Free Birth Society

Emilee Saldaya

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

Overview

The Free Birth Society Podcast features honest, gripping, inspiring, and transformative freebirth stories hosted by the founder Emilee Saldaya in conversation with wild women worldwide. In the vast tapestry of childbirth experiences, a thread runs undisturbed, unmedicated, and true to its ancestral roots: freebirth. This differs from your usual home birth with doulas or midwives in attendance. Freebirth stands apart, where birthing is solely in the hands of the birthing woman, accompanied only by her intuition, rhythms of nature, witnessed by her family. The Free Birth Podcast invites you to a unique corner of the universe where we dive deep into the raw essence of birth, untamed and unassisted. Pushing against the tides of modern obstetrics and its violent approach, we venture into stories of women who've boldly chosen to claim this primal rite of passage. Here, we're not merely sharing tales; we're challenging the status quo and redefining the very narrative of childbirth. As we unravel discussions on rights in childbirth, dissect varied care models, and amplify the unfiltered voices of freebirthing women from around the planet, our purpose remains clear: to spotlight the distinction and significance of wild birth. This isn't an argument against the myriad ways women choose to birth, but rather an affirmation that freebirth has its revered space in the continuum of birth choices. Join us in celebrating a movement that underscores the powerful message and has changed the lives of thousands: Birth, in its purest form, is not a medical event but a profoundly personal journey. The Free Birth Society Podcast is your compass to navigate and rediscover that journey. *Freebirth = Birthing in the absence of any hired professionals, away from medical institutions or their agents. Also known as family birth, unassisted birth, wild birth. *Sovereign birth = Birthing outside of the medical paradigm, inclusive of births with authentic midwives and doulas. We include many stories on the show where women birthed outside of the medical system with doulas and radical birth keepers. While these births are not freebirths, they are certainly sovereign births!

297 Episodes

When Freebirth Heals Your Birth Trauma

“I felt like I was in hell.” On today’s episode, Fanika shares the dehumanizing story of the birth of her first baby in a hospital in Florida. From non-consenting vaginal exams to a painful vacuum extraction birth, Fanika left her first birth feeling raped, disillusioned, and disembodied. Robbed of her first birth and devastated to discover she had no legal recourse, Fanika finds the Free Birth Society Podcast, dives into the Complete Guide to Freebirth, and then journeys through The Radical Birth Keeper School in her second pregnancy. The day after graduating from The RBK School, Fanika freebirths her 2nd child in simple bliss. Follow Fanika on Instagram @birthinpowerhttps://www.birthinpower.com/ ✨Doors to the Radical Birth Keeper School are OPEN! - The groundbreaking program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work. https://www.freebirthsociety.com/radicalbirthkeeperschool ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is the most epic space for conscious women! - Get on the waitlist for when doors open next! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ~~~~~ This episode is brought to you by Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND - Naturopathic Pediatrician + Homeopathic Expert 🌿 Experience personalized naturopathic care tailored to your unique needs. Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND combines her extensive knowledge with a compassionate radical mom approach to help you achieve optimal health for you and your family. You’ll want to check out Jen’s sought-after Food Intolerance Test. This test helps identify foods that may be causing toxemia in the body leading to digestive issues, inflammation, and most other symptoms. Having this information about your body’s food sensitivities is absolutely life-changing! Work with Dr. Jennifer Tice - Traditional Vitalist Naturopathic Healthcare: https://drjennifertice.com/

Transcribed - Published: 14 March 2025

From Maiden to Mother: A Radical Birth Keeper’s Rise to Power

Today on the podcast, Kate from Santa Cruz shares the finding of her soul’s calling in sovereign birth-work and how that led to creating a thriving women’s circle community. After graduating from The Radical Birth Keeper School, Kate quickly began attending sovereign births in her community. Tune in to hear the powerful story of a young woman becoming mother, how attending women birthing in power prepared her for her own freebirth, and how she allowed herself to sink into a quick, easeful, psychedelic birth witnessed by her best friend and partner. Follow Kate on Instagram @katyoakleywildflower-woman.com ✨Doors to the Radical Birth Keeper School are OPEN! - The groundbreaking program for women embarking on the path of sovereign birth-work. https://www.freebirthsociety.com/radicalbirthkeeperschool ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is the most epic space for conscious women! - Get on the waitlist for when doors open next! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨ Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨ Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨ Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨ Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ~~~~~ This episode is brought to you by Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND - Naturopathic Pediatrician + Homeopathic Expert 🌿 Experience personalized naturopathic care tailored to your unique needs. Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND combines her extensive knowledge with a compassionate radical mom approach to help you achieve optimal health for you and your family. You’ll want to check out Jen’s sought-after Food Intolerance Test. This test helps identify foods that may be causing toxemia in the body leading to digestive issues, inflammation, and most other symptoms. Having this information about your body’s food sensitivities is absolutely life-changing! Work with Dr Jennifer Tice - Traditional Vitalist Naturopathic Healthcare: https://drjennifertice.com/

Transcribed - Published: 7 March 2025

First Time Mom Freebirths in Manchester, England

Today on the podcast, Kacea shares her beautiful freebirth story. Her journey to freebirth is a wonderful representation of the sovereign birth movement making its way through the world. From her upbringing with a mother who birthed at home, to having an entire friend group of freebirthers, Kacea was able to deter any negativity and fear that was brought her way, and with the support of her partner, she brought her son earthside. Follow Kacea on Instagram @kaceao ✨The FBS private membership community, “The Lighthouse” is OPEN! - Doors are open through TODAY February 28th at 11:59pm! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership ✨ Enrollment is open for MatriBirth Family, our signature Sovereign Childbirth Education program. This is a 6 week *live* series taught by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark. We only run it once a year and limit it to 20 spots - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/matribirthfamily ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for The MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ~~~~~ This episode is brought to you by Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND - Naturopathic Pediatrician + Homeopathic Expert 🌿 Experience personalized naturopathic care tailored to your unique needs. Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND combines her extensive knowledge with a compassionate radical mom approach to help you achieve optimal health for you and your family. You’ll want to check out Jen’s sought-after Food Intolerance Test. This test helps identify foods that may be causing toxemia in the body leading to digestive issues, inflammation, and most other symptoms. Having this information about your body’s food sensitivities is absolutely life-changing! Work with Dr Jennifer Tice - Traditional Vitalist Naturopathic Healthcare: https://drjennifertice.com/

Transcribed - Published: 28 February 2025

Navigating Stillbirth with Death Midwife & Funeral Director Dr. Ivy

Funeral director and death midwife, Dr. Ivy Margulies, is helping families to navigate a peaceful way of walking with the loss of a baby. She talks about the logistics and laws of stillbirth, the importance of a death plan, home funerals, and ways to commemorate the child. Follow Dr Ivy on Instagram @drivymargulieshttps://www.drivylove.com ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Enrollment is open for MatriBirth Family, our signature Sovereign Childbirth Education program. This is a 6 week *live* series taught by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark. We only run it once a year and limit it to 20 spots - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/matribirthfamily ✨ Matriarch Rising Festival tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the MatriBirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ~~~~~ This episode is brought to you by Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND - Naturopathic Pediatrician + Homeopathic Expert 🌿 Experience personalized naturopathic care tailored to your unique needs. Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND combines her extensive knowledge with a compassionate radical mom approach to help you achieve optimal health for you and your family. You’ll want to check out Jen’s sought-after Food Intolerance Test. This test helps identify foods that may be causing toxemia in the body leading to digestive issues, inflammation, and most other symptoms. Having this information about your body’s food sensitivities is absolutely life-changing! Work with Dr Jennifer Tice - Traditional Vitalist Naturopathic Healthcare: https://drjennifertice.com/

