Dear Reader,
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There's a moment Christie Davis shared with our inaugural Midwifery Wisdom Fellowship cohort that I keep coming back to.

She said: "There is no such thing as a space safe from activation."

Because so many of us have been taught that calm is the goal. That if we're triggered in clinic, in a preceptor relationship, in a difficult birth — something has gone wrong with us. We're not cut out for this. We need to hold it together better.

But here's what nervous system science actually tells us: if there's no activation, your nervous system isn't working. You need it. Your patients need you to have it. The goal was never to eliminate activation — it was always to learn to move through it.

This is the kind of education that doesn't live in a textbook or a clinical rotation syllabus — it lives in community, in conversation, in the kind of honest, held space where someone can say "I'm feeling activated right now" and know exactly what to do next.

This is one piece of what Christie and I have built inside the Midwifery Wisdom Fellowship — alongside the business foundations, the professional identity work, the preceptor dynamics, and everything else that nobody teaches you when you're just trying to get through your hours.
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This programme exists because Christie and I built the thing we wished we'd had. Not because our paths weren't worthwhile, but because we know how many good midwives leave the profession too soon — burned out, underpaid, and without a community that understands what this work actually costs. We wanted to change that, starting at the very beginning of a career rather than years into it.

Cohort 2 begins September 1. ​
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Early bird pricing is open until June 27 — that's $1,399 as a one-time payment or $250 × 6 months, saving you 25% off the full price.

If you're a student attending births or a graduate within two years of completion, this was built for you — and if someone you know is at that stage, we'd love it if you passed this along to them.
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With love,
Augustine