Nurture Your Skills & Grow Your Impact

The intensity of birth work can leave you feeling undervalued, burned out, and lost. While it’s extremely rewarding and joyful, it can be demanding and painful without the right training, tools, and mentorship. You deserve the best support to help you ride the waves.

"I quit my part-time job because I felt so empowered to be able to do this full-time. The value of this program is INSANE. You will gain access to so many resources, the endless knowledge of Meredith and Alicia, and a wonderful cohort of like-minded women. I am forever changed by everything I learned through Intentional Birth Pro."

Rebecca Baker

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Become An Intentional Birth Pro

Intentional Birth Pro equips birth workers in every aspect of birth work, from mastering business strategies to advocating effectively in the birthing room. Join us to gain step-by-step systems for business, advocacy, prenatal work, and birth support. Grow your income, boost your confidence, and discover what is truly possible for your clients in every setting! Transformative support extends far beyond hip squeezes and hot water bottles, and your journey begins here. 

“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, 2025 Cohort

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

What You’ll Learn Inside IBP

Supporting Physiology

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

Birth Business

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

Perinatal Advocacy

As a knowledgeable advocate you can stand for your clients' rights with confidence and collegiality. Get equipped for peaceful, powerful advocacy.

Prenatal Systems

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.

Doula Logistics

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.

Community

We'll rely on each other for the same kind of support, ideas, trouble-shooting, listening, healing, honesty, and love that we offer our clients.

“IBP has got to be the best doula mentorship program out there. In three months I went from being stressed about money and considering returning to the corporate life to being a full-time doula with a fully-booked calendar! The confidence I gained from having the support of this community allowed me to dive in head first, navigate totally unknown situations in my practice with grace, and believe in my ability to run a successful business.”

Marina Poole

2025 Cohort

"I was on the verge of giving up, feeling defeated after births. IBP transformed my approach—I now advocate confidently for my clients' wishes and preferences, even in hospital settings. I've witnessed the beauty of undisturbed physiological births and learned to welcome the process. IBP is an invaluable investment that goes beyond skill-building—it's about transforming who you are as a doula and a person."

Eva Wingo

2022 Cohort

“As a doula just starting out, I never expected to have such confidence stepping into this new role—I owe that to IBP. Meredith and Alicia are endlessly generous with their knowledge, resources and time. Worth every penny!”

Abby Kierstead

2025 Cohort

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Choose your Journey

We’re here to kindle your doula fire, to keep your flame alive, or to help you blaze new paths in your career and community. You are meant to be a light to the families you serve.

Spark

Spark covers the full breadth of birth work: it is the in-depth doula training we wish we had when we were trained! You’ll enjoy weekly 2-hour sessions (for 16 weeks) designed to light your path as a skillful, heart-centered doula, a thriving business owner, a physiology-first birth expert, and a confident advocate for your clients.

Let Spark be either the beginning of your grounded, sustainable birth career, or the rekindling of a flame that has been dimmed by burnout, trauma, loneliness, or the feeling of being ill-equipped for the challenges of birth work. This is the beginning of true transformation for you and your clients! 

WHAT YOU'LL GET

16 weeks of in-depth training — each week, a new pre-recorded module will be delivered straight to you

200-page workbook, carefully crafted with EVERYTHING we’ve learned in 12+ years of doing things differently

Lifetime access to all materials

Spark gets you access to our live trainings, and all our digital materials. If you want community, personal mentorship, and accountability, you’ll want to join Ignite or Accelerate. Read on! 

Your Investment

$900

Ignite

Ignite takes you beyond the basics of doula work, into a community of professionals who share, question, challenge, and affirm from a place of honesty, knowledge, and love. 

This 16-week immersive program is designed to fuel you toward a more sustainable vision for your business, more honest and intentional work with your clients, less trauma, and greater confidence and satisfaction with your role on the birth team.

Your spark is strong. Join us to Ignite a lasting impact in your community, your family, and your life.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

16 weeks of in-depth training — each week, a new pre-recorded module will be delivered straight to you

200-page workbook, carefully crafted with EVERYTHING we’ve learned in 12+ years of doing things differently

A progress pod led by an IBP Guide that meets 1 hour weekly for 4 months. You’ll discuss the weekly lesson/homework, set goals, get your questions answered, enjoy juicy discussions and be lovingly held accountable!

1 year in the IB Community (Growth level)

Doula Certification at no extra cost, with requirements

Lifetime access to all materials

Your Investment

$2,400 

Accelerate 

Accelerate is a high-touch, immersive doula training experience designed to fast-track your growth, confidence, and success. Meredith + Alicia will be by your side for an entire year providing you with personalized support and mentorship. We will truly get to
know each other.

The magic happens through daily access to Meredith, Alicia, and your cohort for real-time support, plus weekly private mentoring sessions with either Meredith or Alicia so you can go deeper, stay focused, and move forward with clarity. Surrounded by an intimate* circle of like-minded birth pros—your new birth besties—Accelerate is a powerful, personalized launchpad for your doula journey. 

