, heart disease, and the comorbidities that contribute to maternal mortality in this country. We cannot heal mothers in a system that breaks the women who serve them. And we cannot ask mothers to thrive while we're also carrying the weight of generations. For this episode we down with three women who have devoted their work to changing that.

✨ Lorin Burke MS LPC, NCC — founder of The Village: A Space for Healing. Lorin is a maternal mental health specialist and licensed therapist who helps women regulate their nervous systems and reconnect with who they are beyond their roles. Her work feels like a deep exhale.

✨ Michal Renee', RCP, NBCHWC — founder of Her Promise Circle and a critical care respiratory therapist with over a decade in the hospital. Michal builds faith-integrated wellness frameworks that prevent crisis before it begins. She is one of the most clinically rigorous and spiritually grounded voices in this work.

✨ Ashley Burton-Mims — certified postpartum doula and founder of Emerald & Rose Consulting. Ashley helps individuals and organizations navigate burnout with research-backed strategies, with a deep commitment to women and gender-expansive people of color. Her tagline says it all: burn bright, not out. And I'll be there as your host — bringing this conversation home to the mothers and maternal leaders we serve every day at The Heart Next Door.

This is for the women who believe mothers deserve more than survival — and who are building that future alongside us. If you are a mother running on fumes, this is for you. If you are a doula, midwife, lactation consultant, therapist, or birthworker pouring out daily, this is especially for you. If you love a woman who is doing too much, bring her with you.

Learn more about this series at heartnextdoor.com 🤍
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The maternal health system isn’t broken because people don’t care.​It’s broken because the people who care the most have never been in the same room.​

Mothers navigating pregnancy alone. 

Birthworkers doing sacred work in isolation.

Advocates fighting for change without the community to sustain them.

Providers who want to do more — but can’t do it alone.​

Fragmented.

Disconnected.

And costing lives.​

But what happens when we come together?​

What happens when love meets innovation — when the women closest to this work finally have the infrastructure, the community, and the platform to move as one?

​✨ Outcomes change.

​That’s not just a vision statement.​That’s what we’re building.​The Heart Next Door exists to transform isolated, fragmented maternal care into a connected ecosystem where:

​🤍 Every mother is held
🤍 Every birthworker is supported
🤍 Innovation amplifies the love that was always there​This International Women's Month on March 31st, we’re bringing the community together to start that conversation out loud.​

WHAT YOU WILL WALK AWAY WITH​

This isn’t a panel where people say the right things and go home.​You will leave this session with:​

✨ A clear picture of where maternal health is heading — and exactly where you fit inside it
​🛠 Concrete strategies to grow, sustain, and scale your practice or community in 2026​
🌱 A new framework for moving maternal care from fragmented to connected — and the tools to start applying it immediately​
🤝 Real relationships with the moms, birthworkers, advocates, and leaders building this future alongside you​
💫 And the feeling of finally being in the right room​This is not a webinar.​This is the ecosystem coming to life.​Come as you are.
Bring your story.​Leave with the strategies, connections, and community to change what maternal care looks like — starting now.​

🌹 Reserve your seat. The village is waiting.

https://heartnextdoor.com/webinar

In this special episode of The Heart Next Door Podcast, we sit down with Adrian Night, founder of Pace My Energy, to explore how integrative medicine, community, and systems thinking intersect in the future of maternal health.

With a background in naturopathic and integrative medicine, Adrian brings a perspective that challenges how we define care—and what it actually means to support mothers in a way that is continuous, accessible, and human-centered.

Together, we explore:

✨What integrative medicine can teach us about maternal health
✨The role of community and continuity in real support
✨Where modern systems fall short—and where they can evolve
✨How technology, behavior, and lived experience can work together to improve outcomes

This conversation is expansive, grounding, and deeply relevant for anyone building in maternal health.

✨ This episode is part of our lead-up to The Future of Maternal Health — National Roundtable Series, where we’re bringing together leaders across care, community, and innovation to shape what comes next.

To learn more about Adrian and his work visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-night/

To learn more about The Heart Next Door visit https://heartnextdoor.com/ #healthcare #maternalhealth #naturopathicmedicine

Maternal health is often discussed through a clinical lens—but the truth is that the wellbeing of mothers is deeply connected to something much broader: health, financial security, and self-worth.

In this episode of The Heart Next Door Podcast, I sit down with Nancy Griffin, CFP, EPC, founder of Women, Worth & Wellness, to explore the powerful relationship between women’s health, wealth, and leadership.

Nancy has spent decades helping women understand that true wellbeing requires more than financial planning—it requires aligning health, wealth, and self-worth so women can lead meaningful, impactful lives. 

Together we discuss:

• Why women often carry disproportionate responsibility for family health and wellbeing
• How financial empowerment and maternal health are deeply connected
• Why caring for mothers is an investment in families, communities, and future generations
• How generosity, leadership, and legacy shape the future for women

This conversation is a reminder that maternal health isn’t just a healthcare issue—it’s an economic, social, and leadership issue.

Because when mothers thrive, families thrive. And when families thrive, communities do too.

To learn more about Nancy visit https://womenworthwellness.com

To learn more about The Heart Next Door visit https://heartnextdoor.com/