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Midwifery for the People
by Margo Blackstone
Midwifery for the People is a podcast about reimagining the way we approach the entirety of the birthing year. Margo’s goal is to combine her radical imagination with her knack for strategizing to bolster the birth revolution and a larger global revolution of feminine consciousness.
Episodes
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The Weight of Birth Dogma: A Breech Birth Story From a Dear Friend
In this episode I sit down with a friend to talk through her birth story and the years it took to really make sense of it. We talk about the powerful influence of Free Birth Society teachings, the pressure and dogma that can exist in birth spaces, and what it was like for her to navigate a breech...
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Smart Money Moves for Birth Workers: Balancing Growth and Sustainability
In this episode, I coach Trisha, a birth worker navigating how to best use a recent financial windfall. We dive into balancing big decisions—like investing in a marketing program—against other priorities like organic strategies, childcare, self-care, and creating business momentum. We explore...
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The Quantum Awakening: A Journey into Circadian Harmony with Daniel White
In this inspiring episode of Midwifery for the People, I sit down with Daniel White, Co-Founder of QNTMLY & The CRD Challenge, and Founder & NPO Chair of Sleep Better Live Better. Nikko Kennedy, long time friend of Indie Birth introduced me to Daniel recently when she suggested I might want to be...
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A New Return of the Great Mother (Replay)
In this reissued episode, I sit down with Isa Gucciardi to talk about her powerful book, *The New Return to the Great Mother*. We explore the deep connection between spirituality and birth, and how reclaiming that connection can profoundly change women. Isa shares her insights into shamanic...
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Sacred Paths: Conversations on Birth, Grief, and Healing with Stacey Ramsower
In this episode of ‘Midwifery for the People,’ I allude to our new Sacred Birth Certificate Program which we are launching September 15th :)! For this first one, I’m joined by Stacey Ramsower, a contributor to our brand new, soon to be launched program, who shares her personal journey with...
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Restorying Birth Work: Insights from Nicole Morales on Midwifery and Education
In this episode of ‘Midwifery for the People,’ I had the pleasure of interviewing Nicole Morales, a home birth midwife based in San Diego, California. Nicole shares insights from her diverse background, which includes teaching, co-authoring books on midwifery, and training others in breech birth...
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Inside the Great Birth Rebellion with Dr. Melanie Jackson
Wowee wow wow I have gotten to talk so some cool people lately on the podcast. This week I have Mel from the Great Birth Rebellion Podcast on and we really get into some good stuff. I invited her on after I saw the clip that the birth world was resharing like crazy, where some official looking...
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From Australia to the US: Hannah Penaluna on Navigating Midwifery Autonomy and Regulation
I was so blessed to record this conversation with Hannah Penaluna that was a long time coming! She is an experienced midwife who moved from state controlled midwifery landscape of Australia to the wild west (ok she is in the south but still) of Georgia, an unregulated state in the U.S. The…
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The Mystery of Birth: An interview with Margo & Jake Haber
This episode is SO MUCH FUN. I have really enjoyed stepping out of the normal birth circles and talking about birth with “non-birthy” people lately. The same old conversations are tiring and frankly boring. So this episode is an interview Jake and I did on Mother’s Day for the spiritual community...
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Reclaiming Birth: An Interview with Kristen Nagle of the Reclaiming Birth Conference
In this episode of Midwifery for the People, I’m sharing a recording of an interview where Kristen Nagle of the Reclaiming Birth Conference asked me about my journey into radical midwifery! Different things come out when different people ask me questions, so this was a lot of fun I chat about my...
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Mixing Doulas and Insurance: One Woman’s Take
In this episode of Midwifery for the People I have a quick chat with doula Elisha Anderson about her experience trying to accept state medical care funds for her doula services in Oregon. She had reached out to me about midwifery school and shared a little about her experience, and I invited to...
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Sacred Loss: The Story of My First Miscarriage
On this episode I wanted to share a reading from our book Indie Birth: A Story of Radical Birth Love, and in keeping with the recent theme, I’m sharing the complete story of my first miscarriage. This is one of the most “popular” pieces of content I’ve ever created. I wrote it in 2013 when there...
