Speakers
Henci Goer
Dr. Sonal Patel, MD, CLE
Sonal Patel is a board-certified pediatrician, neonatologist, and breastfeeding specialist, with a passion for improving postpartum care and infant nutrition.
As the founder and owner of NayaCare: Fourth Trimester Clinic at Your Doorstep, she has dedicated her career to understanding and advocating for the critical importance of the fourth trimester in maternal and infant health.
Her multifaceted career includes being a published author and researcher, a TEDx speaker, a podcaster, Colorado medical director of Family Connects, and the co-founder of the Center of 4th Trimester Care, a national nonprofit organization.
Tenise Hordge, IBCLC
Tenise is the CEO of Mother’s Magical Milk, a full service lactation firm with a donor milk dispensary. She also serves as the Founder and Executive Director of More Milk Org., a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to increasing breastfeeding initiation and duration rates. She is passionate about the healing role human milk plays in our current health crisis. She is an advocate for normalizing breastfeeding through educating communities of the benefits and management of breastfeeding (the education of the benefits and management of breastfeeding).
As a dynamic and empowering speaker and coach, Tenise embodies the essence of leadership and empowerment. Through coaching and motivational speaking, she serves as a catalyst for personal and professional transformation, inspiring others to “Break Bad” and pursue their true calling.
Caren Nugent
Caren has been a Birth Boot Camp childbirth educator for nine years, a birth and bereavement doula for seven years, and a postpartum doula for three years. She is currently a childbirth educator and birth doula trainer. She co- facilitates a free weekly postpartum support group for moms in their first year postpartum.
She loves sharing birth knowledge with people, especially first time moms or 2nd time parents who are looking to have a different birth experience. She is a huge believer in birth education because when you don’t know all of your options you cannot make an informed choice.
Jaunitta Taylor
Jaunitta Taylor is a Birth Boot Camp Certified Doula and Instructor based in Arlington, TX. She has been married for 33 years and is the mother of four grown children—two sons and two daughters. Jaunitta holds a degree in elementary education with an endorsement in early childhood education. After her oldest child was born, she transitioned from the classroom to become a full-time stay-at-home mom.
Following three medicated hospital births, Jaunitta sought a different experience for her fourth birth. She collaborated with a hypnosis therapist and studied hypnosis for birth throughout her pregnancy, achieving a beautiful and empowering unmedicated birth in the hospital setting. Inspired by this transformative experience, she decided to share that empowerment with other women.
Jaunitta began her career in birth work in 2019. She currently serves as a birth doula in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and teaches childbirth education classes in Arlington. Additionally, she co-facilitates a weekly support group for postpartum moms in the Fort Worth/Arlington area.
Tamara Walker
Tamara is a speaker, radio and television personality, and former registered nurse, who now serves expectant and new parents as a Birth Boot Camp certified childbirth instructor, birth and postpartum doula and the owner of MomRN Birth Services. Tamara has experience on both sides of pitching the media and loves to share what she has learned to help other small business owners gain publicity and media attention. She has been online since 2001 as her alter ego, “MomRN”, providing practical information and advice for raising a happy, healthy family on MomRN.com. She hosted and produced the Ask MomRN Show from 2004 to 2018, where she shared parenting and health information, advice, and support. The Ask MomRN Show reached thousands of parents across the world and featured interviews with expert guests and many celebrity guests.
For over twenty years, Tamara has also been a frequent contributor for television news segments, radio and podcast segments, parenting and health websites, and print publications. She has been featured in two books on influential digital moms, Power Moms by Maria T. Bailey, and The Digital Mom Handbook by Audrey McClelland and Colleen Padilla, and has had two appearances on the Rachael Ray Show as well as other national programs. She was a guest co-host of “All About You” on KSBI in Oklahoma City and a featured regular contributor for several years on “Rise & Shine” on Freedom 43 TV in Oklahoma City and “Tulsa Live” on Fox 23 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in addition to numerous other media interview and appearances.
Tamara lives in Edmond, Oklahoma with her husband and they have two grown sons and two grandsons. She is passionate about educating and supporting expectant and new parents and connecting with other birthworkers.
April Francom
April Francom is one of the original founders of Birth Boot Camp, where she has dedicated 12 years as a member of the headquarters team. She held multiple positions over the years, including administrator and certification coordinator. In these roles, she was instrumental in creating and refining systems and operations.
As one of the first Birth Boot Camp Instructors, she built her own small business. She continues to teach birth classes and has recently been certified as a Postpartum Doula.
Passionate about supporting small businesses, April loves to network with, teach, and brainstorm innovative marketing strategies and system solutions with other entrepreneurs.
Melissa Attlee, CPM, LM
Melissa served in the Marine Corps for 9 years (2007-2016) as a photojournalist, including a tour in Iraq in 2009. This career led her to getting in Marketing and Advertising which she used to continue to work for the military in a civilian contractor capacity for 5 years after leaving the service. This is an unorthodox start for a midwife right?
She knew she wanted to be a midwife after the birth of her first daughter in 2010. She was scared away from the profession by nay sayers and worked in marketing and public relations for years – feeling too afraid to take the plunge. To fill the void she informally provided child birth education and doula services for years for friends and acquaintances – until she eventually became a certified BBC Doula in 2019 and started midwifery school shortly after.
She became a Licensed Midwife (LM) and Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) in 2023. She wouldn’t trade my years in the military or those that followed – they shaped me into the person she is and therefore – the midwife that she is. However, beginning her midwifery journey felt like coming home. She is where she was always meant to be!
