Navigating Between The Lines

Send us Fan Mail You can love someone, care about them, want the absolute best for them… and still not be very good at showing up. This week we're talking about friendship, support, and the difference between having good intentions and actually making people feel them. The friends who remember. The people who show up without being asked. The ones who make a big deal out of something simply be...

Send us Fan Mail This week’s episode was supposed to be about support. Instead? Maggie is tired, her back hurts, her brain is foggy, and everyone needs something. So… we’re checking in. A very real conversation about mental load, parenting older kids, motherhood, feeling overwhelmed, friendship, and the parenting happiness graph making its way around the internet. Plus, why everybody has their own...

Send us Fan Mail At 40, life feels very much in the middle. Some friends have babies. Some have kids driving. Some are starting businesses, taking care of parents, navigating health scares, changing careers, and somehow we’re all asking some version of the same question; where am I in all of this? After taking two weeks off, I came back to the idea of the sandwich years with a different perspectiv...

Send us Fan Mail One year and 52 recordings later, I’m revisiting the very first episode of Navigating Between the Lines . Pilot 2.0 is about what changed, what didn’t, and what a year of showing up taught me about grief, friendship, anxiety, ambition, consistency, motherhood and wanting more from a life you already love. Mostly, it’s about taking the leap before you know where it leads because yo...

Send us Fan Mail The sandwich years hit differently when back-to-school season rolls around. This week, Maggie talks about motherhood in your 40s, raising growing kids while watching your own parents get older, and why this stage of life can feel so emotionally full. From kids who need less from us but somehow still need us constantly - to the mental load, overstimulation, changing family roles, a...

Send us Fan Mail RUNNING IT BACK: NBTL Revisited 🎙️ This week we’re going back to the time my friend Heather and I decided not to eat for 72 hours.  Would I do it again? Yes. Am I planning another one anytime soon? Absolutely not. These days, I occasionally do a 24-hour fast, and I’ve realized I didn’t need to keep doing the extreme version to keep the part that worked for me. We’re also talking a...

Send us Fan Mail RUNNING IT BACK: NBTL Revisited 🎙️ We say it constantly.. life goes so fast. And then we turn around and fill every available inch of it. This week I’m running it all the way back to Episode 3, Between the Minutes. I recorded this almost a year ago and apparently had nine minutes to discuss being busy, my son being born early, grief, my Grandma Sandy, how we spend our time AND the...

Send us Fan Mail I’m turning 40 and I love a list. 40 things I’ve learned about life, friendship, grief, heartbreak, ambition, starting over, and figuring out who you are along the way. Some are big, like knowing you can be sad and still have a really good life. How losing someone changes you, but so does surviving losing them. And how you are never as stuck as you think you are. Some are obvious,...

Send us Fan Mail Join me on Substack Follow Instagram Some weeks deserve a plan. This wasn't one of them. This week we're talking about summer, the mental load that comes with it, why I suddenly miss having "admin days," and the conversations every mom seems to be having right now. We also head north for marathon weekend, celebrate my dad's incredible Top 10 finish at 64 y...

Send us Fan Mail Follow Along Support The Show I turn 40 in a few weeks, and if I'm being honest... I thought it would feel different. Somewhere along the way we decided every decade comes with a reputation. Your 20s are for figuring it out. Your 30s are for building a life. Your 40s? Apparently they're supposed to be the beginning of the end. Except... that's not what I'm seei...

Send us Fan Mail It'll be four years this week since I lost my mom. For a long time, I thought surviving was the hardest part. Just making it through the next hour, the next day, the next week. But nobody prepared me for what came after. The first time I laughed without feeling guilty. The moments where life slowly started asking me to participate again. Because healing isn't always what...

Send us Fan Mail Is it just me… or are millennials actually different? This week on Navigating Between the Lines, I'm diving into all the things that make our generation... well, us. From AIM, Blockbuster and MapQuest to LOL, ankle socks, paper grocery lists and unexpected phone calls, we're unpacking the habits, memories and contradictions that define millennials. I also asked you to sh...

