Michelle TyliakosMichelle is passionate about advocacy and medical rights to informed choice as she recently supported her husband through making powerful decisions while navigating life with a rare form of heart cancer. Now as a widow and mother to 4 children, she invites everyone who has lived through adversity to create a future that feels bright while managing meaningful and everyday life events.
Her commitment to My Powerful Birth is to continually elevate perinatal education that positively impacts families, birth workers and medical professionals. |
Samantha Garcia GagnonComing up to close to a decade of birth work in a variety of different capacities, Samantha's life is all about community and connection. Having grown up in the Philippines, she was witness to the power of coming together to nourish and support the new family and saw first hand the meaning of "a village to raise a family". She brings in her unique perspective in the way she supports families through the My Powerful Birth program as well as to the many perinatal groups she runs out of the Bellies Community Space in Pitt Meadows. Samantha is also the owner of bellies inc., home of the patented Ab Wrap and Core Confidence program to help folks prepare, recover and restore after birth. Samantha is also a mother to her three children who each had their unique birth story.
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Stephanie PennerSteph has been practicing as a birth and postpartum doula for over 8 years and is currently studying to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). Her and her husband live and work on their egg farm in the Fraser Valley with their two kids. She brings her own personal experience with pregnancy, birth, loss and parenting, as well as education from her multitude of trainings and wisdom gathered from working with birthing families to provide comprehensive and non-judgmental perinatal education. Her goal is to make sure families are making informed choices that feel good and right for them.
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Michelle ShortMichelle has been a birth worker for 5 years, and came to this calling after experiencing the powerful births of her own two children at home surrounded by loving support and stellar midwifery care. She approaches this work knowing that it’s not about where a person gives birth or how they give birth. It’s all about how people feel in, and about their birthing time that makes the real difference. That’s why Michelle loves providing birthing people and their families with the knowledge and tools to navigate the incredibly personal, impactful, and sometimes challenging decision making processes that come with growing, birthing, and feeding a tiny human. Along the way, witnessing people discover what is possible in birth, postpartum, and beyond along the way, certainly doesn't suck either.
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