Davana's pregnancy with her first son was a wake up call to the consequences of trusting in a system that doesn't serve women. After a traumatizing and unnecessary surgical birth, she found the fire within her to say "never again" and chose the guidance of her inner voice above all. Today, Davana shares with us her beautiful journey of moving from confusion to courage, her process of learning how robbed she was in her first birth, and how she took all of her power back in the ecstatic, dream bir...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Today, I'm talking with licensed midwife turned radical birth keeper, Kemi "BirthJoy" Johnson. After two traumatic hospital births of her own, and nearly four decades of pursuing medical midwifery, Kemi was faced with the harsh realities of the medical system over and over again, and decided to remove herself from it- for her sake, and the sake of the women that she served. In this episode, we talk about the modern day witch-hunt of traditional midwives by the medical industry, what it looks lik...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Today on the show, we have my friend Angeli, from Canada. Angeli was pregnant during the Radical Birth Keeper School, and over the twelve weeks, her pregnancy and her business transformed in many ways. Angeli tells the story of her life as a rugged, woodland goddess living with her lover in a yurt with her two dogs- birthing and living in alignment with life. Her journey of placing absolute trust in her body resulted in a ritualistic and ceremonial freebirth. Now a radical birth keeper, Angeli h...
Sep 04, 2022•41 min
On the show today, we have the wonderful Saima from the UK! After she left her marriage and her doula career at the same time, Saima was ready to make some big changes...and so, she did. Now, a successful graduate of the first round of the Radical Birth Keeper School, she is living her dream life in Portugal with a thriving coaching practice. Saima shares what her life has shaped into beyond the school, as she stepped fully into integrity-based birth work, and left birth in the system behind. Wa...
Sep 04, 2022•56 min
On the show today, we have Alexandra, a solo parent by choice. After finding a sperm donor, and just one round of IVF, Alexandra decided to opt out of the medical system despite a highly managed start to her conception and gestation journey. Alexandra shares her story of balancing surrender with control, staying true to her mothering choices, and transitioning into postpartum as a single mom. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/emTetPc-IOQ ENROLL IN THE BLOOD MYSTERIES SCHOOL: http...
Sep 04, 2022•53 min
This week on the show, I’m talking with two dear friends of mine: medicine women Nancy Lucina and Kristin Hauser. We are so excited to bring you the wise woman education you probably never received. Were you, like most women, taught that your period was a burden? Have you suffered with pain in your pelvis or womb? Or held shame around your sexuality? You’re not alone, sister. Today we finally launch our long-awaited Blood Mysteries School! The Blood Mysteries School is not just another online co...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Esmé was taken deep into the underworld after her first birth ended in painful sabotage, which resulted in a long struggle with nursing. After she consciously conceived her second baby, Esmé healed so much of her story with the freebirth of her daughter. Esmé talks about trusting Spirit to hold her, ancestral healing, and the importance of a connected group of women to lean on when the struggles of life arise. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/QzSq2nDX7e0 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE T...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Today on the show, we have Emily from Melbourne, Australia. Emily is a graduate of the Radical Birth Keeper School, and her freebirth journey began with a beautiful conscious conception. Emily shares with us how her wild pregnancy decimated her and what taking 100% responsibility for her birth looked like. She offers the simple yet powerful practice of consistently returning to trust. Emily's story reminds us of the magic of birth when a mother is surrounded by love, and reminded of her power. W...
