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Shelley Wade interviews Ne-Yo for the Audacy Check-in. Ne-Yo shares with Shelley the real-life story behind Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable," if he ever plans to release the songs he wrote for Michael Jackson before his death, and more.
IrthApp.comIf you're interested, you can use the referral code: BYB6L2WK to get started using the App.Narrative Nation, Inc., https://wewriteus.org/The Birthright Podcast, https://birthrightpodcast.com/Follow Us on Social Media, Facebook | Instagram | TikTok | TwitterThey are hiring: 5 paid Irth Ambassadors in Memphis, TN, as well as 5 national Irth Ambassadors. Please send your cover letter and/or resume to natasha@irthapp.com.No content or comments made in any TIPQC Healthy Mom Healthy Baby Podcast is intended to be comprehensive
New Episode: Insights into Dubai's Booming Real Estate with Osman Celiker Join us on the Dubai Real Estate Podcast as we dive into the explosive growth of Dubai's property market with special guest, Osman Celiker, Managing Director of IRTH Developments. In this episode, Osman, who brings over two decades of expertise, reveals why Dubai attracts over 190 nationalities and the driving forces behind the surge in new developments. Get an exclusive preview of IRTH Developments' latest venture, Rove Residences in Business Bay, and understand why it's currently a top investment choice in the city. Tune in to discover: The motivations behind the launch of new real estate projects in Dubai Future trends and expectations for Dubai's real estate market What makes Rove Residences a hot investment opportunity Stay Connected:
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Producer CHris has a major update on his birth parents.
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Tavis talks to femtech founder Kimberly Seals Allers about IRTH, an app designed to eradicate racial disparities in childbirth.
I loved being in conversation with these two amazing people! Moe Ari (they/he) is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, The Love and Connection Expert at Hinge, a TEDx Speaker, a Board Member for It Gets Better Project, a published academic writer, and a Leading Expert in Transgender Mental Health. He also identifies as Transgender. He's been featured in magazines and news outlets throughout the US, UK, and Australia for his expertise in Transgender identity, love, and relationships Tiffany (she/her) is a ç, public speaker, and femme-powerment coach! She is the founder of Birthing The Empress Within, a platform she is developing to help women nurture themselves as they go through the journey of motherhood. Tiffany is also a brand partner for the Irth app, a tech company dedicated to equity in Black Maternal Health. Our drag avatars kickstart us into a conversation about dancing with shadow and light, inspiring me to share a dream I had the night before the interview about a jaguar picking me up gently in it's teeth. We move onto to discuss how Tiffany, as a post-partum birth duala - sees birth from a spiritual perspective. She acknowledges the incredible Right of passage that occurs not just for the baby and it's mom, but for everyone connected to a new child coming into the world. Moe then shares about how shadow work is not just working with what traumas from the past- but it's looking at the shadows as they are showing up in the present moment. He also talks about the shadow work that surfaced during his gender transition. And specifically, we talk about grieving our lost identities as we evolve into new versions of ourselves. This brings in the idea of being in good relationship with grief and other challenging emotions- and recognizing that grief can actually call-in gratitude. Moe then shares how he see shis being transgender as an invitation for people to see others beyond their physical form and we talk about slaying limitations. We then get into what spiritual lessons they are learning from raising their 3-year old daughter. We chat about the journey of reclaiming spirituality after growing up in traditional religious background and coming out of the closet as spiritual And we end with an invitation into one ness and love.
