Free Birth Society

Free Birth Society

The Free Birth Podcast explores what it means to exercise our full autonomy as women during pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. We now live in a global culture in which obstetrics has come to monopolize every aspect of birth. Epidemic rates of surgical birth, rampant trauma among women, and a deeply embedded resistance to the spontaneous process of birth have become normalized. Pregnancy is treated as an illness and childbirth is seen as an emergency from which women and babies need to be saved. Before doctors and even midwives were seen as the “experts”, there was just...birth. Women have been successfully birthing healthy babies for as long as human beings have walked the earth. The truth is that birth is a normal physiological event that rarely requires medical intervention. To freebirth is typically associated with the term “unassisted childbirth”, which means the woman is choosing to give birth without medical assistance and is managing her own care. The Free Birth podcast is a virtual corner of the universe dedicated to validating birth as our own, and celebrating the growing movement of women reclaiming birth as our own. Birth is not a medical event! Join us as we discuss legal and human rights in childbirth, investigate the different models of care, and hear from women around the world as they tell their stories of birthing freely. Our intention with this podcast is to uplift the voices of women who are making the decision to opt out of the default medical system. Freebirth isn’t for everyone. The Free Birth Podcast simply highlights the fact that freebirth is a viable option for many women, and that there is room in this world for every woman to exercise her own personal choice in birth.

  • 1 hour 43 minutes
    The Mother–Daughter Freebirth Duo: Jinny & Audrey’s Stories

    This week on the Free Birth Society Podcast, Emilee sits down with Jinny and Audrey, a remarkable mother–daughter duo with sovereign birth woven through both of their lives.


    Jinny, a mother of seven and birth doula, shares how her third birth became a freebirth when she decided not to return to the hospital after feeling mistreated during labor check-in. Jinny shares the story of her four vaginal breech births, surprise twins, and an unwavering confidence in her body.


    Audrey, a Radical Birth Keeper graduate and freebirth entrepreneur, assumed that she would never have children. But when she found herself pregnant in her thirties, she quickly opted out of the obstetrical track. After navigating a shocking breech birth in the OR with 18 people watching, followed by an upsetting midwife-attended homebirth, Audrey knew she was ready to claim freebirth from that point on.


    Together, Jinny and Audrey share stories of breech babies, surprise twins, precipitous birth, and the lessons of sovereignty. Audrey also speaks candidly about navigating backlash and public scrutiny—and how she continues to find the will to keep going.


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    If you want to connect with Audrey, follow her on Instagram here.  


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    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.


    12 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    Death of the Maiden: Raquel’s Journey into Motherhood at 41

    This week, Emilee is joined by Raquel, who shares her extraordinary first pregnancy and sovereign birth at the age of 41.


    Raquel speaks candidly about the profound transitions she navigated during this time. The death of her mother, leaving her job, moving homes, and entering into the work of congruency, boundaries, and privacy. Choosing a wild pregnancy, she hired a Radical Birth Keeper graduate to hold space as she walked this sacred path.


    She opens up about the challenges she faced postpartum with nursing and her child’s tongue tie, reflecting on what she might do differently now. And she speaks with clarity about her sense of completion after one child, naming that she does not desire more.

    This conversation carries the archetype of the death of the maiden, a story of initiation, sovereignty, and the power of claiming motherhood on one’s own terms.


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    If you want to connect with Raquel, follow her on Instagram here and you can find her website here.


    Find more from Emilee on Instagram, YouTube and the Free Birth Society website.


    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.

    5 December 2025, 11:00 am
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    17. When Rachel’s Birth Keeper Died, She Chose Freebirth

    Nine days before Rachel was to give birth to her first child, her beloved birth keeper, Candace, was tragically killed in a car accident. Grief-stricken, panicked, and suddenly faced with new decisions, Rachel chose to freebirth.


    What unfolded was the gentle, funny, and heartwarming story of a woman moving through her day with ease, allowing her birth to remain simple, quiet, and her own.


