Soul Evolution: Embodied Women’s Wisdom, Birth Stories and More

In this remastered episode, I sit down with Jane Hardwicke Collings, post-menopausal grandmother, former homebirth midwife of 30 years, founder of the School of Shamanic Womancraft, author, teacher and lineage carrier of the women's mysteries. Together, we explore the wisdom of the cycles, the rites of passage that shape a woman’s life, and the deep cultural amnesia surrounding menstruation, b...

In this remastered episode, I sit down with Jess Shine, former labor and delivery nurse, mother of four, freebirther, and Director of Programs at The Matrona. Jess shares the story of how her entire understanding of birth unraveled as she moved through four radically different births and witnessed the realities of the hospital system from the inside. She speaks candidly about her traumatic first b...

This remastered episode revisits one of the most expansive and highly loved conversations on the podcast. I am joined by Emily Maiden, founder of Maiden Medicine, practitioner of ceremonial pelvic bodywork, and creatrix of transformational teachings on women’s physiology, sacred sexuality, and the deep reclamation of the feminine. In this conversation, we explore the internal landscape of a woman’...

This remastered episode brings back one of the most loved and most important conversations from the podcast archives. I am joined by Lily Nichols RDN, author of Real Food for Pregnancy , Real Food for Fertility , and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes . Lily is widely respected for her evidence based approach to women’s health, nutrition, pregnancy, and postpartum, and for challenging outdated gui...

In this remastered and deeply loved episode, I sit down with Nikki, a mother of two, human design reader, former foreign correspondent, and a woman who lives boldly by her own inner authority. Together we revisit her extraordinary journeys through conception, birth, loss, and the reclamation of instinctual motherhood. As we approach 100 episodes and celebrate two years of Soul Evolution, this conv...

As we approach 100 episodes and celebrate two years of podcasting, I am bringing back this powerful, deeply loved conversation from the very beginning of Soul Evolution. This story was originally Episode 1 of the entire podcast, and for good reason. In this remastered episode, Katharine shares the full arc of her motherhood journey: • the early birth and stillborn loss of her first daughter • her...

In this remastered episode, Emily brings back one of the most beloved and most-listened conversations on Soul Evolution. This intimate dialogue with Maine midwife Gayle Eckey offers deep insight into how to choose the right midwife when preparing for a physiological and undisturbed home birth. Together, Emily and Gayle walk through the essential questions every woman should ask when interviewing a...

As Soul Evolution approaches its 100th episode, Emily remasters and re-releases one of the most loved and powerful conversations from the archives — a raw, embodied exploration of sovereignty, lineage, and physiological birth with Lindsey. Lindsey shares her two birth stories with unfiltered honesty — her first, a hospital birth that became a “trial run” in reclaiming her voice, and her second, a...

As we journey toward 100 episodes and celebrate two years of Soul Evolution, enjoy this remastered re-release of one of the most powerful and beloved conversations from the archive. In this episode, Emily sits down with Jason , founder of Raising Fathers , to explore what it truly means for men to awaken into fatherhood as a rite of passage. Together, they traverse themes of initiation, ceremony,...

In this most loved episode, Emily sits down with her mentor Anna Lundqvist , the Spiritual Midwich behind Sacred Birth International , to invite first-time mothers into a deeper remembrance of natural birth. Together, they unravel myths, explore Herstory , and illuminate how reclaiming physiological birth transforms both women and the world. Beginning around the 22-minute mark, Emily and Anna disc...

As we celebrate two years of podcasting and journey toward 100 episodes, I’m bringing back this Most Loved episode — the powerful free birth story of first-time father Aaron Cloutier . At 52, Aaron welcomed his son Thomas Cade in an unassisted home birth with his partner Anna. In this conversation, he shares the raw and beautiful reality of supporting his partner through pregnancy, labor, and birt...

As we celebrate two years of podcasting and journey toward 100 episodes, I’m bringing back this Most Loved birth story — a powerful and raw account from Anna Blash on the free birth of her son, Thomas. Anna’s story unfolds over 70 hours of labor, beginning with a prophetic dream, a detour through the hospital system, and ultimately a triumphant return home where she birthed in her own power. Along...

As we celebrate two years of podcasting and journey toward 100 episodes, I’m bringing back this Most Loved Wise Woman episode — a rich and practical conversation with Molly Caldwell on fertility awareness and the four seasons of the womb cycle. Molly shares her own red-thread lineage story — growing up within the silence of Catholic shame around sexuality, unpacking her induction birth imprint, an...

