Download and view our Playbill in pdf format.

Note: Unfortunately, one special BOLD message was unintentionally left out of the Playbill that we can’t forget to mention here: “To my sister Heddy—who's inspired and cared for me in ways I can never repay.
To my daughters Emma and Lilah—your love has made me a bigger and better person.” (from Angela Habeck)

BOLD Talkback Session

The play performance is followed by a BOLD Talkback Session facilitated by: Sue Blythe (Sue Blythe is mother of three and grandmother of one. After three natural births, she became a parent educator, and now offers spiritual parenting classes. www.sueblythe.com)

Our Talkback Panelists:

• Jennie Joseph
  Ms. Joseph was born and raised in England when her parents emigrated from Barbados in the 1950’s. She received her midwifery education from Barnet School of Nursing and Midwifery in affiliation with Edgware General Hospital in London. Ms. Joseph brings 26 years of combined expertise to help pregnant women achieve the birth of their dreams.
  
  After moving to Florida in 1989, Ms. Joseph pursued a Midwifery license through the State. As Executive Director of The Birth Place a free-standing birthing facility in Winter Garden, Florida, Ms. Joseph sees women from all walks of life that are expecting healthy babies and who choose a natural birth. The Birth Place Birthing Center’s mission is to provide a service to the local Orlando area community by offering quality maternity care for all women. The JJ Way™ MCH healthcare delivery model was developed by Jennie and has shown such promising outcomes for indigent women that Winter Park Health Foundation has funded an ongoing research study.
  
  Recently, Ms. Jospeh has also given birth to a new book (available for signing and purchase at the Birth Fair) called, Beautiful! Images of Health, Joy and Vitality in Pregnancy and Birth.
  
  
• Shannon Mitchell
  Ms. Mitchell is a birth advocate seeking to give voices to women. Currently practicing as labor support, certified lactation counselor and childbirth educator, her service to women also includes 5 years as Information Services Director for ICAN and the owner/moderator of the ICAN of Florida Yahoo Group, volunteering as a CBE and doula for jailed women and those in financial need. She is the co-founder of "Birth Action/Birth After Cesarean" (www.birthaftercesarean.com) and currently serves as the Vice President of Florida Friends of Midwives. Her most amazing role is being a wife to Brian and mother to her four children: Liz, Lashley, Lara and Alex, who all give graciously of their time when Mommy has to "go help another Mommy." When asked why she feels so passionate about birth, Shannon frequently answers: "I have three daughters. If the cesarean rate is 1 out of three, which one do you want me to pick? I have no choice but to fight for better care for moms and babies."
  
  
• Paige Allison, Ph.D.
  Ms. Allison is a cultural anthropologist, educator, spiritualist, and social justice advocate.
  
  She believes in humanity, sanity and living in love.
  
  
• Dr. John Joseph Johnston
  Dr. Johnston graduated from Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic in 1981 with his Doctor of Chiropractic Degree (D.C.). He has practiced chiropractic in Gainesville since 1982 and is the only graduate of a Straight Chiropractic College in our community.
  
  He is recognized for his gentle and caring approach to his patients. He is also well known in the community for bringing the benefits of Chiropractic to the public with the many seminars and lectures he gives. He believes that healthy women, are physically, mentally and socially the real super-models of the good life and through chiropractic care allows elemental health energy to flow out from an improving spine and the strong posture that says you are alive and well...naturally. Dr. Johnston believes chiropractic is the loving way to protect family health. The family that gets adjusted together truly grows healthy together and proudly shows X-rays of his wife and children and long-term staff members. He practices what he preaches and enjoys the health out of it!