When Tenesha started her internship in a reproductive health center in Texas, she never imagined where it would lead her. But now she’s the founder of Orchid Investing, a fund that works towards justice for marginalized people in all aspects of their health and reproductive care. Join us for a conversation that digs into the capitalist structures that hold us in oppression – and what you can do to change them.

Tenesha explains what it means to invest for impact and how we can use money and resources to heal generational trauma and injustice. She unpacks how to make sure that your money is building sustainable systems that honor the work you’ve put into them, rather than going to a political entity that’s using a charitable tax status as a vehicle to continue racial and gender oppression. Along the way, we discuss how we can achieve equality in healthcare and tackle all the traumas that these difficult topics bring up.

If you want to know more about how you can help out or how to apply Tenesha’s impact investing blueprint in your home state, you need to stick around for the second part of our conversation. Subscribe to the Found Free podcast to have it drop straight into your podcast feed.

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Check out Orchid website: https://www.orchidcapital.fund
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If you’ve been a doula for longer than a minute, you know that it’s about so much more than being present at birth. In fact, there’s so much to being a doula that this is the second part of my conversation with Flor, a Latina doula known as Badass Mother Birther, so go check out my last episode with her before diving into this one. You won’t regret it!

In this episode, we talk about Medicaid reimbursements for doulas and whether or not doulas should be regulated and by whom. We also discuss the questions that birthing people should ask a doula before they hire them and what doulas should do to take care of themselves and to prevent secondary trauma and burnout. If you’re a busy doula, you should definitely take some notes!

Stay to the end to hear about Flor’s next big project and don’t forget to subscribe to the Found Free podcast to hear more episodes about social equality, entrepreneurship, justice work and more.

Connect with my Guest:
Check out Flor Cruz's website: https://badassmotherbirther.com
Follow Badass Mother Birthder on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/badassmotherbirther

Connect with Me:
Visit my website: https://www.found-free.com
Follow me on Instagram: / sabiawade
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Resources:
Buy Birthing Liberation (Sabia’s book!): ...

“Birth is political”. Today’s guest on the Found Free podcast is Flor, a doula who does so much more than deliver babies. She tells me about how she’s using her platform to fight for equality and for a higher standard of care in reproductive health.

We begin by exploring Flor’s origin story from witnessing a birth as a child to how her first birth experience at age 21 resulted in a trauma that prevented her from fully bonding with her baby. She shares how becoming a doula helped her to reclaim the birth process and to advocate for her clients.

Then Flor opens up about her campaign to remove society’s censorship on birth so that we can normalize this beautiful and natural experience. We discuss how she’s had to fight social media guidelines on birth and breastfeeding images and how she’s grown as a doula through having uncomfortable but honest conversations with her clients.

We had so much to unpack that this episode is in two parts. Subscribe to the Found Free podcast to catch the second half straight in your podcast feed!

Sabia Wade is a multi-passionate and liberation-centered doula, educator, author, spiritual care practitioner, and entrepreneur. She offers mentorship through her Circle Community, Found Free. Join the community here https://found-free.circle.so/!


Connect with my Guest:
Check out Flor Cruz's website: https://badassmotherbirther.com
Follow Badass Mother Birthder on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/badassmotherbirther

Connect with Me:
Visit my website: https://www.found-free.com
Follow me on Instagram: / sabiawade
Connect with me on LinkedIn: / sabiawade

Resources:
Buy Birthing Liberation (Sabia’s book!): ...