Guest host Jamie Guertin from A Midwife Nation talks with James Austen, CNM. As a new grad CNM, Austin stumbled upon the gold mine of midwifery residencies at El Rio Health in Tucson, AZ. Listen to her valuable experiences to see if a midwife residency after graduation may be the right step for you ..read more

Carol is another wonderful trailblazing midwife that has spent her career in the North Eastern part of the United States. She has not only done birth work, but blazed the trail for midwives to practice legally in her area. She has also participated in birth internationally and has written 2 books! She is enjoying retired life in the woods of Maine now, but all midwives today are thankful for women like Carol who have pathed the way for those of us practicing today. An American Midwife in Moscow (you tube link) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3GA5bsrMEk Books: Lady's Hands, Lion's Heart: A M ..read more

Jamie from A Midwife Nation is the guest podcast host again, interviewing Jamie Peleaz CNM who works at a birth center in TN (linked below) AND is faculty and the midwifery program at Loyola University (linked below). Jamie has lots of wisdom that she offered along the way and she has worked in quite a few places in the past 5 years. Jamie's sister Samantha Lawson was on in 2019-here is her podcast link as well https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nF5jfGhiNGb Streams of Life Birth Center https://www.streamsoflifebirthandwellness.com/ Loyola University Midwifery Program https://www.loyno.edu ..read more

Megan Frank, who is a very recent graduate and a SOON to be Certified Nurse Midwife shares her very tumultuous journey as a midwife student. I encourage ANY one looking into midwifery to listen to this episode to understand the realities of what happens during the graduate program. Megan is happy to be done and excited to start working as a CNM, but it was a hard road for her to get there. Thank you to Megan for sharing her VERY real story ..read more

Kelly and Tiffany from Beautiful One Midwifery, based out of San Diego discuss their journey into midwifery and lots of talk about how they run their business sustainably and have an actual work/life balance as homebirth midwives FREE Roadmap to Sustainable Midwifery guide: https://beautifulonemidwifery.mykajabi.com/roadmap-to-sustainability Beautiful One Midwifery Website:  https://www.beautifulonemidwiferysandiego.com ..read more

Sharon shares her Journey to Midwifery that starts in Alabama and will come full circle back to Alabama! What is up with Midwifery care in Alabama?? Take a listen to this episode to hear some insights into that. Sharon is currently the Chief Director of the Midwifery program at Bay State but has some big future plans to improve Midwifery care in Alabama! She also shares some great words of wisdom she has gained from her many years of practice and in Midwifery education. Thank you Sharon! (**Please note the error in my opening statement, Bay State is NOT a University, it would be correctly ..read more

This episode is with Dr. Rachel Reed, a UK and Australian midwife. She is the host of the podcast "A Midwife's Cauldron" and writes a blog "MIDWIFE THINKING." This is a great episode with Dr Reed who shares her journey, the differences of midwifery in the UK vs Australia, her PhD research (which is AMAZING!!) her blog, her podcast and books. Please listen you will love this! Then hop on over to the Midwife's Cauldron podcast and check that out too!  https://midwifethinking.com ..read more

This week we hear from Janelle, who started who own homebirth practice after her employer shut down the birth center she was working at. Take a listen on how she paid for school, opened her own practice, had a baby soon after opening and manages her business with 2 young kids. If you are interested in all in figuring out how to balance running a home birth practice and having kids, this podcast is for you. Check her out in Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/parismountainmidwifery ..read more

Stacy V, a CPM with over 30 years of experience in on the podcast today!! She is the owner of Oak Grove Midwifery in Wisconsin. She shares her journey of being a midwife in the early 90's and how that has shaped her calling today of archiving midwifery records! Here is a link below to her amazing presentation on the this future undertaking! https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/e0ylwpia73m/?mode=movie4 and a facebook inforgraphic.... https://www.facebook.com/motherofsalad/posts/10158841923591740 ..read more

Jill Roper is a midwife glowing in her "encore" career owning her own practice in the Flint Michigan area. Jill raised her own babies, was a stay at home mom for several decades and now with grand babies being born, she is an experienced midwife that gets to bask on the joy of catching her grand-babies. I hope you will love listening to Jill as much as I did! She sure has a great story to tell. https://chbirthservices.com/ and IG @compassionatehandsbirth  ..read more