Ep 137: Freebirth For Peace on Earth with Emilee Saldaya

The Way Forward with Alec Zeck

Alec Zeck

Self-improvement, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 829 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 175 minutes

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In this episode, Emilee Saldaya shares her journey from leaving the medical system to leading the Free Birth Society. She explores the myths of freebirth, the challenges of hospital births, and how women can reconnect with their bodies to embrace birth as a natural, empowering process. Discover what freebirth entails, the limitations of licensed midwifery, and the positive stories of women who chose freebirth.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Oh,
0:03.0	Oh,
0:04.0	and
0:05.0	The Emily Saldia is the trailblazing visionary leader of the modern-day free birth revolution.
0:44.0	She is the founder of Free Birth Society and host of the Free Birth Society podcast.
0:49.0	Emily started her birthwork journey in 2003 and witnessed the fundamental fracture when women gave birth within the
0:55.3	medical system. Rather than look the other way, Emily chose to be the resolution she wished
1:01.1	to see and is reshaping birthing culture as we know it. And you can find out more about Emily
1:06.2	and all of her work in the show notes and of course during this episode. Emily, thank you for being here.
1:10.4	Thank you. Yeah, honor to honor to be sitting with you having this discussion. It's been a long time
1:15.3	coming. You participated in our, the Way Forward Summit when we first kicked off as an organization
1:21.0	discussing this exact topic, but that was a private thing. And I think this is something that needs
1:26.0	to be shared publicly, obviously. And I know you is something that needs to be shared publicly, obviously,
1:35.3	and I know you share those sentiments. So because what you discuss is inherent to your journey,
1:42.8	I think it's really appropriate that you just share your trajectory with your introduction to the birthing world. Yeah. So all of this begins for me 20 years ago.
1:48.8	I'll give you the cliff notes, but I get called to adventure very early. I drop out of high school. I
1:55.2	moved to L.A. at 16. And it's a cute story because my mom before, when I told her I was going to withdraw from high school,
2:03.3	she said, that's fine, but just have a plan. Don't like go work at McDonald's, you know,
2:08.3	have a plan of your life. I was like, that's totally fair. So I stayed up all night, a fresh 16,
2:12.8	just thinking, what matters? Like, what really matters? And this is reductive. I was 16, but at that time,
2:18.5	I kept going back to mother baby. And I kept, well, the true story is I had a friend in high school who
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