Irth is a “Yelp-like” app to help expectant parents make informed decisions by exposing bias and racism in healthcare systems. Also, a new video camera system shows the colors of the natural world as different animals see them.An App For People Of Color To Rate Their Birthing ExperiencesFor some patients, finding a good doctor can be as simple as looking up a doctor's degrees and accolades. But for people who are more likely to experience discrimination in a medical setting—perhaps due to their gender, disability, sexual orientation or race—credentials only tell half the story. So how do you know where to go? And who to trust?One app aims to help Black and brown parents-to-be make informed decisions about where they choose to give birth. Black people who give birth in the United States are far more likely than their white counterparts to experience mistreatment in hospitals, develop complications, or die due to childbirth.Irth allows parents to leave reviews about how their birthing experience went, like: Did doctors and nurses listen to them? Was their pain taken seriously? Did they develop complications that could've been prevented?Guest host Arielle Duhaime-Ross talks with Kimberly Seals Allers—journalist, activist, and founder of Irth—about why she founded the app and how it can help people.You can learn more about Irth and download the app on their website.Are Roses Red, And Violets Blue? Depends On Your SpeciesOver the millenia, animal eyes have evolved along different paths, adding or subtracting capabilities as they adapt to specific niches in the world. The result of all that evolution is that a bee, bird, or bull doesn't see the world the same way you do. There are differences in the spatial resolution different animals can see, in the speed of their visual response, in the depth of focus, and in the way they process color.Dogs, for instance, can't really see red—their vision is best at seeing things that are blue or yellow. Birds and bees can see into the ultraviolet part of the spectrum, making a flower look quite different from the way humans perceive it.This week, researchers published details of a video camera system that tries to help make sense of the way different animals view color. By combining different cameras, various filters, and a good dose of computer processing, they can simulate what a given video clip might look like to a specific animal species. It's work that's of interest to both biologists and filmmakers. Dr. Daniel Hanley, one of the researchers on the project and an assistant professor of biology at George Mason University, joins guest host Arielle Duhaime-Ross to describe the system and its capabilities.Transcripts for each segment will be available the week after the show airs on sciencefriday.com. To stay updated on all things science, sign up for Science Friday's newsletters.
This episode is about finding the best labor and delivery hospitals using community-based tools and reviews. Listen to learn more about how community reviews tools are helping women find better facilities. Think “Yelp for hospitals”. Kimberly Seals Allers is our featured guest. She is the creator of Irth, a non-profit app designed to collect and leverage reviews of birthing hospitals and pediatricians from Black and Brown communities to hold these institutions accountable and facilitate systems change for bias-free experiences. The app facilitates transparency and community empowerment by allowing users to share their experiences, which are turned into actionable data for improving care. With ongoing community engagement, including a paid ambassador program for birth workers, Irth serves as an education tool, a platform for raising care expectations, and an advocate for more birthing options and empowerment in motherhood. Full show notes and links: fourthtrimesterpodcast.com
In the third installment of Robin Douthit's "Childbirth Luminaries" series, we delve into the world of maternal and infant health advocacy with award-winning journalist, five-time author, and international speaker, Kimberly Seals Allers. Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking conversation as we explore the Irth App, a groundbreaking app designed as a "Yelp-like" platform, specifically tailored to Black and Brown parents, where important reviews within the full perinatal spectrum are used to combat bias and racism within maternity and infant care, creating a more inclusive and just environment for all. Kimberly is a leading voice in the discourse surrounding the racial and socio-cultural complexities of birth, breastfeeding, and motherhood. She is also the visionary behind "Birthright," a podcast that centers on joy and healing in Black birth. This is an episode you won't want to miss, as we shine a light on one of the luminaries making a significant impact in the world of maternal and infant health.
“Having something that you keep for yourself can actually be the most revolutionary and important thing that you could do in your postpartum journey.” ~ Kimberly Seals AllersWe are thrilled to share with you this conversation with Kimberly Seals Allers, an award-winning journalist, five-time author, and founder of Irth. A leading voice on the racial and sociocultural complexities of birth, breastfeeding, and motherhood, Kimberly created the Irth app for brown and black parents to address bias and racism in maternity and infant care.Additionally, Kimberly is the host and creator of Birthright, a podcast that promotes positive black birth stories as a tool for birth justice and reverses the narrative of negative statistics that is often reported in mainstream media about black maternal health.During their conversation, Kimberly and Kaitlin discussed the events that sparked Kimberly's passion for maternal and infant health advocacy.Kimberly and Kaitlin talked about:The Irth App, how Kimberly came to create it and what it's doing.How they deal with resistance from health providers and what adjustments they make to their approach in the face of these challenges.The events that sparked Kimberly's passion for maternal and infant health advocacy.Her thoughts and experiences regarding the question “What would a valued motherhood experience look like today?”What it looks like to really show up in activism for all of these issues that devalue motherhood, including the absence of basic systems such as affordable childcare, paid leave, co-located childcare, etc.Kimberly's take on productivity and how we can reframe it in the work that we do in balancing parenting/caregiving and creative practice, which is equally as undervalued as motherhood.More about Kimberly Seals AllersWebsite: https://kimberlysealsallers.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamksealsallers/Irth App: https://irthapp.com/Birthright Podcast: http://www.birthrightpodcast.com/Please subscribe wherever you get your podcasts and give us a rating. This will help us reach more listeners like you who are navigating the joys and pitfalls of artistic and parenting identities.For regular updates:Visit our website: postpartumproduction.comFollow us on Instagram: @postpartumproductionpodcastSubscribe to our podcast newsletter on Substack: https://postpartumproduction.substack.com
This month, after recently connecting with IRTH App's Kimberly Seals Allers at SXSW, we're discussing the racial disparities in maternal health care. A timely discussion as Black Maternal Health Week was recognized this month. Kimberly has created an app that aggregates prenatal, birthing, postpartum and pediatric reviews of care from Black and brown parents to combat inequalities in health care. While there are multiple factors that contribute to these disparities – it's time that we pause and ask ourselves what we can do to stop this.
