The Whole Doula Podcast

Rowie (she/her) is a birth and postpartum doula living and mothering on Gadubanud Land. Rowie is a former primary school educator and myotherapist. She has two daughters (6 and almost 4).  She lives amongst the trees overlooking the beach with her partner Jake, her two girls and their dog, Pinto. 

Rowie is a passionate advocate for women’s choices in birth and supports birth both in the hospital and at home. She recognizes the impo...

Imren (she/her) is a qualified Postpartum Doula and mother of two who has first-hand experience of the beauty and complexity that is pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Imren is passionate about women receiving the necessary care they need during the first forty days after birth and beyond.

Her own experiences of becoming and being a mother in today’s society have influenced Imren’s passion to provide support, hold space and create a...

London-based Nadia has been a birth doula since 2009. In that time she has supported every type of birth from elective cesarean to Free birth; trained with many different people and gained certification in many different modalities from biomechanics to Mindfulness for Mothers and Hypnosis to Benkung Belly Wrapping.

A former journalist and magazine editor, she came to doula-ing after the birth of her first child; an unplanned, undia...

Erika she/her is a Jacksonville, Florida native.  She has been a Registered Dietitian for over 15 years and decided that she was “doulaing” so much for friends and family, she should make it official.

In 2021 Erika became a certified doula and founded her own nutrition focused doula business, called Purely Nourishing Doula. She offers virtual and in-person services from nutrition coaching, pregnancy & labor support. Shortly, s...

Emily Morter (she/her) is an osteopath and doula based in Naarm, Melbourne (on Wurundjeri land). She provides gentle and compassionate care for everybody. Her holistic approach honours you as the expert on your body, with deep listening and co-creation of treatment plans that support your healing journey.

Emily comes from a long lineage of midwives. She is a full spectrum doula, offering continuity of care throughout preconcep...

Based in Melbourne (on Wurundjeri land) , Maddison Sharman (she/her/they/them) has been in the Healing Arts for 13 yrs, running a developed solo practitioner business in which she currently offers bodywork, yoni massage, remedial and pregnancy massage, flower essences, sound healing, reiki, sacred sexual healing and more. 

Maddison is a new doula, training at the time of recording with Rhea Dempsey, and on call to attend her f...

Before we get into our conversation episodes, I wanted to introduce myself and my story of how I got started in my work as a Full Spectrum Doula, Educator, Counsellor, Facilitator, Community Builder, and Business Mentor.

When I was a teenager, I became very interested in cultural and linguistic diversity, particularly after living in Mexico as an exchange student. That amazing experience had a profound impact on the trajectory of m...

Weronika (she/her) lives, works, and plays on the traditional territory of Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe, and Neutral People.

Weronika is a birth and postpartum doula, an outdoor guide, and an immigrant from Poland. After years of being a part of the emergency services (first as a paramedic, then a wildfire firefighter), Weronika started dreaming of birth work in 2018 and became a doula a couple of years later.

She believes that ever...

Tasara (they/them) is The Queer Doula, a full-spectrum doula for Queers and Allies, living in Wurundjeri Country. Tasara provides care, education, and advocacy for individuals and their families throughout their reproductive journey, including conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and early birth experiences such as miscarriage and abortion.

Tasara’s extensive experience, knowledge, skills, and intuition bring a grounded and c...

Based in Nova Scotia, Canada, Bianca Sprague (she/her) founder of Bebo Mia, has been a dedicated educator, author, activist, and doula since 2007.

Passionate about accessible pre and postnatal care for marginalized communities, she advocates for mental wellness in families, drawing from her struggle with postpartum depression and family experiences.

Bianca champions reproductive health and justice, focusing on breaking down barri...

Johara (she/her) is a Moroccan-German homebirth and sovereign birth companion who believes in birth as a rite of passage and that pregnancy, birth, and postpartum is a transformative journeys. 

Johara works with nature-based rituals, paying attention to intergenerational presence, more than humans and intuition.

To prepare physically for your birth, in addition to explaining the physiology of birth and what is needed to ensure the...

Shoshana lives in London, UK, and has been working as a doula for 13 years, she likes to ‘debunk’ the myth that birth is romantic, easy, and painless. She says it is joyful, super empowering, and the only true ‘pain with gain’ that there is.

In her client work, Shoshana likes to educate her clients antenatally for every eventuality, as she feels that knowledge is the key to having a positive birth. Shoshana has a little black book...

Aimee (she/her) is a mother to three amazing children, a birth advocate and volunteer, a doula, a calm birth educator, a lactation consultant (IBCLC), and co-founder of the Australian VBAC stories podcast. She lives on Darug and Gundungurra land in the upper Blue Mountains and supports families in her various roles throughout the Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury, and Nepean areas.

Aimee has experienced multiple different pregnancy ...

Mirjana Gnjatić is the first doula in Serbia. She attended Michel Odent’s Paramanadoula seminar in 2010. Back in 2012, she invited a DONA doula trainer to Belgrade and organized the first-ever doula training in Serbia, after which doula calling spread throughout the region.

The following year the first informal Serbian doula association was founded which now has about a hundred doulas from all over Serbia. Mirjana is a massage the...

Lisa Marie is a birth worker based in Fresno, California with a special passion for supporting folks who are marginalized and vulnerable, especially pregnant teens who are in foster care or who have been involved in the child protection system.

Lisa Marie is Yaqui Indigenous and Mexican by descent and is the only indigenous birth worker who is native to her area. As a birth worker, her objective is to pay tribute to the wisdom of ...

I am Mary Giordano (she/her), your host here on the Whole Doula Podcast.

This is a little solo episode to mark the end of season one on the podcast before we dive into a whole bunch of new conversations in season two.

For those who don’t know me, I am a  Full Spectrum Doula, Educator, Counsellor, Facilitator, Community Builder,  Business Mentor/Coach, and Online Course Creator.

Here I share a little update on my business since the ...

Dusk (she/her) is in her third year as a birth doula, but she has worked as a space holder for a decade. Dusk lives in Boiwuring country in Altona Meadows. Her focus is on supporting survivors of sexual assault or trauma and as a survivor of childhood sexual assault herself, she is driven to support others navigating the unique challenges of pregnancy like she did.

Dusk experienced a lot of silencing in her childhood and earl...

Siobhan (she/her) lives in Adelaide on Kaurna country. While Siobhan was practicing as a Vedic yoga and meditation teacher and studying Ayurveda and the Vedic tradition, she found prenatal and postnatal mothers attending her classes were naturally drawn to stay behind after class to share their pregnancy birthing journeys. These conversations resonated with Siobhan’s own devotion to the Divine Mother and inspired her to train to be...

Sara (she/her) is a Certified Birth, Bereavement, and Postpartum Doula and a Certified Lactation Counselor with a professional background in biological sciences and education. She lives with her four children, her husband, and a menagerie of dogs and cats on a small farm in southeastern York County, Pennsylvania. Sara has been providing her services in her private practice, Mandala Motherhood, for three years.

In addition to this,...