Free Birth Society
The Free Birth Society Podcast features honest, gripping, inspiring, and transformative freebirth stories hosted by the founder Emilee Saldaya in conversation with wild women worldwide. In the vast tapestry of childbirth experiences, a thread runs undisturbed, unmedicated, and true to its ancestral roots: freebirth. This differs from your usual home birth with doulas or midwives in attendance. Freebirth stands apart, where birthing is solely in the hands of the birthing woman, accompanied only by her intuition, rhythms of nature, witnessed by her family. The Free Birth Podcast invites you to a unique corner of the universe where we dive deep...
S8 E33 · Fri, April 25, 2025
Freebirth in Peru after Placental Abruption
Marta from Poland tells the story of her unique births that are deeply intertwined with the plant medicine work she practices in Peru. Following her intuition, she goes to the hospital and demands to stay, knowing something is wrong. Marta is rushed for an emergency c-section with a full placental abruption. After a year of inner work and healing, Marta chooses to call in another baby, and freebirths her son in Peru. Follow Marta on Instagram @iammartawanderlust https://www.martawanderlust.com/ ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is the most epic space for conscious women! - Get on the waitlist for when doors open next! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ~~~~~ This episode is brought to you by MASA Chips. MASA is part of a growing movement to bring back real food. The kind of food our grandparents ate before Big Food got involved. MASA chips are just three simple ingredients: organic corn, salt, and beef tallow. No seed oils, no fillers, no ultra-processed garbage. When you snack, snack on something real! G
S8 E32 · Fri, April 18, 2025
Becoming the Matriarch Who Freebirths
Today on the podcast, Rosie shares her massive transformation from a people pleasing daughter archetype to a fierce freebirthing wild mother. She shares how her journey was shaped by a difficult family dynamic, to the grief of losing her father, to living on the road with her husband and children during 2020. Rosie shares the birth of her first child in a birth center, her excruciating second birth, and the wild, simple, and innate freebirth of her third child. Follow Rosie on Instagram @rootedritualbrooms ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is the most epic space for conscious women! - Get on the waitlist for when doors open next! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ~~~~~ This episode is brought to you by MASA Chips. MASA is part of a growing movement to bring back real food
S8 E31 · Fri, April 11, 2025
The German Legend and Her 9 Freebirths
On today’s episode, freebirth legend Sarah Schmid shares the story of 10 children, 9 of them being freebirths, several born outside and a set of twins. After a midwife-attended homebirth with interference in her birth, Sarah learned that she was the only one who knew her body, and chose freebirth for her family after that. Sarah tells the epic story of her first freebirth in the forest completely alone, where she fully faced her fears. Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahschmid_alleingeburt https://youtube.com/@sarah_schmid https://www.geburt-in-eigenregie.de/ ✨LAST CALL for 2025’s Radical Birth Keeper School! - The groundbreaking program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work. https://www.freebirthsociety.com/radicalbirthkeeperschool ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is the most epic space for conscious women! - Get on the waitlist for when doors open next! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ~~~~~ This episode is brought to you by MASA Chips. MASA is part of a growing movement to bring back real food. The kind of food our grandparents ate before Big Food got involved. MASA chips are just three simple ingredients: organic corn, salt, and beef tallow. No seed oils, no fillers, no ultra-processed garbage. When you snack, snack on something real! Go to https://masachips.com/discount/FREEBIRTHSOCIETY and use code FREEBIRTHSOCIETY for 20% off your first order! ~~~~~ Whe
S8 E30 · Fri, April 04, 2025
From People Pleasing to Embodiment: Choosing to Birth Alone
Today on the podcast, Abby shares her full 180-degree shift in mindset from being a pawn of the medical system throughout her growing years, to then becoming a wild, embodied mother, birthing her son entirely alone in her bathtub. After a medical midwife sabotaged Abby’s (surprise) breech homebirth with her first son, she decides never again to allow another person to take her power away from her. Abby ditches the victim mindset, takes the Complete Guide to Freebirth, binge-listens to the Free Birth Society Podcast, and claims her path. Follow Abby on Instagram @mamaearthsovereignbirth ✨Doors to the Radical Birth Keeper School are OPEN! - The groundbreaking program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work. https://www.freebirthsociety.com/radicalbirthkeeperschool ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is the most epic space for conscious women! - Get on the waitlist for when doors open next! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - <a href="https://w
S8 E29 · Fri, March 28, 2025
A Finnish Freebirth After Preterm Loss and a Vertical Incision
Today on the podcast, Radical Birth Keeper School graduate, Eveliina shares her three unique birth stories. At 30 weeks with her second child, Eveliina experienced bleeding and was coerced into an “emergency” c-section, leaving her with a painful vertical incision. The death of her daughter woke up Eveliina’s inner mother lion. With Eveliina’s third pregnancy, she had a wild pregnancy and freebirthed her beautiful healthy third daughter at home with her family in Finland. Follow Eveliina on Instagram @vapaasynnytyssuomi ✨Doors to the Radical Birth Keeper School are OPEN! - The groundbreaking program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work. https://www.freebirthsociety.com/radicalbirthkeeperschool ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is the most epic space for conscious women! - Get on the waitlist for when doors open next! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freeb
S8 E28 · Fri, March 21, 2025
The Olive Oil Queen’s Sovereign Birth
Mia, The Olive Oil Queen, shares her sweet story of sovereign birth as a first-time mom, supported by one of our Radical Birth Keeper graduates. Mia’s love of birth first came after witnessing a friend’s psychedelic birth at home where she was able to help care for her friend in her postpartum time. After becoming pregnant herself, Mia walked through her wild pregnancy fighting off negative comments and actualizing the truth of her higher consciousness. Through trust and intuition, she creates her simple, but not easy, dream birth. Follow Mia on Instagram @theoliveoilqueen ✨Doors to the Radical Birth Keeper School are OPEN! - The groundbreaking program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work. https://www.freebirthsociety.com/radicalbirthkeeperschool ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is the most epic space for conscious women! - Get on the waitlist for when doors open next! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - <a href="https://www.youtube.co
S8 E27 · Fri, March 14, 2025
When Freebirth Heals Your Birth Trauma
“I felt like I was in hell.” On today’s episode, Fanika shares the dehumanizing story of the birth of her first baby in a hospital in Florida. From non-consenting vaginal exams to a painful vacuum extraction birth, Fanika left her first birth feeling raped, disillusioned, and disembodied. Robbed of her first birth and devastated to discover she had no legal recourse, Fanika finds the Free Birth Society Podcast, dives into the Complete Guide to Freebirth, and then journeys through The Radical Birth Keeper School in her second pregnancy. The day after graduating from The RBK School, Fanika freebirths her 2nd child in simple bliss. Follow Fanika on Instagram @birthinpower https://www.birthinpower.com/ ✨Doors to the Radical Birth Keeper School are OPEN! - The groundbreaking program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work. https://www.freebirthsociety.com/radicalbirthkeeperschool ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is the most epic space for conscious women! - Get on the waitlist for when doors open next! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?
S8 E26 · Fri, March 07, 2025
From Maiden to Mother: A Radical Birth Keeper’s Rise to Power
Today on the podcast, Kate from Santa Cruz shares the finding of her soul’s calling in sovereign birth-work and how that led to creating a thriving women’s circle community. After graduating from The Radical Birth Keeper School, Kate quickly began attending sovereign births in her community. Tune in to hear the powerful story of a young woman becoming mother, how attending women birthing in power prepared her for her own freebirth, and how she allowed herself to sink into a quick, easeful, psychedelic birth witnessed by her best friend and partner. Follow Kate on Instagram @katyoakley wildflower-woman.com ✨Doors to the Radical Birth Keeper School are OPEN! - The groundbreaking program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work. https://www.freebirthsociety.com/radicalbirthkeeperschool ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is the most epic space for conscious women! - Get on the waitlist for when doors open next! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨ Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨ Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨ Subscribe to our Youtu
S8 E25 · Fri, February 28, 2025
First Time Mom Freebirths in Manchester, England
Today on the podcast, Kacea shares her beautiful freebirth story. Her journey to freebirth is a wonderful representation of the sovereign birth movement making its way through the world. From her upbringing with a mother who birthed at home, to having an entire friend group of freebirthers, Kacea was able to deter any negativity and fear that was brought her way, and with the support of her partner, she brought her son earthside. Follow Kacea on Instagram @kaceao ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is OPEN! - Doors are open through TODAY February 28th at 11:59pm! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨ Enrollment is open for MatriBirth Family, our signature Sovereign Childbirth Education program. This is a 6 week *live* series taught by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark. We only run it once a year and limit it to 20 spots - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/matribirthfamily ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for The MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSo
S8 E24 · Fri, February 21, 2025
Navigating Stillbirth with Death Midwife & Funeral Director Dr. Ivy
Funeral director and death midwife, Dr. Ivy Margulies, is helping families to navigate a peaceful way of walking with the loss of a baby. She talks about the logistics and laws of stillbirth, the importance of a death plan, home funerals, and ways to commemorate the child. Follow Dr Ivy on Instagram @drivymargulies https://www.drivylove.com ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Enrollment is open for MatriBirth Family, our signature Sovereign Childbirth Education program. This is a 6 week *live* series taught by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark. We only run it once a year and limit it to 20 spots - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/matribirthfamily ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - <a href="https://www.freebirt
S8 E24 · Fri, February 21, 2025
Navigating Stillbirth with Death Midwife & Funeral Director Dr. Ivy
Funeral director and death midwife, Dr. Ivy Margulies, is helping families to navigate a peaceful way of walking with the loss of a baby. She talks about the logistics and laws of stillbirth, the importance of a death plan, home funerals, and ways to commemorate the child. Follow Dr Ivy on Instagram @drivymargulies https://www.drivylove.com ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Enrollment is open for MatriBirth Family, our signature Sovereign Childbirth Education program. This is a 6 week *live* series taught by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark. We only run it once a year and limit it to 20 spots - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/matribirthfamily ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - <a href="h
S8 E23 · Fri, February 14, 2025
Freebirth at 27 Weeks: Walking With Loss
Nancy shares the heartbreaking story of losing her daughter at 27 weeks pregnant. Realizing her waters had opened while traveling, Nancy discovers her body going into the birth process at her parents home. Nancy describes the complexity, darkness, and hope that it is to walk intimately with loss. Follow Nancy on Instagram @nancylucina ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Enrollment is open for MatriBirth Family, our signature Sovereign Childbirth Education program. This is a 6 week *live* series taught by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark. We only run it once a year and limit it to 20 spots! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/matribirthfamily ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast -<a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button
S8 E22 · Fri, February 07, 2025
Surviving the Loss of Twins and a Smear Campaign in Australia
Sally shares her heart wrenching story of birthing her twin boys at home and the vicious nationwide media attacks that followed after one of the boys was stillborn and the other passed away shortly after. Follow Sally on Instagram @sallypatti ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Enrollment opens February 14th for MatriBirth Family, our signature Sovereign Childbirth Education program. This is a 6 week *live* series taught by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark. We only run it once a year and limit it to 20 spots so get on the waitlist! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/matribirth-family-waitinglist ✨The Radical Birthkeeper School opens for enrollment through March 3rd! Welcome to the new paradigm of birth-work. Get on the waitlist! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/rbkwaitlist ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨L
S8 E21 · Fri, January 31, 2025
How to Thrive in the New Paradigm with Dr. Jen Tice
In order to find solutions, you must articulate the problem. It’s undeniable as we look around our country that children are sick and suffering. Today, with my naturopathic doctor and friend, Dr. Jen Tice, we tackle the main contributing factors to why our American children are so sick. In part 2 of this episode we explore tangible accessible solutions that we can apply to our lives today. Follow Jen on Instagram @dr.jennifer.tice ✨The Blood Mysteries School is open for Enrollment through January 31st! Become the wise woman that you know deep down you already are - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/bloodmysteriesschool ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Work with Jen - <a href="https://redrocknaturopathic.com"
S8 E20 · Fri, January 24, 2025
Choosing Intuition Over Medical Advice
Joy hired the same medical midwife for her first three home births. However, after the midwife completely sabotaged her third birth, Joy decided to never work with her again. When she got pregnant with her fourth she chose to have a freebirth and tells the story of her peaceful pregnancy and the beautiful experience of being the first person to pick up her baby. Follow Joy in Instagram @MorphitMama ✨The Blood Mysteries School is open for Enrollment through January 31st! Become the wise woman that you know deep down you already are - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/bloodmysteriesschool ✨ Initiated Woman session 3 is coming up! Join us for this FREE, life-changing 3-part series to initiate yourself into embodied and mature womanhood. Register at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/initiatedwoman ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociet
S8 E19 · Fri, January 17, 2025
Freebirth at 45 in Australia
Chrissy was called to motherhood in her 40’s and navigated a miscarriage and D&C with her first pregnancy, and then a highly medicalized pregnancy and birth with her second. With her third pregnancy she let go of the “high risk” and “geriatric” labels, fired her midwife at 42 weeks, and chose to freebirth her son. Follow Chrissy on Instagram: @chrissybethhubbard ✨The Blood Mysteries School is open for Enrollment through January 31st! Become the wise woman that you know deep down you already are - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/bloodmysteriesschool ✨ Initiated Woman session 2 & 3 are coming up! Join us for this FREE, life-changing 3-part series to initiate yourself into embodied and mature womanhood. Register at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/initiatedwoman ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted
S8 E18 · Fri, January 10, 2025
Birthing Outside the Medical System with Brain Tumors
Brittany was diagnosed with brain tumors at the age of 20 and was told she’d never get pregnant and it was too dangerous to give birth. After seven years of failed IVF and surrogacy attempts, Brittany decided to try to get pregnant naturally, and to the surprise of all her doctors, she did. During her first birth and through the pregnancy of her second, Brittany started to reclaim her authority and trust in her own body. Brittany decided to have a sovereign birth with her third child and since then has begun untangling herself and her family from the medical system. Find Brittany on Instagram: @abitobritt 📸: Diana Hinek @dearbirth ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨ Initiated Woman is coming up! Join us in January for this FREE, life-changing 3-part series to initiate yourself into embodied and mature womanhood. Register at https://www.freebirthsociety.com/initiatedwoman . ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emil
S8 E17 · Fri, January 03, 2025
Freebirthing After Placenta Previa in Ireland
Epic Irish poet, Siobhan, is on the show today sharing her wild story from a dehumanizing hospital birth, placenta previa, to freebirth. Follow Siobhan @Siobhandepaor_focail ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨ Initiated Woman is coming up! Join us in January for this FREE, life-changing 3-part series to initiate yourself into embodied and mature womanhood. Register at https://www.freebirthsociety.com/initiatedwoman . ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y<
S8 E16 · Fri, December 27, 2024
From “High Risk” to Ecstasy: Kurin's Three Births
Moving from admittedly loving the drama of her high risk label, inductions, and medical providers to really clarifying what she wants and why - Kurin tells the beautiful story of her three births. Follow @Kurinadele ✨ Join REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - <a href="https://www.freebirthsociety.com" rel="ugc noopener no
S8 E15 · Fri, December 20, 2024
When Your Ancestors Tell You to Freebirth
Emma spent her 20’s as an anarchist who didn’t want children, until one day she was hit with the primal need to become a mother. Through shamanic drum journeys, she heard the messages of her ancestors telling her to freebirth, telling her that they had been waiting for a woman in their lineage to call upon their support. Emma beautifully articulates her journey through her wild pregnancy, how she laughed her baby out, and had all her needs met in postpartum. ✨ REIGN with Emilee in 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about every
S8 E14 · Fri, December 13, 2024
The Ripple Effect of Freebirth in Rural Western North Carolina
Morgan talks about choosing freebirth as a first time mother and the ripple effects it’s had on her family, and tight knit community in rural WNC. ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com
S8 E13 · Fri, December 06, 2024
Live Show in Austin, Texas
Today we are thrilled to be sharing our episode from the FIRST EVER LIVE SHOW from this past November in Austin, Texas. It was so fun to do this IRL and get to sit with my guest on stage, surrounded by so many amazing pod supporters. This is *not* a story to miss, check it out: An unwanted induction led Kait to a homebirth with a medical midwife for her second. In her third pregnancy, she felt ready to choose a wild pregnancy and freebirth. At 35 weeks, her birth unexpectedly began. Kait got freaked out by the amount of blood present in her birth and while her husband goes to get them ready to transfer, her daughter was born, weighing 3.5 lbs. While she waited for the placenta…her son was born. The healthy *surprise* twins quickly nursed and everyone stayed home. Kait tells the wild story of moving from surprise of twins to navigating loss of power as a hurricane pummeled Houston, Texas in the first days of her postpartum. ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereig professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com
S8 E12 · Fri, November 22, 2024
The Courage to Deprogram and Freebirth in Denmark
Rachel is an American woman living in Denmark who shares the poetic story of birthing her two sons. Her first birth was wrought with sabotage, manipulation, and abuse, which took her years to fully unpack. With the help of this very podcast, Rachel takes on the courageous task of naming what truly happened and claiming a better birth with her second. Rachel talks about her big life shift moving from birth-work in the medical system to becoming a truly sovereign birth keeper. ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereig professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with Rachel - www.rachelruva.com
S8 E11 · Fri, November 15, 2024
Leaving NHS Midwifery for Sovereign Birth
Livi was a NHS student midwife for three years, admittedly betraying her true calling to serve women in a holistic way. Livi goes on to birth her baby freely at home opening up a whole world of possibility. Livi is now a Radical Birth Keeper Graduate and serves her local community. ✨Join Emilee and the FBS Podcast *LIVE* in Austin, Texas 11/16/24! Get your tickets at - https://www.capcitycomedy.com/shows/282788 ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Become a founding member of the MatriBirth Directory until the end of 2024! https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with our guest Livi - www.wildwatersbirth.co.uk
S8 E10 · Fri, November 08, 2024
A Vaccine Injured First Time Mom’s Breech Freebirth
Lesia developed a seizure disorder as a result of a vaccine injury at the age of four. When she got pregnant the first time she started seeing an OB, then hired a doula, and began planning for a secret homebirth. When she found out her baby was breech, she still decided to stay home and freebirthed her baby at 42 weeks. Lesia goes on to tell the story of her wild pregnancy, healing her hyperemesis gravidarum through German New Medicine and her most recent freebirth, which was only three days prior to recording! ✨Join Emilee and the FBS Podcast *LIVE* in Austin, Texas 11/16/24! Get your tickets at - https://www.capcitycomedy.com/shows/282788 ✨ Join the Blood Mysteries School Waitlist and be initiated into the sacred secrets of womanhood. - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/bmswaitlist ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsocietyod - ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join our MatriBirth Directory as a founding member until the end of 2024! https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com
S8 E9 · Fri, November 01, 2024
Freebirth After Medical Kidnapping in New Orleans
Birth keeper Aisaba is on the show today sharing her five birth stories and all the deprogramming that has happened along the way. Aisaba has deeply experienced the negative cost of birth in the system, from unnecessary c-sections, to painful inductions, and the medical kidnapping of her newborn. She shares about her powerful lessons that brought her to finally freebirthing her most recent baby. ✨Join Emilee and the FBS Podcast *LIVE* in Austin, Texas 11/16/24! Get your tickets at - https://www.capcitycomedy.com/shows/282788 ✨ Join the Blood Mysteries School Waitlist and be initiated into the sacred secrets of womanhood. - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/bmswaitlist ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsocietyod - ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with our guest - divinebirthkeeper.com
S8 E8 · Fri, October 25, 2024
Learning to Source from Within: A Freebirth in Hawaii
Cadence’s first birth was sabotaged by unlicensed medical midwives who pitched themselves as traditional and hands-off. That birth ended in a hospital transfer, wrought with dehumanizing treatment, and heartbreak. After a 1:1 session with Emilee, Cadence began to unravel her first birth, and found motivation to rewrite her story with her second. Up in the mountains of the Big Island, Cadence freebirthed her daughter, learning to source from within. ✨Join Emilee Saldaya and the FBS Podcast *LIVE* in Austin, Texas 11/16/24! Get your tickets at - https://www.capcitycomedy.com/shows/282788 ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with our guest - https://cadenciaphotography.com/
S8 E7 · Fri, October 18, 2024
Chanting Gratitude: Freebirth After a Broken Pelvis
By the age of 12 Cheyenne had survived spinal surgery, drug addiction, and a near death car accident that left her with a broken pelvis and an internal infection. Through years of therapy and deep healing work, Cheyenne met her partner and decided to consciously conceive and freebirth her baby. She’s now a Radical Birth Keeper Graduate and a student at MMI with us, learning to support women in their sacred birthing times. ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with our guest - WombensTraditions.Life
S8 E6 · Fri, October 11, 2024
Freebirth in the Middle East
Originally from Tunisia, Houyem tells the story of her three births. Houyem recalls the moment she realized she could just stay home and how this begins to shape how she serves and inspires birthing women in the Middle East. ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com
S8 E5 · Fri, October 04, 2024
When a Freebirthed Child…Freebirths
Esme Shea is on the show today bringing her stories of how simple and normal homebirth is in her family. Everyone on her mother’s side has been born at home, and Esme carries on this legacy by freebirthing her own daughter. ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com
S8 E4 · Fri, September 27, 2024
Midwifery Sabotage, Stillbirth, Regret, and Freebirth
Skye, an Australian woman living in Southern California, shares her four birth stories on the show today. In her first birth, Skye experienced midwife sabotage, then with her second, the heartbreaking loss of her son. After freebirthing her third son, she regretfully did a tongue tie revision that went horribly and left her entire family traumatized. Finally, Skye embraces an undisturbed freebirth complete with an intact and blissful fourth trimester with her daughter. ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com
S8 E3 · Fri, September 20, 2024
The Way of The New Matriarch: Freebirthing After C-Section
Kendra is on the show today sharing her redemptive FBAC (freebirth after c-section), guided by the messages of her ancestors and the deep work required to heal her lineage, her relationship, and step into the role as the new matriarch for her family. ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com
S8 E2 · Fri, September 13, 2024
Freebirthing in the Jungle at 34 Weeks
First time mother Hari is on the show today sharing her wild pregnancy and freebirth story. Hari speaks of the deep trust and intuition that lead her to the mountains of Costa Rica to freebirth her healthy 5 pound child at 34 weeks. Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety Connect with Hari - https://www.sacredflute.org/ Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com
S8 E1 · Fri, September 06, 2024
Discovering Down Syndrome Outside the Medical System
We kick off this season with Emilee sitting down with Britni from Washington, who tells her big story of birthing her daughter outside of the medical system at the age of 41. Britni shares how in the first moments after birth, she realized her daughter looked different and settled into the knowing that she had Down Syndrome and would keep her daughter away from the medical system. Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety Connect with our guest - https://Radiabirth.com Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com
Trailer · Mon, September 02, 2024
Season 8 Trailer
The Free Birth Society Podcast is BACK *this* Friday! If these clips already have you crying, get READY for the most epic, transformational free and sovereign birth stories. It’s gonna be a wild ride, sisters. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll be rocked to the core by these women’s power stories. You’ll hear about... * Discovering down syndrome in sovereign birth * Freebirth in the Middle East * Freebirthing in the jungle at 34 weeks * Freebirth after stillbirth * A first-time-mom with a seizure disorder (from a vaccine injury) freebirthing her breech baby * Real, raw stories of loss like never before * A freebirthed woman freebirthing (yes, you read that right!) * Freebirth after a broken pelvis * An NHS medical school student who quits, freebirths, and becomes an RBK * & even the sweet freebirth story of my friend and former nanny, Morgan You’re going to be on the edge of your seat for the next episode every week. Make sure you follow us on Spotify and hit the bell button so you’ll get a notification as soon as new episodes drop. I’ll see you Friday for our season premier! ✨
Fri, May 31, 2024
Birthing in the Bliss of a Women’s Flourishing Community with Sister Nettle
Watch this episode HERE Birthing in the Bliss of a Women’s Flourishing Community with Sister Nettle We are closing our Season 7 with the story of one of our own, from one of my dearest, our creative director at Free Birth Society, Meg, aka @sister.nettle. Meg’s got a simple yet deeply inspirational story of how she got available for all the good things in life, and made the changes needed to have it all. If you’re stressing about how you’ll survive without weekly episodes, don’t worry, we’ve got something to take the edge off. We’re finally ready to launch our Freebirth Collection on our Youtube channel! We’re going to be dropping birth vids on our channel Monday, Wednesday, and Friday all summer long. Go subscribe to Free Birth Society on YouTube now and look out for it next week! It’s been a wonderful year with you women, we’ll be back in the fall with Season 8! Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode: ✨Meg’s first birth with licensed midwives, and her lack of sisterhood during that time in her life. ✨The word-spell her medwife cast about her son’s “big” head. ✨Attending MRF and her spiritual awakening. ✨How she found Free Birth Society and became a part of the team. ✨The intensity and mystery of late pregnancy. ✨Her grounded, spacious birth of her daughter with myself and her husband by her side. ✨Her breastfeeding journey, and how she chose to be unavailable for pain and struggle. ✨How she became the change she wanted to see in her life, and created a web of sisterhood. ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute , Enrollment is open NOW ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW ! Connect with Free Birth Society and check out all that we do! Contact our team by emailing info@freebirthsociety.com Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -The Complete Guide to Freebirth : a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram<a
Fri, May 24, 2024
The (free)Birth Partner Episode
Watch this episode HERE Today is all about (and for!) the birth partner. I do what I can in an hour to offer my transmissions to you of 20 years in birth work, and having worked with thousands of fathers and partners to the birthing woman. Fathers - this episode is for you! I’ll cover the most common questions and concerns I get from fathers and offer my wisdom on the logistics and energetics of how to be the best ally in her sovereign birth that you can be. The ability to educate mothers, fathers, and families on true sovereign birth is something we truly need more of in this world, which is why birth education is one of the core elements we teach on in our newest year-long program, The Matribirth Midwifery Institute. We are unlike any other midwifery school and bring together the study of independent midwifery, holistic health & healing, a full childbirth education curriculum, birth-coaching and trauma debrief training, a transformational self-mastery program, and how to build your lighthouse birth business! Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode: ✨ The role of the birth partner and how to act from a space of respect and trust. ✨What normal birth is as well as some variations of normal. ✨The physiology of undisturbed birth. ✨Mothers don’t *need* anything, but what she might *want* in the birth process. ✨What the phases of labor often look like, and how to offer support during each. ✨The birth of the placenta and immediate postpartum. ✨How to navigate the big “what if” question. ✨How to “Be the oak tree,” and protect her space. ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute , Enrollment is open NOW ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW ! Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -The Complete Guide to Freebirth : a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety -The Lighthouse : our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee : If you want Emilee Saldaya on your podcast, email us at podcast@freebirthsociety.com -<a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?h
