Hosted by Diane Ortega · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 80 episodes
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Welcome to The Midwife Life—part podcast, part revolution that empowers and educates women on all things related to pregnancy, birth, postpartum care, and careers in healthcare. Whether it's understanding the options available to you, advocating for yourself in a health care setting, or simply knowing that you're not alone, I want you to leave each episode feeling stronger and more equipped.
Diane Ortega hosts Midwife Life: Midwifing you through health, motherhood, and the sacred mess of life’s transformations with Diane Ortega, a health show with 80 episodes published.
There is a life a lot of women are living that looks completely fine from the outside. Maybe even wonderful. And it is quietly draining the life out of them. This week, Diane gets honest about the thing nobody says out l
Some people arrive at their power quietly. Others pass through fire, more than once, before they understand what they are actually made of. In this episode of The Midwife Life, Diane sits down with Holly Million, shaman,
What happens when the woman who has held space for a thousand others finally lets someone hold space for her? Jennifer Hoeprich spent over a decade as a licensed homebirth midwife, witnessing the raw, sacred threshold of
What if creativity wasn't something you had to find, but something you never lost? In this episode, I'm talking with Lydia Phelps-Alexander, an art education consultant who has spent 18 years and thousands of hours remin
Who am I when the thing that has defined me for years no longer fits? This week I removed “birth center owner” from my Instagram bio. What looked like a simple profile update turned into something much bigger: a conversa
What happens when ambitious women stop trying to perform perfection - and start craving deeper, more honest connection instead? In this reflective solo episode, Diane shares what surfaced during a recent “Build Your Drea
What happens when the thing you’ve been surviving finally ends… but your nervous system doesn’t get the message? In this episode, Diane shares honestly about the weeks following the closure of Willow: the lingering exhau
In this bonus replay, I sit down with Brielle Jenson, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, a midwife with over 20 years of experience, an IBCLC, and the author of the stunning new book Confessions of a Midwife
Something in your life doesn’t feel the same anymore. Not in a dramatic way…but enough that you can feel it. You’re still showing up. Still doing what needs to be done. Still holding everything together. But something fe
Something in your life doesn’t feel the same anymore. Not in a dramatic way…but enough that you can feel it. In this episode, I’m sharing a more personal reflection on a season I’m currently walking through , where somet
This week, Diane almost didn't hit record. But she's glad she did. In one of her most personal and vulnerable episodes yet, Diane shares that after years of serving families, her freestanding birth centers in Arizona wil
You can be surrounded by people… and still feel like you’re carrying everything on your own. In this episode of The Midwife Life, Diane explores the hidden loneliness many women experience during seasons of transition, e
Spring is here. But not everything blooms right away. There’s a part of this season that’s quieter than we expect, the in-between phase where something is shifting… but nothing fully makes sense yet. You can feel that so
There’s a moment… quiet, often easy to overlook… when you realize: you can’t keep doing it this way. Not because everything is falling apart. Not because you have a clear next step. But because something deeper… isn’t wo
For decades, women have been told that fatigue, weight gain, slower recovery, brain fog, and hormone shifts are simply part of aging. But what if the real issue isn’t that women’s bodies are failing them? What if the rea
This episode is for the woman who looks like she's holding it all together — but feels very tired in her bones. Diane is joined by Courtney Smith, registered dietitian, exercise specialist, certified lactation counselor,
Last week, I shared the news about the closing of Willow Midwife Center and the complicated emotions that come with releasing something you built with your whole heart. Today’s conversation is different. This episode isn
This week’s episode is a personal one. After publicly announcing the closing of Willow, Diane shares a reflection on what it means to release something you built, not as failure, but as completion. In this conversation,
In Chapter Five of the Rebirth Journey, Diane explores what comes after shedding, remembering, rebuilding, and learning to live rebirth as a way of being. This episode is about Becoming — not as reinvention, but as embod
In this bonus replay, Diane welcomes two inspiring guests—her daughter Julia Ortega and her “adopted” daughter, Klea Soliman. Both are 23-year-old nurses navigating the ups and downs of their early 20s, from building car
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Midwife Life: Midwifing you through health, motherhood, and the sacred mess of life’s transformations with Diane Ortega is hosted by Diane Ortega. The show is categorised under health (fitness) and has published 80 episodes.
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