The Midlife Awakening with Odilia

This week on The Midlife Awakening, Odilia welcomes back nutrition and health coach, interior designer, and ADHD advocate Arianna Morgans for a September reset conversation — the antidote to another "New Year, new you" push. Instead, Arianna and Odilia explore why autumn is the real reset season , how to organise your home and routines around the way your brain actually works, and why se...

Ever notice how, once summer ends, everyone suddenly wants to "get organised" and "get back into routine"? That's not a coincidence — it's Virgo season (August 22 – September 21), and its energy is all about details, structure, and small daily resets. In this solo episode, Odelia breaks down why routines matter more than ever in midlife, how routines differ from ritua...

Welcome back to Season 4 of The Midlife Awakening! We're kicking things off with a conversation on one of the most common — and often most unexpected — experiences of midlife: divorce. Our guest, Sara Davison, is known as The Divorce Coach. After her own marriage ended overnight following her husband's affair, Sara pioneered the divorce coaching industry and has since trained over 850 co...

What if everything you've been taught about manifesting is only half the story? In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, I sit down with bestselling Hay House author, intuitive, and oracle deck creator Colette Baron-Reid to talk about her new book, The Art of Manifesting — and why the real key to manifestation isn't visualizing harder, it's surrendering the outcome. Colette takes u...

At 55, real estate broker and podcaster Betsy Ronel describes her life as a "comeback," not a crisis. In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, Betsy joins Odilia to talk about becoming a widow at 40 while pregnant, the abusive relationship she found herself in during the early years of her grief, and how she finally learned to "shake hands with grief" and walk forward with it...

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum psychosis, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and a suicide attempt. Please take care of yourself. Support resources are listed below. With all the focus at the moment on the Lindsay Clancy trial and maternal mental health being in the spotlight, I knew I needed to replay this episode.  What if...

Can you really find healthy, fulfilling love after divorce, heartbreak, or years of unhealthy relationships? In this heartfelt episode of The Midlife Awakening , I sit down with dating coach Lily Bewley to explore why lasting love starts with healing yourself first. After years of attracting emotionally unavailable partners and struggling with people-pleasing, self-abandonment, and low self-worth,...

Are you experiencing burnout, Sunday Scaries, or questioning your career in midlife? In this inspiring episode of The Midlife Awakening , I sit down with career coach Tess Grint to explore how burnout can become the catalyst for discovering your true purpose. After spending 17 years in the corporate world, Tess realised her identity had become completely tied to her job. When burnout forced her to...

What happens when you've spent months helping everyone else heal... but realise you've forgotten to heal yourself? In this deeply personal solo episode, I'm sharing why the podcast will be taking a short summer pause, why you'll hear replay episodes over the next six weeks, and what has been happening behind the scenes in my own life. From my son's emergency surgery and na...

Can your home influence your mental health, emotional wellbeing, and even your healing journey? In this episode of The Midlife Awakening with Odilia , I'm joined by Moni Castaneda , Feng Shui expert, author and creator of the Nine Steps to Feng Shui® System , to explore how our environment impacts our nervous system, confidence, relationships and overall wellbeing. If you've been focusin...

In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, host Odilia sits down with Leela Black, a Business Resonance Guide who spent nine years studying the I Ching — the ancient Chinese Book of Changes — to create her own system, the Resonant Truth Archetypes. Leela has generated over $1 million in revenue by rejecting inherited, man-made business rules and teaching women to trust their inner feminine knowing...

In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, I sit down with Nicky Wake — widow, recovering alcoholic, serial entrepreneur, and solo parent — for one of the most raw and powerful conversations we've had on the show. In 2017, Nicky's husband Andy suffered a heart attack that left him with a catastrophic brain injury. For three years she lived in a devastating limbo, running a multi-million-p...

Episode Title What Your Skincare Is Really Doing to Your Hormones (with Nicky Hughes, Intrinsic Skincare) Episode Description Did you know that the average woman absorbs hundreds of synthetic chemicals through her skin every single day — many of which are known hormone disruptors? In midlife, when our hormones are already in flux, this matters more than ever. In this episode of The Midlife Awakeni...