    *This episode is both a celebration of Rachel’s first birth and a tribute to Candace Smith, a Radical Birth Keeper graduate and cherished member of our community whose memory continues to weave joy and service into all who knew her. Rest in power, beloved Candace—you are profoundly missed. ❤️


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    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.

    21 November 2025, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    16. Kristin Hauser on Holistically Handling Excessive Bleeding at Home

    This week, I’m joined once again by Kristin Hauser, a beloved and regular guest on the Free Birth Society Podcast. We weave through the stories of Kristin’s four births, with a special focus on her most recent freebirth and the profound lessons it offered.


    Kristin shares the raw reality of experiencing excessive bleeding in her fourth birth, and how it initiated her into a new relationship with her blood and her body. For the first time in her mothering journey, she was required to stay in bed and truly receive care, nourishment, and love from the women around her.


    In this conversation, Kristin reflects on how birth taught her not only resilience but also the art of receiving. Her story is a powerful reminder of how important the web of support is for us during these sacred times. 


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    If you want to connect with Kristin, follow her on Instagram here and you can find her website here.  


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    Kristin’s past Free Birth Society Podcast episodes:

    Season 1

    From An Easy Birth To A Challenging Postpartum: Kristin's Story - https://youtu.be/KHYHH-irHFg?si=wjwBvBb26EZaPgFJ 

    Season 2

    Reflections of Kristin's Wild Pregnancy - https://youtu.be/WTJeDK-bs4g?si=It30ILHOfaxwoHKE 

    Season 3

    Being Open To A New Story: The Wisdom of Kristin's Freebirth - https://youtu.be/C3IGhyqPepI?si=YO7n7QPl9D8AQ0nV 

    Season 5

    The Blood Mysteries School with Kristin Hauser and Nancy Lucina - https://youtu.be/3ecIfsi5oxM?si=QmUCDN4IsZCZb43W 

    Season 6

    Radical Womb Healing as a Path to Freebirth with Kristin Hauser - https://youtu.be/A4UlAIiG0Lk?si=7mIL4-6CO9ZwTWTP

    Season 7

    Embodying the Priestess in Our Everyday Mundane Lives with Nancy Lucina and Kristin Hauser - https://youtu.be/rYrIrObMAtY?si=Ges57c7UiWLtDeIG 


    Find more from Emilee on Instagram, YouTube and the Free Birth Society website.


    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.

    14 November 2025, 7:00 am
  • 56 minutes 55 seconds
    15. Mother of Nine: Radical Wisdom from Two Decades of Birth

    After six births within the system—including a cesarean at 37 weeks due to partial placenta previa and subsequent hospital abuse—Ashleigh knew she was done.


    Now a mother of nine and a Radical Birth Keeper School graduate, Ashleigh joins me to share her accumulated wisdom from nearly twenty years of mothering and birthing. We met in person at Matriarch Rising Festival, and in this conversation, we explore what it means to truly live the lessons that birth offers us.


    We discuss the pros and cons of having children present during birth, what it looks like to honor our evolving faith journeys, and how Ashleigh navigated the tension between her freebirth path and her husband’s discomfort with it.


    I also challenge Ashleigh’s decision to pull away from her Christian audience, encouraging her to consider what it might mean to let her community see her more deeply. She speaks vulnerably about her own healing from rage and how she now coaches mothers who find themselves lashing out at their children—because she’s been there too.

    Come listen, learn, and receive from a mother of nine whose story carries the depth and clarity only time, experience, and devotion can bring.


    Start Your Journey: The Complete Guide to Freebirth - Our best-selling, self-paced course for women ready to claim their births on their own terms. Enroll here.


    ✨Donate to the podcast here.


    If you want to connect with Ashleigh, follow her on Instagram here. 


    Find more from Emilee on Instagram, YouTube and the Free Birth Society website.


    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.

    7 November 2025, 7:00 am
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    14. The Heroine’s Adventure with THINX Founder Miki Agrawal

    This week on the Free Birth Society Podcast, I sit down with Miki Agrawal—serial entrepreneur, cultural disruptor, and unapologetic creative force.


