Jessie Harrold is a coach, doula, and author who has been supporting women through life transitions and rites of passage for two decades. She works one-on-one with women and mothers in her practice as well as facilitating group programs, circles, rituals, and retreats. A world-leading expert in matrescence (the transition to motherhood), Jessie is the author of the award-winning book Mothershift: Reclaiming Motherhood as a Rite of Passage and the editor of Mother Becoming: Reflections and Scholarship on Matrescence. She is also the author of Project Body Love and the host of The Becoming Podcast. Jessie lives on the wild Atlantic coast of Canada where she mothers her two children, befriends chickadees, herons, and seals, and swims in the ocean no matter the season.