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Send us Fan Mail Join us in celebrating a new year and a new podcast season! Season two is all about the body and in this first episode we are joined by author and activist Virgie Tovar . During this interview we take a deep dive into understanding the many overt and covert ways in which diet culture shows up into our lives and steals our pleasure and enjoyment of food, sexuality, relationships, a...

Send us Fan Mail Join Bianca and Meg in this bonus episode to learn about the Ember Blueprint. The Ember Blueprint is raising funds for tuition for women in trades as well as stipends for students to provide care to under-resourced families, care that can be literally life-saving. - Learn about the Ember Blueprint - Read the testimonies of scholarship recipients - Support our campaign Get the  The...

Send us Fan Mail We're closing this first season with a conversation between Bianca Sprague and Marissa Bolaños about the lessons learned while navigating financial abuse,  divorce and life as single parents who ran birthwork businesses while being sole providers for their children. We hope this episode gives you tools to have the hard conversations with your partner, make decisions that make...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca and Meg chat about toxic hierarchal work culture and how it leads to burnout. In response, most workplaces turn to cheap solutions and motivational phrases to blame the employees for their own suffering. Listen to this episode to see how neoliberalism ties into this conversation and how Bebo Mia is making a difference with feminist values and new ways of organizin...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca interviews MSP student Andrea Rall to chat about purity culture and how it relates to informed consent and body autonomy. Andrea talks about her experience growing up in the catholic church and how she now reconciles her Christian faith with her passionate feminism, birth work and her pursuit of sexual liberation. Also, in this student edition of the podcast we ha...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca is joined by sex educator, medical advocate and MSP student Daniella Noël (sexedwithdaniella@gmail.com) to talk about medical abuse, fighting for our humanity, healing through gentleness and finding joy in this deeply unjust society. Follow Daniella on Instagram Get the  The Evidence or Coercion? The Birth Truth Tool for Doulas™   at bebomia.com/truthtool Support...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca and Meg are joined by Mara Glatzel to talk about setting boundaries and asking for what you need in your relationships and your life. Join us for Book Club! Listen to Mara's Podcast: Needy Get the  The Evidence or Coercion? The Birth Truth Tool for Doulas™   at bebomia.com/truthtool Support the show www.bebomia.com Follow us on Instagram , Facebook , TikTok ,...

Send us Fan Mail Bianca and Michelle talk about Michelle's experience growing up mixed in Texas US and the struggle to find a sense of belonging while navigating the edge between identities. - Bad Bitches Have Bad Days Too - Decolonizing Neurodivergence with Dr. Kimberly Douglass - Come as You Are - Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle - You Have the Right to Remain Fat - Everyth...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Bianca is joined by two incredible guests: Dr. Hailey Murphy, professor at Brock University in Women and Gender Studies and Political Science departments. And Judy Rebick, a writer, journalist, political activist, and feminist who has dedicated her life to the pro-choice and women's rights movement and who led the National Action Committee on the Status of Women fr...

Send us Fan Mail This week join Bianca and Meg as they discuss the importance of informed consent in all aspects of health care, including reproductive care. They talk about how fear can be a huge obstacle on collaborating with your health care provider, as well as the systemic barriers that keep us oppressed, quiet and compliant. You will learn valuable tools and scripts to communicate with provi...

Send us Fan Mail Bianca, Meg and Michelle share the stories of how their rage led them to birth work and from that rage, magic emerged.  Undiagnosed gynecological issues, coercion, misinformation, obstetric violence, repressed emotions, depression, and anxiety are some of the things these Bebo Babes went through before finally embracing the power of their rage and directing it towards the very sys...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca and Meg interview Darcy Lockman, PhD and author of All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers and the Myth of Equal Partnership to talk about the division of labor at home, the world we live in, and how to use this book to have productive conversations that help us move forward for a more equitable world that benefits ourselves, our partners and everyone in our families. All...

Send us Fan Mail September is Suicide Prevention month. Monique Barbieri joins Bianca this week to talk about suicide, mental health and community support. Both Monique and Bianca lost their dads to death by suicide and they share their stories with openness and humor, their journey through grief and rage and the gifts that they found through the healing process.  8 PMADs Myths we need to bust! -...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Bianca is joined by Amy C. Willis and Michelle Cruz to talk about a hidden source of rage for many folks who identify as women: the neglected need of choosing you. As women, we are socialized to always be of service to others and to leave ourselves last, which of course leads to burnout, depression and can even drive some to the trenches of addiction and suicide. B...

Send us Fan Mail During this week’s episode Amy C Willis from Hol+Well joins us to talk about the ways that, as women, we have been systematically programmed to disconnect from our anger. We will explore the importance of reconnecting to our rage, move it through our bodies, complete the cycle, and harness the gifts and change it can bring to our lives. Hol+Well Rage Becomes Her By Soraya Chemaly...

Send us Fan Mail Marissa Bolaños joins us today to talk about birth in Latin America, women’s movements and creating change through rage. La Revolución del Parto History of midwifery in Mexico (in Spanish) Jats’uts Meyah documentary about the last midwife of a Mayan community in Southern Mexico (not the one mentioned in the podcast, but a similar one) Gloria Lamey rogue midwife in Canada OBGYNs wh...

Send us Fan Mail Bianca Sprague, Meg Kant, and Michelle Cruz talk about the work of bebo mia in reproductive justice and how birth work is activism, influenced by many other forms of social justice, and how we weave it all together. Bebo Mia Birth Worker Business School Bliss Retreat Affiliate Program Stay tuned for the full season in September, subscribe to receive updates here ! Get the  The Evi...