Content Warning: In this episode, we will be talking about maternal mortality, infant mortality, and the impact of racism on maternal health. 60% of all maternal deaths are fully preventable, and the complications women experience are not inherent to black or brown bodies. Yet Black and Brown women have been blamed for their "bad outcomes" instead of recognizing that these deaths all too often have to do with failures in the obstetric system. In the US today, a Black woman is 12 times more likely to die of childbirth than a white woman, despite socioeconomic factors. Today on the On Health podcast, I am having a very real and much-needed discussion on the racial disparities in the business of birth, the demand for change, how we can better celebrate Black birthing people, and more, with Kimberly Seals Allers. She is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker, strategist, and advocate for maternal and infant health. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, she is also a leading voice on the racial and socio-cultural complexities of birth, breastfeeding, and motherhood. Additionally, she is the founder of Irth, a new "Yelp-like" app for Black and Brown parents to address bias and racism in maternity and infant care. Kimberly also created Birthright, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth that centres on positive Black birth stories. In this episode, we discuss: How weathering - the phenomenon of being exposed to ongoing racism - impacts Black pregnant and birthing women Kimberly's journey into breastfeeding and birth activism - and how it's a family affair for her The Irth app and how Kimberly is challenging medical bias and shining a light on much needed provider and birth space accountability Black birthing joy and how it is possible to hold both the reality of these statistics and the celebration for Black birthing people How we can push for change despite generations of struggle And so much more! Tune in for an incredibly raw conversation and a very real look into a black woman's reality as an expecting mother and beyond. Your eyes will be further opened to the injustice that continues to exist in this country and you will feel more inspired than ever to do what you can to take action as an advocate. Thank you so much for taking the time to tune in to your body, yourself, and this podcast! Please share the love by sending this to someone in your life who could benefit from the kinds of things we talk about in this space. Make sure to follow your host on Instagram @dr.avivaromm and go to avivaromm.com to join the conversation. Follow Kimberly @iamksealsallers, get your copy of The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding, listen to the Birthright Podcast and check out the Irth App at www.kimberlysealsallers.com
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In this special bonus episode of This is Motherhood, host Joyce Brewer speaks with Kimberly Seals Allers, the creator of Black Breastfeeding Week, the Irth app, which is a helpful birth resource and community for BIPOC mothers, and host of the Birthright podcast, which highlights stories of joy and healing in Black birth. She is also a leading writer and commentator on birth breastfeeding and the intersection of race, policy, and culture. In this episode, Kimberly talks all about her experience as a BIPOC single mother and how it informed her vision to transform the experience of motherhood for BIPOC women – and why she wants to eradicate racial disparities in birth and breastfeeding and bring joy to all mother's birth experiences.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
On today's podcast, we're going to talk with Irth® App founder, Kimberly Seals Allers, to update us on Irth® App's mission to fight against racism and bias in perinatal and infant care. Kimberly Seals Allers (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker strategist, and an advocate for perinatal and infant health. A former senior editor at Essence, and writer at Fortune Magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on the racial and socio-cultural complexities of birth, lactation, and parenthood. Kimberly is the founder of Irth®, a new Yelp-like app for Black and Brown parents to address bias and racism in perinatal and infant care. Kimberly also created Birthright, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth that centers positive Black birth stories as a tool in the fight for birth justice, and to reverse the narrative of negative statistics that is common in mainstream media coverage of Black perinatal health. We talk about the updated research from Irth®'s movement to eradicate racism and bias in perinatal and infant care. We also talk about the importance of actively implementing strategies for safer birthing spaces for Black and Brown birthing people. Content warning: We mention racism, bias, Black perinatal death, and trauma. RESOURCES: Learn more about Kimberly Seals Allers here and the Irth® App here. Follow Kimberley on Instagram. Follow the Irth® App on Facebook and Instagram. Listen to the Birthright Podcast here. Listen to EBB 161 here. Learn more about Dr. Carla Williams here and her feature on the Birthright Podcast here. Learn more about March of Dimes here. Learn more about the White House Maternal Day of Action press release here. For more information and news about Evidence Based Birth®, visit www.ebbirth.com. Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EvidenceBasedBirth/ ), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ebbirth/), and Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.com/ebbirth/). Ready to get involved? Check out our Professional membership (including scholarship options) (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/become-pro-member/). Find an EBB Instructor here (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/find-an-instructor-parents/), and click here (https://evidencebasedbirth.com/childbirth-class/) to learn more about the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class.