Aug 29, 2022•59 min
Kirah's twin freebirth journey started with the birth of her own twin sisters when she was a kid. Today, she shares with us her experiences of contending with her fertility, and leaning into trusting that her body that made these babies could birth these babies. She shows us what is possible when a mother stakes her claim on what she wants for herself and her lineage. Watch this interview on Youtube: https://youtu.be/IguNAsXA3Z8 GET THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO FREEBIRTH: https://www.freebirthsocietyco...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Today we have Natalie from Australia sharing her story of the journey to freebirth with her second son. After finding the Free Birth Society Podcast in her early postpartum days with her first baby, Natalie vowed to set herself up to embody her prayer of freebirthing her next baby. When the time came, Natalie had a truly WILD pregnancy, and shares with us how she faced the fears that were surrounding her, protected her energy and birth space fiercely, and entered the vortex of birth to roar her ...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Kelly had a unfortunate and classic first time hospital birth, with all of the interventions. Following her sabatoged first birth experience, she had a hard time breastfeeding, and therefore, an insecure and disconnected start to motherhood. In her postpartum, she realized that she was done listening to everyone else besides herself, and when she saw raw footage of her friend's unassisted birth, her evolution began to unfold. Kelly shares her experience of coming home to herself after sexual abu...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 1 min
In this episode, we discuss the witch as the wise woman, birth as a catalyst for remembering, and debunking so many patriarchal lies that have been fed to us about our history as powerful women. If you want to reclaim your intuition, and connect to your lineage, this episode, and our new course, are the perfect entry points to open the portal of the witch inside us all. ***The course mentioned in this episode, Womancraft: A Witch's Awakening, is no longer available. Enjoy, and happy Samhain! Bir...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 5 min
This week on the show we have Sasha, who tells us the story of how she paved the way for the rest of her lineage, how she learned to trust herself, and checked herself out of the hospital, in labor, to have her baby at home. We discuss figuring out breastfeeding, the difficulties that can arise during those early postpartum weeks, and how birthing in power has the ability to end cycles of generational trauma, and set a new precedent for all of our sons and daughters. Birthing at home? The Comple...
Aug 29, 2022•1 hr 13 min
We are kicking off Season 5 of the Free Birth Society Podcast with an incredible SURPRISE TWINS story! With her first birth, Celia was put through the conveyer belt of industrial obstetrics, but as she reflected on her birth experience postpartum, she came to the quick conclusion that there must be another way forward. With her second pregnancy, Celia found freebirth, and after connecting with like-minded sisters in our very own Free Birth Society private membership , she committed to the path o...
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Today on the show, we have the wild and wise Eliza, a Hungarian born woman, living in France with her beloved. This is a romantic tale of a new love, a surprise pregnancy, and a young woman hiring a midwife, and then firing a midwife when her true stripes are revealed. It was the news that her midwife didn’t actually support Eliza bringing her dear mother and sister into her birthing space, that she knew it was time to cut the ties, take the dive, and create the epic family freebirth she knew sh...
May 28, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Today , Jessica brings us the beautiful story of a mother reckoning with her inner authority as she navigates her way through multiple births. From her first baby being born at a hospital, to a “party birth” with her second daughter, Jessica shares how she learned each time to surrender more to the wild unknowing-ness of birth. With her third and fourth daughters, Jessica birthed freely and unhindered- with her most recent birth being attended by her two eldest daughters. Jessica’s story offers ...
May 14, 2021•1 hr 17 min
On today’s show, Sarah shares a common and familiar story of women who trade in their pregnancy and birth desires in order to make other people comfortable. With her first child, Sarah had a homebirth, but many of the decisions she made were for her partner- and even for her midwife. Sarah shares how it wasn’t until she freebirthed her second baby, that she realized what went wrong with her first birth. In her third and most recent birth, Sarah shares the riveting and heartbreaking story of her ...
May 07, 2021•1 hr 20 min
FBAC: Free Birth After Cesarean. After being deemed high-risk in her first pregnancy- despite feeling great and not presenting with any issues- Najma was taken down the conveyor belt of industrial birth. After hours of tortuous induced labor, she ended up with a surgical birth. The reason? “Failure to descend”. After meeting a woman who shared her powerful, physiological birth story, Najma felt inspired to redeem her birth experience. She learned all that she could about undisturbed birth, recla...
Apr 30, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Mary Lou lived an anarchist lifestyle before getting pregnant, and when it came time for her to birth, choosing to birth outside of the system was a no-brainer. Her first pregnancy was completely and intuitively wild, but the first and second birth of her babies were both sabotaged by another woman’s presence. Now, 6 kids, 2 businesses, and 12 years of breastfeeding later, Mary Lou shares the importance of living outside of the system, sovereign birth work as anarchy, and how to lean into the rh...
Apr 23, 2021•50 min
In honor of Black Maternal Health Week , we have doula- turned -Radical Birth Keeper, Olivyah Bowens , from Baltimore, Maryland on the show today. Olivyah is a mother of two, a perinatal community health worker, a holistic birth educator, and a graduate of Free Birth Society’s Radical Birth Keeper School. After learning about the atrocious maternal mortality rate of Black women in the United States, Olivyah committed herself to understanding why Black women were dying. Olivyah walks us through t...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr 20 min
Rebecca left her first hospital birth thinking that the doctors saved her life. She went on to become a doula in the system, but all that did was normalize her traumatic birth experience. After removing her IUD unassisted, Rebecca discovered a newfound trust for her body. When she found out she was pregnant again, she asked for two things from her partner: total trust, and total support to birth unassisted at home. Rebecca herself remained in total trust throughout her pregnancy, despite bleedin...
