Crone Rising with Lee Currie
You already know that midlife isn’t the beginning of the end - it’s the start of something powerful. Crone Rising is hosted by Lee Currie, a storyteller, writer, and neopagan witch, bringing you weekly deep dives into the wisdom, magic, and unapologetic truth of life beyond the maiden and mother years, through conversations with guest Crones. Each 15-minute(ish) episode will start with the same question: “How do you maintain your relevance in a society that wants you to be invisible?” with the life experience of each guest informing their answer. If you’re a spiritual seeker, a rebellious soul, or a woman embracing her divine feminine power in midlife and beyond, hit subscribe and join the conversation on aging, transformation, and the mystical path of the Crone.
Crone Rising with Lee Currie
EPISODE 018 | Nancy Drope: Fierce Self-Compassion and Generational Healing
In this deeply resonant conversation, Nancy Drope reflects on resilience, independence, and breaking generational patterns of silence and struggle. She shares how her yoga practice, astrology, and oracle cards ground her in optimism while guiding her journey as a grandmother of six. Together with Lee, Nancy explores themes of fierce self-compassion, gratitude, and the importance of play as a radical act in a culture obsessed with productivity. This episode is a call to embody unconditional love and to claim relevance in every season of life.
Key Topics Covered
- Maintaining visibility and relevance in a culture that erases older women
- The influence of grandmothers as independent role models
- Breaking cycles of trauma, grief, and emotional repression
- Practising fierce self-compassion and kindness toward oneself
- Tools for grounding: yoga, astrology, oracle cards, optimism
- Gratitude as both starting place and destination
- Reframing resilience without glorifying hardship
- The power of play and joy as radical, healing practices
After you listen to this episode, consider what practices — whether play, gratitude, or fierce self-compassion — help you stay visible and grounded in a world that often tries to erase women as we age?
Share your reflections with me on Instagram @crone.rising.pod or by email at hello@leecurrie.com.
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Crone Rising is for every woman who’s done being quiet and done being small. We’re not here to fade. We’re here to rise — unapologetic, unmuted, and unmissable.
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