Okionu Birth Foundation offers free personalized meals and group mental health support for low-income BIPOC families during the first six weeks after their baby is born. They collaborate with chefs and the Therapist of Color Collective to provide care in Colorado, Maryland, and Texas. While their free services are currently limited, they are developing an app for a nationwide support network. In this episode I speak with founder Jacquelyn Clemmons about how they are prioritizing the mental health and overall wellbeing of BIPOC newborns and their parents. She shares their offerings for holistic and culturally relevant care, food as the foundation for wellbeing, Black maternal health disparities and how they are combating that through their partnership with Irth app (honors the voices of Black and brown woman giving them a platform to review prenatal, birthing, postpartum and pediatric care received from doctors and hospitals), negative effects lack of care has on child development, and stay tuned until the end to go on a multisensory journey into the future of Okionu birth centers.Okionu Birth Foundation WebsiteOkionu InstagramIrth AppSupport Okionu on Open Collective FoundationWant to support Cooperative Journal?Share your gifts with us on Open Collective Foundation
Kimberly Seales Allers (Founder of Irth App) It's called Irth, not Birth, because the B is removed for Bias! Join this important conversation on Black maternal health and how Irth App is revolutionizing the safety of our Black birthing people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The truth is, you probably won't know! But Kimberly Seals Allers is working hard to change that. Kimberly talks with Adriana about how she's leveraging consumer power to shift the patient-provider dynamics, hold hospitals publicly accountable, and bring transparency to our perinatal experiences while centering Black and Brown families.Listen through to the end for Adriana's “Two Things to Do: One for You, One for the Rest of Us.” Every week, she selects actions, books, and other resources to further inform your intuition and support others on their birth journeys.If you liked this episode, listen to this interview on how to stand up for your birth rights and this episode on knowing what you're up against when giving birth at a hospital. You can learn more about Kimberly and Irth on Instagram @iamksealsallers or at kimberlysealsallers.com. Connect with Birthful @BirthfulPodcast and email us at podcast@Birthful.com. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, and anywhere you listen to podcasts.Download Birthful's Postpartum Plan FREE when you sign up for our weekly newsletter! Don't miss even more tips, insights, and news from Adriana and her guests!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
(Recorded in the fall of 2021, released in Jan 2022) Ajira and Keelia wrap up the season by sharing what they've been up to, and recommending their favorite birth/reproductive justice-related podcasts and resources. If you want to follow along on Ajira's or Keelia's personal journeys or learn more about their offerings, you can find Ajira @ajira on IG or on their website (www.ajiradarch.com), and Keelia is @doulakeelia on IG and their website is doulakeelia.com Ajira & Keelia's favorite podcasts (in no particular order): - Birthright, hosted by Kimberley Seals Allers: birthrightpodcast.com - Masculine Birth Ritual, hosted by Grover Wehman-Brown: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/masculine-birth-ritual/id1435005594 - BirthBruja, hosted by Eri Guajardo-Johnson: https://www.birthbruja.com/birth-bruja-podcast.html - Birth Stories in Color, hosted by Laurel Gourrier and Danielle Jackson: https://www.birthstoriesincolor.com/ - Sisters in Loss, hosted by Erica McAfee: sistersinloss.com All feature BIPOC birthworkers being amazing. Some use gendered language. If you want more doula stories, check out Romper's Doula Diaries available on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RompersDoulaDiaries/ Instagram accounts to follow for more amaazing BIPOC birthworkers and decolonizing birthwork (in no particular order): @sumistouch @queerbirthworker @birthbruja @bipocaspiringmidwives @theblackdoula @doctor_midwife Also check out the Irth app: "The only app where you can find prenatal, birthing, postpartum and pediatric reviews of care from other Black and brown women. The #1 “Yelp-like” platform for the pregnancy and new motherhood journey, made by and for people of color. Search doctor and hospital reviews from your community! Leave a review today to help inform and protect others!" Learn more at https://irthapp.com/ or download the app on iPhone or Android. Special thanks again to Cameron Sharpe, Chris Alder, Tali Perelman, and Alyssa Codamon.
