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October 23, 2021 146 mins

Highlights:

Her journey with healing her own birth trauma and how that revolutionized her life. 

And how her career switched from supporting women birthing in hospitals to supporting women choosing freebirth. 

The ego work around birth attending and our wanting to “save women” from birth. 

The trauma that birth workers encounter. 

The difference between needing to be saved from the medical system and choosing to be in the medical that can be harmful.

Taking radical responsibility for our births and our lives.

People pleasing and how that affects our careers and how we show up for clients. 

Doing “The Work” to take responsibility for our births, our businesses and ultimately our lives. 

Dealing with unhappy clients. 

How she earned the name “The Compassionate Bullshit Caller”

Finding your unique niche with in your business and really owning it. 

Her leap of faith into her new business model. 

How Covid time actually fast tracked her new business model. 

Unraveling the “good-girl conditioning”.

Embracing our “inner quitter”! Redefining what it means to be a “quitter”. 

The “Selfless Mother” plight. 

The invisible loads that mothers carry. 

The biology of early mothering newborns vs toddlers and how we’re missing the tipping point. 

The importance of mothers modelling for new mothers in their communities. 

Setting breastfeeding boundaries with extended breastfeeding. 

What the world would look like if mothers were properly supported. 

Many of us desire to mother differently or better by our own standards, but most of us are not able to achieve this…

We vulnerably about Having compassion for ourselves and our short-comings as mothers. 

Breaking the the cycles of our matrilineal lines so I kids do better yet, and having compassion for our mothers who did the same for us. 

Mom rage. 

Authentic mothering vs. shitty mothering.

How the mom-guilt had been holding me in an anxiety pattern.

Some of my journey with anxiety and how I released so much of it this summer by facing some of my fears. 

Her struggles with staying grounded with the state of the world so she can continue to support her community. 

Waiting around for people to create the things we want to see in the world. OR just starting it ourselves! 

Using your genius only And just hire out the rest to creates freedom and ease in your life and business. 

Using birth as a personal-work tool… or NOT. Both options are right.

Competition in the business space is obsolete when we’re choosing to show up authentically in our businesses. (Also look at your sister-wounds here).

A message of peace within this shit-storm we find ourselves in. 

Leisa Masters' Website:  https://www.earthsidebirthservices.com.auEarthside with Leisa Masters - Personal coaching for the time of ...

Leisa's Instagram Account: https://instagram.com/leisa.masters?utm_medium=copy_link



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