Transcribed - Published: 21 February 2025

Freebirth at 27 Weeks: Walking With Loss

Nancy shares the heartbreaking story of losing her daughter at 27 weeks pregnant. Realizing her waters had opened while traveling, Nancy discovers her body going into the birth process at her parents home. Nancy describes the complexity, darkness, and hope that it is to walk intimately with loss. Follow Nancy on Instagram @nancylucina ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! -https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Enrollment is open for MatriBirth Family, our signature Sovereign Childbirth Education program. This is a 6 week *live* series taught by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark. We only run it once a year and limit it to 20 spots! -https://www.freebirthsociety.com/matribirthfamily ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at -https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth -https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute -https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! -https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here -https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the MatriBirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 -https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast -https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel -https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at -https://www.freebirthsociety.com ~~~~~ This episode is brought to you by Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND - Naturopathic Pediatrician + Homeopathic Expert 🌿 Experience personalized naturopathic care tailored to your unique needs. Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND combines her extensive knowledge with a compassionate radical mom approach to help you achieve optimal health for you and your family. You’ll want to check out Jen’s sought-after Food Intolerance Test. This test helps identify foods that may be causing toxemia in the body leading to digestive issues, inflammation, and most other symptoms. Having this information about your body’s food sensitivities is absolutely life-changing! Work with Dr Jennifer Tice - Traditional Vitalist Naturopathic Healthcare:https://drjennifertice.com/

Transcribed - Published: 14 February 2025

Surviving the Loss of Twins and a Smear Campaign in Australia

Sally shares her heart wrenching story of birthing her twin boys at home and the vicious nationwide media attacks that followed after one of the boys was stillborn and the other passed away shortly after. Follow Sally on Instagram @sallypatti ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - Doors open February 24th for just a few short days! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Enrollment opens February 14th for MatriBirth Family, our signature Sovereign Childbirth Education program. This is a 6 week *live* series taught by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark. We only run it once a year and limit it to 20 spots so get on the waitlist! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/matribirth-family-waitinglist ✨The Radical Birthkeeper School opens for enrollment through March 3rd! Welcome to the new paradigm of birth-work. Get on the waitlist! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/rbkwaitlist ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ~~~~~ This episode is brought to you by Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND - Naturopathic Pediatrician + Homeopathic Expert 🌿 Experience personalized naturopathic care tailored to your unique needs. Dr. Jennifer Tice, ND combines her extensive knowledge with a compassionate radical mom approach to help you achieve optimal health for you and your family. You’ll want to check out Jen’s sought after Food Intolerance Test. This test helps identify foods that may be causing toxemia in the body leading to digestive issues, inflammation, and most other symptoms. Having this information about your body’s food sensitivities is absolutely life-changing! Work with Dr Jennifer Tice - Traditional Vitalist Naturopathic Healthcare: https://drjennifertice.com/

Transcribed - Published: 7 February 2025

How to Thrive in the New Paradigm with Dr. Jen Tice

In order to find solutions, you must articulate the problem. It’s undeniable as we look around our country that children are sick and suffering. Today, with my naturopathic doctor and friend, Dr. Jen Tice, we tackle the main contributing factors to why our American children are so sick. In part 2 of this episode we explore tangible accessible solutions that we can apply to our lives today. Follow Jen on Instagram @dr.jennifer.tice ✨The Blood Mysteries School is open for Enrollment through January 31st! Become the wise woman that you know deep down you already are - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/bloodmysteriesschool ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Work with Jen - https://redrocknaturopathic.com

Transcribed - Published: 31 January 2025

Choosing Intuition Over Medical Advice

Joy hired the same medical midwife for her first three home births. However, after the midwife completely sabotaged her third birth, Joy decided to never work with her again. When she got pregnant with her fourth she chose to have a freebirth and tells the story of her peaceful pregnancy and the beautiful experience of being the first person to pick up her baby. Follow Joy in Instagram @MorphitMama ✨The Blood Mysteries School is open for Enrollment through January 31st! Become the wise woman that you know deep down you already are - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/bloodmysteriesschool ✨ Initiated Woman session 3 is coming up! Join us for this FREE, life-changing 3-part series to initiate yourself into embodied and mature womanhood. Register at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/initiatedwoman ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with Joy - https://morphitseamoss.com/

Transcribed - Published: 24 January 2025

Freebirth at 45 in Australia

Chrissy was called to motherhood in her 40’s and navigated a highly medicalized pregnancy and birth with her first, and then a miscarriage and D&C. With her third pregnancy she let go of the “high risk” and “geriatric” labels, fired her midwife at 39 weeks, and chose to freebirth her son. Follow Chrissy on Instagram: @chrissybethhubbard ✨The Blood Mysteries School is open for Enrollment through January 31st! Become the wise woman that you know deep down you already are - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/bloodmysteriesschool ✨ Initiated Woman session 2 & 3 are coming up! Join us for this FREE, life-changing 3-part series to initiate yourself into embodied and mature womanhood. Register at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/initiatedwoman ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at - https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://matribirthdirectory.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com Check out Chrissy’s Offerings: Chrissy’s online course for women - Wild Heart Woman: https://www.shambhalaliving.com.au/wildheartwoman Free Fertility Empowerment Practices video: https://www.shambhalaliving.com.au/FertilityEmpowermentJoin Chrissy’s Human Design Website: https://chrissybethcoaching.com/

Transcribed - Published: 17 January 2025

Birthing Outside the Medical System with Brain Tumors

Brittany was diagnosed with brain tumors at the age of 20 and was told she’d never get pregnant and it was too dangerous to give birth. After seven years of failed IVF and surrogacy attempts, Brittany decided to try to get pregnant naturally, and to the surprise of all her doctors, she did. During her first birth and through the pregnancy of her second, Brittany started to reclaim her authority and trust in her own body. Brittany decided to have a sovereign birth with her third child and since then has begun untangling herself and her family from the medical system. Find Brittany on Instagram: @abitobritt 📸: Diana Hinek @dearbirth ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨ Initiated Woman is coming up! Join us in January for this FREE, life-changing 3-part series to initiate yourself into embodied and mature womanhood. Register at https://www.freebirthsociety.com/initiatedwoman. ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 10 January 2025

Freebirthing After Placenta Previa in Ireland

Epic Irish poet, Siobhan, is on the show today sharing her wild story from a dehumanizing hospital birth, placenta previa, to freebirth. Follow Siobhan @Siobhandepaor_focail ✨ MRF tickets are now LIVE! Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨ Initiated Woman is coming up! Join us in January for this FREE, life-changing 3-part series to initiate yourself into embodied and mature womanhood. Register at https://www.freebirthsociety.com/initiatedwoman. ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨ Get on the waitlist for REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 3 January 2025

From “High Risk” to Ecstasy: Kurin's Three Births

Moving from admittedly loving the drama of her high risk label, inductions, and medical providers to really clarifying what she wants and why - Kurin tells the beautiful story of her three births. Follow @Kurinadele ✨ Join REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - ⁠https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign⁠ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at ⁠https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety⁠ ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - ⁠https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf⁠ ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering ⁠https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/⁠ ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - ⁠https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist⁠ ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - ⁠https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here⁠ ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - ⁠https://Matribirthdirectory.com⁠ ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign birth professionals near you! - ⁠https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist⁠ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” ⁠https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist⁠ ✨Donate to the podcast - ⁠https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y⁠ ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety⁠ ✨Learn about everything we do at - ⁠https://www.freebirthsociety.com⁠ Check out Kurin’s Podcast “Mindful Mama” at ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2RkyJFB8Tz5a0HDqYLdWJS?si=O_IMJtOoT1OQ46CttCV_Yw

Transcribed - Published: 27 December 2024

When Your Ancestors Tell You to Freebirth

Emma spent her 20’s as an anarchist who didn’t want children, until one day she was hit with the primal need to become a mother. Through shamanic drum journeys, she heard the messages of her ancestors telling her to freebirth, telling her that they had been waiting for a woman in their lineage to call upon their support. Emma beautifully articulates her journey through her wild pregnancy, how she laughed her baby out, and had all her needs met in postpartum. ✨ Join REIGN ~ Emilee Saldaya’s action-oriented coaching container that is guaranteed to elevate you into your next phase of life for 2025 - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/reign ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 20 December 2024

The Ripple Effect of Freebirth in Rural Western North Carolina

Morgan talks about choosing freebirth as a first time mother and the ripple effects it’s had on her family, and tight knit community in rural WNC. ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereign professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 13 December 2024