Meet Kimberly Seals Allers, a journalist turned entrepreneur whose goal is to provide better birthing outcomes for black and brown women. As the Founder of Irth (“Birth” without the ‘b' for bias), Kimberly has channeled her own delivery experience into a community site that enables new moms and doulas to provide candid reviews of their care providers and hospitals. As she tells Kindred Media's Laura Clinton, Irth's thoughtfully solicited feedback can be an important resource for addressing unconscious bias in maternal health care.To hear more from Kimberly, check out her Birthright podcast (www.BirthrightPodcast.com) and follow her @iamKSealsAllers on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. You can find Irth at @theIrthApp on Instagram and Facebook and @irthapp on Twitter. Get a quick rundown on the day's biggest media/tech stories by subscribing to our newsletter, "Take a Break with Kindred Media" here (https://linktr.ee/KindredMediaHQ).
(Interview starts at 2.28) Welcome back to the Untaming Podcast! It is currently the Full Waking Moon Moon here in the Southern Hemisphere. Each episode of this third season will be released on the New and Full Moons. A 10 Questions in 10 Minutes episode will be released to coincide with the First & Last Quarter Moons. Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, author of five books and a nationally recognized media commentator, consultant and advocate for women and infant health. A frequent contributor to The New York Times, Washington Post, Slate and HuffPost, Kimberly was named one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century” for 2018 by Women's eNews. Kimberly's fifth book, The Big Let Down — How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding was published by St. Martin's Press in January 2017. Kimberly Seals Allers is the founder and executive director of Narrative Nation, a non-profit organisation that campaigns to tackle racial disparities in health. She recently created and launched a new app called Irth (birth, with the “B” for bias removed) to publicly collect and share experiences of bias in maternity and infant care. Further Information: Birthright Podcast: https://birthrightpodcast.com/ Irth App: https://irthapp.com/ Narrative Nation: https://wewriteus.org/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlysealsallers IG: @iamksealsallers FB: @iamKSealsAllers Book: The Big Let Down: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/26114282-the-big-letdown Untaming Contact: FB: https://www.facebook.com/Untaming-396582437559159/ IG: @untaming_podcast Twitter: @UntamingP Email: untaming.podcast@gmail.com https://anchor.fm/emily033
Giving birth is the most vulnerable time in a woman's and baby's lives. Women want to feel safe and in control of their birthing experience, but too many women don't, especially black and brown women. Kimberly Seals Allers has done something to change that. She's the founder of the Irth app, and what she's doing for families is nothing short of incredible Resources talked about in this episode: Guest podcast - Birthright Guest app - Irth app Guest website - Kimberly Seals Allers Guest social media - IG/Facebook: @iamksealsallers, @theirthapp Twitter: @iamksealsallers, @irthapp Guest book - The Big Letdown--How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding
Kimberly Seals Allers, the co-founder of Black Breastfeeding Week, is my guest on the podcast this week. Kimberly lives in New York, is a world-renowned speaker, five-time author and host of the Birthright Podcast. Most recently, Kimberly added tech founder to her impressive repertoire having set up the Irth app to address racism and bias in maternity and infant care. Kimberly is on a mission to transform the experience of motherhood for all and to eradicate the racial disparities in birth and breastfeeding. Needless to say, I am a huge fan of the work Kimberly does and I was very excited to get the opportunity to speak to her during Black Breastfeeding Week. Kimberly's talking points The deep history of breastfeeding practices for black women Why breastfeeding amongst black and brown communities is a social justice issue and a public health issue The work being done to close the policy gaps that affect all mothers in the US Why Black Breastfeeding Week is something we can all celebrate and honour Ways we can reframe breastfeeding as an important time to rest and pause The new book coming out, 'Breastfeeding in Colour, about the impact of racism on birth and breastfeeding.
