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Our values in birth

Exposing Birth - January 25, 2022 19:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
We tend to use birth photography and videography to create a model of what we think our birth should look like. All of these images and videos can give us inspiration but they can also concrete the experience in our minds. We look to confirm our views and values with other people’s but it often ...

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What Doula Work Means to Me

Exposing Birth - January 18, 2022 19:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
All of the work we do as doulas is prior to being in the birth space. Our job is to teach clients how to advocate for themselves, create a plan that reflects their values, and mitigate pain before they go into labour. This amazing work is centred around powerful conversations that empower our cl...

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Being Masculine is the most feminine thing you can do

Exposing Birth - January 11, 2022 19:03 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
I’m so interested in the energies of masculine and feminine, especially because of the roles my husband and I play in our household. We’ve taken a stereotypical role reversal where I’m the sole income earner and he’s at home with the kids but it’s taken me a while to see how this would affect us...

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Diary of a blank

Exposing Birth - January 04, 2022 19:06 ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Manifesting is such a powerful tool, it’s something that I love and I am definitely not alone. One of the steps is to imagine yourself in the future once you have achieved your goal and feel how you would feel at that time. I’m lucky enough to visualise things like this easily but I know it isn'...

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Receiving

Exposing Birth - December 28, 2021 19:05 ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Accepting compliments is really hard. When someone reaches out with something positive, our first reaction is often to dismiss their words and question their judgement. It comes from a sense of unworthiness within us - not believing we deserve compliments and hunting for reasons to deny oursel...

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Who are you drawing your energy from?

Exposing Birth - December 21, 2021 19:00 ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Birthing is such a special, sacred time where we are often incredibly vulnerable. It’s a time we may want or need support from people we love but sometimes people we love aren't the people we’d love to have with us. If the people at your side are nervous or scared or panicked, it’s natural to ...

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How do you deal with trauma in real time?

Exposing Birth - December 14, 2021 19:02 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Trauma will follow you wherever you go. As birth workers, I see many people begin working with births as a photographer or as doulas, become triggered and drop out. This is a very real problem that is impacting many people so I wanted to discuss how trauma affects us in our work. In this episo...

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How I use NLP for my doula clients

Exposing Birth - December 07, 2021 19:05 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Our job as a doula is to give our clients the information they need to empower themselves, we don’t empower them. We guide women through the process to discover themselves and find their power within this transformative moment. In this episode, I wanted to explore the powerful benefits of NLP f...

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What's been going on in my world - Lacey's catch up

Exposing Birth - November 23, 2021 18:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
I have been MIA for a while. There have been a couple of huge things that have been going on in my world that I wanted to fill you in on in this episode. Firstly, we have five children and our youngest is 4 years old. His kindy teacher told us last year that he may need extra support. This yea...

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"How do you do it all?"

Exposing Birth - October 12, 2021 19:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
I have five children and I own three businesses. One question I’m asked frequently is ‘How do you do it all?’. I wanted to let you know that - I don’t. I have a fantastic team that supports me. When we begin in business, we all start off thinking we have to do everything on our own but it’s no...

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How I knew when it was time to spend money

Exposing Birth - October 05, 2021 19:05 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Let’s talk about money. We have strategies to handle every aspect of our lives, and money is no different. What’s your plan of action to make money and, more enjoyably, to spend money? I have always found that money came at the right time. It wasn’t until I took a step back to realise that...

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Your circumstances don't define you, you define your circumstances

Exposing Birth - September 28, 2021 19:07 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
We all know that life happens. Circumstances happen suddenly and can feel beyond your control. It’s at this point that many people will start to feel themselves spiral into anxiety and helplessness. This topic is so important and I have seen it come up so often with my coaching clients. You ...

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Do you trust yourself

Exposing Birth - September 21, 2021 19:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
You can only invest in your business if you invest in yourself first. In this episode, I want to talk about how important trust and investment are in your business. So, do you trust yourself? I always ask myself this question in my business whenever I create new content or hire someone new ...

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Have your cake and eat it too

Exposing Birth - September 16, 2021 01:04 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
The best way to show up is by being free. When I am free, you are free. And vise versa. I believe so much in community over competition. It’s not just the right thing to do, it’s deeply ingrained in my ethos. Because when one person thrives, we all thrive. That’s why I love being in spaces...

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In between the uplevel

Exposing Birth - September 08, 2021 02:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Are you on the verge of a massive uplevel? You know things are shifting but you’re not quite there so you’re stuck between the old and the new. This was me about a month ago. The old me no longer felt in alignment with the evolution of who I was becoming but I didn’t know how to bridge the gap. ...

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What we look for when judging the Birth Photographer Of The Year awards

Exposing Birth - August 24, 2021 00:52 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
I know it can be so hard to choose an image for a competition! You can be really proud and happy with an image but it may just not be what the judges are looking for. To help you reflect and choose your photos, I have opened up the judges training to anyone that wants to attend because I want ...

