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The Women Who Guided Me
The Women Who Guided Me is an Australian podcast bringing together wise, experienced women in the birth and postpartum space, in one place, so more women can find them.
From doulas and midwives to somatic therapists, bodyworkers and birth educators, women who don't just inform but help you trust yourself. This podcast isn’t just about adding more information but empowering you to own your birth journey.
Each episode is a warm, honest conversation with a practitioner whose work genuinely makes a difference, covering everything from birth values and self-advocacy to postpartum healing and recovery.
The podcast grew from my own experience — an empowering vaginal breech birth supported by an extraordinary network of women — and my desire to make those wise voices accessible to every woman navigating pregnancy, birth and motherhood.
Episodes
11 episodes
Episode 11: Honouring the Sacred Postpartum Window with Doula Kellie Hermes
Kellie Hermes is a Canberra-based birth and postpartum doula, Reiki practitioner and mother of four, and the founder of Adorabirth. Her path into this work began with her own births, including the loss of her first baby, and the deeply su...
Episode 10: Allowed to Birth — Filming a Global Midwife with Jacinta Lagos
Jacinta Lagos is an Argentinian-born filmmaker, birth photographer and videographer now based in the United States. She started out as a wedding videographer, then documented her own two pregnancies and discovered birth photography as its own g...
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Episode 9: Pregnancy after Birth Trauma with Rhiannah Pohlman
Rhiannah Pohlman (rhiannahrose.com.au) is a naturopath and counsellor supporting women navigating pregnancy and birth after a traumatic experience. Trained by Dr Catherine Bell, she is a birth cartographer, helping women map their births, advoc...
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Episode 8: My Mother's Birth Story
I'm in Perth at the moment visiting my family, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to sit down with my mum and talk to her about her birth story, so how I was born.In the lead up to my son's birth late last year, my parents came...
Episode 7: Informed, Supported, Confident with Dr Catherine Bell, Creator of The Birth Map
Dr Catherine Bell is the creator of the Birth Map, a birth advocate and Managing Director of Maternity Choices Australia. After her own birth experiences left her with questions she didn't have the knowledge to answer, and after listening to co...
Episode 6: 42 Years of Chinese Medicine — Acupuncture, Fertility and Birth with Dr Jan Jamieson
Dr Jan Jamieson has been practicing acupuncture and Chinese medicine in Canberra for over 42 years. She holds a Masters of Traditional Chinese Medicine from Western Sydney University and is currently a PhD candidate at ANU, where her research s...
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Episode 5: Birth, the Nervous System and Somatic Healing with Psychotherapist Anna Siebert
Anna Siebert (somawomenswellbeing.com.au) is a somatic psychotherapist, former doula and childbirth educator, and the founder of Soma Women’s Wellbeing in Canberra. She has spent decades working at the intersection of trauma, the nervous system...
Episode 4: Breech Baby, Understand Your Options with Midwife Sasha Hopkins
Sasha Hopkins (barefootvibes.com.au) is an endorsed midwife, birth educator and host of The Breech Birth Podcast, based in south east Queensland. She is one of a small but growing number of practitioners in Australia actively working to bring v...
Episode 3: Preparing Your Body For Birth - Pelvic Health with Bodyworker Lo Mathias
Lo Mathias (talltreespelviccare.com.au) is an endorsed midwife based in Canberra specialising in internal pelvic release work — a deeply embodied approach to preparing the body for birth and healing postpartum. Lo also offers scar work and clos...
Episode 2: Emotional Preparation and the Birth Debrief with Birth Educator Tracey Anderson Askew
Tracey Anderson Askew (transformparenting.com.au) is a birth educator, coach and parenting specialist with nearly thirty years of experience guiding women through pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. Tracey runs Transform Parenting, a program...
Episode 1: Where Do We Begin? With My Doula Kylie Coad
Kylie Coad (heartfelthealingtherapies.com.au) is a birth and postnatal doula, hypnobirthing practitioner and the first wise woman in my own birth story. Kylie supported both my wife Ellen and I through our pregnancies, and most of the women you...
