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

My instagram followers and email list would know that my son was very ill recently. I take a few moments at the beginning of this episode to give a live update on our lives and my own soul evolution. I felt that Malin's episode would be the perfect compliment to last weeks episode with my counselor, Stephen Andrew, in light of my recent life events. The medicine of slowing down and leading wit...

Stephen is an 'old man who drinks too much coffee' and my counselor. He has been a guiding light in our co-parenting journey for nearly a year. I couldn't not have him on the podcast. He is a heart activator, a wise elder, & a men's circle facilitator among his many, many other invaluable services to humanity.  I implore you to listen deeply to our conversation and to connect w...

Patrick See is a digital artist raised in Brunswick, Maine. After high school, he moved to Chicago where he spent a decade living, first in film school and then working in various industries. Immediately upon graduating, he spent one year in New Orleans working on a medical advocacy documentary about thyroid disease before returning to Chicago. At that time he began his career as a live visual tec...

McKenna is from the southern shores of Lake Michigan and has spent the last year in Maine with her husband.  She is a witness and participant in life’s miraculous offerings. She has a reverence for energetic practices like yoga and qi gong. She is still in the process of bringing her own offerings into the physical realm. For now, she is enjoying the early days of motherhood with her first child w...

Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based nutrition.  Her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and sensible. She is the founder of the  Institute for Prenatal Nutrition ®, co-founder of the  Women’s Health Nutrition Academy , and the author of three books:  Real Food for Fertility  (co-a...

First and foremost Jess is a mother, and she loves mothers.  Jess was a labor and delivery nurse for 10 years. Her career was dramatically ended when she was fired, from the hospital, for following the law of informed consent. Suddenly her second home felt like hell. Since then she’s had 2 freebirths, became a homesteader on 50 acres in North Idaho, and joined forces with Whapio of The Matrona as...

Today's guest has been on my dream guest list since the origin of my podcast. If you have been listening for any length of time you would have heard me quote or reference Jane Hardwicke Collings. Jane is a Grandmother, a Keeper of Sacred Knowledge. She carries the lineage of Shamanic Midwifery from her teacher, Jeannine Parvati Baker. I did not let the opportunity to speak with her about all t...

"I am a woman, badass home-birthing mother of 2 boys, sacred birth worker, yoga and pregnancy yoga teacher, mother’s circle facilitator, daughter, sister, friend…! Born in Cape Town, I now live in Bristol, UK. I have experienced one heavily medicalised and traumatic birth in hospital with my first born Huxley and one EPIC redemptive, empowering, physiological home birth with my second born Bi...

Ruslana and I met at Miranda's birth. If you listened to last week's episode you would have heard that story. The synchronicity of that feels powerful to me. Ru is an amazing human. We talk about so much in this episode! From the conception of the soul to gematria to meaningful coincidences to psychedelic sound frequencies to quantum physics to chromesthesia to palindromes... We cover the...

Merry Christmas! I am gifting you our first birth story of Season 3. Miranda and Chris were gracious enough to both come on and tell their version of this incredible birth story. So this is a two-parter - Mom's Version & Dad's Version. The birth of Elek is extra special to me because I was present for it as Miranda's Sacred Birth Worker. I had the privilege of walking alongside thi...

Merry Christmas! I am gifting you our first birth story of Season 3. Miranda and Chris were gracious enough to both come on and tell their version of this incredible birth story. So this is a two-parter - Mom's Version & Dad's Version. The birth of Elek is extra special to me because I was present for it as Miranda's Sacred Birth Worker. I had the privilege of walking alongside thi...

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Gina Mundy is an attorney that specializes in childbirth cases. For over two decades, she has analyzed the mistakes that are made during labor and delivery.  Drawing on this knowledge, she has authored the book "A Parent's Guide to a Safer Childbirth" to help parents prevent these mistakes and have a healthy baby.  Rather than merely getting involved after an unfortunate mistake was...

