Podcasts about find jill

What a cool thing to ponder! How is cooking related to scripture? That is the curious question we are pondering on this episode and I'm sure you will be as intrigued by this conversation as we were! Guest Info: Jill Dobrowansky resides in Manahawkin, New Jersey, with her husband of 30 years, Eric. Together, they have one son who recently married the woman of his dreams. Jill has been a teacher and administrator in the public school system for 18 years. She is a proud member of Bayside Chapel, where she is part of the leadership team for Wonderfully Made Ministry and Night to Shine Prom. Jill is also a speaker, blogger, and host of the Feed Your Spirit Podcast. She believes that when we share our stories with others, we glorify God and His love and grace for us. When not spending time writing or interviewing guests, Jill loves to read, cook, and spend time outdoors. Find Jill online at 2 Scripture Sisters, on Facebook or Instagram.  https://2scripturesisters.com/

Author Jill Johnson-Young knows a thing or two about grief. She shares her deep, funny, irreverent wisdom in an interview with The Heart of Hospice.  Jill is a social worker based in California, owner of Central Counseling Services and is the author of The Rebellious Widow, an insightful look into managing grief on your own terms.  After losing two spouses, Jill experienced the full spectrum of other people's expectations and rules. She shares the lessons she learned about not following the grief rules that society wants to impose on grievers in her book.  Included in The Rebellious Widow is guidance for a new grief paradigm. Jill teaches that our grief shouldn't be confined by the boundaries that others define for us.  We can define our own grief, taking parts of those we lose with us into the future we create for ourselves.   Find Jill's blog, books, and connect with her at JillJohnsonYoung.com.  She's got a lot of resources about grieving, pet loss, hospice, dementia.  Connect with Jill to teach your team or speak at your event by clicking here.  Her website has things to help as well as her books for both adults and kids. Find her classes and blog.  Connect with Jerry Fenter and Helen Bauer from The Heart of Hospice, book them to speak at your event (remote or in-person), or ask a question by sending an email to host@theheartofhospice.com.  We honor your end of life journey.  We're walking it with you.  You are The Heart of Hospice.           

Does anyone even read the descriptions unless they're looking for something?? *cough cough the links to Jill's Instagram and Twitter*   I sure don't but, if you do by chance, HELLLOOO thanks for reading this thing.  Jill Gearin is the voice of the Visalia Rawhide, a former softball player at Emerson, the list goes on and on because she works in the minor leagues and does many things. We chatted about almost all of them, life, why moms rule. But hey, don't read me, just listen to the episode. Find Jill on Twitter: @Jillgearin Find her on Instagram: @Jillgearin If you or someone you know has been struggling with sexual assault reach out to RAINN at https://www.rainn.org/ or call their hotline at 800-656-HOPE Follow Shannon on Instagram @whimsicalshann   Stargaze sound: Magic Wand Glitter http://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/211624 by Iwan ‘qubodup’ Gabovitch http://freesound.org/people/qubodup under CC-BY 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

The fitness industry is crowded with professionals creating courses and even more with people wanting to get into courses. But, what if your audience already works as a fitness professional and needs qualifications in a specific area? In this episode, Jill interviews Dr. Jade Teta who shares what the current best practices are in terms of creating fitness & health certifications.   Dr. Jade essentially talks about how to niche your project, how to engage people who follow you to invest in your certification, how to market it the right way, how to develop a blueprint that makes you and your product stand out, and how to find out your zone of genius in order to come up with something that is interesting and appealing, both for your clients and for you.   “The first step in creating a certification is to go: ‘What are the one, two, three things that I'm really good at and that also are unique that no one has?'” – Dr. Jade Teta   Jill is a fitness professional and business coach who effectively made the transition from training clients in person and having no time to build anything else to training clients online and actually being more successful. Today, Jill helps other coaches to do the same.  Check these out! Find Jill's brand new course by clicking here! Learn more from Dr. Jade Teta's Metabolic Female Certification: http://bit.ly/jillfit_metabolicfemale   Connect with us! Instagram: @jadeteta Website: jadeteta.com | Free Female Metabolism Training Instagram: @jillfit | @fitbizu Facebook: @jillfit Website: jillfit.com

If you've ever felt unsure that the path you are on is the right one for you, this episode is your solution. Jill shares all of the important lessons she has learned navigating life in her twenties. From living to please others, facing fears, self-doubt, and letting go of what we expected our lives to look like; listen to our open and honest advice for doing the best you can with what you already have. --- Find Jill on TikTok @fullyfriday Connect with her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fullyfriday/ And elsewhere online: https://direct.me/fullyfriday --- Find me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/lifestylebydesignstudio or TikTok @daanielleryan

It is New Years Eve!! Happy New Years to you! I have just a fun little treat for you today because the interview episode you listened to the most is the one I did with Jill Badonsky, the founder of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching. And guess what, she has her own podcast!! They are short & creative 5 -10 minute episodes that are beautifully produced and really like holiday candy for your ears and imagination. They’re so much fun, I think you’ll really love it. Jill is such a magical soul in this world and I am so grateful for her work in creating the Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching program. ​If you want to hear our conversation and haven’t yet on Be Bold Begin, it is episode 31, Jill Badonsky Of Kaizen Muse Creativity Coaching: The Magic of Being Curious & Asking Questions. But what you are going to listen to right now is Jill’s podcast called A Muse’s Daydream. Visit Kaizenmuse.com Buy the Books!  Join an upcoming program or become a coach! Find Jill on Facebook For more support, join our Facebook Group Be Bold Begin.  *Sharing this podcast with another person is a great way to help someone who is feeling overwhelm, anxiety, or fear right now. You can also follow me on Instagram @thebarsi or on Twitter @cbarsi1 for more positivity and podcast goings-ons. Visit our company website www.avanthausmedia.com for any podcasting or media creation needs. Stay positive and safe out there. I'll see you on the other side.

Jill Herman is the creator of the Be You Podcast and author of the e-book "Break Free From the Opinions of Other People". She is a nurse turned highly successful Network Marketer turned Podcaster, Speaker, and Author. I'm so excited for you to hear her amazing story. Be ready to take notes!! Find Jill:@jillhermanbeyoujillherman.comBe You PodcastYou Are a Badass - Jen Sincerohttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0762447699/ref=as_sl_pc_as_ss_li_til?tag=bellavita12-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=039b67f4dd505002703750a91a575f43&creativeASIN=0762447699The Big Leap - Guy Hendrickshttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0061735361/ref=as_sl_pc_as_ss_li_til?tag=bellavita12-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=081c17205f07493e99b56c7f185c93e6&creativeASIN=0061735361Daring Greatly - Brene Brown https://www.amazon.com/dp/1592408419/ref=as_sl_pc_as_ss_li_til?tag=bellavita12-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=ea1f86321272e02f76c3489dc598ff17&creativeASIN=159240841930 Day Guide to Gratitude Journal Now available on Amazon! https://bit.ly/30daysgratitudeCVee

For the Season 2 premiere of Women Own It, WBCUtah's Debbie Drake talks with Jill Armijo, owner of Savor Your Life health coaching and author of Home of the Unknown Soldier. Jill talks about how her faith helped her find her husband, whose story she writes about in her book. Both she and her husband struggled with mental health in different ways, and Jill found health coaching as an outlet to help others, especially other caregivers, take control of their own mental and physical health. Find Jill at https://www.jillarmijo.com/ and find her book here.

