Episode 397: Teaching Your Pregnant Clients How To Push During Birth
In today’s episode of the To Birth and Beyond Podcast, Anita and Jessie Anita gives us an incredibly thorough rundown for coaches and clinicians to learn how to teach clients and patients about pushing during labour and birth. Anita takes us through: What’s happening during labour? how will people know when they are reading to push? What does a effective, successful pushing in a vaginal birth look like? And so much more! This episode is filled with tips and techniques that you can pass along and give you some great things to think about when you are planning programs and treatments!
If you’re working with pregnant folks, or would like to be working with pregnant folks, this is the episode for you!
Episode 396: Ditch the Prenatal Exercise “All-or-Nothing” Mindset
In today’s episode of the To Birth and Beyond Podcast, Anita discusses the how and why of adapting exercise during pregnancy, emphasizing the need to move away from an all-or-nothing mindset. If you are preparing for birth, or know someone who is, this conversation could be vital to the way you prepare your mind and body for both the event of birth, and postpartum life.
Episode 395: What Does It Mean To “Prepare For Birth”?
In today’s episode of the To Birth and Beyond Podcast, Anita and Jessie talk about what it really means to “prepare for birth”. We see this talked about so often, especially on social media – but what does that actually mean? How DO we prepare for birth, this huge event that is greatly so wildly out of our control, but that we can plan and prepare around. We are going to talk the physical preparation, as well as mental, emotional, and logistical preparations!
Episode 394: 4 Ways to Feel More Comfortable in Your Body at the Gym
In today’s episode of the To Birth and Beyond Podcast, Jessie and Anita talk about how to feel more comfortable in your body in the gym and other fitness spaces. Plus, we go over 4 tips to help you feel better in your body (and to share with others, so they can feel their best, too!)
Episode 393: How – and Why – to Relax Your Pelvic Floor in Pregnancy
In today’s episode of the To Birth and Beyond podcast, Anita talks all about the power of the pelvic floor in pregnancy. There’s a misconception that your pelvic floor pushes your baby out, when actually, it’s your uterus that does. Meaning? Your pelvic floor needs to relax. We go over what they don’t teach you in school – including how to relax and techniques for breathing!
Episode 392: How Rikki Earns $50k Annually From Coaching Just 5 Hours Per Week
In today’s episode of the To Birth and Beyond podcast, Jessie interviews Rikki Cortese, a successful prenatal and postnatal fitness coach. Rikki shares her journey from seeking answers for her own postpartum recovery to building a thriving coaching business. The conversation covers the challenges of balancing motherhood with personal goals, the importance of community support, and the logistics and boundaries involved in an ideal coaching structure. If you are ready to build your dream fitness business, this is the conversation for you!
