From Hollywood to Healing: A Midwife's Spiritual Experience
This podcast episode featured Marisol Montoya, a recently certified nurse midwife and holistic nurse, discussing her journey from filmmaking to midwifery and her recent experience learning from Mayan midwives in Guatemala. Marisol shared how she discovered her calling to become a midwife through a spiritual experience in 2012, and described her clinical observations showing how cultural and community practices affect birth outcomes differently between Indigenous and Hispanic populations in New York City. She detailed her recent two-week immersion in Guatemala where she observed traditional…
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