The Designed Life

Welcome Winter and Capricorn season! This season is here to help us get deliberate and purposeful with our energy, our ambitions, and what how we plan to work with 2026. We wrap up the end of the year and we start the year with a sense of the familiar. There’s a pull towards the past – past ways of operating, building, old dreams and ambitions. There’s a feeling that what worked before must work a...

Brand strategist and wonderfully inspiring Ylani Estwick joins me today for a conversation about building from an intuitive and heart-center vision, and cultivating motivation by leaning in to your purpose. Ylani shares her journey of transitioning from a decade-long copywriting career into a more intuitive, purpose-led business rooted in authenticity and inner alignment. She discusses how persona...

One of my goals for 2026 is to live more in alignment with my energetic cycles and rhythms, and to detach from the linearity we so often prescribe to. So if that is my goal, this December is my introduction to actually living into that belief and way of being. In this episode I discuss some of the themes that have been coming into clarity around my work, the way I operate, the fears my business an...

We've almost reached the end of 2025 friends! A year that's truly felt like 20 in 1, but are we really that excited to get into the wildness that will be 2026? The lunations of the month are right on theme with the rest of the energy that surrounds them. The Full Moon in Gemini on December 4th is illuminating all the distracting rabbit holes you might finding yourself going down, and askin...

Welcome Sagittarius season! If last season was all about deepening into your intuition, getting really clear about where you needed to heal, and what needed to be released/integrated – this season is all about reformulating our beliefs around what we want to pursue and how we want to take action in alignment with our values. This will be very loud until Mercury moves out of it's post-Rx shadow...

Monica Monfre is a long time friend, teacher, dancer, and BRCA1 positive genetic mutation holder. In this episode we talk through how she navigated the loss of her sister to breast cancer, and how that experience has shaped her life since – inevitably discovering her own predisposition to ovarian cancer. You might hear me learning in real time what some of the terms Monica is uses to describe the...

The phases of the moon have been observed in awe and wonder for centuries. In this episode I discuss each of the 8 main phases, and how they're overlayed onto our days, months, years, eras in life, and even in the stages of our gardens (literal and figurative). This episode also acts as a framework for folks who are interested in working more intuitively with the monthly lunar cycles as a fram...

Hello November!! These lunations of this month are fortifying and cathartic. The Full Moon in Taurus on November 5th is BEAUTIFUL and deeply fulfilling and rejuvenating and it wants you to RECEIVE. The New Moon in Scorpio on November 20th is conjunct Mercury retrograde and wants us to uncover the deeper narratives that are holding us back from our desired evolutions. It's a beautiful month of...

Welcome Scorpio season! The witchiest season of the year is here friends, and in these new few weeks ahead we have so much planetary support guiding us into flow, release, cathartic clearing, and deep integration and healing. Bc I'm actually very excited about this season, I start the episode describing which area of life Scorpio season will likely be activating for you. I'm also trying so...

Welcome to a very special episode! My incredible and inspirational mom, Joan Maloney, joins me to share a little of her backstory – the journey it took for her to get from small town book worm, to receptionist/delivery driver, to thriving business woman with a highly successful graphic design studio. In this episode she shares stories about her resiliency – from navigating sexual harassment, to st...

I’m thrilled to be sharing this episode describing the pillars of what living a Designed Life means - the practices, processes, perspectives, etc. For so many years I’ve been operating with these pillars in my life and they’ve been infused into my work, but only recently did they fully coalesce into these principles. The main 3 that operate in a cycle are: ​It starts with you – reclamation ​Know w...

How often do we carve out time, to then only use it by succumbing to distraction or squandering it with petty little projects? How often do we arrive at a moment of spaciousness only to then not feel capable of immersing ourselves fully into it? In this episode I layout my schedule for the two weeks I'll be on a solo self-guided retreat – the projects I plan to work on, the books I plan to read, a...

It may not be eclipse season anymore but these lunations are definitely serving spicy! The Aries Full Moon on October 6th will bring something fiery to the surface that requires your healing and attention. What in your relationships have you potentially be avoiding? Then the New Moon in Libra on October 21st feels like a day to commit to all the ways you want to show up with love, compassion, and...

