The families in your community deserve better births. So do YOU.
Get trained and certified as a doula, or accelerate your business and your advocacy, through this leading doula mentorship.
When doulas are well-trained, well-supported, and sustainably compensated, families have better births. Birth trauma decreases. Physiologic birth becomes possible. Advocacy actually works.
The IBP Accelerator is a four-month highly personal mentorship, with a year of ongoing learning and support. You need skills and systems, along with personalized care, to build and sustain your deepest impact.
The work you do inside this program ripples outward - for you, your business, your clients, and for the culture of birth we are committed to creating.
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“IBP has helped me discover the golden era of my doula career! I’ve made huge strides in my business, my family life is stable and supported, and I feel so much love for this work that I didn’t realize was fading from my days as a new doula. I’m deeply grateful for Meredith and Alicia and my cohort.”
Bee Johnson
Together, we've attended births in more than thirty hospitals across thirteen years of practice. We're both board-certified patient advocates. Between us, we've run a multiple-six-figure solo doula practice, owned an agency, taught in academic and clinical settings, and trained hundreds of birth workers who are now changing what birth looks like in their communities.
We’ve become intentional birth pros, but we did not start out that way.
Our original 3-day doula trainings taught us how to give hip squeezes and how to delineate the “stages of labor.” They taught us not to speak to hospital staff, and told us to support our clients’ choices “no matter what.” For business advice, they referred us to a website that printed business cards.
You may know the rest of the story. We lived in dissonance for the first part of our careers, at first because we tried to follow that advice and found ourselves feeling helpless, undervalued, and ineffective. Later the dissonance came from slowly rejecting what we had been taught, and feeling like lone reeds in the doula world.
Then we found each other. And others! And we realized that we were on the right trail after all, because the trail was always ours to blaze.
We’re not synonymous. Alicia hates mint chocolate. Meredith hates olives. Our minds are wired very differently from each other, we speak and strategize differently—but get us together and (in the words of one friend) we are “a closed circuit.” This thing flows. You get the advantage of both of us, and of the unity between us too.
We have seen each other through the hardest challenges possible, from birth to death. We’ve stood at both of those gates together, and the result is a deep love of life and of each other. We want to welcome you into our story, and to be a part of yours.
PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE
As a new doula, IBP has given me the confidence and foundation to build a business that is true to myself and my values. What Alicia and Meredith have built is incredible, and I truly cherish the community I was welcomed into. I feel that I am a better wife, mother, and doula because of what I have learned. I can now show up for my clients with intention, strong advocacy skills, and trust in my work.
Nicole Rauls
Intentional Birth Pro was quite literally the best money I’ve ever spent. It was deeply transformative on a personal and business level. I knew I loved birth work, and I knew I was nearing burn out. I am now excited to continue in this work, and have the confidence that I can do so sustainably, with a community of incredible birth workers cheering me on.
Rachel Pryor
The IBP Core Training: dripped weekly (yearlong access)
Weekly private consults with Meredith, Alicia, or an IBP specialist (your choice)
Weekly group calls with us and your intentional, like-minded cohort
Daily access to us and your cohort through video messaging
Membership in our Growth Community: weekly live classes, guest speakers, peer reviews, and access to our parent program
250-page workbook with our templates, tools and strategies
One ticket to the IB Advocacy Training
Doula certification available.
Thirteen years and thirty hospitals since the day we walked into our first doula trainings, we know why our clients chose us and kept coming back:
This is the same framework we bring to our teaching and mentorship. It’s what we’d like to share with you.
We are ready to witness you, and to walk with you—not to talk at you. We want to enter the woods with you, to lend our vision to yours as you search for your best path forward. We became doulas not because we love babies, but because we love women! And we love the hero’s journey. Transformation ahead? We’re in.
As a knowledgeable advocate you can stand for your clients' rights with confidence and collegiality. Get equipped for peaceful, powerful advocacy.
The IBP systems will cut through the overwhelm, and help you build a values-based, sustainable business that you love. Come get our templates, contracts, and formulas for success
Learn how to promote and preserve physiology in every birth setting and circumstance—from doulas who've done it. Let's talk about what's possible
Become an honest guide for your clients as you support them in understanding their values, planning an aligned birth, making grounded decisions, and trusting themselves.
Learn from the pros how to create healthy boundaries, pack a juicy birth bag, manage on-call life, form partnerships, restore after difficult births, and sustain your vision and purpose.
Cultivate a peaceful heart, stay connected to your purpose, and be a bridge of understanding, humanity, and love on the birth team.
IBP really helped me niche my business and I have been attracting the most amazing clients. I also feel so confident about hospital births and feel like I can really advocate for my clients. They helped me to dream bigger and make bigger goals, and gave me the accountability to make that happen. My income and business have grown tremendously and I am so, so thankful for Alicia and Meredith and this program!
Mary Skinner
The IBP Program was a complete game changer for me. The growth I experienced in just 12 weeks would have taken me over a year to reach on my own. Meredith and Alicia bring such depth of knowledge, experience, excellence, and generosity—and their leadership invites every participant to show up with the same. That’s what makes this program truly invaluable. I would highly recommend IBP to both new and seasoned doula alike.
Ginelle Barry
How you can apply your personal gifts and skills to birth work. A map for running a sustainable business, one that supports your life and allows you to have lifelong impact on the families you serve.
And the ability to integrate that knowledge into real-world options and care for yourclients.
And what’s legal and what’s not—so you can navigate birth work with confidence and integrity.
That what you’ve witnessed isn’t really okay, and it shouldn’t be this hard.
The skills to advocate clearly and compassionately as a true bridge-builder on the team, even sometimes in the face of trauma, ego, or misinformation.
The ability to lead with humility, honesty, and self-reflection in every aspect of your work.
A powerful community of like-minded women—your birth worker sisters—who will walk beside you, support you, and have your back.
This program will change you from the inside out and revolutionize the way you show up in birth work.
Our next cohort runs September 14 - January 18, with breaks for holidays. Plan on a time commitment of 6 hours per week during your 4-month intensive.
Weekly group calls will be Mondays at 12pm Eastern Time. Attendance is expected, with recordings available for days that you are attending a client or recovering from a birth!
Four months of intensive education and 1:1 mentorship. A full year of community, live education, and ongoing support. Templates, tools, and a 250-page workbook you'll use for the rest of your career. One ticket to the IB Advocacy Training, on us.
PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE
We believe in you, in your calling and in what becomes possible when birth workers are truly equipped.Every family you support with more knowledge, more confidence, and more advocacy skill is a family whose birth story changes. That ripple is needed. It's changing culture. And it starts here.Whether you're just beginning or you've been walking this path for years- we're ready to walk it with you- now, and always.
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