Free Birth Society

Gabrielle shares her two unassisted births, from a casual, confident mountain birth to an intense hot tub labor, and what trusting her body's natural rhythm taught her both times. Along the way, she talks about building a real women's circle, the kind that shows up with groceries and childcare, not just encouragement. This one is for anyone questioning mainstream birth norms and curious about what...

Jenna McConkey shares the intimate story of her freebirth after miscarriage and years of inner work. Jenna speaks on trust, surrender, the illusion of safety, and the subconscious beliefs that surfaced during her labor. A powerful conversation about birth as a medicine journey, and learning to let creation create. If you want to connect with Jenna, follow her on Instagram at @ sacredgroundnz and y...

Two babies. Two free births. Two radically different initiations into motherhood. Liv shares the extraordinary story of trusting her body, her intuition, and her children to guide how she gave birth and built her family. From hearing her first daughter’s soul before conception to navigating boundaries, co-parenting, community, and a second transformative birth, Liv shares what happens when she sur...

The difference between a managed birth and a truly lived one can change everything. Gracie shares how a pregnancy that began with fear, false alarms, and a medical system that never seemed to stop escalating led her to question what she was actually consenting to - and what women lose when they hand over their authority. From a terrifying early call about spina bifida markers that turned out to be...

Freebirth is not just about where you give birth; it can expose everything happening in your marriage, your nervous system, and your deepest beliefs about what you think you deserve. Erin shares two raw, unforgettable freebirths in upstate New York, and the second one includes a moment most couples would never survive on camera. While she is actively laboring, her husband says he wants a divorce....

Sandra shares her transformation from a fear-driven, data-controlled first birth to an intuitive, very fast, freebirth at home. If you want to connect with Sandra, follow her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/sandraskjaervo . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Introducing LEMONADE, my newest training program. Six months, live, with me. LEMONADE is where you stop shrinking your truth and st...

Abbey shares how trusting her intuition led her to freebirth and a deeper connection with her body. She opens up about awakening from feeling like a zombie, navigating her first pregnancy, and embracing intentional motherhood. This is a powerful conversation about presence, birth, healing, and creating a life aligned with your deepest values. If you want to connect with Abbey, follow her on Instag...

The advice to “just trust the system” falls apart fast when you’ve already been gaslit by doctors, pressured toward induction, and made to feel like your own body can’t be trusted. Jasmine shares the full arc from her first hospital birth, and the quiet unease that followed, to the radically different freebirth that changed how she sees motherhood, power, and herself. She opens up about a messy fi...

After a homebirth turned into a C-section, Tereza began questioning everything she thought she knew about birth and safety. She shares how processing her experience led her to freebirth her second baby and reclaim trust in her body. Now pregnant with her third, she explores sovereignty, fear, motherhood, and choosing a different path. If you want to connect with Tereza, follow her on Instagram at...

Motherhood reshapes everything: identity, trust, intimacy, and surrender. Haleigh Featherly shares the spiritual and emotional journey behind her freebirth, and the unexpected challenges of becoming a mother. A raw conversation about autonomy, inner knowing, postpartum transformation, and learning to meet life as it is. If you want to connect with Haleigh, follow her on Instagram at @haleighfeathe...

What happens when a nurse who believed in midwives ends up learning, the hard way, why so many women leave the system behind? Kari shares the full arc from a fast-moving love story and her first hospital-adjacent birth to the moment she realized the real authority in the room had to be her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Introducing LEMONADE, my newest training program. Six months, live, with...

In this deeply honest conversation, Danielle shares the full arc of her journey into motherhood, from a medically managed first birth that left her feeling unprepared and disoriented, to a transformative freebirth experience that changed everything.  She opens up about navigating a C-section, postpartum, medicalized motherhood, working in the OR, and the emotional process of undoing old belie...

