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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
E49: Burn Out: Struggling with The Tornado of Tasks
This week is a solo (and short!) episode. Do you have too much on your plate ? Does your life feel unmanageable ? Are you exhausted and burnt out ? Do you have…
- Your Magical Midlife
E48 Midlife Manifesting with The Biddy Tarot
Brigit Esselmont aka "The Biddy Tarot" is one of the most recognized names in the Tarot and spiritual community. In 2012. Brigit walked away from a successful…
- Your Magical Midlife
E47 Alyssa Abrahamson Healing From Within
Alyssa Abrahamson is a holistic wellness coach whose focus is self compassion and auto immune healing. She is the host of the podcast Positively…
- Your Magical Midlife
E46: Holly Lamb Living in Alignment With Your Inner Seasons
Holly Lamb is a UK based health and wellness coach who shifted her focus to hormonal health after being diagnosed as being perimenopausal in her early 30s…
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E45: Perimenopause is a Portal
Perimenopause is the gateway. It's a portal. It's the portal between your old self and your new self. And you have to walk through fire to get there. It's a…
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E44: Dump The Frump with Stylist Mary Michelle
Mary Michelle Nidiffer is a Master Style Coach, Life Coach + Founder, StyleFinder Boutique based out of Raleigh NC. She is on a mission to help women in…
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E43: OMG WTF is Happening To My Face ??? Confronting The Stranger In The Mirror
When you get to "a certain age" you may be startled when you see yourself in the mirror. One of the things there is so little discussion around is the overall…
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E42: The Great Escape: Ditching Corporate In Midlife
A year ago, I voluntarily participated in a corporate lay off and ditched my 8-5 for good. I had been at that safe, secure, and (boring) job for almost a…
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E41: The Queen Of The Crone Age A Conversation with Kit Messick
Kit Messick is an archivist, horse enthusiast, and world traveling adventurer. She and I met in the early 90s while gogo-ing in some of NYC's biggest…
- Your Magical Midlife
E40: I No Longer Identify As Young
Baffled by youth culture ? Not understanding "the kids" ? Still under the impression that it's 1998 ? Not knowing when this happened to YOU ? You are not alone…
- Your Magical Midlife
E39: Confessions Of A Middle Aged Showgirl
When I was 38 years old, already pressured by "time" I took it upon myself to take up burlesque despite the fact that I was well into my more traditional…
- Your Magical Midlife
E38: Are Your Affairs in Order ?
It's not a fun thing to think about-but we need to. What would happen if you suddenly got ill ? Did you have a Power of Attorney ? A Medical Proxy ? A Will ? A…
- Your Magical Midlife
E37: Wendy Perrotti Why You Should Go To Camp Reinvention
Wendy Perrotti is a master-level Certified Professional Coach, speaker and leadership trainer with over 25 years of experience in helping individuals and…
- Your Magical Midlife
E36: Diana Dunbar Place: It's Time For Your Third Act
Diana Dunbar Place has a 40-year professional career that spans advertising, a leadership role at America Online (AOL-Time Warner) and three entirely different…
- Your Magical Midlife
E35: Escaping The Self Doubt Spin Cycle
Self doubt creeps in at the most inconvenient times. You can be hopped up and gung ho all excited about your life and BAM self doubt, fear, anxiety rear their…
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E34: Analog Girl In A Digital World
Has technology "gotten out from under you ?" Sometimes, I can't even believe that I am able to successfully record, edit and add music to this podcast. I am…
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E33: Weaving Sacred Rituals: Igniting Your Midlife Magic
Over the past decade, but louder in the past 5 years-more and more- I feel called towards spirituality and more specifically to ritual. As an unmarried…
- Your Magical Midlife
E32: Rachael Ran Away: A Life Of Wild Adventure.
Rachael Lancaster is a wellness coach who ditched NYC for a life of wild adventure. She is a professional house sitter who has traveled the Pacific Northwest…
- Your Magical Midlife
E31: From Fear to Flow
Sometimes we just get stuck and paralyzed with fear. What's at the root cause of this paralysis ? For me, it's always the fear that I am being judged. When I…
- Your Magical Midlife
E30: Rethinking Retirement
Retirement may be going the way of the dodo bird. Are Gen X-ers ever going to be able to afford to retire ? Do we even WANT to retire ? Can you build a life…
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E29: Are You Ready For Massive Expansion ?
