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Birthworker Podcast — The Business Podcast for Doula Entrepreneurs
Turn your passion for birth into an incredibly successful doula career that allows you to quit your day job, stay home with your kids, and make a lasting impact on the world.
Episodes
178 episodes
54. Doula Business Collaboration: How to Partner with Other Birth Workers for Mutual Success
Have you ever wanted to reach out to other local birth workers, but don’t know the *right way* to approach them?If you’ve been wondering how to properly introduce yourself and make friends in the birth community, then get out a pen and p...
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53. A Doula's Guide to SEO: 5 Easy Tips to Find More Doula Clients Through Your Website
Are you ready to reach more doula clients through your website?If you’ve been wondering how to reach more women and families by optimizing your website’s SEO ranking, then get out a pen and paper, this episode is for you.In this e...
52. Supporting Women Through Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum… Without Actually Attending Their Birth as a Doula
Are you ready to take the next steps with your online doula business?If you’ve been wondering about the “if’s, and’s, and but’s” of entering the online space as a doula, then get out a pen and paper, this episode is for you.Every ...
51. Tips For Creating Doula Packages That Lead To Transformational Birth Experiences For Your Doula Clients with Joanna Sapir
Have you ever considered guiding your doula clients through a transformation not just through your online services, but your in-person doula services too?In this episode, Joanna Sapir and I will be talking about facilitating transformati...
50. What I Wish I Knew Before Creating My First Online Birth Course
Are you preparing to create an online birth course, make a huge business investment, or revamp your approach to free content as a doula?If you’ve been wondering how to take a (calculated) leap of faith in your doula business, then get ou...
49. How to Price Your Doula Packages and Pay Yourself What You're Worth
Have you noticed that financial literacy is a super taboo topic within the birth community?If you’ve been wondering how to get a grip on your finances and start seeing yourself as a true doula entrepreneur, then get out a pen and paper, ...
48. How To Make Money as a Birth Worker Before Getting a Doula Certification
Are you ready to get your foot in the door and make money as a birthworker (even if you don’t have your doula certification yet)?If you’ve been wondering how to stop making excuses and start making money TODAY as a birthworker, then get ...
47. A Healthy Pregnancy Is Not Just About Nutrition with Prenatal Nutritionist Haley Miskowiec
Do your doula clients leave their prenatal appointments with a million unanswered questions and “band-aid solutions” for each of their pregnancy symptoms?In this episode, Haley Miskowiec and I will be talking about pre and postnatal nutr...
46. How to Offer Scholarships for Your Doula Services
Are you looking for a sustainable way to give your clients scholarships for your doula services and childbirth education programs?If you’ve been wondering how to serve women who might not be able to afford a birth doula, purchase childbi...
45. The Ways My Doula Training Failed Me (And How I Succeeded Despite it)
Can three-day doula trainings really prepare women for sustainable, lifelong careers in birthwork? If you’ve been wondering why so many doulas quit birthwork not long after their “training,” then get out a pen and paper, this episod...
44. How To Stay The Course When Nothing Is Moving In The Right Direction In Your Doula Business
Have you ever felt like giving up on your doula business when things don’t go quite as you planned… or when things haven’t grown as fast as you’d hoped?If you’ve been wondering what to do when nothing is moving in the right direction, th...
43. Can Doulas Help Fix A Broken Maternity Care System? A Conversation with Jessica from The Pacific Birth Institute
Have you ever wondered if you, as a doula, how you can actually help impact the declining state of maternity care in your community?In this episode, Jessica Johnston and I will be talking about the broken maternity care system and how it...
42. Back-up Doulas, Workshop ‘Best Practices,’ and Getting Testimonials From Your Doula Clients
Do you have a plan for if (more like when…) you miss a birth? Have you been wondering about how to sell a workshop passively? What about the best way to “harvest” testimonials as a doula? If you said yes to any of those, then get ou...
41. The #1 Mindset Shift Doulas Must Make Before Creating a New Offer
What if I told you that I know the secret to getting over the BIGGEST hurdle of creating a new offer in your doula business?If you’ve been wondering how to create a childbirth education course, ebook, or workshop the *easy* way, then get...
40. What To Do If Your Post Goes Viral: Doula Edition
Hey Doula, ever had a post go viral and you thought, “Okay, what now?” If you’ve been wondering how to capitalize on viral posts, navigate busy mom life, or operate a two-audience business, then get out a pen and paper, this episode...
39. (I Had a Miscarriage) And How To Support Your Doula Clients Through a Miscarriage with Arden Cartrette
Do you struggle to know the “right way” to support doula clients after they have experienced a miscarriage?In this episode, Arden Cartrette and I will be talking about supporting doula clients through potentially the most challenging tim...
38. Creating Free Pregnancy Resources, Hiring a VA, and Transparency With Your Doula Clients
Have you been struggling with getting your freebie “right,” been curious about outsourcing tasks to a birthworker VA, or are you having issues with getting ghosted by potential doula clients?If you’ve been wondering how to create transpa...
37. The Doula Dilemma: Should Birthworkers Niche Down?
Have you been debating whether or not to “niche down” and serve a specific subset of pregnant women rather than trying to serve everyone? If you’ve been wondering why so many business coaches are talking about “niching down”, but yo...
36. Get More Pregnant Followers and New Doula Clients (Even Without Previous Experience)
Hey doula, have you been wondering how to get your social media account in front of pregnant moms, how to sell your doula services (even if you have no experience), or what you should include in your online birth course?If you want to st...
35. The Dark Side of Doula Work: Emotional Scamming and Birth Fetishes with Clinical Therapist Ashley Mariani
Has someone you know been taken advantage of by a birth fetish SCAMMER?! In case you missed it, there are people out there manipulating new doulas and taking advantage of other birthworkers, and it’s time to safeguard yourself!<...
34. Doula Imposter Syndrome, Birth Coaching, and Selling Birth Courses Through Webinars
Do you struggle with imposter syndrome as a new doula, or maybe you're wondering about offering one-on-one coaching or want to host webinars in a sustainable way?If you are dedicated to growing a full-time doula business, then get out a ...
33. The 7 Keys to Long-term Success for Doulas (And Other Birthworkers)
Do you feel like you’re spinning in circles with your doula business? Like you’re taking in tons of information… but none of it really clicks?If you need some inspiration to create success in your doula business, get out a pen and paper ...
32. Is There an Oversaturation of Doulas in the Birth Space?
Have you been stressing about an oversaturated doula market, what programs and equipment you need to start your birth podcast, or the logistics of hosting a membership?If you’ve been wondering how to embrace your “competition” a...
30. Gaining Confidence as a New Doula, Email Tech, and Memberships
Do you struggle with confidence as a new doula, fumble with email tech, or feel flustered about your offer logistics?If you’ve been wondering how to get yourself together and start feeling GOOD about your birth business, then get out a p...
29. Avoid These 5 HUGE Mistakes When Starting Your Doula Business
In 2023, the birth industry is shifting, and your doula practice needs to shift with it. Are you ready to embrace the change?If you’ve been wondering what you need to do to serve your doula clients on the next level, then get out a pen a...