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Avalon Darnesh : Women As Visionary Leaders In Times Of Change
The Renegade Mama
05/04/20 • 48 min
Avalon runs Blossoming Woman and describes herself as a Midwife of Transformation. We talk about mothers as visionary leaders in times of change and how we’ve dealt with and perceived Covid19. We also chat about her ecstatic freebirth and the modern day witch hunt that processed via the media. We also talk about business, taking action and being perfectly imperfect.
Avalon's Biography
Avalon’s work is both energetic and practical. She is a Midwife of Transformation and founder of the Divine Mother Temple, a sacred online space for women. On an energetic level, Avalon guides women into deep connection with their heart, womb and soul, to find their own truth and wisdom, clear unhealed parts, and embody their power, beauty and radiance.
On a practical level, Avalon helps women untangle the threads of their lives and weave them into a beautiful new tapestry, aligned with purpose and vision. She helps women evolve, clarify and birth their sacred work and rise into visibility, wealth and sovereignty while doing what comes naturally from their unique zone of genius. Avalon guides women to trust their innate wisdom, know that they are part of a larger ecology, and helps them map out next steps so they can take guided action on their path, while contributing to the flourishing of life on Earth.
See more at www.blossomingwoman.com.au
Desirae Miller - Birthworker; serving the underserved
The Renegade Mama
09/20/20 • 54 min
Today on the show I speak with Birthkeeper, educator and co- founder of H.E.R.B.A.L - Desirae Miller. Herbal is a Holistic Doula and Birthkeeper training and mainly focuses on Freebirth. Desirae really opened up my eyes to a whole new world of freebirth. We chat about the many varied reasons why women choose to freebirth and how important it is to respect a women’s autonomy regardless of their choices. What I also found really interesting was her telling me stories of supporting drug addicted mothers to freebirth. Such an important section of society to support as they can often be the most vulnerable and underserved. We also chat about her births, how mindset is 90% of birth preparation, doing your own medical prenatal in pregnancy and ultimately just everything Freebirth. Enjoy!
About Desirae:
Desirae Miller is a mother of 4, freebirther (X2), freebirth advocate, radical home birth lay attendant, co-founder of H.E.R.B.A.L. Doula and Birthkeeper training, and owner of The Pennsylvania Birthkeeper; Empowering Birth & Beyond. Her passions are unassisted/freebirth, female fertility, and serving women. Desirae is located in central Pennsylvania, serving those within 3 hours distance in multiple states who choose to forgo captive birth, and take control of their own birth in choosing freebirth. She firmly believes that unassisted birth is the only birth where the individual giving birth has complete control of their birth, and the only environment where she can fully support a woman in her autonomous choices. She likes to create a sacred bond and connection with those she serves; holding more of a friendship connection than a governing provider of services. https://www.facebook.com/empoweringbirthandbeyond & pennsylvaniabirthkeeper.com
Desirae speaks on and shares information pertaining to natural birth, freebirth, the spiritual and energetic aspects of child birth, as well as unassisted fertility, pregnancy, birth, and child rearing. She is currently working on the release of an in depth fertility course, and has an unassisted birth book in the works to be released in the upcoming year. In her free time she runs a freebirth advocacy project called The Birth Set Free Project, with multiple magazines pertaining to freebirth. The magazines include birth stories, photos, and informationals for those who may be considering freebirth, including information for their partners. You can learn more about Birth Set Free at https://birthsetfreeproject.org/
Desirae along with her business partner Taylor with H.E.R.B.A.L., train individuals in person all across the US on how to support women in their child bearing years. Teaching on fertility, unassisted lifestyle, pregnancy, labor, birth, breastfeeding, and postpartum support, placenta preparation, and more. Their online academy holds 3 certifying courses (with 2 more on the way!); Doula & Birthkeeper, Placenta Preparation Specialist, and Peer Lactation Consultant. There are also multiple educational courses, as well as free informational webinars pertaining to pregnancy and birth. The courses can be viewed by clicking this link: https://herbal.teachable.com/?affcode=274683_htw1ma-j. A 20% discount for all online courses is being offered to all of the Renegade Mama listeners! To take advantage of this deal, use code RENEGADEMAMA at checkout. To learn more about H.E.R.B.A.L. head to herbal-training.com
Billie Harrigan : 35 years of birth work, 7 children, trauma informed care & homeschooling!
The Renegade Mama
08/16/20 • 62 min
Jessica Wallace - Homeschooling & Transversal learning - when life skills come first.
