It takes a Village to Raise a Child - but where is mine? This is where The Village Mamas comes giving some of their ideas on how they support families in the community of Regina, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon and more.I was so excited getting to interview them as they really had powerful ideas.Village Mamas YQR, led by Desire Radwanski, Jenna Hehn and Kate Sutherland, is a women-owned social enterprise reimagining how families are supported in Regina. Founded three years ago by Jenna, Kate, and Desire, the business was created in response to a clear gap: mothers needed practical, flexible support that reflected their real lives, not one-size-fits-all solutions. Village Mamas offers wraparound services that ease the mental load of motherhood while allowing families to define their own needs. Within six months of opening, the founders launched a sister non-profit to ensure supports were accessible to families facing financial barriers through self-determined eligibility. Together, the business and non-profit have supported dozens of families, created meaningful employment for mothers, and built a culture where asking for help is welcomed and normalized. Follow them on IG: https://www.instagram.com/villagemamasyqr/or FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088848408627.

Did your friends or a close family member just have a baby? Elisabeth takes you on a deep dive to ensure you know how to best support new families after coming home from the hospital (or after baby is born).

This episode is for you - chock full of details that you can easily write down and go ask your expecting friends how you can be of help with their baby!

Welcome to Womb Talk - Season Four and there is no better way to start a series off then listening to my Mentor. She shares how she started Bebo Mia - her journey as a birth and postpartum doula and what got her training others. Then she even remanences on my starting point as a doula and the impact I made on her.

Overall this episode is near and dear to my heart - so I hope you take a listen and follow Bebo Mia to support my roots.

Bianca Sprague is the founder of bebo mia inc and has been a doula, educator, author, and activist since 2007. Her work sits at the intersection of reproductive justice, community care, and sustainable education for birth workers. Bianca is deeply committed to making fertility, birth, and postpartum education more accessible, especially for women and queer folks who are too often pushed to the margins of care systems.

Her path into this work was shaped by lived experience. After becoming a parent, Bianca navigated undiagnosed postpartum depression in an unsafe home environment with very little support. In 2012, she also lost her father to suicide, an experience that further grounded her advocacy for mental wellness, grief literacy, and honest conversations about what families are carrying behind closed doors. These experiences continue to inform her teaching, leadership, and refusal to accept shallow or rushed models of care.

Bianca created bebo mia in response to the gaps she experienced in her own doula training, which was brief, incomplete, and disconnected from the realities of working parents and helpers. Today, bebo mia trains doulas and care workers in over 50 countries, with a strong emphasis on trauma informed education, community building, business sustainability, and joy as a collective practice. Bianca speaks candidly about women’s rage, burnout, queerness, and the systems that fail families, while offering grounded, practical tools for building care work that is ethical, livable, and deeply human.