Today marks the start of Fall here in the northern hemisphere, and in honor of the energetic pivot point, I'm sharing the audio accompaniment to my Autumn Equinox substack post. You can follow along with the article, and unlock the ritual for the Equinox if you are not a paid subscriber. Listen/read for insights on the energy of the Equinox, along with the astrology of the moment, and reflection q...

We're coming off of eclipse season and yeah - it's time to get organized! If you felt like the last month took everything up in the air, flailed it around, and dropped it in whole new places - don't worry, because this next season is here to help you lean into harmony, justice, balance, coherence, and connections to bring everything back into order. We have several planets in strong pl...

It is such an honor to have this chat with my long time friend, teacher and mentor Lindsay Fauntleroy! Lindsay is the founder of The Spirit Seed School, where she brings her knowledge of indigenous healing modalities, alternative medicines, and threads of connecting to spirit all together to support creators and leaders to heal in their own right. In this episode we talk about her journey to entre...

Everyday fear (not the kind of fear that arises when we're actually physically in danger) can sometimes operate under the surface – informing our decisions, directing our responses, and moving us in specific directions with us really knowing it. Especially when we're in the middle of big life transitions and transformations, fear of not knowing what's ahead is naturally likely to crop up. In this...

It's officially eclipse season friends! This last eclipse series of 2025 harkens us back to Spring of 2025 and Fall of 2024 – there's a theme of growth and unravelling in a part of your life and it's getting a boost of stimulation this coming month. The Pisces eclipse at the North Node on September 7th ushers in a new layer of connectivity, openness to possibility, and dissolving of bo...

Welcome Virgo Season/ eclipse season! This month I have a very special cohost and fellow astrologer, life coach, yoga teacher, Jess, with me to explore and translate the very full energy of Virgo season - because everything is better with friends! This new season begins officially on August 22nd, but the Virgo New Moon on August 23rd fully initiates us into the tone shift. From there we have multi...

It’s been 5 weeks since I’ve been on IG, and here’s what I’ve learned: My brain craves stimulation and will reach for it every opportunity it gets. Not every thought that becomes conscious in my mind is mine to own (or share). Habits require conscious interruptions if they’re ever going to change. Third spaces are our keys to creating social resilience. We have to spend time with people that we di...

Now that I'm officially off of IG for the foreseeable future, I'm bringing some of my personal like updates to the pod! After a month of hosting friends and family, throwing big gatherings at the house, and generally being way more social that usual, I'm digesting everything that's been shifting in my day to day life, my sense of identity, and my understanding of my roles in commun...

I have the pleasure of hosting the incredible Kaitlyn Kessler! Being in Kaitlyn’s orbit has been so inspiring simply because she exudes this level of alignment in all of her work and communication. It's alignment that’s not just beautiful, but it's also subtly ultra bold and very brave.   We recorded this episode a few months ago before she made the massive move to Spain from Charlotte, SC...

This month we're invited to explore the intersection of leadership, community, and responsibility. With Mercury still retrograde in Leo and Saturn in Aries influencing the Full Moon in Aquarius, the first half of the month invites you to examine your long-term plans, structural power dynamics, and your role as a leader, particularly within community contexts. This Full Moon wants to ask you: How d...

Welcome Leo Season! Officially beginning July 22nd, this month includes a Mercury RX, along with several planet ingresses (sign changes) – many of which activate the Saturn–Neptune conjunction in Aries. What does this all mean? We’re going be reviewing a lot of the ways in which we do things, the ways in which we show up and demonstrate leadership, how we express ourselves and find harmony in our...

Today I'm joined by fellow designer, creative, artist, and curiosity-follower Kristina Bleiler of Gem Creative Co. Kristina has been such an inspiration – since the moment I started following her I knew she brought a special playfulness, depth, and inquiry to the creative work she does. In our conversation we talk about the power of community - online and in person, her experience of growing up in...