Award-winning journalist and expert in Black maternal health, Kimberly Allers Seals, joins Comeback to talk Irth App, like the word birth, but the “b” is dropped for bias. Irth is a Yelp-like review and rating platform for Black and brown women and birthing people to find and leave reviews of their OBGYNs, birthing hospitals, and pediatricians. This is the kick off of Black Breastfeeding week, to learn more about this amazing initiative Kimberly launched, go to: blackbreastfeedingweek.org
This week, Nori and I talk all things about being a doula, access to reproductive healthcare and sex education and also, smoothies. Nori provided a lot of great insight into a world I'm totally unfamiliar with and find the Irth app here! https://irthapp.com/We're now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts! Rate, Review and share with your friends Follow us on Instagram @snackswithmakNew episodes every Monday :)
Today in the cafe we speak with award-winning journalist Kimberly Seals Allers about Irth, the app she created to help Black and brown women and birthing people have a more safe and empowered pregnancy and parenting experience by allowing them to see how other parents of color experienced care at a doctor or hospital. She shares with us her motivation for creating Irth, a little about what the data they have collected in the app has revealed thus far and gives tips on how to advocate during the birthing process. Hint: it should begin long before you arrive at the hospital!About Kimberly Seals AllersKimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker and strategist for maternal and infant health. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on birth, breastfeeding and motherhood at the intersection of race, class and policy. She is the founder of Irth, (as in Birth but without the B for bias), the first-of-its-kind “Yelp-like” review and rating app for Black and brown women and birthing people to leave and find reviews of Ob/GYNs, hospitals, and pediatricians as a digital tool to address bias and racism in care and bring transparency and accountability to the medical system.Follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @iamKSealsAllers Learn more at www.KimberlySealsAllers.com , www.IrthApp.com and www.BirthrightPodcast.com. Follow @theIrthApp on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.From the announcements section:Register for my webinar on Key Elements of the Patient Provider Relationshiphttps://my.demio.com/ref/rceah9MzOsFTHqYqThe Good Health Candle Companywww.goodhealthcandle.com@goodhealthcandle on IG and FBThe Good Health Cafe Feedback Formhttps://www.thegoodhealthcafe.com/submit-your-question@thegoodhealthcafe on IG and FB
Giving birth to twins during the pandemic can be stressful enough. And too many Black women feel like they do not have meaningful relationships with their OB/GYN. So when Folashade Butler, of the metro Washington D.C. area, found herself delivering her twins earlier than expected and in less than ideal circumstances, she found comfort and felt more confident mostly because of one thing--her relationship with her doctor. And it was her OB/GYN, who helped her birthing video go viral. Listen to find out why! Episode Description: My guests today are Folashade A. Butler, a woman in tech, speaker and mom of four, her husband Brandon, and Dr. Lynne Lightfoote, MD FACOG, a physician with Foxhall OB/GYN, whose response to Folashade's birth caught everyone's attention. Before her viral post-delivery moment, Folashade shares what it was like receiving prenatal care of twins during the pandemic, how she responded to her water breaking just as she was about to enter a restaurant and why she ended up delivering in an operating room. You'll also learn about the special candle that Folashade brings to every birth and why. Resources/ReferencesFolashade A. Butler is a wife and mom to four beautiful kids, including 7-month old twins! She is a speaker, relationship coach, woman in tech, and owner of Love & Livelihood, a community and podcast dedicated to helping people effectively navigate the intersection of love, life, and everything in between. Listen to Folashade's Podcast Love and Livelihood.Meet Dr. Lynne J. Lightfoote, a Board Certified OBGYN and Champion for Women's Health. She completed her undergraduate studies from Wellesley College. She received her Medical Degree from the University of Virginia and completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Lightfoote is board certified by The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She's currently a partner at Foxhall OB/GYN and Associates. Dr. Lightfoote's practice encompasses the full spectrum of obstetrics and gynecology. Her goal is to provide personalized care from adolescence, fertility, pregnancy, menopause and beyond. If you're looking to build a relationship with your Ob/GYN or need help finding a good one, check out these suggestions. Don't forget to check out the Irth app, in your Google Play and Apple app stores, to search for Ob/GYN, hospital and pediatrician reviews from other Black and brown parents, as a tool to guide your provider selection process. Go to your community for referrals. Leave reviews to help others.Learn more about having a safe and empowered birth by downloading the free ebook: Birth with Irth: A Mini-Manual to Pregnancy and Childbirth for Black People Get full episode details and transcripts (posted by midday) on www.BirthrightPodcast.com New episodes are released every other Wednesday! Subscribe now! Follow Kimberly Seals Allers on