Pregnancy loss, miscarriage recovery and the gaps in NHS maternity care — this episode goes straight to the heart of all three. Sam, founder of Cocoon, a midwife-led pregnancy ultrasound clinic in Harrogate, shares the devastating loss of her baby, Willow, and how that experience — and the dehumanising language used around it — became the catalyst for building the maternity care she wished had exi...

Have you ever felt like you're living smaller than you were meant to? Like something invisible is holding you back — and you can't quite name what it is? In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, I sit down with empowerment coach and motivational speaker Liora Sponko to explore the subconscious patterns, limiting beliefs, and childhood wounds that keep so many of us stuck — and how midli...

What if the chronic pain, exhaustion, and stuckness you're feeling isn't just physical — and the solution isn't another diet, supplement, or protocol?   In this episode, Odilia sits down with author, speaker, and transformational coach Kristen Renee to explore the radical idea that lasting healing — physical, emotional, and financial — requires us to address the whole person. After...

Have you ever felt like you were working twice as hard as everyone else — just to cope? If you've ever been told you're "too sensitive," struggled with overwhelm, burnout, or that nagging sense of being different without knowing why — this episode is for you.   In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, Odilia sits down with Isobel Lepist — ADHD coach, neuro-inclusion consultant...

Are your symptoms trying to tell you something? If you've been dealing with anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep, brain fog, or digestive issues in your 40s — this episode is for you.   In this episode of The Midlife Awakening, host Odilia sits down with Kate Driver — naturopath with over 25 years of clinical experience and founder of The PeriMenopause Practitioner. Kate has personally navigated peri...

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, self-harm, suicidal ideation, and a suicide attempt. Please take care of yourself. Support resources are listed below. What if the darkest moment of your life became the thing that saved another mother? In this deeply honest episode of The Midlife Awakening, host Odilia sits down with Stef — mum of t...

What if everything you’ve been taught about manifesting is only half the story? In this episode of The Midlife Awakening Podcast with Odilia, I sit down with the legendary Colette Baron-Reid — intuitive, bestselling author, oracle card creator, and one of the most respected voices in the manifestation space — to talk about her brand new book, The Art of Manifesting . Colette has been practising an...

Dream expert and imagery therapist Bonnie Buckner — author of The Secret Mind — reveals why our nightly dreams are one of the most powerful, freely available tools for navigating midlife change. Drawing on neuroscience and ancient wisdom traditions, she shows how the brain's imagination network is more active during dreaming than during everyday tasks, and how reading your dreams can illumina...

What happens when the life you built no longer feels like you? In this episode of The Midlife Awakening Podcast , I sit down with Oneika Mays, author of Sit With Me , to explore what it really means to reconnect with yourself in midlife—especially when identity, career, and relationships begin to shift. Oneika shares her powerful journey from living a life that looked confident and successful on t...

In this powerful episode of The Midlife Awakening Podcast , I’m joined by author and guide Meg Calvin to explore what it really means to reconnect with yourself after years of conditioning, people-pleasing, and living from obligation. We dive into her novel There, He Holds Her , a deeply moving story that explores generational trauma, mother-daughter dynamics, and the tension between control and d...

Have you ever felt like you just can’t keep up anymore? Like the way you used to function — at work, at home, in life — just doesn’t work anymore… and you don’t understand why? In this episode, I sit down with career development practitioner Narelle Vigor to unpack what’s really going on for women in midlife — and why so many of us end up blaming ourselves. We talk about burnout, ADHD, perimenopau...

In this episode, Odilia walks you through the astrology of Aries season — from the Spring Equinox on March 20th through to April 20th 2026. Whether you're new to astrology or a seasoned follower of the stars, this episode breaks down the key planetary movements in an accessible, practical way and gives you real tools to work with the energy of the month. Astrology isn't about prediction...