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Death, Blame, Grief and Healing: Personal Notes from a Midwife
In this episode of ‘Midwifery for the People,’ host Margo Blackstone shares deeply personal experiences exploring her evolving relationship with death, both in her personal life and professional work as a midwife. She reflects on the profound impact of attending a birth where a baby unexpectedly...
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Dancing with Death In the Birth Space
Join Margo on this exploratory first part of a series on death and navigating our relationship to it as birth workers. If we want to shift the cultural narrative so that we honor birth as a right of passage, we will also need to reimagine death as a right of passage. The Western medical…
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Borderline Witchcraft: Exploring Spirituality, Birth, and Margo’s Personal Journey
In this candid episode, Margo discusses her spiritual journey and how it intersects with her work at Indie Birth. She discusses her shift away from conventional religion towards a more earth-based spirituality that embraces elements from different practices such as earth prayers, shamanic...
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Healing Your Relationship With Money Even If You Think It Is Evil
I’m sharing a lesson from my new project Mindful Money Magic because we are also offering a new program called Midwifery Magic, a comprehensive mentorship, up-leveling, magic infusing experience for midwives (or advanced midwifery students). A lot of what I offer in Midwifery Magic crosses over...
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A Real Life Story of a Midwife on Trial: an Interview with Angee Hock
Thousands of women have contacted us over the years expressing their bone deep desire to be a midwife. BUT BUT BUT…they are afraid they will go to jail, be criminalized, or be put on trial. We have addressed their fear of persecution in lots of ways, but in this episode, I talk to Angee Hock, a...
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The Relationship Between Midwifery Education and Midwifery Regulation, a Lively Conversation with Jessica from Pacific Birth Institute and Bethel, Chair of the Alaska Board of Certified Direct Entry Midwives
Listen in on a recent conversation I had with midwives Jessica and Bethel! We talked about the difficulties of educating midwives, why we should focus on educating more awesome birth assistants then, how mandatory MEAC education is crippling Alaskan midwifery, and how Alaskan regulation is...
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An Intimate Retelling of Indie Birth Story from Answering the Call to Radical Midwifery Retreat
This is a unique episode where you can listen in on a section of our Answering the Call to Radical Midwifery Retreat from April 2022 where Maryn and Margo share the origins of Indie Birth and answer questions from attendees about licensing, underground midwifery, what happens when clients aren’t…
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Offering Support to Midwifery Preceptors: A Mentoring Session with a Greek Midwife!
Listen in on this coaching and consulting session where Margo answers questions and talks all things preceptorship with a lovely Greek midwife. She had trained in the UK where the apprenticeship/hands on learning looks quite different than the model we teach. One of our students reached out to…
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Understanding the Landscape of Mental Health and Wellness in Pregnancy and the Postpartum with Jennifer Summerfeldt
Join me for another awesome discussion (best one yet?!) with Jennifer, whose work I admire so much. As a midwife I have seen how mental health, overcoming limiting beliefs, and tapping into your own power is essential if we are going to reclaim birth. Jennifer’s nervous system focused approach...
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“Birth Isn’t That Big of a Deal”: A Fun and Inspiring Convo with the Combat Midwife
I’ve been talking to some really cool midwives lately, and this episode is no exception. Jessica, affectionately known as the Combat Midwife, tells us about her origin story, her work teaching birth skills to military medics, and midwifing in a refugee camp. Her energy is contagious! I was so...
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Exercising Your Freedom Muscles – All About Face Masks with Allan Stevo
Margo talks with author Allan Stevo all about how setting boundaries and standing up for you health autonomy is crucial in today’s world. We need more lions awake in the world, and Allan is in the business of helping wake the lions up. If you feel alone and crazy, like you’re the only one who...
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Face Masks, Education and Standing Up for Our Kids with Allan Stevo
Allan Stevo is back for a whole episode dedicated to talking about the intersection of face masks, bodily autonomy and kids education. Allan shares insight, tips, and stories about standing up to mandates, and why this really isn’t “over” even here in June 2022. I was inspired to think more about...
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Why I Changed the Name of This Podcast
I changed the name of my podcast! Now it is called Midwifery for the People and in this episode I will tell you all about why that is, and some of the history of this podcast and how it reflects my evolution as a midwife. I hope to provide even more aligned content that feels like it stokes the...