Live Show in Austin, Texas

Today we are thrilled to be sharing our episode from the FIRST EVER LIVE SHOW from this past November in Austin, Texas. It was so fun to do this IRL and get to sit with my guest on stage, surrounded by so many amazing pod supporters. This is *not* a story to miss, check it out: An unwanted induction led Kait to a homebirth with a medical midwife for her second. In her third pregnancy, she felt ready to choose a wild pregnancy and freebirth. At 35 weeks, her birth unexpectedly began. Kait got freaked out by the amount of blood present in her birth and while her husband goes to get them ready to transfer, her daughter was born, weighing 3.5 lbs. While she waited for the placenta…her son was born. The healthy *surprise* twins quickly nursed and everyone stayed home. Kait tells the wild story of moving from surprise of twins to navigating loss of power as a hurricane pummeled Houston, Texas in the first days of her postpartum. ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereig professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 6 December 2024

The Courage to Deprogram and Freebirth in Denmark

Rachel is an American woman living in Denmark who shares the poetic story of birthing her two sons. Her first birth was wrought with sabotage, manipulation, and abuse, which took her years to fully unpack. With the help of this very podcast, Rachel takes on the courageous task of naming what truly happened and claiming a better birth with her second. Rachel talks about her big life shift moving from birth-work in the medical system to becoming a truly sovereign birth keeper. ✨ Join the waitlist for the Matribirth Midwifery Institute - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/mmiwaitlist ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join the Matribirth Directory and connect with sovereig professionals near you! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with Rachel - www.rachelruva.com

Transcribed - Published: 22 November 2024

Leaving NHS Midwifery for Sovereign Birth

Livi was a NHS student midwife for three years, admittedly betraying her true calling to serve women in a holistic way. Livi goes on to birth her baby freely at home opening up a whole world of possibility. Livi is now a Radical Birth Keeper Graduate and serves her local community. ✨Join Emilee and the FBS Podcast *LIVE* in Austin, Texas 11/16/24! Get your tickets at - https://www.capcitycomedy.com/shows/282788 ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Become a founding member of the MatriBirth Directory until the end of 2024! https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with our guest Livi - www.wildwatersbirth.co.uk

Transcribed - Published: 13 November 2024

A Vaccine Injured First Time Mom’s Breech Freebirth

Lesia developed a seizure disorder as a result of a vaccine injury at the age of four. When she got pregnant the first time she started seeing an OB, then hired a doula, and began planning for a secret homebirth. When she found out her baby was breech, she still decided to stay home and freebirthed her baby at 42 weeks. Lesia goes on to tell the story of her wild pregnancy, healing her hyperemesis gravidarum through German New Medicine and her most recent freebirth, which was only three days prior to recording! ✨Join Emilee and the FBS Podcast *LIVE* in Austin, Texas 11/16/24! Get your tickets at - ⁠https://www.capcitycomedy.com/shows/282788⁠ ✨ Join the Blood Mysteries School Waitlist and be initiated into the sacred secrets of womanhood. - ⁠https://www.freebirthsociety.com/bmswaitlist⁠ ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at ⁠https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsocietyod⁠ - ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join our MatriBirth Directory as a founding member until the end of 2024! https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 8 November 2024

Freebirth After Medical Kidnapping in New Orleans

Birth keeper Aisaba is on the show today sharing her five birth stories and all the deprogramming that has happened along the way. Aisaba has deeply experienced the negative cost of birth in the system, from unnecessary c-sections, to painful inductions, and the medical kidnapping of her newborn. She shares about her powerful lessons that brought her to finally freebirthing her most recent baby. ✨Join Emilee and the FBS Podcast *LIVE* in Austin, Texas 11/16/24! Get your tickets at - https://www.capcitycomedy.com/shows/282788 ✨ Join the Blood Mysteries School Waitlist and be initiated into the sacred secrets of womanhood. - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/bmswaitlist ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsocietyod - ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with our guest - divinebirthkeeper.com

Transcribed - Published: 1 November 2024

Learning to Source from Within: A Freebirth in Hawaii

Cadence’s first birth was sabotaged by unlicensed medical midwives who pitched themselves as traditional and hands-off. That birth ended in a hospital transfer, wrought with dehumanizing treatment, and heartbreak. After a 1:1 session with Emilee, Cadence began to unravel her first birth, and found motivation to rewrite her story with her second. Up in the mountains of the Big Island, Cadence freebirthed her daughter, learning to source from within. ✨Join Emilee Saldaya and the FBS Podcast *LIVE* in Austin, Texas 11/16/24! Get your tickets at - https://www.capcitycomedy.com/shows/282788 ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with our guest - https://cadenciaphotography.com/

Transcribed - Published: 25 October 2024

Chanting Gratitude: Freebirth After a Broken Pelvis

By the age of 12 Cheyenne had survived spinal surgery, drug addiction, and a near death car accident that left her with a broken pelvis and an internal infection. Through years of therapy and deep healing work, Cheyenne met her partner and decided to consciously conceive and freebirth her baby. She’s now a Radical Birth Keeper Graduate and a student at MMI with us, learning to support women in their sacred birthing times. ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com ✨Connect with our guest - WombensTraditions.Life

Transcribed - Published: 18 October 2024

Freebirth in the Middle East

Originally from Tunisia, Houyem tells the story of her three births. Houyem recalls the moment she realized she could just stay home and how this begins to shape how she serves and inspires birthing women in the Middle East. ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 11 October 2024

When a Freebirthed Child…Freebirths

Esme Shea is on the show today bringing her stories of how simple and normal homebirth is in her family. Everyone on her mother’s side has been born at home, and Esme carries on this legacy by freebirthing her own daughter. ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 4 October 2024

Midwifery Sabotage, Stillbirth, Regret, and Freebirth

Skye, an Australian woman living in Southern California, shares her four birth stories on the show today. In her first birth, Skye experienced midwife sabotage, then with her second, the heartbreaking loss of her son. After freebirthing her third son, she regretfully did a tongue tie revision that went horribly and left her entire family traumatized. Finally, Skye embraces an undisturbed freebirth complete with an intact and blissful fourth trimester with her daughter. ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 27 September 2024

The Way of The New Matriarch: Freebirthing After C-Section

Kendra is on the show today sharing her redemptive FBAC (freebirth after c-section), guided by the messages of her ancestors and the deep work required to heal her lineage, her relationship, and step into the role as the new matriarch for her family. ✨Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety ✨Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here ✨Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf ✨Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com ✨Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist ✨Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ ✨Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist ✨Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y ✨Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety ✨Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 20 September 2024

Freebirthing in the Jungle at 34 Weeks

First time mother Hari is on the show today sharing her wild pregnancy and freebirth story. Hari speaks of the deep trust and intuition that lead her to the mountains of Costa Rica to freebirth her healthy 5 pound child at 34 weeks. Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! - https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist Join us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ Get on the waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety Connect with Hari - https://www.sacredflute.org/ Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 13 September 2024

Discovering Down Syndrome Outside the Medical System

We kick off this season with Emilee sitting down with Britni from Washington, who tells her big story of birthing her daughter outside of the medical system at the age of 41. Britni shares how in the first moments after birth, she realized her daughter looked different and settled into the knowing that she had Down Syndrome and would keep her daughter away from the medical system. Connect with Free Birth Society on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/freebirthsociety Get our FREE Freebirth starter kit here! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/start-here Check out our best-selling course, The Complete Guide to Freebirth - https://www.freebirthsocietycourses.com/cgtf Are you a sovereign birth professional? Get listed on the Matribirth Directory here - https://Matribirthdirectory.com Drop your name on the MatriBirth Directory waitlist and be the first to hear when we open to the public! https://www.freebirthsociety.com/directorywaitlist Join Us for our annual women’s gathering https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com/ Get on the Waitlist for the FBS private membership community “The Lighthouse” https://www.freebirthsociety.com/membership-waitlist Donate to the podcast - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=2YJBSCNYXT52Y Subscribe to our Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@FreeBirthSociety Connect with our guest - https://Radiabirth.com Learn about everything we do at - https://www.freebirthsociety.com