Episode 129 features the Founders of Girls Mentorship LLC, Jill Petersen and Mary Frances and they share their story of why they are on a mission to help teenage girls with mentorship to help guide them on a path to happiness.Find Jill & Mary Online:Website: www.girlsmentorship.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/girlsmentorship/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCduf5N-f0jdzFw6-HufEGaA?view_as=subscriberFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Girls-Mentorship-115822946914962TikTok: Girls MentorshipAbout Jill & Mary:Jill Petersen is an experienced coach and former leader at Lululemon for nearly a decade. Her superpower lies within connecting and building trust quickly to overcome self-doubt and help people find their greatness. Jill holds a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Communication) and (Mass Communication) from Arizona State University, as well as receiving a certificate in Mindfulness Leadership. She is Yoga Alliance, a 200-hour certified yoga and mindfulness teacher. Jill is the Co-Founder of Girls Mentorship and has experienced firsthand the importance of a mind, body, and soul approach to both everyday wellness and the achievement of accomplishing goals. She believes, “Uncommon results begin with an uncommon mindset.” She gets excited about the opportunity to make an impact on girls and help them pair their feelings work for them, not against them.Mary Frances is an avid community supporter, adult cheerleader, experienced coach, and leader. Part of her joy as a mentor is not just being the one who leads but also having the ability to raise others up in order to live into their own leadership potential. She has a BS from ASU in Exercise and Wellness as well as an MBA in the school of hard knocks. She officially started her entrepreneurship journey as a certified CrossFit L2 coach and gym owner where she worked with hundreds of kids, teens, and adults not only teaching them the basics of fitness but also the skills of habit formation, community, mental toughness, personal responsibility, goal setting, and leadership. Mary is the Co-Founder of Girls Mentorship and is also an H-O-T leader: Humble, Open, and Transparent sharing about her tumultuous past; dealing with family trauma, abuse, CPS, and a broken home all of which has led to a strong desire to want to break the mold and assist others in doing the same.........Follow the Just Get Started Podcast on Instagram at @justgetstartedpodcast or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/justgetstartedpodcast and to learn more about me and what’s going on in my world check out https://www.brianondrako.com/now/ or find me on Instagram at @brianondrako or twitter @brianondrako As always, I’d appreciate a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts if you believe I’ve earned it. -> Leave a Review See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The tools and tips expressed through out this podcast are largely based in my certification in Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching. Today we get to hear from the originator and founder of the program, Jill Badonsky who discusses with us the importance of self-kindness, staying curious and the power of asking questions. This episode is packed with foundational tools that you can take with you and apply to your everyday practice and process. Jill Badonsky, M.Ed. is the founder of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching™, author/illustrator of The Nine Modern Day Muses, and The Awe-manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder, and The Muse is In: An Owner's Manual to Your Creativity. Jill designed and implemented Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching training based on 30 years experience in creative wellness, instructional design, creative consultation with national magazines, national workshop tours as well as her own experience overcoming blocks as a writer, multi-media artist, playwright, award-winning inspirational humorist, yoga teacher, and SoulCollage® Facilitator. She guides individuals by using unprecedented approaches to busting through blocks to creative joy. Visit Kaizenmuse.com Buy the Books!  Join an upcoming program or become a coach! Find Jill on Facebook Some tools discussed in this podcast (too many to list them all!): -Asking small questions: your brain cannot refuse a question and will work on this positively in the subconscious. Can lead to shifts in beliefs and habits and magical epiphanies -Normalizing: by understanding that we are all human and having a human experience we begin to feel more connected, accepted and maybe less triggered in the experience we are having -Meditation: any type of meditation for as long or as short as you'd like to try is beneficial in that it can give our brains a break from the usual thought patterns that rule our minds. Guided meditations are great way to get started. Try the Be Bold Begin meditations in episodes:  Ep.24 Guided Meditation: How To Find Calm During Overwhelm Ep.19 Self-Kindness: Guided Meditation Ep.11 Intuition: A Guided Meditation For more support, join our Facebook Group designated to this podcast also called Be Bold Begin.  Stay safe and healthy out there. We’re going to get through this together.  Don’t forget to subscribe wherever you get your podcasts so as not to miss an episode. Due to the unusual circumstances our release schedule will not be set to a specific day currently, so the best way to ensure you get all the new episodes is by subscribing. *Sharing this podcast with another person is a great way to help someone who is feeling overwhelm, anxiety, or fear right now. You can also follow me on Instagram @thebarsi or on Twitter @cbarsi1 for more positivity and podcast goings-ons. Visit our company website www.avanthausmedia.com or www.ahmcreate.com to create your login to get your FREE Podcasting From Abundance Course that includes lots of worksheets to accompany the exercises. This course also comes with a private Facebook Group for more support. Stay positive and safe out there. I'll see you on the other side.  

Jill Rosenau, founder of Unschooling Diabetes and coach at pathweighs2possibility.com, joins me today for a an awesome conversation about how she's grown as a coach since her certification, the amazing work she's doing in her current coaching project, and her experience as part of the first cohort of the Niching Compass. Find Jill on Instagram here. Learn more about the Niching Compass here and click the Yellow Button if you're interested in being a part of the June Cohort. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thenichingcompass/message

This is a special episode with our dear friend Jill Briscoe. In this wild time, her calm presence and her wisdom for us on how to endure will give you so much hope today. Don’t miss this conversation on perseverance and prayer and suffering. Find Jill here: https://www.tellingthetruth.org/

Right now we have so many uncertainties, a climate of isolation, fears of illness, and similar unsettling phenomena.  Jill Englund brings us a really import message of making the best of any difficult situations you encounter.  Jill Englund runs her platform BEST OF CANCER  She's an osteosarcoma survivor, pediatric cancer fighter, public speaker, amputee (rotationplasty), cancer advocate, and cancer thriver.   More about Jill Englund  Jill’s story includes diagnosis of osteosarcoma at a young age, amputation of her leg, and losing her mentor and best friend to osteosarcoma as a child.  Jill is involved with various organizations, including St. Baldricks, Cure Search, and Make-a-Wish.  Jill once was a Make-a-Wish nominee and now she’s an advocate for this organization.     Find Jill on instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/bestofcancer/ Find Jill on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/bestofcancer/ https://curesearch.org http://wish.org https://www.stbaldricks.org   This podcast is brought to you by Living Adaptive with Scott Davidson.   Go to www.livingadaptive.com for more information. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_adaptive/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/livingadaptive/

The very talented Jill DeZwaan with HOME BY DARK. Find Jill at https://jillpaquettedezwaan.wixsite.com/website For HOME BY DARK tour schedule, videos, radio, and more, go to www.homebydark.com

On this weeks episode, we sit down with Jill Donenfeld, chef, author and founder of The Culinistas private chef catering based out of NYC. Jill is a wealth of knowledge on nutrition facts as well as lets us in on the best advice for entertaining guests in the home. You'll be surprised at her suggestions for healthy cooking staples and hopefully add a few new foods to your grocery list this weekend! Find Jill @theculinistas and @jdonenfeld and of course us @cynthiarowley and a recipe for a veggie based clam spaghetti @kitkeenan Inquire about cooking classes with The Culinistas here

Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money, but most people don’t know how to get started. Is it possible to be successful in affiliate marketing if we don’t already have a huge audience? How can we find brands interested in partnering with us? Is it ever worth recommending goods and services we wouldn’t use ourselves? On this episode, co-founder of Screw The Nine To Five, Jill Stanton, shares how to make money through affiliate marketing.    In affiliate marketing, you don’t even need to ‘sell’ anything. You’re just suggesting products you love. -Jill Stanton   3 Things We Learned From This Episode Get an audience (19:48 - 20:42)To be successful at affiliate marketing, what we need is a group of people who follow us and listen to our opinions. This group doesn’t need to be huge; on the contrary, a small group can be easier to influence.    Research and reach out (21:35 - 22:48)Finding affiliate programs doesn’t need to be complicated. All we need to do is type the product name and the word ‘affiliates’ into Google. However, if we don’t find any results, we can also reach out directly to business owners and ask if they would be interested in implementing a referral fee for any followers we send their way.    Recommend good things (26:37 - 27:19)Trust is the currency of affiliate marketing, so we should only be suggesting good products/services and ideally, things we’ve used ourselves. Don’t compromise integrity by going for quick cash.   Guest Bio-  Jill Stanton is the co-founder of Screw The Nine To Five where she helps people quit their jobs, start online businesses and get them past the $100,000/year mark. Coined by Forbes as “a destination for up-and-coming online entrepreneurs,” Screw The Nine To Five has inspired tens of thousands of new entrepreneurs to quit their jobs, build thriving businesses, and live lives of meaning and purpose. In addition to her chart-topping podcast, The Screw Show, her honest-yet-cheeky style has landed her on shows like The Sunny Show, Entrepreneurs On Fire, and Amy Porterfield’s Online Marketing Made Easy to name a few. Jill has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, and Digital Marketer.   Find Jill on Instagram at http://instagram.com/screwtheninetofive/  And on Facebook: http://facebook.com/saynotoninetofive  You can also listen to her podcast at TheScrewShow.com   For more on Screw The Nine To Five, visit http://screwtheninetofive.com  And for tickets to their live event, head to https://www.bbdbonus.com/live-event-checkout/

Find Jill:www.jill-ritchie.comhttp://instagram.com/justjillcoachinghttps://www.facebook.com/jillritchiecoach/ Find Samantha:www.samantharuberto.comhttps://www.instagram.com/hellobeyoutifulpodcast/

Jill Kummer is a successful serial entrepreneur and the former owner and president of Blacktie-Pittsburgh, an event support company for nonprofit organizations that provided a “soup-to-nuts” turnkey approach to event planning and execution. With her years of experience in event planning and expertise, Jill is a sought-after consultant for companies and organizations that seek to make their events more productive, efficient, and, most of all, profitable.  Jill is also the author of a new book called 'The EVENT Technique - The Business Side of Events'. Fundraising for the nonprofit: Is it a boost for you or the bane of your existence? If you find yourself struggling with or even dreading hosting fundraising events, this book is definitely for you! Having developed the E.V.E.N.T. Technique after years of experience, author Jill Kummer walks you through the process step-by-step and page-by-page. She shares plenty of tried-and-true strategies that will help you make your next fundraising event (and every one after that) truly profitable rather than becoming a money pit with very common and costly mistakes. From the first inkling of an idea about hosting an event to the final debriefing, you’ll get a better understanding of each step and how to execute properly, so your event shines, your guests have a great experience, and you boost your organization’s bank account! Find Jill on the web: Website | LinkedIn | Instagram

On Sorta Awesome, we not only share all of the good stuff of life together, we also talk to each other about the tough topics, too. Today, the Sorta Awesome Stories series continues when Meg talks to Super Star Awesome Jill Goolsby about an issue that affects one out of four women: intimate partner violence. Jill shares her story of losing a friend to domestic violence and helps us know how we can push through the discomfort of awkward conversations to help each other recognize and respond to warning signs of violence and abuse. This episode is a must-listen and will empower you to help make a difference that could potentially save a life.All of that plus some easy summertime treats in Awesome of the Week!THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:Kopari: Go to kopari.com/awesome and see how you can save $5 off your first orderLola: Go to mylola.com and enter code awesome40 at checkout for 40% off your subscriptionLegacy Box: Go to legacybox.com/AWESOME to get 40% off your first orderCare/of: For 25% off your first orderof personalized Care/of vitamins, go to takecareof.com and enter promo code awesomeThank you to all of our Sorta Awesome sponsors! SHOW NOTES:Jill’s AoTW: Hamilton Beach Breakfast Sandwich MakerMeg’s AoTW: cold brew popsiclesDirty John podcastDirty John showNational Domestic Violence HotlineYou can find Meg on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram!Find Jill in the Sorta Awesome Hangout!Visit sortaawesomeshow.com for show notes on this and every episode. And don’t forget to find us in the Sorta Awesome Hangout on Facebook or @sortaawesomeshow on Instagram, and @sortaawesomepod on Twitter!

Last week I sat down with Jillian Parekh, an Imposter Syndrome Coach from Orillia, Ontario. We talked about what Imposter Syndrome is, what signs to look for when identifying it and how you can combat it. Jill is a hustler at heart and got me super fired up about our chat! I'm so excited for you to hear her story. Find Jill on Instagram here.

Jill Carlson thinks we should all take more walks. In this episode of Click Here To Apply, I have the pleasure of chatting with Jill Carlson about why we should challenge conventional ways of working, how she broke into the crypto industry by asking a challenging question at a conference, why you might not want to be the note-taker on your team, and the fallacy of the fig tree. Jill was the first person I thought of when I started this podcast so I'm so thrilled she was able to come on. I learned a ton and think you will too. Find Jill's work at http://jill-carlson.com/ And on twitter at https://twitter.com/_jillruth

What’s In This Episode: Wanna receive Jill or Brad's newsletters? Find Brad's at Anchor Advisors. Find Jill's at Founding Moms. "You can't sell anything to people that they don't already need. " - Brad Mel McSherry calls in to discuss mailing lists: How can she do it authentically without being salesy? Brad says that if Mel has a valuable service, she has to sell it. Jill advises her to continue doing and interacting with people as she already has been, just in an email format, and she'll be able to succeed. But she needs to be aware of the fact that even if people are subscribed, they need to be invested in what she's doing if they're going to get updates about it. So think about what it is that her audience needs? "We need to know what's challenging for us versus what's not." - Jill Brad breaks down the stages of entrepreneurial success: Phase one: startup - try things Phase two: growth - this is where the work is Phase three: stability - your team helps with expansion Where are you in the stages of entrepreneurial success?  Guest: Mel McSherry is an International Business Development Coach and Speaker. She predominantly works with women business owners who are exhausted and overwhelmed by what they think they need to do in order to be successful. She helps them slash their stress by showing them how to prioritize their profits, their time, and themselves correctly so they can create the money, the business, and the life they want, fast! Visit her website.

In this episode of the Business Builders Show, Marty and Kelly talk with Jill Schlesinger, CFP®, the Emmy-nominated and Gracie Award Winning Business Analyst for CBS News and author of The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs. On TV, her “Jill on Money” podcast and blog, Jill covers the economy, markets, investing and anything else with a dollar sign. During our conversation we discover how a career that started in commodities trading ended up on prime time TV (plus how she “stumbled” into financial planning). Jill shares how the challenge to get clients in the door in a way that didn't involve cold-calling prospects, resulted in a call-in radio show (and a 50%+ conversion rate). From growing a business on the back of media to the source of bad financial decision-making (spoiler alert! it's human emotions!), to the f-word (fiduciary) along with the money and peak happiness equation to over-estimating the value of high-priced private colleges and our compulsion to own real-estate, Jill shares all (dropping zingers with humor). You don't want to miss this or Jill's five steps to financial success. Find Jill online as well as information on where to purchase “The Dumb Things Smart People Do with Their Money: Thirteen Ways to Right Your Financial Wrongs” all in one place: https://www.jillonmoney.com/ Find Jill's interview with Business Builder Show guest host, Kelly Hoey, here: http://betteroffpodcast.com/better-off-podcast-ep4/Learn more about Kelly here: jkellyhoey.co and more about Marty here: martywolffbusinesssolutions.com. Business Builders Show is part of c-suiteradio.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Globe trotter and teen wrangler Jill visits to talk hormones, homework and high AF kids. Angie and Julie are thrilled to hear that despite The Year of the Critter and hours-long crying spells, parenting gets easier. Tune in now and help the moms determine whether Jill's daughter has provided real or fake slang!   Find Jill @ wanderingnativecollective.com   Please subscribe to our show and rate us on iTunes or Stitcher! It really does help, we swear! And don't forget to send us your first time parenting stories at firsttimerspodcast@gmail.com.

