The Guild
This is your invite into The Guild
The support community for the Menopause Doula Council
Doula Scholars — the Menopause Doula Certification is your beginning. Your seat at our table is waiting.
The Guild is where we each build a thriving consulting practice, where we keep learning, and where we grow together.
Graduation isn’t the finish line.
It’s the first day of your business.
Your Menopause Doula certificate arrives, and you’ll feel proud — rightly so. Then a new kind of learning begins. Your first client. The first case that doesn’t fit neatly into a module. The first time you name your price out loud and feel the inner cringe of omg-that’stoomuch-amIreadyforthis-doIknowwhatIamdoing-eeeeeeeekkkk.
That feeling? Completely normal. It’s how expertise is built — one client, one question, one brave price at a time.
And it grows fastest in good company.
The Guild is where your certification becomes a practice — built step by step, alongside the women you’ve learned with all year, with me and a circle of trusted experts holding the room.
The Guild feels like a chat with your best friend. Like grandma’s kitchen with a steaming mug of tea and cookies in the oven. Like a long, full-body hug from women who understand this work — because they’re building it too.
It’s where we come to be nourished, have our skills sharpened, and feel championed. Where we discuss the science, get clear on our business plans and executables, and hold space for the sacredness of being a menopause support practitioner.
We educate, advocate, and validate — our clients and each other.
The curriculum
Our Guild Curriculum — designed to get you off the ground
Get visible, get paid, get clients.
The first three months is your practice, taking shape.
October 28 · noon MT
Get visible.
Choose your home base — website or social channel — nail your message, and start building. Printed materials and networking, too.
November 27 · noon MST
Get paid.
Shape your signature offer and set a price you can say out loud. Yes, we’ll practise until the eeeeeeeekkkk fades.
December 16 · noon MST
Get clients.
Walk through the discovery call, welcome new clients with polish, and map your first 90 days of 2027.
Every call is 30 minutes of teaching, then we get to work together. We workshop your needs and you leave with real work done — not just notes. In between our calls, MDCouncil Mentor co-working sessions keep your momentum going.
The goal: head into the new year with your platform live, your offer priced, and your plan in hand.
From January, we alternate — guest expert fireside chats one month, community calls on business or clinical skills the next. Schedule to be released soon.
The founding class
You’re the founding class
Every cohort that follows will join a table you set.
You’re the first Menopause Doulas to build your practices inside this community. The rhythms, the rituals, the culture — you shape them first. That’s why this class holds a monthly rate no future cohort will see, and a place in the Council’s story that belongs only to you.
Inside The Guild
What becomes possible inside The Guild
You keep sharpening your business and clinical skills — live, every month.
To kick off your practice building season, we will be meeting monthly with intensive business building advice and workshopping. In January 2027, our calls will be alternating between a guest expert for a fireside chat, business acumen or clinical pearls. I will choose the focus based on what our community needs most. Mid-month, a voice note from me lands in your portal — insight, encouragement, or a resource I think you need.
You have dedicated time to work on your business.
Guild Mentors — handpicked from within our community — run monthly co-working calls, so the business tasks that keep getting pushed to “someday” finally get done. They also hold office hours and answer community questions between our live sessions.
You look like an established practice from day one.
The Council Branding Kit gives you polished Canva templates for business cards, social media, client intake, email signatures, and welcome packets — all in the Council’s visual language. Add your name, photo, and colours, and you’re ready to be seen.
Clients will be able to find you.
Coming in early 2027: the Find-a-Doula Directory on menopausedoulacouncil.com. Guild members will receive a Featured Listing — priority placement, a Guild badge for your socials and website, an expanded profile, direct booking, and Council referrals.
You expand what you can offer your clients.
Every other month, our 2027 guest experts — hormone specialists in their own right — join us on thyroid health, nutrition, pelvic floor health, the spiritual portal of menopause, hormones, and healthy aging. Every session deepens the support you bring to your clients and sharpens your sense of when, and to whom, to refer.
Your business library keeps growing.
A resource library that builds every month — business resources, tools, session recordings, and materials from me and our guest experts — shaped, in part, by you.
You build alongside your cohort.
A private space for the founding members of the Council’s peaceful army. Peers who are building their practices at the same stage you are, sharing what’s working and cheering each other on.
Membership
What’s included
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One live 60-minute Zoom with Dr. Lovely each month, alternating between guest expert fireside chats and community calls on business mastery or clinical skills — plus ongoing community celebration
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Guild Mentor support — monthly co-working calls, office hours, and community questions answered between sessions
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The Council Branding Kit (Canva templates)
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A growing resource library, including business resources and every session recording
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A mid-month voice note from Dr. Lovely
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Private founding community space, inside the same portal you already know (one login)
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Featured Listing in the Find-a-Doula Directory on menopausedoulacouncil.com (coming early 2027)
Is this you?
The Guild is for you if
You’re a new Menopause Doula, certified by the Menopause Doula Council and ready to turn your certification into a thriving consulting practice
You want practical guidance on business building, marketing, pricing, and landing your first clients
You’d love to build your business alongside the women you’ve learned with this year
You want continuing education from Dr. Fiona Lovely and the guest experts that we know and trust
You believe the strongest practices are built in community
Pricing
Founder’s pricing — for this class only
You’re the first class to take a seat at this table, and your pricing honours that.
Monthly
The Founder’s Rate
$195
USD / month
($265 CAD)
Annual
Prefer to pay once a year?
$1,950
USD / year
($2,650 CAD) — that’s 12 months for the price of 10. Two months are on us, a savings of $390 USD ($530 CAD).
Your rate is locked in for as long as you stay. As long as your membership remains active, your Founder’s Rate never goes up — not next year, not five years from now.
Future cohorts will pay more. Starting in 2027, new members join The Guild at the standard rate of $247 USD / month ($336 CAD). The Founder’s Rate is reserved for this founding class of Doula Scholars. If your membership lapses, you would rejoin at the standard rate.
When it begins
The Guild opens on October 11, 2026 — the day after graduation. Our first community call is October 28 at noon MT, and we’re diving straight into marketing your doula business.
The Guild is a choice, never a requirement. Your certification stands on its own. The Guild is simply where you get to keep growing — with us.
Founder’s Rate available to Doula Scholars who join by 11/1/2026 at midnight MST.
You were made for this work.
Now let’s build the practice that lets you do it — together.
You’ve learned side by side all year. I would be honoured to keep growing with you.
Pull up a chair. 🌙
I look forward to seeing you inside our community,
Dr. Fiona Lovely