45 episodes
Midwifery for the People Margo Blackstone
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- Health & Fitness
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5.0 • 28 Ratings
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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.
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Death, Blame, Grief and Healing: Personal Notes from a Midwife
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Customer Reviews
Insightful and Interesting
Margo and her guests offer so much food for thought and interesting insights. With the goal of bringing forward a better world for all of us, Margo shares her wisdom and research in such a way that feels lighthearted, yet meaningful. This show is great!
Love Margo’s wisdom
I got hooked on Indie Birth when I found the podcast “Taking Back Birth”. It’s so empowering so when I saw this pop up from Margo, I had to hop on! If you’re into holistic health and know what your body is capable of, check this out.