Birth Like a Mammal™ is a community created for both parents and doulas. Lindsay has over a decade of professional doula experience supporting families during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Combined with her B.S. in Animal Science, Lindsay is an expert on mammalian birth. Most of what is taking place in hospital L&D units is not in alignment with mammalian biology, and the complications that arise during and from giving birth can be prevented or avoided altogether by simply giving birth l ...
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Episode 21: Birth Affects Us All with Bill Nation
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In episode 21 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, host Lindsay engages in a deep and personal conversation with her former elementary school teacher, Bill Nation, now a licensed professional counselor in Texas. Bill is 70 years old, has never witnessed a woman give birth, and is certainly not the target audience for this community. But after liste…
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Episode 20: Dads and Doulas and Birth with Keturah Pawlik
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In episode 20 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay sits down with Keturah Pawlik. Keturah is a doula and Mother of six. Originally from New York, she now lives in West Palm Beach with her family. Keturah believes in the power of storytelling and in sharing our wisdoms with others, offering a new perspective or lending our strength when it’s…
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Episode 19: The Power of Birth Stories with Diana Forsell
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In episode 19 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay interviews Diana Forsell. Diana is a Mother to two boys, with two very different birth stories. She is the host of the Healing Birth podcast where she shares an incredible variety of birth stories from women all over the world. Diana brings an unshakeable trust in our biology and our bodies…
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Episdoe 18: Intentional Embodiment with Jessica Olson, Pregnancy and Birth Coach
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In episode 18 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay sits down with Jessica Olson of Wildly Awakened Motherhood. Jessica is an embodied birth coach, focused on supporting women find healing and safety within their bodies, and home, before birth. She is a yoga practitioner, intuitive nutritionist, radical birth keeper graduate, and training in…
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Episode 17: The Body Keeps the Score with Joanna Cook, LMSW
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In episode 17 of The Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay welcomes Joanna Cook, a Texas-based therapist and Mother, to discuss the profound impact of therapy on women struggling with birth trauma. Joanna shares her journey from experiencing a traumatic birth to becoming a therapist specializing in nervous system regulation, somatic embodiment, and…
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Episode 16: Birth Trauma Affects Everyone with Carla Sargent, Healer and Educator
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On this 16th episode of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay is joined by Carla Sargent, a former midwife now birth trauma healer and educator. Carla is a true GEM in the birth trauma healing world. Her experience as a midwife and many years supporting Mothers healing from birth trauma bring an incredible dialogue to this discussion today. Car…
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Episode 15: A Doula's Role with Brittney from The Wombsisterhood®
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On episode 15 of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay chats with Brittney, the founder of The Wombsisterhood®'s Positive Pregnancy Journey. Brittney is an educator, a doula, and a Mother. She is the creator of Driven by Faith Doula Training and also hosts a private Facebook group for The Wombsisterhood®. Brittney stepped into birth work in 201…
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Episode 14: Lactation & Obstetrics with Lauren Reza, RN, BSN, CLE
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In this episode of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay is joined by Lauren Reza, a lactation consultant and natural Motherhood coach as well as the woman behind Lactation and Lullabies on Instagram. Lauren shares her journey from working in obstetrics as an R.N. to becoming a lactation consultant. She has a deep understanding of mammalian bio…
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Episode 13: The Joy in Birth with Audrey Ross, Birthkeeper
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In this episode of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay shares a fantastic discussion with Audrey Ross of @ajoyfulbirth where Audrey discusses the differences in her three births: birth center, home with licensed midwives, and home unassisted/freebirth. Additionally, she has free birthed another baby at home since we recorded this episode last…
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Episode 12: Catching Triplets with Kristine Lauria, Midwife
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In this episode of the Birth Like a Mammal™ podcast, Lindsay sits down with Kristine Lauria, an international midwife who currently works for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). She specializes in high-risk maternity care in low-resource settings and is passionate in her support of breech birth, bodily autonomy in medical decision m…
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Episode 11: The Components of a Healthy Birth
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In episode 11 of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, host Lindsay Askins - a Mother of three and seasoned doula-turned birth coach, discusses the main components of a healthy and instinctive birth that is aligned with mammalian biology. She emphasizes the importance of hydration, nourishment, a supportive team, safety, autonomy, and oxytocin in ensuri…
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Episode 10: Oxytocin and Adrenaline are Not Friends
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In this episode of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, Lindsay Askins - a seasoned doula, birth coach, and Mother of three - discusses the important role of oxytocin during labor and birth. She reiterates that oxytocin is not the same thing as Pitocin, even though Mothers are told so. Lindsay illustrates the significance of creating an environment con…
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Episode 9: Why I Stopped Attending Hospital Births as a Doula
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In episode 9 of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, Lindsay Askins - a seasoned doula, birth coach, and Mother of three - shares her transformative journey from supporting hospital births to exclusively attending home and birth center births. Lindsay covers the stark disconnect between obstetrics and the mammalian process of birth, highlighting the of…
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Episode 8: Placental Calcification - What is it and why do we care?
