Your Magical Midlife
Calling all wildflowers, late bloomers, seekers and dreamers: Your Magical Midlife is for women 40+ who never (quite) fit in.
I'm Kate Higgins, a licensed therapist turned coach. I walk women through the portal of midlife using four archetypes: The Maiden, The Mother, The Empress and The Crone-each phase bringing wounds and wisdom.
This podcast is part confessional, part advice column, and part deep dive interviews with untamed woman living lives of their own creation. If you're tired of midlife content geared towards losing weight and "fixing" yourself, you're in the right place.
When I was struggling through menopause and the reckoning that is aging, the only support available to me was focused on preserving the 35 year old version of me-insisting that I should stay frozen there in that "ideal".
I couldn't find anything geared towards the emotional and spiritual challenges I was facing –let alone anywhere that was CELEBRATING it. So I decided to create it myself from scratch.
Midlife is a Portal, and I'm here to witness and support you as you dance, leap (or even) limp through it. It's okay. I got you.
Check out my website: www.yourmagicalmidlife.com
Follow me on Instagram: @yourmagicalmidlife
Book your FREE 20 minute coaching curiosity call: https://calendly.com/kate-katehigginslcsw/curiosity-call
Episodes
86 episodes
E86: Wild Free and Filled With Glee: Why do we squash little girls who dream big ?
From a young age, little girls are told to quiet down, be polite, and stop being “too much.” We trade their sparkle for “appropriate” and their freedom for approval.In this episode I share my own story of rebelling against those expectat...
E85: Magic Happens When Women Gather
I just got back from Santa Fe, where I led a private Craft Your Crown day with one incredible client, and I’m still feeling the afterglow.Midlife can be lonely. Kids launch, parents pass, careers go stale, and sometimes even longtime fri...
E84: The Day The Training Wheels Came Off
This is a vulnerable share. I am presenting this story at an event in Santa Fe called Third Act Quest created by Diana Dunbar-Place, an amazing woman who I interviewed on this podcast (E36) This story is about the expectations place...
E83: ADD ? Overwhelm ? Perimenopause ? Why not all ?
Stress is at an all time high, look at the news and it's completely overwhelming- if you're feeling "flakier" you are not alone. Breathe, babe
E82 Midlife isn't a crisis. It's a portal
I'm so tired of people insisting that midlife is some kind of crisis. Midlife offers the opportunity of a lifetime-the opportunity to step fully into the woman you were meant to be.
E81 It's Time To Craft Your Crown
A wedding, baby shower, graduation, or 21st birthday should never be the last time a woman is surrounded by community, witnessed, and joyfully celebrated.Society throws confetti for the young—but what if we threw just as much (...
E80 Robo-Coaches vs Real Talk: Artificial Intelligence And Artificial Affirmation
Ai is everywhere and quickly taking over. ChatGPT’s great for quick facts or recipe hacks, but as a replacement for a therapist or life coach? 👀This week, I did a little experiment. I talked back and forth with Chat about a (...
E79 The Case Against Therapy
I've been in the mental health field for over 25 years and I have some bad news: traditional therapy doesn't really help. Talking about the same problems, retreading the same stories, isn't that effective. What does help ? Take a listen
E78: The Pause That Healed Me: Grief, Grace, and Celebrating Midlife Magic Again
After 77 episodes and a necessary (but longer than intended) pause, I'm returning with this soft relaunch episode. I open up about the real reason for my absence: processing the death of my father and giving myself the space to grieve.Now, ...
E77: It's Time for A Sacred Pause
Hi it's Kate-I am in the process of an exciting rebrand and relaunch of Your Magical Midlife The Podcast. I will be back on September 4th with a refocus on walking you through the four feminine archetypes: The Maiden, The Mother, The Empr...
E74 And Now For Something Completely Different
On Mother's Day I led a healing ceremony for women who had walked the childless or childfree path by chance, choice or somewhere in between. I was really proud of what I managed to offer and blown away by the vulnerability and open hearts of th...
E76 You Deserve Sexual Pleasure at Any Age: A Conversation with Susan Bratton
“Intimacy Expert to Millions” — Susan Bratton is a champion and advocate for all who desire passionate relationships.Flashes of brilliance pop like paparazzi as Susan rolls out one relationship epiphany after another. When she des...
E75 Building a Foundation of Self Care with Therapist and Coach MJ Vachon
MJ Vachon is a licensed clinical social worker and coach of over 30 years. She specializes in helping clients to build a foundation of self care. In an increasingly stressful and overstimulating world, MJ offers her clients her signature "NEST"...
E73 Yaaaas Queen ! An interview with Elizabeth Hammond aka The Queen Whisperer
Elizabeth Hammond is a leadership coach with a twist-she doesn't coach her clients to play the game and fit in, she coaches her clients to stand out ! Elizabeth's signature We Queens Leadership Framework™, unlocks the codes to collapse ti...
E72 Tracy Gold: Dressing the body you have now
Tracy Gold is a NYC based stylist and designer who wants women to feel beautiful, comfortable and (yes) sexy as their bodies shift and change in peri and menopause. We have an amazing conversation about aging and personal style.
E71 In Our Hag Era A Conversation About Performing Over 40
Lesli Baker is the creator of the Instagram and Substack platform In Our Hag Era for shes and theys of a certain RAGE! Burly folx 45 +,this is a place to embrace aging, find like-minds, and share thoughts and feels. She...
E70: You Cannot Mess This Up a conversation with Amy Weiland Daughters
Amy Weinland Daughters is a keynote speaker, letter writer, satirist, sports journalist and author of Dear Dana: That time I went crazy and wrote all 580 of my Facebook friends a handwritten letter and You Cannot Mess Thi...
E69: Brenda Rigney wants you to be Aligned AF
Brenda Rigney went from being the COO of an $80 million business to starting a company of one. For 27 years, she led sales, marketing, tech, HR, and operations teams for brands like Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Earls Restaurants, and Nurse N...
E68: Maiden Mother Empress Crone
The Maiden, Mother, and Crone archetypes traditionally represent the cyclical nature of life, encompassing youth, motherhood, and old age/death, respectively. As I have been aging, reflecting and mining my own life, I have come to ...
E67: Hot Or Just Me ? Carin Luna-Ostaseski
Carin Luna-Ostaseski is one of the founder of Hot Or Just Me ?, a menopause support platform that offers products and solutions for women in midlife. She's a fascinating woman who has pivoted multiple times. She began her...
E66: Jen Rigley Flourishing Over Fifty
Jen Rigley is an author, motivational speaker and personal transformation expert focused on women’s empowerment and living your best life after 50. Her mission is to inspire and empower women in midlife to create a new story for their lif...
E65: Body Bummers
I'm heavier than I'm used to being and heavier than I think of myself in my head right now. My favorite dress doesn't fit. At this stage and has of life, I am done done DONE with being that woman who is obsessed with her weight. I j...
E64: Tapping into Your Magic with Kelly Stegmann of The Boho Witchery
Kelly Stegmann is on a mission to make magical accessible to all. She is a fellow tarot reader, healer and psychic. She has a gorgeous online community called The Nebula which holds sacred circles, group divination and readings. She is funny, s...
E63: Kate Valentine A Woman of A Certain Rage
Kate Valentine (playwright/producer/choreographer/actor) is one of the instigators of the feminist neo-burlesque movement. Her show, the vaudeville extravaganza The Va Va Voom Room and her hilariously deadpan mistress of ceremonies character Mi...