High Heels to Happy Feels

For episode 100, we look back at what we thought we were signing up for in June 2023 and chat about the things nobody saw coming. We also try something new: the Sister Test, where we each ask questions about the other and reveals the answers live. Plus a week of astrology that happens to be about surprises, changing direction, and building something that lasts. In this episode: ✨ What we thought...

We've lived in haunted houses, and we still don't have a clean answer to this question. This week, we ask: would you stay? It's officially October, and the internet has gotten permission to talk about everything that goes bump in the night. We go through what's actually going on when something moves in the corner of your eye, when your body reacts before your brain does, and when your house just s...

Who told you that was the rule? The rule about what success is supposed to look like. What a good relationship should look like. What professionalism looks like. What intuition is supposed to feel like. Or who you're supposed to trust when you're trying to make a decision. This week on High Heels to Happy Feels, we look at the invisible rules we follow, and how those rules can get in the way of he...

Are you sure you're not superstitious? Because you knock on wood and blow out birthday candles, and we're calling that out. This week we confess our own weird little superstitious rituals — knocking on wood, beads for readings, numbers that have to add up to 11 — and get into why humans do this stuff in the first place, whether any of it actually works, and where even WE draw the line. We'll walk...

[HOOK LINE — one or two sentences, scroll-stopping, no astrology jargon. This is the only part guaranteed to show before "more."] What are we really asking for when we say: Just tell me what happens next. Fresh home from the United Astrology Conference, we find ourselves talking less about whether the future can be predicted and more about why we want to know it so badly. Sometimes we want informa...

Ever catch yourself saying "I've just never been good at that," and wonder when you last actually checked if it's still true? This week we are recording live from UAC (United Astrology Conference) in Chicago, and it sends us down a bigger question: how much of who we think we are is just an old file we've never updated? We get into why evidence about ourselves piles up as we age, how family and ol...

Been feeling a little unhinged lately? You're not imagining it, and this week, we're talking about why, and what to actually do with what you're feeling. This week we get into why the last week and a half has felt like a lot (the astrology backs it up!) and what it actually looks like to stay grounded and kind while everything around you feels loud. We also talk about Dolly Parton, what she modele...

"Unbothered" had a good run! And now, it's over, and honestly, nobody's mad about it. In this weeks episode of High Heels to Happy Feels, we get into why "I'm fine" has become the most automatic, least examined sentence we say, including a story about a colleague's health scare that completely changed (and put a mirror up!) to how Natalie hears those two words. We walk through a real cultural shif...

It's the middle of August, and the "new season, new me" content is already flooding in. Somewhere in the back of our minds, most of us have already started drafting the list of everything our "Fall self" is going to fix, even though that version of us didn't show up last year either. This week, we pull apart the reinvention fantasy: where it comes from, why it never quite delivers on schedule, and...

There's a specific reflex that happens right before a camera turns your way...the flinch, the "delete that one," the sudden urge to hand off the phone (or camera) instead of being in the shot. This week we're asking where that comes from, why it's gotten louder lately, and what it's quietly costing us to keep staying out of the picture. In this episode: ➩ The friend who always volunteers to hold t...

For our third summer in a row, we pack up our booth and spent a weekend at the Flathead Faerie Festival in Kalispell, Montana — Natalie doing mediumship  and intuitive readings, Stephanie doing intuitive card readings and astrology. This year was hot, windy, and almost nothing about it part of a "normal" day for most as it wasn't an on-demand part of our day. And yet nobody we watched all weekend...

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans in their late twenties and early thirties are living with a parent or grandparent right now, the highest level ever recorded. And it's not just the kids who never left. It's millennials moving back in to care for aging parents. It's college students walking in the door for break and instantly renegotiating a curfew. It's parents quietly stretching their own retirement to ke...

Somewhere around the third match, we realized we weren't just watching soccer (football) anymore. We were watching humanity, with millions of strangers laughing, crying, hoping, and gathering around something bigger than themselves, day after day. This week, we sit down with a topic that sounds nothing like our normal convos: the FIFA World Cup. But the game is just the vehicle. What we're really...