Ryan Gosling makes his first appearance as well as KNOWN HUNK Steve Carell. Comedian Jill Lockley joins us for this foray into dad fashion & Ryan Gosling's perfectly spray tanned torso. In this ep we objectify Conan O'Brien and practice some MRA pick up techniques- what could go wrong??? Find Jill on Twitter and Instagram & Check out Uncle Janes Here! Follow Brunch Comedy on Facebook, instagram & Twitter Allie - Twitter & Instagram Kerri - Twitter & Instagram Sound & Intro song by Geoff Walter Check out his podcast, Alternate Riffstory! In Vancouver? The next live Brunch show is January 12th at Little Mountain Gallery follow Brunch onfacebook & Instagram for more info.

Chef Alina Z interviews Jill Schneider who shares her miraculous healing from cancer when she was 29 years old. Jill is absolutely incredible and vibrant being over 70 years old now and is planning a hiking trip in Italy! Check out this podcast for inspiration on healing! Find Jill at www.oy2joy.com or https://www.circle-of-life.net/ This podcast is not a prescription. Please check with your doctor or medical practitioner before trying a new health program.

In this episode we talk with Jill Englund and learn from her regarding how to make the best of a very difficult situation. Jill Englund runs her page Best of Cancer. She's an osteosarcoma survivor, pediatric cancer fighter, public speaker, rotationplasty amputee, cancer advocate, and cancer thriver. With Jill’s experience, she shares her story and imparts her knowledge on how to adapt to dire circumstances. Some of Jill’s story includes diagnosis of osteosarcoma at a young age, amputation of her leg, and losing her mentor and best friend to osteosarcoma. We get to hear insight regarding the difficulties one encounters when re-entering everyday life after significant trauma. Jill is involved with various organizations, including Cure Search and Make-a-Wish. Jill once was a Make-a-Wish nominee and now she’s an advocate for this organization. Jill Englund will positively impact your world if you give her the chance.   Find Jill on instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/bestofcancer/ Find Jill on Facebook at: @bestofcancer on facebook https://www.facebook.com/bestofcancer/ https://curesearch.org http://wish.org This podcast is brought to you by Living Adaptive with Scott Davidson. Go to www.livingadaptive.com for more information. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/living_adaptive/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/livingadaptive/  

Jill Damman had a biking accident that would change her life forever. She could let the incident define her, or she could decide how she would let it define her. Jill shares with us a very difficult time in her life and how she made it into something better than she was before. There are so many silver linings in this story, I hope it changes what a “bad day” means to you.   We discuss: Losing your face/your identity Finding purpose when things go entirely wrong. Resilience and turning adversity into a net positive.   Links: EMDR (eye movement therapy) - emdr.com/what-is-emdr/ Center for Healthy Minds Mindful   Find Jill online at www.jilldamman.weebly.com

Jill Allen Radiant Vibes- Embracing my belly! We have spent our whole lives thinking things need to be different or need to change. Loving ourselves is not getting a massage.It's deeper. (cliche I know but true.) My bravado make me laughs because it's my insecure neediness, Crazy ass sugar phase. I am not doing a dance to the Bay City Rollers. My soul is really calling! I am not doing a dance to the Bay City Rollers! Stop breath and feel your body... I know. Get the full show notes at www.honestlylisa.com Find Jill at Radiantvibes@gmail.com  

Do you own your own business? Or have you ever dreamed of starting your own business? If so, today’s episode is for you. According to Jill Salzman, moms make the best entrepreneurs because we know how to make it up as we go. Jill created the mom entrepreneur MeetUp, The Founding Moms. Their mission? Helping moms get down to business. Jill shares what happens at these monthly MeetUps in cities around the world, a few amazing and inspirational stories of successful mom entrepreneurs and why getting together with other women is so powerful. If you own your own business or have dreamed of starting one, today’s episode is a must-listen. The Minute by Minute Recap :58-2:27: How Jill “decided” to start The Founding Moms. Flat out freaked out about running two businesses with two small children, on a whim she went to MeetUp.com and started a meet up. 6 months in, they had over 200 members online. 2:35-4:15: At the beginning, the MeetUp groups addressed the logistics of ‘How do I do this?’. Then it morphed into a marketing, branding conversation. 4:15-7:00: The Founding Moms is currently in 40 cities in the U.S., 9 countries with 8,000 members and growing quickly. Members are all ages with children of different ages. When you show up to one of Jill’s meetings, there’s always a speaker giving practical, actionable tips on marketing or legal or branding. Chicago and Oak Park groups have over 600 members. At each meeting, there are no more than 20 people. In San Francisco, for example, they have larger groups. For the most part, they’re smaller. 7:10-8:18: The Founding Moms is free to join in your city and then $10-$15/month per event. Soon there will be an online forum that’s a paid membership (stay tuned!). 8:22-9:10: The online course is not available quite yet, but there will be an active forum, a Directory (like Angie’s list for mom entrepreneurs), video courses. 9:15-11:50: Another thing currently available from the Founding Moms is called the Founding Kit, which bundles services all business owners need (things like graphic design, a website, virtual assistant, etc.). All clients are already in business and see the value of the kit. 12:00-12:40: Megan picks a small bone with Jill…there’s no Founding Moms community in Portland. What?! Jill welcomes any mom with her own business who’d like to start this group to go to FoundingMoms.com/StartOne. 12:55-14:25: Jill’s advice for moms that want to start their own business: get out fast! The Founding Moms is that place women can go to sit in a room with other mom entrepreneurs to get the inspiration they need to take that next step. One conversation could charge you right out of the corporate rat race. Whether it’s The Founding Moms or just visiting a local co-working space, have conversations with people who are doing this work already. Talk to them about how they do it. 14:25-18:37: Jill shares a few stories of successful women entrepreneurs. One woman came to the MeetUp every month wanting to start something but not knowing what. She now runs a wildly successful branding firm by meeting the needs of the very women she was communing with. Another woman showed up at an exchange and wanted to quit her job to start a business with her husband. They started OptionsAway.com, a now successful business that allows you to hold the price of an airline ticket for a few days. Brilliant! Another woman was experimenting with chemicals in her kitchen to create an amazing “perfect manicure” product, she’d show up at MeetUps with her product and people’s mouths would drop. She is now being courted by major beauty brands. The company is Liquid Palisade. 18:37-20:04:Having the inspiration and watching other women be courageous is contagious and very powerful. Find Jill and Founding Moms online, on Twitter and Instagram.