Gwen is a mom of a 6, 5 and 1 year old living in Washington State after recently traveling the US in their RV and before that living in Australia.   She has a honors undergraduate degree in Sociology, a Masters in teaching, and a Spiritual Psychology coach & trauma specialist certification.   Gwen is the CEO and owner of her business, Connecting Conscious Collective, and is very passionate abo...

Linda is an Australian birthkeeper dedicated to undisturbed birth.  Her journey into the world of childbirth began in Hawaii in 2008, where she served as a homebirth midwife's assistant. She later became a doula and a mother to two daughters.  After returning to Australia in 2013, Linda immersed herself in Kundalini Yoga and pursued a Bachelor's degree in Midwifery.  She worked as a regist...

Today I am bringing you my friend, Rachel. Rachel shares generously about her first pregnancy experience that ended in a miscarriage at 9 weeks.  Through that experience she learned how to get clear with her intentions, tap back into herself, and how to nourish and take care of her body. When her and her husband consciously conceived their son, Brighton, she was clear that she wanted a natural bir...

Maria is a mentorship sister of mine and a true inspiration when it comes to living an authentic life.  Listen how we weave the "experiment" of human design as a permission slip to decondition our minds and bodies to live more in alignment with our unique expression of self as it ebbs and flows throughout our lifespan.  In her own words: "I have seen so many people mind blown during...

My online Village sister and friend, Diana, asked if she could interview me about my breastfeeding journey. Of course I said yes! It was timely as our journey just concluded after 22 months of boob-on-demand. With transparency I share about Kian's lip and tongue tie, using a nipple shield for the first 6 weeks, engorgement, body shame, and the not-so-often talked about shocking experience when...

Emma has three incredible birth stories to share with you. Her first was a hospital induction that narrowly escaped the full cascade of interventions. Her second a humbling redemptive home birth and her third a home birth with a possible shoulder dystocia. Her midwife used her expertise and calm demeanor to resolve this quickly and Emma was able to welcome her baby into her body without outside in...

Melanie has a lot of story medicine to share with you today. In her own words: "Through my birth story, I hope to help others see the sacred medicine even in the most difficult experiences." "If you have a deep scar, that is a door." - Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." Rumi Melanie is dedicated to helping individuals cult...

In this episode you will hear Alexxis tell the free birth story of her first born son, Noah. Alexxis is a radical birth keeper, herbalist, and artist in Sedona, Arizona. During the freebirth of her son, the lack of feminine presence lead to her realizing that women supporting women isn’t just important, it is crucial to the healing of this world. When labor started she found herself feeling shocke...

In this episode Amanda will share about her embodied wisdom as a Pelvic Floor OT, Craniosacral Therapist (CST) & Mother. We touch on several very important topics including:  Getting to the root cause of the dis-ease in our bodies, what a NO looks and feels like in our bodies and why its crucial to honor that. We deep dive into what CST is and why it is a benefical modality for processing trau...

Buckle up as you are about to embark on the hero's journey with my soul-sister Danika's soon to be husband, Rudy. We cover so much ground in this episode. I brought Rudy on because in the short amount of time that I've known him we have been able to drop into my favorite kind of conversations, those about soul evolution. More specifically: what it means to be a conscious man in today&#...

Devin King Jones is an International Coach, speaker and village tender. She is the creator of the award-winning program, Sacred: 7 Pillars of Self-Love. She is also an advocate for maternal and family rights and shares her personal experience of multi-generational living as a way to “bring back the village.” She lives in a multi-family “village” in southern california with her husband, 2 children...

I am honored to bring you this week's guest, my mentor, Anna the spiritual midwich. This episode is to encourage first-time moms to lean into a natural birth experience.  Beginning at time stamp 22 min: We dispel myths propagated within our culture by exploring Herstory, the origins of the medicalization of birth, the truth about mortality rates, c-sections, healthy stress for your baby during...