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In episode 8 of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, we explore the topic of placental calcification. This is a topic posed by the community for discussion as there is often many questions and confusion regarding how concerned we should be about a calcified placenta at the end of gestation. Lindsay discusses the connection between mammalian biology and…
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Episode 7: Your Baby Does Not Want to be Alone
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In episode 7 of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, host Lindsay Askins, an experienced doula, birth coach, and Mother, discusses why babies are evolutionarily programmed to NOT be left alone. She emphasizes the normal mammalian dependency of babies on their Mothers amongst societal norms that promote independence and separation. Lindsay discusses the…
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Episode 6: Natural Birth and Hospitals Don't Mix
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In episode 6 of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, Lindsay dives into why natural birth does not - and cannot - take place in a hospital. Lindsay reiterates the true definition of "natural" as it's very often misused and generally misunderstood. Lindsay highlights how obstetric practices are completely disconnected from the mammalian birthing process…
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Episode 5: Handling Newborns
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In this episode, Lindsay discusses the importance of handling newborns with care and gentleness. She shares her concern about a viral video circling social media where a nurse was handling a baby roughly, causing the baby to show signs of stress. Lindsay emphasizes that newborns have never been touched before and are programmed by evolution to expe…
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Episode 4: Hospital vs. Home Birth
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In this episode, Lindsay discusses the age-old debate of hospital birth versus home birth. She emphasizes that this debate is unnecessary and unproductive, as the two options are fundamentally different and cannot be compared. Lindsay shares her own experience of choosing a home birth and the negative reactions she received from others. She highlig…
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Episode 3: Why Nursing Fails
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In this episode, Lindsay discusses why nursing and lactation often fail in modern society. She explains that the high rate of complications in birth and low nursing rates can be attributed to the disruption of the natural mammalian biology of birth. Lindsay emphasizes the importance of immediate bonding and imprinting between Mother and baby after …
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Episode 2: Personal Responsibility
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In this episode of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast, Lindsay discusses the responsibility of Mothers during birth, specifically focusing on the choice between home birth and hospital birth. She emphasizes that the debate between the two options is unnecessary and unproductive, as it ultimately comes down to personal responsibility and where the moth…
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Episode 1: Birth and Pitocin
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We are kicking off this first episode discussing Pitocin and how that affects Mothers and babies during labor, birth, and even afterwards. Often when Pitocin is administered to induce or augment labor, women are not fully informed on the risks associated. In this first episode, we cover: • how oxytocin and pitocin relate to one another • the differ…
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Lindsay Askins is the host of the Birth Like a Mammal podcast and the founder of the Birth Like a Mammal community. With a degree in animal science and years of experience breeding horses, Lindsay has a deep understanding of mammalian biology. As a doula and birth coach, she has supported numerous families through the birthing process. Lindsay is p…
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Episode 16 - The Innerstanding of Rico Zulkarnain
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This was an interview-format episode with Professional Futsal player, Rico Zulkarnain. Rico has a broad and vast futsal resume after only having been playing the sport for five years. He is part of the Welsh National team and has played with clubs all across the world, ranging from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, France and right now he is transiti…
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Episode 15 - The Impact of Our Environment
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In this episode, we discuss the importance of our environment, both internal and external. The internal environment being our self-talk, which can be brought into conscious awareness and developed in a positive light. A lot of us, including ourselves walk around with shame, guilt and judgements on ourselves, as a result of made up stories and exter…
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Episode 14 - Everything is Temporary
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In this episode we discuss something that we believe guide our decision-making, behaviours and beliefs in a lot of ways today. We discussed how temporary our current states are, moods if you will. The feelings and emotions that we have are often the guidelines or frameworks for how we make decisions and act. It is seen all the time, relationship is…
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Episode 13 - Diets, Our own experience on Diets, and How we Currently Eat
