Midlife Muse: Things Your Mother Never Told You

You have been waiting to begin for longer than you want to admit. Maybe you have been sitting in a career that looks successful from the outside but feels like slow suffocation from the inside. Maybe you left everything to raise your family and now you are standing in your kitchen wondering who you are outside of that role. Maybe you have had an idea for years that lights you up and terrifies you...

There is a conversation most couples never get to have...because no one ever taught them the language for it. The language of the body. The language of the nervous system. The language of what it actually means to be safe enough to stay. This episode goes there. I sit down with Stefanos Sifandos, a behavioral scientist, author, and men's work facilitator with 25 years in the personal transformatio...

There is a woman in your life...or perhaps you are still searching for her. The one who picks up the phone when no one else does. The one who holds your vision before it has a name, your heart before you have a plan. The one who does not shrink in the presence of your intensity, but instead reflects it back to you as the very thing that makes you extraordinary. Female friendship, when it is built...

Most women believe they are struggling in relationships because they are choosing the wrong people. But what if the pattern began long before them? What if the way you learned to seek love, hold love, or even lose yourself in love…was formed in the very first relationships you ever experienced? Attachment has a way of shaping everything. Not just how you love, but how you trust, how you express yo...

As a woman, when everything you built stops working, it feels like failure.  But it doesn't mean that your dream was wrong. It just means that the way you learned to push, prove, and perform can no longer carry what you're trying to build.  Entrepreneurship has a way of bringing those moments to the surface.  The moments where ambition collides with exhaustion. Where discipline stops feeling empow...

There is a moment in a woman's life when something quiet but irreversible happens. It isn't loud. It isn't dramatic. And it isn't the breakdown we've been taught to expect. Menopause is often framed as something to manage, fix, or endure. A list of symptoms to brace for. A season to survive. What I was never offered, and what so few women are, is the deeper truth of this passage. Menopause is not...

There is a quiet abandonment built into motherhood. After the baby arrives, the world gently but decisively turns its gaze. Questions shift. Attention moves outward. The mother is expected to hold the rest privately…recovering offstage, adapting without pause, needing little, asking less. Within that quiet expectation, something internal begins to form. Women start to minimize their own truths. Th...

This week I am joined by the incredible Gary Vee…a visionary who often speaks about hustle, but today, sits with us to talk about heart. The conversation began before the microphones turned on. With my own children gathered around him, asking questions and soaking up his words. He took the time to talk with them and share his wisdom. It spoke volumes about who he was, how he relates to people of a...

By the time a woman reaches midlife, she has usually learned the rules: stay pleasant, stay young-looking, stay non-threatening. Don't take up too much space. Don't show the edges. And definitely don't age out loud. The cost of that agreement, however, is the slow erasure of her voice, her authority, and her truth. In this episode, I sit down with actress Constance Zimmer to talk about aging in Ho...

So many women tell the same quiet story: "I'm fine. I'm grateful. I'm doing it all." And yet… There's a glass of wine waiting every evening just to soften the edges enough to keep going. In this week's episode of Things Your Mother Never Told You, I sit down with Colleen Freeland, the woman redefining what sobriety means for high-achieving, overwhelmed women. Her work is not about labels or lifelo...

Most of us were taught some version of the same story:  Good women are modest. Quiet. Selfless. Desire is dangerous. Pleasure is suspicious. But that story is not holy. It is a tool of control. In this conversation, I sit down with my dear friend Dr. Kimberly Rose Pendleton - intimacy scholar, coach, and former evangelical insider - to talk about how purity culture, patriarchy, and religion have s...

For generations, women have been taught to quiet themselves in love - to shrink, to compromise, to hold the emotional weight of the relationship while asking for so little in return. But something is changing. In this episode, I sit with my daughter Ava, and with the man she chose, Chris, and together we step into a conversation that feels less like an interview and more like a blessing. What they...

For too long, women have been told that good mothering means perfection - tidy homes, obedient children, unshakable patience. But perfection is a prison. What our children truly need is our presence. In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Shefali Tsabary, clinical psychologist, best-selling author, and the woman who shattered the myth of the "perfect mother." Through her pioneering work in cons...

