Midwifery for the People

Midwifery for the People

Midwifery for the People is a podcast about reimagining the way we approach the entirety of the birthing year. Margo’s goal is to combine her radical imagination with her knack for strategizing to bolster the birth revolution and a larger global revolution of feminine consciousness.

Episodes

Smart Money Moves for Birth Workers: Balancing Growth and Sustainability

January 8, 2025 • 63 mins
In this episode, I coach Trisha, a birth worker navigating how to best use a recent financial windfall. We dive into balancing big decisions—like investing in a marketing program—against other priorities like organic strategies, childcare, self-care, and creating business momentum. We explore actionable tips tailored for doulas and birth workers, including leveraging local Facebook groups, […]
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The Quantum Awakening: A Journey into Circadian Harmony with Daniel White

October 25, 2024 • 51 mins
In this inspiring episode of Midwifery for the People, I sit down with Daniel White, Co-Founder of QNTMLY & The CRD Challenge, and Founder & NPO Chair of Sleep Better Live Better. Nikko Kennedy, long time friend of Indie Birth introduced me to Daniel recently when she suggested I might want to be an ambassador […]
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A New Return of the Great Mother (Replay)

October 10, 2024 • 49 mins
In this reissued episode, I sit down with Isa Gucciardi to talk about her powerful book, *The New Return to the Great Mother*. We explore the deep connection between spirituality and birth, and how reclaiming that connection can profoundly change women. Isa shares her insights into shamanic practices, birth rituals, and how tapping into the […]
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Sacred Paths: Conversations on Birth, Grief, and Healing with Stacey Ramsower

September 13, 2024
In this episode of ‘Midwifery for the People,’ I allude to our new Sacred Birth Certificate Program which we are launching September 15th :)! For this first one, I’m joined by Stacey Ramsower, a contributor to our brand new, soon to be launched program, who shares her personal journey with pregnancy loss and how she […]
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Restorying Birth Work: Insights from Nicole Morales on Midwifery and Education

August 5, 2024
In this episode of ‘Midwifery for the People,’ I had the pleasure of interviewing Nicole Morales, a home birth midwife based in San Diego, California. Nicole shares insights from her diverse background, which includes teaching, co-authoring books on midwifery, and training others in breech birth techniques. She discusses the various roles and internal conflicts midwives […]
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Inside the Great Birth Rebellion with Dr. Melanie Jackson

July 12, 2024 • 79 mins
Wowee wow wow I have gotten to talk so some cool people lately on the podcast. This week I have Mel from the Great Birth Rebellion Podcast on and we really get into some good stuff. I invited her on after I saw the clip that the birth world was resharing like crazy, where some […]
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From Australia to the US: Hannah Penaluna on Navigating Midwifery Autonomy and Regulation

July 9, 2024 • 87 mins
I was so blessed to record this conversation with Hannah Penaluna that was a long time coming! She is an experienced midwife who moved from state controlled midwifery landscape of Australia to the wild west (ok she is in the south but still) of Georgia, an unregulated state in the U.S. The episode delves into […]
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The Mystery of Birth: An interview with Margo & Jake Haber

June 20, 2024 • 38 mins
This episode is SO MUCH FUN. I have really enjoyed stepping out of the normal birth circles and talking about birth with “non-birthy” people lately. The same old conversations are tiring and frankly boring. So this episode is an interview Jake and I did on Mother’s Day for the spiritual community called Aldea that I […]
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Reclaiming Birth: An Interview with Kristen Nagle of the Reclaiming Birth Conference

June 14, 2024 • 47 mins
In this episode of Midwifery for the People, I’m sharing a recording of an interview where Kristen Nagle of the Reclaiming Birth Conference asked me about my journey into radical midwifery! Different things come out when different people ask me questions, so this was a lot of fun 🙂 I chat about my background in […]
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Mixing Doulas and Insurance: One Woman’s Take

June 6, 2024 • 24 mins
In this episode of Midwifery for the People I have a quick chat with doula Elisha Anderson about her experience trying to accept state medical care funds for her doula services in Oregon. She had reached out to me about midwifery school and shared a little about her experience, and I invited to come on […]
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Sacred Loss: The Story of My First Miscarriage