Transcribed - Published: 6 September 2024

The Free Birth Society Podcast is BACK *this* Friday! 🎉

The Free Birth Society Podcast is BACK *this* Friday! 🎉 Season 8 is literally the best yet. If these clips already have you bawling, get READY for the most epic, transformational free and sovereign birth stories. It’s gonna be a wild ride, sisters. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll be rocked to the core by these women’s power stories. You'll hear about...  * Discovering down syndrome in sovereign birth  * Freebirth and underground midwifery in the middle east * Freebirthing in the jungle at 34 weeks  * Freebirth after stillbirth  * A first-time-mom with a seizure disorder (from a vaccine injury 🤯) freebirthing her breech baby  * Real, raw stories of loss like never before  * A freebirthed woman freebirthing (yes, you read that right!)  * Freebirth after a broken pelvis  * An NHS medical school student who quits, freebirths, and becomes an RBK  * & even the sweet freebirth story of my friend and former nanny, Morgan 😊 You're going to be on the edge of your seat for the next episode every week.🎉 Make sure you follow us on Spotify and hit the bell button so you’ll get a notification as soon as new episodes drop. I’ll see you Friday for our season premier! ✨ #freebirth #freebirthsocietypodcast #sovereignbirth #birthinpower #freebirthsociety

Transcribed - Published: 2 September 2024

Season 8 Trailer

The Free Birth Society Podcast is BACK *this* Friday! If these clips already have you crying, get READY for the most epic, transformational free and sovereign birth stories. It’s gonna be a wild ride, sisters. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll be rocked to the core by these women’s power stories. You’ll hear about...  * Discovering down syndrome in sovereign birth  * Freebirth in the Middle East * Freebirthing in the jungle at 34 weeks  * Freebirth after stillbirth  * A first-time-mom with a seizure disorder (from a vaccine injury) freebirthing her breech baby  * Real, raw stories of loss like never before  * A freebirthed woman freebirthing (yes, you read that right!)  * Freebirth after a broken pelvis  * An NHS medical school student who quits, freebirths, and becomes an RBK  * & even the sweet freebirth story of my friend and former nanny, Morgan You’re going to be on the edge of your seat for the next episode every week. Make sure you follow us on Spotify and hit the bell button so you’ll get a notification as soon as new episodes drop. I’ll see you Friday for our season premier! ✨

Transcribed - Published: 2 September 2024

Birthing in the Bliss of a Women’s Flourishing Community with Sister Nettle

Watch this episode HERE Birthing in the Bliss of a Women’s Flourishing Community with Sister Nettle We are closing our Season 7 with the story of one of our own, from one of my dearest, our creative director at Free Birth Society, Meg, aka @sister.nettle. Meg’s got a simple yet deeply inspirational story of how she got available for all the good things in life, and made the changes needed to have it all. If you’re stressing about how you’ll survive without weekly episodes, don’t worry, we’ve got something to take the edge off. We’re finally ready to launch our Freebirth Collection on our Youtube channel! We’re going to be dropping birth vids on our channel Monday, Wednesday, and Friday all summer long. Go subscribe to Free Birth Society on YouTube now and look out for it next week! It’s been a wonderful year with you women, we’ll be back in the fall with Season 8! Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode: ✨Meg’s first birth with licensed midwives, and her lack of sisterhood during that time in her life. ✨The word-spell her medwife cast about her son’s “big” head. ✨Attending MRF and her spiritual awakening. ✨How she found Free Birth Society and became a part of the team. ✨The intensity and mystery of late pregnancy. ✨Her grounded, spacious birth of her daughter with myself and her husband by her side. ✨Her breastfeeding journey, and how she chose to be unavailable for pain and struggle. ✨How she became the change she wanted to see in her life, and created a web of sisterhood. ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Enrollment is open NOW ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! Connect with Free Birth Society and check out all that we do! Contact our team by emailing [email protected] Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Click here to donate to the podcast!

Transcribed - Published: 31 May 2024

The (free)Birth Partner Episode

Watch this episode HERE Today is all about (and for!) the birth partner. I do what I can in an hour to offer my transmissions to you of 20 years in birth work, and having worked with thousands of fathers and partners to the birthing woman. Fathers - this episode is for you! I’ll cover the most common questions and concerns I get from fathers and offer my wisdom on the logistics and energetics of how to be the best ally in her sovereign birth that you can be. The ability to educate mothers, fathers, and families on true sovereign birth is something we truly need more of in this world, which is why birth education is one of the core elements we teach on in our newest year-long program, The Matribirth Midwifery Institute. We are unlike any other midwifery school and bring together the study of independent midwifery, holistic health & healing, a full childbirth education curriculum, birth-coaching and trauma debrief training, a transformational self-mastery program, and how to build your lighthouse birth business! Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode: ✨ The role of the birth partner and how to act from a space of respect and trust. ✨What normal birth is as well as some variations of normal. ✨The physiology of undisturbed birth. ✨Mothers don’t *need* anything, but what she might *want* in the birth process. ✨What the phases of labor often look like, and how to offer support during each. ✨The birth of the placenta and immediate postpartum. ✨How to navigate the big “what if” question. ✨How to “Be the oak tree,” and protect her space. ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Enrollment is open NOW ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya on your podcast, email us at [email protected] -Click here to donate to the podcast!

Transcribed - Published: 24 May 2024

Cultures with No Rape: Exploring Commonalities Among Matriarchal Societies

Watch this episode HERE Matriarchy is an inspiring and critical topic that is incredibly important to me and all I do. So, today on the show, we’re going to talk about it! Dr. Jessica Spring Weappa has a PHD in matriarchal studies, presented at the first Matriarch Rising Festival, and is my guest today on the podcast to blow all our minds! Imagine a society where mothers are centered, where the highest currency is a mother’s love; a culture with no rape, no domestic violence, no fear of death, where relationships aren’t based in top down hierarchy. This is matriarchy. Jessica touches on gifting economies, nature as nourishment, and the spiritual commonalities within matriarchal societies across the planet. She has devoted her life to studying these concepts and finding ways we can rewild. We must do deep work and deprogramming to break the spell of patriarchy and find comfort, rather than fear, in centering women and mothers. If you want to dip a toe in, or dive headfirst, come to my women only life changing gathering, Matriarch Rising Festival. It will change your life, it will blast your heart open, and you will return home renewed and full of deep aliveness. Go to matriarchrisingfestival.com and grab your ticket; I’ll see you in June! Here's What You’ll Hear in This Episode: ✨How Jessica couldn’t look away from questions she had about mothering today. ✨Her story of domestic violence and single motherhood. ✨Understanding matriarchy through critiquing patriarchy. ✨The insignificance of fathers in matriarchal societies ✨Why our society fears matriarchy. ✨Capitalism as a perversion of a gift giving economy. ✨How our current economy is dependent on free labor of mothers. ✨How our court system is rooted in matricide. ✨How care ethics should be based on mother/child imprinting. ✨Ingredients for creating matriarchy today. ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Enrollment opens May 20th!! Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya on your podcast, email us at [email protected] -Click here to donate to the podcast!

