Doula Business
When Your Doula Clients Don’t Call: What It Means, Why It Happens, and How to Cope
It’s a scenario that can sting: you’ve done everything right, prepared, checked in, and created an amazing birth plan with them. You have been to their home 3 times. Your bag is packed. You have told people ‘if I am not a birth’ at least 6 times this week alone. You are excited. Then, when…
Read MoreDoula Social Media Calendar 2024
DOULAS’ SOCIAL MEDIA CALENDAR 2024 We know social media is a key component of your business, and we are here to help in anyways we can! Social media is a crucial part of promoting our business as a Birth Worker It is the direct way in which you can connect with your potential clients, but…
Read MoreHow to get more doula clients with these 15 minute tasks
Where the heck does the time go? Does this sound familiar? You get 1 hour of hands free time while your little one is napping or after your out-of-the-home-job before you start dinner. So, you open your laptop and go right to your email. No new consult requests. So, you go over to your social…
Read MoreHook Point Mastery for Doulas: Solve your social media problems
We know, it can be hard wearing so many hats when you start a small business. Keeping on top of everything can feel daunting. The slog of social media can drain whatever marketing reserves you have. You know, you put up posts and it is crickets! So you put up more posts… and more… and…
Read MoreHow to Get More Doula Clients
Written by Marissa Bolaños Being your own boss is hard! Having your own business is a wild journey full of ups and downs. When thinking about being self-employed, many people focus only on gaining the new skills that will match their passions and voilà! A profitable, happy business is born! If only… And…
Read MoreFree Workshop – Creating a Lead Magnet
Creating a Lead Magnet from Start to Finish! You are in the right place if you are: A doula looking for new clientsA doula wanting to expand your business A doula wanting to start/grow their mailing listA doula looking to make more money! …but you are feeling… Have no idea where to start with digital…
Read MorePivoting after failure: what we learned when our workshop offerings
Written by Meg Kant Pivoting after failure: what we learned when our workshop offerings tanked Anyone who has joined us for any of our courses knows that we don’t hold anything back. We are happy to share all our successes and tips and tricks we have learned over the years. We are also very forthcoming…
Read MoreWhy Should You Consider Becoming a Fertility Doula?
Why Should You Consider Becoming a Fertility Doula? The long and the short of it is because it is awesome, and people realllllly need support! Here are some reasons why becoming a fertility doula is awesome: Nobody ever wishes to be someone with reproductive challenges, it is not something anyone would choose. But one…
Read MoreDiversifying Your Income as a Doula
Written by Meg Kant and the #bebobabes Diversifying Your Income as a Doula During our Choose You, For You week (Nov 14-18, 2022), we created a free session, facilitated by #bebobabes Bianca, Meg, Marissa, Amy and Michelle, that was all about diversifying your income and coming up with creative ways to generate doula income. This…
Read MoreDoula Tools and Doula Business Organizational Technology
Before you jump in and invest time or money with new programs and organizational doula tools, take a moment and see if you really need one. If you decide you do need one, this will help you decide what one to get! You may or may not know that all of our courses come…
Read Moresummer body shaming is here, let’s go piss some people off at the beach
Written by Meg Kant Do you notice body shaming messaging more during the summer? The weather is getting warmer here in the Northern hemisphere and the media is out in full swing. As per usual, it is reminding us that we need to “get summer ready” or “get the bikini body we always wanted.” We…
Read Morewhen it feels like people are doing us a favor by hiring us
Written by Meg Kant when it feels like people are doing us a favor by hiring us When I first started as a birth worker, one of the biggest hurdles I had to overcome was getting comfortable talking about and asking for payment. It felt vulnerable to put myself out there, offer my services and…
Read MoreMoney facts: All the things I didn’t know about money
Written by Meg Kant all the things I didn’t know about money In October of 2021 I decided I was going to look into learning more about money, and how to save, invest and eliminate debt. I did not feel financially competent and I wanted to remedy that situation. The ‘algorithm’ must have picked up…
Read MoreBirth Worker Business School Sneak Peak
Birth Worker Business School MODULE 4: FIGURING OUT WHAT TO CHARGE Sneak peak We love to hear from, so feel free to put your messages into the chat box, and a member from the team will get back to you ASAP! Chat with us here! Your name Please enter your name. Your email Please enter…
Read More3 Tips to GROW in Social Media as a Birth Worker
3 Tips for GROWING in Social Media as a Birth Worker Starting and growing your Birth Worker Business can feel overwhelming at times, and we want to do our best to minimize that overwhelm so you can continue doing what you love! So we’ve put together some of the best time-saving, quick to apply and…
Read More5 Things To Do When Your Client Feels Like They’re Failing
Feeling like a failure as a parent seems almost inevitable… If I had to count the number of times I felt like I was doing something wrong, or not cutting it as a parent, I would be well beyond my fingers and toes. At every milestone it seems there is a new curveball that…
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