Pregnancy without Fear

FINALLY PREGNANT are a series of unique online courses and support for the finally pregnant community after infertility and loss. We chat with Cat Strawbridge @tryingyears and Nikki Williams-Quamina @healthcoachnikki about their own inspirational pregnancy journeys and how this inspired them to develop the Finally Pregnant Community. We also get into the wonderful benefits and healing powers that their yoga, pilates, and growing support groups are providing.

We are crowning off Black History Month 2022 celebrating Black Mothers, Babies and Breastfeeding. Did you know Black mothers still breastfeed at a lower rate when compared to white mothers? In this episode, we speak with the dynamic DR KIMARIE BUGG, the Co-Founder, President/CEO and Change Leader for Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere (ROSE) Inc., a nonprofit corporation developed in 2011 to address breastfeeding inequities and disparities in the African-American community. This is a beautiful episode packed with personal insights, rich history, information, solutions and inspiration.

We are so excited to have International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Maria Yasnova, returning for another great interview. Over the last three years Maria has extended her services to offer Life Coaching for Women at various milestones of their lives. So, whether you are entering early motherhood and thinking about what this new life stage will bring or finding your identity shifting and seeing new capacity in yourself, or reflecting on your career going forward now that the children have grown this episode is for you.

In this episode we chat with Dr Olamide Savage, RCOG certified physician and founder of Little Steps health education company, about her work educating and empowering mothers on the importance of staying healthy after birth. Postpartum care is vitally important for new mums because they are at risk of serious and sometimes life-threatening health complications in the days and weeks after giving birth. 

Discussions about Maternal Mental Health and the Power of Positive Thinking in pregnancy are necessary more now than ever.  In this episode we chat with Renee Sterling (former Vice President in Finance at Goldman Sachs, London) about her baptism of fire into motherhood as a world is gripped by a global pandemic, and how she and her husband emerged on the other side of it victoriously triumphant.  We also discuss her training as a Mental Health First Aider and a Certified Financial Education Instructor, and how personal tragedy inspired Renee's mission to normalize the dialogue on mental health and personal finances. We find out more about that Senator Obama photo... and why she felt so compelled to co-create and launch her own podcast series, Race2Rise. 

In this episode we talk with Dr Orinayo Onabanjo, a UK based Chartered Counselling Psychologist, about the challenges many mothers face in relation to their perinatal mental wellbeing and the type of support available. Dr Onabanjo shares her wealth of experience delivering psychological therapy for mums experiencing a range of mental health and interpersonal challenges including helping mums cultivate stronger attachments with their babies, and addressing the impact unresolved childhood trauma can have on the journey of motherhood. May is Maternal Mental Health Month and this is a timely episode to begin the discussions. 

April was Caesarean Section Awareness Month and in this special solo-cast episode we have given a special focus to caesarean sections particularly its lasting effect when women do not fully understand the implications of giving birth in this way. We also wanted to personally close off the month sharing with you some of what we did to observe this special month. We made the decision that we were going to join the rest of the world to actively observe Caesarean Section Awareness Month and host real discussions on c-sections.  The importance of real discussions around the topic of c-sections cannot be over-emphasised. Therefore every Thursday throughout April on our Instagram IGTV channel we invited and spoke with birth professionals on Caesarean sections. These sessions were extremely well received providing a live forum where we fielded questions from women throughout the world and created new relationships and friends. Make sure to check out our website for show notes and links to these IGTV sessions they are packed with really good information.

Our special guest is the dynamic Dr. Shyrlena Bogard, MD a board-certified Physician, Intimacy Coach, Speaker and founder of IntaME Health. With her five must-haves of sexual wellness, Dr. Bogard has helped many clients regain the confidence and vitality to enjoy intimacy like never before. In this episode Dr Bogard gives a special focus to pregnancy, intimacy and understanding the unique challenges a woman faces in her intimate life before, during and after pregnancy plus tips to help her overcome them.

Meet Toks Aruoture! In this week's episode we talk to mindset strategist, mum, wife, luxury nursery interior designer and founder of The Baby Cot Shop, Toks Aruoture.

In this week's episode we welcome Dolapo Oni, a UK based Real estate investor, serial property entrepreneur, investor, mentor & host of the Property Mom Podcast, to discuss her personal journey into property investing and share her tips toward financial freedom and building long term wealth.