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Today we talk to Kimberly Seals Allers, founder of Irth, an app where Black and brown parents can rate practitioners in order to address bias and racism in maternity and infant care. She is also the host of Birthright, a podcast about joy and healing in Black birth that seeks to change the narrative around Black birth being a necessarily traumatic experience. Kimberly is an award-winning journalist and five-time author, and she is an outspoken advocate for maternal and infant health in marginalized communities. We talk about Kimberly's introduction to the birth world as a young black mother and the fear she felt facing down the statistics of birth outcomes for black mothers. We then talk about the negative birth experience that Kimberly had in a hospital that had come highly recommended by her friends and how the realization that she had been treated differently due to her race led her toward her advocacy and eventually toward the development of Irth. We talk about what Irth is and how it helps black and brown women to be able to research and find a birth provider that is not going to bring racial bias into their care, as well as how it helps those women to report on their own birth experience with a provider in order to inform their community and provide data that can then be used to incentivize birth providers to improve their quality of care. We talk about how racial bias shows up in the medical community and how we can tell whether a birth provider is allowing those biases to influence their practice. We then talk about how the Irth team approaches providers that need coaching on their practices, and provides them with the data that shows where improvement is needed. We talk about cultural alignment in the birth space and how that can help to improve overall outcomes. Finally, we talk about the Birthright podcast and how sharing stories of success and joy in Black birth helps to move the narrative away from fear and allows more space for healing and progress. To learn more, visit https://irthapp.com/ For Any Questions, Email Us at media@birthcircle.com
On the Did you know Segment… Sunni and Lisa discuss the harm of white women showing up and attempting to “own” spaces filled with trauma stricken Black and Brown people. It is an imperative for white women to show up to support and hold space for people of color… also using their privilege for purpose. Understanding your role is critical to the survival of your well intentioned efforts. The ladies also discuss Jane Elliott's “Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes” exercise with her students. Jane is a legacy and leader in spaces influenced by racism, providing many unpopular anecdotes. On this episode of Active Allyship…it's more than a #hashtag! Sunni and Lisa converse with Kimberly Seals Allers an award-winning journalist and author turned global maternal and infant health advocate. Kimberly's own motherhood journey inspired her to pivot her creative focus and analytical mind to writing about motherhood and the intersection of race, culture, policy and commercial interests. She was marinated in her Dad's Jim Crow experiences based on his journey through this era in the South. Her work ethic comes from an expectation that she has to over achieve and her awareness of privilege in her spaces… very interesting marination.Recently, Kimberly launched her podcast, Birthright and also launched Irth, as in "birth" but without the "b" for bias. Irth, also launched last week, is a new (Yelp-like) digital platform where Black and brown women (and their partners) can get real-time ratings for their OB/GYN, hospitals, and pediatricians.This conversation is very intense, eye-opening and disheartening at the same time. The disparity in medical treatment and experiences in hospitalization with black and brown people needs extreme improvements… what about an overhaul? O wait, what are your thoughts on mid-wifery or doulas to assist with the birthing process? Yup, this is discussed too!If you aren't already, please follow us on IG|Twitter @activeallyship.podcast! And of course, there's our Facebook Page, Active Allyship…it's more than a #hashtag! Drop us a line or two… Be sure to Listen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Share. the podcast!Cali by Wataboi https://soundcloud.com/wataboiCreative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/wataboi-caliMusic promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/qXptaqHIH5g
In this episode of the Decision Corner, Brooke speaks with award-winning journalist Kimberly Seals Allers. Kimberly was formerly a senior editor at Essence and a writer at Fortune magazine. She now uses her decades of media experience as the founder of the IRTH app, which is specifically designed to help mothers of color rate their doctors for optimal health. She discusses the need for apps like IRTH, and how the tragedies that gave rise to the BLM movement last year impact the communities she serves. This episode is an important reminder of the realities that people of color face in both personal and professional environments. Some of the topics discussed include… The discrepancy of maternal and infant mortality for peoples of color, and the need for apps like IRTH. The struggle that professional people of color have with ‘dual identities’, where they must separate their cultural and professional selves. The trauma experienced by entire communities in response to the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd over the Spring and Summer of 2020. The additional challenges faced by minority innovators, especially when it comes to issues of racism and cyber-security Why society needs to acknowledge that people of color have different experiences in professional and personal environments, and how the ignorance and denial of racism is one of its root causes. The ongoing struggle and the difficult conversations that are needed to start bringing about meaningful change.