April 27, 2024 • 26 mins
On this episode I wanted to share a reading from our book Indie Birth: A Story of Radical Birth Love, and in keeping with the recent theme, I’m sharing the complete story of my first miscarriage. This is one of the most “popular” pieces of content I’ve ever created. I wrote it in 2013 when […]
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Death, Blame, Grief and Healing: Personal Notes from a Midwife

April 14, 2024 • 43 mins
In this episode of ‘Midwifery for the People,’ host Margo Blackstone shares deeply personal experiences exploring her evolving relationship with death, both in her personal life and professional work as a midwife. She reflects on the profound impact of attending a birth where a baby unexpectedly died, which contributed to her first panic attack and […]
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Dancing with Death In the Birth Space 

March 24, 2024 • 35 mins
Join Margo on this exploratory first part of a series on death and navigating our relationship to it as birth workers. If we want to shift the cultural narrative so that we honor birth as a right of passage, we will also need to reimagine death as a right of passage. The Western medical perspective […]
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Borderline Witchcraft: Exploring Spirituality, Birth, and Margo’s Personal Journey

December 26, 2023
In this candid episode, Margo discusses her spiritual journey and how it intersects with her work at Indie Birth. She discusses her shift away from conventional religion towards a more earth-based spirituality that embraces elements from different practices such as earth prayers, shamanic journeying, and tarot. These approaches provide a crucial context for understanding the […]
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Healing Your Relationship With Money Even If You Think It Is Evil

October 30, 2023
I’m sharing a lesson from my new project Mindful Money Magic because we are also offering a new program called Midwifery Magic, a comprehensive mentorship, up-leveling, magic infusing experience for midwives (or advanced midwifery students). A lot of what I offer in Midwifery Magic crosses over with my work as a financial wellness coach, and […]
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A Real Life Story of a Midwife on Trial: an Interview with Angee Hock

March 19, 2023 • 71 mins
Thousands of women have contacted us over the years expressing their bone deep desire to be a midwife. BUT BUT BUT…they are afraid they will go to jail, be criminalized, or be put on trial. We have addressed their fear of persecution in lots of ways, but in this episode, I talk to Angee Hock, […]
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The Relationship Between Midwifery Education and Midwifery Regulation, a Lively Conversation with Jessica from Pacific Birth Institute and Bethel, Chair of the Alaska Board of Certified Direct Entry Midwives

August 16, 2022 • 63 mins
Listen in on a recent conversation I had with midwives Jessica and Bethel! We talked about the difficulties of educating midwives, why we should focus on educating more awesome birth assistants then, how mandatory MEAC education is crippling Alaskan midwifery, and how Alaskan regulation is restricting women’s access to midwifery care. These two midwives are […]
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An Intimate Retelling of Indie Birth Story from Answering the Call to Radical Midwifery Retreat

August 5, 2022 • 43 mins
This is a unique episode where you can listen in on a section of our Answering the Call to Radical Midwifery Retreat from April 2022 where Maryn and Margo share the origins of Indie Birth and answer questions from attendees about licensing, underground midwifery, what happens when clients aren’t a good match, fear of persecution […]
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Offering Support to Midwifery Preceptors: A Mentoring Session with a Greek Midwife!

July 28, 2022 • 45 mins
Listen in on this coaching and consulting session where Margo answers questions and talks all things preceptorship with a lovely Greek midwife. She had trained in the UK where the apprenticeship/hands on learning looks quite different than the model we teach. One of our students reached out to her about the potential to apprentice and […]
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Understanding the Landscape of Mental Health and Wellness in Pregnancy and the Postpartum with Jennifer Summerfeldt

July 19, 2022 • 62 mins
Join me for another awesome discussion (best one yet?!) with Jennifer, whose work I admire so much. As a midwife I have seen how mental health, overcoming limiting beliefs, and tapping into your own power is essential if we are going to reclaim birth. Jennifer’s nervous system focused approach feels like it is an essential […]
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