Pure Nurture Pregnancy and Birth

Crystalee Beck is a mama of three, cute, mess makers, writer, and cofounder of The Mama Ladder, an organization that empowers women at the intersection of motherhood and entrepreneurship. After leaving her corporate ladder job, she "created her own ladder" to fit her family in 2016. She gets her best ideas on mountain climbs and treasures daily adventures with her kids. See more at  TheMamaLadder....

Dr. Aviva Romm is a midwife, herbalist, and Yale-trained MD, Board Certified in Family Medicine with Obstetrics, who has been bridging the best of traditional medicine with good science for over three decades. Her focus is on what she calls our total health ecology, utilizing medicine to identify and reverse the root causes of chronic health conditions, particularly hormonal problems in women and...

Meet Lindsay Meisel, Chief Science Editor at  Ava Fertility Tracker , a bracelet using new technology to detect a woman's fertile window in real time. She loves breaking down science, tech, and health to improve women's health and their menstrual cycles. With over a decade of experience educating and writing about reproductive health, Lindsay is a sought-after speaker and presenter. Her work has b...

Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition and exercise. Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and unapologetically critical of outdated dietary guidelines. She is the author of two bestselling books, Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes. In...

Sarah is the founder of Empowering Fearless Birth (a non-profit organization). EFB was founded in 2013 and is Utah's largest and longest-running pregnancy and birth expo. Sarah is passionate about helping women find their ideal resources to have a safe, healthy, and beautiful pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience. As a professional filmmaker, she is able to bring unique and high-quality reso...

This is a special episode. Imagine the song, We Are the World , and a Ted Talk had a baby. If you're pregnant during the pandemic, we sing this one for you. It's good for those I-can't-do-this-anymore moments. A few guests share words of wisdom to help you navigate a whole new world. I hope their messages lift your soul. Help you find the power within to keep going (even when things are bad). Make...

Molly Caro May  is a writer whose work explores body, place, and the foreign/familiar. Her latest book, Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood,  was named a "searingly eloquent memoir" by Kirkus and excerpted in TIME and Lenny Letter. Her first book,  The Map of Enough: One Woman's Search for Place  was called "addictive" by Elle Magazine . She teaches personal narrative an...

William Sears, MD, has been advising busy parents on how to raise healthier families for over 40 years. Together with this wife, Martha, he has written more than 40 books and countless articles on parenting, nutrition, and healthy aging. He serves as a consultant for TV, magazines, and other media. Visit him at AskDrSears.com. In this episode, you'll hear about: Dr. Sears' 50 year MD career The br...

Dr. Aumatma is a Naturopathic Doctor & Nutritionist, in practice for close to 15 years. She specializes in women's health, is the best-selling author of "Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making," and is a sought out speaker on topics related to Women's Health and Empowerment. Dr. Aumatma was awarded the "Best Alternative Medicine Practitioner″ award locally in 2015, a...

Laurel Wilson is a TEDx and internationally known speaker who specializes in Epigenome and Breastmilk, Prenatal Bonding and Brain Development, as well as, Cannabis and Human Milk. Her business, MotherJourney.com , offers BabyFriendly Hospital support; offering kick off staff education, CEO and CFO education programs, Grand Rounds, staff audits, and intensive staff training. See LaurelAWilson.com f...

Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a Certified Fertility Awareness Educator, Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner, and author of The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility. I help health conscious women discover the connection between their menstrual cycles and their overall health, so they can ditch hormonal birth control forever. Our education system has failed to teach us abo...

Loretta J. Ross is a nationally-recognized trainer on using the transformative power of Reproductive Justice to build a Human Rights movement that includes everyone. Ms. Ross is an expert on women's issues, hate groups, racism and intolerance, human rights, and violence against women. Her work focuses on the intersectionality of social justice issues and how this affects social change and service...

