Birth Goddess

Empowering Women for a Positive Birth & Beyond

Speaking

Speaking

“Inspirational, beautiful insights, really eye opening, gave me confidence…”

These are just a few of the words used to describe Katrina Zaslavsky (Birth Goddess Founder) in action, whether it’s as a keynote speaker at an expo, on a summit, TV or radio interview, as a guest speaker on a podcast or speaking to a group of expecting mums in a workshop.

Katrina speaks from the heart and offers powerful insights and practical tips to help pregnant mums to overcome their fears, make conscious mind-body preparations, find their voice and reclaim their birth power. She wants to see more women truly informed, awakened and rocking their birth on their terms for the very best start to motherhood and beyond to ripple out to every part of their life.

Katrina is available for speaking engagements at:

  • Conferences
  • Expos
  • Organisations for Women, Pregnancy, Birth, Motherhood
  • Women’s groups
  • Charity organisations
  • International Summits
  • Podcasts
  • Media Interviews
  • Blog Interviews
  • Pregnancy & Birth Workshops

“Hi Katrina,  Thank you so much. It was delightful listening to you. I ordered your book all the way from UK and now I listened to you online and what a privilege it is.

I loved what I was hearing. You are such an inspiration. I am thankful for the webinar recording. Thank you again for such an inspirational talk.”~ Warm Regards, Irsha

(The Empowered Mother’s Guide to Creating a Happy, Healthy, Holistic Birthing Experience Worldwide Summit. (Katrina was invited to speak amongst fabulous worldwide experts including Dr. Sandra Bevacqua & Debra Pascali-Boraro )

A few recent speaking engagements:

  • TV interview Channel 31 for International Women’s Day
  • TV interview Channel 31 for Mother’s Day
  • Invited to Present as keynote at Trust Birth Conference Sydney 2013
  • Keynote Presenter for Bring it On Pregnancy Expo Melbourne 2013
  • Keynote Presenter for GO (Girls Only) Festival Melbourne on “Taking the Fear Factor Out of Birth”
  • Presenter at Pregnancy Pamper Retreat Melbourne April 2015 – “Conquer Your Fears”
  • Presenter on Worldwide Summit: “The Empowered Mother’s Guide to a Happy, Healthy, Holistic Birthing Experience” 2015 alongside internationally acclaimed Debra Pascali-Bonaro and many others….
  • Presenter for Bump to Baby and Beyond Melbourne May 2015 on “Empowering Women for Birth and Reducing Fear”
  • Presenter on Worldwide Summit: Be the Best Parent You Can Be
  • Interviewed as Founding Member of Birth.World by Margaux Khoury
  • Live radio interview for “What’s the Buzz”
  • Live radio + podcast interview for “The Gender Agenda” by Dalit Kaplan
  • Presenter at Eastern Pregnancy & Baby Expo 2016 on “Inside tips for a fear free birth”
  • International Presenter for Empowered Pregnancy Health & Fitness Summit 2018
  • Panel Presenter and Committee Member for National Doula Conference 2018 
  • Keynote Presenter on Top Tips for a Natural Hospital Birth at the Confident Birth Expo 2018 (alongside many other wonderful birth passionistas including Rhea Dempsey)

Lovely feedback from interview on “Be the Best Parent You Can Be” Summit:

“A very inspiring interview! It’s so easy to forget how powerful we are and how we birth plays a vital role in the outcome of becoming a parent. Thank you for the beautiful insight.” ~ Kyla Rainey (Alberta USA)

Dear Katrina, I’ve just listened to your interview with Jeanne-Marie {Be the Best Parent You Can Be} and it was wonderful to hear you about the experience of giving birth.

I’m portuguese but I became a mother for the 1st time in Brazil, which must be the worst country to give birth to a child. I’m a mother of 3 boys and they were all born in a cesarian procedure. 🙁 Listening to you, I wished so much I had known you before... when I was pregnant from my first boy, it seemed I was struggling against all brazilian population when I wanted to have a “normal” vaginal labour… almost everyone looked at me very amazed… since my baby decided to sit down at the last minute… my doctor “gently” convinced me that it was safer to do a cesarian.

My second baby, I went for a 2nd try for a normal labour and at 8cm the doctor told me the baby wasn’t going to pass through my pelvic bone and there I was again doing a cesarian…Maybe I wasn’t strong enough and didn’t feel that empowerment you speak of… and I’m so sorry about that. Thank you for your work… and please take a year to come to Brazil and make this people aware and awake them to another reality.

Kind regards, Gisela

Hello Katrina, I recently watched your interview with Jeanne-Marie Paynel {Be the Best Parent You Can Be Summit} and I just wanted to write to thank you for informing women that birth is completely natural and need not be traumatic!

It is so true that the labour experience helps define how a woman feels about herself. The power and confidence I felt on those days remain with me forever. Trusting your self and what your body is telling you is a lost art but is empowering on such a deep level. I have always wished other women could see it this way but the negative stories people tell are more memorable I guess!

I have often felt like an odd one out as most other people have dramatic experiences where things go wrong.  After listening to you speak, I felt like I finally connected to people who appreciate how natural, beautiful and powerful birth really is.  A labour story should not have to be a horror story! Thank you for your time, and best regards, Fatima

“The thing I liked most {Be the Best Parent You Can Be Summit} is that you mentioned that it’s the woman that HIRES midwives/doctors/hospitals. Sure, if there are medical issues, decisions need to be made by physicians. But when it comes to well being of the woman in labor, the woman herself should be able to say what’s good for her and what’s not.