Transcribed - Published: 17 May 2024

From Veganism and Medwives to Farming and Freebirth: The Magical Life of Julia Hempe

Watch this episode HERE Today on the show I welcome one of my closest friends and favorite people, Julia. Julia lives here in community with us, and so I’m extra excited to have her on to share her story. Julia is a truly wild mother of 3, turns out - soon to be 4, a homesteader, a gorgeous and insanely talented homemaker, and really just the embodiment of strength, fortitude, and integrity. Can you tell I adore her? She has freebirthed twice, and the second time she *literally* labored right here on my land, the Matriarch Rising Festival grounds! How magical is that? Julia began her mothering journey quite young, having found her sweetheart at age 17. When Julia found herself unexpectedly pregnant she was already living outside mainstream culture and knew she didn’t want to birth in the hospital. Sadly though, the medical midwife she hired found ways to create drama throughout her pregnancy and birth. A huge awakening, followed by a move from L.A. to North Carolina to figure out this homestead life, brought Julia’s and my family together in organic friendship. It’s all very cute, she invited me to be her birth attendant, our husbands met and fell in love, and the rest is herstory. Though she and her family have certainly faced challenges living this rural farm lifestyle, Julia consistently devotes herself to her family, community, and the fullness of her family’s vision. Julia’s two freebirths were very different experiences. The birth of her son although powerful and sweet, hit her very hard, so for the birth of her daughter she *chose* pleasure and presence. Julia’s story is such a powerful reminder that we can make big choices in our lives and really manifest our dream reality. Come see the beautiful land Julia fell in love with too, at Matriarch Rising Festival this summer! Go to Matriarchrisingfestival.com to get your tickets today. Once you experience community here, you may just have to return home and create it for yourself! Julia will be leading the toddler yoga and mother meet ups at MRF, so come join in and say hi to my bestie. Here’s what you’ll hear in Julia’s story: ✨How she loved being pregnant for the first time, but was constantly fear mongered by her medical midwife. ✨Her first drama filled first birth with a licensed midwife. ✨Covid in L.A. and her family’s big leap relocating to North Carolina. ✨Homesteading while pregnant and the fast and really rocking freebirth of her son. ✨Rural living and her family’s various moves to find their farm land here in WNC. ✨The intensity of the end of her pregnancy. ✨The fast but dreamy and pain-free freebirth of her daughter. ✨Her community supported postpartum. ✨Experiencing three generations of women at MRF. ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Enrollment opens May 20th!! Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, email us at [email protected] -Click here to donate to the podcast!

Transcribed - Published: 10 May 2024

A Black Woman’s Solution to Maternal Death Rates in the System: Jalynn’s Freebirth

Watch this episode HERE Jalynn was aware that the medical system was dangerous for her, as a woman, and a black mother. Thankfully, her first birth was fairly straight forward. She left the birth center clear that she would not go back, not because it was traumatic, but because it simply wasn’t worth leaving her house for. With her second, Jalynn stepped into full responsibility with a wild pregnancy and the freebirth of her dreams surrounded by sisterhood and support in a community ashram. She fully actualized her dream birth. We’re talking about an epic birth space decorated by a dear sister, friends chanting and vocalizing with her during birth, live flute music, and plants infused with affirmations by Toni Jones herself. It was no fear, all flow, with Jalynn completely centered and held by her community, which transitioned into a brilliantly supported postpartum as well. Jaylnn goes on to fully integrate this huge uplevel and leave nursing school to pursue a truly holistic path, which is unfolding and gaining power as she does the work to shine her light and show women the way out of the system and into sovereign birth-work. Here’s what you’ll hear in Jalynn’s Story: ✨Her weariness of the hospital, the racist roots of obstetrics, and the high maternal death rate of black moms. ✨Her desire to find a black woman to support her, but the difficulty she experienced finding midwives of any race to respect and honor her choices. ✨How her first birth sparked an insatiable desire to step into her authentic self. ✨The spiritual confirmation she experienced learning about freebirth and the dangers of ultrasound. ✨Her intuitive self care during her wild pregnancy. ✨Her magical birth surrounded by sisters and fully supported postpartum. ✨Choosing authentic birth education over certified nursing or doula work in the system. ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Enrollment opens May 20th!! Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, email us at [email protected] -Click here to donate to the podcast!

Transcribed - Published: 3 May 2024

The Women Are Ready: Zainab Brings Body Literacy to Saudi Arabia

Watch this episode HERE We have a really inspiring episode today, as I welcome Zainab, from Saudi Arabia, now living in Michigan. Zainab is a brilliant maiden who has blazed a path of autonomy, teaching Fertility Awareness Method and body literacy to Arab women in her mother tongue of Arabic. Zainab grew up without initiation into her first bleed, and didn’t even have a word to use for her vagina. She experienced intergenerational shame. Her awakening began when she discovered FAM along with a calling to share this knowledge with her sisters, particularly those in her home country, where she found women hungry to tune into their bodies and claim their freedom. Zainab came to Matriarch Rising Festival and experienced it as a touchpoint of what's possible when women in their power come together. She witnessed the centering of mothers, the normalization of freebirth and embodied womanhood, and, of course, the pure, delicious magic. She took these lessons home with her, forever changed. This year we’re hyped to have Zainab back at MRF offering her workshop The Cycle Wisdom Map, an exploration of body literacy through the lens of the natural cycles around us. Come and experience the uplevel Zainab did! Go to matriarchrisingfestival.com to get your ticket. Join us sisters - it’ll be the highlight of your year - and it may just change your life. Here’s what you’ll hear: ✨The body disconnection and shame she was taught as a young woman. ✨Her passion for FAM and joy of translating teachings into her mother tongue. ✨Her leap teaching in Arabic, and the incredible response from women ready to step into their power. ✨Teaching from the “daughter” stage of life. ✨The importance of centering mothers. ✨Cultural amnesia and how her grandmother birthed at home, yet her mother birthed in the hospital. ✨The life altering power of MRF and how it changed her. ⭐ Matriarch Rising Festival: Get your tickets NOW! - https://www.matriarchrisingfestival.com ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, email us at [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 26 April 2024

Remineralizing the Spirit with Herbalist Dr. Elderberry

Watch this episode HERE Today I have the great pleasure of welcoming to the show Dr. Elderberry, and yes, that *is* her legal name. Elderberry is a naturopath, a vitalist herbalist, a homeopath, and a wild mother. I’m so excited for her to share her wisdom of homeopathy, minerals, practicing herbalism energetically, and tuning into mother nature. This is an especially fun episode as Elderberry is one of our headliners at Matriarch Rising Festival (@matriarchrisingfestivalnc) this summer, where she will be offering her teachings on homeopathy and supporting your wellbeing beyond the physical. Elderberry’s practice is truly womb to tomb, and she is deeply passionate about the power of sovereign healing. If our conversation today lights you up, you won’t want to miss the chance to learn from Elderberry, and our pantheon of wise woman headliners, at MRF this June. Go to matriarchrisingfestival.com to claim your ticket, and get ready for a life changing 5 days; grab your ticket now! Here’s what you’ll hear in our conversation: ✨How she grew up in the allopathic model, identified it as quackery, and moved beyond. ✨Why she differs from other naturopathic doctors and their frequent “prescribing.” ✨What homeopathy is. ✨What vitalist herbalism is. ✨The magic of minerals. ✨The playful relationship mothers and children can have with homeopathy. ✨The importance of tapping into the energetics of plants. ✨Her shift from importing herbs to local foraging, and building a free apothecary. ✨The natural and free childhood she is supporting her son to experience. ✨How this healing framework goes beyond the physical. ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, email us at [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 19 April 2024

A Serbian Breech Freebirth at 44 Weeks: The Ripple Effect of Mina’s Power

Watch this episode HERE This may be the most important episode of the season, so I’m glad you’re tuning in this week. Today’s story is from Mina, a freebirthing mother, and RBK graduate in Serbia. Though Mina dreamt of birthing at home, she knew of no other women around her making that choice, so she birthed her first two babies in a very old school, very dark hospital. Mina faced obstetric violence and abuse and did not want to return. And so she didn’t. She freebirthed her third. When she found herself pregnant as a newly single mother, Mina of course chose freebirth again, for her breech baby, born at 44 weeks surrounded by her sweet children. Mina credits The Radical Birth Keeper School for her deep understanding of sisterhood, through which she has cultivated a blossoming community of women in her country also creating change. These women are choosing sovereign birth; they are stepping out of the system and into their full power, just as Mina did. Obviously Mina’s choice to freebirth is huge, but I was struck by the real ripple effect that happens after a woman freebirths in her community, and then devotes herself to sovereign birth-work. Mina is truly changing birth culture in Serbia, and it’s a really, really big deal. As Sister MorningStar says, “What one woman can do, all women can do.”. If Mina can do it, you can, too. There are just a few short days left to enroll in our only round of The Radical Birth Keeper School this year. Don’t wait, your time is now. Join us, for The Radical Birth Keeper School Spring 2024 cohort. Wherever you are, there are women around you hungry for wise sisters to support them in their sovereign birth choices. Go to radicalbirthkeeperschool.com and become the lighthouse in your community. Here’s what you’ll hear in Mina’s story: ✨Her first birth in the hospital and subsequent separation from her baby. ✨The sickening state of maternal care (or lack thereof) in Serbian hospitals. ✨How she tried to strategically use the hospital during her second birth, but still faced abuse. ✨The culture of silence and corruption surrounding homebirth and midwives in Serbia. ✨Her first freebirth and the powerful shift it initiated. ✨The mentorship, sisterhood, and profound growth she experienced in The RBK School. ✨How she chose a fourth pregnancy, single motherhood, and a true family supported freebirth. ✨The importance of finding like minded women and embodying the change in birth culture you wish to see. ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, email us at [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 12 April 2024