The Renegade Mama
09/06/20 • 70 min
Today on the show I speak with Canadian teacher and homeschooler Jessica Wallace. Jessica part time homeschools her own children as well as tutoring other homeschooled children. She chats about prioritising the joy of learning and how we can view learning as exciting and inspiring rather than a task. We also chat about the Finnish system where transversal life skills are prioritised over a strict focus of academics. When kids really want to learn - it all becomes so much easier! Jessica experience teaching everywhere from Canada, to the cayman island to Australia in various methodologies has produced her very interesting and unique view on education. Enjoy!
About Jessica:
For the last twenty years Jessica Wallace has been developing and teaching inspirational curriculum (including Waldorf, Montessori, Mainstream, Private Schools, Outdoor Schools, Pre-schools, University and College) in Australia, Canada and the Caribbean, to a wide range of students, community members and organizations diverse in age, socio-economic status, and cultural backgrounds. In the Cayman Islands, Jessica worked as the Education Manager for the National Gallery, the Art Teacher for both the Primary and High side of St. Ignatius Catholic School, an Adjunct Professor for the University College of the Cayman Island’s Teacher Training Program, as well as the Humanities Instructor for International College of the Cayman Islands. Combined with teaching at Haliburton School of Art and Design, Sir Sandford Fleming College of Fine Arts since 2006, completing her Honours Psychology Thesis on “Self-Fulfilling Prophecies and Teacher Expectations in Education” and years of teaching elementary school in Ontario, Canada, Jessica’s experiences have allowed her to create and implement numerous empowering, cross-curricular, nature and community based, student-directed learning opportunities (while integrating all educational aspects of the Australian, Canadian, U.K., and Cayman National Curriculums). Jessica is currently the Director of Inspired Education Perth, a private tutoring company for home-schooled/unschooled/free-schooled students and co-founder of Conscious Education Eco Centre Perth, with Gillian Howarth.
As a published author, Jessica has recently had the opportunity to reach beyond the limits of the education system to work with WA’s ancient Indigenous People, co-authoring the “Biboolmirn Welcome to Country” with local {Ab} Original, Joe Collard. Jessica’s books continue to communicate her passion, energy, and commitment to educating and empowering communities by encouraging creative, hands-on, flexible and open-ended activities that can help people resolve conflicts and problems, develop interpersonal skills, reduce stress, increase self-esteem and self-awareness, develop a growth mindset and achieve insight.
Jessica Wallace has been an avid artist for her entire life, opening her first solo-exhibition before she turned sixteen, exhibiting internationally, and establishing herself as a Professional Artist across the globe. Shortly after she curated the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands UP Exhibition, she began her certification as a Yoga Instructor. Jessica completed her Yoga and Nia Teacher Training in Canada and provided years of children’s yoga classes to local children. Since moving to Perth, Jessica has become deeply engaged with learning from and connecting to nature, permaculture and providing educational opportunities for all ages, outside of the box.
08/30/20 • 54 min
Today on the show I speak with postpartum doula and author of the book Nourishing Newborn Mothers - Julia Jones. Julia’s passion is about making sure newborn mothers are just as well looked after as newborn babies. Julia talks about her first and second postpartum period and how she needed for something more. By her third she got it right and had what she calls her ten thousand dollar postpartum. In a world where so much focus is just on the birth - I admire her work in this area and encourage you to explore how you can be looked after in your postpartum. Enjoy!
Julia Jones is a postnatal doula leading a worldwide renaissance in the way we care for Newborn Mothers. She has created a new paradigm for postpartum care by merging traditional medicine and culture with cutting-edge research on hormones and neurology.
Julia is the author of both Nourishing Newborn Mothers - Ayurvedic Recipes to Heal your Mind, Body and Soul after Childbirth and Newborn Mothers - When a Baby is Born So is a Mother (www.newbornmothers.com/books/). Julia is also the creator of the worldwide leading education resource for postpartum professionals: Newborn Mothers Collective (www.newbornmothers.com/training).
Dr Clare Davison - Feminism and Birth; the last frontier
The Renegade Mama
08/23/20 • 76 min
Today on the show I speak to Dr Clare Davison. Clare is a privately practising midwife who attends births at home as well as in hospital. She is also an academic who holds a PhD and she is a lecturer in midwifery at Edith Cowan University here in Perth, Western Australia. Clare and I chat all things birth and feminism. We start by chatting about her own births - always my favourite way to start an interview. We then chat about working inside the system, working outside the system, changing the system or maybe creating a new one? Ultimately a birth revolution! Clare is the woman who is changing the face of birth by educating the next generation of midwives and I am very grateful for her work, knowledge and passion.
