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Well, hello, my name is Jody McLeod. I am a occupier on the Squamish. Slaver, tooth and musqueam lands. I use she/her pronouns. And by day, I am a teacher.
 I am a resource teacher learning support teacher, everyone calls it, something different, an ESL teacher and an indigenous learning inquiry future. In Burnaby School District, I became a doula about 10 years ago, following the birth of my daughter who it was you know was my first pregnancy. She was a general Miss baby, which shouldn't surprise me because I was a journalist baby and
 My birth was really institutional and left me feeling gross. She ended up in the NICU for a week and I had a lot of lot of feelings afterwards. So, that experience, led me to become a doula. I did the wise woman way of birth program with the late great Jessica, Austin, and learned so much, but mostly I healed a lot.
 A, I didn't let go of the regrets I had for my birthday Ernie. And I came out of it. Just really wanting that for anyone that I could support. So, that's my why why I became a doula, my caregiving cell is very nurturing and rooted in like neuro, affirming ways of being and living. I want everything to be
 Person. First, I want everything to be how you want or need an in your best interests and in the best interest of your baby and family and environment and life. I want to hold space. I want relationship is most important to me. I want to make you laugh. I want to make you feel like you are seeing and calm and safe and
 That is everything to me. So if that means I have to sing that I will sing my expertise is, I'm a teacher obviously. So I'm a mom, I'm a teacher, I am very versed in the ways of neuro diversity. So that is one of my strong suits I believe in supporting families. So I'm just I'm
 There for you, whatever you need. I don't have anything. I would say no to well within reason. And yeah hit me up and look forward to meeting all of you and walking this journey with you. Thanks.

Well, hello, my name is Jody McLeod. I am a occupier on the Squamish. Slaver, tooth and musqueam lands. I use she/her pronouns. And by day, I am a teacher.

 I am a resource teacher learning support teacher, everyone calls it, something different, an ESL teacher and an indigenous learning inquiry future. In Burnaby School District, I became a doula about 10 years ago, following the birth of my daughter who it was you know was my first pregnancy. She was a general Miss baby, which shouldn't surprise me because I was a journalist baby and

 My birth was really institutional and left me feeling gross. She ended up in the NICU for a week and I had a lot of lot of feelings afterwards. So, that experience, led me to become a doula. I did the wise woman way of birth program with the late great Jessica, Austin, and learned so much, but mostly I healed a lot.

 A, I didn't let go of the regrets I had for my birthday Ernie. And I came out of it. Just really wanting that for anyone that I could support. So, that's my why why I became a doula, my caregiving cell is very nurturing and rooted in like neuro, affirming ways of being and living. I want everything to be

 Person. First, I want everything to be how you want or need an in your best interests and in the best interest of your baby and family and environment and life. I want to hold space. I want relationship is most important to me. I want to make you laugh. I want to make you feel like you are seeing and calm and safe and

 That is everything to me. So if that means I have to sing that I will sing my expertise is, I'm a teacher obviously. So I'm a mom, I'm a teacher, I am very versed in the ways of neuro diversity. So that is one of my strong suits I believe in supporting families. So I'm just I'm

 There for you, whatever you need. I don't have anything. I would say no to well within reason. And yeah hit me up and look forward to meeting all of you and walking this journey with you. Thanks.

Hello & What's Next

Hi. Lizzie here. We're so glad that you're part of our brood and that there's so many families who are curious to get to know you and a little bit about your story. We're using video in a creative way so families can see you, hear your voice, hear a little bit about your story, and understand if tour a good fit to jive. Jill's going to help you a little bit more with your setup and we're going to share a few questions for you to practice and think about when creating a really short, casual video to share with folks. Thank you so much for your energy and sharing a little bit about.

Getting Set Up

Jill. Here some quick ways to get set up. Grab your phone or your laptop with a video camera in it. Set it up somehow. Maybe you've got a stand or on a stack of books. You're going to find a natural source of light, like a window. Or if you're like me, you have one of those fancy ring lights. And then click record when you're ready. That's it.

You. So you're all ready to record. Your space is lit. You're looking great. Everything is calm and quiet. Now take out a pen and paper or a postit note, and you're going to think about these three prompts that you'll answer in your short video. The first is I became a doula because I became a doula because the the second is my caregiving style is my caregiving style is and the last my expertise is my expertise is we've created these three prompts, so you can share, pieces that you've studied, elements that you like to apply in your care work to families and anything that feels relevant and true to you. Anything that you would share in person. Make sure that you start all the prompts like you would in a conversation. My caregiving style is based on my cancer sign, I am a water sign. Blah, blah, blah. Whatever feels good to you. And our videos are under three minutes, so keep looking at a timer and keep talking and finish when you're ready to go. Good luck.

Thank you & get consent

That's it. You're all done. Thank you so much for submitting that video. It's really going to help our families get to know you a little bit better, more about your caregiving style, and help us set up the right pairings of doulas and families so they get the care that they need. If you have any questions or want any support in any of these things, do it again. Just want to talk it out with one of us. Get in touch with myself, Lizzie or Emma. That thank you.

Jodi McLeod