Fri, May 17, 2024
Cultures with No Rape: Exploring Commonalities Among Matriarchal Societies
Watch this episode HERE Matriarchy is an inspiring and critical topic that is incredibly important to me and all I do. So, today on the show, we’re going to talk about it! Dr. Jessica Spring Weappa has a PHD in matriarchal studies, presented at the first Matriarch Rising Festival, and is my guest today on the podcast to blow all our minds! Imagine a society where mothers are centered, where the highest currency is a mother’s love; a culture with no rape, no domestic violence, no fear of death, where relationships aren’t based in top down hierarchy. This is matriarchy. Jessica touches on gifting economies, nature as nourishment, and the spiritual commonalities within matriarchal societies across the planet. She has devoted her life to studying these concepts and finding ways we can rewild. We must do deep work and deprogramming to break the spell of patriarchy and find comfort, rather than fear, in centering women and mothers. If you want to dip a toe in, or dive headfirst, come to my women only life changing gathering, Matriarch Rising Festival. It will change your life, it will blast your heart open, and you will return home renewed and full of deep aliveness. Go to matriarchrisingfestival.com and grab your ticket; I’ll see you in June! Here's What You’ll Hear in This Episode: ✨How Jessica couldn’t look away from questions she had about mothering today. ✨Her story of domestic violence and single motherhood. ✨Understanding matriarchy through critiquing patriarchy. ✨The insignificance of fathers in matriarchal societies ✨Why our society fears matriarchy. ✨Capitalism as a perversion of a gift giving economy. ✨How our current economy is dependent on free labor of mothers. ✨How our court system is rooted in matricide. ✨How care ethics should be based on mother/child imprinting. ✨Ingredients for creating matriarchy today. ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW ! ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute , Enrollment opens May 20th!! Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -The Complete Guide to Freebirth : a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and
Fri, May 10, 2024
From Veganism and Medwives to Farming and Freebirth: The Magical Life of Julia Hempe
Watch this episode HERE Today on the show I welcome one of my closest friends and favorite people, Julia. Julia lives here in community with us, and so I’m extra excited to have her on to share her story. Julia is a truly wild mother of 3, turns out - soon to be 4, a homesteader, a gorgeous and insanely talented homemaker, and really just the embodiment of strength, fortitude, and integrity. Can you tell I adore her? She has freebirthed twice, and the second time she *literally* labored right here on my land, the Matriarch Rising Festival grounds! How magical is that? Julia began her mothering journey quite young, having found her sweetheart at age 17. When Julia found herself unexpectedly pregnant she was already living outside mainstream culture and knew she didn’t want to birth in the hospital. Sadly though, the medical midwife she hired found ways to create drama throughout her pregnancy and birth. A huge awakening, followed by a move from L.A. to North Carolina to figure out this homestead life, brought Julia’s and my family together in organic friendship. It’s all very cute, she invited me to be her birth attendant, our husbands met and fell in love, and the rest is herstory. Though she and her family have certainly faced challenges living this rural farm lifestyle, Julia consistently devotes herself to her family, community, and the fullness of her family’s vision. Julia’s two freebirths were very different experiences. The birth of her son although powerful and sweet, hit her very hard, so for the birth of her daughter she *chose* pleasure and presence. Julia’s story is such a powerful reminder that we can make big choices in our lives and really manifest our dream reality. Come see the beautiful land Julia fell in love with too, at Matriarch Rising Festival this summer! Go to Matriarchrisingfestival.com to get your tickets today. Once you experience community here, you may just have to return home and create it for yourself! Julia will be leading the toddler yoga and mother meet ups at MRF, so come join in and say hi to my bestie. Here’s what you’ll hear in Julia’s story: ✨How she loved being pregnant for the first time, but was constantly fear mongered by her medical midwife. ✨Her first drama filled first birth with a licensed midwife. ✨Covid in L.A. and her family’s big leap relocating to North Carolina. ✨Homesteading while pregnant and the fast and really rocking freebirth of her son. ✨Rural living and her family’s various moves to find their farm land here in WNC. ✨The intensity of the end of her pregnancy. ✨The fast but dreamy and pain-free freebirth of her daughter. ✨Her community supported postpartum. </s
Fri, May 03, 2024
A Black Woman’s Solution to Maternal Death Rates in the System: Jalynn’s Freebirth
Watch this episode HERE Jalynn was aware that the medical system was dangerous for her, as a woman, and a black mother. Thankfully, her first birth was fairly straight forward. She left the birth center clear that she would not go back, not because it was traumatic, but because it simply wasn’t worth leaving her house for. With her second, Jalynn stepped into full responsibility with a wild pregnancy and the freebirth of her dreams surrounded by sisterhood and support in a community ashram. She fully actualized her dream birth. We’re talking about an epic birth space decorated by a dear sister, friends chanting and vocalizing with her during birth, live flute music, and plants infused with affirmations by Toni Jones herself. It was no fear, all flow, with Jalynn completely centered and held by her community, which transitioned into a brilliantly supported postpartum as well. Jaylnn goes on to fully integrate this huge uplevel and leave nursing school to pursue a truly holistic path, which is unfolding and gaining power as she does the work to shine her light and show women the way out of the system and into sovereign birth-work. Here’s what you’ll hear in Jalynn’s Story: ✨Her weariness of the hospital, the racist roots of obstetrics, and the high maternal death rate of black moms. ✨Her desire to find a black woman to support her, but the difficulty she experienced finding midwives of any race to respect and honor her choices. ✨How her first birth sparked an insatiable desire to step into her authentic self. ✨The spiritual confirmation she experienced learning about freebirth and the dangers of ultrasound. ✨Her intuitive self care during her wild pregnancy. ✨Her magical birth surrounded by sisters and fully supported postpartum. ✨Choosing authentic birth education over certified nursing or doula work in the system. ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute , Enrollment opens May 20th!! Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -The Podcast : Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts</s
Fri, April 26, 2024
The Women Are Ready: Zainab Brings Body Literacy to Saudi Arabia
Watch this episode HERE We have a really inspiring episode today, as I welcome Zainab, from Saudi Arabia, now living in Michigan. Zainab is a brilliant maiden who has blazed a path of autonomy, teaching Fertility Awareness Method and body literacy to Arab women in her mother tongue of Arabic. Zainab grew up without initiation into her first bleed, and didn’t even have a word to use for her vagina. She experienced intergenerational shame. Her awakening began when she discovered FAM along with a calling to share this knowledge with her sisters, particularly those in her home country, where she found women hungry to tune into their bodies and claim their freedom. Zainab came to Matriarch Rising Festival and experienced it as a touchpoint of what's possible when women in their power come together. She witnessed the centering of mothers, the normalization of freebirth and embodied womanhood, and, of course, the pure, delicious magic. She took these lessons home with her, forever changed. This year we’re hyped to have Zainab back at MRF offering her workshop The Cycle Wisdom Map, an exploration of body literacy through the lens of the natural cycles around us. Come and experience the uplevel Zainab did! Go to matriarchrisingfestival.com to get your ticket. Join us sisters - it’ll be the highlight of your year - and it may just change your life. Here’s what you’ll hear: ✨The body disconnection and shame she was taught as a young woman. ✨Her passion for FAM and joy of translating teachings into her mother tongue. ✨Her leap teaching in Arabic, and the incredible response from women ready to step into their power. ✨Teaching from the “daughter” stage of life. ✨The importance of centering mothers. ✨Cultural amnesia and how her grandmother birthed at home, yet her mother birthed in the hospital. ✨The life altering power of MRF and how it changed her. ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute , Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! <span
Fri, April 19, 2024
Remineralizing the Spirit with Herbalist Dr. Elderberry
Watch this episode HERE Today I have the great pleasure of welcoming to the show Dr. Elderberry, and yes, that *is* her legal name. Elderberry is a naturopath, a vitalist herbalist, a homeopath, and a wild mother. I’m so excited for her to share her wisdom of homeopathy, minerals, practicing herbalism energetically, and tuning into mother nature. This is an especially fun episode as Elderberry is one of our headliners at Matriarch Rising Festival (@matriarchrisingfestivalnc) this summer, where she will be offering her teachings on homeopathy and supporting your wellbeing beyond the physical. Elderberry’s practice is truly womb to tomb, and she is deeply passionate about the power of sovereign healing. If our conversation today lights you up, you won’t want to miss the chance to learn from Elderberry, and our pantheon of wise woman headliners, at MRF this June. Go to matriarchrisingfestival.com to claim your ticket, and get ready for a life changing 5 days; grab your ticket now! Here’s what you’ll hear in our conversation: ✨How she grew up in the allopathic model, identified it as quackery, and moved beyond. ✨Why she differs from other naturopathic doctors and their frequent “prescribing.” ✨What homeopathy is. ✨What vitalist herbalism is. ✨The magic of minerals. ✨The playful relationship mothers and children can have with homeopathy. ✨The importance of tapping into the energetics of plants. ✨Her shift from importing herbs to local foraging, and building a free apothecary. ✨The natural and free childhood she is supporting her son to experience. ✨How this healing framework goes beyond the physical. ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute , Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival : Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast : Leave us a review on<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/p
Fri, April 12, 2024
A Serbian Breech Freebirth at 44 Weeks: The Ripple Effect of Mina’s Power
Watch this episode HERE This may be the most important episode of the season, so I’m glad you’re tuning in this week. Today’s story is from Mina, a freebirthing mother, and RBK graduate in Serbia. Though Mina dreamt of birthing at home, she knew of no other women around her making that choice, so she birthed her first two babies in a very old school, very dark hospital. Mina faced obstetric violence and abuse and did not want to return. And so she didn’t. She freebirthed her third. When she found herself pregnant as a newly single mother, Mina of course chose freebirth again, for her breech baby, born at 44 weeks surrounded by her sweet children. Mina credits The Radical Birth Keeper School for her deep understanding of sisterhood, through which she has cultivated a blossoming community of women in her country also creating change. These women are choosing sovereign birth; they are stepping out of the system and into their full power, just as Mina did. Obviously Mina’s choice to freebirth is huge, but I was struck by the real ripple effect that happens after a woman freebirths in her community, and then devotes herself to sovereign birth-work. Mina is truly changing birth culture in Serbia, and it’s a really, really big deal. As Sister MorningStar says, “What one woman can do, all women can do.”. If Mina can do it, you can, too. There are just a few short days left to enroll in our only round of The Radical Birth Keeper School this year. Don’t wait, your time is now. Join us, for The Radical Birth Keeper School Spring 2024 cohort. Wherever you are, there are women around you hungry for wise sisters to support them in their sovereign birth choices. Go to radicalbirthkeeperschool.com and become the lighthouse in your community. Here’s what you’ll hear in Mina’s story: ✨Her first birth in the hospital and subsequent separation from her baby. ✨The sickening state of maternal care (or lack thereof) in Serbian hospitals. ✨How she tried to strategically use the hospital during her second birth, but still faced abuse. ✨The culture of silence and corruption surrounding homebirth and midwives in Serbia. ✨Her first freebirth and the powerful shift it initiated. ✨The mentorship, sisterhood, and profound growth she experienced in The RBK School. ✨How she chose a fourth pregnancy, single motherhood, and a true family supported freebirth. ✨The importance of finding like minded women and embodying the change in birth culture you wish to see. ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School ! Enrollment is open NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute , Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring</sp
Fri, April 05, 2024
When Stillbirth Leads to Freebirth: Savannah’s Story
Today on the show we have Savannah, a graduate of The Radical Birth Keeper School, and she’s here to tell her big and important story of birth, single motherhood, loss, and claiming her freedom as a woman. Savannah’s first birth resulted in heartbreaking, but so common, midwifery sabotage and betrayal, with a totally unnecessary transfer to the hospital. Many years later, Savannah re-partners, and finds herself pregnant again. Tragically, she lost that baby on her 40 week date. Savannah tells us the gutting story of birthing her stillborn son in the hospital. She shares how in her mourning, she was guided to this very podcast, and then to our Radical Birth Keeper School, where she found deep healing and support. In navigating her first birth outside the system and contending with fear, Savannah steps fully into her power and freebirths her next baby, just 11 months after the loss of her last baby. These are the kinds of real and difficult conversations we do not shy away from in The Radical Birth Keeper School. Birth work is death work. If you’re ready to lean into the depth of this work, this is our last call for this year’s session of The Radical Birth Keeper School. Go to radicalbirthkeeperschool.com and grab one of our last spots now. Grab some tissues and settle in for Savannah’s story. Here's what you'll hear in Savannah’s story: ✨ How a vision during her unexpected pregnancy solidified her decision to bring her son to earth ✨ The sabotage by medical midwives of her home birth and the unnecessary hospital transfer ✨ How she intuited during her second pregnancy that something was wrong ✨ Her joy of experiencing birth, but also the grief that her baby had left his body ✨ The wisdom and guidance received through her loss ✨ How she found The RBK School, enrolled, and allowed it to blow her world wide open ✨ Her third pregnancy and the magic of attending Matriarch Rising Festival at 35 weeks pregnant ✨ Her fast and intense freebirth witnessed by her husband and son ✨ The deep work of integrating grief with a new baby ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School ! Enrollment is open NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute , Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video <a href="https://www.freebi
Fri, March 29, 2024
When Freebirth Heals the Mother Wound: Arie’s First Birth
Today I am joined by Arie, a Radical Birth Keeper School Grad who freebirthed her first baby after the school, supported by her partner and mother. Since RBK doors are open right now, we gotta highlight these epic women who experienced major transformation during and after the program! When Arie got pregnant she knew she would stay home. She didn't want to hire a professional, and *did* deeply want to have her mom there, despite the fact that they weren't on speaking terms. Arie consciously took steps to repair their relationship. In the end, her mother held perfect space, so much healing took place, and Arie freebirths a perfect little boy. Here's what you'll hear in Arie's story: ✨ How Arie accepted her mother for who she is, set boundaries, and learned to be in healthy relationship ✨ The freedom in dropping the story that having kids precludes doing all you want in life ✨ The power of feeling emotions fully without attaching thoughts (especially in the huge experience of pregnancy). ✨ The fears (and racism) propagated in the only doctor visit Arie attended ✨ How Arie uninvited her sisters to her birth at the last minute and why this "no" was so clear to her ✨ The importance of being internally resourced to flow with the intensity of pregnancy and birth ✨ Why we women require witnessing, especially in postpartum Enjoy! ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School ! Enrollment is open NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute , Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising F
Fri, March 22, 2024
The Freebirther’s Guide to Hemorrhage with Yolande Norris-Clark
Watch this episode HERE I am thrilled to be welcoming back to the show my bestie, my birth wife, my co-creatrix of The Radical Birth Keeper School, The Complete Guide to Freebirth, and our soon to be 12 month midwifery school, MatriBirth Midwifery Institute — Yolande Norris-Clark. She’s here today to help me crack open this pervasive myth of hemorrhage, and to offer a sovereign resource that is in alignment with what we know to be true of 20 years of birth-work. We’ll talk about what that word means, what it does *not* mean, and how we can demystify and therefore be unafraid of postpartum bleeding both as freebirthing mothers and as sovereign birth keepers. This topic is especially relevant as we are currently enrolling for the Radical Birth Keeper School, and one of our core missions through our teachings is to teach the truth about birth and help you deprogram from the cultural spells casted upon us. Enrollment is open for just a short time more, so don’t wait, join us and let us blow your minds. ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School ! Enrollment is open NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute , Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival : Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast : Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at <a href="mailto:podcast@freebirthsoci
Fri, March 15, 2024
When Miscarriage Teaches You Wholeness: Amelia’s Journey to Freebirth after 2 C-Sections
Watch this episode HERE RBK Grad, and a brave, brilliant woman, Amelia is on the show today to share her big stories. Amelia has moved the needle bigtime in her life, from being initiated into motherhood with two entirely unnecessary, traumatic c-sections, to moving beyond the medical paradigm entirely, in her subsequent births. It’s a painful story, full of trauma, medical midwifery betrayal, a desired VBAC turned repeat surgery, and then, Amelia has a spontaneous undisturbed early birth, a miscarriage, completed at home. This is when she realized the stories she was told were lies, and that she was in fact, entirely whole, and capable of birth. Amelia stepped into who she really was, and chose freebirth, and chose herself. Here’s what you’ll hear in Amelia’s story: ✨How Amelia excitedly called the OB with her first pregnancy and was shocked when they didn’t care ✨The lie of “low fluid” and how her doctor bullied her into an induction and ultimately a C-section ✨VBAC sabotage by a licensed midwife ✨How the Free Birth Society Podcast guided her to unpack her abuse and trauma, and enroll in the Radical Birth Keeper School ✨The conception of her third baby during school and her first freebirth: an early birth outside the system ✨The ease & peace of wild pregnancy and her trip to Matriarch Rising Festival ✨Her redemptive births and how incredible it is to feel the totality of undisturbed birth Follow - @circeandsage ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School ! Enrollment is open NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the Matribirth Midwifery Institute , Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival : Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast : Leave us a
Fri, March 08, 2024
Freebirth As A Catalyst for Power with Nina Marsh
You can watch this episode HERE Today on the show, I am welcoming Nina, a graduate of The Radical Birth Keeper School. Nina lives out in northern california, and was transferred to the hospital in her first pregnancy after a planned home birth with a midwife, because her blood pressure was higher than what the midwives were willing to support. She was induced and kept in the hospital for days on end, and was imprinted with the story that she was broken and could not birth naturally. Nina tells the beautiful story of her intentionally re-writing her internal stories throughout her second pregnancy, leaning more and more into trust, self-discovery, and intuition, as she prepares for her sovereign birth at home. Her freebirth story is a simple, inspiring example of how easefully birth works when we don’t complicate it, and when we do the real work of really learning to trust ourselves. This is the work that choosing sovereignty primes us for, and what Nina showcases in her powerful growth. She also shares about her amazing postpartum, and how being initiated into this redemptive birth showed her that she really can do anything - that she is the catalyst for her own power. Here’s what you’ll hear in Nina’s story: ✨️ Nina planned a home birth with her first because her mother and community all home birthed ✨️ Up until 8 months pregnant, there were no signs of complications, and then the high blood pressure readings began ✨️ Her midwife transferred her over the phone, and Nina got put into the induction pipeline, birthing her baby 12 hours later ✨️ She was kept in the hospital for 4 days until her dizziness and blood pressure dropped, never once being offered blood pressure medication ✨️ It took years for her to heal from the trauma and internalized messages of being broken and faulty ✨️ How the RBK School blew her mind open, and she learned that women can do whatever they want in pregnancy and birth! ✨️ How she got pregnant again and decided to have a wild pregnancy, but still monitors her blood pressure ✨️ How self monitoring was so stress-inducing that she decided to stop, and just fully trust her body and intuition <span style="font-weigh
Fri, March 01, 2024
The Rebel Path: Marion’s Three Freebirths
Watch this episode HERE Marion joins me on the show today to share her sweet undisturbed birthing stories of her three children. Each of her stories is incredibly unique, and a beautiful example of where intuition can guide a woman when she refuses to be influenced by the industrial obstetrics complex. Marion birthed her first baby, who was transverse until the very end, completely outside of the system in an 1800s cabin in the woods, with an unexpected and beautifully sweet new friend supporting her in birth. Marion’s second birth took place in a teepee outside of the schoolbus she was living in, with women from her community singing to her from outside in the rain, with just her partner and son to witness. Her most recent birth is a powerful story of passionate love and how being with a partner that you are in true, genuine union with can deeply change the experience of birth. Marion is a trailblazer of her own life, following her own compass in every step of the way - from choosing to skip birth certificates for her babies, taking one year to name her baby, and claiming radical responsibility in all circumstances of her life… It was such a joy to hear her perspective on the world through her birth stories. Here’s what you’ll hear in Marion’s story: ✨️How finding freebirth Facebook groups became her primary resource for research and support, and gave her the confidence she needed ✨️How her first baby was transverse until the very end, and how she knew he would turn during labor, and he did! ✨️How Marion’s friend came over to deliver a mattress and ended up staying for her entire labor, supporting her with encouraging words and singing medicine songs ✨️How she lived in a school bus during her 2nd pregnancy and her community put up a teepee for her to birth in, complete with a little bell she would ring if she needed something ✨️The sweet image of her pacing the birth teepee while in labor, being sung to by her community of women from outside, and the rain coming down ✨️How her third birth she was supported by a partner she was in love with and the uplevel this offered even though all her previous births were peaceful and undisturbed ✨️Her blissful postpartums that were fully supported by community, food, and love! ✨️How Marion has never put her children in diapers by practicing elimination communication and presence through attachment parenting ✨️How Marion didn’t get birth certificates for her first two children, but has since changed her mind and is now going through the process ✨️How she has taken 6 months up to a year to name each of her children, waiting for a name to drop in! ✨️How women can’t get out of the responsibility of their births regardless of where it happens, and who is in charge Check out Marion’s 13 week container for women here - https://www.marionhear
Fri, February 23, 2024
Leading by Example with Radical Birth Keeper and Freebirther Jess Owens
Leading by Example with Radical Birth Keeper and Freebirther Jess Owens You can watch this episode HERE Today, Radical Birth Keeper School graduate and sovereign birth attendant, Jess Owens, joins me on the show sharing her two birth stories. Jess started her mothering journey with a seemingly acceptable midwife-attended homebirth in England, and although there were things that left a bad taste in her mouth, she felt lucky to birth at home without complications. After a few international moves, and learning more about physiological birth, she and her family moved to Canada and Jess began attending births outside of the system. Jess became pregnant again, and enrolled in the RBK school, all while building community and a flourishing birthkeeping business, entirely by word of mouth. She goes on to birth her son in total power, as did so many other women from her cohort! Jess offers a beautiful story of trust and the incredible ripple effect that taking birth back into the hands of women creates. Here’s what you’ll hear in Jess’s story: ✨️ How during her first pregnancy, she never met her assigned midwife, but instead a different person for every single appointment. ✨️ How at 6 months pregnant she decided to have a homebirth, hired a doula, thinking that this was the most holistic plan available to her. ✨️ How the medical midwives who showed up at her home were complete strangers she’d never met before. ✨️ How she was forced into vaginal exams, pressured and annoyed by the midwives, and how she wanted to just swat them away. ✨️ How her views on motherhood and birth begin to shift as she heard the call to work with birthing women outside the system. ✨️ How she and her family move back to Canada and she was offered an opportunity to be a backup for a local woman attending sovereign births. ✨️ How she attended her first birth outside of the system and then, through word of mouth, women just kept coming, and her community truly called her into this work. ✨️ How she continued to attend births while pregnant with her son, and the easy wild pregnancy she experienced. ✨️ <s
Fri, February 16, 2024
When Cord Prolapse and Footling Breech Births Are Normal with Carlee Moon
When Cord Prolapse and Footling Breech Births Are Normal with Carlee Moon Watch this episode HERE Today we will hear the 3 incredible freebirth stories of the absolutely divine Carlee Moon, who truly moved the needle of what mainstream birth culture would define as even possible, really, in each one of her births. From a first freebirth in her teepee in Oregon, to a footling breech birth with a whole lot of meconium, to a 45-minute long cord prolapse with even more meconium, all experienced entirely intuitively, at home, without medical supervision… Carlee has truly pushed the limits of what even many freebirthers would be comfortable with, and she did so guided by the strong, in-tact intuition of an embodied mother. Carlee is one of those epic women who chose freebirth without ever having heard the term beforehand, or knowing anyone else on that path. She speaks about never feeling fear around her pregnancies or births, despite being a self-proclaimed “anxious person”. Here’s what you’ll hear from Carlee… How Carlee had never even heard of freebirth when she first became pregnant - it was her partner’s idea, and she knew it was right. How Carlee went to a local birth clinic when she first became pregnant and was sent home with plan B and condoms The straightforward and simple story of her first birth, with an entirely sovereign 23-hour labor Her second freebirth story, where her daughter was born footling breech, and how she intuitively hooked her other foot out without prior education around breech birth How it took her daughter 6 minutes to fully land in her body, and 10 minutes to get noisy Her spiritual and health revolution after her second postpartum, including her incredible experience at Matriarch Rising Festival How she managed an infection at 40 weeks pregnant with her third baby entirely outside the medical system using garlic! The story of her third freebirth, involving a 45-minute umbilical cord prolapse (literally, 2 feet of umbilical cord hanging out of her!), and the intuitive decisions she made during the process How both her second and third births involved lots of meconium but she never worried for her babies’ safety <li
Fri, February 09, 2024
Big Fertility, Big Problems with Jennifer Lahl
This week I have return guest, filmmaker, and whistleblower, Jennifer Lahl. Jennifer was on the show a few seasons back tackling the harmful nature of surrogacy, and today we get into the shadow side of IVF that no one is talking about. We discuss the incredibly low success rates of IVF, the high risks to both the mother and the baby, and how much of this information is suppressed. Watch this episode HERE Here’s what you’ll hear: What IVF is, and the various A.R.T. add-ons sold to people in the fertility industry The physical, mental, and financial harm that comes to women who chose IVF, and how these outcomes aren’t being properly studied or warned about The super low success rate of the IVF procedures and the high rate of birth defects, and genetic abnormalities of IVF babies How IVF pregnancies involve higher rates of complications and surgery How cancer rates are higher in women who have undergone IVF How women’s health is being compromised for huge profit by Big Fertility The questionable ethics of frozen embryos, and how parents can decide how they are stored, donated, or left to die The subjective nature of sperm, egg, and embryo “grading”, and using technology to bypass nature How Jennifer believes in keeping the sperm and egg within the body and helping couples make conception happen without artificial technology Listen to Jennifer's surrogacy episode on the podcast HERE Enrollment is open NOW for the Blood Mysteries School - Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood my
Fri, February 02, 2024
