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Send us Fan Mail We promise the more specific you get, the more your business will grow. This episode will help you get really clear with what you do and for who. Tweaks here will open the floodgates for your business!  Instagram - www.instagram.com/hot_brave_podcast Free Doula workshop - www.bebomia.com/freewebinar Scholarship Program - www.bebomia.com/scholarship Get More Clients Challenge - fin...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Bianca catches you up on what is happening with her and bebo mia over the last 10 months. This whole season will be about growing your doula business. This episode kicks off the step by step for doubling your business size. Send us your business questions and business wins so we can feature them on the podcast. Thinking about becoming a doula? Click here for a fre...

Send us Fan Mail In this last episode of the season Amy and Bianca bring you a super fun quiz to talk about the impact of alcohol in human health and body so that you can make an informed choice when it comes to this huge cultural influence that most of us are constantly exposed to. Learn more about Amy's business HOL+WELL Amy's Interview with Dr. Priscilla Martinez about Alcohol and Bre...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca and Marissa chat about societal expectations around motherhood all the way from getting pregnant to the parenting experience. They discuss the harmful idea that there is some sort of magical list of steps to follow in order to achieve the dream of a happy, peaceful, nuclear family. They also talk about the ways in which we can reclaim joy, play, connection and lov...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca is joined by two of our incredible alumni: Vicky Cadot and DeZarayé Manning. Both Vicky and DeZarayé share their passion for birth, healing and body autonomy. Vicky struggled with CPTSD (Complex Postraumatic Stress Disorder) after suffering religious and sexual abuse. After suffering a panic attack while caring for her children, she realized she needed to do some...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca and Meg are talking about one of the most harmful, almost comical lies we tell new parents: the idea that they will be able to "bounce" or "snap" back into their pre-pregnancy life. This devastating myth has us focusing on all the wrong things: shrink your body, hide any signs of discomfort, ignore your mental health, prioritize your child whil...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca interviews Linda Eileen Fearless Birther , amazing doula, homeschooling mom, peer mentor and Bebo Mia community member. Linda's family's healing journey started with pain. After Linda got injured her household had to be re-structured and her husband found himself in a new role that had him questioning a lot of things about his life. Linda and her husband...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca talks to Dr Greer Kirshenbaum from Nurture Neuroscience , the first neuroscientist doula, about the importance of sleep and the challenges that families faced when trying to fit into unrealistic societal standards around infant sleep guidelines and the pressure to sleep train babies. Greer and Bianca discuss how science now backs up what we have known in our heart...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca is joined by Toronto-based writer and speaker Priyanka Saju to talk about advocating for our humanity while navigating the healthcare system in a racialized, fat body. Priyanka offers her thoughtful scripts to interact with healthcare providers while challenging the racist history of the BMI and discussing the many ways in which implicit bias affects the care we r...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca chats with Saran James-Vaughan from Wellness by Saran about menstrual wellness, reclaiming our place as experts in our own health and the importance of simple traditional practices as part of a mission to decolonize the cycling body. Register for the Book Club The Body Keeps the Score Wellness by Saran Get the  The Evidence or Coercion? The Birth Truth Tool for Do...

Send us Fan Mail Today Bianca chats with Regina Townsend from The Broken Brown Egg about the many underrepresented facets of in/fertility and the profound impact that this journey of self discovery has in so many aspects on a persons' life. Regina also discusses etiquette and the power of words for promoting a kinder humanity. Regina's book: Make IF Make Sense: Putting words to the feels...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca and Meg dissect the myths around weight and health, taking a close look at how fatphobia affects health care for all bodies, but with emphasis on the pregnant body. Is Plus Size Birth Really High Risk? 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 ,...

Send us Fan Mail This week Bianca and Amy interview Jennifer Block , author of the books Pushed and Everything Below the Waist , to discuss her work researching women's health care and the insidious ways in which many harmful interventions are branded as feminism and sold to us without any discussion of the cost they can have to our bodies and health. Check out our upcoming workshop: Stop Wis...

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...