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Another Conversation with Jennifer Summerfeldt: Her Origin Story and Eschewing Even the Radical Rules Around Birth
Jennifer graciously shares her origin story with us, including her own birth experiences (2 midwife attended and one freebirth), her journey of learning about birth from Gloria Lemay, Jeannine Parvati Baker, Whapio and Michel Odent, two birth center apprenticeship experiences, and the multiple...
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Doula Training and Midwifery Training: Is Having Kids a Requirement? How Having Babies Impacted Me as a Midwife
Doula Training and Midwifery Training: Is Having Kids a Requirement? Description: “I want to be a doula or a midwife, but I haven’t had kids yet. Does it matter?” This is a question I hear constantly from aspiring doulas and midwives. In this exciting episode, I finally address this topic that…
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Ritual as a Tool for Meaning Making In Birth and Beyond with Day Schildkret
Join this conversation with Day Schildkret, an absolutely lovely guest, where he shares about the importance of ritual in marking life’s transitions and thresholds. Here at Indie Birth we love infusing our work with the sacred, and ceremony, and are always looking for more ways to offer this in…
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A Conversation about The New Return to the Great Mother: Birth, Initiation, and the Sacred Feminine with author Isa Gucciardi
Isa is the author of The New Return to the Great Mother: Birth, Initiation, and the Sacred Feminine and I had her on the podcast to share more about how we might implement these incredible tools and perspectives into the work we are doing as mothers, doulas and midwives. Join us as we explore…
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Badass Business Coaching for Birth Workers #5: Dez the Doula is Launching Her Doula Business!
Get ready to unleash your inner entrepreneur as we delve into the journey of Dez, a powerhouse life coach and women’s empowerment advocate. But hold onto your seats because Dez is taking her game to the next level by adding doula offerings to her already impressive repertoire! In this episode…
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In the Midwife’s Office #5 – Processing Birth Provider Trauma and Preparing for a Homebirth
Join Margo and this sweet mama as they process her first birth, an induction in the hospital where she felt like she was disrespected and not given space to tune into her intuition. Gestational diabetes and hypertension (sort of) also played into her first story. She is preparing for a home birth...
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In The Midwife’s Office #4: Debriefing a Prior Postpartum Hemorrhage and Finding a New Way Forward
Join Margo and this 2nd trimester mama who had a postpartum hemorrhage with her first home birth, and is looking for ways to refind her confidence going into her second now. They also talk about hyperemesis gravidarum, the emotional aspects of vomiting, anterior cervical lips, coached pushing,...
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In The Midwife’s Office #3: Visit With a 37 Week First Time Mama
Join Margo and this mama who has reached her “due window” and is excited to chat with a midwife outside the system about everything from labor preparation as a first time mom, to induction at 41 weeks (and how to not go down that road), to postpartum baby choices like vitamin k, the newborn…
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In the Midwife’s Office #2: Visit with a 24 Week Mama- The Sweet Spot of Pregnancy
Join Margo and this 24 week mama in a session where they talk about the second trimester of pregnancy, the culture of fear and how to step outside of it, blood volume expansion and nutrition, and setting realistic goals for the end of pregnancy (plus Margo’s favorite tip for swelling!) Margo is...
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In The Midwife’s Office #1 – Pre-conception Planning After Two Miscarriages
Listen in on Margo’s preconception consultation with a woman who had a full term birth 5 years ago with her first pregnancy, and then had two first trimester miscarriages last year in 2020. We talk about blood work (including the blood work her OB did and didn’t order!), uncovering possible…
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Badass Business Coaching for Birthworkers #4: Exploring How to Combine the Doula and Apprentice Midwife Roles with Lindsey
Get ready to dive headfirst into Lindsey’s incredible journey as she takes on the world of midwifery! Join us for a captivating conversation where Lindsey spills all the tea on how she seamlessly combines her gig as an apprentice midwife with rocking the doula scene and leading epic prenatal yoga...
