Episodes

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Rachel, as we delve into the world of holistic nursing, coaching, and the power of her own four births. Rachel shares her experiences with childbirth, particularly her home births, and how they have transformed her life as a woman, nurse, and mother. She discusses the importance of being present, surrendering control, and having a supportive environment during the birthing process.

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for another short transformation. Every other episode, you will find a Transformative Short, a 5-10 minute review of a transformative aspect of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum resources. Be sure to follow and subscribe to the show, so that every episode is downloaded and waiting when you get the chance to listen. This episode dives into the role of the doula on your birthing team!

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  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Myranda, as she shares her personal journey through three different birth experiences. From navigating healthcare choices to embracing the transformative power of giving birth, Myranda provides insight into her developing self-trust and understanding of God's design for birth. She shares intimate details of her births at a birth center, her home births, and her experiences of catching her own baby. Myranda also explores how birth has impacted her emotionally and spiritually, particularly amidst a family tragedy, and encourages other women to trust in themselves and their birth instincts. Settle in for a heart-warming journey of a woman's radical responsibility and power in birth.

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for another short transformation. Every other episode, you will find a Transformative Short, a 5-10 minute review of a transformative aspect of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum resources. Be sure to follow and subscribe to the show, so that every episode is downloaded and waiting when you get the chance to listen. This episode dives into the choice of care providers during your childbearing year.

    Grab "Pushed" by Jennifer Block⁠!

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Laurel, for the final portion of our conversation. In the previous episode, Laurel helps us understand the trauma and experience of her first birth. If you haven't listened, be sure to go back and listen to the first episode. In today's episode, we discuss how Laurel's deep and intentional work to heal her pelvic floor, multi-faceted body work, intentionally choosing her provider and birth location, and mind work with her therapist; how she was transformed, from the inside out, during her second birth, which she describes as redemptive.

    Podcast Sponsor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jordan Spine & Rehab Center⁠

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Laurel, who shares with us her experience of giving birth to her first baby in the hospital. I do want to give an adequate *Trigger Warning* - Laurel's Story does include obstetric violence and we do talk about that trauma. Laurel graciously shares how her own experience in birth mobilized her to do something with her trauma, and to empower others. Laurel's story is separated into two episodes, so in place of a Transformative Short episode, I hope you'll join us right back here in two weeks for a redemptive and healing part two of Laurel's transformative story.

    Podcast Sponsor: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Jordan Spine & Rehab Center⁠

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a new format of the podcast. Every other week you will find a Transformative Short, a 5-10 minute review of a transformative aspect of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum resources. Be sure to follow and subscribe to the show, so that every episode is downloaded and waiting when you get the chance to listen. This episode dives into a staple book in the birth world: Ina May's Guide to Childbirth.

    Grab Ina May's Guide to Childbirth!

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Michaela, who is a Labor and Delivery Nurse. I have had the joy of working together with Michaela during the births of many of my clients. Michaela's warm and enthusiastic personality and her evidence based care makes her an incredible asset to birthing families. She shares the highlights of her role in birth and how her experiences as a nurse have transformed her, from the inside out.

    Podcast Sponsor: ⁠⁠⁠Jordan Spine & Rehab Center

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Katie, who is a Pregnancy and Postpartum Athleticism Coach and a CrossFit Trainer. Katie owns her own gym, Clear Grace Strength, where she does personal training and group fitness classes, focused on helping women gain their strength. Katie takes us on an inside tour of what her work with women entails, how she is passionate about empowering women to be strong, and how her own birth experiences transformed her from the inside out and created the passion she has for this work.

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Ashley, who I'm honored to chat with. Ashley shares her incredibly empowering story of giving birth to twins. She is a mom and midwife whose practice is now changed because of the experience and empowerment she felt during her pregnancy, labor and birth of the twins. Join me as we chat about how her own experience not only transformed her, but how it's also transformed her practice as a provider, from the inside out.

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Ebonnae who is the founder and lead doula trainer of Royal Doula Academy. Ebonnae has worked as a doula, childbirth educator, lactation counselor and is now a doula trainer in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Ebonnae has a heart for training Christian birthworkers across the country, in a kingdom minded way, to serve expectant families. Join me in discovering how birth work has changed Ebonnae, from the inside out.