There's a difference between a spark and a siren and this week, most of us are mistaking one for the other. We unpack why everything has felt just a little louder, faster, and more charged lately, from oddly tense group chats to sudden "what if I just..." ideas that won't leave you alone. We trace it back to a rare Mars-Uranus conjunction in Gemini (last seen almost 80 years ago) and a Mercury ret...

Summer was supposed to be the easy season. So why does opening your calendar in June feel like dread instead of relief? In this episode, we dig into the moment “free time” turned into a logistics problem — camps, money, comparison, the quiet grief of missing a feeling you can’t quite name. Then we widen the lens to this week’s astrology, including a Full Moon in Capricorn, Mercury retrograde in Ca...

We were all handed the same picture of what stability was supposed to look like — one job, one house, an identity you grow into and keep, a five-year plan that executes on schedule. Nobody mentioned that picture might've been a myth to begin with, built for a different generation in a different economic moment and just passed down like it still applied. This week, we talk about what happens when y...

There's a specific kind of restlessness in the air right now. Not anxiety, it's something quieter. The feeling that something no longer fits the way it used to, but you're not sure yet what's supposed to come next.   In this week's episode, we talk about what's really underneath the collective urge to reinvent — and why for so many people, it's not about becoming something new. It's about realizin...

You sent a message. Read receipt. No reply. And somehow you've thought about it three times today. In this episode, we dig into why misread texts, delayed replies, and slightly off tones feel so destabilizing right now, and no you're not being dramatic (ok, most times). It's because your nervous system is running on overdrive, communication has gotten weirdly texture-less (thanks, AI-polished mess...

Some version of this became automatic. The question is, did you choose it? There's a moment most people recognize when they hear it described: you said something you were pretty sure about, and then immediately softened it. "I could be wrong." "Just my take." "Maybe it's just me." Not because anyone asked you to. Not because the room indicated it needed that. Just because somewhere along the way,...

You weren’t oblivious. You weren’t in denial. You were just close.   There’s a specific kind of blindness that comes not from lack of awareness — but from proximity. From caring enough to stay close. From investing yourself so fully in something that your field of vision narrows around it. And the people around you — the ones with no investment, no history, no skin in the game — they had the wider...

There’s a specific experience that happens to almost everyone (usually at the least convenient time) when something you thought you understood suddenly looks different. Not dramatically or all at once. It's just one moment, one conversation, or one thing that someone said or did. And now you can’t go back to the version you knew before.   This week, we are talking about that exact experience. Why...

Most of us have been there. Calling something complicated when it isn’t. Saying “I’m still figuring it out” when the figuring-out ended a long time ago. Asking four different people for their opinion until someone finally says what we wanted to hear.   This week, we are talking about the performance of uncertainty — why we do it, what it actually costs, and why this specific moment in the sky is m...

There's a very specific kind of awakening happening right now and if you've felt it, you know exactly what we mean. It's the moment you realize that the job, the system, the community you gave everything to wasn't actually in relationship with you. It was in transaction with you. And those are very different things. This week, we have the conversation a lot of us are having privately but not yet s...

Something is heading into the week ahead, and it is not subtle. The Full Moon in Scorpio falls on May 1, landing exactly on Beltane, the ancient fire festival of desire and aliveness. And what that combination does is bring up the things you have been very carefully not looking at. Not loudly. Just clearly. This week on High Heels to Happy Feels , we are sitting with a question a lot of people hav...

What do the Artemis II splashdown, the US-Iran ceasefire, the Epstein files, $4 gas, and the wave of AI-driven layoffs all have in common? This week, we argue they’re all the same thing: old wounds arriving inside new beginnings.   This is one of the most astrologically loaded weeks of the year. Mars, Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Chiron, and a New Moon are all stacked in Aries — the sign of identity,...