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Birthing Instincts

#435: The Making of a Good Man with Ashley Mariani

Birthing Instincts

Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young

Kids & Family, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.8 • 692 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this week’s episode of The Birthing Instincts Podcast, Dr. Stu is joined by Ashley Mariani, also known as 'The Rogue Therapist' from Instagram, to discuss the complexities of fatherhood and relationships. While Blyss is traveling, Ashley and Dr. Stu get deep and personal in conversation about how men can navigate fatherhood, improve their relationships, and break generational trauma. A valuable episode for anyone looking to strengthen their relationships and foster healthy family environments.

About Ashley Mariani:

Ashley Mariani is a couples therapist, Reverend, and founder of Mind Online Therapy. She specializes in intimacy, polarity, and the nervous system, with a focus on supporting couples through the impact of birth trauma and the challenges it creates in relationships. With over a decade of experience, Ashley blends neuroscience, trauma-informed practices, and her own frameworks to help couples repair trust, rebuild connection, and rediscover desire.

In addition to her clinical work, Ashley is a public speaker and educator whose voice has been featured on podcasts and at conferences across North America. She is the creator of programs and workshops that teach couples practical tools for navigating conflict, intimacy, and long-term partnership. Through her work, Ashley brings a direct yet compassionate approach to some of the most personal aspects of human connection, helping couples move from survival to genuine thriving. She is also a wife and mom of three, including boy–girl twins who keep life lively both inside and outside the therapy room." 

Website: www.mindonline.ca

Instagram: @therogue.therapist / @mindonline.ca / @heartandhearthministry

Discussed in This Episode

Ashley Mariani on Fatherhood and Relationships

John and Jill: A Case Study

The Rite of Passage in Fatherhood

Men's Learning and Wilderness Survival

Fatherhood and Neuroscience

The Role of Fathers in Child Development

Choosing and Supporting Your Partner

The Work of a Good Man

Communication and Responsibilities in Relationships


Mentioned in this Episode

@findingpolariswc

Birthing Instincts Episode 368: Boys to Men: The Importance of Masculinity


Resources

Protecting your family from obstetric violence course, understanding tetany, and other helpful links can be found at Linktr.ee/mindonline


Podcast Produced by: Raquel Hernandez, Pride and Joy Doula Care 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast.

0:05.0

I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and long-time advocate for birth choices.

0:10.0

And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife.

0:13.0

Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth.

0:17.0

Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here, so here we go. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of night, everybody. It's Dr. Stu for another edition of the Burthing and Sinks podcast. Bliss is traveling today back home from Greece where she was on a retreat. We'll probably hear more about that in a future podcast. So it's just me today, and I have a guest,

0:39.1

the rogue therapist from Instagram, Ashley Mariani. We're going to talk about fatherhood and

0:46.0

relationships between a man and a woman. It's one of, I'm recording this after I talk to Ashley, so I already know what's coming.

0:57.2

And I think it's a very valuable podcast.

0:59.9

I'm biased, of course, because I have this big thing about trying to change the way fathers are perceived and how we can improve the life of fathers and make relationships stronger and make the next generation of our children

1:12.6

more secure. So we'll be talking to Ashley in just a second, a couple other things I want to go

1:17.0

over first. I'm going to limit current events. I got one thing from James Thorpe, who reposted

1:23.9

Brian Hooker, who co-authored Vax, unvax with RFK Jr. and has been a crusader for information

1:32.4

coming out about vaccine injury. And he says, he directs this to NIH director Jay Bottachara.

1:39.1

And he says to Jay, he says, this is an absolute joke. If you want to stop the autism epidemic, why would you fund the same researchers who let the epidemic grow under their watch?

1:50.0

I'm deeply disappointed.

1:52.2

The reason I'm bringing this up is because I say this all the time about big medicine.

1:58.0

I mean, we are where we are with unhealthy children, chronic diseases,

2:03.2

C-section rates, 30, 40, 50 percent, 70 percent around the world, and high induction rates,

2:08.8

high NICU admission rates, rising postpartum hemorrhage rates. We're all this way because

2:13.4

people in white coats with MD, F-A-O-G or whatever other organizations behind their name have created

2:21.0

a system where our outcomes are getting certainly not better and outcomes for moms and babies

2:27.6

probably getting worse. And yet when we're looking for solutions, who do we go to? Oh, we go to ACOG. We go to the American

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