Hip to Heart Birth Boss™
Welcome to Hip to Heart Birth Boss™ podcast. I’m your host Jodi Congdon, birth and postpartum doula agency owner, postpartum doula and lactation educator trainer, and the exact person to help birth professionals like you create a business that feels like the perfect fit for every stage of life. In this podcast, I’ll be talking to you about opportunities to grow and scale your birth and postpartum business and you will get actionable tools and strategies that are tailored to your goals and dreams. I’ll be giving you my expert insight on things like marketing, networking, using social media to get the eyes of your ideal client on you, branding, growth strategy, and the steps to building a business that has optimal scalability. The purpose here is to share my personal journey and talk about mistakes I’ve made and how I’ve turned them around into big wins. You’ll learn how to create goals to hit your financial milestones, make a huge impact on your perinatal community, create more time for the things that you love, and start to build your empire. Whether you realize it or not, you are a business owner, starting your journey as a small but mighty entrepreneur. You, my friend, are a birth boss.
Hip to Heart Birth Boss™
Having It All and Making It look Easy w/ Michelle Caldwell Gabriel
In this episode, I interview Michelle Gabriel Caldwell, owner of Baby Please, and a colleague of mine for over a decade. We discuss how she transitioned from being a childbirth educator to a doula and how she manages her roles as an active doula/doula agency owner and a full time chemical engineer, a part of her life that she loves, that keeps her balanced and that she is not ready to let go of, no matter how big her doula business grows.
We also cover the importance of highlighting positive birth stories and Michelle talks about her focus on being a strong voice in the black and brown birth community. She shares her insights into managing a doula agency, cultivating relationships with other professionals, and organizing her busy schedule to split her energy between her full time career, her passion for supporting her perinatal community and also cultivating the doulas that work with her. For Michelle, being an agency owner is way more than just running a business, it educating and mentoring the doulas in her community and watching them thrive.
So when we are thinking about growing our doula businesses, Michelle proves that you can think BIG! You can have everything you want and need and there is no reason to sacrifice the things that make you happy.
More about Michelle:
Michelle is the owner of Baby, Please Birth Services Agency LLC located in NJ, additionally serving NY, PA, CT, MD and GA. She is a certified Doula and Childbirth Educator teaching the Bradley Method ®, Dancing for Birth ® and her own Holistic Course expressly for The Birth Center of NJ of which she is the Doula Director. Michelle is also a NBDA (National Black Doulas Association) Instructor, training and mentoring aspiring new doulas in Labor, Fertility and Postpartum support. She holds over 18 years of experience in the birth industry; helping over 450 families navigate their birthing spaces, training and mentoring birth professionals while ensuring birth justice through state and national initiatives, serving on nonprofit boards and panels, enhancing the platform through blogs and podcasts, Michelle empowers others by offering education, support and advocacy. She holds degrees in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry.
Where you can find Michelle:
Instagram: @creole_jerseygirl
Facebook: @babypleasebirthservices
http://www.babypleasebirthservices.com/
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