All Episodes
24 | Creating Safe Spaces for You and Your Clients During Lactation Home Visits
When a family reaches out to you for a home visit to help them with breastfeeding/chestfeeding or other lactation-related concerns, it’s natural to want to take some p...
23 | Making Sense of Insurance Coverage for Lactation Care
Your goal as a lactation consultant is to provide the best care you can to the families you serve, but far too often, insurance companies make this easier said than do...
22 | Diversifying Your Lactation Private Practice
By diversifying – opening up multiple channels of income within – your lactation consulting business, you are building yourself a sturdy foundation to prepare for lean...
21 | Growing Your Lactation Practice By Hiring Help
Many lactation consultants are used to working solo, and it can be hard to surrender certain aspects of your private practice to others. But if you feel like you’re sp...
20 | Productivity for Lactation Private Practice
As a lactation consultant, you’re keeping track of so much. Client care, running a business, keeping up with social media, and staying current with your clinical train...
19 | Even Lactation Consultants Need a Vacation
Lactation consultants are especially prone to burnout because our work is so intense. It can be hard to disconnect from your clients and from your business, but it’s e...
18 | 3 Ways to Collaborate with other IBCLCs
Whether you’re in solo private practice or feeling ready to expand into a group practice, making local connections with other IBCLCs and lactation helpers is good for ...
17 | Home Consult Bags, Office Visit Efficiency, and Feeling like a Know-Nothing Newbie: Listener Questions!
Annie and Leah have more listener questions in this episode of the Lactation Business Coaching podcast. From what’s in their home consult bags to running an office vis...
16 | Coffee, Social Media, Working with Referrals, and Handling Payments: Listener Questions!
Do you bring your coffee inside? What do you do when someone tags you on social media? What happens when the doctor disagrees with you? And finally—when is the best mo...
15 | Care Plans Can Be the Heart and Soul of Your Lactation Private Practice
When you leave a lactation consult, you have no idea what will happen next, because it’s entirely up to that individual family. But by providing your clients with a cl...
14 | Financial Real Talk: When You’re An IBCLC And Business Owner
Annie and Leah got into this business because they love caring for breastfeeding mothers and their babies. That skill doesn’t always coincide with business and financi...
13 | What Do You Wish You Knew When You First Started Out?
Are you new to the independent IBCLC practice? This episode is for you!Being an entrepreneur is tough work and it takes a brave soul. Go you for venturing out there! B...
12 | What Actually Happens During a Home Visit with a Lactation Consultant?
Leah and Annie take you through their individual routines for home visits. Home visits are personal and relational and it’s important to create a safe and comfortable ...
11 | Imposter Syndrome: When You Think You’re a Terrible IBCLC
Have you ever wondered when everyone around you is going to realize that you’re the worst lactation consultant on the planet? Well, we have! It’s called imposter syndr...
10 | The Delicate Balance: Personal and Professional Time
When you have a private practice, it’s so easy for your work life to bleed into your home life. Finding a rhythm for your days can help prevent you from working all th...
Charting Tips and Strategies for IBCLCs
Documenting what happens at a lactation consult is super important for so many reasons, but figuring out just want to say and how to say it can be challenging. In this...
8 | Compassion fatigue and the IBCLC
Overwork, compassion fatigue, burnout. It’s a common cycle for anyone in a helping profession, and it feels especially intense for lactation consultants because the st...
7 | Setting your fees: Charge what you’re worth, and make yourself worth it
In this episode, Annie and Leah talk about the tough topic of setting your fees for your private lactation practice.It’s so important to know your worth as a business ...