Meet a Midwife in Training

Workplace Confessions: Behind Closed Doors · Jun 12, 2026 · 37m · transcript

A home birth that was nearly “not allowed” in Iowa planted a seed that never stopped growing, and our anonymous guest follows that seed all the way into a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) apprenticeship.

Along the way, she takes a real detour, walking away from midwifery hierarchy, studying linguistics, working jobs like Starbucks and publishing, and spending years raising and homeschooling kids.

Then a visceral dream pulls her back toward birth work, and we talk through what it really takes to return to a calling with more maturity and a clearer sense of the costs.

We get specific about…