ABOUT SIA
Sia Ivone Antunes Blaser
Founder, The Business Doula & Sunflower Writing
Hello and welcome. I’m Sia, a business doula, writer, editor, mom, dancer, and all around very human person. I carry a lifelong fascination with cooperation, culture, and meaning-making, personally and professionally. For more than 15 years, I’ve been fortunate to bring this to each of my clients along with my executive skills, embodiment practices, compassion, and care.
Doula-ing, keeping someone company and offering heartfelt support of all kinds, is one of my deep callings. It has been my sincere honor to serve as a birth doula, postpartum doula, death doula, and business doula. In it all I am guided by core values of efficiency, presence, sustainability, relational empathy, care, and warmth.
My writing, editing, and marketing/PR work began at the woman-owned and -run Lisa Ekus Group (now, The Ekus Group), an esteemed non-fiction literary agency and PR firm, after earning a dual-degree in non-fiction writing and anthropology at Hampshire College. Following several years at the agency, I struck out on my own as a writer and editor and here I am a decade and a half later, still loving it.
It’s been my joy and pride to work on books such as Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World by Dan Koeppel, and The Co-Regulation Revolution: Tap the Power of Embodied Connection for Trauma Healing & Anti-Oppression Work by Beth Dennison. I’ve done food writing, copywriting, PR, social media, blogs, newsletters, internal and external email communication, and more. I have helped folks develop and produce educational programming, brochures, and websites and more.
In essence, doula-ing and much of my purpose in life is community-based service. I believe that the networks of connection we have are our greatest wealth. I participate in many community circles, from long-term women’s circles to serving on the board of dance events, joining a neighborhood somatic abolition study group, and organizing death cafes. From volunteering at the polls to bringing meals to families experiencing hardship and working with a cooperative of self-employed folks, I do what I can to ease loneliness and suffering, and to build bridges of shared humanity despite differences in experience and perspective.
Curriculum Vitae
∞ Dedicated to socio-environmental sustainability and social justice.
∞ Highly organized, self-driven, and excellent, collaborative team member.
∞ Passionate about creative thinking, new knowledge, and skills.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Editing, Writing & Content Creation. Remote, based in the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts. 2008 – Present
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Seventeen years of freelance experience, supporting multiple clients, and a wide variety of projects.
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Write and edit newsletters, blogs, press releases, non-fiction books, web content, business-to-client email communication, and more, on deadline.
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Produce and distribute social media campaigns.
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Clients include death doulas, therapists, bodyworkers, publicists, non-fiction authors, small businesses.
Office Manager. Bonnie G. & Company, Easthampton, MA. 2011 – 2020
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Responsible for professional and timely client and vendor communications.
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Maintained commissions accounts for successful accessories agency.
Literary and PR Associate. The Lisa Ekus Group, LLC. Hatfield, MA. 2007 – 2009
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Executive multi-tasking in a high-profile agency.
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Wrote and edited social media, marketing and PR materials, web content.
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Responsible for time-sensitive PR campaigns, book proposals, contracts, and client communications.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Bachelor of Arts, December, 2006
Dual Degree: Non-fiction Writing and Anthropology.
Included studies in journalism, ethics, sociology, race.
Going with Grace, Death Doula Training & EOL Planning, 2022 – 2023
La Chiara Method, Certification, 200-hour Life Coach Training, 2017 – 2020
ADDITIONAL STUDIES & CERTIFICATIONS
Birth & Postpartum Doula, Certificate from Warm Welcome
Authentic Marketing, with George Kao
Social Media for Entrepreneurs, with Zoe Blank
Embodied Activism for Racial Justice, year-long study group
Callings & Courage, career coaching
COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Marketing Specialist & Committee Member. Greenfield, MA. 2023 Death cafe series hosted by the Interfaith Council of Franklin County. Greenfield, MA. 2023
Produced social media and marketing materials. Collaborative planning, promotion, and execution of community-based, free to the public, series of death cafes and panel discussion on end-of-life topics. Each event attended by 30-80 community members.
Board of Trustees Member. Laurel Road Condo Association. January 2016 – 2018
Residential condo association management, including budgeting, planning road and landscape maintenance, homeowner communication, executed annual meetings and annual block party.
Co-founder Mothers’ Circle. Western Mass. 2012 – Present
Monthly mothers’ circle, a safe space for women to share and learn and receive peer support.
Cooperative Homeschool Playgroup. Western Mass. 2013 – 2017
Initiated and coordinated parent cooperative playgroup and homeschool group.
Board Member. Dance Spree, Northampton, MA. 2008 – 2011
Organized, weekly community dance event as a Board, and annual weekend of workshops and dance. Included consensus building, financial management, hosting and PR for events, and welcoming community participation.
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