Send us Fan Mail On paper, Jill Zagar has it all together. She's the owner of Pink Lemonade, a mom of two, and the leader of a business that's grown from one small storefront into four locations.  But behind the scenes? It's youth sports, laundry, family, long days, and trying to take care of everyone else.. sometimes at the expense of herself. In this episode, Jill opens up about b...

Send us Fan Mail Meredith Kent from Skin CoLab is back on Navigating Between the Lines, and we cover everything from Botox, peptides and skincare trends to social media, raising teenagers, confidence, getting older and learning who to trust when everyone online has an opinion. Along the way, we talk about what actually works, what isn't worth your money, skincare for kids, laser treatments, w...

Send us Fan Mail For Father's Day, I'm sharing a story that's been part of my life for as long as I can remember. My dad has raced the AuSable River Canoe Marathon for 41 years. I've raced it twice.. both times with him. While this episode takes you inside one of the toughest endurance events you've probably never heard of, this story isn't really about canoe racing....

Send us Fan Mail How did taking care of ourselves become so complicated? One minute we're talking about sleep. The next we're comparing magnesium supplements, cortisol levels, protein intake, fasting schedules, blood work, weighted vests, and whatever health trend showed up on Instagram this week. Somewhere along the way, health became another thing many of us feel like we need to get ri...

Send us Fan Mail School is out, the summer calendar is full, and lately I can't stop thinking about one thing.. What is it that we miss so much about summer? This week I'm talking about 90s summers, Camp Nowhere, baseball games, childhood memories, and why I think we're living in what I like to call the golden ages right now. The years we'll miss someday. I also share a story a...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Navigating Between the Lines, Maggie sits down with OB-GYN Dr. Sara DeNolf for the women’s health conversation that usually happens in group chats, late night Google searches, or quietly in our own heads. They get into pregnancy, miscarriage, fertility, postpartum recovery, painful periods, hormones, birth control, aging, and the pressure women constantly put on thems...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Navigating Between the Lines, Maggie talks about adult friendships, emotional safety, and why some people feel easy to be around... while others leave you overthinking every interaction afterward. From follow up texts and random phone calls to friendships built in complete chaos, this episode is about the difference between simply catching up and actually feeling conn...

Send us Fan Mail We'll spend months researching strollers and preschool waitlist, but avoid having actual plans in place for our families. This week I sat down with Matt Eilers from Medalist Wealth Management and we talked about estate planning, saving for kids, life insurance, trusts, college funds, raising financially responsible kids, and all the stuff nobody really walks you through as a...

Send us Fan Mail This week feels like a lot… and if you’re a mom, you already know why. School events, sports, work, birthdays, the invisible mental load… and somehow we’re also supposed to slow down and “enjoy it.” I sat down with someone I know to talk about what motherhood actually feels like right now. Jessica James, a mom of three, full time career, and someone who looks like she has it all t...

Send us Fan Mail This week didn’t go as planned and that’s exactly the point. In this episode, I’m talking about pivoting. The small, everyday kind and the bigger life shifts we don’t always see coming. What happens when the plan falls apart? When something throws off your week? When life doesn’t go the way you expected? We’re getting into bounce back time, letting go of control, and why your abil...

Send us Fan Mail Mother’s Day is supposed to be simple.  Flowers, brunch, cards. But for a lot of us, it’s not. In this episode, I’m talking about the version of Mother’s Day we don’t always say out loud.. the one that holds gratitude & grief at the same time. The one where you can feel so lucky to be a mom while missing your own. Or longing to become one. Or navigating relationships that don’t lo...

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever gone to bed thinking you were completely fine only to find yourself spiraling in the middle of the night, this episode will hit. In this episode, Maggie talks about the kind of anxiety that doesn’t show up during the day, the overthinking, second-guessing, and quiet spirals that seem to hit the second everything slows down. We talk about why anxiety feels louder at...

Send us Fan Mail Spring break week and Grief 101 is one of my most listened to episodes and it feels like the right time to share it again. Coming up on four years after losing my mom, I’m reminded that grief doesn’t leave, it just changes shape. In this episode, I talk about what grief actually feels like, coping with loss, and what it looks like to keep living after losing a parent. If you’re in...