Preeclampsia and Freebirth with Minerals Expert Margaret Barry
Preeclampsia and Freebirth with Minerals Expert Margaret Barry Watch this episode HERE Today on the show I have the radiant mineral expert, and freebirther of course, Margaret Barry, who shares her birth stories and her vast knowledge of minerals, including how that links to pre-eclampsia. After being diagnosed with “pre” pre-eclampsia, yes I said pre-pre, Margaret goes on to have a 4 day hospital induction with her first baby. Margaret dove into self study to understand what happened, and now has a self appointed PHD in pre-eclampsia. She lays out practical and simple advice on what to eat and how far off it is from mainstream advice. What you’ll hear: ✨️ At 37 weeks pregnant, after one blood pressure reading, Margaret was diagnosed with pre-preeclampsia and spent 4 days in the hospital ✨️ How she was completely numb and immobile from the epidural when her baby was born, and how her primal need to be with her baby was fractured ✨️ How this experience woke her up to the lies and evil of obstetrics, and set her onto a path of discovery and healing ✨️ How she found freebirth and immediately knew a sovereign birth was what she would do with her next baby ✨️ How easy and peaceful her 2nd pregnancy was because she focused on nutrition and stress reduction ✨️ The prevalence and inaccuracy of the preeclampsia diagnosis and how to avoid it ✨️ How integral sodium is for pregnant women, and how often we’re told to eat a low sodium diet from doctors and media ✨️ Animal foods are packed with bioavailable minerals and are the most nutrient dense and nourishing foods for pregnant and postpartum women Enjoy the show! Enrollment is open NOW for the Blood Mysteries School - Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video <a href="https:/
Fri, January 26, 2024
Embodying the Priestess in Our Everyday Mundane Lives with Nancy Lucina and Kristin Hauser
I’m joined today by Kristin and Nancy and we get into it. We have a very candid conversation all about our blood mystery initiations as girls and women, and how the majority of us were conditioned with shame, and mistrust during these rights of passage, and how that then grooms us for medicalized pregnancy, highly managed traumatic birth, and a pharmaceutically dependant menopause. Honoring your Blood Mysteries School acts as a way to disrupt this cycle and reorient yourself to the path of true embodiment by relearning the foundational wisdom of our bodies. Both Kristin and Nancy speak about what being a modern day priestess looks like, including all the unique places they put their menstrual blood. They both beautifully articulate the critical knowledge of the blood mysteries for women to truly thrive, and come back to our essence of self love, where all is possible. Let’s break those toxic cycles women, enjoy this episode, get inspired, and then go grab your spot in the blood mysteries school! Watch this episode HERE Here’s what you’ll hear: What the Blood Mysteries are and the mainstream narratives around them How this programming sets us up for the pipeline of drugs, surgery, and violence from gynecology and obstetrics Why and how to reorient yourself to a more natural path, regardless of age How this work is full of simple, yet foundational shifts around your relationship to time, rest, and productivity How Nancy and Kristin use their menstrual blood for face masks, watering plants, paint, and even a mouthwash, because it’s loaded with stem cells! Our own natural design of self love and abundance, and how we continually spiral towards that essence with each cycle, and year of life More details about the school’s format and all the incredible offerings women have created for themselves and their communities after the school Enrollment is open NOW for the Blood Mysteries School - Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video <a href="https://www.freebirthsociety.co
Fri, January 19, 2024
Stella’s Sovereign Birth Within a Family of Nigerian Doctors
Stella’s Sovereign Birth Within a Family of Nigerian Doctors You can watch this episode HERE Today on the show I have my friend, Stella. Stella comes from a large family of Nigerian doctors, and after she gave up the idea of med school, she found herself in The Radical Birth Keeper School. Stella experienced huge paradigm shifts and deconditioned herself from her medical upbringing to become the woman and mother she wanted to be. While navigating the grief of losing her mother, and the joy of meeting her spirit daughter prior to pregnancy, Stella chooses a wild pregnancy and a birth outside the medical system. Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode: • How Stella grew up in the waiting room of her mother’s doctor’s office • How she assumed that in order to work with mothers and babies, she would have to go down the medical path like everyone else • How meeting her spirit daughter in a plant ceremony changed her orientation to motherhood • Just before Stella joins RBK School her mother passes away, and simultaneously Stella opens the conscious conception portal with her partner • How she navigated a wild pregnancy and her birth plans within a tight knit, medically mainstream family • What she learned from her pregnancy and birth and what she will do different next time • How Stella leaned into her intuition and made each of her choices from an embodied and informed perspective • How she can be triggering and inspiring to her family and community and hopes more women can see that they have a choice ENJOY! Connect with Free Birth Society -Matriarch Rising Festival : Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at next year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Blood Mysteries School : Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. -The Podcast : Leave us a review<
Fri, January 12, 2024
Freebirthing En Caul Babies and Putting Yourself First with Homesteading Nutritionist Noelle Kovary
Watch this episode HERE I’m joined on the show today by the gorgeously brilliant and oh so bright, Noelle. I had originally had her on to talk about nutrition, and to my sheer delight I found out that Noelle in fact freebirthed both of her children! She speaks about moving out of depletion and disease by putting herself first and listening to her body, giving it what it needed. By cultivating inner strength through nourishment and true health, she was able to fully trust her body and freebirth her babies, which were both born in their amniotic sacs, at home, in peace. We go over the radical shifts that take place when mothers move out of martyrdom and into centering themselves, what that looks like, and the harmony that can be found in your relationships when you’re grounded and calm. And how it's really as simple as eating breakfast! Enjoy. Here’s what you’ll hear: ✨️How she knew she would birth at home and after interviewing a midwife and knowing more about birth than her, she decided she would just do it on her own ✨️How after she made the decision to freebirth it was like a weight was lifted and she was able to fully lean into trust ✨️How both of her children were born in their amniotic sacks, and how she’s never experienced the sensation of her waters breaking ✨️How birthing her son was a totally normal and simple, yet extraordinary life event ✨️How Noelle had to really face herself, her relationships, and her resistance in order to birth her daughter ✨️How catching her daughter was the most incredible experience of her life and she can’t wait to tell her that story ✨️How Noelle healed herself from PCOS, Hashimoto’s, and cancer, by learning Ayurveda and taking charge of her health ✨️How much our mood and hormones are impacted by our nutrition and the ripple effects this has on our relationships with our partners, and children ✨️How grounded we can feel when we’re properly fed, and how important it is to be supported by like minded women when we start to walk the path of sovereign living follow @noellekovary Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 -Matriarch Rising Festival '24: TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE!! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at next year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains -The Podcast : Leave us a review<span style="font-weight: 400;"
Fri, January 05, 2024
The RH Negative Freebirthing Sisters from New Zealand: Sophie & Julia
The RH Negative Freebirthing Sisters from New Zealand: Sophie & Julia Watch this episode HERE Sophie and Julia, adorable freebirthing sisters and musicians from NZ join me on the show today, sharing their birth stories and journeys into motherhood. I received an email from them expressing their gratitude for the podcast and how it had changed their lives, so of course I had to bring them on the show. Both sisters are RH negative and without the rhogam shot, they freebirthed two healthy babies into the world. Together they share their stories full of wisdom, laughs, and insights of shedding fears, the power of words, and how freebirth has influenced their music. Be sure and listen all the way to the end, as they bless us with their sweet voices in a beautiful song, inspired by the transformation of freebirth and the profound impact it had on their lives. This is such a fun episode, enjoy! Here’s what you’ll hear: ✨️ How Julia got pregnant first and wanted to freebirth, but to appease others she chose to birth with a homebirth midwife ✨️ How both sisters are RH negative and how after an abortion, a doctor told Julia she was an alien and would need to get the rhogam shot in order for her body to not kill her next baby ✨️ How they both declined the shot for their freebirths, trusting deeply in themselves, knowing the medical system couldn’t keep them safe ✨️ How Sophie’s life changed when she met her nephew and she immediately knew that freebirth was the way ✨️ How Sophie was supported by her sister and partner during her birth and how welcoming her daughter into the world was a complete dimensional shift for her family ✨️ How her baby’s emergence was the most fun moment of her life ✨️ How Julia conceives again and embarks on a healing journey by understanding the power of her words ✨️ How she chose replace the word “labor” with “sacred birth ceremony” in order to envision and actualize a pain free and totally orgasmic birth ✨️ How the sisters music was intertwined with their journey into motherhood and how their music and birth
Fri, December 29, 2023
Emilee Saldaya and 2 Fathers Unpack Freebirth: The Terrain Theory Interview
Watch this episode HERE We are closing out 2023 by turning the tables and bringing you an episode where I’m the one that was interviewed, on the Terrain Theory Podcast! I am really proud of this conversation and the depth of information we cover. It’s one of my best interviews yet! I share my own origin story of birth-work and my journey to discovering sovereign birth, which I haven’t publicly shared in this way before. I unpack the common mistruths and misunderstandings about sovereign birth beyond the system, we go over the host’s own experience with the birth of his son, and let’s be real - I kind of blow these men’s minds. They, like most others, were totally unaware of the trauma, abuse, and lies that modern obstetrics are steeped in and how a medwife-attended homebirth is *totally* inviting the system into your home, despite being sold as the best choice for “freedom fighters”. We touch on instinct injury, why I don’t use the word empowerment, and how important women-only gatherings are. Here’s what you’ll hear: ✨️My own story of dropping out of high school, moving to LA, diving headfirst into infant massage, and bereavement support for parents whose babies were terminally ill ✨️How I thought I could reform birth-work in the system, and the gaslighting and deep programming I was up against that kept me in the system for 10 years ✨️How a particularly traumatic set of births led me to understanding there was no way to ethically continue birth-work in the system ✨️The nuance and importance of language and what is a midwife, a medwife, a freebirth, and what it isn't. ✨️I unpack a bit of Ben’s son’s birth and the unnecessary drama their medwife created by her own fear and allegiances to the state ✨️How engaging in the system is entirely voluntary and we explore women’s healing potential without it CONNECT WITH FREE BIRTH SOCIETY: -The Podcast : Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign <a href="https:
Fri, December 22, 2023
From Medwives, ECV, and GBS to Family Births with Rachel Kirk
From Medwives, ECV, and GBS to Family Births with Rachel Kirk Watch this episode HERE Longtime Free Birth Society Member, Rachel Kirk, is finally on the show today sharing her 3 birth stories, culminating in a true family birth that was attended by her sister, mother, father, and sons. How cute is that!? When Rachel’s chosen birth center medwives threatened to drop her care, coerced her into an ECV for her breech baby, and then never answered her calls during labor, she decided for her next birth she would just do it on her own. Fully supported by her family, she went on to freebirth her second and third sons at home. With her mother supporting her, and her father as photographer, she gave birth to her perfect baby boys. Here’s what you’ll hear: How Rachel wanted to be a compliant patient in order to have a “natural” birth center birth How she found out at 37 weeks that her baby was breech and was coerced into an ECV to maintain her care with the birth center How she went into labor and called the birth center for hours, and after them never answering she reluctantly went to the hospital to give birth How when she got pregnant with her 2nd she knew she couldn't trust the birth center, so she decided she would just do it herself How her decision was supported by her whole family, including her sister who later went on to freebirth How easy and incredible giving birth to her 2nd son was when she was left alone to do whatever she wanted How different this labor was to her first two and the pain she endured to birth her baby How special, and unique it is to have birth be a normal family event, that even her little brother called into work to have the day free The Freebirth Starter Kit is HERE ! This is a completely free, highly-curated collection of educational and inspiring resources from Emilee Saldaya, that is sure to change your life. THE INITIATED WOMAN Welcoming You Into the Sacred Secrets of Womanhood Our FREE 3-part live event with Nancy Luc
Fri, December 15, 2023
Claiming the Creative Power of Sovereign Motherhood with Winona
Claiming the Creative Power of Sovereign Motherhood with Winona Watch this episode HERE Today on the show I have Winona, a young and radiant mother from Australia. Winona speaks to how she transformed from a selfish maiden to a confident mother, sure of herself and her choices. She walks us through the work and presence it took to move through fears, and prepare herself for the work of birth. With the support of a radical birth keeper, a friend, and her partner, she gave birth to her baby girl and a new powerhouse of confidence within herself was formed as a mother. Winona’s story is a perfect example of the creative spark that is ignited through an intact, physiological birth and the true potential all women have when they are respected and honored during these sacred passages. . Here’s what you’ll hear: How before motherhood Winona always felt like something was lacking or missing within herself How the serendipitous choice to join a sovereign birth session in her first trimester led to meeting her radical birth keeper and learning about unassisted birth How she honed in on her “why” and how this fortified her decision and helped build her confidence to birth at home How the lesson in her labor was to surrender and not try to escape the intensity How her baby was born with a very short cord, how she thought for a moment it was a boy and the relief when she found out it was in fact the baby girl she had been connecting with all along Her fond memories of postpartum, the wild ride of hormones, and cultivating deep trust that her baby was perfect and no one else needed to validate that The creativity that was sparked through giving birth and the endless ideas and abundance that’s come to her and her partner The realization that she can truly do anything, now that she's given birth and claimed her power as a mother THE INITIATED WOMAN Welcoming You Into the Sacred Secrets of Womanhood Our FREE 3-part live event with Nancy Lucina & Kristin Hauser Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. <span style="fon
Fri, December 08, 2023
Choosing Nourishment Over Restrictive Diets with Jessica Ash
Choosing Nourishment Over Restrictive Diets with Jessica Ash Watch this episode HERE In this week’s episode of the podcast, we are shaking it up from our normal birth story rotation… I’m chatting with Jessica Ash, who candidly details her journey through various restrictive diets as she attempted to heal chronic hormonal and fertility problems, only to realize that her fixation on restriction was hindering her path to true, vibrant health. Jessica is a wealth of wisdom when it comes to food, real nourishment, and rising above the mainstream norms of nutritional deprivation. Here’s what you’ll hear in her episode: Jessica’s journey through the trials of PCOS and multiple autoimmune disease diagnoses, and how she tried restrictive diets like veganism, paleo, keto, and carnivore in order to find a solution to her symptoms, yet only found herself in a toxic cycle. Jessica discusses the “undernourished state”, the scarcity mindset it breeds, and how nutritional wealth can be transferred across generations, particularly when you experience a well-nourished and nutrient-dense pregnancy. How nourishing our bodies on a cellular level is the gateway to our full-being wellness, and how it can help us to explore health as a soul-journey. The cultural push to self-harm through extreme dieting and severance from our intuitive and biological indicators trying to tell us how to eat. The importance of progesterone in women's health, specifically metabolic functioning, and how to foster a healthy flow of progesterone through radical self-nourishment. The reason why women have become so disconnected from their intuition when it comes to food and the importance of intuitive eating (yes, women can enjoy carbs, meat, and dairy!) 💗 Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on <span style="font-we
Fri, December 01, 2023
Softening into Self: Amy's Freebirth Transformation
Softening into Self: Amy's Freebirth Transformation Watch this episode HERE This week on the show I have the radiant Amy, who is an RBK grad, a Matriarch Rising contributor, and now, a freebirther! Amy tells us how she went from a bible thumping young bride to plant medicine hippy, meeting her new man and opening up to motherhood. Amy weaves her three birth stories around the deep learnings of how to accept herself, love herself and really know herself, all coalescing in a full on transformation. Here’s what you’ll hear: How Amy realized her first husband was not going to be the father of her children and how this woke her up to her true desires of motherhood How meeting her real life partner felt so in alignment that they conceived their first baby super fast The horrific and totally common abuse Amy experienced from her medwives and the trauma she disassociated from in order to cope How she even played with the idea of becoming a midwife but something always felt off How everything clicked when she found the freebirth society podcast and realized that she could make a different choice if she were to get pregnant again How it took a friend to validate her rage and anger about how her first two births went for her healing to truly start How her most recent pregnancy was a fully conscious conception and was the full circle healing she needed to accept and forgive herself The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Join the waitlist for the Blood Mysteries School here. Get the Guide to Infant Massage here . Join our newsletter here. Apple for a work trade position at the next Matriarch Rising Festival here. The COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. Leave us a review on <a href="https://podcas
Fri, November 24, 2023
Healing Prolapse, Diastasis Recti, and Tearing with Rebecca Cohen
Healing Prolapse, Diastasis Recti, and Tearing with Rebecca Cohen Watch this episode HERE I’ve got Dr. Rebecca Cohen back on the show this week in celebration of our newest collaboration. One of the most common requests I’ve gotten from you all is to create a pelvic health course, that covers all the problems, so to speak, of the postpartum pelvis and pelvic floor, or bowl, as Rebecca calls it. Well, we did it, we’ve been working hard all fall behind the scenes to create the most info packed, helpful, comprehensive course on the postpartum pelvis. It’s called, Your Postpartum Pelvis, and it is FOR YOU to have aid you in your healing, to keep you healing at home, outside of the medical system. This episode and our newest course YOUR POSTPARTUM PELVIS is crafted for you. Rebecca has now supported thousands of women over decades helping them come back into embodiment after childbirth, with the very wisdom within this course. You deserve to feel whole again, and I am just so proud to finally have this kind of resource on the free birth society platform. Go to freebirthsociety.com/yourpostpartumpelvis and start healing today. Here’s what you’ll hear: How Rebecca returned back to her medical residency, 4 weeks to the day after having her first baby, to work 100 plus hours per week. By Rebecca’s third pregnancy, her cervix popped out, and she was told to just tuck it back in. At 36, her doctors recommended having a full hysterectomy, and 2 weeks before she was scheduled for surgery, she took the holistic pelvic care course that resulted in her canceling the surgery. Just because a woman gets sutures doesn’t mean she needs them, and as an OBGYN, Rebecca was trained just to give them all the time, even if women didn’t need them. How psychological tearing is okay and designed to heal an important part of the postpartum process. After learning about holistic pelvic care, Rebecca feels it’s a delightful coming home and a continuing decision to honor ourselves and our bodies. How when people have prolapse, they feel broken and how they screwed up somehow. It’s never too late to heal because Rebecca started this journey 10 years after having her first baby. And how you’re capable of healing. Listen to Rebecca's first time on the podcast <a hre
Fri, November 17, 2023
The Sovereign Sparrow: Flying Free After Wrongful Surgery
The Sovereign Sparrow: Flying Free After Wrongful Surgery Watch this episode HERE This week I have my sweet sister, Sparrow, back on the show to tell her redemption story. You may remember her from an earlier season, when she told us about her first birth, in which she transferred herself. She had felt confident in the transfer, thinking she could just go into the hospital as a seasoned birth-worker and get a catheter to empty her bladder. Instead, she was wrongfully diagnosed with HIV and forced into a c-section. It’s a brutal story, and so I’m especially thrilled to have her back on today, sharing this new story. Sparrow tells us all about her new love, her beautiful family, her sovereign birth, and her much deserved blissful postpartum. Listen to her first time on the podcast HERE Here’s what you’ll hear: Sparrow’s wild story about being wrongfully diagnosed with HIV during the labour of her first baby, after going into the hospital because she couldn’t release her bladder. How the HIV misdiagnosis resulted in an emergency C-section, and why she chose to have a vaginal birth after this experience. How she was abandoned by her ex-husband at 11 weeks pregnant during her first pregnancy and the physical manifestation it created in her body. How her second pregnancy and birth allowed her to reflect on her first birth and truly heal from it. How our births unfold truly shape us as women and how Sparrow would have loved to rewrite her first birth story. How different her second birth was and how deeply seen, safe and loved that it almost felt enough for the current pregnancy and past pregnancy felt. How she was open to freebirthing but also having wise women attend the birth (& what she ultimately decided to do). Join Free Birth Society’s exclusive membership for sovereign women. Here, you'll find everything you need on your path of radical responsibility and conscious womanhood. We welcome women just a handful of times each year, and doors are currently open at 40% off! Apply here . The COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Leave us a review on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/free-birth-society/id123191
Fri, November 10, 2023
When Your Husband Doesn’t Support Freebirth: Mikiah’s Lessons
Episode #239 When Your Husband Doesn’t Support Freebirth: Mikiah’s Lessons Mikiah admits she betrayed herself in letting her husband lead on where she should birth her first child. She brilliantly and painfully articulates the horrors of the birth center and the medical midwifery practices that she endured. She learned what she needed to learn to choose differently when she became pregnant again. Mikiah shares the perfect birth story of her second, attended by her darling husband and toddler. Here’s what you’ll hear: The domination strategies that nurses and doctors use and the horrible things that were said to Mikiah to get her to be subordinate. Her choice not to have an ultrasound and how her doctor's tone changed from “ this could be nothing” to now “your baby could have down syndrome.” Traumatic medwifery practices like nipple stimulation, pushing without contractions and a midwife holding her placenta How her second pregnancy was filled with intentional conscious decisions How to get your partner on board with freebirth (the short answer is don't, it's not their decision), the importance of making decisions independently, and the role of codependency in relationships. The emotional and physical impact of birth trauma The importance of trusting and choosing yourself Watch this episode HERE Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on <span style="font-wei
Fri, November 03, 2023
Leaving the System as a Medical Midwife to Experience the Ecstasy of Freebirthing Twins with Bibi
Episode #238 Leaving the System as a Medical Midwife to Experience the Ecstasy of Freebirthing Twins with Bibi Watch this episode HERE Bibi became a licensed medical midwife at 19 years old. She had never heard of freebirth, but when she became pregnant with her first child it was an obvious no that she’d expose herself and her baby to ...well, where she worked. This is an important episode, enjoy. Here’s what you’ll hear: -How Bibi freebirthed her first baby super fast with no pain or pushing, and the realization that babies could be born peacefully without crying, just looking at you. -How she hired (& fired) her private midwife during her first pregnancy after a scan came back with fibroids and she was told she can’t birth at home because she’d surely die -The negativity she experience after sharing with her 300,000 followers on TikTok that she planned to freebirth her twins. -The brief sense of fear that she could be having a third baby when she was birthing her twin placentas (it was that huge). -How after the birth of her twins she felt she was reborn as a mother, as a woman, as and as a midwife. -How birthing her children outside the system radically transformed her midwifery Follow @your_holisticmidwife Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Apply to be a work trade volunteer at next year's Matriarch Rising Festival! If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram
Fri, October 27, 2023
From Anxious People Pleaser to Embodied Powerhouse: Heather’s Freebirth Journey
Episode # 237 From Anxious People Pleaser to Embodied Powerhouse: Heather’s Freebirth Journey Watch this episode HERE Heather discovered her unplanned pregnancy amidst a hectic trade show circuit, and she realized her life was about to take an unexpected twist. She navigated debilitating pregnancy sickness as she worked in corporate America. She had her first birth in a hospital, supported by a doula. But Heather wanted more, she wanted better. The gaslighting she encountered from her medical midwife during her labor proved to be a pivotal moment in her journey, enabling her to find her voice and claim her life. Here’s what you’ll hear: ∙ How to navigate intense mental states, anxiety, home birth fears, and gaslighting to find your voice and strength. ∙How Heather faced her people-pleasing tendencies, took responsibility, found a homeopath, and tuned into her body to regain health. ∙How she transitioned from corporate life to pregnancy, joined a prenatal circle, and discussed medicalization and nature's role in motherhood. ∙How her husband had been calling in the baby while she was working in corporate marketing, and running a three-acre homestead, tending to goats in her off hours, going and picking up new goats, adding more farm animals, and tending to a big garden. ∙How her connection with Sister MorningStar helped her to trust her intuition and birth her daughter (and her trailing membranes!) without fear. Follow: @happinesssahomestead Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. Apply to be a work trade volunteer at next year's Matriarch Rising Festival! If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. <span style="font-weight:
Fri, October 20, 2023
Honoring the First Mother - The Power & Mystery of the Placenta with Sister MorningStar
Episode #236 Honoring the First Mother - The Power & Mystery of the Placenta with Sister MorningStar Watch this episode HERE Have you ever considered the importance and sacred journey of the placenta, our first mother, in the birthing process? This often overlooked yet crucial part of childbirth takes center stage in our conversation with the wise and insightful Sister Morningstar. We venture deep into the mysterious and powerful process of childbirth, exploring not only the birth of the baby but also the birth of the placenta. From understanding the signs of readiness for the placenta's birth to the emotions involved with its release, Sister MorningStar guides us through this extraordinary journey. Here’s what you’ll hear: How the placenta is a fetal organ and often overlooked in the birthing process. The sacred journey of the placenta through two portal doors, aided by gravity and upright position, with mother guiding the cord using only the wrist. How to reduce fear and anxiety around blood loss during birth (& remind women that birth is bloody, it's messy, it's wet, and it's got mucus). The power of childbirth and how it is a powerful story that deserves to be celebrated (& how our past lineage play a factor in what we believe about birth). How wise women can help counter the fear in birth with their power and experience. Why the uterus must contract to birth the placenta and mention ways to encourage this such as nipple stimulation, massage, and letting the mother rest. The significance of an undisturbed birthing environment and the powerful experience of women using their strength to guide the baby and placenta out. Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the
Fri, October 13, 2023
Choosing a Drama-Free Birth with Nya
Episode #235 Choosing a Drama-Free Birth with Nya Watch this episode HERE In this episode Nya and I cover navigating a journey of spontaneity, vulnerability, and primal strength, Nya's path to motherhood reveals the profound challenges and beauty of embracing one's instincts in the face of societal pressures. Here’s what you’ll hear: Nya’s spontaneous choice to get pregnant the first time (& the absurd thing the doctor said to her when she confirmed her pregnancy). The deep shadow work she and her partner did to prepare for baby and motherhood. How vulnerable women are during birth and how easy it is to say ‘yes’ when we really want to say ‘no.’ An intervention from her midwife that she was totally unaware of during her birth and how she handled it after. How she had ‘enough’ interventions to know she didn’t want to hire a midwife again. How the Radical Birth Keeper School was the turning point for completely changing the way she lives her life. How she went from asking her midwife what to do in her first pregnancy to totally embracing a wild pregnancy during her second pregnancy. How she had a nine-moon pregnancy and the witchy way she found she was pregnant in the first place. Nya's website Our newest program COMPASS is a groundbreaking self-study program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth reclamation and authentic midwifery. It’s everything you need to anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. Join us on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. <span style
Fri, October 06, 2023
Into the Portal with Yoga Girl’s Rachel Brathen