The power of sound for transformation has been long documented. I spent several years working with music for healing and for the exploration of consciousness. Then there is the sound of the human voice. My guest today has spent decades researching and developing ground-breaking ways of accessing the power of voice for profound change. Bonus: Listen in for an experience of overtone chanting. *Jill Purce* is recognized internationally as the pioneer of both the sound & the ancestral healing movements. In the1970’s she introduced the teaching of overtone chanting throughout the world & the spiritual potential of the voice for healing & meditation. In the last 40 years she pioneered her workshops, *Healing Voice &* *Healing the Family and Ancestors* , the latter a unique combination of Family constellations, chant & ceremony. Author of The Mystic Spiral: Journey of the Soul, her recordings include Overtone Chanting Meditations and The Healing Voice. She lives in London with her husband, biologist Rupert Sheldrake and their two sons, musician Cosmo and author and biologist Merlin. Find Jill at https://www.healing voice.com Find Laurie Seymour at https://thebacainstitute.com/. *Discover your* Creative Innovator Style! Why would you want to know that? Because trying to innovate in ways that fight your natural way of creating, could be what’s standing in the way of turning your ideas into reality. Click here to take the quiz now: Creative Innovator Quiz ( https://thebacainstitute.com/creative-innovator-quiz/ ) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/wisdom-talk-radio/donations