When Stillbirth Leads to Freebirth: Savannah’s Story

Today on the show we have Savannah, a graduate of The Radical Birth Keeper School, and she’s here to tell her big and important story of birth, single motherhood, loss, and claiming her freedom as a woman. Savannah’s first birth resulted in heartbreaking, but so common, midwifery sabotage and betrayal, with a totally unnecessary transfer to the hospital. Many years later, Savannah re-partners, and finds herself pregnant again. Tragically, she lost that baby on her 40 week date. Savannah tells us the gutting story of birthing her stillborn son in the hospital. She shares how in her mourning, she was guided to this very podcast, and then to our Radical Birth Keeper School, where she found deep healing and support. In navigating her first birth outside the system and contending with fear, Savannah steps fully into her power and freebirths her next baby, just 11 months after the loss of her last baby. These are the kinds of real and difficult conversations we do not shy away from in The Radical Birth Keeper School. Birth work is death work. If you’re ready to lean into the depth of this work, this is our last call for this year’s session of The Radical Birth Keeper School. Go to radicalbirthkeeperschool.com and grab one of our last spots now. Grab some tissues and settle in for Savannah’s story. Here's what you'll hear in Savannah’s story: ✨How a vision during her unexpected pregnancy solidified her decision to bring her son to earth ✨The sabotage by medical midwives of her home birth and the unnecessary hospital transfer ✨How she intuited during her second pregnancy that something was wrong ✨Her joy of experiencing birth, but also the grief that her baby had left his body ✨The wisdom and guidance received through her loss ✨How she found The RBK School, enrolled, and allowed it to blow her world wide open ✨Her third pregnancy and the magic of attending Matriarch Rising Festival at 35 weeks pregnant ✨Her fast and intense freebirth witnessed by her husband and son ✨The deep work of integrating grief with a new baby ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, email us at [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 5 April 2024

When Freebirth Heals the Mother Wound: Arie’s First Birth

Today I am joined by Arie, a Radical Birth Keeper School Grad who freebirthed her first baby after the school, supported by her partner and mother. Since RBK doors are open right now, we gotta highlight these epic women who experienced major transformation during and after the program! When Arie got pregnant she knew she would stay home. She didn't want to hire a professional, and *did* deeply want to have her mom there, despite the fact that they weren't on speaking terms. Arie consciously took steps to repair their relationship. In the end, her mother held perfect space, so much healing took place, and Arie freebirths a perfect little boy. Here's what you'll hear in Arie's story: ✨How Arie accepted her mother for who she is, set boundaries, and learned to be in healthy relationship ✨The freedom in dropping the story that having kids precludes doing all you want in life ✨The power of feeling emotions fully without attaching thoughts (especially in the huge experience of pregnancy). ✨The fears (and racism) propagated in the only doctor visit Arie attended ✨How Arie uninvited her sisters to her birth at the last minute and why this "no" was so clear to her ✨The importance of being internally resourced to flow with the intensity of pregnancy and birth ✨Why we women require witnessing, especially in postpartum Enjoy! ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, email us at [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 29 March 2024

The Freebirther’s Guide to Hemorrhage with Yolande Norris-Clark

Watch this episode HERE I am thrilled to be welcoming back to the show my bestie, my birth wife, my co-creatrix of The Radical Birth Keeper School, The Complete Guide to Freebirth, and our soon to be 12 month midwifery school, MatriBirth Midwifery Institute — Yolande Norris-Clark. She’s here today to help me crack open this pervasive myth of hemorrhage, and to offer a sovereign resource that is in alignment with what we know to be true of 20 years of birth-work. We’ll talk about what that word means, what it does *not* mean, and how we can demystify and therefore be unafraid of postpartum bleeding both as freebirthing mothers and as sovereign birth keepers. This topic is especially relevant as we are currently enrolling for the Radical Birth Keeper School, and one of our core missions through our teachings is to teach the truth about birth and help you deprogram from the cultural spells casted upon us. Enrollment is open for just a short time more, so don’t wait, join us and let us blow your minds. ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute, Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 22 March 2024

When Miscarriage Teaches You Wholeness: Amelia’s Journey to Freebirth after 2 C-Sections

Watch this episode HERE RBK Grad, and a brave, brilliant woman, Amelia is on the show today to share her big stories. Amelia has moved the needle bigtime in her life, from being initiated into motherhood with two entirely unnecessary, traumatic c-sections, to moving beyond the medical paradigm entirely, in her subsequent births. It’s a painful story, full of trauma, medical midwifery betrayal, a desired VBAC turned repeat surgery, and then, Amelia has a spontaneous undisturbed early birth, a miscarriage, completed at home. This is when she realized the stories she was told were lies, and that she was in fact, entirely whole, and capable of birth. Amelia stepped into who she really was, and chose freebirth, and chose herself. Here’s what you’ll hear in Amelia’s story: ✨How Amelia excitedly called the OB with her first pregnancy and was shocked when they didn’t care ✨The lie of “low fluid” and how her doctor bullied her into an induction and ultimately a C-section ✨VBAC sabotage by a licensed midwife ✨How the Free Birth Society Podcast guided her to unpack her abuse and trauma, and enroll in the Radical Birth Keeper School ✨The conception of her third baby during school and her first freebirth: an early birth outside the system ✨The ease & peace of wild pregnancy and her trip to Matriarch Rising Festival ✨Her redemptive births and how incredible it is to feel the totality of undisturbed birth Follow - @circeandsage ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School! Enrollment is open NOW! ⭐ Don't miss the Matribirth Midwifery Institute, Join the waitlist and receive all the details late spring Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 15 March 2024

Freebirth As A Catalyst for Power with Nina Marsh

You can watch this episode HERE Today on the show, I am welcoming Nina, a graduate of The Radical Birth Keeper School. Nina lives out in northern california, and was transferred to the hospital in her first pregnancy after a planned home birth with a midwife, because her blood pressure was higher than what the midwives were willing to support. She was induced and kept in the hospital for days on end, and was imprinted with the story that she was broken and could not birth naturally. Nina tells the beautiful story of her intentionally re-writing her internal stories throughout her second pregnancy, leaning more and more into trust, self-discovery, and intuition, as she prepares for her sovereign birth at home. Her freebirth story is a simple, inspiring example of how easefully birth works when we don’t complicate it, and when we do the real work of really learning to trust ourselves. This is the work that choosing sovereignty primes us for, and what Nina showcases in her powerful growth. She also shares about her amazing postpartum, and how being initiated into this redemptive birth showed her that she really can do anything - that she is the catalyst for her own power. Here’s what you’ll hear in Nina’s story: ✨️Nina planned a home birth with her first because her mother and community all home birthed ✨️Up until 8 months pregnant, there were no signs of complications, and then the high blood pressure readings began ✨️Her midwife transferred her over the phone, and Nina got put into the induction pipeline, birthing her baby 12 hours later ✨️She was kept in the hospital for 4 days until her dizziness and blood pressure dropped, never once being offered blood pressure medication ✨️It took years for her to heal from the trauma and internalized messages of being broken and faulty ✨️How the RBK School blew her mind open, and she learned that women can do whatever they want in pregnancy and birth! ✨️How she got pregnant again and decided to have a wild pregnancy, but still monitors her blood pressure ✨️How self monitoring was so stress-inducing that she decided to stop, and just fully trust her body and intuition ✨️How her son was born at home, and how sweet and healing her postpartum time was ✨️How Nina’s blood pressure readings remained “high” throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, but she feels vital and healthy ✨️How Nina knows her body is wise and that her two perfect children are proof of it! ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School Waitlist! Enrollment opens March11th! - ⭐ Don't miss the Matribirth Midwifery Institute, Join the waitlist NOW! Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 8 March 2024

