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.
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
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
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
As a knowledgeable advocate you can stand for your clients' rights with confidence and collegiality. Get equipped for peaceful, powerful advocacy.
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.
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.
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 covers the full breadth of birth work: it is the in-depth doula training we wish we had when we got started! 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!
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 on-demand trainings, and all our digital materials. If you want certification, community, personal mentorship, and accountability, you’ll want to join Ignite or Accelerate. Read on!
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.
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 (and monthly after that). 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), including 4 optional stellar live classes every month
Doula Certification at no extra cost, with requirements
Lifetime access to all materials
Ignite gets you access to weekly group mentorship and our rich online community! If you want 1:1 mentorship with Meredith and Alicia, and daily access to us and your cohort, you’ll want to join Accelerate. Read on!
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.
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 Meredith & Alicia that meets 1 hour weekly for 4 months (and monthly after that). 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), including 4 optional stellar live classes every month
Doula Certification at no extra cost, with requirements
Lifetime access to all materials
Weekly Expected Time Commitment
Progress Pod (Required) Ignite + Accelerate
Community Meetup
Ignite + Accelerate
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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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 knowledgeinto real-world options and care for yourclients.
And what’s legal and what’s not—so you cannavigate birth work with confidence andintegrity.
That what you’ve witnessed isn’t really okay, and it shouldn’t be this hard.
The skills to advocate clearly and compassionately, even in the face of others’ 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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
This program attracts women who are:
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!
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 over 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!
“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!”
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.”
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
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.
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