The Modern Lady Podcast

When it comes to building and cultivating a strong family culture, it can be so easy to become overwhelmed with all the options out there and guilty if you can't make happen what you feel you ought to.  This week, Michelle and Lindsay discuss how simplicity truly does delight the young (and young at heart!), and share some ideas on how to make it happen in our own homes!

Michelle and Lindsay are back with their third annual Spring Trends episode!  But don't be fooled! There's more to this episode than you might think!  During a year fraught with challenge, trends have not only managed to survive but have adapted to our circumstances in interesting and intriguing ways.  As a result, this week the ladies take a fun, rollicking look at the styles and e...

We are so excited to release a special edition episode of The Friday Finishing School!  This week, we're deep diving into Pachelbel's Canon in D (you'll probably recognize it as soon as you hear it!)  The Friday Finishing School is an ongoing look into the classical arts and is available every other week, exclusively to our Patreon supporters. In each episode, the ladies present one piec...

This week, Michelle and Lindsay hope to speak right to the heart of the Mamas!  In this mid-Lenten check-in, they seek to offer comfort, support and encouragement to Moms as they discuss the beauty of our vocations as the key to deepening our relationship with Jesus, and how leaning into our motherhood draws us closer to Him BECAUSE of our vocation and duties - not in spite of them! &nbs...

One of our listeners said it best when she described the general mood of the past month as the "February Funk-Hole"!  It seems to strike every winter, this mid-winter slump... but, as Michelle and Lindsay discuss this week, there are ways to both lean in to what we're feeling while still maintaining a reasonable tidiness at home!  This week, the ladies discuss why figuring out a manageab...

Having a light-hearted disposition and a sense of humour can significantly impact your day to day life... for the better!  This week, Michelle and Lindsay discuss the benefits of an intentional life lived lightly and how to cultivate such a perspective right away!

"Momento Mori" is a Latin saying which translates to, "Remember Your Death".  To our secular and modern minds, this is a jarring and uncomfortable clarion call to be sure, but it is one that we neglect at our own peril.  This week, Michelle and Lindsay discuss how people have historically practiced "Momento Mori", how it ties into Lent and Ash Wednesday, and why it's necessary for us to...

The French have a saying: "Être Bien Dans Sa Peau!", which means "to feel comfortable in one's own skin".  This is a topic that has taken on so many different forms in today's culture and has sparked a variety of conversations about how we truly see ourselves.  This week, Michelle and Lindsay chat about some of these aspects: from monitoring your inner critic to embracing the aging proce...

"Every day is a special occasion!"  After all, you woke up this morning, didn't you?  This week, Michelle and Lindsay muse about and counter common protests against a practice that may seem difficult as mid-winter looms before us: that is, finding joy and anticipation in our own homes through the little luxuries we find all around us!

Pointing fingers and casting blame seems to be commonplace in our culture today - especially online.  But playing the blame game does more than just make us downcast and inefficient.  This week, Michelle and Lindsay chat about where blame is appropriate, why eventually we need to decide to do something about the challenges we face and where personal responsibility fits in to all of this!

We here at The Modern Lady Podcast consider it such an incredible honour to be able to bring you this show every week and to be friends in your ear as you commute to work, fold laundry or enjoy a cup of coffee! After three years and almost 100,000 downloads, we've decided to take the next step and launch a Patreon page to help us offset some of our production costs as we eye up new endeavours and...

Before undertaking any new task or project, it's helpful to take a step back and assess where you are in life and what you're starting with!  This week, Michelle and Lindsay are back, chatting about developing true self-awareness and how goes beyond our favourite BuzzFeed quizzes! It requires an honest and often difficult look at not only where we thrive, but more importantly, where we need n...

It's the most wonderful time of the year (almost)!  And while most of us are still busy preparing to celebrate Christmas, it's prudent to pause every now and again to take stock of how YOU are doing.  This week, Michelle and Lindsay chat about feeling the three "F"s of Christmas: frantic, frenzied and frazzled!  They discuss how to recognize when they're about to strike, offer tips...

For us here at The Modern Lady Podcast, it is not *fully* the Christmas season until we have indulged in all of Nigella Lawson's holiday cooking specials!  But what you may not know is how Nigella became NIGELLA... and how the life and career of this accomplished, world renown gastronome was inspired by the love of her husband and the strength of their marriage.  We are pleased to presen...

The Christmas season can be stressful during a normal year... This year?  Holiday plans have been thrown for loop by current circumstances, but it does not have to rob us of our peace or joy!  This week, Michelle and Lindsay are chatting about managing our expectations, while still seeking to make the season truly "merry and bright"! 

'Tis (almost) the season... but many of are already making our lists, trying to get a head start at our holiday shopping!  This week, Michelle and Lindsay chat about the gifts and items they are eyeing up this year, and discuss how we can "curate our Christmas" to intentionally preserve and elevate our homes and family culture!  Whether you're buying for a book lover or a movie buff, a v...

This week, Michelle and Lindsay continue their discussion on how our practice of the Corporal Acts of Mercy can transform our culture and the world!  When society is in turmoil and it feels like chaos is pressing in around us, we are not helpless!  We have our marching orders, so let's get to work!

It is difficult to look around us today, at the culture and at the general state of things, and not feel tempted towards feeling helpless.  But it is precisely in the midst of confusion and chaos that we are called to uphold the order and dignity of society and of every human life!  This week, Michelle and Lindsay chat about taking heart and taking action in our own pockets around the wo...

In this special presentation of The Modern Lady Podcast, Lindsay and her husband, Jason, share their testimonies of how the Rosary has transformed their lives, their faith and their family.  The Rosary is a Catholic devotional prayer that calls us to meditate on the life of Jesus through intercession of His Mother,  Mary. Theirs is a testimony of the graces that flow from devotion to our...

In this follow up episode from last week, Michelle and Lindsay go beyond making the bed and drawing the curtains!  This time, it's "personal"!  By examining what people have done throughout eras gone by to start and end their day, the ladies chat about how our grooming and hygiene can set the tone for both a productive day and a restful evening - and how attention to detail in these area...

The rapid approach of hygge season is upon us!  A key component of establishing that cozy atmosphere at home is to intentionally put routines in place that ensure a tidy and ordered foundation for all those candles you will be lighting!  This week, Lindsay shares how she has adapted some of her experience working in retail, opening and closing up shop, for life in the home! 

As we conclude Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada, Michelle and Lindsay spend this week's episode musing on the subject of gratitude!  In a culture of instant gratification and a focus on self-satisfaction, it can be easy to slip into a disposition of moping, complaining and ungratefulness.  The ladies chat about what it will take to turn it all around in favour of building a culture th...

We are pleased to present another episode of HER-Story, The Modern Lady Podcast's special occasional feature! This next chapter spotlights the journey of a young woman on a Divinely-inspired mission from France to the New World, during the reign of King Louis XIV. HER-Story is a short story-telling presentation that seeks to highlight remarkable women and their remarkable stories, through history...

We need not fall prey to the chaos of the world!  The "back-to-school" sentiment of autumn comes with a permeating sense of getting "back-into-routine"!  With such a tumultuous year starting to wind down, many of us are feeling a renewed pull towards establishing order in our homes and in our lives.  This week, Michelle and Lindsay discuss some of the benefits in diligently setting...

Continuing their reminiscing from last week, Michelle and Lindsay take this opportunity to acknowledge September as a "mini-New Years" and revisit their resolution from January 2020: to simply "be better".  Clearly, no one could have prepared them for what this year actually had in store, but this week, they discuss some of the ideas they had mused about nine months ago, and how these princip...