Dr Clare Davison is a midwife, academic and feminist. Clare is passionate about promoting and supporting physiological birth and working with women so that they can be empowered in their birth choices. Clare combines these passions by working as an independent midwife, providing holistic continuity of care to women; and as an academic teaching and hoping to inspire the next generation of midwives.
09/13/20 • 75 min
Today on the show I speak with my good friend Karis Harlon. Karis is currently 9 weeks pregnant and is having a wild pregnancy and freebirth. The theme of the podcast is conscious conception and fertility (or infertility depending on the way you look at it!). We talk in detail about her journey to conception this time (which took about 7 months) and the differences of the conception journey with her daughter Finn which took about 3 years. We also talk about Finn’s birth, her struggles breastfeeding, morning sickness, periods, and why she chose not to take a pregnancy test. We have a few good laughs and question everything about why we do what we do in pregnancy and birth. Karis is open minded, truthful, aware and great to chat with. Enjoy!
About Karis:
Hi! My name is Karis Harlon. I am a passionate, loyal, honest and caring sovereign being, mother, wife, sister, daughter and friend. I love nothing more than connecting women and watching the magic unfold. Birth, pregnancy and motherhood are some of my favourite topics. I truly believe that each conception, pregnancy, birth and postpartum period launches us into some of the most profound growth and expansion of our lives. My three year old daughter was born at home, with the support of a private midwife after an almost 3 year journey to conceive her. I am currently pregnant with my next spirit baby after an incredible 9 month conception journey. This will be a wild pregnancy for us and I am planning on giving birth at home with the support of... well, me. Feel free to follow my very honest and vulnerable journey on my Instagram account Sovereign_mother or connect with me through my business Sovereignbeings.
Love and Blessings,
Karis Harlon
Jane Hardwicke Collings - From Menarche to Menopause; how every rite of passage matters
The Renegade Mama
10/26/20 • 84 min
Today on the show I speak with former homebirth midwife and women’s mysteries teacher - Jane Hardwicke Collings. I was so excited to chat to Jane as her work totally resonates with me and the way I think. I love her Aussie, no bullshit approach! And I must admit I am a total fan girl of hers. We chat about her life to date and her journey from studying midwifery, becoming a homebirth midwife, then to the birth of her first child, a planned homebirth turned c-section, and then her subsequent home births for her next two babes. We also chat about what lessons are learnt from each birth and how this lesson needs to be brought to parenting that child. She talks about the growth from each birth and how massive that is and how she thought you could never have any more growth than that... until she went through menopause. We really touch on every rite of passage for women from menarche to menopause. Jane is an intelligent spiritual leader for this time and has so much wisdom and understanding of this world - particularly birth. I came away so inspired from this chat and I know you will do too.
About Jane: Jane Hardwicke Collings is a grandmother, former homebirth midwife for 30 years,
teacher, writer and menstrual educator. She gives workshops in Australia and
internationally on mother and daughter preparation for menstruation, the spiritual
practice of menstruation, and the sacred dimensions of pregnancy, birth and
menopause – a modern day Women’s Mysteries Teacher.
Jane practised as a homebirth midwife for 30 years, this work from her late 20’s to
early 50’s informed her worldview and brought focus to her knowing of what’s
possible when women feel safe. Through her own life experiences, her learning and
research of ancient and modern shamanic practices, evolutionary biology, psychology,
spirituality, the ecology of the Sacred Feminine, and as a student of the Earth, she has
found a common thread that weaves and connects our lives from one moment to the
next and to each other, everyone and everything. With this awareness and her
teachers’ guidance and help she developed a way to teach this.
Jane founded and runs The School of Shamanic Womancraft, an international
Women’s Mysteries School. The School, through Jane and other graduate Teachers
offers year, and two year long, in depth immersions into the self and one’s
relationship with all that is. The program offers a focus on ‘Know Thyself’ and is
more than anything a grand awakening for each individual woman as she comes to
know who she really is when she separates her self from the misogynist, power over
paradigm of the patriarchal culture. A profound and epic healing happens when
women reclaim their body and their functions and remember that they do not visit
Nature, they are Nature.