WHAT YOU'LL GET

16 weeks of in-depth training — each week, a new pre-recorded module will be delivered straight to you

200-page workbook, carefully crafted with EVERYTHING we’ve learned in 12+ years of doing things differently

A progress pod led by an IBP Guide that meets 1 hour weekly for 4 months. You’ll discuss the weekly lesson/homework, set goals, get your questions answered, enjoy juicy discussions and be lovingly held accountable!

Daily access to Meredith + Alicia and your cohort via video messaging

1 year of weekly one-on-one mentoring with Alicia or Meredith

1 year in the IB Community (Growth level)

Doula Certification at no extra cost, with requirements

Lifetime access to all materials

Your Investment

$4,900 

The When and What of Intentional Birth Pro

Weekly Expected Time Commitment

FIXED HOURS
FLEXIBLE HOURS
TOTAL
SPARK
0
2
2
IGNITE
2.5
2
4.5
ACCELERATE
3
3
6

Supporting
Physiology

Business

Advocacy

Doula Life

Recorded Module Drop

Progress Pod (Required) Ignite + Accelerate

WED 1-2pm ET

JANUARY 1
JANUARY 7
JANUARY 8
JANUARY 14
JANUARY 15
JANUARY 21
JANUARY 22
JANUARY 28
JANUARY 29
FEBRUARY 4
FEBRUARY 5
FEBRUARY 11
FEBRUARY 12
FEBRUARY 18
FEBRUARY 19
FEBRUARY 25
FEBRUARY 26
MARCH 4
MARCH 4
MARCH 11
MARCH 12
MARCH 18
MARCH 19
MARCH 25
MARCH 26
APRIL 1
APRIL 2
APRIL 8
APRIL 9
APRIL 15
APRIL 16
APRIL 22

Community Meetup
Ignite + Accelerate

TUES 1-2pm ET

JAN 13: peer review
JAN 20: special training
JAN 27: guest masterclass
FEB 3: business roundtable
FEB 10: peer review
FEB 17: special training
FEB 24: guest masterclass
MAR 3: business roundtable
MAR 10: peer review
MAR 17: special training
MAR 24: guest masterclass
no meetup
APR 7: business roundtable
APR 14: peer review
APR 21: guest masterclass
APR 28: guest masterclass

After the 4-month intensive, community meetups will continue weekly though December, and progress pods will meet the first Wednesday of every month. Accelerate track participants may book one private call per week with Meredith or Alicia for the full year.

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What you get with Intentional Birth Pro

1

Vision for Your Work

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.

2

A Deeper Understanding of Birth Physiology

And the ability to integrate that knowledgeinto real-world options and care for yourclients.

3

Clarity on What’s Normal and What’s Not 

And what’s legal and what’s not—so you cannavigate birth work with confidence andintegrity. 

4

Validation that Your Instincts are Right

That what you’ve witnessed isn’t really okay, and it shouldn’t be this hard. 

5

Advocacy Skills

The skills to advocate clearly and compassionately, even in the face of others’ trauma, ego, or misinformation. 

6

Leadership

The ability to lead with humility, honesty, and self-reflection in every aspect of your work.

7

Community

A powerful community of like-minded women—your birth worker sisters—who will walk beside you, support you, and have your back.

8

True Transformation

This program will change you from the inside out and revolutionize the way you show up in birth work. 

“I had been building my doula business for a couple years and it was going very well, but I was very busy and needed to make it more efficient and more soul fulfilling, finding the clients that I got excited about serving. They 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 also helped me to dream bigger and make bigger goals and accountably to make that happen. My income and business has grown tremendously and I am so so thankful for Alicia and Meredith and This program!”

Mary Skinner

2025 Cohort

“IBP was truly pure magic! 🪄 As someone who’s often seeking continuing education this course & community has already paid off immensely. I refer back to the course and community for years to come in my doula course and am so grateful that Meredith &. Alicia have created this beautiful mentorship!”

Katie Lusby

2025 Cohort

“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

2025 Cohort

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The IB Community

Ignite and Accelerate participants receive a full year of access to the Intentional Birth Community! There isn’t another like it. We are honored to have collected some of the brightest, kindest, and most honest professionals in the world. 

Our Ignite and Accelerate tracks have access to our parent program, Masterclass archive and are invited to participate monthly in each of the following. Everything is live! Everything is recorded.

GUEST MASTERCLASS

We invite world-class experts for 90-min sessions. You’ll hear from people like Dr. SarahBuckley on oxytocin, Henci Goer on pain management, Dr.Stu Fishbein on twins, Karen Strange on neonatal resuscitation, Krysta Dancy on birth trauma, or Naseema McElroy on financial investing.