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Bottom Line for Baby – A Conversation on Whole-Brain, Mammalian Parenting with Dr. Tina Bryson
In this episode, Margo and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson (co-author of The Whole Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline) have a conversation about her new book Bottom Line for Baby, which covers all the most important baby topics from A to Z, looking at the science and also incorporating story and…
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Craniosacral Therapy for Pregnancy, Postpartum and Newborns with Etienne Peirsmann
In this episode, Margo interviews Etienne Peirsmann about his approach to craniosacral therapy for pregnant and postpartum women, as well as newborns. Listen in as he shares some of his perspective about the energetic importance of respectful placenta care and lotus birth, and how he can tell the...
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Badass Business Coaching for Birth Workers #3: An Eavesdropping Episode with Zara from New Zealand
Margo does a live 1:1 coaching session with Zara, a Birth Warrior Project student from New Zealand! They cover quite a lot of ground, including: – overcoming self-doubt and the need for “permission” to do birth education – how to attract the RIGHT clients for consultations – the state of…
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Badass Business Coaching for Birthworkers #2: An Eavesdropping Episode with Stacey of Sacred Body
Join us while Margo and Stacey talk about Stacey’s business Sacred Body. Stacey is a somatic sex educator and Ayurvedic doula, and we talk about how to blend that all into something approachable for people who may not always know what those things are. We also talk about marketing for online...
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Badass Business Coaching for Birthworkers #1: An Eavesdropping Episode with Genesis
Listen in on the first of this new series where Margo gives live business coaching advice to birth workers who are feeling stuck on their path. Margo is committed to fuelign the birth revolution through her own work but ALSO by getting more incredible birth workers out into the world, shining...
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When the Midwives Give Birth! Alisha’s Accidental Unassisted Birth of Justus
A postpartum, bedside retelling of Alisha’s recent birth of her third baby, a boy named Justus. Alisha was Margo’s first midwifery apprentice, who in 2020 transitioned into serving her community as a midwife. This birth was her “final project” they joke, and what a birth it was! Listen in to hear...
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Episode 17: Actually You Can Observe and Tend Your Own Fertility
On this episode of Well, Actually, Margo talks with Lisa Henrickson-Jack of the Fertility Friday podcast! Fertility Awareness was the way that Margo became interested in women’s health and bodily autonomy, and has the potential to capture the imagination and excitement of a whole new generation…
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Well, Actually Episode 16 – Talking with Jessie Harrold about the MotherSHIFT, the Two+ Years of Transitioning into New Motherhood
This time I get to sit down with Jessie Harrold and talk about how the shift into motherhood takes way longer than the typical 6 weeks that we think of in our dominant culture. Join us as we explore – how this looks – what this means for us as mothers – how we can honor this time as a sacred rite...
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A Radical Conversation about Birth Trauma and Healing with Jennifer Summerfeldt
Jennifer Summerfeldt, Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology (MACP), has nearly two decades of experience in maternal health and psychology. In addition to being a counselor, Jennifer has also been a childbirth advocate, maternal educator, doula, midwifery apprentice, and published writer. As…
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Self-Care and Spiraling Up : No More Excuses
In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo talks about self-care from the car!
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All About the Postpartum Revolution, Pelvic Care, and Sex After Birth with Kimberly Ann Johnson
In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo interviews Kimberly Ann Johnson, author of the newly released book The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality.
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Well Actually,….Steaming Your Vag is a Time Honored Tradition Across Cultures!
In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo interviews Keli Garza of Steamy Chick (steamychick.com)
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Well Actually…You CAN Birth a Breech Baby! An Interview With Ijeoma About Her Unassisted Breech Homebirth
In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo interviews Ijeoma about her unassisted breech homebirth. Download this podcast transcript
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Listening to Your Female Animal in Pregnancy : An Interview with Jena la Flamme
In this episode of Well, Actually… Margo interviews Jena la Flamme about instinctual eating in pregnancy, getting in tune with your “female animal” and other sexy stuff! Jena has devoted her life to showing women around the world how to be in tune with the innate wisdom of their bodies and how…
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Midwifery for the People is a podcast about reimagining the way we approach the entirety of the birthing year. Margo’s goal is to combine her radical imagination with her knack for strategizing to bolster the birth revolution and a larger global revolution of feminine consciousness.
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