    Connect with Ebonnae: ⁠Royal Doula Academy ⁠ ⁠Facebook⁠ ⁠Instagram⁠Podcast Sponsor: Gentle Family Dentistry

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  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Samantha who generously shares her birth experiences. Our rich conversation spans many topics including adoption, home birth, a NICU stay, suspected big babies (spoiler alert - they WERE big babies!) and a uniquely unexpected hospital birth. Samantha and her husband Bryan hired me for all of their births and it's a joy to share with you how each one uniquely transformed them, and me, in the process - from the inside out.

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Certified Nurse Midwife Tiffani in a crucial conversation about midwifery care in the United States. She shares pieces of her own transformative birth experiences with us and how they impacted the course of her professional life, and the care of her clients both in the hospital setting and out of hospital birth center setting. Birth changes all of us, from the inside out. So come along with me and discover just how true that is for Tiffani. *Please note that this episode contains the beautiful life story and heartbreaking loss of her daughter, Vivian.

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  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Becky who shares her experience of having a preterm birth and two full term births with midwifery led care in the hospital setting. She takes us on her journey through the NICU, her experience of postpartum depression, and a redeeming birth experience that completed their family. We know birth changes us from the inside out, so join me as we encounter just how transformed Becky has been by birth.

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    This podcast does not provide medical advice or diagnoses. All content is for educational purposes only. Seek the advice and recommendations of your medical practitioner. The Birthing From the Inside Out podcast assumes no legal liability for the use of information, recommendations, links, or content provided within.

  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Lyndsey, who takes us with her on a journey through her three birth experiences. Her first birth was a cesarean birth, her second a hospital VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), and her third a birth center VBAC. Lyndsey and I share an honest conversation about the way she hoped her births would go, but ultimately how letting go of those plans and taking the next right step brought her family to a final, redemptive, transformational moment. Birth changes all of us, from the inside out, and Lyndsey helps us see just how true that is for her.

    Podcast Sponsor: ⁠⁠⁠With Company⁠⁠

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  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Nicki, who is an advocate serving women and families who are impacted by perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Nicki serves both locally and nationally. We chat about her personal postpartum experience and how that catapulted her into her current role and educational pathway. Nicki hosts a peer support group in Central Illinois called Surviving to Thriving which empowers women who attend to find encouragement and resources in their postpartum journeys.

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  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Jessica, who shares her greatest triumphs and her deepest losses. In her vulnerability, she shares incredible pieces of wisdom. *This episode contains stories of miscarriage, stillbirth, and the celebration of her living children. If you are sensitive to these sobering realities, or have little ears listening with you, you may want to skip this episode or wait until you're ready to listen.

    Podcast Sponsor: ⁠With Company

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  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guests, Lauren and Dean in this special BONUS episode. In the previous episode, Lauren shared her first transformational birth story. On this episode, Lauren and Dean share thier challenges, joys, and triumphs from their experience with their second labor and birth. Every birth unfolds in a unique way and I hope you'll enjoy discovering how the unfolding of their second birth transformed them, from the inside out.

    Podcast Sponsor: Aileeah Productions

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  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Dr. Lauren Jordan. Lauren is a Chiropractor in Bloomington Normal and she invites us into the transformational story of her first birth experience. Many unexpected events unfold in Lauren's story. I hope you're encouraged by the perspective she shares about the inside-out transformation she has while giving birth at a local free-standing birth center. I'm excited to share that I'll be releasing a BONUS EPISODE for the first time next Friday. During the recording of this podcast, Lauren was pregnant with their second baby. Along with her husband Dean, they're going to share the nitty gritty details of their second birth in this bonus episode - spoiler alert - it's nothing like their first!

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  • Grab a cup of coffee and join me for a wonderful conversation with my guest, Kaighla. From hospital inductions, to an unplanned unassisted home birth in Egypt, to a surgical birth in the US, she authentically shares it all. Her four dynamically different birth experiences, give us a close up look at how her births have transformed her life and impact her living today. Kaighla is an author and spoken word poet, much of which has been influenced by the transformation she has experienced through birth.

    Connect with Kaighla and pre-order a copy of her first fiction book "Evryn, the Light" today!

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