Gina Giordano is a doula and a creator. Originally from Miami Florida, she grew up in a close family unit. As the oldest of five children, she was taught how to support and nurture at a very young age. After studying fine arts in college, she moved to New York City where she was introduced to the idea of doula work. Just after one training her passion for working in pregnancy, childbirth and beyon...

Amanda Thomas is a certified Elimination Communication (EC) coach and consultant for Go Diaper Free . She teaches parents how to potty train their kids without using diapers. Or, at least using fewer diapers! In this episode, you'll hear about: Natural infant pottying Go Diaper Free Elimination Communication (EC) Potty Training without diapers Bamboo - Eco-friendly diapers Top Hat Potty Environmen...

Sometimes big, life-changing events happen. They leave you feeling bruised and a lot less like the person you know you are in your soul. You divide your life into the before and after. You wonder how to make sense of it and how to move on as a new version of yourself. At 18 weeks pregnant with her second child, she was thrust unwillingly into the dizzying world of pediatric cardiology. She was fac...

Dr. Aviva Romm is a midwife, herbalist, and Yale-trained MD, Board Certified in Family Medicine with Obstetrics, who has been bridging the best of traditional medicine with good science for over three decades. Her focus is on what she calls our total health ecology, utilizing medicine to identify and reverse the root causes of chronic health conditions, particularly hormonal problems in women and...

Tranquility by HeHe is a Maternity Concierge, Doula, and Birthing Service in the Boston area. Their mission is to provide high quality, holistic, individualized doula services to Boston families in an empowering and nurturing environment. They take their doula services above and beyond prenatal, birth, and postpartum support by managing all of the "time-sucking" things such as creating your baby r...

Robin Shirley, CHHC, is the Founding President of Take Back Your Health Int'l, a company that hosts internationally attended health conferences and retreats across the U.S. She speaks, consults, and writes about The Take Back Your Health Lifestyle and how to reduce the symptoms of chronic illness. She has spoken for the University of Virginia Cardiovascular Center, The Arthritis Foundation, Arthri...

Alisa made history on the Dr. Oz Show when she discussed menstruation on national TV. She showed them how to 'read' your menstrual blood (using mashed fruit as props) to determine if you have hormonal imbalances. You can see the video here . She also spoke about hormones, neurochemistry, feminine energy, entrepreneurship, and success at TEDx, Talks@Google, Summit Series Outside, Hay House, WIE Sym...

Meet Leslie Huddart. Although she didn't recognize it as a child, she's been on a healer's path her whole life. She's an acupuncturist who studied reiki, Thai massage, shiatsu, and Asian medicine. Now she teaches women (and men who "get it" ) skills of self-mastery in her Subtle Body Certification TM program, The Body Wisdom Academy, so they can win in life, stay grounded in tough times, nurture a...

What is Astrology and how can it help you become the kind of mom you want to be? How understanding your child's birth chart can help you to embrace and support the unfolding of your child's authentic self. How understanding your birth chart can help you stay grounded in your own soul work as you navigate the very demanding, life-changing, (and sometimes overwhelming) experience of mothering. How t...

Important question: Are you living from your head or your heart? A lot of us are stuck in our heads, working a job we hate without considering what our heart wants. Angela Barbieri Usas, mom of three, guides us back to our hearts, so we can hear the truth of what we want. She believes we're meant to live a life beaming from our heart centers. With the everyday demands of life, pulled in a million...

Meet this power couple, Sarah Bivens: coach, podcaster, & amazing mama — AND — Matthew Bivens: coach, podcaster, & purpose activator. They individually and collectively help people prepare for parenthood in an orgasmic way. Sarah's mission is: To be the Badass Goddess in exquisite execution of balanced lifestyle; acknowledging and honoring my divine feminine source and owning my power to co-create...

Welcome Shveta Sontakey back on the podcast! On episode 19 , she said how hypnobirthing was the most empowering thing she did for herself, and her family. Today she invites us to see what our brains look like for the first time. In her new business, Nurtured Brain, she helps families optimize their brain power through neuroscience and tech. I WISH I lived in LA to try this service out with her! It...