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We cover a lot about Diets, how many there are and the religious approach we seem to have on WHAT is RIGHT and WHAT is WRONG as it pertains to food...We also delve into our experience on many of these diets, as experimenters, although many not being for extended periods of time. This is a really thick topic that is difficult to break down in a shor…
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Episode 12 - Christoffer Forsell, A Professional Footballer's Journey
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In this episode we bring on Christoffer Forsell. Christoffer is a childhood friend of mine and Kim's. We grew up in the same neighbourhood, south of Stockholm, went to the same school, played for the same football club and knew of each other really well. Christoffer was always supremely talented and naturally gifted as an athlete, not only did he h…
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Episode 11 - Everything Related to Stress
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In this episode we discuss the dis-ease that is stress, and also the benefit of stress. We draw some interesting comparisons from evolution, share individual experiences, discuss the current paradigm, and get quite frisky while we're at it. A great conversation overall, where we really got into a good flow and taught ourselves about the topic of St…
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Episode 10 - How Values Guide Our Life
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We talk bout Values and Morals in this episode. We were definitely no experts on this topic and it was hard to get a good flow in the conversation as we tried to distinguish Values and the Universal principles/Morals that we have in society. After a while we started sharing our own experiences and how values work in our own lives, both subconscious…
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Episode 9 - Recent Life Changes & Holistic Health
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We give you an update on our new jobs that have interfered a little with our podcasting and ability to produce content for you all. All of us have been very busy and struggle getting together to plan for the future, but one thing is certain - we love to podcast and creating an environment for these conversations so we will maintain it. We talk abou…
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Episode 8 - Free Flow Podcasting
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In this episode we decided to podcast without a particular intention or topic in mind. We wanted to free flow and just talk about anything..Tune in to find out more! Much love primetimes!
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Episode 7 - Halloween Special
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In this episode, a game was created to spice up Halloween and its spirits. Tune in for a fun, yet vulnerable episode where we share some personal issues. Much love fam!
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Episode 6 - Our Own Drug Experiences
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In this episode, we open up about our individual experiences with drugs. Anything from recreational drugs, such as alcohol, tobacco and ecstasy to psychedelics. A full on episode where we all got vulnerable and shared a lot of our experiences, not to mention the weirdness of psychedelics, which a lot of people will have a hard time relating too. Ho…
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Episode 5 Addictions, Technology and Social Media.
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In this episode we talk about addictions, by first breaking down our different definition on the topic and then sharing our individual experiences with it. One of the things we have realised is that people are not as inclined to view a healthy behaviour as an addiction; this can be anything from eating healthy to exercising. These things can play o…
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Episode 4 - Overdoing Habits, and Introductions
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In this episode we discussed how habits are implemented and how lost we can get in our habits, by overdoing them and losing our intention. By overdoing actions without awareness, we lose the present moment and get into a state of auto-pilot which can have negative affects where we do not enjoy and feel the benefits of implementing positive habits.F…
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Episode 3 - Fasting, Relationship to Food, New Team Member
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In this episode we get Emil Attar on board to discuss the topic of Fasting, which trickles down to a deep dive into food, our relationship with food on a mental and emotional level, and also how these things translate into a broader holistic aspect of life. We cover a lot of things, Emil is experienced with extended fasts and I think you will find …
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Episode 2 - Passion and Purpose with Jobs, Burning Out, Importance of Perspective.
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In this episode we start talking about the importance of Passion in the workplace - finding a job that you are passionate about or bringing passion to your workplace. We also tied in the importance of purpose, if you are not enjoying your job it might not be the most responsible thing to just quit without a plan, as working often has a purpose, whi…
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Episode 1 - Comfort Zones, Limiting Beliefs, and Morning Routines
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This was our introductory episode to this new PRIMETIME podcast! Our mission is to bring inspiring, powerful insights that can facilitate growth and help individuals to help themselves in this life. Moving forward we will talk about everything from health, mindset, fitness, self-help, sports, society, psychedelics, passion, purpose, relationships, …
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