Hot+Brave

Send us Fan Mail Content note: this episode includes grief, suicide loss, racism, obstetric violence, medical emergencies, family conflict and birth trauma. Please care for your heart while you listen. In this season finale of Hot and Brave, Bianca takes you behind the glossy Instagram version of birthwork and into the real stories that shaped her as a doula. She shares ten client stories from her early years, including the time she walked into a termination expecting a joyful gender re...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Bianca breaks down the three pillars every doula needs to build a sustainable, heart centered business: clarity, visibility, and community. She shares the stories we all live through in that first uncertain year, the places we get stuck, and the quiet shame that grows when nobody has ever taught us the basics of business or mission building. You will learn the difference between selling and solving, why weekend trainings leave out the most essential pieces of...

Send us Fan Mail Most doulas think they don’t have an audience... but you already have a network filled with potential clients who know, like, and trust you. In this week’s Hot + Brave, Bianca shares how to tap into your existing community to fill your roster with dream clients without feeling salesy or awkward. Learn how to reach out authentically, reframe visibility as care work, and finally stop apologizing for wanting to be seen. This episode is your pep talk, mindset reset, and a preview...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Bianca Sprague invites the birth world into a critical and overdue conversation: the end of the weekend doula training model. The weekend era served an early purpose. It opened the door to formalized doula work, community support, and advocacy inside medical systems. Yet birth work has evolved, and the expectations placed on doulas have grown dramatically. Today’s doulas must be trauma informed, anti oppression grounded, consent focused, emotionally literate,...

Send us Fan Mail You can be the best doula in the world, compassionate, skilled, and deeply dedicated, but if people don’t know you exist, they can’t hire you. In this episode of Hot + Brave, Bianca dives into what she calls The Invisible Doula Problem - why so many incredible birthworkers struggle to get noticed, and how visibility can become an act of care instead of something that feels salesy or self-promotional. You’ll learn how being seen is actually part of your advocacy, the small ste...