Kaitlyn spent years as a nurse inside a system she stopped trusting. So she left it, became a lactation consultant, and started attending births outside the hospital entirely. After 8 years of infertility, Kaitlyn finally got pregnant and freebirthed at home, with a little help from Rescue Remedy at exactly the right moment.  If you want to connect with Kaitlyn, follow her on Instagram at @wi...

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This week on the Free Birth Society Podcast, Emilee sits down with Jinny and Audrey , a remarkable mother–daughter duo with sovereign birth woven through both of their lives. Jinny , a mother of seven and birth doula, shares how her third birth became a freebirth when she decided not to return to the hospital after feeling mistreated during labor check-in. Jinny shares the story of her four vagina...

This week, Emilee is joined by Raquel , who shares her extraordinary first pregnancy and sovereign birth at the age of 41. Raquel speaks candidly about the profound transitions she navigated during this time. The death of her mother, leaving her job, moving homes, and entering into the work of congruency, boundaries, and privacy. Choosing a wild pregnancy, she hired a Radical Birth Keeper graduate...

Nine days before Rachel was to give birth to her first child, her beloved birth keeper, Candace , was tragically killed in a car accident. Grief-stricken, panicked, and suddenly faced with new decisions, Rachel chose to freebirth. What unfolded was the gentle, funny, and heartwarming story of a woman moving through her day with ease, allowing her birth to remain simple, quiet, and her own. *This e...

This week, I’m joined once again by Kristin Hauser , a beloved and regular guest on the Free Birth Society Podcast. We weave through the stories of Kristin’s four births, with a special focus on her most recent freebirth and the profound lessons it offered. Kristin shares the raw reality of experiencing excessive bleeding in her fourth birth, and how it initiated her into a new relationship with h...

After six births within the system—including a cesarean at 37 weeks due to partial placenta previa and subsequent hospital abuse—Ashleigh knew she was done. Now a mother of nine and a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate, Ashleigh joins me to share her accumulated wisdom from nearly twenty years of mothering and birthing. We met in person at Matriarch Rising Festival, and in this conversation, we...

This week on the Free Birth Society Podcast, I sit down with Miki Agrawal —serial entrepreneur, cultural disruptor, and unapologetic creative force. From opening New York City’s first gluten-free, farm-to-table pizza restaurant, to founding THINX , to launching TUSHY and Hiro Diapers , Miki has built a life out of challenging taboos and reimagining the everyday. Together, we explore what it means...

This week, I am joined by Celia from the Bay Area, California , who shares her journey from birthing with medical midwives and working as a doula, to stepping fully into sovereign birth work and choosing freebirth with her fourth child. Born at home herself, Celia’s path was forever changed when she read Portal and began to unravel everything she thought she knew about birth. As a graduate of the...

After surviving domestic violence and a series of traumatic hospital births, Tahlia from Australia made the courageous decision to leave her abusive partner and begin again. In rebuilding her life, she came to understand what it truly means to make herself available to health, love, and sovereignty. That path culminated in the extraordinary experience of birthing her twins at home—on her terms, in...

This week on the Free Birth Society Podcast, I sit down with homeopath Melissa Kupsch for a rich and fascinating dive into the world of homeopathy. We explore its powerful history, reaching back to the days when homeopathy was a dominant and respected medicine. Melissa shares the almost unbelievable personal story that awakened her to this path, and she offers a mountain of wisdom and practical gu...

What happens when you choose a normal birth with twins?  In this episode, I speak with Nicole, a mother from South Africa now living in the U.S., who chose sovereignty in one of the most medicalized and “high-risk” experiences imaginable: an identical twin pregnancy. From the very beginning, she was met with fear-based narratives—warnings of stillbirth, premature labor, and twin-to-twin transfus...

What happens when you see behind the curtain of labor and delivery?  In this episode, I speak with Rylee, a young mother who chose to freebirth her first child after working inside the hospital system. From the vantage point of the “business of birth,” Rylee began to question everything she thought she knew about pregnancy. That unraveling brought her face-to-face with the deep dissonance be...