Episode #234 Into the Portal with Yoga Girl's Rachel Brathen Watch this episode HERE We’re starting the season on a high note with a soulful conversation with Rachel Brathen, lovingly known to many of us as YogaGirl. Here’s what you’ll hear: Rachel’s story of having no role models for a healthy marriage or healthy birth, yet her first birth dreams were of unassisted birth. The adorable story of how she and her husband met (Hint: imagine a surf shop, a short getaway, and a small island). Both of her conception stories (& how she knew she was ready for motherhood). Having her first child in Aruba, the birth sabotage she experienced with medical midwives and the system, and how she gaslit herself for years about it. How she leveled up in success and self-responsibility. The decision to move her family from Aruba to Sweden, her land of origin. The story of her beautiful and perfect freebirth in the water. Join us, on a transformative journey, an immersion into the heart and soul of independent midwifery. The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat Led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya. Get your tickets now! If this episode inspires you somehow, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway–whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or dive deeper into the sovereign birth paradigm. And while you’re here, follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor . Ready to share your Freebirth story
Fri, May 26, 2023
In New Waters of Awe: Host Emilee Saldaya’s First 40 Days of Postpartum
Welcome back to Part 2 of my recent birth story. This week’s episode is all about my postpartum. We’ll pick up right where we left off and carry through the first 40 days. I cover topics ranging from beginning elimination communication on day 1, co-sleeping, our first outing, traveling internationally, free-bleeding, sibling integration, birth certificates, body image, and boundaries. I’ll also share a bit about my closing of the bones and placenta burial ceremony, how I accidentally closed the postpartum portal too soon, and how I learned to open it again. Join me for the good, the expansive, the funny, and the raw naked bloody joy of welcoming my second child. Pregnant? Enroll now for Matribirth Family™ - Our Live, Interactive Freebirth Education Series for Couples with Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark http://www.matribirthfamily.com/ Sign up to be the first to hear when our Matribirth™ Educator program launches later this fall! www.matribirth.com Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/xQjE9-Higmc Listen to: A Psychedelic Bitch Slap: Host Emilee Saldaya’s Recent Freebirth https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147942781 Listen to: Elimination Communication Demystified with Andrea Olson from Go Diaper Free https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147610369 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: <a href="https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gi
Fri, May 19, 2023
A Psychedelic Bitch Slap: Host Emilee Saldaya’s Recent Freebirth
This week on the show I am finally bringing you the birth story of my son, Sawyer. I share the psychedelic journey that quite honestly, kicked my ass. This episode takes you from the start of my labor, which began with the pulsing of gorgeous mandalas in my third eye and takes you through the rather funny and oh-so-intense six hours of my mind-bending excruciating birth that left me flopped over some pillows like a dead fish begging god to just take me. The story ends with us happily snuggled in bed as a family of four, well five — my mom was there, and will pick up next week as I take you through my first 40 days of my postpartum, the highs, the lows, the mistakes and the epic joy. Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/ZZeEAGMTedw The 40-Week Wild Pregnancy Wrap Up with Emilee & Jonny (Round 2) : https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147798835 Birth & Her Many Lessons: Host Emilee Saldaya Tells Her Tale (Part 1) : https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147610394 How I Untransferred Myself While Pushing: Host Emilee Saldaya Tells Her Tale (Part 2) : https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147610393 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.f
Fri, May 12, 2023
15 Minutes of Stillness: Erica and Her Son Claim Life Together
This week I am bringing you one of my favorite episodes EVER, with one of my nearest and dearest, Erica Davis. Erica moved here to MY land in the beginning of her second pregnancy and we share the adorable story of traveling together in our pregnancies and her birthing just two weeks before me! Erica speaks to the up-level she experienced in finally having like minded sisterhood, the healing of her sister wounds, and the darkness in which she traveled in to bring her second son to this earth. When Erica’s baby didn’t take a noticeable breath for 15 minutes, Erica and her husband found themselves in uncharted waters, rich with lessons and new perspectives on life. Get ready for lots of F bombs and giggles in this one, enjoy! Listen to Erica’s first birth story here: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147610338 Listen to this episode here: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147937922 Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/IdiAF2jPU2g GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/
Fri, May 05, 2023
Where Grief Meets Joy: Meg's Birth Outside the System
Meg's story starts with a traumatic early birth in the system at 17 weeks with her first son, Shiloh. The dehumanizing experience proved to her that the hospital was the last place she wanted to be, so she planned a homebirth outside the system with an authentic midwife - me! Meg shares how she learned to accept the intermingling of joy and grief in navigating her pregnancy and upcoming birth. Meg vulnerably tells us how shell shocked she was from her baby's fast birth (spoiler, I missed it!)- and how she was left physically and emotionally rocked, wondering ‘was that it’? Meg's story offers insight into how not all freebirths are the peaceful instagram videos you see, but are often far more real, raw, and primal. We touch on her initially challenging breastfeeding journey and the trust she felt in her body and her baby to find their way. Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/9dxaU-RnZCQ Listen to this episode here: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147932222 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/? hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/
Fri, April 28, 2023
Shedding the Sin of Eve: Amy's Freebirth
My friend Amy joins me on the show this week sharing her 5 birth stories. Amy is full of rich insights about her journey through motherhood as a radical feminist. Amy speaks honestly about the victim consciousness she lived in and how she gave away her power time and time again. It was in learning to fully trust women and therefore herself that Amy was finally able to shed the last layers of doubt and internal misogyny, which made way for her to claim her deepest desire; to give birth and catch her baby, all on her own. Her psychedelic postpartum reminds us of the physiology of transformation inherent to birth and the pure bliss we have access to when we are liberated as women. Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/kQ0ppTboc58 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/
Fri, April 21, 2023
Unleashing the Warrior: Dominique’s FBAC of 11lb Baby
After being backed into a corner, fear mongered, and without options in her first birth, Dominique was bullied into a c-section. When she became pregnant again, she was determined to write a new story. She thought she could make it work with her medical midwives by speaking up, saying no, and taking the reins, but it turned out, as it so often does, that resulted in her midwives abandoning her care at 37 weeks pregnant. Facing the paths ahead of her, Dominique knew it was either a repeat c-section…or a freebirth. So with the support of her friend on the phone, intentional breath work, and finding her warrior strength within, Dominique freebirthed her 11 pound baby boy. She speaks of the transformation and inner strength she cultivated, and the real discovery of her voice to speak up towards injustice; claiming her autonomy and moving towards a life of peace, even if it is by herself. Listen to this episode here: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147920430 Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/6Q374M3RAN0 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/
Fri, April 14, 2023
Thank You God: Choosing the Portal of Pain-Free Birth
My co-creator, bestie and big sis, Yolande Norris-Clark joins me on the show - for the who's even counting by now - time, sharing her most recent birth of her 9th precious baby, Helio. Yolande shares the story of consciously conceiving her son, her mind-bending painful pregnancy; culminating in her first ever completely pain-free, totally ecstatic, blissful, even orgasmic birth. In true Yolande fashion there are countless pieces of wisdom and grace, as she eloquently articulates the choices she was faced with, her ever deepening allegiance to her own spontaneous healing, and the portal she walked through to choose a birth without any suffering. Work with Yolande: https://www.yolandenorris-clark.com/ Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/uLNAKPFk1qc GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/
Fri, April 07, 2023
The Power of Twins: Alison's Birth Outside of the System
Alison from Australia shares her wild ride, from birthing in the system, choosing IVF, then later learning she was in fact entirely fertile. After getting dropped from her medical midwives, Alison stepped into the big work of birthing outside the system. Alison shares how she invited her previous doula into her twin homebirth, and the birth itself was undisturbed and rooted in total power and bliss. Unfortunately, her birth keeper then made calls that weren’t hers to make, and Alison shares how everything then changed. @the.collins.life Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/NjHHkejppAA GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/
Fri, March 31, 2023
Becoming Whole and Being Enough: Nicole's C-Section to Freebirth
Nicole joins me on the show today sharing her 3 birth stories, ending with the redemptive story of her FBAC, (a freebirth after c-section). After Nicole’s midwives sabotaged her homebirth and coerced her into a traumatic c-section, Nicole was left heartbroken and feeling entirely inadequate to enter motherhood. For her second birth she turned to the same midwives and while she did have her baby at home, she was once again violated by the very women who she hired to support her. Through her own discovery and internal work, she got pregnant for the third time and knew it was time to claim the birth of her dreams, without looking to anyone else. Nicole articulates the power of what happens when there is no one there to outsource, and you just pick up your baby and become…well, enough. You become whole. You become a truly embodied mother. @nourishfarmturlock GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/
Fri, March 24, 2023
The Rebirth of Spirit: Noriko's Freebirth in Japan
This week we have Noriko from Japan. Noriko's spirit babies communicated with her from a young age and she always knew her part of her soul's path was to create a family. Her journey through her pregnancies and two births asked her to travel to dark places, shedding old patterns and beliefs, and finding her the way through to happiness and wholeness; rebirthing her spirit again and again. This week, Noriko tells us about the sweetness of a fully supported postpartum and having the crucial piece of heart-tending from a fellow RBK graduate. I love Noriko's stories as they offer insight to the mother's journey and the ripple effects that freebirth has on our families, communities, and the world. @noriko_e_nakagawa Facebook group name : 自宅出産について話すコミュニティグループ GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission **Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE** https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/
Fri, March 17, 2023
You Can Do Anything For A Minute: Laceinne's Freebirth(s)
Laceinne found herself quickly turning her back on medical midwifery in her pregnancy and deciding to go it alone, despite having never heard the term freebirth. Her simple motto of “you got this” got her through her debilitating pregnancy and kept her mind clean and clear as she prepared for her birth. Laceinne reminds us all that you can do anything for a few minutes at a time and all you have to do to find your inner resources, is to simply claim them. @laceinne Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/zT4Rf-ER1xA The Blood Mysteries School is Open for Enrollment NOW: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.c om Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission
Fri, March 10, 2023
The Intersection of Radical Responsibility and GNM with Dr Melissa Sell
Dr. Melissa Sell joins me on the show for the second time, diving deeper into German New Medicine. She touches on everything from tracks and resolutions, to allergies, terrain theory, misconceptions, and more. We chat about her own personal evolution from rigidity and dogma, to adaptation and flexibility, the intersection of personal responsibility and GNM, our shared pursuit of truth, and the freedom it creates. I am thrilled to have Melissa joining us at Matriarch Rising Festival once again and for her to share her genius and passion for GNM and women’s liberation through their own healing. Enjoy the episode. @drmelissasell https://www.drmelissasell.com/ Listen to our first episode together here: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147775768 Watch this episode here: https://youtu.be/8JLvJlG_5nU GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission The Blood Mysteries School is Open for Enrollment NOW: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.c... Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/
Fri, March 03, 2023
A Wonderful New Life: Kallen's Freebirth
This week I have artist and first time mom Kallen telling the easy going story of the birth of her son. She recalls her life long love and obsession with babies, mothers, and all things birth, and the exciting revelation that she was ready to start having her own babies and could just do it on her own. One sunny day, with rainbows cast about the room, she gave birth. We speak on the incredible power of women telling their stories of autonomous birth and how quickly we can upgrade and evolve through our collective experiences. Kallen’s story serves as an example of how beautifully simple birth can be when you just stay home and have your baby. https://www.kallenmikel.com/ WATCH THIS EPISODE HERE: https://youtu.be/MaKweRDn9Gw GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.c... JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/ JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/ FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthso.. . SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission The Blood Mysteries School is Open for Enrollment NOW: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.c.. . Tickets for the 3rd Annual Matriarch Rising Festival are LIVE: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/
Fri, February 24, 2023
The 12 Days in Between: From Child Loss to Freebirth
On the show today I have Simone, from Australia, sharing her heart wrenching story of losing her 2.5 year old daughter and just 12 days later free birthing her second daughter. She tells us of the gutting journey of going through her wild pregnancy while navigating the allopathic system for Evie - trying to maintain autonomy and dignity for her family amongst providers who were left astounded at her daughter's quickly diminishing condition. She vulnerably shares of her daughter's death, the redemptive birth of Freya and everything in between. This is one of those impossible stories and yet Simone is not alone. There are bereaved mothers all around us and this is a deep touching story that softens our hearts and reminds us of the enormous heartbreak, complexities, and courage of motherhood. May this story medicine today honor the sweet life of little Evie and may all mothers who have lost children feel our warm hug and solidarity within this episode. Instagram - @simone_awakenedbirth ENROLLMENT IS OPEN FOR THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.c... GET YOUR TICKETS TO THIS YEAR'S MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.c... JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.c... JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.c... VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.c... FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthso... SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! Email pictures and text to submissions@freebirthsociety.com.
Fri, February 17, 2023
Radical Womb Healing as a Path to Freebirth with Kristin Hauser
Today on the show I invite back (for the 5th time!) the brilliant Kristin Hauser. Kristin, the co leader of the Blood Mysteries School, a womb and sexual health educator, an experienced freebirthing mom and good friend of mine, brings the story of her third birth, at home, surrounded by family. She tells of the joyful emergence of her son, her daughter's excited response, and the healing power of being witnessed by her own mother. Kristin recalls the ease she felt through postpartum, crediting it to her experience as a third time mom, and how she drew upon her knowledge of women's sacred times; having the tools to support herself. Kristin speaks to the alchemy of her own womb healing journey, and how it shapes her current practice as a women's health coach, a mother, and as a leader within her community. The Blood Mysteries School is led by Kristin Hauser and Nancy Lucina, and is now open for enrollment. https://www.instagram.com/kristinhauser Kristin’s Previous Episodes https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147775223 https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147610328 https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147610364 https://www.freebirthsociety.com/podcasts/free-birth-society/episodes/2147610408 ENROLLMENT IS OPEN FOR THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/bloodmysteries GET YOUR TICKETS TO THIS YEAR'S MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! Email pictures and text to submissions@freebirthsociety.com.
Fri, February 10, 2023
Surviving the Impossible: The Many Lives of Kelsey Hitchcock
This week on the show I talk with the sweet and courageous Kelsey who shares her big stories of sexual abuse, teen motherhood, and becoming wheelchair bound with MS. In her most recent pregnancy, she experienced a true 12 month pregnancy which she contributed to being, at the time, a fruitarian. Kelsey tells us the wild story of fleeing from Taiwan in labor and barely getting off the plane in time to freebirth her 3rd daughter in a hostel in the Philippines! She shares openly about the abuse she endured, her radical lifestyle, and leaning on the connection she developed with her breath, body, and mind. Kelsey's story offers a vulnerable look at trauma and pain, personal choice, responsibility, and the transformative power of birth. Work with Kelsey - www.sexualassaultrecovery.com, instagram.com/braidingsovereignty ENROLLMENT IS OPEN FOR THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/bloodmysteries GET YOUR TICKETS TO THIS YEAR'S MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/
Fri, February 03, 2023
When the Lights Come On: Karlin's Journey into Sovereignty
This week we have my friend Karlin on the show, sharing her journey into sovereignty. Karlin’s first experience of pregnancy ended in an abortion in the medical system, which came with it many lessons for her to digest. When her second pregnancy ended in a first trimester early birth, she turned to her partner, the land, and the wisdom of her own body to find her way forward. Her third pregnancy resulted in her sweet daughter being free birthed, supported by her husband and well.…yours truly, on the phone. Karlin speaks honestly about how much resistance she had to birth itself, feeling the pain, and how much stronger she has become on the other side. JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/bloodmysteries GET YOUR TICKETS TO THIS YEAR'S MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SU
Fri, January 27, 2023
The Holistic Hearted OBGYN Finds Her Way
Today I bring you Dr. Rebecca Cohen’s wild journey from indoctrination into the obstetrics system, to serving as a radical, holistically-hearted birthkeeper. After almost dropping out of medical school several times during her training and residency, Rebecca finally got through the “hazing process” and became known as the “natural OB”. After having her own children, Rebecca decided to step away from her career, and when she was ready to serve women again years later in a different way, she found the Radical Birth Keeper School. Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/0R8n91qqB9g ATTEND THE MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submissio n Connect with Rebecca: https://www.instagram.com/fullcircleholistic/
Fri, January 20, 2023
Newborn First Breaths: Protecting the First Moments of Life with Elder Midwife Sister Morningstar
Today I am bringing you a very special episode with my dear friend and one of my mentors, Elder Midwife Sister Morningstar. Sister Morningstar played a big part in last year’s Matriarch Rising Festival, and this conversation was actually recorded for the Virtual Matriarch Rising Festival Bundle that we offered in the fall of 2022! In this episode, Sister brings us a much-needed, mother-centered perspective on the sacred first moments of a newborns life. We get into the do’s and don’ts of neonatal resuscitation, what is needed to protect the health and wellbeing of motherbaby, and how to get back in touch with our wild, primal nature. Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/KZKFBAJIfAc ATTEND THE MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL: https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Connect with Sister: https://www.sistermorningstar.com
Fri, January 13, 2023
VBAC After C-Section Complications: Roxane’s Birth in Belgium
Roxane, a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate from Belgium, had her first baby via c-section after finding out she was positioned breech. Roxane suffered a horrible, life-threatening complication from the surgery 6 days postpartum, and decided shortly after there was no way she would go back to birth in the hospital ever again. Roxane stayed steadfast to her vision and birthed her second daughter in her own home, away from the harms of the hospital. Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/XxeXsJPIcR8 APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Connect with Roxane: https://www.instagram.com/maternitesauvage/
Fri, January 06, 2023
Rachel's Year Long Pregnancy and 60 Hour Freebirth
To kick off 2023, I'm bringing you a mind-blowing wild pregnancy story with quite the plot twist! At a supposed 44 weeks gestation with no signs of labor, Rachel began to backtrack on her conception timeline and realized that she actually conceived this baby shortly after an early pregnancy loss at around 9 weeks. Since she hadn't tracked the bleeding as a miscarriage, she went on with her pregnancy, believing that she was three months further along than she actually was! Her "year long" pregnancy went on to prepare her for an intense nearly 60-hour birth at 42 weeks. Rachel's story is an incredible testament to the mystery of birth, the power of trust and patience, and the magic of sitting in the unknown. Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/q-iZg5FIUhk APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Connect with Rachel: https://www.instagram.com/mama_ray_martinez/
Fri, December 16, 2022
Smiling Through It All: Janessa's Peaceful Family Freebirth in Hawaii
I'm excited to share with you all today Janessa's beautiful freebirth story, which is truly a reclamation of so many parts of her first birth, a hospital birth. After she consistently gave her power away in her first pregnancy and birth, by the time she got pregnant again, she knew she was going to do things very differently. With her second daughter, Janessa chose a peaceful pregnancy over a pregnancy in the system, and a freebirth over a hospitalized experience. Through taking responsibility for her choices, Janessa was able to reclaim everything that had given away in her first birth- even down to smiling through a peaceful emergence. Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/aVpCQ1Ctgdg APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Connect with Janessa: https://www.instagram.com/heartwomb/
Fri, December 09, 2022
A Tell-All Conversation with Felicity: the NHS Whistleblower Turned Radical Birth Keeper
Felicity is a formerly registered midwife with the National Health Service (NHS), the publicly funded healthcare system in England. She had wanted to be a mother ever since she was a little girl, and midwifery seemed like the most aligned career for her- until she woke up to the reality that she was assisting in the violence and sabotage of mothers and babies in birth by attending them in the hospital. In this episode, we discuss the brainwashing that took place in her schooling and trainings, the toll medical midwifery took on her spirit, and her life now as a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate, after surrendering her license, and starting a business attending births fully outside of the medical system. Watch this episode on YouTube: youtu.be/UM8-1zeuUtI APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pr…ions-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_bu…_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Connect with Felicity: www.instagram.com/felicityinbirth/
Fri, December 02, 2022
Birth in Prayer and Song: Tati's Journey in Germany
Tati had been attending women as a doula for years, first in her homeland of Brazil, and then in Germany. But when she got pregnant, she could no longer stand to witness the abuse in the medical system and spent her pregnancy and birth unwinding from the traumas she had seen. She chose freebirth, held by her friends and partner. Tati's birth of her daughter was a medicine ceremony: complete with reverence, prayer, and song, all ending in the integration of a beautiful mother and woman. Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/WPQ4zPgeqDY APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Connect with Tati: https://kaliandra.de
Fri, November 18, 2022
Jenni's Pain-Free, Solo, Garden Freebirth
Today on the show, we have a rather unique story: a solo mother who chose to freebirth entirely alone. Jenni is a first-time mom who knew freebirth was her path right from the start. After a simple and integrated wild pregnancy, Jenni birthed her daughter completely alone in her garden in just a few hours, start to finish! In this episode, we talk about how Jenni's mental fortitude through years of yoga, meditation, and solo hiking set her up to experience what birth could be like for ALL women who claim what they want in their pregnancies and births. Watch this episode on YouTube! https://youtu.be/DyaoQXB9HY8 APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Connect with Jenni: https://www.instagram.com/live.your.legend/
Fri, November 11, 2022
Ita's Wild VBAC Reclamation at (Nearly) 44 Weeks
With her first pregnancy, Ita wholeheartedly trusted her medical midwife and OBGYN to give her the gentle, natural birth she wanted. After her OB told her she had to be induced due to her baby’s “abnormal kidney size”, she was left with a surgical birth that completely wrecked her first couple years of postpartum. When she got pregnant again, she found a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate and other wise women to walk with her completely outside of the medical system. With her second daughter, she got the wild beautiful birth she always wanted at 44 weeks gestation. Watch this episode on Youtube! https://youtu.be/NNKnOzLcY5o APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Connect with Ita: https://www.instagram.com/itamorimothering/
Fri, November 04, 2022
Opening Again to Life: Amana’s Freebirth After Loss
Despite learning in her pregnancy that the baby she was growing would be incompatible with life, Amana, as a first time mother, decided to go forward with her plan to birth her daughter at home. Through this first birth experience, she learned that birth and death are one. Amana shares with us today the wisdom of a resilient woman who has walked through the fires of freebirth, death, life, and loss, again and again. Watch this episode on Youtube! https://youtu.be/iNIBHj0xbVU APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Connect with Amana: https://www.birthingnova.love
Fri, October 28, 2022
The Truth About Birth: An Honest Conversation with Emilee & Yolande
Today, I’m sharing with you all a conversation I recently recorded with Yolande Norris-Clark, the co-creator of the Radical Birth Keeper School and the Complete Guide to Freebirth. We discuss vaginal exams, rape culture, the romanticization of indigenous and traditional midwifery, radical birth keeping, freebirth, and the power dynamics of industrial obstetrics. What we know of birth has been inevitably filtered through the medical industry. But what is the TRUTH about birth? Join us as we hop RIGHT into it. And if you want to learn *authentic* midwifery the way we practice it, The Radical Birth Keeper School is open now for enrollment. We begin February 2023. Watch this episode on Youtube! https://youtu.be/YPKlYYAUU8g APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/story-submission Connect with Yolande: https://www.instagram.com/bauhauswife/
Fri, October 21, 2022
Clearing the Fear: Virginia's Alchemical Birth
Today on the show we have my friend, Virginia. Virginia’s pregnancy with her first daughter was characterized by the RhoGAM shot, threats of induction, and a last minute transfer from a birth center to a homebirth. Although she birthed at home, Virginia shares her anger around being gaslit and forced to push by her medical midwifery team. With her second pregnancy, Virginia knew she was ready to reclaim what was lost in her first birth, and birthed her son in total Shakti power. Watch this episode on Youtube! https://youtu.be/t_5FrreY12Q APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! Email pictures and text to submissions@freebirthsociety.com. Connect with Virginia: https://www.instagram.com/virginiarosenberg/
Fri, October 14, 2022
The Woman Who Freebirthed in the Ocean
Also known as "the ocean lady", Josy from Germany went viral earlier this year for the birth she had always dreamed of- her freebirth in the oceans of Nicaragua. Today, Josy shares her story of her super fast, simple birth in the waves, how she's integrated her experience, and what it's been like having such a public, popular birth story. Enjoy! Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DmV_l8090nA APPLY FOR THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! Email pictures and text to submissions@freebirthsociety.com. Connect with Josy: https://www.instagram.com/raggapunzel/
Fri, October 07, 2022
From Maiden to Mother: Emily's Freebirth Initiation
Emily, a graduate of the Radical Birth Keeper School, shares with us today her journey from maiden to mother. In her pregnancy, she navigated loneliness, cutting off most of her family and friends, and setting boundaries to protect the energetic field of herself and her pregnancy. In this episode, we discuss the importance of the postpartum time, how she found a community of like-minded sisters in the Radical Birth Keeper School, and how she welcomed her son into the world with her husband as her sole witness. For the month of October only, take $1000 off tuition for t he Radical Birth Keeper School upon acceptance! https://www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/n8_SRVWE2Gk GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! Email pictures and text to submissions@freebirthsociety.com.
Fri, September 30, 2022
The 40-Week Wild Pregnancy Wrap Up with Emilee & Jonny (Round 2)
The 40-week wild pregnancy wrap up episode (round 2) is here! My best friend, partner, and beloved husband Jonny and I did this in my first pregnancy and here we are again, recording on my actual 40th week date. We’ll walk through the year of my wild pregnancy, I’ll share the highs and lows, and then we’ll tackle a bunch of questions you all sent in to us. Please enjoy our giggly attempt to have a real conversation while I’m floating away into laborland. I’ll see you all on the other side! Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/lLQNhJCbgQw GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! Email pictures and text to submissions@freebirthsociety.com.