    From opening New York City’s first gluten-free, farm-to-table pizza restaurant, to founding THINX, to launching TUSHY and Hiro Diapers, Miki has built a life out of challenging taboos and reimagining the everyday. Together, we explore what it means to know who you are and stay steadfast in that truth—even in the face of cancel culture.


    Miki shares how she rose above public attack, what female entrepreneurial life has really demanded of her, and why she’s so passionate about rethinking the most basic human habits—from ditching toilet paper in favor of water, to creating the first plastic-eating mushroom-spore diaper.


    This is a conversation about creativity, courage, and the heroine’s adventure of living boldly, building fearlessly, and standing firmly in who you are.


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    If you want to connect with Miki, follow her on Instagram here, and you can find her website here.


    Find more from Emilee on Instagram, YouTube and the Free Birth Society website.


    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.

    31 October 2025, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    13. Claiming It All: Celia’s Story of Birth, Power, and Simplicity

    This week, I am joined by Celia from the Bay Area, California, who shares her journey from birthing with medical midwives and working as a doula, to stepping fully into sovereign birth work and choosing freebirth with her fourth child.


    Born at home herself, Celia’s path was forever changed when she read Portal and began to unravel everything she thought she knew about birth. As a graduate of the Radical Birth Keeper School, she now carries this work forward in her own community.


    Celia reflects on her four births, including the painful memory of her midwife pulling out her placentas. She shares how, in her fourth and most recent birth, allowing her placenta to be born in her own way and her own time became her favorite part of the entire experience.


    In this conversation, Celia names what it means to let birth be simple, to trust herself, and to claim it all.


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    If you want to connect with Celia, follow her on Instagram here and find her website hereCelia has studied with Sister MorningStar on the art of facilitating village prenatals and has now hosted monthly village prenatals since January of 2025. For more information, contact Celia.             


    Find more from Emilee on Instagram, YouTube and the Free Birth Society website.


    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.

    24 October 2025, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    12. From Trauma to Triumph: Tahlia’s Journey to Birthing Twins in Power

    After surviving domestic violence and a series of traumatic hospital births, Tahlia from Australia made the courageous decision to leave her abusive partner and begin again.

    In rebuilding her life, she came to understand what it truly means to make herself available to health, love, and sovereignty.


    That path culminated in the extraordinary experience of birthing her twins at home—on her terms, in her power.


    This conversation is a testament to resilience, reclamation, and the deep transformation that becomes possible when a woman chooses herself.


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    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.

    17 October 2025, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    11: The Forgotten Power of Homeopathy with Melissa Kupsch

    This week on the Free Birth Society Podcast, I sit down with homeopath Melissa Kupsch for a rich and fascinating dive into the world of homeopathy.


    We explore its powerful history, reaching back to the days when homeopathy was a dominant and respected medicine. Melissa shares the almost unbelievable personal story that awakened her to this path, and she offers a mountain of wisdom and practical guidance for anyone curious about where to begin.


    This conversation is equal parts history, testimony, and initiation. If you’ve ever wondered about homeopathy—or sensed there is a whole realm of healing outside the medical model yet to be touched—this episode is a potent place to start.


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    If you want to connect with Melissa, follow her on Instagram here and you can find her website here.


    Find more from Emilee on Instagram, YouTube and the Free Birth Society website.


    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.

    10 October 2025, 6:00 am
  • 1 hour 23 minutes
    10: Double the Responsibility: Birthing Twins in Sovereignty

    What happens when you choose a normal birth with twins?

    

    In this episode, I speak with Nicole, a mother from South Africa now living in the U.S., who chose sovereignty in one of the most medicalized and “high-risk” experiences imaginable: an identical twin pregnancy. From the very beginning, she was met with fear-based narratives—warnings of stillbirth, premature labor, and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. But after enduring traumatic experiences in hospitals and with midwives, Nicole knew she would not birth her twins within the system.


