There is a version of Alisa Marie Beyer that exists in boardrooms. She is a sharp and experienced healthcare executive, serving as the Founder of Let’s Talk Birthy. Alisa has a deep understanding of commercial strategy and leads efforts to develop pioneering prenatal tests. She is fluent in the languages of data, market readiness, and strategy, and she often wears high heels.
But there is another version of Alisa Marie Beyer, and this version is the one that defines her. This version is found in the quiet, charged, and sacred spaces of hospital birthing rooms, often in the deep hours of the night. This version is a “California gal” with a “cowgirl’s” grounded energy, a certified doula, a childbirth educator, and a student midwife. This version has held the hands of hundreds of women as they’ve brought life into the world. This version traded her high heels for hospital scrubs. And she has never looked back.
To understand Alisa is to understand that these two women are not in conflict. They are, in fact, the same person, fused by a singular, twenty-year obsession: bridging the world of birth and the world of business. She is a woman who looked at the modern way we make mothers and saw a profound gap, not of information, but of wisdom. And in what she calls a “later season of her own motherhood,” she has dedicated her entire life to filling it. She is not just a “birth nerd.” She is a translator, a guide, and, as she is now being recognized, one of the most influential women reimagining childbirth education on a global scale.
The Three Births and a Single Truth
To find the “why” that drives Alisa, you have to go back to her own transformations. “From the moment I had my first baby,” she says, “my world shifted completely.” She is a mama of three, and each birth was a different lesson. “My first taught me what I didn’t want to experience again; my second gave me the strength to try it my way; and my third proved that courage and belief in myself were the keys to a birth I felt good about.”
Her own journey from patient to parent taught her the core truth that now animates her life’s work. Motherhood, Alisa says, is “both messy and magical—often at the same time.” This beautiful, raw contradiction is what she saw missing from the sterilized, fear-based narratives surrounding birth. She saw a world that prepared women for an event, but not for the transformation.
This personal “why” simmered for years as her children grew. She was a mother, and she was a successful executive. But the pull of that transformative moment, the “sacred” work of the birthing room, was undeniable. She became, in her own words, “obsessed with birth and business.” Then, around six years ago, the obsession became a calling, and the pivot became permanent.
The Empty Nest and the New Beginning
The shift was not a gentle transition; it was a profound leap. It was a choice that “many thought… was crazy to do at her age.” But to understand what drives Alisa, you have to understand two moments in her own motherhood journey that “stopped her in her tracks.”
The first was leaving the hospital with her firstborn, a moment of pure, terrifying, and magical beginning. The second, decades later, was watching her youngest head off to college. “One was the beginning,” she confesses. “The other felt like an ending.”
In that ending, in the sudden, echoing silence of an empty nest, Alisa felt lost. She did not retreat. She did not fall. She stepped forward. She stepped back—back into the world of birth. She began, in earnest, her journey to become a midwife, doula, and educator. She started helping new moms bring their babies into the world.
It was here, in this return to the source, that her life’s purpose converged. Alisa found her “who.” She saw that “first-time moms were drowning in information but starving for wisdom.” They were overwhelmed by a torrent of conflicting advice, underprepared for the reality of the journey, and, most critically, “disconnected from their own power in the birthing process.”
The Frontline Philosophy
Alisa’s authority does not come from a textbook. It comes from the front lines of labor and delivery. “I teach from this frontline,” she says, and this is what sets her apart. “I don’t just talk about birth—I live it.”
Today, she is a certified childbirth educator and a birth and postpartum doula who serves U.S. Navy families, patients at a major Medical Center in California, and patients through her private practice. She is actively pursuing her Certified Professional Midwife credentials. She is, as she says, “in the room, shoulder to shoulder with women as they do the most powerful thing a human being can do: bring life into the world.”
After supporting over 100 hospital births, she has observed a powerful, defining truth. The “best” births, she noticed, were not the “easiest” labors. They were not the ones that went perfectly to plan. “The moms who have the most joyful, empowering birth experiences,” Alisa explains, “are the ones who walk into labor with agency.”