As we celebrate two years of podcasting and journey toward 100 episodes, I’m bringing back this Most Loved episode — the very first Dad’s Version of a birth story. This is part two of a two-part series; if you haven’t yet, listen to Episode 86 for Britney’s powerful telling of their daughter Pari’s birth. In this conversation, Nate shares his perspective on preparing for and witnessing the home bi...

86. MOST LOVED [BIRTH STORY] WITH BRITNEY - FIRST TIME MOM HOME BIRTH - PART 1 MAMA'S VERSION As we journey toward 100 episodes and two years of podcasting, I’m bringing back this As we celebrate two years of podcasting and approach 100 episodes, I’m bringing back this most loved birth story from the archive. This is part one of a powerful two-part series, sharing both Mama and Dad’s perspecti...

In this deeply moving episode, I sit with Olivia Roff — a Mystical Doula and Spirit Baby Medium whose own birth journeys became the portal into her spiritual calling. Olivia shares the medicine of her stories: Her first home birth that ended in hospital transfer and forceps delivery, and the long postpartum journey that followed. Two profound losses — a very early miscarriage and another at nearly...

This is the final episode in our four-part mini-series with Whapio of The Matrona , where we have been exploring the cosmology of life and birth. In the first three conversations, we journeyed through conception and the return of the wise woman, the holistic stages of labor, and the quietude at the top of the mountain just before the active pushing phase begins. In this final episode, we move into...

In this special four-part mini-series with Whapio of The Matrona , we journey into the cosmology of life and birth through her unique lens of wisdom. In this episode, Whapio and I explore the holistic stages of birth —what it means to view labor not just as a clinical process, but as a profound journey of transformation. We talk about the early foothills of labor, the veil, altered states of consc...

In Part Two of my conversation with my mentor and teacher Whapio of The Matrona , we continue to unravel the depth and cosmology of conception and birth. As a student in her 2025 Midwifery & Birthkeeper cohort, it is an honor to bring you this continuation of her teachings. In this episode, Whapio guides us into a profound exploration of birth as a quantum, cosmological rite of passage . She s...

In Part One of this extraordinary two-part series, I sit down with my mentor and teacher, Whapio of The Matrona — midwife, educator, and visionary — with whom I am currently apprenticing in her 2025 Midwifery & Birthkeeper cohort . Whapio shares her personal journey from practicing midwife in the 1980s to becoming a teacher and consciousness-raiser through The Matrona. Together we explore the...

This week marks a huge milestone: 80 episodes of Soul Evolution: Embodied Women’s Wisdom, Birth Stories & More. In this solo episode, I share a life update — moving my camper into Isaiah’s backyard, how our co-parenting relationship has softened, and the reminder I keep receiving (and teaching): to slow way, way down. From there, I celebrate the devotion behind these 80 episodes — the hours of...

In this unforgettable episode, Yvonne Stoop takes us inside her three extraordinary birth experiences—each one more transformational than the last. From her first fast hospital water birth in Dubai, to an ecstatic, pain-free, orgasmic birth that defied the limits of the medical system, to the grounded ease and sovereignty of her planned free birth at home, Yvonne’s story is a masterclass in self-t...

In this heartfelt episode of Soul Evolution , Emily sits down with Kesslyn, a newly licensed midwife and mother, to hear the full story of her sovereign, intuitive pregnancy and 42+4 home birth. From midwife dreams at 19 to catching babies in Mexico, Kesslyn shares her deeply embodied trust in physiological birth, her Christian faith, and the emotional initiation into motherhood. They explore prod...

In this deeply moving and raw episode, Kirsten returns the podcast to share the free birth story of her second daughter, Korra. After a long and challenging first birth, told in episode 8, Kirsten chose a radically different path this time—trusting her intuition, ending care with her midwife, and ultimately birthing alone in a tub on her deck, under the moonlight, surrounded by the sounds of the f...

In this powerful episode, Emily is joined by Haley—mother, birth worker, and founder of Root Womb Collective—for a deeply personal and embodied birth story. Together they explore: Haley’s healing journey through abortion, spirit baby connection, and forgiveness Her intentional preconception preparation after a Hashimoto’s diagnosis Choosing a birth keeper and planning a home birth an hour from the...