Apr 09, 2021•57 min
On today’s episode, we have Maura Sternberg: a healer dedicated to pelvic integrity, and the radical self-responsibility of the women she serves. We dive deep into the lineages of mainstream self-care practices, and their roots in patriarchy. Maura shares with us the wisdom of the cervix being the base of the vagus nerve, and the importance of somatic healing as a way to dismantle embodied patriarchy. Connect with Maura: www.blossomingdaughters.com @blossomingdaughters/@callmeawitch Connect with...
Apr 02, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Before OBGYNs, stirrups, and forceps, there were wise women, herbal remedies, and soft touches. The procedures which we now view as “normal” in the birth world are actually a fairly recent addition to the patriarchal and medical model of modern industrial birth, and they do not center or serve women. In this episode, we answer the question: “How did women possibly survive childbirth before men and hospitals came on the scene?!” Historian Ana Sabrina walks us back a couple hundred years before me...
Mar 25, 2021•52 min
Arielle de Martinez is Free Birth Society’s in-house healer and herbalist who has spent the duration of her motherhood journey navigating illness outside of the system. She mentors mothers about plant medicine and natural healing in her local community, guides women as they hone their intuition, develop their skills, and find their confidence as mothers and leaders through the potent initiation of illness. The Wild Mother’s Medicine Chest is a course for matriarchs who have realized the lies of ...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 3 min
It was following the death of her father, that Rebecca got total clarity that it was time to call in her children. Rebecca shares about the harassment she dealt with from the NHS midwives in England, and how medical supposed midwifery felt wrong the entire time. She was unnecessarily and unfortunately transferred right before her son emerged, and Rebecca shares how the sabotage of her birth also led to a sabotaged breastfeeding relationship. Four years later, she was thrilled to be pregnant agai...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 13 min
After finding out she was pregnant just 3 months into her relationship, Omni shares her story of stepping into full trust of herself and her baby. She speaks about letting it be easy, awakening to her instincts and her intuition, and how the mother always knows just what to do. Her freebirth story is an example of just how simple, and just how beautiful birth can be. Check out Free Birth Society’s courses and offerings! https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com Craving your village? Join Free Birt...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Courtney Piper is a mother, birth attendant, activist, spiritual warrior, and director of Women Picket DC. She brings to us today the truth of how patriarchy seeks to destroy and erode our intuition, and how our embodiment is the antidote. We cannot afford not to speak out, and together, we dream of a woman-centered world where all are liberated. This podcast is dedicated to Carla Hartley- a devoted homebirth midwife, mother, survivor, and mentor who pioneered the Ancient Art of Midwifery Instit...
Feb 26, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Kara Dansky is a feminist and attorney, here to talk with us today about Executive Order 13988. In this EO, the definition of sex is rewritten to include gender identity throughout all federally funded agencies. Kara brings us a message of hope-filled action as she informs us of what our future will look like if we don’t protect sex-segregated spaces for women and girls. How many women are we going to sacrifice at the altar of this ideology? Please support the resistance. You can donate and give...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 10 min
Radical feminist & activist Lierre Keith shares with us how the Equality Act will amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by inserting gender identity wherever biological sex currently exists. If this bill is passed, gender identity will trump biological sex in all federally funded agencies. Boys and men will be legally acknowledged as girls and women if they self-identify as girls and women. At Free Birth Society, we understand the importance and necessity of sex-segregated spaces. We ask the q...
Feb 22, 2021•1 hr 28 min
Qiddist Ashé is a birth doula-turned-radical birth keeper who, after years of witnessing hospital birth, made the switch to supporting women outside of the system. It was in following the lead of her womb intuition, that she was able to go from surviving to thriving both in birth work and the world. From a Black feminist lens, Qiddist centers the experiences of the women of her community, knowing that liberation is ours, and our wombs are home to our deepest power. Connect with Ashé: @asheservic...
Feb 19, 2021•56 min