Fri, September 23, 2022
Surrendering to Everything: Whitney's Motorhome Freebirth
Whitney joins us today to tell the stories of her two freebirths in the past two years: her first, with her husband and her sister present, and her second, in an RV supported again by her family for the slow emergence of her son. Whitney shares the power of witnessing other women walk through wild pregnancy and freebirth in our private online membership, and reflects on how grateful she is to have created the life she is living. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/_e8VQGqDii0 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! Email pictures and text to submissions@freebirthsociety.com. Connect with Whitney: https://www.instagram.com/wildwild.whit/
Fri, September 16, 2022
A Freebirth in Oman: Chantal's Brave Journey
Today we have Chantal telling us her stories of 3 full-term pregnancies, and 3 pregnancy losses in 5 different countries. She speaks to how she navigated foreign cultures and governmental systems as an expat, & shares her journey from a medicalized, torturous birth, to a birth-center birth, and then a wildly simple freebirth at home. We also discuss the disruption of her postpartum time by having to immediately interface with the system to obtain a birth record. Chantal’s story is a lighthouse for the pregnant women feeling hopeless and who know there must be another way. Freebirth happens anywhere and everywhere, even in countries where most everyone believes homebirth is illegal. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/-FNrOTfsri8 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! Email pictures and text to submissions@freebirthsociety.com. Connect with Chantal: @honoredwomb on Instagram www.honoredwomb.com
Fri, September 09, 2022
Community Birth, Community Postpartum: Arielle's Perfect FBAC (Freebirth After Cesarean)
To kick off the sixth season and the 200TH (!!!) episode of The Free Birth Society Podcast, we have one of my very best friends, Arielle de Martinez! You may remember her from her herbalism episode previously on the podcast, and today she shares her journey from a manufactured emergency c-section with her first daughter to her simple, perfect community-supported freebirth with her second daughter. Arielle and her family traveled at 40 weeks to be near us to birth, and the ripple effects of her postpartum bliss traveled all throughout our community. It was such a gift. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/kExeBxoHMGc GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership JOIN THE WAITLIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND OF THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper VIEW ALL THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FOLLOW FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY! Email pictures and text to submissions@freebirthsociety.com. Connect with Arielle: https://www.arielledemartinez.com https://www.instagram.com/arielledemartinez/ https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/wildmother
Sun, September 04, 2022
From Trauma to Triumph: Molly's Freebirth in France
We’re closing out an incredible Season 5 with Molly from France. After an unexpected pregnancy at a young age, Molly describes her traumatic birth with her first daughter as a "a second rape". She suffered physically, mentally, and emotionally, and promised herself she'd never give birth in a hospital again. With her second pregnancy, she dreamed of a freebirth, and with her third, she brought her dream to fruition-after removing herself from the spiral of medical pathology, and choosing a peaceful pregnancy. She gave her family the biggest gift- and birthed her daughter in full freedom. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/CihmBpFIJ5g JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Expanding in Pleasure through Pregnancy and Freebirth
From the jungles of Costa Rica, Luba tells us the stories of expanding and surrendering through her pregnancies and births. We discuss birth as authentic self-expression, pleasure and orgasm in pregnancy and labor, and committing to bringing the birth of her dreams to fruition. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/5hpOEOr9EW4 JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
The Roar of the Wild Woman: Shayoon's Freebirth in Bali
Today, Shayoon tells us the stories of the births of her two sons: her first in Ibiza, Spain, with a male doctor in her home, and her second, a freebirth in Bali. In this episode, Shayoon speaks of her experiences with typhoid during pregnancy, the healing powers of plant medicine, consistently clearing fear and stress from her birthing space- and how she experienced complete healing in her maternal lineage through remaining true to trusting in her body. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/0KLsYELV-oU JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
A Los Angeles Family’s Freebirth
After a sabotaged first birth with medical midwives, Madison began her mothering journey feeling depleted. When she fired her medical midwife in her second pregnancy, Madison fully embraced the idea of a normal, peaceful pregnancy and an undisturbed birth. Today, we discuss the normalcy and wildness of birth, the importance of finding community who really "get it", and what it means to put your life (and your needs) first. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/uvdafLItEIM JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Surprised by the Light: Anna's RBK-Attended First Birth
Anna, a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate, shares with us all today the simple beauty of her RBK-attended first birth. Surrounded by song, sisters, and silence, Anna talks about being surprised by how easy the whole birth process was, the psychedelic postpartum phase, navigating tongue ties and lip ties, and experiencing breastfeeding grief. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/I0Ue0IlEGuw JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Breech Is a Variation of Normal: Emily's Freebirth
This week, we have Emily, a former Labor & Delivery nurse turned freebirthing-mother! After starting nursing school when she was pregnant with her first daughter, Emily quickly realized that licensure and hospital policies trump all else, and advocating for your patients can only go so far. After her birth with her second son, she removed herself from the medical system altogether, and went on to have a wild pregnancy and a (surprise breech!) freebirth with her third. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Kjv8f2bH3UA JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
A Finnish Freebirth
This week on the show, we have Maria from Finland. She tells us about her conscious conception journeys, beginning with meeting her husband in ceremony after a spiritual awakening, and then a near-death accident that solidified her journey of following her heart and her gut instincts in wild pregnancy and freebirth. We also discuss lotus birth, the necessary social aspect of postpartum care, and remembering the ancient ways of sacred birth. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZgC6AHzgW9Y JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Freebirthing in Sweden as an RH-Negative Mom
Today, I'm talking with Anna from Sweden. As an RH negative, first-time mom, Anna was swept up in the fearmongering and control of the hospital system. Despite having what she thought at the time was a "natural" hospital birth, she entered motherhood feeling alone. As she started questioning everything that had happened during her birth, she found freebirth! With her second daughter, Anna went from questioning everything, to knowing what to do as she brought her into the world, surrounded by family and love. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/0_akxkVEqqQ JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Letting It Be Easy: Anna's Freebirth With Her First Baby
Today on the show we have Anna, who shares her story of saying "yes" to a wild pregnancy and freebirth as a first-time mom. Her deep-rooted trust in the innate intelligence of her body allowed her to experience nearly *zero* fear, as she brought her baby earthside in love, patience, and ease. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/M0VyaBxrzT0 JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Trusting Placental Birth: Sylvie's Story
Today on the show, I'm talking with my friend, Sylvie. Sylvie's first birth with medical midwives left her unpacking the dynamic for months, and questioning her capacity as a mother. Supported by The Free Birth Society Community Membership, she committed to her own healing. Sylvie joyfully welcomed in a wild pregnancy and freebirth with her second baby. In this episode, we discuss physiological placental birth, intuition, and how birth has the capacity to leave us feeling deeply renewed and reborn. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/QZzQ1CAQ5jo JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
"I've Given Birth Thousands of Times": The Radiant Life of Estonia Elizabeth
From the fertile land of Costa Rica, today Estonia shares the glorious stories of her two births. In this episode, we discuss Estonia’s spiritual conscious conceptions, the divine initiations of pregnancy as deep shadow work, and embracing the ebb and flow of life as a resilient, powerful, and autonomous single mom. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/jZR67CuOnuI JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Trusting the Emergence: Christine's Freebirth
After a fiery and fast initiation into motherhood, Christine dove into everything "birth" and enrolls in the first round of The Radical Birth Keeper School. Today, she tells us her story of a lifetime of manifesting her motherhood, practicing living in trust, and having the peaceful, casual Friday afternoon freebirth with her second son, that was everything she wanted. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/x-SjbqqTjiY JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
German New Medicine and Your Healing Body with Dr. Melissa Sell
On this very special episode today, Dr. Melissa Sell breaks down the 5 Biological Laws of German New Medicine. We go beyond the body/mind connection, and enter into layers of healing that are completely paradigm-shifting. German New Medicine returns us to a simple truth- the body is ALWAYS healing, and is our wisest teacher. We discuss how to understand your individual symptoms, how healthcare can never be a "one size fits all", and how radical responsibility comes into play when rethinking sickness and healing. You can find Dr. Melissa Sell at www.drmelissasell.com . Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/i2WXImolq18 JOIN US AT MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Choosing Herself After Midwifery Abandonment: Chelsea’s Story
On the podcast today, Chelsea tells us the story of her transition into autonomous, powerful motherhood after a hospital birth, pregnancy loss, and midwifery abandonment. Her journey is one of animal medicine, spirit babies, radical birth keeping, & finding and claiming her center. She shares with us what it was like being on the road with her family for her last pregnancy and of her experience being attended in birth by a fellow Radical Birth Keeper School graduate. There are THREE days left to register for The Radical Birth Keeper School, beginning March 1st! We are nearly full, so don’t wait to secure your spot for the ONLY round in 2022! Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/dabxX3Ud90A ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Money, Midwifery, and the Origins of The Radical Birth Keeper School with Yolande Norris-Clark
Today I'm bringing you a very special episode, with the infamous and highly esteemed guest (and my best friend), Yolande Norris-Clark. Together, we share our origin story of becoming friends over the internet, and how we chose, from two different countries, to join forces to change the world. We share about the early stages of dreaming up the Radical Birth Keeper School and the lessons we've learned along the way. We get into our thoughts about making money, our numerous collective and individual supposed public scandals and how they've been entirely "for us", and we talk about the difference between authentic midwifery attended- birth & freebirth. The Radical Birth Keeper School is now open for enrollment! You can join us and enroll at www.radicalbirthkeeperschool.com Enjoy! Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/ZbsZYWpft_E ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Caitlyn's Departure from Medical Midwifery and Her Return to Wholeness
Caitlyn is a midwife from South Africa who long dreamt of attending birthing women in integrity, but kept coming up against the hypocrisy of the medicalized midwifery world. She brings to us today her story of unraveling herself from the regulations and culture of licensed midwifery, how she navigated being investigated by the Department of Health, and how she found her way forward in authentic midwifery through taking The Radical Birth Keeper School. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/BjHTgKYeexk ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
The Lessons of Jaundice: Vivian's 3 Sons
Today on the show, I'm talking with my friend Vivian about birth as a catalyst for deep maturation. With her first baby, Vivian had a medicalized birth, and although she freebirthed her second son, she brought him into the hospital two days postpartum. She left (eleven days later) with a commitment to do things differently the next time around. Vivian's third birth was powerful and glorious, and she speaks about how it even healed her relationship with her own mother. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/TbxYY6yVL9E ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Taking All Of Her Power Back: Davana's Redemptive VBAC Story
Davana's pregnancy with her first son was a wake up call to the consequences of trusting in a system that doesn't serve women. After a traumatizing and unnecessary surgical birth, she found the fire within her to say "never again" and chose the guidance of her inner voice above all. Today, Davana shares with us her beautiful journey of moving from confusion to courage, her process of learning how robbed she was in her first birth, and how she took all of her power back in the ecstatic, dream birth of her second son, attended by one of our very own Radical Birth Keeper graduates. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/otjqT54iyb0 ENROLL IN THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/bloodmysteries ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form SUPPORT THE PODCAST: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y
Sun, September 04, 2022
Laying Down the License to Truly Serve Women with Kemi BirthJoy Johnson
Today, I'm talking with licensed midwife turned radical birth keeper, Kemi "BirthJoy" Johnson. After two traumatic hospital births of her own, and nearly four decades of pursuing medical midwifery, Kemi was faced with the harsh realities of the medical system over and over again, and decided to remove herself from it- for her sake, and the sake of the women that she served. In this episode, we talk about the modern day witch-hunt of traditional midwives by the medical industry, what it looks like to serve women in integrity, and how women like Kemi are reclaiming the word "midwife" all over the world. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/hRrqYNftMMg ENROLL IN THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/bloodmysteries ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form
Sun, September 04, 2022
Reclaiming the Ritual of Ceremonial Birth
Today on the show, we have my friend Angeli, from Canada. Angeli was pregnant during the Radical Birth Keeper School, and over the twelve weeks, her pregnancy and her business transformed in many ways. Angeli tells the story of her life as a rugged, woodland goddess living with her lover in a yurt with her two dogs- birthing and living in alignment with life. Her journey of placing absolute trust in her body resulted in a ritualistic and ceremonial freebirth. Now a radical birth keeper, Angeli has the embodied experience of a powerful birth that she brings to all of the birthing women she serves in her community. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/0V_yzLvICSQ ENROLL IN THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/bloodmysteries ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form
Sun, September 04, 2022
Leaving Behind Doula Culture with Radical Birth Keeper, Saima
On the show today, we have the wonderful Saima from the UK! After she left her marriage and her doula career at the same time, Saima was ready to make some big changes...and so, she did. Now, a successful graduate of the first round of the Radical Birth Keeper School, she is living her dream life in Portugal with a thriving coaching practice. Saima shares what her life has shaped into beyond the school, as she stepped fully into integrity-based birth work, and left birth in the system behind. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/2-T2hontOmE ENROLL IN THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/bloodmysteries ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form
Sun, September 04, 2022
Single Mom By Choice: Alexandra's Journey from IVF to Freebirth
On the show today, we have Alexandra, a solo parent by choice. After finding a sperm donor, and just one round of IVF, Alexandra decided to opt out of the medical system despite a highly managed start to her conception and gestation journey. Alexandra shares her story of balancing surrender with control, staying true to her mothering choices, and transitioning into postpartum as a single mom. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/emTetPc-IOQ ENROLL IN THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/bloodmysteries GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form
Mon, August 29, 2022
The Blood Mysteries School with Kristin Hauser and Nancy Lucina
This week on the show, I’m talking with two dear friends of mine: medicine women Nancy Lucina and Kristin Hauser. We are so excited to bring you the wise woman education you probably never received. Were you, like most women, taught that your period was a burden? Have you suffered with pain in your pelvis or womb? Or held shame around your sexuality? You’re not alone, sister. Today we finally launch our long-awaited Blood Mysteries School! The Blood Mysteries School is not just another online course…this is a full-on, 16-week, next-level teacher training into the female blood initiations. You’ll gather in high-caliber community, receive transmissions, and learn to share from your deepest well of womb wisdom as you journey deep into the hormonal landscape of your cycle. The Blood Mysteries School is an alchemy of the sacred and the science of the seasons of womanhood through the map of the menstrual cycle. We start in February, and enrollment is officially open now, so head over to www.bloodmysteriesschool.com and join Kristin and Nancy for a life-changing 16 weeks. Enjoy the episode! Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/3ecIfsi5oxM ENROLL IN THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/bloodmysteries GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: <a href="https://ww
Mon, August 29, 2022
Held By A Circle of Ancestors: Esmé's Story
Esmé was taken deep into the underworld after her first birth ended in painful sabotage, which resulted in a long struggle with nursing. After she consciously conceived her second baby, Esmé healed so much of her story with the freebirth of her daughter. Esmé talks about trusting Spirit to hold her, ancestral healing, and the importance of a connected group of women to lean on when the struggles of life arise. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/QzSq2nDX7e0 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form
Mon, August 29, 2022
Return To Trust: Wild Pregnancy, Freebirth & Radical Birth Keeping
Today on the show, we have Emily from Melbourne, Australia. Emily is a graduate of the Radical Birth Keeper School, and her freebirth journey began with a beautiful conscious conception. Emily shares with us how her wild pregnancy decimated her and what taking 100% responsibility for her birth looked like. She offers the simple yet powerful practice of consistently returning to trust. Emily's story reminds us of the magic of birth when a mother is surrounded by love, and reminded of her power. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/vHbdf_QXg1U GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form
Mon, August 29, 2022
Twins from the Start: Kirah's Freebirth in the Mountains
Kirah's twin freebirth journey started with the birth of her own twin sisters when she was a kid. Today, she shares with us her experiences of contending with her fertility, and leaning into trusting that her body that made these babies could birth these babies. She shows us what is possible when a mother stakes her claim on what she wants for herself and her lineage. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/IguNAsXA3Z8 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form
Mon, August 29, 2022
The Wild Vortex of Birth
Today we have Natalie from Australia sharing her story of the journey to freebirth with her second son. After finding the Free Birth Society Podcast in her early postpartum days with her first baby, Natalie vowed to set herself up to embody her prayer of freebirthing her next baby. When the time came, Natalie had a truly WILD pregnancy, and shares with us how she faced the fears that were surrounding her, protected her energy and birth space fiercely, and entered the vortex of birth to roar her son into the world. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/YOjp-LYeabo GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf JOIN THE FREE BIRTH SOCIETY PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership ENROLL IN THE RADICAL BIRTH KEEPER SCHOOL: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper 1:1 COACHING WITH EMILEE SALDAYA: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching MATRIARCH RISING FESTIVAL | JUNE 19-24, 2022: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising ALL FREE BIRTH SOCIETY COURSES: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com FREE BIRTH SOCIETY NEWSLETTER: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift FREE BIRTH SOCIETY ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ SUBMIT YOUR FREEBIRTH STORY: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form
Mon, August 29, 2022
Back In Her Body: Kelly's Chrysalis Freebirth
Kelly had a unfortunate and classic first time hospital birth, with all of the interventions. Following her sabatoged first birth experience, she had a hard time breastfeeding, and therefore, an insecure and disconnected start to motherhood. In her postpartum, she realized that she was done listening to everyone else besides herself, and when she saw raw footage of her friend's unassisted birth, her evolution began to unfold. Kelly shares her experience of coming home to herself after sexual abuse, embodying her power in freebirth, and how birth is more than just birth- it's everything. Birthing at home? The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self guided online intensive course that will teach you everything we think you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf Searching for like-minded sisters to support you on your journey to radical responsibility? Join the Free Birth Society Private membership: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership You can find all of our courses, including The Complete Guide to Freebirth, here: http://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Emilee Saldaya offers 1-1 coaching for women. You can find her offerings here: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching It’s time for a birth revolution. Enrollment for the spring round of the Radical Birth Keeper School is now open! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Join us June 19-24th 2022 for the Second Annual Matriarch Rising Festival: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising Stay in touch with all things Free Birth Society by following us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety And joining our newsletter! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift Want to be featured on the Free Birth Society Podcast? Submit your story here! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form Follow Kelly: @kellyfried
Mon, August 29, 2022
"Womancraft: A Witch's Awakening" with Kate Varsava
I'm so excited to bring this conversation to you- it's with my dear friend, Kate Varsava, aka @yourlocalmidwitch- and the announcment that we have today is that her new course, "Womancraft: A Witch's Awakening" is officially available! In this episode, we discuss the witch as the wise woman, birth as a catalyst for remembering, and debunking so many patriarchal lies that have been fed to us about our history as powerful women. If you want to reclaim your intuition, and connect to your lineage, this episode, and our new course, are the perfect entry points to open the portal of the witch inside us all. You can get this course at https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/womancraft Enjoy, and happy Samhain! Birthing at home? The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self guided online intensive course that will teach you everything we think you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf Searching for like-minded sisters to support you on your journey to radical responsibility? Join the Free Birth Society Private membership: http://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership You can find all of our courses, including The Complete Guide to Freebirth, here: http://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Emilee Saldaya offers 1-1 coaching for women. You can find her offerings here: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching It’s time for a birth revolution. Enrollment for the spring round of the Radical Birth Keeper School opens November 1st! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Join us June 19-24th 2022 for the Second Annual Matriarch Rising Festival: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising Stay in touch with all things Free Birth Society by following us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety And joining our newsletter! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift Want to be featured on the Free Birth Society Podcast? Submit your story here! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form You can watch this interview on video on our Youtube channel: <a class="style-
Mon, August 29, 2022
Ending Generational Trauma Cycles with Freebirth
This week on the show we have Sasha, who tells us the story of how she paved the way for the rest of her lineage, how she learned to trust herself, and checked herself out of the hospital, in labor, to have her baby at home. We discuss figuring out breastfeeding, the difficulties that can arise during those early postpartum weeks, and how birthing in power has the ability to end cycles of generational trauma, and set a new precedent for all of our sons and daughters. Birthing at home? The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self guided online intensive course that will teach you everything we think you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf Searching for like-minded sisters to support you on your journey to radical responsibility? Join the Free Birth Society Private membership: http://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership You can find all of our courses, including The Complete Guide to Freebirth, here: http://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Emilee Saldaya offers 1-1 coaching for women. You can find her offerings here: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching It’s time for a birth revolution. Enrollment for the Spring Round of the Radical Birth Keeper School opens November 1st, 2021! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Join us June 19-24th 2022 for the Second Annual Matriarch Rising Festival: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising Stay in touch with all things Free Birth Society by following us on Instagram & joining our newsletter! https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift
Sun, August 28, 2022
"If You Know Grief, You Will Know Love": Celia's Surprise Twin Freebirth
We are kicking off Season 5 of the Free Birth Society Podcast with an incredible SURPRISE TWINS story! With her first birth, Celia was put through the conveyer belt of industrial obstetrics, but as she reflected on her birth experience postpartum, she came to the quick conclusion that there must be another way forward. With her second pregnancy, Celia found freebirth, and after connecting with like-minded sisters in our very own Free Birth Society private membership , she committed to the path of undisturbed birth for her next baby. Celia and her husband had a total surprise when she birthed, not one, but TWO babies! Celia shares with us the sweet story of her late father guiding her through her process, the power of affirmations, and what life is like as a mother of three littles. Watch this episode on Youtube! Want to birth at home? The Complete Guide to Freebirth is a self guided online intensive course that will teach you everything we think you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf Searching for like-minded sisters to support you on your journey to radical responsibility? Join the Free Birth Society Private membership: http://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership You can find all of our life changing courses here: http://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Work with Emilee Saldaya 1:1 here: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching Want to become an authentic midwife? Enrollment for the Radical Birth Keeper School opens November 1st! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Join us June 19-24th 2022 for the Second Annual Matriarch Rising Festival: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising Stay in touch with all things Free Birth Society by following us on Instagram & joining our newsletter! https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety/ https://www.freebirthsociety.com Want to be featured on the Free Birth Society Podcast? Submit your story here! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/podcast-guest-submission-form Follow Celia @celia.conroy
Fri, May 28, 2021
Into the Eyes of a Warrior: Eliza’s Family Freebirth
Today on the show, we have the wild and wise Eliza, a Hungarian born woman, living in France with her beloved. This is a romantic tale of a new love, a surprise pregnancy, and a young woman hiring a midwife, and then firing a midwife when her true stripes are revealed. It was the news that her midwife didn’t actually support Eliza bringing her dear mother and sister into her birthing space, that she knew it was time to cut the ties, take the dive, and create the epic family freebirth she knew she deserved. Birthing in the heat of August, during a thunderstorm, Eliza tells us the gorgeous tale of how her family rallied around her as she birthed like the complete woman warrior that she was ready to be. This is our final episode of Season 4! Join our newsletter to stay connected with all the happenings in Free Birth Society. Link in shownotes :) Gather with us for Matriarch Rising- a women’s only festival. LImited tickets available! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising Are you seeking like-minded sisters? Join Free Birth Society’s REBIRTHED Private Community: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership The Radical Birth Keeper School starts again September 1st, 2021. You won’t want to miss it: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Check out more of Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Our Gift to You: Gorgeous pregnancy affirmations straight to your inbox: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift Get The Complete Guide to Freebirth: A sweeping, all-inclusive childbirth education course, designed to prepare pregnant mothers and families for the most powerful independent birth experience possible: h ttps://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/c gtf Are you wanting to take responsibility for your life? Work with Emilee: <a href="https://www.freebi
Fri, May 14, 2021
Finding Freebirth with Four Daughters
Today , Jessica brings us the beautiful story of a mother reckoning with her inner authority as she navigates her way through multiple births. From her first baby being born at a hospital, to a “party birth” with her second daughter, Jessica shares how she learned each time to surrender more to the wild unknowing-ness of birth. With her third and fourth daughters, Jessica birthed freely and unhindered- with her most recent birth being attended by her two eldest daughters. Jessica’s story offers a vision of how powerful, mother-led, matriarchal birth can be the model for all of our daughters moving forward. Attend Matriarch Rising Festival: Limited Tickets Available Here: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/membership The Radical Birth Keeper School starts again September 1st, 2021. You won’t want to miss it: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Get The Complete Guide to Freebirth: A sweeping, all-inclusive childbirth education course, designed to prepare pregnant mothers and families for the most powerful independent birth experience possible: h ttps://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/c gtf Are you wanting to take responsibility for your life? Work with Emilee: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching Want more? Birthing Truth: A Collection of Freebirth Stories: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/blogs/birthing-truth-a-collection-of-freebirth-stories Our Gift to You: Gorgeous pregnancy affirmations straight to your inbox: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift
Fri, May 07, 2021
Freebirthing with Shoulder Dystocia, Regretting the NICU, and Flourishing
On today’s show, Sarah shares a common and familiar story of women who trade in their pregnancy and birth desires in order to make other people comfortable. With her first child, Sarah had a homebirth, but many of the decisions she made were for her partner- and even for her midwife. Sarah shares how it wasn’t until she freebirthed her second baby, that she realized what went wrong with her first birth. In her third and most recent birth, Sarah shares the riveting and heartbreaking story of her baby spending his first hour of life between the fluid spaces of life and death, and his first weeks of life in the NICU. Sarah shares her ongoing processing of birth, mothering, and surrendering to the wild unknown. Attend Matriarch Rising Festival: Limited Tickets Available Here: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/matriarchrising Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership The Radical Birth Keeper School starts again September 1st, 2021. You won’t want to miss it: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Check out more of Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Get The Complete Guide to Freebirth: A sweeping, all-inclusive childbirth education course, designed to prepare pregnant mothers and families for the most powerful independent birth experience possible: h ttps://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/c gtf Are you wanting to take responsibility for your life? Work with Emilee: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching Want more? Birthing Truth: A Collection of Freebirth Stories: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/blogs/birthing-truth-a-collection-of-freebirth-stories Our Gift to You: Gorgeous pregnancy affirmations straight to yo
Fri, April 30, 2021
My Redemption Birth: Najma’s FBAC in Egypt
FBAC: Free Birth After Cesarean. After being deemed high-risk in her first pregnancy- despite feeling great and not presenting with any issues- Najma was taken down the conveyor belt of industrial birth. After hours of tortuous induced labor, she ended up with a surgical birth. The reason? “Failure to descend”. A fter meeting a woman who shared her powerful, physiological birth story, Najma felt inspired to redeem her birth experience. She learned all that she could about undisturbed birth, reclaimed her authority, and centered herself as the author of her birth and mothering story. Follow Najma on Instagram! @wombtopia The Radical Birth Keeper School starts again September 1st, 2021. You won’t want to miss it: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Check out more of Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Get The Complete Guide to Freebirth: A sweeping, all-inclusive childbirth education course, designed to prepare pregnant mothers and families for the most powerful independent birth experience possible: h ttps://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/c gtf Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership Are you wanting to take responsibility for your life? Work with Emilee: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching Want more? Birthing Truth: A Collection of Freebirth Stories: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/blogs/birthing-truth-a-collection-of-freebirth-stories <span s
Fri, April 23, 2021
The Anarchist Who Freebirthed All 6 of Her Children
Mary Lou lived an anarchist lifestyle before getting pregnant, and when it came time for her to birth, choosing to birth outside of the system was a no-brainer. Her first pregnancy was completely and intuitively wild, but the first and second birth of her babies were both sabotaged by another woman’s presence. Now, 6 kids, 2 businesses, and 12 years of breastfeeding later, Mary Lou shares the importance of living outside of the system, sovereign birth work as anarchy, and how to lean into the rhythms of labor and childbirth.