For centuries, women were taught that the sacred lived outside of us - in churches, in scriptures, in the hands of men who told us how to pray.  But there was a time before that. A time when women gathered in circles, when our emotions were seen as holy, our bodies as sacred, and our desires as divine. In this conversation, I sit down with Sarah Jenks, ordained priestess and co-founder of The Livi...

For so many women, the story begins the same way: waiting to be chosen, waiting to be loved, waiting for someone to see our worth. We were raised on fairy tales written by men - tales where our value was confirmed only through someone else's gaze. In this episode, I explore one of the most profound energetic shifts a woman can make: the evolution from princess energy to queen energy. The princess...

The beauty industry is out of control. Women are being sold an endless stream of shame disguised as "solutions." When did being a woman become something to fix? When did our natural bodies become the enemy? In this candid and fiery conversation, my COO Diana joins me as we unpack some of the most absurd, dangerous, and heartbreaking trends being marketed to women today. Together, we laugh, rage, a...

Aging is a luxury. Aging women were once seen as wise women. They were held in a place of honor. When did we start seeing aging as something to hide? To erase? When money and the beauty industry started speaking louder than our own intuition. In this deeply personal conversation, my COO Diana, sits down with me, and discusses my choice to age naturally. We dive into why I started this journey, why...

What if everything you've been told about birth was a lie? In this unforgettable episode, I sit down with Eyla Cuenca, a sacred birthkeeper who has stood witness to over 200 births—and what she reveals will forever change how you view the process of birth, the postpartum period, and the systems that surround it. Her message is clear: You were never meant to shrink inside the most powerful moment o...

What if the illness you fear most isn't the real disease? In this episode of Things Your Mother Never Told You, I sit down with Anita Moorjani, who was once given just hours to live. In 2006, Anita fell into a coma from end-stage lymphoma—her organs shutting down, her family was told to say goodbye. But in the space between life and death, she discovered a profound truth: fear is the lie, and self...

Have you ever swallowed your truth to avoid conflict? Said yes when your entire body was screaming no? So many women are taught to fear their own truth—to tuck it in, make it more digestible, less disruptive. But here's the truth: Self-abandonment in the name of kindness is not kindness. It's quiet, daily betrayal. There's a high cost to being the "nice girl." It's paid in quiet resentments, tight...

What if your body has been speaking to you all along and the real work is learning how to listen? For decades, we were taught to disconnect. To push harder, burn faster, and ignore the signals that whispered: this doesn't feel good. We were told our bodies were problems to solve. Tighten this. Shrink that. Flatten, firm, erase. Join me as I sit down with the brilliant Lauren Ohayon, movement educa...

Who were you before the world told you who to be? Somewhere inside you, she still lives—the little girl who moved freely, dreamed without limits, and hadn't yet learned to apologize for her existence. She was 7, maybe 8 or 9, untouched by expectation. Before the performance began. When our schedule threw a curve ball and we found ourselves with a free hour, Aram, my incredible videographer, decide...

What if your desires were never wrong? What if your curiosity wasn't chaos—but truth? In this breathtaking episode, I sit down with the extraordinary Genevieve LeJeune, founder of Skirt Club, a global community for women exploring their sensuality, queerness, and sovereignty without apology. What began as her own quest for self-discovery has become a worldwide movement of liberation—one where wome...

Is non-monogamy really the higher path to spiritual awakening—or just another way to avoid commitment? Lately, I've been watching a growing trend in the spiritual and wellness world that claims non-monogamy is a sign of higher consciousness, an enlightened way of loving that transcends the old, tired ideas of monogamy. Yet, so often, when spirituality merges with social media influence and uncheck...

Has success ever cost you your nervous system? Why do women have so many blocks around money?  And what can you do right now to begin a brand new, abundant journey? In this conversation, I sit down with Kate Northrup—author, entrepreneur, and money wisdom guide—to talk about the one topic that holds so many women hostage: Money. Kate has helped thousands of women change their relationship with wea...