Season 2 opens with the question: Are you ready for massive expansion ? Sometimes life shakes you sideways and you realize: it's time to grow. It's times to…
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E28 Brief Update
Welcome back to Season 2 of "Your Magical Midlife," This podcast is for women who are seekers, dreamers and out-of-the-box thinkers. If you are a Gen X woman…
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E27 Meet Me At The Crossroads
Midlife is a time of re-assessment and re-evaluation. You've lived a good portion of your adult life, you've had your ups and your downs. But what's next ? Do…
- Your Magical Midlife
E26: My Dad Has Dementia
The onset of dementia can be subtle and happen over time. What you've been writing off and mom or dad's "senior moment" could be normal aging or it could be…
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E25: Fear of Failing
If you live, it is inevitable that you will fail. And at times, fail hard. It's okay to try things and be bad at them. Don't let perfectionism get in the way…
- Your Magical Midlife
E24: The Magic of Dressing Up
The way that we present ourselves in the world affects the way we feel. Many women in midlife struggle with dressing their body as it changes or their identity…
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E23: Leaps of Faith
I'm releasing this on 2/29-Leap Day ! It begs the question-what is your relationship to taking big risks. Are you safety minded ? Avoid coloring out of the…
- Your Magical Midlife
E22: MenPOCOLAPSE Now !
Menopause gets so much negative press. If it's spoken about AT ALL. Thankfully, Gen X is changing that. In my late 30s and early 40s-I had so little…
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E21: Can You Embrace Your Changing Body ?
I thought I was in total self acceptance about my aging face and body. But, seeing a photo of me next to a much younger friend gave me a reality check about…
- Your Magical Midlife
E20: You Don't Have to "Earn" Rest
Have you bought into hustle culture ? Do you have to hit the wall and burn yourself entirely out before you allow yourself a day on the couch ? Do the words…
- Your Magical Midlife
E19: Breaking Up With Self Doubt
Putting yourself out there is scary ! This week vending at a big event caused a FLOOD of self doubt and anxiety that (almost) knocked me off my game. Self…
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E18: Have YOU Become Your Mother ?
They say it's inevitable, you reach a certain age and you WILL become your mother. You will find yourself saying things, doing things and thinking things…
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E17: Adulting is for Suckas
Do ever feel like an adolescent in an aging body ? Do ever startle looking in the mirror at your aging face when you feel like you don't even understand basic…
- Your Magical Midlife
E16: Making Friends in Midlife
It's not easy to make new friends when you are a grown lady. It feels like when we were younger, our lives were easier and more carefree there were more…
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E15 53 Is The New 53
I'm turning the big (HUUUGGE) 5-3 on January 5th-and I'm reflecting a lot on milestones, aging and HOW I want to age. Does being in midlife cause pause to…
- Your Magical Midlife
E14: My Biggest Lesson of 2023
2023 was a DOOZY ! So many lessons, some of which were the hardest of my life. Lessons of worthiness, boundaries and overworking. When you overwork from a…
- Your Magical Midlife
E13: A Season Of Stillness
What if you could reject the forced busyness of the holiday season and the "new year new you". What if instead, you embraced the cold dark days and allowed…
- Your Magical Midlife
E12: It is Safe to Soften
When is it time to put down diet culture and managing a shifting and "unruly" body for good ? Because of the way our bodies shift in our 40s and 50s, the ugly…
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E11: Represent ! Middle Age Beyond Mrs Garrett and Edith Bunker
Do you ever look in the mirror and feel like-is THIS what midlife is supposed to look like ? We get so many messages about aging the right way-at 45 or so you…
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E10: Rising And (Sometimes) Shining How I Became A Morning Person
Seems like yesterday, I was a night owl and nightlife person. Leaving my house at 10pm and coming home as other regular people were heading to work. Over the…
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E9: The Magic of Gratitude
Thanksgiving is here and the holidays have started. It's a good time to reflect on what's good and to focus on gratitude. I have a pretty robust gratitude…
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E8: The Gift Of Grief
Grief is so sneaky and weird, am I right ? Just when you think you have processed all that needs to be processed BOOM it hits you like a ton of bricks…
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E7: What's Too Young For a Life Alert ? Asking For a A Friend........
Have you reached a stage in life where you've fallen........and you're not SURE that you can get up ? It's humbling. It can even be frightening. It can feel…
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E6: Self Care When The World Feels Hard
Sometime the world feels hard- it feels cruel and sharp and unsafe. At times, it's hard to watch the news and feel good about humanity. Everywhere we look…
- Your Magical Midlife
E5: Caretaking For Your Difficult Parent
So you didn't grow up in a TV family. Itv wasn't the Seavers, The Keatons, The Bradys or that perfect family from This Is Us. What do you do when you are the…
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E2: Hello, Gorgeous
Hello and welcome to the premiere episode of Your Magical Midlife ! Today I am introducing myself and giving a little bit of background as to why I am doing…
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E3: WTF is "Midlife Magic"
Is midlife magical ? I think it can be if (IF) we get ourselves in the energy of magic, joy and possibilities. It's so easy to get stuck in the day to day…
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E4: Your Permission Slip
Do you ever feel like you're waiting for someone to tell you that it's okay to live the life that you want ? To chase your dreams ? To stop playing small ?…
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E1: The Trailer
Welcome to "Your Magical Midlife," the podcast dedicated to helping women 40+ navigate the transformative years of midlife with humor, ease, confidence, and a…