Jill from Alberta, Canada. She is a homeschooling mother to 3 children, a birth doula, and a recently certified birth support coach through the Birth Coach Method. She is excited to use her newly learned coaching tools to help her clients achieve their desired birth experience even if they cannot have a doula attend their birth. Jill works with pregnant women in their last trimester to coach them around their desires for their birth, their current reality, and circumstances and closes every coaching session with an action assignment designed to reach their goals.   Aside from sharing her incredible VBAC story, we discuss: -What birth coaching is and how it is different from childbirth education. -How hiring a birth support coach can help you, even if you can't have a doula attend your birth. -How birth support coaching places the pregnant parent as an expert on their body and their birth.   Find Jill and learn more about birth coaching on her Instagram page: @jillmcknight_birthdoula ( https://www.instagram.com/jillmcknight_birthdoula/ ) Episode Sponsor: This episode is brought to you by @Nourisher, formerly known as Milkful nursing bars, Nousrisher believes that moms deserve the most nutritious food. Their pre and post-natal bars are made to nourish her unique needs throughout motherhood, without sacrificing flavor. Their delicious flavors include Papaya Turmeric: A tropical treat! Folate-packed Papaya + anti-inflammatory Turmeric. Spirulina Ginger: Sweet and spicy! Nausea-soothing spicy ginger plus energy-boosting Spirulina, and Strawberry Rosehip: OMG flavor! Yummy strawberries plus immune-boosting Rosehip. Check them out at thevbaclink.com/go/nourisher ( https://www.thevbaclink.com/go/nourisher ) Meagan: Happy Wednesday, women of strength! It is Julie and Meagan. We have Jill with us today. She’s in Canada and we cannot wait to hear not only her stories, but we want to dive in a little bit more on birth coaching-- something that she has gone into during her journey. She actually has three kids. She had a C-section and then two VBACs. We can’t wait to hear that story. She is a certified birth coach and a birth doula. We’re really excited to hear more about the coaching, what that entails and how we all can learn more because I know as a doula, for me, I think that would be something really fun to add to my offerings and my skills. I can’t wait to hear that. Julie has a review of the week, so we’ll turn the time over to her. Review of the week Julie: I’m Julie and I have a review of the week and I’m also interested in learning about birth coaching. I’m just really excited. I’m not going to start asking questions and things because it’s the very beginning of the episode. But at the end we might just pick your brain a little bit, Jill. This review is from Apple Podcasts and the reviewer name is Khuxx. The review’s name is “Success.” Khuxx says, “This podcast helped me in so many ways. I had my VBAC baby in the early morning on Thanksgiving four days past my due date. I was religiously listening to this podcast in those three days leading up to labor as I felt my chances of my perfect labor were being ripped away. Putting my headphones and pushing play on The VBAC Link when I would start to doubt my ability my whole pregnancy was honestly my lifesaver. I told my midwives that this was helping me stay positive and I recommend it to EVERYONE. Thank you SO MUCH for creating the perfect podcast for all pregnant moms, not just moms wanting to VBAC. If I would have known about this with my first, maybe the outcome would have been different.” Thank you so much, Khuxx, for that review. We were just talking about that before we started recording. We wish this had been around when we were having babies. And Jill, same thing. It always makes me feel really good when we hear that we are helping people and that our stories that we share on the podcast are helping others as well. Thank you, Jill, for sharing your story today. And thank you to everybody who has ever shared their story on our podcast and in our Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/thevbaclink/ ) community and in our Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/thevbaclink/?hl=en ) stories. We wouldn’t be The VBAC Link without every single one of you. So, thank you. Episode sponsor This episode is brought to you by Nourisher. Formerly known as Milkful Nursing Bars, the company has rebranded and expanded to bring you new bars. New flavors to meet all of your needs throughout the motherhood journey. Nourisher products are made to “nourish her.” Each of the products are super nutrient dense while still being a very tasty snack that moms can look forward to. Their delicious flavors include Blueberry Coconut, Chocolate Banana, Maple Walnut, Papaya Turmeric, Spirulina Ginger, and Strawberry Rosehip. Let’s talk about flavor. My favorite, guys? Strawberry Rosehip hands down. Not only are these bars delicious and tasty, but they have amazing benefits for both you and your baby in the pre and postnatal stages. They increase your energy. They support tissue repair and brain building. They improve gut health with fiber, probiotics and healthy fats. They give you a nutritional lift from sprouted grains and seeds that provide essential nutrients. They are packed with superfoods like turmeric, spirulina, and rosehip to support a healthy immune system and reduce inflammation throughout the pregnancy and postpartum stages. Go ahead and give Nourisher a try. You can get right to them by clicking the link in our show notes or going to thevbaclink.com/go/nourisher. ( https://www.nourisher.co/?rfsn=4803705.3f03cd ) Give them a try. You will not regret it. Jill’s story Meagan: Okay, you guys. It’s podcast Wednesday and Jill has an awesome episode for you. Jill, we’re going to turn the time over to you to share your amazing story and then let us pick your brain at the end. Jill: Great. Thank you so much, Julie and Meagan. Thanks for having me. I am a VBAC mom. I had my first child in 2009. I didn’t have a doula. I didn’t really have a birth team set up. I went into it to see how it goes, kind of thing. I felt like an absolute goddess being pregnant, I’ll tell you that. But I always felt really deflated every time I left my prenatal appointments with my obstetrician. I felt like it was so run of the mill, going through the motions. I always felt really sad afterwards. I felt like, “Hey, I feel really great. I feel like I’m glowing. I feel amazing.” If I had a doula or if I had someone to talk to and download about it afterwards, that would have felt really nurturing to me. So I went along and my pregnancy was actually really great. I was healthy. I was strong. I never considered that I would have a C-section. I remember going through the hospital for the tour and the last stop was the operating room to show us expectant moms where it is and things like that. I was like, “Yeah, sure. I’ll look at it. But there’s no way. I’m just not going to have one.” My mother didn’t have one. My grandmother had ten babies and I just thought, “It’s not happening,” so I didn’t have any information about how to prepare for a C-section. Meagan: A lot of times in these prenatals, there isn’t really any education given on C-sections. First time moms go in to have this baby and they’ve heard about a C-section but they don’t really know what it entails. That’s something that could be added to prenatal care. Jill: Yes. I think so for sure. Based on conversations that I’ve had with women throughout the years, it’s the same thing. At least to have had it as part of the prenatal, that would have been helpful for sure. I guess I can just skip to the birth. Pretty uneventful pregnancy, it was fine. My baby was late. The first time around when you go over the 40 week mark, it’s like, “Oh my gosh. When is this going to happen, right?” I did end up going into spontaneous labor at 41 weeks. We just had my in-laws arrive from Scotland. They had planned their trip to come for when the baby was born. Since baby was late, they showed up on the day that I started going into labor. So I had a house full of visitors. I started in the middle of the night feeling the early signs of labor. I did some of the things that I learned in my prenatal classes-- moving around when I could, trying to lie down when it felt comfortable. I ran a bath. I sat in the bath for a little while and then the contractions started to get a little bit intense. My husband and I decided to go into the hospital, which was just around the corner, so really close. I got checked into triage. The part that always sticks out in my head was that the nurse that was there didn’t look at me. She had her head down and asked, “Are you having an epidural?” I was like, “Uh, I don’t know.” She was like, “Well, you don’t need one. But if you don’t get one now then the anesthesiologist might be busy so I would suggest that you say yes.” Julie: Oh my gosh, I hate when they do that. Meagan: It’s added pressure in a vulnerable moment. Even if you didn’t plan on that, you feel vulnerable and think, “Well, what if I end up wanting one and they’re not here?” I don’t like that. Jill: There was another woman that was laboring in the room and it was quite intimidating. I could hear her. She was pretty close, I think, to giving birth. The nurse then said, “So that woman there, that’s not her first baby. You can hear she’s going through some painful contractions. So if she’s feeling pain, what do you think you’re going to feel?” So I was like, “Wow. Okay.” Julie: Labor and delivery nurses-- I don’t think they mean ill intent when they say these things. I think they’re really trying to be helpful. But there should be a class about tact in the birth room. Maybe not. But I’ve heard things like that in the birth room. What are you supposed to say as a parent and you’re a first time mom? It’s so frustrating. Jill: Yeah. That’s it. All of those things led to me getting an epidural, but I was only at 4 centimeters. Knowing what I know now, that was quite early. But for me, at that stage, it felt really painful. I had never felt anything like that before, so it felt like, “Oh yeah. I want this pain to go away. I want to be more comfortable.” I got that epidural administered and then was hooked up to the IV, the machines, and all the things. I was strapped in and lying down on my back. From there, I continually was progressing and I did dilate. I don’t have the notes with me right now, but long story short, eventually, I got to the point where baby was going into distress. They had to insert that fetal scalp electrode. I just felt like a rag doll. At the beginning, when the epidural was administered, it worked really well. For some women it doesn’t work really well and they still feel the contractions. But I felt nothing and I thought, “Oh, this is cool. I’m going to lie here and the baby is going to come. Wow!” I just had no idea. Then there were more interventions. There was the fetal monitor, then baby was in distress. They were giving me oxygen, then there were several doctors, students, nurses, and more students coming to observe me. That moment is so clear in my mind when I’m lying in the bed with the oxygen mask and I have what felt like eight people surrounding me. I’m freaking out and my husband’s like, “It’s okay,” but we’re like, “I don’t know what’s going on.” That was quite scary. But I did get to the point where I was 10 centimeters and was able to push with directed pushing. I didn’t feel anything, so I was going based on what the labor and delivery nurses were telling me to do as my feet were up in stirrups and still lying on my back. I spent hours doing that. Eventually they were able to lift me up and put me over one of those bars where I was sitting upright to try and get some gravity on my side. Then they started talking C-section at that point because I was pushing for about two hours and because he was in distress. I kept asking for more time. I asked for another hour and then after that third hour, they could see his head. I remember them bringing a mirror and you could see the head, but he wasn’t far enough down that they could use a vacuum or forceps. That led to that moment where I had to sign off for surgery. I still feel quite emotional just remembering. Meagan: That was a