EXPERIENCE 94 | Althea Hrdlichka, Delivering Babies and Knowledge to the Community!

Althea Hrdlichka is the Founder and Owner and Midwife at Tender Gifts Midwifery and Birth Center in Fort Collins.  After years of supporting Northern Colorado moms through at-home births, Althea took a leap of faith and opened her birth center in the fall of 2020, navigating an abundance of regulations - covid and otherwise - and finding strong market demand for their services from the beginning.  

I first met Althea several years ago, when she sought support through the Larimer SBDC for a business plan and SBA loan package to open her birth center.  From our first meeting, I could see she was passionate about her craft, focused on healthy moms and babies, and willing to put in the work to see her dream to fruition.   

This episode covers a lot of ground.  A key element is an introspection on the journey in transitioning from a solo operator, with minimal overhead and few managerial responsibilities - to a 20+ person enterprise, with high overhead and much more complexity - during a pandemic!  Another is Althea’s journey to becoming a midwife, inching closer and closer as she delivered each of her children - until her young son told her she should be a midwife!  Althea has a powerful why, a servants’ heart, and a wonderful story to share, and I hope you’ll tune in.  

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