This is the core of her philosophy. The women who thrived were “grounded, informed, and deeply connected to their own strength. They know their choices, ask questions, and trust their intuition. They prepare not just for the birth they want—but for the birth they get.”
This is the revolution she is leading. It is a shift away from a “perfect birth” narrative and toward an “empowered birth” reality. “Because real empowerment,” Alisa insists, “isn’t about how birth unfolds—it’s about how you meet it.” This is what she is serving to the millions of mothers who will come after her.
Building the Bridge to Millions
Alisa’s work in the birthing room was the mission. Let’s Talk Birthy is the vessel. She knew she could not serve every mother, one-on-one. “I wanted to bring what I do for moms in the delivery room to millions of moms around the world,” she says.
Let’s Talk Birthy is her answer. It is a digital and in-person education platform built specifically to serve the first-time mother. It is the global expression of her frontline wisdom. The goal is to guide these mothers “from scared to prepared,” to give them the tools to “own their birth experience.”
“Childbirth can be scary, but it doesn’t have to be. Most first-time moms feel anxious and worried about childbirth and overwhelmed by conflicting information. And that’s totally normal.”
“I help you go from scared to prepared—by learning clarity, commitment, capability, and confidence—so you can create the safe, healthy hospital birth you want and the strong, beautiful start to motherhood you deserve.”
“When a mom walks into birth without support, she often abdicates control to circumstance,” Alisa explains. “But when she feels confident and supported, she’s far more likely to have the kind of birth she wants—and a stronger start to motherhood.”
Through her courses and workshops, she provides real-world, easy-to-understand guidance designed to help mothers “trust themselves and their bodies, and find joy in the journey.” It is a business model built entirely on her “why”: the belief that a good birth creates a better start to motherhood and that benefits the world.
Alisa is guided by a quote from the physician Michel Odent: “To change the world, we must first change the way the babies are being born.” This, Alisa says, “is my purpose now.”
The Executive and the Educator
This work alone is more than a full-time passion. But Alisa is still that other woman: the healthcare executive. As the Chief Education Officer of Dionysus Health, she leads the effort to bring myLuma™—a pioneering prenatal test that predicts a woman’s risk for postpartum depression—directly to OBs and the patients they serve. This isn’t a distraction from her mission. It’s an extension of it.
Her work is not just about the moment of birth. It is about the entire maternal journey. She is a woman who has seen the “messy” side of new motherhood. Just a few years into her frontline work, she encountered the devastating reality of postpartum depression. Her executive role is her “business” brain tackling the same problem her “birth” brain is. In 2025, she was named a Top 10 Most Trailblazing Healthcare Leader specifically for this work in addressing PPD.
Alisa is serving the mother before the birth by helping to identify her risk for PPD. She is serving her during the birth by giving her the tools for an empowered experience. And she is serving her after the birth by creating a community of support. Her work is a truly holistic, 360-degree approach to “reimagining” maternal healthcare. It is no wonder that in 2026, she is being recognized as one of the “Top 10 Women Reimagining Childbirth Education Globally.” She is not just changing the education; she is changing the entire framework.
The Sacred Work
For Alisa, this is not a job. It is not even a career. “The work I do is who I am,” she states with the quiet confidence of a person who has found her absolute purpose. “Every birth I support, every mother I guide, reflects my values and purpose. For me, this work is sacred.”
It is the sacredness of a moment that she believes defines the rest of a woman’s life. “Your birth is the moment you go from being someone’s child to being someone’s mother,” she says.
“It’s the beginning of stepping into that role… I believe a good birth helps a mom begin her journey as a mother stronger, more confident, and more connected to herself and her baby.”
This is the Alisa Marie Beyer way. From the boardroom to the birthing room, from a personal, transformative, “messy and magical” experience as a mother of three to a global mission, she is building a bridge for millions of women to follow. She is serving the next generation of mothers, one birth at a time, and reminding each one of them of a simple, profound truth: “Your birth matters so much to me.”
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