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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…
Episodes
- Your Magical Midlife
E109: The Siren Song of Self Sabotage
The leap feels amazing. Then comes the predictable panic. Leaving the job, leaving what’s dead, building Desert Bloom. Dreams are safe. Doing can fail. Fear…
- Your Magical Midlife
E108: You're Becoming Not Broken
Why I’m easing off traditional psychiatry toward ceremonial work. Diagnoses as a guessing game. Medications that may or may not help. Ten years of retreading…
- Your Magical Midlife
E107: Feral Woman Fall
Hot Girl Summer grows up. Gets some sleeves and eats at dusk. She's still got her wild streak but with a tired nervous system. Maiden / Mother / Empress /…
- Your Magical Midlife
E106: Caftans and Cancelled Plans
It's Saturday night, and we are north of 40. The couch wins. A caftan, a canceled plan, Tim Gunn over a Tito’s and tonic. Gen X already got it in — this is off…
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E105: Four Days, Five Planes. One lesson.
Ojo site visit for Desert Bloom was done and dusted. Then off to The Midst in Pasadena for The Midst: How The Fuck to Old, Justina Blakeney. Inspiration…
- Your Magical Midlife
E104: Soft Girl Era
I was humbled at the physical stress and strain I felt while recently traveling to NYC-a place I thrived in not that long ago. I need more now. And that's…
- Your Magical Midlife
E103: On A Clear Day You Could See Forever: 9/11 reflection
I witnessed the terrorist attacks while working on an inpatient adolescent psych unit at Elmhurst Hospital. Here's how that day changed me, changed NYC and…
- Your Magical Midlife
E102 Closure
In August I traveled North to scatter my father's ashes in the Long Island Sound. It was the complicated closure I didn't even know I needed. Releasing…
- Your Magical Midlife
E101: The Wound IS The Way
Your Wound Isn’t in the Way — It Is the Way What if the parts of your story you’ve been trying to hide are actually the very things that qualify you? In this…
- Your Magical Midlife
E100: Still Becoming
This is episode 100. In this special milestone episode, I look back at the messy, beautiful journey of the past hundred episodes — what I’ve learned about…
- Your Magical Midlife
E99: All Zoomed Out Why We Crave Connecting Face to Face
After years of screens, Zoom rooms, and AI chatbots, a lot of us are feeling it — that quiet hunger for real, in-person connection. In this episode I talk…
- Your Magical Midlife
E98: The Big Leap The Messy Magic of Becoming Your Own Boss
Three years ago I walked away from corporate life with big dreams and zero roadmap. In this honest reflection, I share the real, unfiltered story of what it’s…
- Your Magical Midlife
E97 From Watched to Witnessed
From 1970s catcalling being “just how it was,” to the thrill and cost of being seen on burlesque stages and in NYC nightclubs, I spent decades navigating life…
- Your Magical Midlife
E96: Finding Beauty in Being Temporary
Midlife keeps handing us reminders that nothing lasts forever — friends getting sick, peers passing, bodies changing. Instead of spiraling into gloom, this…
- Your Magical Midlife
E95 Aging is Agency
For far too long, we’ve been told that menopause is the beginning of the end — the end of youth, desirability, vitality, and power. In this episode, I’m…
- Your Magical Midlife
E94: Sacred Silliness
We’ve been taught that by the time we reach midlife we should be serious, dignified, and “appropriate.” But what if play, laughter, and being a little…
- Your Magical Midlife
E93: The Joy Of Becoming
The Joy of Becoming is about giving ourselves permission to stop performing and start living more fully as who we actually are. It’s the shift from: Shrinking…
- Your Magical Midlife
E92: Who The F Does She Think She is ??!!