Welcome to episode 38, where I am STILL baffled about the knowledge gap, the misinformation, lack of information, contradictions, the high morbidity and mortality rates for pregnant and postpartum people, and all other failures in our healthcare system. We have to do better.Today, I talk with Tanya Tringali, another badass individual trying her best to provide real care and support to our postpartum and pregnant women. Tanya is the founder of Mother Wit Maternity Services. She is a Certified Nurse Midwife with 20 years of experience in Maternal-Infant health. She is also a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, Crossfit Level 1 and Pregnancy & Postpartum Athleticism Coach. Tanya grew frustrated with the medical system and decided to do better for her clients. She stepped out of the system and created a holistic care program that closes the postpartum gap (let's be real, "void" might be a better word) by providing education, advocacy, and a comprehensive program of postpartum care. We talk about what to do during the first 2 weeks postpartum, what the 6 week exam is (and is not), what doctors know (and do not know), what informed consent really means, and how to wade through the sea of misinformation that's out there to find the answers and the care team that is right for YOU.We also mention the IRTH app - Birth without the Bias, it's like Yelp for maternity care. This app is something that ALL birthing people, specifically people of color, should use to help share experiences, rate providers and hospitals, and get the healthcare they deserve. So, BIPOC birthgivers - share your experiences! White birthgivers - l i s t e n to the experiences of BIPOC people and choose your providers accordingly. Again, White folks, we are here to l i s t e n (not speak) and vote with our dollars and choice of providers. Bottom line: you deserve a team who takes the time to educate you, listen to you, honor your choices, and support your recovery after childbirth. Periodt.Connect with Tanya:www.motherwitmaternity.com - book a FREE consultation with Tanya if you are interested in joining her amazing program. Follow her on IG: @mother.wit.maternityConnect with Annie:Postpartum Revolution FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/657837214948980Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fullbloomwellness603/Full Bloom Wellness FB: https://www.facebook.com/fullbloomwellness603www.fullbloomwellness603.comAs always, like, comment, and share this podcast so this revolution can make some waves! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Want to be a guest on the show? Email me at thepostpartumrevolutionpodcast@gmail.comSupport the show
Welcome to Business Better! Where I interview entrepreneurs who are changing the world. On today's episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kimberly Seals Allers! Kimberly Seals Allers is an award-winning journalist, five-time author, international speaker, strategist and advocate for maternal & infant health. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, Kimberly is a leading voice on the socio-cultural complexities of motherhood. She is the founder of Irth, a new app to address bias in maternity & infant care.
Kimberly is a mother of two; she attributes her motherhood journey as the spark to her work in the birth and breastfeeding space, and what continues to be her motivation. Being a journalist, while pregnant, she began asking questions. In feeling like the answers weren't adequate, she started looking into how the context of our lives as BIPOC could be clues into the infant and maternal disparities in our community.In 2006 she wrote the Mocha Manual. This book allowed BIPOC individuals to see themselves in the modern maternity conversation. While also bringing to the forefront the realities and disparities of pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding for BIPOC individuals. Kimberly continued to peel back the layers, writing five books total, The Big Letdown being her most recent, a look into the systems, society, pediatricians, and doctors hindering the infant feeding journeys of families. And through that exploration, affirming to nursing parents that they are doing their best in a structure not created to see them succeed.In her work, Kimberly has had a front-row seat into the experience of many birthing parents and knows sharing our stories holds weight. Reflecting on her birth, she remembered when a hospital was highly recommended to her as an option for care. Yet she walked away from that hospital traumatized. There hasn't been a space for birthing people to have the opportunity to hold the care system accountable. And so Irth was born. The Irth app is a “Yelp-like” platform where individuals can leave reviews on care providers and hospitals to inform each other of where they are receiving good care and where they aren't.If you are a birthing parent or even a doula/support person, you can share your experience. As Kimberly expressed, "We may not be able to stop all the harm, but we have to be prepared to help heal."Irth App | "Yelp-like" review & rating app for hospitals & physicians made by and for Black women & birthing people of colorMocha Manual | pregnancy guide by Kimberly Seals AllersThe Big Letdown | how medicine, big business, and feminism undermine breastfeeding by Kimberly Seals Allers
Spreker: D. Falck. Promotor: prof.dr. H. Irth, prof.dr. W.M.A. Niessen, prof.dr. M. Honing, dr. J. Kool. Faculteit: Faculteit der Exacte Wetenschappen. Datum: 14-11-2013
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