Fri, April 16, 2021
Unpacking the Historical and Epigenetic Context of Black Maternal Health with Olivyah Bowens
In honor of Black Maternal Health Week , we have doula- turned -Radical Birth Keeper, Olivyah Bowens , from Baltimore, Maryland on the show today. Olivyah is a mother of two, a perinatal community health worker, a holistic birth educator, and a graduate of Free Birth Society’s Radical Birth Keeper School. After learning about the atrocious maternal mortality rate of Black women in the United States, Olivyah committed herself to understanding why Black women were dying. Olivyah walks us through the intersection of racism and healthcare, and how it directly, and obviously, negatively impacts Black women and their families. Olivyah will also provide historical context of racism in OB/GYN and how that links to institutional racism in health care today. Join us in an important conversation around epigenetics, implicit bias, the importance of women seeing themselves reflected in their birth team, and to learn about the far- too -often subhuman treatment of Black women and their babies, in the system. Olivyah also shares how freebirth is a potential solution to opt out of the system for many Black women today. Connect with Olivyah on IG & FB: @herholisticpath Work with Olivyah & attend her workshops: https://www.herholisticpath.com/course Listen to Olivyah’s podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Nw6Y40klYn83XxhLAurQF Resources: Mamatoto Village Black Mamas Matter Alliance Natal Stories (podcast) <a href="https:
Fri, April 09, 2021
The Triple Freebirth: IUD, Baby, Loss
Rebecca left her first hospital birth thinking that the doctors saved her life. She went on to become a doula in the system, but all that did was normalize her traumatic birth experience. After removing her IUD unassisted, Rebecca discovered a newfound trust for her body. When she found out she was pregnant again, she asked for two things from her partner: total trust, and total support to birth unassisted at home. Rebecca herself remained in total trust throughout her pregnancy, despite bleeding often. She birthed her baby in her bathroom, with her family present, and in total power. Rebecca also shares the autonomous pregnancy release she experienced, and the mantra that gets her through anything. Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Get The Complete Guide to Freebirth: A sweeping, all-inclusive childbirth education course, designed to prepare pregnant mothers and families for the most powerful independent birth experience possible: h ttps://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/c gtf Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership Are you wanting to take responsibility for your life? Work with Emilee: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching The Radical Birth Keeper School starts again September 1st, 2021. You won’t want to miss it: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Want more? Birthing Truth: A Collection of Freebirth Stories: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/blogs/birthing-truth-a-collection-of-freebirth-stories Our Gift to You: Gorgeous pregnancy affirmations straight to your inbox: <span style="font-weight:
Fri, April 02, 2021
Tackling Patriarchy through the Pelvis: An Exploration in Female Bodily Liberation through Resilience Practice and Self Responsibility
On today’s episode, we have Maura Sternberg: a healer dedicated to pelvic integrity, and the radical self-responsibility of the women she serves. We dive deep into the lineages of mainstream self-care practices, and their roots in patriarchy. Maura shares with us the wisdom of the cervix being the base of the vagus nerve, and the importance of somatic healing as a way to dismantle embodied patriarchy. Connect with Maura: www.blossomingdaughters.com @blossomingdaughters/@callmeawitch Connect with Rachelle Garcia Seliga: https://www.innatetraditions.com/ Learn more about Byron Katie: https://thework.com/ Cervical Wellness with Denell Barbara: http://www.cervicalwellness.com/ Read A Thousand Names for Joy: https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Names-Joy-Living-Harmony/dp/0307339246 Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Get The Complete Guide to Freebirth: A sweeping, all-inclusive childbirth education course, designed to prepare pregnant mothers and families for the most powerful independent birth experience possible: h ttps://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/c gtf Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership Are you wanting to take responsibility for your life? Work with Emilee: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching The Radical Birth Keeper School starts aga
Thu, March 25, 2021
A History Lesson on the American Obstetrician Take Over of 1750-1820
Before OBGYNs, stirrups, and forceps, there were wise women, herbal remedies, and soft touches. The procedures which we now view as “normal” in the birth world are actually a fairly recent addition to the patriarchal and medical model of modern industrial birth, and they do not center or serve women. In this episode, we answer the question: “How did women possibly survive childbirth before men and hospitals came on the scene?!” Historian Ana Sabrina walks us back a couple hundred years before men came to “deliver” women from the “pathology” of childbirth. Settle in, and listen with open ears. If we know our roots, we can rise into our future. Connect with Ana Sabrina on Instagram: @anasabrina.b On women as healers before male care was the norm- “ The Healer’s Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England” On the history of abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth- “ The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy” On the systematic medical rape of enslaved black women in the American south- “Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology” The Radical Birth Keeper School starts again September 1st, 2021. You won’t want to miss it: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Check out more of Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com
Fri, March 19, 2021
The Wild Mother’s Medicine Chest with Arielle de Martinez
Arielle de Martinez is Free Birth Society’s in-house healer and herbalist who has spent the duration of her motherhood journey navigating illness outside of the system. She mentors mothers about plant medicine and natural healing in her local community, guides women as they hone their intuition, develop their skills, and find their confidence as mothers and leaders through the potent initiation of illness. The Wild Mother’s Medicine Chest is a course for matriarchs who have realized the lies of allopathic medicine and are ready to take charge of their family’s health and wellness. Despite knowing deeply that you don’t want to pop pills or go to a doctor, when your kids get sick it's scary and you wish you just knew exactly what to do. Through the Wild Mothers Medicine Chest, you will learn how to turn sickness into an opportunity for your children to not just heal, but to become stronger, more robust, and *truly* healthy... So that you can ensure your family gets sick less, respond to illness with natural remedies, and mother from a place of total trust and wise woman wisdom. Get The Wild Mother’s Medicine Chest here: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/wildmother . Connect with Arielle: https://www.instagram.com/arielledemartinez Arielle’s Herbal Offerings: https://www.arielledemartinez.com/herbalofferings Our Gift to You: Gorgeous pregnancy affirmations straight to your inbox: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift Check out more of Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Get The Complete Guide to Freebirth: A sweeping, all-inclusive childbirth education course, designed to prepare pregnant mothers and families
Fri, March 12, 2021
The Time is NOW: Rebecca’s Freebirth after NHS Sabotage
It was following the death of her father, that Rebecca got total clarity that it was time to call in her children. Rebecca shares about the harassment she dealt with from the NHS midwives in England, and how medical supposed midwifery felt wrong the entire time. She was unnecessarily and unfortunately transferred right before her son emerged, and Rebecca shares how the sabotage of her birth also led to a sabotaged breastfeeding relationship. Four years later, she was thrilled to be pregnant again. She connected to the concept of free birth, found this podcast, and solidified her truth to birth her way, even in the absence of a supportive partner. Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Our Gift to You: Gorgeous pregnancy affirmations straight to your inbox: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/opt-in-pregnancy-affirmations-gift Get The Complete Guide to Freebirth: A sweeping, all-inclusive childbirth education course, designed to prepare pregnant mothers and families for the most powerful independent birth experience possible: h ttps://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/c gtf Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership Want more? Birthing Truth: A Collection of Freebirth Stories: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/blogs/birthing-truth-a-collection-of-freebirth-stories The Radical Birth Keeper School starts again September 1st, 2021. You won’t want to miss it: https://radicalbirthkeeperschool.com
Fri, March 05, 2021
It Was Just Perfect: Omni’s Freebirth
After finding out she was pregnant just 3 months into her relationship, Omni shares her story of stepping into full trust of herself and her baby. She speaks about letting it be easy, awakening to her instincts and her intuition, and how the mother always knows just what to do. Her freebirth story is an example of just how simple, and just how beautiful birth can be. Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership The Radical Birth Keeper School starts again September 1st, 2021. You won’t want to miss it: https://radicalbirthkeeperschool.com The Complete Guide to Freebirth: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf
Fri, February 26, 2021
Standing in the Fire with Activist Courtney Piper (Part 3 of 3 Emergency Series)
Courtney Piper is a mother, birth attendant, activist, spiritual warrior, and director of Women Picket DC. She brings to us today the truth of how patriarchy seeks to destroy and erode our intuition, and how our embodiment is the antidote. We cannot afford not to speak out, and together, we dream of a woman-centered world where all are liberated. This podcast is dedicated to Carla Hartley- a devoted homebirth midwife, mother, survivor, and mentor who pioneered the Ancient Art of Midwifery Institute. She is an inspiration in truth-telling, midwifery, and activism. Women’s Human Rights Campaign: https://www.womensdeclaration.com/en/about/ Please support the resistance. You can donate and give signatures to help fight this bill at www.womenpicketDC.org . Women’s Liberation Front: https://www.womensliberationfront.org Read about Executive Order 13988: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/25/2021-01761/preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-gender-identity-or-sexual-orientation Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Want to become the Radical Birth Keeper the world needs? Join The Radical Birth Keeper School: https://radicalbirthkeeperschool.com Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership The Complete Guide to Freebirth: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf
Tue, February 23, 2021
Where Does Your Loyalty Lie? With Attorney Kara Dansky (Part 2 of our 3 Part Emergency Series)
Kara Dansky is a feminist and attorney, here to talk with us today about Executive Order 13988. In this EO, the definition of sex is rewritten to include gender identity throughout all federally funded agencies. Kara brings us a message of hope-filled action as she informs us of what our future will look like if we don’t protect sex-segregated spaces for women and girls. How many women are we going to sacrifice at the altar of this ideology? Please support the resistance. You can donate and give signatures to help fight this bill at www.womenpicketDC.org . Feminist Current Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feminist-current/id603245791 Declaration on Women’s Sex-Based Rights: https://www.womensdeclaration.com/en/ Women’s Liberation Front: https://www.womensliberationfront.org Read about Executive Order 13988: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/25/2021-01761/preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-gender-identity-or-sexual-orientation Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Want to become the Radical Birth Keeper the world needs? Join The Radical Birth Keeper School: https://radicalbirthkeeperschool.com Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership Are you searching for clarity and alignment? Work with Emilee: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching The Complete Guide to Freebirth:
Mon, February 22, 2021
Never Surrender with Lierre Keith (Part 1 of 3 Emergency Series)
Radical feminist & activist Lierre Keith shares with us how the Equality Act will amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by inserting gender identity wherever biological sex currently exists. If this bill is passed, gender identity will trump biological sex in all federally funded agencies. Boys and men will be legally acknowledged as girls and women if they self-identify as girls and women. At Free Birth Society, we understand the importance and necessity of sex-segregated spaces. We ask the question- if we don’t protect girls and women, who will? Please support the resistance. You can donate and give signatures to help fight this bill at www.womenpicketDC.org . Lierre Keith is a writer, radical feminist, food activist, and environmentalist. Find her work here: www.Lierrekeith.com Read about Executive Order 13988: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/25/2021-01761/preventing-and-combating-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-gender-identity-or-sexual-orientation Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Want to become the Radical Birth Keeper the world needs? Join The Radical Birth Keeper School: http://radicalbirthkeeperschool.com Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership The Complete Guide to Freebirth: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf
Fri, February 19, 2021
Surviving to Thriving with Qiddist Ashé
Qiddist Ashé is a birth doula-turned-radical birth keeper who, after years of witnessing hospital birth, made the switch to supporting women outside of the system. It was in following the lead of her womb intuition, that she was able to go from surviving to thriving both in birth work and the world. From a Black feminist lens, Qiddist centers the experiences of the women of her community, knowing that liberation is ours, and our wombs are home to our deepest power. Connect with Ashé: @asheservices/ https://www.asheservices.com Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Want to become the radical birth keeper the world needs? Join The Radical Birth Keeper School: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership Are you searching for clarity and alignment? Work with Emilee: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching The Complete Guide to Freebirth: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf
Thu, February 11, 2021
Written in the Stars: Mallory’s 4 Births
After a standard, routine experience in the industrial birth system, Mallory knew there had to be more to birth than the hospital had to offer. Just before the birth of her fourth baby, Mallory broke up with her midwife, and felt a weight off her shoulders as she began to truly enjoy woman-centered pregnancy. Her decision to take full responsibility for her birth experience led to a deeper connection and communication with her baby as they co-created their birth experience together. Mallory’s story is a beautiful example of the peace and clarity that can come as you shift more into alignment with your deepest desires. Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Want to become the radical birth keeper the world needs? Join The Radical Birth Keeper School: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership Are you searching for clarity and alignment? Work with Emilee: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching The Complete Guide to Freebirth: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf
Thu, February 04, 2021
A Normal Day: Alia’s Freebirth After Tragedy
Alia shares how she discovered personal and spiritual freedom within tragedy and how she emerged stronger after contending with death on a regular basis with her firstborn. Alia shares her inspiring story of being called to both freebirth and authentic midwifery.
Thu, January 28, 2021
Keeping the Field Clean with Layla Verbance
Layla Verbance is a free-birthing mama who is well versed in walking the road from confusion to clarity in pregnancy, birth, and mothering. She counsels & guides mothers on a daily basis through her personalized ‘Motherhood Coaching Series,’ into permanent peace of mind and remembrance of one’s own authority, power, and ability to create. Her passion is to make readily available beneficial tools and information that encourage mothering as a spiritual path of awakening and evolution. Today, Layla speaks of the journey that brought her from a wild, “jungle-y” pregnancy, to a fierce, protective mother at the center of her family. She discusses “keeping the field clean” with her children and partner, separating fact from story, and how believing our thoughts is at the root of all suffering. Layla’s message is one of hope and belief in a powerful, creative force that runs through us all and connects us to each other and the universe. Get Layla’s book, “Sunlight for a Rainbow”: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/products/sunlight-for-a-rainbow-by-layla-verbance Connect with Layla: https://www.instagram.com/layla_verbance/ Work with Layla: https://www.motherstribeinternational.org Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Craving your village? Join Free Birth Society’s Private Membership: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/pages/private-membership Are you searching for clarity and alignment? Work with Emilee: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/collections/coaching The Radical Birth Keeper School: https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/radicalbirthkeeper The Complete Guide to Freebirth: <span style="font-w
Fri, January 15, 2021
Aligned with Nature: Nebila’s Freebirth
Nebila admits that she began her mothering journey truly terrified of giving birth, assuming that she would just go in for the epidural straight away. But after her hospital birth, she wanted more. So Nebila stayed home to have a pain free homebirth with a midwife. Nebila tells the charming story of her journey to freebirth with her third, finding herself in a foreign country during a pandemic, and she shares how she created the opportunity for everything to go just right.
Fri, January 08, 2021
Speak Your Story - Own Your Truth: Ashley’s Freebirth
Ashley didn’t know anyone who had birthed at home, but after a less than ideal first birth, she knew she wanted to birth at home without medical assistance. This is a beautiful story of a mother staking her claim, doing the work, and learning how to fully trust birth, herself, and her child.
Fri, January 01, 2021
The Reunion Episode - 4 Previous Guests (Free) Birth Again!
We are kicking off the year with a fun episode with four previous guests from the podcast. We have Jessyl, Amanda, Jordan AKA Phoenix, and Layla. All four of these bad ass women were guests on my first two seasons and are back to tell their new birth stories. We get into the challenges of getting birth certificates after freebirth, what it’s like integrating a new child, having older kids at birth, birthing outside, and sexy labor outfits. Join us for a fun chat with four intuitive wild mothers to welcome in 2021. Jessyl: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/blogs/the-free-birth-podcast/a-military-familys-freebirth-jessyls-story Jordan: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/blogs/the-free-birth-podcast/when-motherhood-launches-you-into-self-love-and-conscious-living-the-raw-story-of-pheonix-wild Amanda: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/blogs/the-free-birth-podcast/amandas-unassisted-childbirth-in-los-angeles Layla: https://www.freebirthsociety.com/blogs/the-free-birth-podcast/the-ancient-wisdom-of-birthing-outside-with-the-moon
Fri, December 25, 2020
Choosing A Normal Birth with Twins: Jamie’s Story
After two births in the system, Jamie planned a freebirth of her third child. Due to an autoimmune condition, she chose to still seek industrial prenatal care and it is soon revealed that Jamie is pregnant with twins. She continued on with both obstetrical care and plans to stay home when her birthing time came. At 36 weeks, she was surprised by the start of labor and ecstatically births her girls into the world. Jamie also shares about the choice to transfer into the hospital and the discovery that one of her babies needed medical support.
Mon, December 14, 2020
As above So Below: Amelia's Freebirth
Today we have my dear friend Amelia, who shares her story of her spiritual journey into motherhood. After becoming sober and meeting her husband, Amelia embarked on a conscious conception journey that brings in her first son. After being mistreated by her midwives she found the courage to critique her birth experience and began the deep discovery process of what it could mean to take 100% responsibility in her next pregnancy.
Tue, December 08, 2020
The Fruitful Darkness: Leticia’s Story of Birth & Death
Today we have a story of the deep spiritual experience of carrying life and birthing a stillborn baby. Leticia joins us today to share the beautiful and heartbreaking story of her pregnancy, birth, and life after loss. Join us today for an important shared story of stillbirth and hear the sacred grace and wisdom Leticia has to share. Leticia shares how she opened up to spirit, found her calling within the loss of her child, and is devoted to becoming the woman she didn’t have, for women in birth.
Mon, November 30, 2020
I Am Mother Earth: Sophia’s Freebirth
Today we have a sweet story of a young woman named Sophia, who discovered she was pregnant when her pregnancy was already half way through, at 23 weeks. Sophia tells us her insightful tale of adjusting to a surprise pregnancy and how as she leaned into the work of her pregnancy she discovered the beautiful story of taking responsibility for creating her dream birth. Sophia and her partner road trip to a small cabin in Montana and with all the animals and plants supporting her, she births in lightness, presence, and deep intuition.
Thu, November 19, 2020
Meet Me in the Space of Faith: Tatiana's Freebirth
This week on the show we have Tatiana, who freebirthed her second daughter 8 years after her first birth. Sadly, her first birth was completely sabotaged by an irresponsible midwife who abandoned Tatiana after days of attempting an induction. So, Tatiana took her time and did the work of healing until she was ready again. When she became ready, Tatiana staked her claim and birthed entirely her way.
Tue, November 10, 2020
‘Interrogate and Detonate’ with Dominique Christina
We have a fierce episode for you today with the epicly powerful Dominique Christina. A spoken word poet, writer, mother, and radical feminist, Dominque shares her life’s story of owning her voice and committing to truth telling. Get ready to interrogate, unpack, and detonate with today’s unapologetic guest.
Thu, November 05, 2020
Sparrow and her 'Body Full of Grace'
During Sparrow’s freebirth, she found herself unable to release her bladder. When she arrived at the hospital seeking a catheter, instead - she was misdiagnosed with HIV and given a c-section. She was kept from breastfeeding, harassed by social services, and spent the following few days in a nightmarish hell as she fought for herself and her new baby. So, this episode is Sparrow’s story, and it’s also in celebration of who Sparrow is today and her new offering to the world. Sparrow is a very special woman who has devoted her life to serving pregnant women through high level body work and birth keeping. Today we are celebrating the launch of her new online program, BODY FULL OF GRACE that I am honored to be offering through Free Birth Society. It’s a DIY prenatal care course for aligning with a pain free and easy pregnancy, so if you’re pregnant, planning to be soon, or work with pregnant women, you check it out and add it to your tool kit. Sparrow is here to tell the tale, what she learned, and to share a really important tip that we hope will help other women stay home to birth their babies.
Tue, October 27, 2020
From Anxiety to Fearlessness: Samantha’s Freebirth
After pregnancy loss and a break up, Samantha begins a journey with a new relationship to call in her baby. This is a powerful story of a brave woman who used her anxiety as a flag for what to move towards and away from. It's a story of a woman who committed to following her instincts in spite of a nervous partner. and it is a story of the quiet strength of a wild woman becoming a fierce mother.
Mon, October 19, 2020
Writing Your Own Story: Laney’s Freebirth
Today on the show we have Laney from Texas. After a coerced and stressful induction with her first child, Laney knew it had to be different the second time. Witnessed by her husband and her friend, Laney freebirthed her daughter into this world, entirely on her own terms.
Fri, October 16, 2020
Blessings & Lessons: Shanika’s Awakening
I am grateful to be bringing you the story of a wise woman with quite the story to tell. Shanika is from Jamaica, currently living in Atlanta, Ga, and is both a free birther and a Radical Birth Keeper. She tells us of her first birth at 17 and then the tragic tale of her daughter's death three years later. And yet, in the loss of her daughter, Shanika had a true spiritual awakening, and became the incredible woman she is today. Shanika is a deep well of wisdom, and her story will surely inspire you to be your authentic self.
Thu, October 08, 2020
Woman’s Wisdom Continues: The Freebirth of Bec’s Daughter
This week we have the lovely Bec from Australia who finally decided with her third baby to stop compromising her vision and had a glorious home birth with her daughter, which both challenged her marriage and the previous stories she’d been told about her body in birth. Bec is a doula turned radical birth keeper who shares how she chose to hop out of the machine and live her life aligned with her truth.
Tue, September 29, 2020
The Only Way Is Through: Jaime’s Power Story
Today on the show we have Jaime, who shares the heartbreaking story of her first two children born in the system, and the insightful reflections of her experience. Jaime shares the incredible story of her choice to leave the system and birth in sovereignty, while navigating her 3 year olds brain tumor diagnosis and surgery. This is a beautiful tale of a woman finding her voice in her marriage and in her life.
Thu, September 24, 2020
Choosing Myself: Sarah’s Outdoor Birth
I’m joined today by Sarah, calling in from her yurt on Maui, Hawaii. On the same day she decided to leave her partner, Sarah, at 22 years of age, was shocked to discover she was unexpectedly pregnant. This episode is a poetic tale of a young woman turning towards trust, surrendering to the great mystery, and learning to choose herself, fully. Sarah shares about her wild pregnancy, and of the lessons she was sent during her psychedelic outdoor birth. She also tells us of her blissful first year of motherhood, and of the tearful sweetness of her father coming to take care of her postpartum.
Wed, September 16, 2020
The RH Negative Freebirthing Queen of Trinidad
I am thrilled to be bringing you Rae’s story this week on the show. Rae is a fiercely intuitive mother from Trinidad, who shares everything from her decision not to get the rhogam shot, to using psychedelics to prepare her mind and spirit for freebirth, even how she self pleasured herself into labor. This is not one to miss!
Fri, September 11, 2020
"I Die To Be Reborn": Anastasia's Story
Today on the show we have Anastasia from Seattle, Washington. A self declared recovering people pleaser, Anastasia chose to stay home to birth her child, alone and in the dark. The mantra she carried with her throughout her birth was to whisper to herself, "I die to be reborn, I die to be reborn". She tells us the gorgeous story of how she brought her child earth side with the support of her ancestors.
Wed, September 02, 2020
"I AM TARZAN!": Jess's FBAC
We are kicking off Season 4 with an amazing free birth after c-section story. I'm excited to introduce to you, our first guest of Season 4, my amazing friend Jess, from Arizona. She chose a free birth after her first birth resulted in a fear mongering c-section due to breech presentation. Tired of being pathologized in the system, Jess began to feel the presence of her daughter, and she turned to trust. She had a wild pregnancy, and roared her baby into the world.
Thu, July 23, 2020
*Summer Special!* Clearing the Glass with Sex Coach Kim Anami
Kim is an international sex coach and one of my personal inspirations for how she shows up in the world. So this episode dives into the concept of the “Well Fucked Woman” and we cover some of the tools of how to get there. We also unpack the jade egg and what to do about it, and what does it mean to be in our sexual power with a healthy vagina and pelvic floor. *If you don’t already know this about my podcast, there is a lot of cursing and in this episode in particular, it’s about sex, so be warned. Click here to join me for her upcoming Well Fucked Woman Salon.
Fri, May 29, 2020
From C-Section, to Medwives, to Freebirth: The Journey of Pam Choosing Herself
Today we are joined by Pam, who shares the powerful discovery of her own maternal power. After a forced c section because she and her baby were both surely too big, she knew what had happened was wrong and it could never happen again. So then she tried medical midwifery, and shares the complicated terrain of achieving a VBAC at home but still being left knowing she had been sabotaged and pathologized in so many ways. And then, Pam gets pregnant with her daughter, and she knew she could not afford anything less than total autonomy. Pam tell us how she learned to trust herself, through her wild pregnancy and freebirth, which taught her to go on to advocate for her children for the rest of their lives.
Fri, May 22, 2020
The Lessons of Conscious Conception, Spirit Babies, and Freebirth
We are celebrating two incredible things with this week’s episode, Nancy’s recent freebirth, and the launch of her latest course, Conscious Conception: Welcoming Your Spirit Baby Home. We get into both incredible topics in our discussion today, so if conscious conception is a new topic for you, be sure to tune in. Nancy shares about what turned out to be, a 45 minute birth with the baby born in his caul.
Fri, May 15, 2020
Doing The Work To Own Your Birth: Clarke's Inspiring First Birth
Today we have a special episode with a first time mom in our community. Clarke found a registered midwife to attend her that also held willingness to center the mother, in her entirety. I thought this story was worth telling on our “Free Birth” podcast as it highlights how determined pregnant women can hone in on what they want and actually get it! Midwife attended births, of course, can be wonderful, and I wanted to highlight one that was, in hopes that it will inspire women to speak up and commit to what they want. And of course - to encourage midwives to center the women they serve. Join us today for a lighthearted sweet story of the wisdom of a young new mother diving into the work of bringing a child earth-side.
Fri, May 08, 2020
Carlita's Freebirth During Global Lockdown
Left feeing unsatisfied with the total lack of support she received from her midwife the first time around, Carlita knew with her next pregnancy that she’d be doing it alone, on her own terms. Supported by her husband, Carlita birthed her son into the world just five weeks ago, under a global lockdown, wild and free.
Thu, April 30, 2020
Guided By The Blue Light Of Loss And Love: Sadie's Story
This week I’m joined by Sadie, a new mother that just free birthed her first full term child not long ago. Sadie first, a few years ago, experienced a pregnancy loss late in her second trimester and chose to stay home and spontaneously birth her precious stillborn son. After dreaming of her daughter, she easily conceived her and committed to the high vibrational work of wild pregnancy. With the support of her beloved partner and mother, she roared her daughter into the world, guided by the blue light of her spirit son who had passed years ago.
Tue, April 28, 2020
Authentic Midwifery: Lilly's Discovery of Birth Work As Shamanism
Concluding our Radical Birth Keeper Series we have an experienced traditional birth attendant, Lilly. Lilly was trained as a medical midwife and quickly came to learn she would be no such provider. Instead, she found her way through traditional apprenticeships and trusting the call to serve women in a way that felt safest - with mothers at the center. Lilly shares how her own birth was a journey into darkness, and we discuss birth attendance as shamanism, and how to say yes to that calling.
Fri, April 17, 2020
Stepping Into Radical Responsibility with Leisa Masters
This week on the show we have the lovely Leisa Masters, a radical birth keeper in Australia. As Leisa shares her journey from doula to coach, we get into the doula climate, money, integrity, and she describes the lightbulb moment when she learned how to stop "saving" women and show up for them in mutual responsibility.
Fri, April 10, 2020
Saying Yes To Sisterhood: Kate's Journey Into Radical Birth Keeping
This week I have Kate on the show, who shares her story of leaving behind her doula path for something that felt more in alignment with her integrity; midwifery outside the system. Kate also tells the gorgeous story of the birth of her own daughter and how her radical work as a birth keeper informed her decisions to have the birth of her dreams.
Fri, April 03, 2020
Beyond Complicity: Birth Work Outside The System
April is Radical Birth Keeper Month! Every Friday in April we will journey through a different woman's story of her becoming a radical birth keeper. Today I am joined by a dear friend of mine, Isabella. Isabella was a doula in New York City, until this past year, when she made the decision to question everything that felt wrong about her chosen path, and create a better one. Isabella shares her challenges, victories, and wisdom on what it has been like to become a radical birth keeper. Isabella describes her evolution in birth work as a move, "beyond complicity" and now chooses to support women in a way that feels deeply aligned with her own truth.