You pointed out that we are ones that are hiring the people, the place etc. So we should be heard and our wishes and decisions should be honored. It’s so important that women are reminded and aware of their right to decide.“~ Angelika Leibnitz (Austria)

Hello! I just saw your interview on Be The Best Parent, and I was really interested in what you are doing. I’m a writer, sexual wellness coach, and general holistic practitioner. I am also a mother and gave birth six months ago at home to a healthy baby girl, and have a lot to say about natural childbirth! Thanks for everything you are doing to make birth better for women and babies! ~ Lauren Brim

Hi Katrina, I thought your interview was excellent!  Something that really resonated with me when choosing a VBAC freebirth was the knowledge of what my hormones were capable of.  I really held on to (and experienced) tremendous pain relief, greater than morphine or pethidine, and similar to what I imagine heroin would be like, but with no nasty side effects.  Wave after wave of ecstatic bliss between contractions.  I tell everyone who will listen lol. I would like to be on your mailing list please.
 
I have had copies of your magazine before through Maternity Choices.  They are a great read. The maternity choices in Central Queensland are extremely limited – freebirth, public hospital or private hospital.  There are birthing centres a few hundred kilometres away but only if you are low risk.  So, I am very much looking forward to moving to Victoria next year so that I can have another baby in a more supported environment with greater choices. Great making your acquaintance.  keep up the good work. Angie (Angeliza Wanstall)
 
Hi Katrina, I enjoyed how you phrased “handling the sensations” and what you had to say about being perfectly designed for birth and telling birthing mothers to “get off the fence.” 🙂  I studied to be a midwife for a year, and before that trained as a doula with Deborah Pascali-Bonaro in NYC and work with many pregnant clients, new mothers, and women desiring to be mothers in my practice of 12 years. ~Lauren Brim (USA)

I just wanted to email and thank you for the fantastic workshop that you organised on Sunday. I understand how much time and effort it takes to organise an event like that and really just wanted to thank you. I mentioned to you both that I did the hospital antenatal class on Saturday and while there was of course valuable information being presented, it was very medical focused with all information being presented from the hospital’s view of what is best for baby. I think the antenatal class was very focused on the arrival of a healthy baby (which we all are!) but it seems like it can sometimes come at the expense of the mother, like we are somehow incidental to the whole process.

Your session complimented the hospital beautifully. I thought there was a great focus on the health and wellbeing of the mother during pregnancy and empowering women for birth. I have thus far had a very positive pregnancy experience but have been feeling a little bit anxious about the birth, however I left feeling very positive about what I am soon to experience. I thought the selection of topics was fantastic. I have been pouring over the brochures for the last couple of nights and researching subjects that I hadn’t even considered. I am really looking forward to your next sessions.

Reclaim Your Birth Power Workshop:

“Really eye opening, inspirational, nurturing”

“Hello ladies, I went to the last Reclaim Your Birth Power Workshop and it was really eye opening. I was being rejected by so many hospitals and in the end happened to stumble upon this workshop and it was so inspirational and I learned so much!

I just wouldn’t have known this information otherwise and Katrina is connected to such a wealth of knowledge and resources in this area that you feel really nurtured.

I loved learning and listening to Rachana too .. so now I’m 25 weeks and going for a home birth.. Found an independent midwife and doula who are my amazing team! Thanks to this workshop and to Katrina for making this available to women.” xx ~ Nadhira Razack

“Fabulous Workshop! You must go and learn from the experience and wisdom of Katrina and Rachana. Then you will be so much more knowledgeable, inspired and empowered!” ~ Colleen Monk

“I have found Katrina Zaslavsky’s past workshops to be extremely insightful, and not just for first time mums. They gave me to confidence to strive for my 3rd birth to be the way i envisioned and when i came across any problems, the online facebook community was extremely supportive too -just like having a gathering of like minded birth goddesses in your living room!

I would not hesitate to recommend these gatherings, and Katrina’s book to any woman in bloom, or even those considering starting their family. I also have found that the knowledge i have gained not only helped during labour and birth, but stayed with me during the postpartum period and helped me to trust my instincts.

Thank you for all of your wisdom.” ♥~ Alicia Dixon

A recent speaking engagement was at GO Festival (Girls Only) at the Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton, Victoria and most exciting to be invited to be keynote presenter on “Taking the Fear Factor Out of Birth” for the Trust Birth Conference in Sydney, Australia in September 2013.

Feedback from live radio interview with Dr Linda Wilson on 97.7FM for the Health and Wellness Show: “Listening right now. Well done lovely, so great! I think it was really important to talk about how fear can make things hurt more – it makes people not just stick their head in the ground. And about “birth is letting go.” I think getting any awareness out there is amazing.” ~ Doula Kate Bentick (Melbourne, Australia)

Pictured above: Deep in contemplation on the panel of Doula Conference 2018 – Australia (alongside Kelly from BellyBelly and Maha Al Musa from EmbodyBirth and Sunderai Midwife over the heavy topics of rising medical intervention rates, birth trauma and obstetric violence…..or as Maha described it, deep meditation and holding space 🌸 all of us strong and determined to speak the truth ! Xx