Meet Lauren Mcclain

We recently connected with Lauren Mcclain and have shared our conversation below.

Lauren, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

I have done some deep diving work on exploring what values that are important to me and to share with my family and center my family in. Service to others and helping folks navigating during a very transformative time brings me great meaning in helping myself growing and helping others grow during this great pivot of their lives, becoming parents. Being in birth work, there is a lot of preparation of “stuff” you need for babies, but I love to help guide those in the mental preparation that happens when our brain chemistry changes for parenthood.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I started off in language education and felt like I was more focused in the connection and relationships . I continued to work in these fields until I had an opportunity to work in project management for technology. I have been working in this field for ten plus years when I had the oppourtunity of bringing my building safe spaces, containers for learning, to the. birth world as being a birthworker and childbirth educator.

I am working on expanding new collaborations with other birth workers in the area, in person community birth classes, and expanding birth classes in certain area hospitals.

Later down the road, I am hoping to provide more 1:1 prenatal, labor and postpartum support and containers for birthing folks can expand their learning and exploration beyond birth.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

THe three skills I continue to developed:
-Listening
-Focusing on prescence
-And building community with others. I am a full believer of abundance comes forth the more you collaborate with others.

What do you do when you feel overwhelmed? Any advice or strategies?

I am a big fan of writing lists and goals.

If I feel overwhelmed, I take a step back and look at the day, what do i need to do to give myself time and feel like it is to move towards that goal, then take a further step back to look at the week, what can I say no to?, then take a step back to the month, Have I taken a moment for rest? If no, how can I prioritize this?

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