    Instead, she underwent a profound process of deconditioning and committed to trusting her body. With the steady support of her husband, a Radical Birth Keeper graduate, and a community of women walking this same path, Nicole carried her twins to 40 weeks and welcomed them at home, in embodied sovereignty.


    Nicole shares the raw reality of holding responsibility for twins outside the system: the constant conversations about risk, the deep conviction it took to turn away completely, and the profound freedom of reclaiming birth on her own terms.


    Inside this episode:


    • What Nicole witnessed in the hospital that made her vow never to return
    • How she carried her twins to full term, trusting her body’s wisdom
    • The support she found in a community of sovereign mothers
    • What labor with twins looked like at home
    • The double standard of blame when outcomes differ at home versus in the hospital
    • The freedom and healing that come with birthing twins in sovereignty


    Timestamps:


    [00:00] Introduction

    [02:59] Two miscarriages and lack of support and answers from the medical system

    [07:05] Receiving news of a third unviable pregnancy and deciding not to take the pill

    [09:02] Discovering that the medical system was wrong about her third pregnancy, and that her baby was alive and healthy in her womb

    [11:19] Birthing her first son in a birthing center with a midwife, forced interventions, a fourth degree tear, and newborn separation

    [21:36] Postpartum hospital trauma, overreactions and threats

    [25:15] Another miscarriage and humiliating hospital treatment

    [32:13] Finding out she was pregnant with twins, midwife refusing to provide care, and choosing freebirth

    [1:00:00] Freebirthing her twins at home with her husband and birth attendant present


    If you want to connect more with Nicole, follow her on Instagram.


    Find more from Emilee on Instagram, YouTube and the Free Birth Society website.


    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.

    3 October 2025, 4:00 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    9: Behind the Curtain of Labor & Delivery: Rylee’s Freebirth Story

    What happens when you see behind the curtain of labor and delivery?

    

    In this episode, I speak with Rylee, a young mother who chose to freebirth her first child after working inside the hospital system. From the vantage point of the “business of birth,” Rylee began to question everything she thought she knew about pregnancy. That unraveling brought her face-to-face with the deep dissonance between what she was told was “right” and what her body knew was true.


    Carrying that knowing into her own pregnancy, she made the radical choice to step away from the system entirely. Rylee shares what it was like to work as a self-described “fearmongering phlebotomist,” to quit, and then to bring her baby earthside in her own power.


    Her story is one of unlearning, reclaiming, and discovering the strength that emerges when a woman finally trusts herself.


    What You’ll Hear:


    • Why Rylee walked away from working in a hospital
    • What it feels like to stand up to doctors and refuse routine procedures
    • The hidden link between hospital “convenience” and high C-section rates
    • Why even trusted OBs and familiar clinics can still feel wrong
    • How she found her rhythm and delivered her baby in a birth pool at home
    • The joy of her birth: laughing while pushing, with her mother and husband as witnesses


    Timestamps:


    [00:00] Introduction

    [09:03] Starting to question the hospital method and learning about freebirth

    [15:45] Climbing out of the system and trusting her instincts

    [19:57] Defying the doctors and reclaiming her sovereignty

    [28:15] Realizing that the hospital is a business

    [36:37] Choosing who she wanted at her freebirth

    [38:14] The psychedelic moment before labor began

    [45:40] Moving into the second day of labour, feeling tired, and calling her Mom

    [48:47] Exhausted, in a trance, and roaring through the portal of labor

    [51:32] Finding her rhythm and bringing her baby earth side in the pool

    [58:19] Getting out of the pool, the first cuddles, and delivering the placenta


    If you want to connect more with Rylee, follow her on Instagram.


    Watch Rylee’s birth video here.


    Find more from Emilee on Instagram, YouTube and the Free Birth Society website.


    Disclaimer: Free Birth Society, LLC of North Carolina shares personal and educational stories and experiences related to freebirth and holistic care. This content is not medical advice, and we are not a licensed midwifery practice. Testimonials reflect individual experiences; results may vary. For services or scheduling, contact [email protected]. See full disclaimer at freebirthsociety.com/youtubeterms.

    26 September 2025, 4:00 am
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