Reclaiming Feminine Power, through Reconnection with the Women’s Mysteries...
08/09/20 • 71 min
Today on the show I speak with American Yoga teacher and Freebirther Erica Davis. Erica free birthed her first baby a little over a year ago, here in Perth, Western Australia. We chat right from the pre-conception phase and her experience of having an IUD removed to her long but beautiful birth. We end talking about the postpartum period and how important it is for us to take responsibility in asking for help, putting in boundaries and ultimately making sure we are looked after. We end speaking about the importance of women connecting and being in their power - and how this can scare some men! Erica is real, fun and has some great insight and views about birth. Enjoy!
Bio:
Erica Davis has always been on a radical path, in search of herSelf.
Wanderlust brought her to Southern California to study photography, then onto Hawaii to study yoga.
Her teaching travels eventually took her to Australia where she met her future husband on a 60km bicycle ride. They’ve been inseparable since.
Erica’s yoga teaching led her to New Zealand where she directed the best studios in Auckland and cultivated a thriving yoga community for 7 years.
Free birthing her first child fully radicalised her into wild mothering, feminism, sovereignty, and freedom. It’s now her greatest honour to guide women back to their wild and wise selves through sisterhood and support. You can find her at thewildkeeper.comn the show I speak with American Yoga teacher and Freebirther Erica Davis. Erica free birthed her first baby a little over a year ago, here in Perth, Western Australia. We chat right from the pre-conception phase and her experience of having an IUD removed to her long but beautiful birth. We end talking about the postpartum period and how important it is for us to take responsibility in asking for help, putting in boundaries and ultimately making sure we are looked after. We end speaking about the importance of women connecting and being in their power - and how this can scare some men! Erica is real, fun and has some great insight and views about birth. Enjoy!
Bio:
Erica Davis has always been on a radical path, in search of herSelf.
Wanderlust brought her to Southern California to study photography, then onto Hawaii to study yoga.
Her teaching travels eventually took her to Australia where she met her future husband on a 60km bicycle ride. They’ve been inseparable since.
Erica’s yoga teaching led her to New Zealand where she directed the best studios in Auckland and cultivated a thriving yoga community for 7 years.
Free birthing her first child fully radicalised her into wild mothering, feminism, sovereignty, and freedom. It’s now her greatest honour to guide women back to their wild and wise selves through sisterhood and support. You can find her at thewildkeeper.com
Why I chose freebirth after the hospital nearly killed my baby
The Renegade Mama
03/31/24 • 82 min
Today on the show I speak to Fiona about about her two vastly different births. For her first Fiona found out via ultrasound that her babies organs were forming on the outside of his body. An elective c-section was strongly advice and she consented under duress. She ponders if these early ultrasound may have contributed to this condition and talks about how the over medicalisation of this pregnancy made it very hard to connect in with her baby. After her baby was born - shockingly they overdosed her baby with drugs when a nurse missed a decimal point while administering. This delayed the surgery because her babe needed to recover from this first. After this experience Fiona knew next time would be different and decided on a freebirth and wild pregnancy. She had no scans and rather tapped into her intuition as her guiding beacon and light. Fiona’s freebirth was a long 48 hour labour with a trip to the hospital in between but the end stage was fast with her baby being born 20 minutes after waking up from a nap. Her placenta took 36 hours to emerge - although she suspects it detached much earlier. Breastfeeding was a dream - again a vast difference from her first where she only got to hold her son 3 days after he was born. Fiona’s story is a remarkable journey from polar opposites end of the spectrum. I just love this stories of where women return to their power despite their previous experiences. Thank you Fiona for sharing your story from such a warm and heart centred place.
More About Fiona.
Standing as a beacon for heart-centered mamas, I’m cultivating a community of soul-aligned women living abundant lives of ease, standing in absolute power, and advocating for freedom in all aspects of life. Together, we're redefining motherhood, one sovereign choice at a time.
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How many episodes does The Renegade Mama have?
The Renegade Mama currently has 90 episodes available.
What topics does The Renegade Mama cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Alternative Health and Podcasts.
What is the most popular episode on The Renegade Mama?
The episode title 'Freebirth Right From The Start - Thanks To The Path My Mother Laid.' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Renegade Mama?
The average episode length on The Renegade Mama is 73 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Renegade Mama released?
Episodes of The Renegade Mama are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of The Renegade Mama?
The first episode of The Renegade Mama was released on Apr 29, 2020.
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