The Rebel Path: Marion’s Three Freebirths

Watch this episode HERE Marion joins me on the show today to share her sweet undisturbed birthing stories of her three children. Each of her stories is incredibly unique, and a beautiful example of where intuition can guide a woman when she refuses to be influenced by the industrial obstetrics complex. Marion birthed her first baby, who was transverse until the very end, completely outside of the system in an 1800s cabin in the woods, with an unexpected and beautifully sweet new friend supporting her in birth. Marion’s second birth took place in a teepee outside of the schoolbus she was living in, with women from her community singing to her from outside in the rain, with just her partner and son to witness. Her most recent birth is a powerful story of passionate love and how being with a partner that you are in true, genuine union with can deeply change the experience of birth. Marion is a trailblazer of her own life, following her own compass in every step of the way - from choosing to skip birth certificates for her babies, taking one year to name her baby, and claiming radical responsibility in all circumstances of her life… It was such a joy to hear her perspective on the world through her birth stories. Here’s what you’ll hear in Marion’s story: ✨️How finding freebirth Facebook groups became her primary resource for research and support, and gave her the confidence she needed ✨️How her first baby was transverse until the very end, and how she knew he would turn during labor, and he did! ✨️How Marion’s friend came over to deliver a mattress and ended up staying for her entire labor, supporting her with encouraging words and singing medicine songs ✨️How she lived in a school bus during her 2nd pregnancy and her community put up a teepee for her to birth in, complete with a little bell she would ring if she needed something ✨️The sweet image of her pacing the birth teepee while in labor, being sung to by her community of women from outside, and the rain coming down ✨️How her third birth she was supported by a partner she was in love with and the uplevel this offered even though all her previous births were peaceful and undisturbed ✨️Her blissful postpartums that were fully supported by community, food, and love! ✨️How Marion has never put her children in diapers by practicing elimination communication and presence through attachment parenting ✨️How Marion didn’t get birth certificates for her first two children, but has since changed her mind and is now going through the process ✨️How she has taken 6 months up to a year to name each of her children, waiting for a name to drop in! ✨️How women can’t get out of the responsibility of their births regardless of where it happens, and who is in charge Check out Marion’s 13 week container for women here - https://www.marionhearth.com/ ⭐ Join the Radical Birth Keeper School Waitlist! Enrollment opens March11th! - ⭐ Don't miss the Matribirth Midwifery Institute, Join the waitlist NOW! Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 1 March 2024

Leading by Example with Radical Birth Keeper and Freebirther Jess Owens

Leading by Example with Radical Birth Keeper and Freebirther Jess Owens You can watch this episode HERE Today, Radical Birth Keeper School graduate and sovereign birth attendant, Jess Owens, joins me on the show sharing her two birth stories. Jess started her mothering journey with a seemingly acceptable midwife-attended homebirth in England, and although there were things that left a bad taste in her mouth, she felt lucky to birth at home without complications. After a few international moves, and learning more about physiological birth, she and her family moved to Canada and Jess began attending births outside of the system. Jess became pregnant again, and enrolled in the RBK school, all while building community and a flourishing birthkeeping business, entirely by word of mouth. She goes on to birth her son in total power, as did so many other women from her cohort! Jess offers a beautiful story of trust and the incredible ripple effect that taking birth back into the hands of women creates. Here’s what you’ll hear in Jess’s story: ✨️How during her first pregnancy, she never met her assigned midwife, but instead a different person for every single appointment. ✨️How at 6 months pregnant she decided to have a homebirth, hired a doula, thinking that this was the most holistic plan available to her. ✨️How the medical midwives who showed up at her home were complete strangers she’d never met before. ✨️How she was forced into vaginal exams, pressured and annoyed by the midwives, and how she wanted to just swat them away. ✨️How her views on motherhood and birth begin to shift as she heard the call to work with birthing women outside the system. ✨️How she and her family move back to Canada and she was offered an opportunity to be a backup for a local woman attending sovereign births. ✨️How she attended her first birth outside of the system and then, through word of mouth, women just kept coming, and her community truly called her into this work. ✨️How she continued to attend births while pregnant with her son, and the easy wild pregnancy she experienced. ✨️Her debate between getting an ultrasound or not, and what she resolved to do. ✨️The simple and sweet freebirth story of her son, free of annoyance or external pressure. ENJOY! We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Get our *FREE* Freebirth Starter Kit here! Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 23 February 2024

When Cord Prolapse and Footling Breech Births Are Normal with Carlee Moon

When Cord Prolapse and Footling Breech Births Are Normal with Carlee Moon Watch this episode HERE Today we will hear the 3 incredible freebirth stories of the absolutely divine Carlee Moon, who truly moved the needle of what mainstream birth culture would define as even possible, really, in each one of her births. From a first freebirth in her teepee in Oregon, to a footling breech birth with a whole lot of meconium, to a 45-minute long cord prolapse with even more meconium, all experienced entirely intuitively, at home, without medical supervision… Carlee has truly pushed the limits of what even many freebirthers would be comfortable with, and she did so guided by the strong, in-tact intuition of an embodied mother. Carlee is one of those epic women who chose freebirth without ever having heard the term beforehand, or knowing anyone else on that path. She speaks about never feeling fear around her pregnancies or births, despite being a self-proclaimed “anxious person”. Here’s what you’ll hear from Carlee… How Carlee had never even heard of freebirth when she first became pregnant - it was her partner’s idea, and she knew it was right. How Carlee went to a local birth clinic when she first became pregnant and was sent home with plan B and condoms The straightforward and simple story of her first birth, with an entirely sovereign 23-hour labor Her second freebirth story, where her daughter was born footling breech, and how she intuitively hooked her other foot out without prior education around breech birth How it took her daughter 6 minutes to fully land in her body, and 10 minutes to get noisy Her spiritual and health revolution after her second postpartum, including her incredible experience at Matriarch Rising Festival How she managed an infection at 40 weeks pregnant with her third baby entirely outside the medical system using garlic! The story of her third freebirth, involving a 45-minute umbilical cord prolapse (literally, 2 feet of umbilical cord hanging out of her!), and the intuitive decisions she made during the process How both her second and third births involved lots of meconium but she never worried for her babies’ safety How her births would have been deemed medically high risk, undeliverable, and ended in surgery if she had engaged in the system This is your LAST CHANCE to enroll for the Blood Mysteries School - Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. Enrollment closes Sunday February 18th. We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 16 February 2024

Big Fertility, Big Problems with Jennifer Lahl

This week I have return guest, filmmaker, and whistleblower, Jennifer Lahl. Jennifer was on the show a few seasons back tackling the harmful nature of surrogacy, and today we get into the shadow side of IVF that no one is talking about. We discuss the incredibly low success rates of IVF, the high risks to both the mother and the baby, and how much of this information is suppressed. Watch this episode HERE Here’s what you’ll hear: What IVF is, and the various A.R.T. add-ons sold to people in the fertility industry The physical, mental, and financial harm that comes to women who chose IVF, and how these outcomes aren’t being properly studied or warned about The super low success rate of the IVF procedures and the high rate of birth defects, and genetic abnormalities of IVF babies How IVF pregnancies involve higher rates of complications and surgery How cancer rates are higher in women who have undergone IVF How women’s health is being compromised for huge profit by Big Fertility The questionable ethics of frozen embryos, and how parents can decide how they are stored, donated, or left to die The subjective nature of sperm, egg, and embryo “grading”, and using technology to bypass nature How Jennifer believes in keeping the sperm and egg within the body and helping couples make conception happen without artificial technology Listen to Jennifer's surrogacy episode on the podcast HERE Enrollment is open NOW for the Blood Mysteries School - Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 9 February 2024