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Why we don't want to grow as birth photographers - a panel discussion from Image Evaluation Educational Event

Exposing Birth - August 12, 2021 01:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
There are so many incredible educational platforms out there for birth photography. We don’t have a gap in education. What we do have, however, is a gap in the willingness of birth photographers to grow. I recently teamed up together with some amazing photographers to create the Image Evaluatio...

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Raising Our Prices Isn't the Answer

Exposing Birth - August 02, 2021 19:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
I’m a firm believer that we need more money in the hands of powerful women. And something I’m seeing a lot in business circles at the moment is that we need to know our worth and raise our prices. Although I agree, I think we need to pull it back a layer and go a little deeper. If you feel unw...

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Why Sleep is Important

Exposing Birth - July 26, 2021 21:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
A little while ago I did an episode about sleep and why it’s important, which is one of the most popular episodes I’ve ever done. Clearly this is a topic you all want to know more about so I’m going to dive back in and share the story behind why I value sleep as much as I do. It all happened a f...

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Gender Role Reversal with Hubby Matt Barratt

Exposing Birth - July 21, 2021 00:25 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Most families adhere to the societal pressures that have the man work and provide for his family while the woman stays home and takes care of the kids. This works really well for a lot of people but it’s not the best or only way to live your lives. Many people are too scared to step outside thes...

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The difference between marketing, advertising and sales

Exposing Birth - July 12, 2021 19:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
I’ve noticed that sales, advertising and marketing are often used interchangeably but, while they are all vital parts of running a business, they are not the same thing. I think it’s super important to understand the difference between them so you can know exactly what you're doing in your busin...

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Creating with your p*ssy

Exposing Birth - July 05, 2021 19:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
What does it mean to be a woman? The creative and feminine energy that we have as women is revealed in almost everything we do, from raising children to caring for our homes and others around us. In essence, we are creators who birth new inspiring ideas each day, yet unnoticed trauma can block ...

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Conflicting parts

Exposing Birth - June 28, 2021 19:09 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Do you believe that money is hard to make? A lot of us hang on to this belief and it leaves us with tight fists and unwilling attitudes towards spending money. If we believe that money is hard to make, then it is also hard to spend and hard to make back again. And in this cycle, we stay in lack...

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How to get off of the hampster wheel

Exposing Birth - June 21, 2021 19:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Today I’m coming at you with something huge! As a birth photographer, I live my life always on call. For the most part, I’ve been happy with it but lately I’ve begun to question what things would be like if I could choose my life more freely. What would my life look like if I wanted to do some...

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Anxiety in Reverse

Exposing Birth - June 02, 2021 10:43 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this episode we talk about how we can use our visceral connections to anxiety to also connect to manifestation. You can join Matriarchal Marketing today by visiting www.exposingbirth.com/matriarchal-marketing where we talk more in depth about manifesting and all things masculine and feminin...

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Being a Pleasurepreneur with Regan Figg

Exposing Birth - May 04, 2021 22:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this episode, I chat with Pleasurepreneur, Regan Figg, all about leading with pleasure, and our journey back to ourselves after we give birth. How do we embrace and unlock our identity and discover our own pleasure in motherhood? You can learn more about Regan’s and her work here: Regan’s we...

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Manifesting is like birth

Exposing Birth - April 06, 2021 22:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Manifesting is a bit of a buzzword right now but let's set the record straight. In this episode, I talk about manifesting and my own personal story about exactly how I manifested our dream home in 10 days. We recently just finished a FREE manifest $1000 in 7 days challenge. These were such pow...

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BPOTY Birth Photographer of the Year- Renate Van Lith

Exposing Birth - March 30, 2021 21:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this episode, I chat with Renate Van Lith, winner of the Birth Photographer of the Year in our first BPOTY in 2020! Renate is a birth photographer and also the founder of @de.geboortefotograaf and the Birth and Beyond Photography Awards @birthandbeyondphotographyaward. We discuss the impor...

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BPIIC Birth Photographer of the Year- Renate Van Lith

Exposing Birth - March 30, 2021 21:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
In this episode, I chat with Renate Van Lith, winner of the Birth Photographer of the Year in our first Birth Photographer International Image Competition in 2020! Renate is a birth photographer and also the founder of @de.geboortefotograaf and the Birth and Beyond Photography Awards @birthand...

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Self Development through Birth with Leisa Masters

Exposing Birth - March 24, 2021 12:03 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratings
Leisa Masters and I met in Darwin about 8 years ago when she asked me to photograph a friend of hers twin babies she lost. Over the years we connected through our love of birth, where she helped me work through huge ancestral emotions, the affects of my ignorance and CIO method with our first ba...

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