How to pay for your doula training?

I want to be a Doula We know that you want to be a doula but you are thinking about how to pay for your doula training.   You have been hanging out on doula training sales pages. You are watching birth videos. You are revisiting your pregnancy book. You recently happened to meet a…

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Decolonizing the Cycling Body with Saran, Hot + Brave Podcast

  This week Bianca chats with Saran James-Vaughan from Wellness by Saran about menstrual wellness, reclaiming our place as experts in our own health and the importance of simple traditional practices as part of a mission to decolonizing the cycling body. Click here for the transcript! This week featuring:             …

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Doula skills and adding Fertility Specialist to my resume

Written by Tanika Connesero (Fertility Specialist)  My Journey to Becoming a Fertility Specialist I was inspired to study birth work while in my prenatal yoga teacher training.  I was shocked at just how little I knew about my body, my ovulatory cycle, and things that [can] impact my health and life, including the traumatic brain…

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Grow Doula Business: Wildly simple, but impactful advice to help

doula business

Written by Meg Kant Grow your Doula Business This week we had our final class of our Maternal Support Practitioner training for the Fall 2022 semester. The last class is always bittersweet because as much as we are excited for you students to be starting or growing your doula business, but we know we will…

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Let’s Ditch the Resolutions and Focus on Feelings

Let’s Ditch the Resolutions and Focus on Feelings in 2023 Written by Amy C. Willis Let’s Ditch the Resolutions and Focus on Feelings   We are just a little over a week into 2023. First off, if you’re reading this, you survived 2022 – congrats!   By now, you’ve likely been exposed to a plethora…

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Brittney Roundtree — The Body Liberator Award — Doula Training Scholarship Winner September 2022

Brittney Roundtree – The Body Liberator Award Doula Training Scholarship Winner September 2022 Written by Brittney Roundtree   More about Doula Training Scholarship here!   Hey! My name is Brittney Roundtree, a Body Liberator award scholarship holder. I’m a 29-year-old mom of a dinosaur loving 5-year-old kiddo. I was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI,…

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Diversifying 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…

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What brought me to Birth Work

Written by Meg Kant From Personal Struggles to Birth Work I was called to birth work from my own experience. I wanted to be the support that I didn’t have during my pregnancy and labour with my oldest son.  During that pregnancy, I was diagnosed with severe antenatal depression and anxiety, and during labour, my…

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Real People. Real Stories. Join the Conversation.

As you may know, we have been talking a lot about the harmful effects of media shaming, misrepresentation and cancel culture after allegations were made against us in February. The false statements and accusations were compounded by misrepresentations and slander and our team became targets. Some of the bebo mia team members (very vulnerably) shared…

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Breanne Cain bebo mia Be Brave Award Runner Up

My name is Bre, my pronouns are she/her. I come from a big family and am the middle child of seven children. I was born and raised in North Dakota. The day I graduated high school I packed my bags and moved to Salt Lake City because of the snow and mountains and all the…

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Hannah Brauer Fall 2020 Intersectional or Bust Award Runner Up

Hi! I’m Hannah Brauer (she/her), and I just graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Communication & Media and Creative Writing & Literature. I am honored to be the runner-up for the bebo mia Intersectional or Bust Award and am so excited for a chance to become a doula through a social…

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