hard moment. Jill: Yeah. Then wheeled into surgery. As C-section moms, we all know that feeling. It feels really cold when you go into that operating room and everything is very quiet, very eerie. Everybody’s in their full scrubs and it’s a scary place. I was shaking at that point. I think there was something about the drugs they administer to you and they have to strap your arms down. I remember shaking and I felt very nauseous. When they did the surgery, it was quite a weird feeling. Because my son was descending down the birth canal, they actually had to pull him out. So his head came out in that cone kind of way. Julie: You kind of had to recover from a vaginal birth and a Cesarean at that point. Jill: It was almost that way, right? He was very large. He was 9 pounds, 4 ounces. Knowing what I know now, birthing a 9 pound, 4 ounce baby on your back, for 18 hours… Meagan: It doesn’t leave a lot of room for baby to get down in the right spot. Jill: I didn’t know much about birth until after that moment and I did my research. I was like, “What was that? Why did that happen?” I blamed myself a lot and I went through a lot of really negative emotions. I felt very disappointed. I felt ashamed. I felt really ashamed. I didn’t expect that I would have a C-section and I didn’t like that I felt ashamed to tell people that. It was really confusing. It was a crazy start to motherhood. I absolutely adored my son. Thankfully we bonded well with breastfeeding and skin to skin, but I remember those nights that I stayed in the hospital. It was really quite traumatic. There are lots of other details, but I think that’s mainly the gist of it. After that, it really drove me to research and find out why. I got a hold of my records of my birth to find out what actually happened, what led to it. Megan: Which is such a good idea to do. It’s really important to get those records. We encourage all of our personal clients to do that. Jill: Yeah, I found it really helpful. Then you can research and you can find out what all these terms mean. In the moment, you’re not really absorbing all the terminology that they’re throwing at you. You’re just scared. There’s the shock that takes over and you can’t absorb anything. Even in a straightforward labor, you’re not taking in information. I did a lot of work with the resources that were available at the time. It was 2009. I ended up stumbling into home birth which wasn’t anything I would ever have thought I would get into. I didn’t know anybody who had home births. I was actually quite intimidated by the thought of a home birth. But my research led me there. I started to really get into that world, which is quite an interesting place to be and a lot to learn there. I guess that’s what led me to want to be a doula because I’m reading all of these amazing books written by midwives and I thought, “I would love to be able to support somebody in a way that…” Meagan: The way you wish you had been able to be supported? Jill: Exactly, because I know exactly what I would have done for myself back then. That was part of my healing too. Like I said earlier, I really beat myself up a lot. It’s so common for moms who have unplanned C-sections or planned C-sections as well. As I did my research and I learned more, I started to forgive myself. I thought, “I did the best I could with what I had.” I didn’t know anything about epidural other than that it takes the pain of labor so I’m like, “That can’t be bad.” After I learned what I did in my doula training, I’m like, “Oh, so maybe 4 centimeters was a bit early.” If I had somebody there to support me for a few more hours to get to seven or eight centimeters,  maybe the epidural would have been a great thing for me. So I was able to slowly heal from some of that negativity that I was holding onto and that shame and that disappointment. I could see my C-section as the catalyst for change in my life that helped to guide me towards birth work. I’m thankful for it in that way. Meagan: I feel you. It’s kind of the same. I had two C-sections before I landed into the birth world but even though they were not my desired birth or my desired choice, I would not have changed anything because it led me to where I am today. Julie: Me too. Jill: Then for my first VBAC, I waited 18 months because that was the recommended time. I don’t know if there is one recommended time, but for me, it was the 18 month wait after my first C-section to then try and get pregnant with my second child. I did that and then thankfully we got pregnant easily. I set myself up right away with midwives. In Canada, we have a public healthcare system which is great, but also stressful because you have to get your care provider the day you pee on the stick. You cannot mess around. I got myself into a really great midwifery practice right from the beginning. I was planning a home birth. I felt that was the best place for me. The midwives at this practice were  supportive and actually really loved working with VBAC moms. I was in really, really good hands. Just the way life goes, my husband got transferred to Melbourne, Australia for work. So when I was six months pregnant with my second child, we moved to Australia. Julie: Oh my gosh! I love Australia, but what a horrible time to move to another country. Jill: I know. We had actually been there already temporarily before my pregnancy and then we came home for a bit. I knew it was coming so it wasn’t completely out of the blue at the point, but I did have to navigate a completely new healthcare system there in Australia. Julie: Australia is completely different for Cesarean, VBAC and birth in general. It’s a completely different mindset even from the United States. Different parts of Australia have different birth cultures as well. It’s something I’ve been interested in learning more about, actually. When Meagan and I upgrade our VBAC van to a VBAC jet-- we’re dreaming really big right now. We’re going to have a VBAC Link jet and then fly to Australia and figure out the Australia birth world, VBAC, Cesareans, all that. And maybe we’ll go doula some people in the Outback. That would be awesome. I’m dreaming big. This is like, 50 years down the road if we’re still kicking around. Jill: That’s great to dream big. Julie: I’m going to stop talking now. Go on with your story. Jill: I’ve never lived in the States but I can imagine Australia’s system to be a mixture of the United States and Canada because they do have public healthcare and private. It’s a nice little hybrid which was good for us because we weren’t residents of Australia so public health care, we still had to pay for anyway. We actually went private and I actually hired private midwives because the midwives there at that point weren’t covered under public healthcare like they are in Canada. I found some great midwives supporting my VBAC home birth. Everything was great. Totally crazy that we now lived down under. We were in Melbourne. It was a great city and I was in good hands. My husband took a little bit more time to get adjusted to the home birth, but we managed to come to an agreement. We planned the home birth and there was a concern that I had a front lying placenta early on in the pregnancy, so I just needed to get an ultrasound at about 36 weeks to check on that. I got some more interesting news at that ultrasound which was that my baby was breech. Meagan: Not always a fun thing to find out. Jill: No. And that’s the thing from my experience with my second child. I went to the ultrasound by myself and my husband was at the pool with my son. It was like, “Oh, you know. It’s all good. You go play with him. I’ll go to the ultrasound and meet you later.” Oh God, could I have used somebody there with me. I obviously did not expect that either. Breech? What? I was a complete hot mess after finding that out. But my midwives were totally cool and they were like, “That’s okay. You’re only 36 weeks. Lots of babies are breech. They do somersaults. They go all around. It’s no big deal.” They were able to help me calm down and explore options. Then I was into a whole other level of not just VBAC, I was then looking into breech which is a little bit more frightening when you look on the internet about breech birth. This was in 2011 when breech was considered very high risk and almost always a C-section. I was quite devastated because I was so scared of having another C-section. So I did all of the things. Spinning Babies-- I was lying down every day with my ironing board propped up on my couch. You lie down on your back with your head down and your feet up. Julie: The Breech Tilt, yes! Jill: Yep. Lots of hands and knees, doing all of the cat-cow hands and knees positions. I did everything. I did handstands in the pool which got me some pretty weird looks at the public pool. I did chiropractic care specifically for breech. I did Moxibustion, an acupuncture procedure where they put these needles in your pinky toes and then they have this charcoal cigar-lit thing that lights up and heats up the needle in your toes. I did all the things. She was not having it. She remained in the breech position. Julie: That’s frustrating after you do all that work. Jill: I know. The private/public system actually worked in my favor because I ended up getting in with an obstetrician in Melbourne who specializes in high risk. He does breeches, twins, VBAC’s, so he took me on as one of his patients. He was really great. I still had my midwives too but they weren’t able to be my primary care providers in the hospital because of the breech. It was more like she was a doula to me which was really great too. With breeches, the rule for my obstetrician was an eight hour labor or less but if it goes over eight hours then there is probably something going on. Julie: Well, that’s not fair. Lots of labors are longer than eight hours. Jill: Yeah. That was scary and no epidural. There were a bunch of other rules, but eight hours was the limit. She was late too. She was about six days overdue. I started to feel the discomfort in the evening. I went to bed. I woke up sometime in the middle of the night, sometime between midnight and 2:00 am. I thought, “I’m going to get up now. We’re going to move around.” My husband was making oatmeal. We called the midwife to let her know I was starting to feel the early stages of labor. By about 3:00 am, I said to my husband, “You have to call the midwife NOW.” She was asking him, “Ask Jill to rate between 1 and 10 the intensity of the contractions.” It was literally, “7. Okay, no 8. Okay, no 9. No, 10.” It came that quickly. I got into the shower. Then interestingly enough, there was meconium coming out of me because my baby was in the breech position so bum down. Julie: That way baby doesn’t get aspirated. Jill: It’s crazy, right? That was freaky. We still had to get to the hospital because I still wasn’t having that home birth. It was very fast. That was 3:00 in the morning, then we had to rush off to the hospital. I was that woman. No seatbelt, I was holding myself up with my hands, my arms fully straight, like, “This baby’s coming!” She was coming. When we got into the maternity ward, the nurses welcomed me. I remember them talking to me so sweetly saying, “It’s okay, honey. You’re just having a contraction.” I’m like, “Ugh, yeah. Okay.” When they checked me, the bum and the legs were coming. They were coming. They had to get me to wait until the obstetrician came because she was breech. So they had to wait for him to come. He lived about a five minutes drive away. We had the breathing and the “look deep into my eyes”. I think everybody was a bit panicked. This was a two hour labor. It started at about 3:00, then about 5:15 in the morning, I was directed to push. I really wanted to stand up. That was my urge-- to stand up, but I did have to go on the bed. Everything was moving. Everything was coming anyways. It didn’t really make a difference. But I think for me, with my first birth, I just was like, “I don’t want to lie down.” She was born bum first, then legs popping out. Then you see that the body is there and the head is still the last to birth. When she was born and they placed her on my body, she was upside down. It was the feet up at my chest. So that’s the way she was born. Meagan: That’s awesome. I didn’t realize that