NICHE TRAINING

Every month Meredith & Alicia teach a niche training on birth or birth work. Past topics have included: placenta encapsulation, night doula work, crafting a client movement plan, hard conversations, prodromal labor, backup doulas...You get the picture!

PEER REVIEW

This is the heart of the community. We celebrate the good stuff, process the confusing stuff, and work through the hard stuff together. This is the most non-judgmental, encouraging, and loving space, while it also calls us to be self-reflective and true.

BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE

Accountability central! We gather to riff on a niche birth business topic, then hot-seat a member’s business so we can hive-mind the challenge together.Finally, we share our goals, what is getting in our way, and how we’re going to move forward.

Private FORUM

Right in the IB app, this private space is your opportunity to connect with other intentional pros, ask questions and often get real-time support, share your experiences, and get inspired every day by the good work everyone is doing in their communities!

Who are Intentional Birth Pros?

This program attracts women who are:

  • Open-hearted
  • Critical thinkers
  • Humble and curious
  • Passionate about physiology
  • Committed to serving with integrity
  • Rooted in their values
  • Confident in their value

If this is the kind of person you want to be—and the kind of people you like to be around—this is your place. We’re striving alongside you, and we’re ready to support you!

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Alicia Fishbein

Meredith Nelson

Your Birth Pro Mentors

This community was born out of our friendship, which has always been rooted in deep trust, willingness to challenge each other, radical support, and a shared hunger for learning. It's a rich relationship, and we are inviting you in!

Our combined experience spans two decades, and we have supported hundreds of families through our Physiology First model, while honing truly effective systems for business and birth work. We are deeply invested in reducing trauma around birth and in honoring the rite of passage that leads to whole, powerful mothers and fathers. If you share that commitment, we'd love for you to join!

Come Meet Us!

“Working with Meredith and Alicia is refreshing. They are very straightforward and honest and don't try to sugar coat anything tough in birth work. They are also really proactive on making sure honest, and evidence based research is in the hands of everyone. I truly realized I had much to learn to make sure my clients were truly informed with every decision that comes their way. They opened my eyes to what a doula practice can look like because they have been successful as business women financially and been able to work with their dream clients!”

Christine Frackleton

2023 Cohort

“IBP was an incredible experience for me. I learned so much about the practical aspects of running a doula business, tips for everything from the first interview to structuring prenatals to keeping records. Boundaries, advocacy, physiology, business, self-care... so many important topics were covered. The Marco Polo groups were my favorite. It gave us a space to discuss what we'd learned and apply it to real situations we were encountering with our clients. We could cheer each other on, support each other, comfort each other. Not to mention the coaching we received from Alicia and Meredith, both in a group setting and 1:1. Absolutely worth every penny.”

Christine Bliven

2025 Cohort

“Working with Meredith and Alicia is refreshing. They are very straightforward and honest and don't try to sugar coat anything tough in birth work. They are also really proactive on making sure honest, and evidence based research is in the hands of everyone. I truly realized I had much to learn to make sure my clients were truly informed with every decision that comes their way. They opened my eyes to what a doula practice can look like because they have been successful as business women financially and been able to work with their dream clients!”

Christine Frackleton

2023 Cohort

“IBP was an incredible experience for me. I learned so much about the practical aspects of running a doula business, tips for everything from the first interview to structuring prenatals to keeping records. Boundaries, advocacy, physiology, business, self-care... so many important topics were covered. The Marco Polo groups were my favorite. It gave us a space to discuss what we'd learned and apply it to real situations we were encountering with our clients. We could cheer each other on, support each other, comfort each other. Not to mention the coaching we received from Alicia and Meredith, both in a group setting and 1:1. Absolutely worth every penny.”

Christine Bliven

2025 Cohort

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“Working with Meredith and Alicia is refreshing. They are very straightforward and honest and don't try to sugar coat anything tough in birth work. They are also really proactive on making sure honest, and evidence based research is in the hands of everyone. I truly realized I had much to learn to make sure my clients were truly informed with every decision that comes their way. They opened my eyes to what a doula practice can look like because they have been successful as business women financially and been able to work with their dream clients!”

Christine Frackleton, 2023 Cohort

“IBP was an incredible experience for me. I learned so much about the practical aspects of running a doula business, tips for everything from the first interview to structuring prenatals to keeping records. Boundaries, advocacy, physiology, business, self-care... so many important topics were covered. The Marco Polo groups were my favorite. It gave us a space to discuss what we'd learned and apply it to real situations we were encountering with our clients. We could cheer each other on, support each other, comfort each other. Not to mention the coaching we received from Alicia and Meredith, both in a group setting and 1:1. Absolutely worth every penny.”

Christine Bliven, 2025 Cohort

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Ready to get started? We are here for you!

We deeply believe in you, in your calling, and in the impact you’re meant to have. Whether you’re just beginning or you’ve been walking this path for years, you’re not alone. We’re here for you—now, throughout your journey, and always.