Fri, March 27, 2020
The Challenges of Being A Human Rights Activist with Jennifer Lahl
This week I invite Jennifer Lahl on the show, who is the Founder and President for the Center for Bioethics and Culture, based in San Francisco. She’s also a documentary producer, having created important films like Eggspoitation and Big Fertility. Today we discuss some of the health risks of egg harvesting and of being a surrogate, as well as some of the deeply concerning language in surrogacy contracts, and the challenges Jennifer has faced as she tries to make legislative changes to protect women. I also share some my experience of the backlash I received in putting out the three part surrogacy series. We also include some great resources at the end of where to learn more.
Fri, March 20, 2020
Choosing Awareness Over Fear: An Offering For These Times
I am joined today by Nancy Lucina, our in-house shamanic facilitator and spiritual guide. Today we check in with Nancy to hear what she has to share on how to tune into a love filled frequency during these stressful times. "All the right things, at all the right times, in all the right ways, for myself and the highest good of all involved, may it be so." Stay tuned for her meditation and song offerings at the end. :)
Fri, March 13, 2020
If A Cat Can Do It, I Can Too: Simone's Freebirth
Today I have my friend Simone on the show who tells us the story of her first baby that was born free, outside under a tree, in Mexico. Simone came to choose free birth from watching her own cat give birth, and tells us how it all began with the thought, “If a cat can do it, I can do it.” And so she did.
Fri, March 06, 2020
Birth As Pleasure: Amanda's Orgasmic Transformation
This week we are joined by Amanda, who had two truly orgasmic births. Amanda tells us how she learned to be in such deep relationship with her cervix that she could talk with it and even began to see it as the wise woman inside of her. Amanda tells us how giving birth is what truly set her on her sexual journey, inspired by the sheer pleasure she felt in birth.
Fri, February 28, 2020
"Consent Can Not Be Purchased" with Yolande Norris-Clark (Part 3 of 3 Surrogacy Series)
We are finishing up our 3 part series on surrogacy with our guest today, Yolande Norris-Clark. I credit Yolande entirely for opening my eyes to the ethical problems surrounding surrogacy and I am grateful to be sharing our conversation with you all today.
Fri, February 21, 2020
Pain For The Childless Mother: Briana's Story of Surrogacy Part 2 of 3
Growing up with a deep pain for the childless mother, Brianna couldn’t shake the desire to give a woman in need, a child. After birthing her two children, she sought out a surrogacy agency in hopes of both finding the right woman to give of herself to, and also with a secret hope of healing her own birth trauma that she had endured with her first two children. As is so common with surrogate mothers, Brianna tells us of her deep regret. She shares the story of her sheer and total devastation as she realized halfway through her pregnancy that this was indeed her child, and yet had no legal claims to keep him. She tells the heartbreaking story of manufacturing trauma for both herself and her son and why she is now adamantly opposed to the renting of female bodies, and the selling of children.
Fri, February 14, 2020
"To Buy a Baby, You Must First Rent a Woman" with MaryLou Singleton: Surrogacy Series Part 1 of 3
Alright my friends, the time has come for our Three Part Surrogacy Series. I have been wanting to unpack surrogacy on this show for a while now and offer my listeners a walk through as to why it is inherently anti-feminist and anti-motherbaby. So for the next three weeks we will be doing a deep dive looking at it from every angle, with experts on commercial surrogacy in Part 1 and 3 of this series. We will also have a personal story with our guest next week, Briana, who will be sharing her story of deep pain and regret having signed up to be a surrogate mother. I’m offering this to all of you because until it was spelled out to me, I had never given it much thought and didn’t know enough about it to be critical of it and vocal about the objective dangers. So with that, I hope you will join me today with my guest and personal hero, Marylou Singleton, as we walk through the ABC’s of surrogacy and why it is an industry we are staunchly against - as you cannot be both *for* motherbaby, and for the commodification of women and children. A must read article: https://marylousingleton.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/amicus-brief-to-scotus-opposing-the-exploitation-of-women-by-the-commercial-surrogacy-industry/?fbclid=IwAR0aJ7aC03tmeEF62t6laX3S2vQ0YWYFRtrm8xJrXHTR2gLWp1qmWVfYHXw
Fri, February 07, 2020
Laughing Her Baby Into The World: Kayla's Healing of the Mother Wound
I sit down with my friend Kayla and she shares the wonderfully entertaining and wisdom rich story of her first birth, in which she chose to follow her intuition and had a wild pregnancy and a truly euphoric freebirth. Kayla shares how she laughed her baby into the world, her refreshing take on spirit babies, and how she used her breastfeeding challenges as an opportunity to heal her mother wound.
Fri, January 31, 2020
Being Open To A New Story: The Wisdom of Kristin's Freebirth
We are joined today by Kristin, who freebirthed her second child. Kristin has so much wisdom to give and her story is simple and sweet. Having had great challenges with breastfeeding the first time, Kristin shares how she took total responsibility for creating a new postpartum story.
Fri, January 24, 2020
Herstory: Jane Hardwicke Collings Writings On The Fall Of Matriarchy
I’ve got a very special episode for you today. My friend Anita has a podcast called “The Midwitch” and she recently created a gorgeous and beyond powerful reading of a piece of writing titled "Herstory". The author is Jane Hardwicke Collings, who was a recent guest on this show discussing blood mysteries. When I heard this episode created by Anita, written by Jane, I knew it had to be shared here, far and wide, as I wish for every woman and man on this planet to hear this, take it in, listen to these words, to cry with us, and do better. With Anita and Jane’s blessing, I am sharing with you, “Herstory”. You may want to be somewhere quiet and private, where you can really take this all in, it is sure to rock you.
Fri, January 17, 2020
Amanda's VBAC As A Single Mama
This week on the show we have Amanda, who, as a single mama decided to have her FBAC at home with just her friend present.
Fri, January 10, 2020
The Wisdom Journey of Shylah Ray Sunshine
I am so stoked to be bringing you today the story of an incredible woman, Shylah Ray. Shylah free birthed her child in an off the grid yurt, on Christmas, by candlelight in Southern California. She was also a radical birth keeper for many years, serving women outside the system. She’s also my new favorite musician, so be sure to listen to the end where we share my personal favorite song of hers.
Fri, January 03, 2020
A Mother Knows: Mie's Transformational Breech Freebirth
Happy new year everyone! We are opening up 2020 with Mie from Denmark and her remarkable story of choosing to free birth her breech presenting son. Enjoy! Mie's contact info: www.miemariarose.com miemaria@wiseandwild.org
Fri, December 27, 2019
Leah's Sacred Journey of Loss and Life
We are closing out 2019 with a beautiful story. It’s one of loss, reclamation, growth, and freedom. Leah joins me today to share her experience of discovering half way through her first pregnancy that her daughter had passed. Leah speaks to how that inspired her to claim her birth experience in total power, love, and autonomy.
Fri, December 20, 2019
Reclaiming Our Blood Mysteries with Jane Hardwicke Collings
This week I sit down with elder witch Jane Hardwicke Collings, an Australian midwife. Jane's wise musings on our blood mysteries are guaranteed to blow your mind. If you want to reclaim your blood as power, this episode is for you.
Fri, December 13, 2019
The Honest Truth About Freebirth (Society)
What begins as a public response to a recent podcast episode from Indie Birth that upset us and many women far and wide, transforms into a powerful and insightful round table discussion. We explore the values of the free birth community, how to reclaim and recreate community amongst radical women, and my guests offer a poignant perspective as two women of color as to why trauma informed free birth is indeed, entirely valid.
Fri, December 06, 2019
Katya Nova's Ecstatic...and Maybe Even Orgasmic...Freebirth
Today on the show we have my darling friend Katya, sharing with us the story of her third pregnancy and birth. We talk about her wild pregnancy, the days leading up to to her freebirth, the highs and lows of her labor and immediate postpartum. She also lets us know if she did, or did not have the orgasmic birth she was hoping for. And we have something super special to be sharing with you today, Katya’s gorgeous birth video. She’s inviting all of our listeners today to head over to our instagrams and find the link in our profiles. Sign up and receive her jaw dropping stunning birth video in your inbox. It’s one of the most well done, creative, epic captures of free birth I’ve ever seen.
Fri, November 29, 2019
18 Month and Up Potty Training with Andrea Olsen from Go Diaper Free
We’re back with Andrea Olsen from Go Diaper free, and today we are discussing potty training with 18 months and up. If your baby is younger than this, go check out our first episode on 0-18 months from last season. Enjoy!
Fri, November 22, 2019
Wild and Perfect: Erica's First Birth
I’m happy to share a playful, funny, and wonderful story today of a first time mama, Erica, living in Perth, Australia. Erica shares how open she was to birth and how she prepared for her birth to decimate her. Which it did, and in her words, 'then I had a baby, and it was cool.” Erica shares what it felt like to birth in total instinct and yet how unprepared she was for the intensity of postpartum.
Fri, November 15, 2019
Traveling "Through the Veil" with Yolande and the story of her Eighth Wild Freebirth
I’ve got a special episode for you this week, as I am joined by Yolande Norris-Clark, my hero, dear friend, and partner in everything birth. She’s joining us today to share the story of her most recent birth, her 8th child, and why this particular birth may not have actually been an entirely undisturbed physiological birth. We are also thrilled to share that we just released Yolande’s newest creation, Through The Veil, so after you listen to this episode, be sure to head over to our website and get her course.
Fri, November 08, 2019
Gala's Journey to Freebirth and Self Responsibility
This week we are joined by Gala, from Montreal, Canada. While Gala did have a vaginal breech birth in a hospital with her first born, she was left devastated at how she was treated and hit with the realization that she had given up her power and authority in the process. Vowing never again, Gala goes on to have an incredible freebirth at home with her second child.
Fri, November 01, 2019
Author Jennifer Block with her new book "Everything Below The Waist - Why Health Care Needs A Feminist Revolution"
If you know me or follow me, you know I am obsessed with the book “Everything Below The Waist - Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution”. The author is Jennifer Block and I’m happy to say she’s on the show today. You may know of her from her previous book Pushed which rocked the worlds of birth workers and parents alike. Everything Below The Waist is a continuation of the work she did in Pushed and is now broadening the conversation into all elements of female health care.
Fri, October 25, 2019
Unusually Real: Ilona’s Wild Pregnancy and Freebirth
I am joined by Ilona, who had a wonderful mother centered birth with her first child. Ilona went on a quite a journey with her wild pregnancy, having an unexpected pregnancy with a new partner and deciding to lean into fully embracing both her pregnancy, her intuition and her power. Ilona’s story is definitely an inspiring one as she shares how she chose to call on her yogic teachings and complete wisdom to create the birth of her dreams.
Thu, October 17, 2019
F.E.R. At Its Finest: Mari's Fearless VBAC
This week we have Mari from Tennessee who shares her powerful, and sometimes hilarious, VBAC story. After Mari had a completely unnecessary surgical birth, she committed to doing it her way and navigated a wild pregnancy and a fearless VBAC.
Thu, October 10, 2019
Trusting In Our Innate Intelligence: Jani's Perfectly Simple Freebirths
This week we are joined by Jani from North Carolina, who chose wild pregnancies and free births for both of her children. After witnessing a hospital birth prior to her first baby, she was launched into her passion to both understand and protect birth. When pregnant, she couldn’t find a midwife she connected with so the choice was simple; she will have a family centered birth without a medical provider. Jani tells us about how she chose to trust in her innate intelligence, how she accepted the what ifs, and how her 9 lb boy came out in two pushes.
Fri, October 04, 2019
Authentic Midwifery with Rachelle Garcia Seliga
Enough women in my life have made a point to tell me how Rachelle and I were destined to be friends and that we were kindred sisters who shared a mission, so I reached out to her, and asked her to be on the podcast. This is our first ever conversation of not only discovering our connection, but soaking in the deep well of Rachelle’s wisdom. An authentic midwife with a commitment to truth and spirit, Rachelle completely blew me away.
Fri, September 27, 2019
Rewriting HerStory: Michelle’s VBAC
We are joined this week by my friend Michelle, who freebirthed her daughter earlier this year in total trust, courage, and power. Michelle is from Alberta, Canada and was coerced into a c-section with her son, a decade ago, because of his breech presentation. Having had her birth stolen from her, a fire was lit in her spirit to learn more, become a birth worker, and to eventually birth in sovereignty. Michelle also shares the painful journey of breastfeeding challenges, and her incredible commitment to seeing it through.
Fri, September 20, 2019
Living Spirit-Led: Ashley's Surprise Twin Freebirth in Costa Rica
We are opening Season Three with an incredible woman who describes her life as living spirit led, something that I deeply relate to. Ashley freebirthed her second daughter in California and then went on to freebirth twins in Costa Rica, and get this, the twins were a total surprise. We have a great conversation around the power of intention, her epiphanies with ganja, and working with source energy. Ashley tells us from a cafe in Costa Rica about the freebirth story of her twins, which she describes as experiencing ‘God Watsu’.
Wed, September 11, 2019
Season 3 Teaser
Season 3 Teaser - New Season Coming Friday September 20th, 2019 Are you all ready to start Season 3 with us next week!? We are coming back with our best season yet, and beginning next Friday September 20th, you can be in on all the powerful stories we’ve have been collecting. We’ve got episodes with surprise twins, authentic midwives, incredible VBAC stories, an epic 3 part surrogacy series, and Yolande’s and Katya’s recent stories with their new babies.
Fri, June 14, 2019
Kim and her Freebirth: The Final Episode
We are closing out Season 2 with the final episode of following Kim and her freebirth journey, bringing us to today’s episode: her freebirth and fourth trimester. Be sure to go back and listen to to the previous 3 episodes that follow her wild pregnancy and preparation for her upcoming birth, which includes her challenges with hyperemesis and the many lessons conscious conception, pregnancy outside the system, and impending labor taught her.
Fri, June 07, 2019
How Sabali Made Her Freebirth Happen
The word that comes to my mind when I think about this week’s guest, is refreshing. Sabali is a true inspiration to me, with her deep sense of self and no bullshit attitude. In Sabali’s first birth, she was literally abandoned by her birthing team during her home birth, and therefore eventually transferred herself to find support. So when she got pregnant with her second child, she was already highly attuned to what did and didn’t feel right. So halfway through her second pregnancy, she left her providers in the system, and prepared for her freebirth.
Fri, May 31, 2019
A $15 Freebirth: Brandi and Her Four Daughters
Brandi impressed me with her self awareness, humility, and connection to truth. After a typical industrialized birth, she goes on to have a surprise breech birth, in the water, at home. Then has another child at home, midwife attended. It’s with Brandi’s fourth daughter that she decides to freebirth, in the very bus her family lives in. Brandi shares her honest journey with her many lessons, in this week’s episode.
Fri, May 24, 2019
Screaming To The Goddess: Nancy’s Freebirth
Over a decade ago, my friend Nancy attempted a home birth in Sweden that was unfortunately sabotaged by licensed midwives. This launches Nancy into healing, learning, and even becoming a birth worker. Finding herself with a new partner, in a new country, Nancy describes the beautiful journey of consciously conceiving her son in Mexico and birthing him in total power and freedom.
Fri, May 17, 2019
Jinti Fell's Wild Pregnancy and Outdoor Freebirth
I am thrilled to be sharing this interview today with the lovely Jinti Fell, who, you could say, comes out of the closet about her freebirth on today’s episode. Jinti was thrown into motherhood with an accidental pregnancy and while she had a wonderful birth, she was left less than satisfied with the treatment by her midwives. Then, practicing conscious conception to call in her son, she finds herself deep in her own shadow work to prepare for her new child. Jinti shares openly about the highs and lows of being a public persona online and keeping her plans to freebirth private. And of course, she shares the beautiful story of her sons peaceful, outdoor, family centered, freebirth in the water.
Fri, May 10, 2019
Conscious Contraception, Abortion, and Miscarriage Outside of the Medical Paradigm with Samantha Zipporah
Today on the show I sit down with Samantha Zipporah, an educator on body literacy and womb sovereignty, with an emphasis on conscious contraception and pregnancy release. We cover a lot in this episode, focusing on contraception, abortion, and miscarriage outside of the medical paradigm.
Fri, May 03, 2019
FBAC On The Remote Island Where She Herself Was Born
This week I sit down with Mitzi, who first shares her heartbreaking story of violence in the system. After her unnecessary c-section, Mitzi left England and returned home to Canada. In her second pregnancy, she found support in the wonderful traditional midwife, Gloria Lemay, who supported Mitzi in her powerful vbac. Then, Mitzi is shocked to become pregnant with her third child. She decides to freebirth on the tiny island where she herself was freebirthed, and so she did.
Fri, April 26, 2019
Gloria and Her Twins: 34 weeks, at home, breech, and in the caul.
Gloria, to me, represents the power of woman. After the staff at the hospital attempted to sabotage her birth, Gloria demanded her epidural be turned off and did what she could to birth her baby her way. She left knowing she would not be back. 8 year laters, Gloria finds herself pregnant with twins. She made plans to birth her children her way, at home, and she did. At 34 weeks, Gloria birthed her twins at home, with her second baby breech, born in the caul.
Fri, April 19, 2019
Gestational Diabetes, GBS, Ultrasound Technology, and RH Negative: A New Perspective
Alright friends, this is the episode you have been waiting for. I sit down this week with the smartest woman I know, and one of my dearest friends, Yolande Clark. Today we are diving into some of the cornerstones of industrialized prenatal care, the gestational diabetes test, the GBS test, ultrasound technology, and navigating RH Factor. If you want to learn more, join our mailing list to hear about the release of Yolande Clark's upcoming book.
Fri, April 12, 2019
Becoming WildHeart Mama: Kristy & Her Secret Freebirth
Today I sit down with Kristy from Australia, who surprised me with her courage and strength. She secretly planned a freebirth, only letting her partner in on her plans. And after a perfect freebirth in her home, she was whisked away to the hospital when her mother called 911. But Kristy not only birthed her daughter that day, she birthed herself, into a fierce and powerful woman, a mother, with a voice, and thankfully, she learned how to use it.
Fri, April 05, 2019
What To Do With The Cord? (And Placenta!)
This week I break down all the options of what to do with the placenta and simplify the famous question, "What to do with the cord"?
Fri, March 29, 2019
Approaching The Veil: Kim's Third Trimester
This is the third episode of our four part series with Kim, tracking her wild pregnancy and upcoming freebirth. We tune in with Kim in at the tail end of her pregnancy to wrap up her third trimester before she heads into her impending labor. She tell us about her final weeks of dealing with HG, the fears and tests that are new to these final months, and her journey with a doppler. Lastly, Kim tells us her birth vision of her upcoming freebirth.
Fri, March 15, 2019
Sister MorningStar Explains Village Prenatals
This week I am back with elder midwife Sister MorningStar, diving into her wisdom of holding Village Prenatal in your community. Her 2 part episode of first season continues to be one of the highest downloaded episodes in Free Birth Society’s history and we are returning today to one of the most common questions I get emailed about. Sister MorningStar shines light on how to organize a Village Prenatal in your community and explains what the framework is. We cover the structure, how to find women, the do’s and don’t, the intention, and Sister even gets me to sing with her.
Sat, March 09, 2019
Matrilineal Love: Mythic Medicine's Amber Magnolia Hill
This week I sit with with Amber, the host of the Medicine Stories podcast. Following her intuition to freebirth with her first child, Amber tells us the refreshing story of how her grandmother and mother came to her in Amber’s time of need to support her in birthing her child. And then a decade later, as Amber prepared for her second child, her beloved mother was tragically killed in a car accident. Amber shares with us the emotional journey of that pregnancy and why she chose to be surrounded by a circle of women in her second birth.
Fri, February 22, 2019
Understanding Baby Brain with Julia Jones
This week I sit down with the incredible Julia Jones from Perth, Australia. We talk about 'baby brain' and the importance of understanding how our brains change when we have a child. We get into the significance of learning about our own ancestors birthing traditions, and Julia shares with us the common practices she’s found in cultures around the world. Julia tells us of her own postpartum experiences and how she learned to lead with the question, “Does this bring me peace and joy?".
Fri, February 15, 2019
Reflections of Kristin's Wild Pregnancy
Today we have a wonderful talk between my friend Kristin and I, about her second pregnancy, and first fully autonomous, wild pregnancy. Kristin has much wisdom to share, as she reflects on the lessons she’s learning and how she is navigating this space and time of her life, becoming a mother of two. Kristin was on the first season sharing about her euphoric birth and difficult postpartum, so check that out if you want to hear more from her.
Fri, February 08, 2019
Growth Restriction & Freebirth: Laura's Story
After a terrible first birth in the hospital, Laura knew she wouldn’t return. She resolved to freebirth at home with her second baby, and tell us of the awkward navigation it took being a military family choosing something so radical. Laura came to her own conclusion that to have a licensed midwife in a home birth would be bringing the hospital to her, which she did not want. What would have been a highly medicalized birth in the system, was a normal and ecstatic birth at home, even with her baby’s growth restriction and double nuchal cord. Laura then freebirthed her third child and tells us of her challenging recovery.
Sat, January 26, 2019
"What You Wish A Big Sister Would've Told You": Emilee's Appearance on the Honey Talks Podcast
I have something a little different for you this week, I’m sharing an interview I did with Katya Nova from her podcast, Honey Talks. I’ve gotten pretty comfortable being the one interviewing so it’s always fun to be on someone else podcast and switch it up! So this time - I’m the one interviewed. Katya and I’s conversation turned into something VERY powerful that I am proud to share here with our listeners. We get deep into some of my favorite topics, conscious conception, sexuality after childbirth, matriarchy, and some pretty personal stuff about me and my life.
Fri, January 18, 2019
"Romancing The Unknown": Kim's Second Trimester
We are back with Kim and our four part series following her wild pregnancy, upcoming freebirth, and four trimester. This episode is catching up on her second trimester. Kim fills us in on her continued journey of hyperemesis gravidarum, navigating body image in an ever changing body, and how she is learning to deal with anxiety. Kim tells us of a turning point after a trip to a hospital.
Fri, December 21, 2018
Elimination Communication Demystified with Andrea Olson from Go Diaper Free
We’re back this week with Andrea from Go Diaper Free. This episode is all about Elimination Communication. We’re here to demystify it and to give you both the tools and confidence to get you and your baby started. Let’s teach our babies diapers are not their toilet and experience deep levels of connection and communication when we honor their dignity and instincts. And by the way - yes you can do this, and it’s actually, really truly, not hard.
Fri, December 14, 2018
Fifth Time's A Charm: Andrea's Story
Today’s episode is with Andrea, from Go Diaper Free. But this show isn’t about Elimination Communication - it’s about Andrea, and her journey to freebirth. Her first birth was sabotaged by her midwives, sending her into postpartum depression. She then moved to a state where midwifery was illegal, so with her second she began compassing towards doing it at home on her own. Andrea is brutally honest about her own journey of facing her fears and how much work there was to do within herself to finally freebirth her fifth baby in her full power.
Fri, December 07, 2018
A Breech Freebirth Off The Grid In Portugal
This week we have Emily, a beautiful woman from New Zealand, who settled with her partner in Portugal, where she now lives off the grid. Emily shares the journey of following her truth to birth her son alone with just her partner, and the story of her daughter’s birth who was a surprise breech.
Fri, November 30, 2018
When Motherhood Launches You Into Self Love and Conscious Living: The Raw Story of Pheonix Wild
When Pheonix became pregnant with her first child, she was living in Atlanta, and was self admittedly still a girl. But the birth of her son launched her into a discovery of self love and conscious living. Pheonix moved her family to Hawai’i, and pregnant with her second child, found herself homeless for many months trying to find her new flow. Her story ends happily with a gorgeous example of ecstatic birth and authentic midwifery.
Fri, November 23, 2018
A Dive Into Ties with IBCLC Jacqueline Kincer
This week we are doing a deep dive into all things TIES. We are joined by the lovely Jacqueline Kincer, who’s an IBCLC in Arizona. She answers a ton of my questions. We get into lip ties, tongue ties, even buccal ties. She tells us ways to self assess yourself or your baby and what you can do about it. Jacqueline also shares some thoughts on alcohol, diet, and smoking while breastfeeding.
Fri, November 16, 2018
Simple & Sweet: Debbie's Freebirth
This week we have Debbie from Utah sharing the story of her first two births in captivity and then the freebirth of her third. After a mixed bag of experiences in the hospital with her first two, Debbie realized early in her third pregnancy that she wanted to have an unassisted childbirth. Using the tools of hypnobirthing and by way of lots of research, she got ready for an ecstatic birth. Debbie birthed just she had envisioned. Lastly she shares why she chose to go to the hospital after her birth and thankfully, had a positive experience.
Fri, November 02, 2018
Freebirth in New Hampshire: Kate's Story
This week we are joined by Kate from New Hampshire, who free birthed both her children. Kate shares how she decided birthing independently with her first child was the safest decision for her family. In the telling of her birth stories, she tells us about how she cried on the phone to Ikea customer service in early labor in one birth, and went to a doula interview in the next! Kate’s stories are such perfect examples of how simple but yet, highly individual each person’s births are. And as always get into a talk about doulas and midwives.
Fri, October 26, 2018
An Ecstatic Freebirth on the South Coast of New South Wales
Today we are joined by Rose from the South Coast of New South Wales. After a fairly challenging and dramatic first home birth, Rose was dead set on not having another child for some time. On a trip back to Australia from the Caribbean where her partner was working, she discovered she was pregnant yet again. On the brink of Hurricane Irma, she was separated from her partner for many months, who got stuck in the Caribbean in the aftermath of the disastrous hurricane. Rosie stayed in Australia with family and decided to freebirth. She experienced a simple and painless ecstatic birth with her daughter. She also talks about having her toddler son at the birth, her regret of ultrasounds,, and the lessons she learned from both her births.
Thu, October 18, 2018
Freebirthing Twins: Stephanie's Story
This week we have Stephanie’s story of freebirthing her twins. Stephanie explains that she would have much preferred to have had the presence of midwives but when she was risked out from the licensed midwifery practice, she was backed into a corner. She had to choose, either return to the hospital where she had been abused in her first birth, or stay home and have a normal family centered birth. And so... she did just that.
Fri, October 12, 2018
Radical Midwife MaryLou Singleton
This week I had the honor of talking with a personal hero of mine, midwife Marylou Singleton. Having found feminism at a very early age, Marylou set out on the path of supporting women and families. She has an eclectic and radical background, from living with and training under Ina May Gaskin, being licensed to now unlicensed, and running an alternative community clinic, Marylou possesses a wisdom of the elders that needs to be heard. We dive into the pitfalls of licensing, doulas, the dangers of ultrasound, and how to build community in our own backyards.