Preeclampsia and Freebirth with Minerals Expert Margaret Barry

Preeclampsia and Freebirth with Minerals Expert Margaret Barry Watch this episode HERE Today on the show I have the radiant mineral expert, and freebirther of course, Margaret Barry, who shares her birth stories and her vast knowledge of minerals, including how that links to pre-eclampsia. After being diagnosed with “pre” pre-eclampsia, yes I said pre-pre, Margaret goes on to have a 4 day hospital induction with her first baby. Margaret dove into self study to understand what happened, and now has a self appointed PHD in pre-eclampsia. She lays out practical and simple advice on what to eat and how far off it is from mainstream advice. What you’ll hear: ✨️At 37 weeks pregnant, after one blood pressure reading, Margaret was diagnosed with pre-preeclampsia and spent 4 days in the hospital ✨️How she was completely numb and immobile from the epidural when her baby was born, and how her primal need to be with her baby was fractured ✨️How this experience woke her up to the lies and evil of obstetrics, and set her onto a path of discovery and healing ✨️How she found freebirth and immediately knew a sovereign birth was what she would do with her next baby ✨️How easy and peaceful her 2nd pregnancy was because she focused on nutrition and stress reduction ✨️The prevalence and inaccuracy of the preeclampsia diagnosis and how to avoid it ✨️How integral sodium is for pregnant women, and how often we’re told to eat a low sodium diet from doctors and media ✨️Animal foods are packed with bioavailable minerals and are the most nutrient dense and nourishing foods for pregnant and postpartum women Enjoy the show! Enrollment is open NOW for the Blood Mysteries School - Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 2 February 2024

Embodying the Priestess in Our Everyday Mundane Lives with Nancy Lucina and Kristin Hauser

I’m joined today by Kristin and Nancy and we get into it. We have a very candid conversation all about our blood mystery initiations as girls and women, and how the majority of us were conditioned with shame, and mistrust during these rights of passage, and how that then grooms us for medicalized pregnancy, highly managed traumatic birth, and a pharmaceutically dependant menopause. Honoring your Blood Mysteries School acts as a way to disrupt this cycle and reorient yourself to the path of true embodiment by relearning the foundational wisdom of our bodies. Both Kristin and Nancy speak about what being a modern day priestess looks like, including all the unique places they put their menstrual blood. They both beautifully articulate the critical knowledge of the blood mysteries for women to truly thrive, and come back to our essence of self love, where all is possible. Let’s break those toxic cycles women, enjoy this episode, get inspired, and then go grab your spot in the blood mysteries school! Watch this episode HERE Here’s what you’ll hear: What the Blood Mysteries are and the mainstream narratives around them How this programming sets us up for the pipeline of drugs, surgery, and violence from gynecology and obstetrics Why and how to reorient yourself to a more natural path, regardless of age How this work is full of simple, yet foundational shifts around your relationship to time, rest, and productivity How Nancy and Kristin use their menstrual blood for face masks, watering plants, paint, and even a mouthwash, because it’s loaded with stem cells! Our own natural design of self love and abundance, and how we continually spiral towards that essence with each cycle, and year of life More details about the school’s format and all the incredible offerings women have created for themselves and their communities after the school Enrollment is open NOW for the Blood Mysteries School - Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. We're *so close* to hitting our goal of videos for our Sovereign Birth collection on Youtube! Help us get there by submitting your video here. Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at this year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 26 January 2024

Stella’s Sovereign Birth Within a Family of Nigerian Doctors

Stella’s Sovereign Birth Within a Family of Nigerian Doctors You can watch this episode HERE Today on the show I have my friend, Stella. Stella comes from a large family of Nigerian doctors, and after she gave up the idea of med school, she found herself in The Radical Birth Keeper School. Stella experienced huge paradigm shifts and deconditioned herself from her medical upbringing to become the woman and mother she wanted to be. While navigating the grief of losing her mother, and the joy of meeting her spirit daughter prior to pregnancy, Stella chooses a wild pregnancy and a birth outside the medical system. Here’s what you’ll hear in this episode: • How Stella grew up in the waiting room of her mother’s doctor’s office • How she assumed that in order to work with mothers and babies, she would have to go down the medical path like everyone else • How meeting her spirit daughter in a plant ceremony changed her orientation to motherhood • Just before Stella joins RBK School her mother passes away, and simultaneously Stella opens the conscious conception portal with her partner • How she navigated a wild pregnancy and her birth plans within a tight knit, medically mainstream family • What she learned from her pregnancy and birth and what she will do different next time • How Stella leaned into her intuition and made each of her choices from an embodied and informed perspective • How she can be triggering and inspiring to her family and community and hopes more women can see that they have a choice ENJOY! Connect with Free Birth Society -Matriarch Rising Festival: Tickets are on sale NOW! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at next year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains. -The Blood Mysteries School: Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya for budding birthworkers to learn the skills of village midwifery from real experts. -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth, the sovereign birth paradigm, authentic midwifery and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership for radical, curious, wild women. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet, for women who know that birthwork is their calling, and want to do it with integrity. -Feature Emilee: If you want Emilee Saldaya, the trailblazer of the free birth movement with 20+ years of experience, on your podcast, send an invite to [email protected] -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 19 January 2024

Freebirthing En Caul Babies and Putting Yourself First with Homesteading Nutritionist Noelle Kovary

Watch this episode HERE I’m joined on the show today by the gorgeously brilliant and oh so bright, Noelle. I had originally had her on to talk about nutrition, and to my sheer delight I found out that Noelle in fact freebirthed both of her children! She speaks about moving out of depletion and disease by putting herself first and listening to her body, giving it what it needed. By cultivating inner strength through nourishment and true health, she was able to fully trust her body and freebirth her babies, which were both born in their amniotic sacs, at home, in peace. We go over the radical shifts that take place when mothers move out of martyrdom and into centering themselves, what that looks like, and the harmony that can be found in your relationships when you’re grounded and calm. And how it's really as simple as eating breakfast! Enjoy. Here’s what you’ll hear: ✨️How she knew she would birth at home and after interviewing a midwife and knowing more about birth than her, she decided she would just do it on her own ✨️How after she made the decision to freebirth it was like a weight was lifted and she was able to fully lean into trust ✨️How both of her children were born in their amniotic sacks, and how she’s never experienced the sensation of her waters breaking ✨️How birthing her son was a totally normal and simple, yet extraordinary life event ✨️How Noelle had to really face herself, her relationships, and her resistance in order to birth her daughter ✨️How catching her daughter was the most incredible experience of her life and she can’t wait to tell her that story ✨️How Noelle healed herself from PCOS, Hashimoto’s, and cancer, by learning Ayurveda and taking charge of her health ✨️How much our mood and hormones are impacted by our nutrition and the ripple effects this has on our relationships with our partners, and children ✨️How grounded we can feel when we’re properly fed, and how important it is to be supported by like minded women when we start to walk the path of sovereign living follow @noellekovary Connect with Free Birth Society 👇 -Matriarch Rising Festival '24: TICKETS ARE NOW LIVE!! Apply here to be a work trade volunteer at next year's women-only festival in the Blue ridge Mountains -The Podcast: Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and let us know your biggest takeaway – whether it’s inspired you to freebirth or to dive deeper into sovereign living. Submit your own sovereign birth story here! Want your product or brand featured on a podcast with 5M+ downloads? Request to become a podcast sponsor by emailing us at [email protected] -COMPASS: a groundbreaking self-study program to help you anchor yourself firmly in the realm of sovereign birth, and to gain the confidence you need to leave the system. -The Complete Guide to Freebirth: a self-guided online intensive course that will teach you everything you need to know about how to birth freely and in your power. -The Midwife Within: Our 5-Day Intensive Retreat in May 2024 led by Elder Midwife Sister MorningStar and Emilee Saldaya -Follow us on Instagram @freebirthsociety for more daily inspiration on freebirth and so much more. -The Lighthouse: our exclusive membership. We only welcome new women to our private sanctuary a few times per year. -The Radical Birth Keeper School: the school that’s leading the transformation of birth and midwifery across the planet. -The Blood Mysteries School: Learn how to properly initiate women and girls into their sacred blood mysteries through ceremony and sovereign well women's care. -And, of course, we couldn’t do what we do without your support, so if you feel called to make a donation to the podcast, it would be greatly appreciated. Click here to donate.

Transcribed - Published: 12 January 2024

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