The Crone Stories

For the first time on The Crone Stories, the story is mine. At fifty, I had just closed a business I had spent almost ten years building. My family was carrying its debt, and I was still missing my mother. So I did the thing I had wanted to do since I ...

Nine women sat down with me this first season and trusted me with their lives. In this episode I look back at all of them: why I started The Crone Stories, why I chose the word Crone, what each woman brought, and what she told me when she heard her own...

Gertrude has spent her life being the one who is there. For her family, for her community, and for people in the last hours of their lives. She was raised by women who built something solid out of almost nothing, and she learned early how to keep going...

Miel has spent her life being the one who shows up. The one who plans, who fixes, who sends food before anyone thinks to ask. At fifty-one, the same age her mother died, she was handed something she could not organise her way around, and found herself ...

Lisa has been doing hair for twenty-two years and raising her son mostly on her own. She has also always run hot, so when perimenopause arrived it hid inside a trait she had carried her whole life. Nobody sat her down. Nobody explained it. She found th...

Kimberley Raeburn-Gibson has spent her life holding rooms together with sound. A choir director, a teacher, a minister's wife, a woman who learned early that the decent thing to do was keep quiet and hold it in. Then her body stopped cooperating. For s...

Lucy is not her name, and that is on purpose. She asked to stay unknown, and I have honoured that. Everything else you will hear is true. Lucy spent her whole life being the one who kept things smooth in her family. The oldest daughter. The one who abs...

Charley spent more than thirty years holding on tight. Tight in her body, tight in her emotions, certain her life was something that happened to her rather than something she had any hand in. She was good at what she did and quietly in pain, sure she w...

Bari was forty-five when the word cancer came into her house. She had just left a government job of many years, opened her own coaching business, and was living in a body she trusted. What she found inside her diagnosis is not what most of us expect to...

THE CRONE STORIESShow Notes · Wendy's Episode EPISODE TITLE The Wisdom Spreader · Wendy's Story EPISODE DESCRIPTION Wendy is forty-one. She owns Fearless Vanity, a salon she opened in 2011. She has spent fifteen years inside a medical system that could...

The Woman Underneath · Angie's Story Angie lost her brother, her father, her mother, her mother's partner, and her parts of her home, in the span of a few short years. This is the story of what happened underneath all of that loss. The woman who was al...

The first story of The Crone Stories. You will meet a woman named Angie, who lost almost everyone who ever defined her. Her full story is the first of the season. The Crone Stories is a podcast of women's stories of midlife transformation. Perimenopaus...

Welcome to The Crone Stories. In this first episode, I tell you what this show is, why I wanted to make it, and what you can expect from the season ahead. No guest yet. Just me, telling you what I have been quietly building. ***Note I have decided that...

There is a stretch in a woman's life that almost no one names well. It starts somewhere in your 40's. Nobody hands you a map for it. These will be the stories of women, everyday ordinary women. This is the beginning.