Ep 310: What I'm Thankful For After 20+ Years as an OB-GYN
Birth With Power
Dr. Nicole C. Rankins
4.8 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
This Thanksgiving, I’m inviting you into my heart.
After more than two decades in obstetrics, raising a family, and building this platform — I’m pausing to name what I’m deeply grateful for. It’s more than a holiday checklist. This is about honoring the anchors that carry me through birth work and life.
Whether you’re cooking, commuting, or just catching your breath, I hope this episode reminds you to reconnect with what’s holding you up this season.
In this special episode, I share:
- How my body is still showing up strong at 51 (yoga poses included!)
- What I’ve learned from 20 years of marriage and motherhood
- Why my OB-GYN skills go beyond technique — and why that matters
- The power of a team that truly supports women
- How you — yes, you — keep this platform alive and impactful
Resources Mentioned:
Serial Season 1 (my first podcast love!)
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| 1:24.7 | With Thanksgiving around the corner, I am taking you inside what I'm truly grateful for. |
| 1:31.7 | My health, my family, my skills as an obstetrician, the colleagues and nurses I work with, and of course, you. |
| 1:41.5 | This episode is a moment to pause, breathe, and reconnect with what's carrying you through |
| 1:49.2 | this season. Welcome to the Birth with Power podcast, where knowledge is power and power |
| 2:00.8 | transforms birth. I'm Dr. Nicole |
| 2:03.3 | Calloway Rankin's mom of two and practicing board certified OBGYN with over 20 years of experience |
| 2:09.3 | and nearly 2,000 births attended. I've seen firsthand how the hospital system can leave women |
| 2:15.6 | feeling unheard and uncertain, but that doesn't have to be |
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