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.
I'm on pause for the summer, but will be releasing new episodes in September 2025. In the meantime, check out my 77 available episodes on everything from sex after menopause, finding yourself again after loss and leaning into your intuition.
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
77 episodes
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...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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 Facebook friends a handwritten letter and You Cannot Mess Thi...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 is to inspire and empower women in midlife to create a new story for their lif...
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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...
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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...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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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...
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Episode 3
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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 confusing-but it is. I have walked out of multiple OBGYN offices with prescription...
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47:27
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 grew up. I was pretty surprised when a wave of grief about bein...
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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 interviews and new adventures. See you on the flip side !
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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 systems engineering at Kettering University before earning a master’s degree in technolog...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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46:45
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 experiences. From wild, exhilarating adventures to transformative moments, her year of discover...
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Season 2
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Episode 30
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47:05
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 than resign herself to a long and lonely life of widowhood in her early 50s, she chann...
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Season 2
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Episode 29
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51:54
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 in your life that are really really good, even when other parts are hard.
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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, gen x nostalgia and single cat ladies. Treena's fascinating book: Sticky, Sexy...
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Season 2
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Episode 27
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56:04
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 certified coach, an author and a sought after speaker. Her coaching approach is both comp...
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Episode 26
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44:01
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 step into themselves and their confidence. Claudia has an amazing breadth of experience...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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49:39