your first VBAC was breech. Jill: Yeah. She was a breech baby. That was that birth. It was a healing birth for me. It was a stressful birth. The lead up to it, with it being a VBAC and with being breech-- but I could see what my body was capable of. That’s what really healed me. I was quite surprised with how quick the labor was, just the two hours, really. Julie: That’s super fast for a first time vaginal birth and for a breech baby. That’s super speedy, as my four year old would say. Jill: Yeah. But it’s funny because I think the personalities shine through. My daughter now is going to be nine and I’m like, “Of course you were born breech. Of course you were born the complete opposite way than most.” Julie: I agree 100 percent with that sentiment, I really do. Jill: She’s our cannonball. She bursts into the scene all the time. I’m like, “Well, that’s how you were born.” It makes sense. Then my son, who was the C-section, we have to drag him out everywhere. So I’m like, “Oh yeah, you wanted to stay. You were good. We had to pull you out.” Meagan: That’s so funny how they all fit their births. Jill: For sure. Then for my third birth, we stayed in Australia for a couple more years after that, almost three years after my daughter was born. We got transferred back to Canada, but to a completely different part of Canada. As you know, Canada is a huge country. I was then home kind of, but still a four hour plane right from my home. Still quite foreign, but the same healthcare system and things like that. I planned a home birth again for my third birth and had really amazing midwives again and very supportive and really, really loved working with VBAC moms. I think I always shock people when I tell them about my birth story of my second child. They’re like, “Hold on, what? A VBAC and a breech? Okay, wow.” Then they knew about me having a really quick labor for my second child. So they were expecting another quick labor. For my third birth, she completely surprised me and came ten days early. My first was seven days late. My second was six, so I thought she was going to be five days late. I don’t know, I just couldn’t think any other way, but she was ten days early. Completely different scenarios. We have two kids now, almost six and three, planning a home birth so we didn’t have anywhere to go. It was Easter Sunday. We did the Easter egg hunt in the morning. At about 10:00 in the morning I said, “I think, maybe, could you send the kids over to the neighbors to play?” Because I thought I might like to have the kids there for the birth, but then when I got down to it, I said, “I think I need to just not have to think about that so let’s send them over to the neighbors to have some space.” Contractions got pretty intense at about 11:00 in the morning. I was pacing up and down in my bathroom. Again, similar to the first birth, I said, “Contractions are getting pretty intense.” I said to my husband, “You’d better call the midwife.” The midwife was like, “Well, what’s going on?” And literally, as she was on the phone, my body just couldn’t help itself and I went straight into pushing. My husband was there on the phone. Meagan: Wow. Jill: I know. He had had a shower earlier and left his towels on the floor. Which, we get so upset with our husbands for doing stuff like that, but I’m like, “Oh wow, so you left the towels on the floor,” and that was where our daughter was born, just right on those towels in the bathroom with the midwife on the phone. She was able to hear her first cry. She knew it was good. She didn’t have to call the ambulance or anything like that. She just said, “I’m going to come over as soon as I can.” She was coming from the hospital from another birth just ten minutes away. So she came and showed up. She was so cool. She was so calm. She was so like, “Everything is great. Everything’s fine.” She ran my bath for me. I had my daughter with me and my placenta was still attached. I still hadn’t birthed the placenta yet. She got me through that. It was just amazing. It was another very healing experience for me. Very shocking. Meagan: It sounds amazing though. Sounds like a lot, but amazing. Jill: Yeah. Unplanned, right? Not expecting that. That was a one hour labor from start to finish. Meagan: You have an amazing cervix. Your cervix is like, “Listen, I’m ready and when I’m ready, I mean I’m READY.” Jill: We’re done now. I said to my husband, “Listen, if we’re going to have another baby, it’s going to be a Walmart baby. Seriously, I won’t even make it home. I don’t want that. We’re good.” Meagan: That is crazy. And then there’s a cervix like mine that takes days and days and days. I always told my husband that we should have another one because I want to know what my cervix would do now that it’s done it. Julie: We are still holding out hope that there will be another Heaton baby. Meagan: It’s not looking like it. Julie: I know, but I am still hoping. You know my plan for you. Meagan: Oh my gosh. So C-section, breech, VBAC, unassisted, unplanned home VBAC for your second VBAC. Holy smokes, what a ride. Well, thank you so much for sharing. I know we have a few more minutes. I would love to talk more about the coaching. Tell us more about what you’re learning, how people could find that or how you found that, how people can find you and all of the things. Julie: And how that’s different from doula support. Jill: I trained with the Birth Coach Method, it’s called. My teacher was called Mary Life Trauma. She was a doula for years and then trained to be a life coach. She’s merged birth support work with life coaching. It’s different from what a doula would provide because it’s not about giving information about birth, although you can if your client requests that, but it’s more about getting to her belief system about what she holds true about birth. You’re using coaching tools and asking really strong questions to get to planning your most optimal birth experience. Normally, a doula would offer maybe two or three prenatal visits and one or two postnatal. I’m not sure. There’s a range. For coaching, it would be six prenatal visits of one hour long and two postnatal. We’re really getting a full picture of where she is in her pregnancy. Things around relationships, with support systems, nutrition, health. Just getting a full picture of where she’s thriving and where there’s challenges-- ways that we can come up with establishing goals for how she can be at a 10 in a certain area as opposed to a 5. How can we get her feeling empowered? Also, there is a component of understanding her reality-- what sort of health conditions she has or if she has any personal issues or anything that’s getting in the way of her reaching her goals. Then you can work on finding different options to reach her goals and then, just like with life coaching, there’s always action steps. There’s always a way forward. The coach is helping the client to stay accountable to their goals. When you’re working with your client, most likely in the third trimester, you’re giving an action assignment and then you’re checking in with them saying, “How are you doing with XYZ?” It’s just really about empowering and inspiring the client as opposed to teaching or educating. It’s not about giving more information. It’s about pulling back the layers of yourself to see what you hold true within you. Julie: That’s interesting. Do you attend the birth or not? Jill: Either way. Meagan: Can you extend that option? Can they be like, “Okay, I really want to have you attend my birth?” Julie: But it’s not necessarily a part of what a birth coach would do unless you’re specifically requested for that, right? Or is that what I’m understanding? Jill: Yes. That’s it. I think it’s an interesting time right now because of COVID. Some hospitals can have doulas, some can’t. There’s so much confusion, right? So I think it’s a nice alternative at the moment to then get all the support that you need to feel ready even if the doula cannot be there to attend your birth. Julie: It sounds like a really valuable toolset to have even as a doula. I’ve heard it said by one of the midwives that have been on our podcast before that two prenatal visits as a doula is not enough. It’s just not enough. I usually end up spending a lot more time with my clients than the two one and a half hour prenatal visits because, especially with VBAC, there’s just so much to do. I’ve been trying really hard to know how to reconcile that. Anyways, I’m not going to brain dump right now on you, but it sounds like this could be a way to supplement that and help add value to what you’re bringing to the birth community and your individual clients. Maybe they don’t want a doula at their birth but they do want some help in figuring out what birth looks like and feels like to them and how to gain that confidence. It sounds really cool. Jill: Yeah, it is really cool. I think it’s like 20 years ago or whatever when people didn’t really know what a doula was and they’re like, “What’s a doula?” It seems like it’s that kind of way with birth support coaching. People are like, “What is that? I’ve never heard of that.” So we’re just working on trying to get the word out so people know that it’s available. It’s just in the early stages, but I’m really excited. Julie: That’s really cool because you could technically take clients all over the world. I just supported, informally, somebody in India last night to have her VBAC because she knew all of the doulas in her area and she didn’t feel comfortable having one of them be her doula. I was on Facebook Messenger helping her feel supported until her team got there. Maybe I’m saying too much information because it’s illegal to have a home birth in the country that she’s birthing in. I think I already said the name of the country. So it was a really cool experience to be able to be involved that way even though she is halfway around the world from me. It sounds like something that can be done virtually as well where you don’t necessarily even need to be in person. Is that right? I don’t know if that’s part of the program. I know there’s a specific training. Meagan: That’s really cool. Super, super cool. I’ll have to check that out. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for sharing all of your amazing stories. Q&A Julie: Questions! Meagan: Oh yes! Guess what. I always forget. We have questions for you. We asked in your submission when you submitted. I don’t know if you remember answering them, but one of them is, what is a secret lesson or something no one really talks about that you wish you would have known ahead of time when preparing for birth? Jill: For my first birth, it’s definitely the importance of a supportive birth team. Hands down. For sure, that would be my answer. Meagan: Awesome. Then the other one is, what is your best tip for someone preparing for a VBAC? Jill: My best tip is really sitting with and naming your emotions that you have about any emotional scars that you have after your C-section because I think the emotional healing is unexpected. I think it takes time. It takes quite a lot of time. Really pointing out those negative emotions, naming them, really sitting with them and being able to really talk about your birth story-- and be held and validated in all of your feelings, not rushed off by the classic, “Healthy baby. That’s the best outcome.” You know? Megan: Definitely. I think working through all of those things prior can really help the next birth just in general to go smoother. Because for me, there was actually a lot of stuff I didn’t realize I hadn’t worked through and then I had to work through it right then in labor. It was really hard to have to backpedal a little bit to work through all of that. Alright, well thank you, thank you. You are just darling and we are so glad that you were with us today. Jill: Thank you so much. It was nice talking with you. Thank you for having me, Julie and Meagan. Closing Would you like to be a guest on the podcast? Head over to thevbaclink.com/share ( http://www.thevbaclink.com/share ) and submit your story. For all things VBAC, including online and in-person VBAC classes, The VBAC Link blog, and Julie and Meagan’s bios, head over to thevbaclink.com ( http://www.thevbaclink.com ). 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