EBB 129 - COVID-19 and your Childbirth Education Business with Natalie Eckdahl

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Over the past 3 years, I have traveled and spoken with hundreds of childbirth educators from across the U.S. and Canada. At every conference I attended, one theme was repeated over and over--- educators told me that the field of childbirth education was in the midst of a huge crisis. Most childbirth educators said their registrations were declining, and that many first-time parents weren't taking childbirth education classes anymore (even though education is really important!)

Then, the pandemic hit. Classes were either cancelled or converted to 100% online.

I decided to reach out to someone I admire-- Natalie Eckdahl, MBA-- to see if we could get any advice about how independent childbirth educators can survive and thrive in the midst of all these upheavals.Natalie Eckdahl is the founder of BizChix, Inc, and its community, podcast, programs and events, and she's author of R.E.S.E.T. Your Mindset: Silence Your Inner Mean Girl. She's been recognized as one of the top women in business to listen to, and she has also been featured in Inc., Fast Company, Huffington Post, and Entrepreneur.

Today, Natalie joins me on the EBB Podcast! We start by discussing Natalie’s three unique birth stories (in a hospital, at home, and at a birth center), and her personal experience with childbirth education. Then we dive into crucial business advice for independent childbirth educators who are trying to figure out how to navigate business during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Natalie Ekdahl of
0:04.0	Bischicks about her birth stories and the challenges facing the field of
0:08.7	childbirth education.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence Base Birth.
0:21.6	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information
0:26.0	into the hands of families and professionals around the world.
0:30.0	As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.
0:33.4	See EB Birth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:37.8	Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. I'm so happy that you're listening with us today.
0:44.8	Just a few quick announcements before we get started with our interview.
0:48.8	The last two weeks we've put out some really interesting COVID-19 and pregnancy research updates at
0:55.4	evidence-based birth. We email those out to everybody who subscribes to our free
0:59.4	newsletter every Monday. So make sure you go to evidence-based birth.com
1:03.3	slash COVID-19 to sign up for the free newsletter and make sure that you get those
1:08.0	updates in your inbox. At the end of each week's research update on
1:12.0	COVID-19 and pregnancy, we include a Q&A with questions
1:16.0	that have been submitted by our audience.
1:18.1	The last few weeks we've covered some really interesting questions in the Q&A.
1:22.4	All of those are archived on our COVID-19 resource
1:24.9	page. So again, just go to evidencebasedbirth.com slash COVID-19. Scroll down towards the bottom and
1:30.8	you'll see archives from every Monday.
1:33.0	Also I just wanted to give you a heads up that we are taking next week off from the
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