What if I invest all this time and money into the course and I can't make it work?
Happy faces at our Postnatal Doula Training Day!
If you’re considering Antenatal Educator or Doula Training, you might find yourself wondering and worrying: “What if I invest all this time and money and I can’t make it work?” It’s a completely natural question. You’re looking at investing over £1000, thinking about the hours you’ll spend in training, the energy you’ll put into learning something completely new, and there’s that voice in your head asking whether it’ll actually turn into anything.
I’m not going to tell you that everyone who trains with us goes on to build a thriving business as an antenatal educator or doula, because that isn’t true. What I can tell you is that the people who don’t make it work aren’t failing because they weren’t good enough or because the training wasn’t thorough enough. They’re usually not making it work because they underestimated how much time it actually takes to build something from nothing, or because life got in the way and they didn’t have the support to keep going when things got hard.
Antenatal education and doula work are not quick wins. You’re not going to finish the course in April and have a full calendar of clients by May. It takes time to build trust, to get visible, to figure out your voice and your approach. Most people take about six months to a year before they’re consistently booking clients, and that timeline can feel really uncomfortable when you’re used to more immediate results.
The people who do make it work aren’t necessarily the ones with the most experience or the most confidence or the most time. They’re the ones who treat this like a real business from the start, even when it feels awkward or premature. They’re the ones who show up consistently, who ask for help when they need it, who don’t disappear when the first few months feel slow and give up when it can feel tempting to do so!
That’s exactly why we built The Perinatal Collective the way we did. Whether you choose our Antenatal Educator Diploma or Doula Training, you get a minimum of 12 months of support after you finish the training because we know that the real work happens after you’re qualified. You’re not just getting the course content and then being sent off to figure it out alone. You’ve got ongoing mentoring, a community of other educators and doulas who are in the same position as you, business templates, social media support, monthly workshops. We’re not interested in certifying people and then never hearing from them again.
The other thing I’ll say is that the investment isn’t just about whether you make your money back in the first year. For a lot of people, this training changes the entire trajectory of their working life. You’re learning skills that you’ll use for decades. You’re building something that can grow with you, that can flex around your life as your circumstances change. That’s worth something.
If you’re genuinely worried about whether you can make it work, I’d rather talk to you about it than have you sit with that fear and not do anything. Book a call with me and we can talk through what your life actually looks like right now, what kind of time you realistically have, what support you’d need to make this sustainable. I’d rather help you figure out if this is the right move for you than have you invest and then panic!
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