Fri, October 05, 2018
Kim & Her First Trimester
We are doing a 4 part series over the next year with my friend Kim in Los Angeles, journeying with her from birth work to leaving the system altogether. Then, into conscious conception, to now having a wild and autonomous pregnancy, and then of course...her upcoming freebirth. This episode is meeting with Kim at the end of her first trimester, wrapping up her journey thus far.
Fri, September 28, 2018
Birthing Outside in Power & Instinct: Rachel's First Birth
Today we have first time mom Rachel, whose minimalist approach to life I found quite inspiring. She tells the beautiful story of her off-the-grid freebirth, and we have an important discussion on vaginal tearing and the cultural implications behind it.
Fri, September 21, 2018
Anna & Her Birthing Wisdom
Today on the podcast we have Anna, who shares her journey of self discovery through conscious conception, freebirth, and motherhood. We also speak about her relationship to sacred stones and how that led her to create magical stone elixirs to promote healing, awareness, and self care.
Fri, September 14, 2018
A Ten Minute Freebirth & The Discovery of Self Authority
Have you ever heard of a ten minute birth? I hadn’t, until I sat with Lindsey and listened to her story. After having four deeply unsatisfactory births in the hospital, she knew she wanted something different with her fifth child. Realizing they wouldn’t be able to afford a midwife, Lindsey chose freebirth and began her life altering shift from playing the good girl, to becoming the self assured powerful woman she is today. Lindsey shares with us the story of her most recent birth, her first daughter, that from start to finish lasted 10 painless minutes.
Fri, September 07, 2018
You're Not Broken - The System Is Broken: Processing Birth Trauma
This week we have a special episode on discussing the experience of and then the healing of birth trauma. As we know far too well, women across the globe are routinely victimized by normalized obstetrical violence and left traumatized from the many ways in which they and their babies were harmed in the system. I am joined by Diana, who experienced the unnecessary yet systematic cascade of interventions in her home birth transfer. This resulted in both a surgical birth she knew she didn’t need, soaked in trauma, with a deep fear of ever having a second child. Surprised by an unplanned pregnancy, Diana faced her trauma, took her healing into her own hands, and birthed in power. If the way you were treated in your birth experience has left you feeling traumatized, this episode is for you. We are here for you, we see you, you are not alone, and you are certainly, not broken.
Fri, August 31, 2018
A Military Family's Freebirth: Jessyl's Story
Today on the show we have Jessyl, who after a hospital birth said never again, and freebirthed her second child in her home in Italy, and then her most recent baby in Virginia. Jessyl talks about navigating being a military family and freebirthing on base. She also shares how she dealt with her nervous husband and the actions she took to step outside the system, one birth at a time.
Fri, August 24, 2018
Birthing Wild & Free On Kauai
This week on the podcast we have the beautiful Yoni, who on a whim, pregnant with her second child, journeyed from the mainland to Kauai with her partner to settle in their next chapter of life. She enjoyed a truly autonomous pregnancy with no outside management, and practiced deep listening and connectivity with her baby soon to be born. Yoni shares her gorgeous story of birthing wild and free outside, in the water, under the moon, on sacred land.
Fri, August 10, 2018
Just Stay Home: Lel's Story
This week we are joined by Lel from Tasmania. Having suffered a fourth degree tear that required surgery immediately following her unmedicated hospital birth, she was surprised to find no care providers would support her in a second vaginal birth. Facing a completely unnecessary and unwanted c-section, Lel randomly discovered Free Birth Society’s Instagram page, and then this very podcast. Lel tells us her story of birthing her second child, with just her husband and son by the fire, in her home.
Fri, August 03, 2018
The OB/GYN Whistleblower
Today we are joined by Dr. Eden Fromberg, an OB/GYN from New York who, get this, truly supports female autonomy, self authority, and freebirth. Dr. Fromberg shares her story of coming to OB/GYN and being appalled at what she saw in the system, witnessing abusive games and sexualized violence in the medical field. It became a mission for her to finish her training and present another way for this field to, quite literally, operate.
Fri, July 27, 2018
Finding Yourself Through Birthing Alone
We are joined this week by Morgan from Florida. With a history of sexual abuse and after experiencing obstetrical violence in her first two births, Morgan knew she would be staying home with this new baby. She shares her raw and real story about surprise pregnancies, overcoming addiction, and her discovery of self love through her freebirth. Finding no support in her husband to birth at home on her own terms, Morgan tells the incredible story of how she labored while he slept, and birthed the baby alone in her bathroom. In that experience, Morgan found a level of power, love, and confidence that would change her life.
Fri, July 13, 2018
When Birth Returns to a Village in Alaska
Today we are joined by Becca, who lives in a small village in Alaska. Due to colonialism, there hadn’t been a homebirth in this village for over 100 years, as everyone now leaves to have a medicalized birth. Becca decided not to follow suit, and tells the story of how she chose to have an unassisted pregnancy and birth in her home.
Fri, July 06, 2018
Intended Freebirth - Surprise Breech
It's our first breech episode! And a surprise breech no less. We are joined by Cari from Nebraska, who after her first birth in the hospital was told she was unlikely to have another vaginal birth. Cari tells her incredible tale of going past 42 weeks and birthing her daughter who was surprisingly breech with her cord wrapped around her neck three times.
Fri, June 29, 2018
A Truly Wild First Freebirth
I’m excited to share with you today a truly joyful and fun story. We are joined by the wise, intuitive, and oh so lovely, Alexandra from the mountains of Northern California. She tell us about her idilic first birth, off the grid, in her Yurt. For her birth, she was snowed in with just her partner and her wolf dog, Avalon who played quite the role in her story. Alexandra shares how both she and her partner used plant medicine to flow with the power of birth and tells us all about her placenta tacos. Lastly we have a great conversation around learning to trust ourselves and heighten our intuition through honoring our own boundaries.
Fri, June 22, 2018
Just Stay Home: Zsudayka's Story
After being abused in the system in her first birth, Zsudayka knew in her next pregnancy she would not return to the hospital. She tells us what it was like to navigate a nervous partner and how she made a compromise of receiving obstetrical prenatal care for her partner's comfort with her second pregnancy. She describes her experience of being a black pregnant woman in America and speaks to the systemic racism in healthcare. Then of course, Zsudayka shares her gorgeous free birth story. Lastly she tells us about her current pregnancy, in which Zsudayka has enjoyed doing completely on her own.
Fri, May 04, 2018
How I Untransferred Myself While Pushing: Host Emilee Saldaya Tells Her Tale (Part 2)
How I Untransferred Myself While Pushing: Host Emilee Saldaya Tells Her Tale (Part 2) by Free Birth Society
Thu, April 26, 2018
Birth & Her Many Lessons: Host Emilee Saldaya Tells Her Tale (Part 1)
Part 1 of my birth story is up!
Fri, April 20, 2018
Steamy Chick: The Vaginal Steaming Guru & Her Free Births
Today on the show we have Keli, AKA Steamy Chick, the woman behind the new yet ancient vaginal steaming movement. I have been hearing women rave about the benefits of vaginal steaming for years and was thrilled to find out this badass mama had also free birthed her two children. Keli shares how unacceptable she was treated by her doctor in her first pregnancy and how she ultimately decided she wanted to rely on her own instincts and see what birth was really about. And of course, we get into vaginal steaming and how it can be used for postpartum healing.
Thu, April 12, 2018
Unpacking Ultrasound With Yolande Clark
Today on the show I have the brilliant Yolande Clark from New Brunswick, Canada. Yolande is a traditional birth attendant, writer, and educator of autonomous birth. We dive into the controversial topic of using ultrasound technology as a part of routine care in pregnancy; a subject Yolande has spent the last 18 years researching. We discuss what exactly they are, the studies, the social impact of this technology, risks vs benefits, and of course we share our many opinions. Check out Yolande’s 3 part episode series on ultrasounds out now on her podcast "Bauhauswife".
Fri, April 06, 2018
The Journey To A Painless Birth: Chelsea's Story of 4
Today on the show we have Chelsea from Idaho. She shares her journey of birthing her first two children in birth centers and then free birthing her next two babies at home. Chelsea shares her wisdom on how she chose to fiercely protect the privacy of her birthing choices. We talk about how Chelsea went through every labor stage prior to her final birth of her daughter and achieved a painless birth experience.
Thu, March 29, 2018
The Wisdom Of Kristie Joy: 3X Free Birther
Today on the show we have Kristie from Manitoba, Canada. Kristie has free birthed all three of her children. She shares the story of how she registered for a midwife with her first pregnancy and quickly discovered she wanted to opt out of the system and instead be the leader of her own experience. We talk about lotus birth, using Fertility Awareness Method for conceiving, and intuitive self prenatal care.
Thu, March 22, 2018
Lorena's Secretly Manifested Free Birth
Today on the show we have Lorena from South Carolina. After a less than desirable hospital birth that included an unconsenting episiotomy and having her baby taken away, Lorena sought to have her second child at a birth center. Towards the end of her pregnancy, her midwives dropped her with little explanation. Left with no other options, Lorena settled into the reality that she was going to free birth at her home. She educated herself and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Lorena had a quick and wonderful birth with her husband by her side.
Thu, March 15, 2018
When Faith Carries You: An Australian Free Birth
Today on the show we have Kiara from Queensland, Australia. She tells her story of first having an induction with her twins in hospital, to a birth center in hospital with her next. Kiara then describes the impact a miscarriage of a second set of twins had on herself and her family - that ultimately led her to free birthing her last baby, Percy. Kiara shares how her faith both tested her and carried her through to have the strength and trust to birth Percy at home with her family.
Thu, March 08, 2018
If You Want It Done Right - Do It Yourself: An Arizona Free Birth
Today on the show we have Sirgun Kaur Khalsa from Arizona, who after a homebirth transfer with her first child, decided to free birth her second child with just her husband. After carrying past 42 weeks, her nervous midwife called 911 towards the end of her birth and Sirgun experienced a dramatic transfer resulting in unnecessarily intervention and obstetrical abuse. Thankfully, following her intuition with her second pregnancy she tells the story of her healing and powerful birth at home, on her terms.
Fri, February 23, 2018
A Quick & Transformative Free Birth In Georgia
This week on the Free Birth Podcast we have Sarah from Georgia who shares the story of birthing her first child. She tells the journey that led her to choose free birth and the shock of having an unexpectedly quick labor.
Thu, February 15, 2018
The Journey Of Learning To Midwife Yourself: Aileen's Story
Today on the show we have Aileen from North Carolina with quite the story to share. From losing a premature baby to hospital interventions as a teenager, Aileen went on to experience both a traumatic abortion and then an abusive hospital birth. Finally, with just her husband, outside at their home, she Free Birthed her daughter, drumming the night away as she labored, finally able to fully claim her body, baby, and birth experience.
Thu, January 25, 2018
The 40 Week Wrap Up: Host Emilee & Her Husband Share Their Journey
We have a special episode this week with an insider look at Emilee's journey with pregnancy. She is joined by her husband, Jonny, who offers his perspective of supporting an autonomous pregnancy and Free Birth. Together, they share the story of their conscious conception, the challenges of the different trimesters, their decision to move to Hawaii, and how they are both feeling so close to the birth.
Wed, January 17, 2018
43 Weeks Of Pregnancy To A 3 Hour Birth: Eleanor's Story
Today on the show we are welcoming in 2018 with our first episode of the new year! We have Eleanor from the Big Island of Hawaii, sharing her story of free birthing her first born. After carrying her baby for 43 long weeks, she was surprised by a precipitous 3 hour labor and delivery. I was struck by Eleanor’s sense of self authority and brutal honesty as she shares her story of the rawness of her birth and postpartum.
Fri, December 29, 2017
Author Kimberly Johnson with her new book "The 4th Trimester"
Today on the show we have author and mother Kimberly Johnson with her new book on postpartum titled “The 4th Trimester”. Kimberly shares her personal story of birthing in a foreign country and suffering from a serious injury and how that led to her own self healing and life’s work. Her book on the sacred postpartum time came out this week. I couldn’t recommend it enough.
Wed, December 13, 2017
If The Hospital Doesn't Know Your Legal Rights - Do You Really Have Any?
Today we pivot to directly discuss hospital culture and the regularly violated legal and human rights of women. I am privileged to be joined by an incredible lawyer and human rights activist Hermine Hayes-Klein, founder of Human Rights in Childbirth. She worked for five years to organize international conferences of maternity care stakeholders to discuss women’s fundamental rights in childbirth. Hermine is a huge force in advocating and shifting the focus on the huge gap in care between honoring legal rights in the medical field and the reality of todays modern day birth culture. We also talk about what’s a doula to do, understanding client legal rights, the ethical obligation of doulas, the problematic of scope of practice, and the downside of professionalism.
Wed, December 06, 2017
From An Easy Birth To A Challenging Postpartum: Kristin's Story
This week I’m joined by Kristin from Orange County, California who shares her intimate story of self discovery through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. I particularly love Kristin’s story because she chose to work with a regulated midwife and created a way to still be the captain of her pregnancy and birth. Kristin also shares about her struggles postpartum with breastfeeding due to her son’s lip and tongue ties, and speaks to how the postpartum period is a true journey of the underworld.
Wed, November 22, 2017
Free Birth After 5 C-Sections
Who knows what a FBA5C is? That’s a free birth after 5 c-sections. This episode goes out to all the moms with previous c-sections being told that subsequent surgery is the only way. Carrie, from Southern California tells her story of needing to find a better way. Pregnant with her sixth baby and having no one in the medical models willing to support her, she decided to stayed at home with her husband and birthed her baby in her bath tub. Carrie is freshly postpartum at the time of this recording, basking in the ease of recovery and the newfound joy of breastfeeding after her first vaginal birth.
Thu, November 16, 2017
Katya Nova's Birth Journey: Part 2
Katya Nova's Birth Journey: Part 2 by Free Birth Society
Thu, November 09, 2017
Katya Nova's Birth Journey: Part 1
I’m super excited to be releasing a two part episode with my new dear friend Katya who just recently had her Free Birth in the Dominican Republic about a month ago. Part one dives into the depressing birth culture of Dominican Republic and Katya's pretty wild first birth, where she had to spend the majority of her labor driving six hours to reach home and had a traditional birth attendant waiting for her. Katya also shares her list of fearful possibilities she had to come to terms with in order to free birth her second baby.
Wed, November 01, 2017
FAM: Understanding The Basics Of The Fertility Awareness Method
What would our society look like if males and females of all ages understood the basics of fertility? What if growing up we were taught truths instead of lies about sex and pregnancy? We have to start somewhere so this episode is for anyone who doesn’t yet know the ABC’s of how to track and understand fertility. I’m joined by birth worker and science nerd Jessica Austin from Vancouver, Canada who goes through the simple steps of how to use FAM to both conceive a child and to not conceive a child. I do want to note that we do not discuss STD’s in this episode, Fertility Awareness Method is simply a tracking method to understand when a woman is fertile and when she is not. It does not in any way protect people from sexually transmitted diseases. FAM should be used in alliance with proper STI screenings and communication with partners.
Fri, October 27, 2017
Author & Journalist Jennifer Margulis Shares Her Birth Stories and Insights
Today on the show we have writer Jennifer Margulis from Oregon. Having four children of her own, she has birthed in hospital, at home with both licensed midwives and a traditional midwife, and free birthed her last baby. Author of the books Your Baby Your Way & The Vaccine Friendly Plan, Jennifer offers both a professional and person insight into birth culture today.
Wed, October 11, 2017
5 & 5: The Journey of Live Birth & Miscarriage with Patrice London
Today on the show we have the incredible Patrice from New Jersey. Patrice walked into her first birth experience at 20 years old feeling confident in her body and in her ability to have a normal unmedicated birth. She was quickly silenced and given pitocin without her consent or knowledge. Patrice was forced to stay in bed in excruciating pain for 30+ hours, denying the epidural laying there suffering. Somehow deep within her, Patrice knew this wasn’t right and that this wasn’t her body’s fault. She left the hospital knowing she would never go back. She then went on to have two midwife assisted births and five miscarriages. Finally with her fourth, and then fifth, Patrice had family centered free births. We also can’t help but get into an in depth conversation about midwifery regulation, eating placentas, and the questionable ethics of doulas. This interview is one for the books.
Thu, October 05, 2017
When Social Services Tries to Ruin Your Free Birth
Today on the show we have Melissa from the UK. After a wonderful first birth with midwives in hospital, she became obsessed with birth and was left shocked to realize how uncommon a positive birth in hospital was. Pregnant with her second, Melissa chose to stay at home and have a free birth, to then be harassed by child protective services and even had the cops bust into her home. After a wonderful home birth Melissa was quickly left traumatized by being attacked by social services for almost a year. Pregnant again with her third, Melissa blazed her own path and made her birth her own.
Thu, September 28, 2017
A Mother Whose Done It All: The Tale of Jenny Hatch
Today on the show we have Jenny Hatch, who you may say has experienced it all. From having a full on mental break down after her first birth, to a c-section due to breech presentation with her second, she went on to fire her doctor while having her VBAC, then had a postpartum hemorrhage at her first home birth. Finally with her fifth child, Jenny gets to experience an uncomplicated ecstatic free birth. Jenny’s journey is quite the wild tale offering tons of insight and wisdom into the journey of a mother.
Thu, September 21, 2017
The Power of VBAC: Diana's Story
Our first VBAC show! Today we have Diana from Seattle, Washington with a true story of victory. Diana shares how her emergency c-section was caused by the interventions she received in her birth experience. Diana says, “I'd like people to know about how the cascade of interventions causes an emergency c section. The cascade being anesthesia > pitocin > heart decels from the pit and therefore causing an emergency and of course then needing a c-section to "save the baby”. When Diana found herself pregnant again she knew she needed to do everything she could to have a vaginal birth with her second, which was beautifully accomplished at home on her own terms, in the bed where her child was conceived. This is a true tale of overcoming fear, and learning to trust in ones ability to birth vaginally and naturally after a surgical birth. This is a healing and triumphant story.
Tue, September 12, 2017
Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar (Part 2)
Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar (Part 2) by Free Birth Society
Wed, September 06, 2017
Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar (Part 1)
This week we are truly blessed to have elder midwife Sister Morningstar sharing her wisdom on the art of traditional midwifery. You may know her from her impassioned letter to NARM resigning from the registry that went viral earlier this year and touched many of our birth keeper hearts. Sister shares how to start village prenatals in your community, the dangers of NRP and intervening with the natural birth process, to her own incredible mentorship in her earlier years. It was a deep privilege to get to speak to one of my personal heroes of the birth world.
Fri, September 01, 2017
An Underground Canadian Free Birth That Heals A Family
Today on the show we have Heidi-Lyn from New Brunswick, Canada sharing the healing story of her birthing in full power with her second baby in the support of her husband and a traditional midwife. After a deeply traumatic childbirth experience in hospital with her first, it took her a long time to even be willing to consider a second child. She was left violated and angry, knowing deep in her gut this second birth needed to be different than what she had at the hospital. So, she did the work. Heidi educated herself, found her new team and dedicated herself to birthing at home. Any power that was stripped away from her first birth, she reclaimed in her second.
Thu, August 17, 2017
Free Birthing In A Tiny Home On A Farm In Florida
Today on the show we have Anna who birthed her baby in Florida. Anna knew years prior to meeting her partner that she was destined to free birth her child. After consciously conceiving her baby she navigated a rough pregnancy but never wavered in the knowledge that an unassisted pregnancy and birth was what was right for her. Anna went into labor in her 36th week, what the medical model would call premature labor, and had a quick and beautiful birth resulting in a healthy baby that breastfed easily.
Fri, July 28, 2017
3 Sons Born Free In Mexico
An expat from America, Nicole moved to Mexico to live a more simple and nature based life. After witnessing an unassisted birth of a family member, she knew this was also the path for her. Nicole went on to birth her three sons over the last four years, at home, with the support of her friends and family. Nicole recently free birthed her third child and tell us the stories of all three. We get into birth culture, privilege, and how Nicole navigated trust in her body and babies after her first son was born with a limb abnormality.
Thu, July 20, 2017
Free Birthing A Mile High: Katie's Journey
Pregnant with her 5th child, Katie shares her first four very different birth stories. A precipitous first birth in the hospital, an elective induction with her second, an overwhelmingly fast unassisted birth with her third, and then finally a nicely paced calm and private water birth with her fourth. We talk about her path towards free birth and the concerns of birthing this new baby in a conservative state without a supportive birth community. Katie and her family currently resides in North Carolina having had her first four children in Colorado.
Tue, July 11, 2017
The Ancient Wisdom Of Birthing Outside With The Moon
Today on the show we have the incredible Layla from Maui, Hawaii. She birthed both her children outside under the bamboo trees of Hawaii, with the moon on her face and a fire blazing. Her stories carry the essence of ancient birthing wisdom. Listen in as Layla shares about her intuitive guidance towards free birth at 6 weeks pregnant and her ability to set appropriate self preserving boundaries with family and her surroundings. Layla’s story is truly inspiring.
Mon, July 03, 2017
Amanda's Unassisted Childbirth in Los Angeles
Today we have Amanda from Los Angeles, California. Luckily, Amanda was able to attend a hospital birth before being pregnant, so she knew what she didn’t want. With the support of her partner, she prepared herself for an autonomous birth at home. Labor began at the bar where she and her husband had met. She drove herself home to realize she was in full blown active labor. Her birth story is beautifully simplistic, though not without an interesting twist at the end!
Tue, June 27, 2017
From A Home Birth In The Bronx To A Free Birth In Texas
Today on the show we have the wise and wonderful Dominque. She chose a home birth with a midwife and doula for her first birth in the Bronx but upon reflection after the birth she realized she would have preferred to have just been alone with her husband. So when she became pregnant with her second son and moved to Texas, it was an easy and intuitive decision for her to have a mostly unassisted pregnancy and to free birth. We talk about breastfeeding while in labor and what it was like for Dominque to tandem nurse her children for two years.
Thu, June 22, 2017
Mother of 11: 4 Inductions, 6 Unassisted, 1 With Traditional Birth Attendants
Today we have our first grand multipara on the show, meaning a woman who has given birth five or more times. Julie has had 11 children and is currently living in Arizona. From her first baby at 16 years old in the hospital with forced interventions and rough treatment she went on to continue to be induced with her next three children in hospital. So after four babies, she chose with the support of her husband to birth on her own and trust and allow labor to work it’s magic. Julie goes on to have six completely unassisted births and celebrated her most recent birth in the presence of two trusted traditional birth attendants.
Wed, June 07, 2017
Fertility & Conscious Conception Coach Elisabeth Manning
On the show today I talk with fertility and conscious conception coach, Elisabeth Manning. Elisabeth teaches people how to live a more fertile life through self exploration, doing the work, and loving what is. She speaks of fertility being a journey of the soul, a sacred path to be honored and leaned into. Elisabeth shares her wisdom and reminds us to look at our childhood wounds and learn how to heal ourselves so that we can call in our children in the highest vibration. And as always, we talk about birth politics because we can’t help ourselves.
Sat, June 03, 2017
When A Free Birth In London Goes Viral
Today I speak with the incredible Lacey Haynes from London. After consciously conceiving her love baby she was thrilled to begin prenatal care with her OB. After a deeply underwhelming prenatal where she was treated dismissively and told she was on a conveyor belt, Lacey switched to the midwifery program. The midwives also had little to offer in way of individualized care and Lacey was led to the choice to go it alone with her husband and dear friend. Lacey had a weekend long champion of a labor. She was later interviewed by the Guardian on her free birth, which went viral overnight and has brought an onslaught of commentary and attention to her choices.
Wed, May 31, 2017
The Journey Of 4...From A Hospital Induction To Free Birthing Outside
Today on the show we have Heather from Michigan, mother of four and a new midwife. From an induction at a hospital with her first birth, to two midwife assisted births, to then choosing a free birth outside in her backyard at almost 43 weeks, Heather shares the journey of how her birthing experiences led her to the path of midwifery and her own self empowerment.
Wed, May 24, 2017
When 911 Is Called....Lynnea's Story Of Her Interrupted Free Birth
Today we have the story of an intended free birth turned hospital delivery. After being abused at the local hospital with her first birth, Lynnea was left traumatized and knew she couldn't return there when she became pregnant again. She decided she would feel safest birthing at home on her own terms. However, as she got close to pushing, her boyfriend got scared and called 911 and they whisked her away. Lynnea did her best to return to the place of her first birth and still found a way to to birth on her terms. This story speaks to the important of having your whole team truly on board with your plan and what can happen when they are not.
Mon, May 22, 2017
Doulas, Doctors, Hospitals, Oh My! Birth Advocacy With Cristen Pascucci From Birth Monopoly
Today on the show we have Cristen Pascucci from Birth Monopoly. Cristen is an advocate for women’s rights in childbirth, who from her own child birthing experience was inspired to change careers and dedicate her life to leading the charge in birth rights activism. We get into the nitty gritty of how the obstetrical model of care is failing women and how it’s high time for us as consumers to speak up. Cristen is a force to be reckoned with.
Tue, May 16, 2017
Rachel's Off The Grid Free Births
Today on the show we have the incredible Rachel from BC, Canada. She walked out of her first OB prenatal never to return, and went on to birth her four children and one miscarriage over the last 7 years with her husband on their own land. Rachel shares about her interesting life raising four kids off grid on a farm in Canada and how she learned to birth her way, in the house her husband built.
Fri, May 12, 2017
Author of 'Unassisted Childbirth' Laura Kaplan Shanley
After birthing five children unassisted, Laura Shanley wrote an inspiring book on how she did it. We get in to her personal story, from having child protective services take away her first born for five days, to an unexpected footling breech delivery, to birthing completely alone as a personal challenge - Laura really has done it all. We talk about loss, birth politics, and painless birth. Her book has inspired many to claim their birthing power and say no to routine care.
Sat, May 06, 2017
An Intuitive Free Birth On Maui
After intentionally conceiving her daughter in Mt Shasta, Maya got strong intuitive wisdom that her baby wanted to be born in Maui. At eight months pregnant Maya made her way to the beautiful island of Maui in Hawaii. With the help of a dear brother, Maya birthed her baby in a small hut on her own.
Mon, May 01, 2017
What is Conscious Conception?
In this episode, Emilee and five women, four of which are mothers, share what conscious conception means to them.
Mon, May 01, 2017
A Wyoming Free Birth
Today we have Melinda from Wyoming. After two midwife assisted births, Melinda free birthed her third child in the privacy of her home with her family surrounding her. From her husband missing her first birth, to driving 6 hours round trip to her midwife’s office with her second, to free birthing her third, Melinda shares how liberating it was to experience her third pregnancy being the one in charge.
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