350: The Truth About Midwifery and Why Women Deserve Better Birth Options| Lindsey Meehleis

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Kelly Leveque

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🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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In this episode, I’m joined by Lindsey Meehleis, a birth worker with over 20 years of experience supporting women through one of life’s most powerful rites of passage. Lindsey blends her traditional medical training with what she calls “Great Grandma Wisdom,” honoring the mystery of birth, life, and death in ways that modern medicine often overlooks. We cover women’s empowerment, the “her’story” of birth work, and how we can reconnect with our nervous systems to feel safe, calm, and supported during pregnancy and postpartum. Lindsey shares her personal journey into midwifery, the lessons she’s learned from thousands of births, and her vision for co-creating a new future for healthcare that honors autonomy, safety, and community. → Leave Us A Voice Message! Topics Discussed: → What is Great Grandma Wisdom in birth work? → How can women feel safe during homebirth? → What role do midwives play in modern healthcare? → How does calming the nervous system support birth? → Why is individualized care important for mothers? Sponsored By: → Be Well By Kelly Protein Powder & Essentials | Get $10 off your order with PODCAST10 at bewellbykelly.com. → Kosterina | Use code KELLY for 15% OFF your first order at kosterina.com/bewell Not sure where to start? Shop all my Kosterina favorites at kosterina.com/bewell → Vuori | Get 20% off your first order of Vuori AND free shipping on orders over $75 at vuori.com/kelly → Maui Nui | Right now, Maui Nui is offering a free 12-pack of their jerky sticks with your first order of $79 or more. Just go to mauinuivenision.com/kelly to grab yours. Timestamps: → 00:00:00 - Introduction → 00:02:44 - Lindsey’s birth story → 00:08:25 - Breastfeeding clinic to homebirth → 00:14:33 - Kelly’s birth story & birth fears → 00:20:51 - Feeling safe during homebirth → 00:27:31 - Calming your nervous system → 00:33:07 - Individualized care & safety → 00:39:39 - Inductions & seeking options → 00:42:49 - Healthcare corruption → 00:45:49 - Midwife laws & abilities → 00:51:50 - Birthing interventions & autonomy → 00:55:13 - Picking your birth team → 00:58:44 - Postpartum support → 01:04:57 - The future of birth → 01:09:35 - Building community Check Out Lindsey: → Instagram → Orange Country Midwives → The Remembering → Where To Find Lindsey Check Out Kelly: → Instagram → YouTube → Facebook

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0:00.0	I want you to know that I think that you know your body better than anybody else.
0:05.2	You're going to know your baby better than anybody else.
0:08.2	And so if that's instilled into them and that goes through the birth process,
0:11.9	what do you think it's going to do for parenting?
0:14.7	You're listening to Be Well by Kelly Leveck.
0:20.3	For the past 22 years, Lindsay Meles has worked in healthcare, being called into birth
0:25.4	work 20 years ago and having witnessed thousands of women birth their babies.
0:30.6	Trained traditionally and licensed through the medical board, she quickly learned that what
0:34.2	is needed in the magic and mystery of birth and death can't be found in a book.
0:38.5	She weaves great grandma wisdom into our modern world.
0:41.5	She has witnessed a drastic shift in health care since 2020 and looks forward to co-creating a
0:46.1	new future of what medicine always was.
0:49.1	She gets down to the nitty-gritty of life and everything it brings while illustrating the
0:52.8	power that we have within,
0:54.8	showing that birth, life, and death are pivotal rights of passage that deserve to be held in
0:59.7	sacred reverence.
1:02.2	Lindsay Meles, this is actually round two.
1:04.8	People don't know that.
1:05.6	You were my first sound fail.
1:07.4	Technically round three, because we had to reschedule one.
1:09.8	Oh, yeah, that's right.
1:10.6	I mean, well, I've wanted to have this conversation and share this conversation so many times.
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