What I've dedicated my life to is revenge. A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel. They think they're better than us. Who do you think you are? I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong. She's punishing me. You destroyed my family. I will not rest until I've destroyed yours. A Woman of Substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9. Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urch. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And I'm so excited for today's guest. We had dinner together. We sat together for this really special event. It was a Homemakers Conference. And we were in Homestead Heritage in Waco, the Waco, Texas area.

And I love sitting next to you at dinner.

Amanda Lancaster, she is an author, a midwife, a mother, and all the other things that go along with being in a beautiful community.

Amanda, welcome.

Thank you.

It's good to see you again.

So I read your beautiful memoir, and this is one that's great to read.

If you're interested in anything, midwifery, home birth, and then also just like the, where life is centered around home, it's called The Time to Be Born, one midwife's witness to

the miracle of life in Christian community. So the book is beautiful,

a total page turner, and lots of topics you covered in there. Obviously, you're covering mothering,

but it's like your whole journey to becoming a midwife. You're covering living in this Christian

community where there are no televisions, which was really interesting for me to see. And interesting to see

the, you know, how would that play out? And you're like, well, people just have a lot more time.

And there's a different depth there. So I would love if you would kick us off with this thought

of exiting from modern day institutions. So there's this question in the book

that says, are we truly free if we have no say over our children's education or even the food

on their table? And I think that's a really deep question. You've exited from, you know,

the sort of typical birth situation, you know, this sort of typical birth situation.

You know, so your home birthing and your homeschooling is a community where you're growing a lot

of your own food, a farm to table. Even the chips at the dinner, they were like tortilla chips,

Amanda, but they were made from the corn that they had grown and

ground. I was like, I didn't even know you could do that. And even really pulling away from media

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