Carson Meyer, GROWING TOGETHER: Doula Wisdom & Holistic Practices for Pregnancy, Birth & Early Motherhood
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Renowned Hollywood doula and author Carson Meyer chats with Zibby about her groundbreaking and empowering pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood guide, GROWING TOGETHER. Carson shares the inspiration behind her work, the importance of unpacking birth stories and fears, and the value of building supportive, judgment-free communities for mothers. She also explains the role of a doula, offers guidance for expectant parents and grandparents, and reflects on the boundaries and practices that can make early parenthood more peaceful.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbmedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Carson Meyer is the author of Growing Together, Dula Wisdom and Holistic |
| 0:48.9 | Practices for Pregnancy Birth and Early Motherhood, a week-by-week companion. Carson is a doula who has helped hundreds of |
| 0:55.4 | parents through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum offering resources, education, and support for a home |
| 1:00.5 | or hospital birth. Growing together is her first book. Welcome, Carson. Thank you so much for coming |
| 1:06.0 | on Totally Booked with Sivvy to talk about growing together, doula wisdom and holistic practices for |
| 1:11.8 | pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood a week-by-week companion. Congrats. |
| 1:17.1 | Thank you, Zibi. Thanks for having me. Of course. It was so nice doing the event together at the |
| 1:22.3 | core club. I loved listening to you a conversation with other fabulous moms for our |
| 1:26.9 | Mother's Day thing. |
| 1:28.0 | And I was like, you have to come on a podcast. |
| 1:30.1 | So here we are. |
| 1:31.1 | It was so fun. |
| 1:32.4 | Oh. |
| 1:33.1 | Okay. |
| 1:33.7 | Your title is pretty self-explanatory. |
| 1:36.0 | But why don't you talk about the genesis of the book, how it came to be, and then we'll |
| 1:43.7 | talk about your own story own story too which is pretty |
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