From Teen Mom to a Certified Professional Midwife

Welcome to the Melanin Initiative!In this episode, we are delighted to have Charity Bean, CMA, CFSD, CLC, CHW, SMW, share her heartfelt journey of becoming a Certified Midwife. Charity is a certified pregnancy, labor, childbirth, and postpartum doula who specializes in hospital birth. With numerous certifications including medical assistant, lactation consultant, birth assistant, and soon to be certified perinatal mood disorder counselor, Charity's passion for birth work stems from being a teen mom and working in the medical field.She has dedicated 13 years to the medical field and is now pursuing a Bachelor's in the Science of Midwifery at the Midwives College of Utah. Charity is the founder of The Doula Lab pregnancy resource center and owner of Doula Bean Maternal Care, LLC, with a goal to open a free-standing birthing center in East St. Louis, Illinois. Join us as Charity discusses her journey, the mentors and peers who have helped her, her vision for the future, and her perspective on the current state of healthcare and where it is heading in the next ten years. She also shares what she has learned that she didn't know prior to midwifery school and what she wishes she would have known prior to becoming a doula.--Welcome to Season 3!If you’re new here, welcome to the Melanin Initiative. We are a health literacy podcast offering our nursing perspective. By watching on YouTube or listening on  your favorite podcast app, we hope you feel empowered to ask questions, educated on how to manage your health, and confident to navigate the healthcare system. If you haven’t already, subscribe so you can be notified when we release a new episode. Thumbs up the video and leave a comment or two, it helps us help you. It also shows YouTube this content is valuable and helps to make sure YouTube shows our content to those who need to hear it.-------------Connect with Charity Bean, CMA, CFSD, CLC, CHW, SMW:Website: www.doulabean.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charity-bean-cma-cfsd-clc-chw-smw-6541601b4/Facebook: facebook.com/doulabeanInstagram: instagram.com/doula_beanResources:http://blackdoulas.org/national-directory-search/[email protected]&cahttps://www.newsnationnow.com/health/filling-health-gaps-to-prepare-black-mothers-for-safe-births/Stay in touch!-Email: [email protected]  -Listen to the podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2186156 -Subscribe to our YouTube channel: The Melanin Initiative https://www.youtube.com/@themelanininitiative  -Follow us on Instagram: @tmi.melanin https://www.instagram.com/tmi.melanin/  -Follow us on TikTok: The Melanin Initiative https://www.tiktok.com/@themelanininitiat?_t=8dAhVy7KLgQ&_r=1 -Follow us on Facebook https://wwwSend us Fan MailStay Connected with The Melanin Initiative Podcast:✨ Mahogany Dermatology Nursing Bookstore: https://www.cosmeticnp.org/mahogany-dermatology-bookstore✨ https://tmi-melanin.my.canva.site/tmi✨ Email Us: [email protected]✨ Increase your Health Literacy IQ: Caring For Us: www.caring4us.org