That sharp, judgmental voice in our heads — “Who does she think she is?” — shows up for so many of us in midlife. Sometimes we direct it at other women. More…
- Your Magical Midlife
E91: Unmasking In Midlife
Midlife is the time when many women begin to feel a deep ache to shed the masks they’ve been wearing for decades. In this episode, we explore the powerful…
- Your Magical Midlife
E90: The Tender In-Between: The Complexity of Being an Ambivalently Childless Woman
In this episode I talk openly about the messy middle space so many of us live in — not happily childfree, not desperately grieving, but somewhere in between. I…
- Your Magical Midlife
E89: In Defense of My Free Range Face
In this episode I talk about something I’ve been thinking about for years: what happens when we freeze those expressions with Botox. Research shows that Botox…
- Your Magical Midlife
E88: Fun Is The Medicine
Fun isn’t frivolous. Fun is medicine. And play is a form of prayer. The wild, silly, filled-with-glee Maiden inside you never actually left. She’s just been…
- Your Magical Midlife
E87: Grieving Girlhood-The Grief No One Talks About
We talk about a lot of losses in midlife — but we rarely talk about the quiet grief of saying goodbye to the girl we used to be. There’s a real ache that comes…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
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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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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 The waitlist is…
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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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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 !…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
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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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
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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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
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…
- Your Magical Midlife
E62: HRT Made Easy with Dr Cathleen Brown of Winona
I'm thrilled to share this conversation with Dr Cathleen Brown the new medical director of the Telehealth medicine company, Winona. HRT should not be…
- Your Magical Midlife
E61: Childless by Chance
I was never one of those women who actively said "No kids for me". I was also not one of those little girls who played house and wanted to be a Mommy when I…
- Your Magical Midlife
E60: The Power Of A Pause
Thank you so much for listening to Season 2 of Your Magical Midlife. I am taking a pause but will re-launch on Valentine's Day 2025 with new episodes, new…
- Your Magical Midlife
E59 Jane Boon The Calculated Muse: From Engineering to Erotica
Jane Boon is an adventurer at heart and a technologist by training. She is fascinated by how things work and why things happen. Jane studied manufacturing…
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E58: Staci Berkovitz Naked at 50
Staci Berkowitz is the author of the recently released memoir, Naked at 50. The year she turned 50, Staci made a bold decision: to say YES to 50 new…
- Your Magical Midlife
E57: Grieving in 6” Heels: How Amy Gabrielle Found Herself Again After Widowhood
Amy Gabrielle, aka The Manhattan Milf, made the unexpected choice to start an online erotica page after the devastating loss of her husband to cancer. Rather…
- Your Magical Midlife
E56: Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving and gratitude. Short and sweet. Even when things are hard, there is so much to be thankful for. I hope this episode helps you to find the things…
- Your Magical Midlife
E55: Treena Orchard Sticky Sexy Sad Dating in the Digital Age
Dr Treena Orchard is an anthropologist who has been exploring sex and dating in the digital age. This episode covers everything from trauma, gender identity…
- Your Magical Midlife
E54: Sairan Aqrawi Finding Your Hidden Gems
Sairan Aqrawi is an engineer turned business coach for women in midlife. She immigrated to the United States with $700 and millions of dreams. She is a…
- Your Magical Midlife
E53: Claudia Noriega-Bernstein Don't Shrink To Fit
Claudia Noriega-Bernstein is the hostess of the award winning podcast Don't Shrink To Fit. As an abundance coach, she works 1:1 with clients helping them to…
- Your Magical Midlife
E52: Sacred Sensuality: Christine Marie Mason on Reconnecting to Your Magic in Midlife
Christine is a six-time founder and CEO, with a deep interest in women's wellness and the liberation of all people. She's a futurist, a yogi, tantrika, mother…
- Your Magical Midlife
E51: Had a Dad
My dad died. I was not expecting him to. At least not last week. Sitting with him for the last 2 weeks of his life was an intense, sad, spiritual experience…
- Your Magical Midlife
E50: Yes, Menopause Can Be Magic: Dr. Fiona Lovely on Thriving, Not Surviving
In honor of October 18th which is World Menopause Day, I am so thrilled to have Dr Fiona Lovely as a guest. She is the host of the OG midlife podcast: Not Your…