Indigenous Wisdom & Doula Care for Feminine Leadership with Madison Murphy Barney, Author of Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms

Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul · Aug 21, 2026 · 1h 5m · transcript

In this episode, Riva sits down with Madison Murphy Barney, an Indigenous woman, sister, author, doula, and story-driven strategist, for a conversation that moves between public health systems, feminine leadership, doula care, and the wisdom mycelium has to offer us about staying in right relationship with ourselves, each other, and the earth. Madison shares a little bit about her new book, Our Ancestors Want Us to Be Mushrooms, and what it means to lead and to heal from a place rooted in ancestral and Indigenous knowledge.

In This Episode:

🌹 Madison's personal story and healing journey

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