The Modern Lady Podcast

Personality typing quizzes and systems are popular past times and can often offer an interesting perspective into our interior selves.  This week, Michelle and Lindsay chat about one such system: The 4 Temperaments!  What does your temperament say about your strengths and struggles? How can understanding your temperament help you grow and #bebetter?  Why is understanding, not only y...

This week, Michelle and Lindsay tackle the MANY questions they received from The Modern Lady community and dish the dirt on all things housekeeping!  From "The Friday Clean" to "The Five-Minute Tidy", cleaning with kids to cleaning green, from laundry flow to listener tips and tricks - this truly is the "catch all" of cleaning resources from the ladies!

There are some years that we may feel motivated to take on great challenges to overhaul various aspects of our lives - making a New Years Resolution is often the perfect time to make those changes!  But there are other years when a complete 180 may not be what you're looking for.  In this instance, Michelle and Lindsay propose and chat about their resolution for 2020 which is, simply, to...

In the rush of the holidays, it's easy to become quickly overwhelmed and exhausted!  Many of us know all too well that feeling of being in "survival mode", especially this time of year!  This week, Michelle and Lindsay offer a new perspective on survival mode - is it doomed to be forever seen as "waving the white flag"?  Or could it be a positive, pro-active, actionable strategy tha...

Not today, Satan!  It's "Spiritual Warfare 101"!  This week, Michelle and Lindsay shine a light on the very real reality of spiritual attack and warfare, particularly as it seems to ramp up during Advent.  The ladies discuss the importance of awareness and a call to action, the psychological vs. the spiritual and talk about the connection between fighting battles today and the coura...

It's been almost 10 years since popular social media app, Instagram, launched - and what a whirlwind it has been!  In this week's episode, Michelle and Lindsay chat about some of the trends they see fading away and some new trends coming up on the horizon in 2020.  We chat about the good and the bad (but mostly the good!) and talk about how our own perspectives on Instagram has changed o...

This week, Michelle and Lindsay dive into ALL things Advent and anticipation for Christmas!  From when to put up the Christmas tree to comparing Advent with Lent, to eyeballs on a platter to profound devotional reading for the season, the ladies attempt to cover all the bases with their usual humour and research!  Join in for a little bit of fun and preparation before the season of Adven...

Booker T. Washington is credited for promoting the "4 Hs": head, heart, hands and home.  These, he says, are principles that all people can adopt to enrich their lives and the lives of those around them, regardless of age, wealth, race or otherwise.  In this week's episode, Michelle and Lindsay break down each of these 4H tenants and disseminate them into home life: what could our societ...

We are pleased to present a special feature we've been dreaming of producing since launching the Modern Lady Podcast over a year ago!   HER-story is a short story-telling presentation that seeks to highlight remarkable women and their remarkable stories, through history to today! This chapter of HER-story brings to life the story of Princess Anne's close brush with danger, as she bravely...

Retired Navy SEAL, Jocko Willink, knows a thing or two about discipline and grit!  This week, Michelle and Lindsay take some of the interesting points Jocko speaks on and they adapt them to our role as homemakers!  The ladies discuss the importance of setting up routines, how discipline is different than motivation and how we can bring in the best principles of the Navy SEALS into our ki...

As women, our hormones play such a huge part in how we are feeling on any given day.  It's so common and so natural, that sometimes we forget to see the beauty in how our hormones contribute to our femininity!  In this week's episode, Michelle and Lindsay discuss why they think hormonal impact is not taken into consideration more and why they think it would be beneficial for us all to st...

...Or, alternately titled: "That Time When the Kardashians Taught Me Humility".  Last week saw the Kardashian family making headlines once again.  This time, though, the focus was on Kim and Kanye West and some of the changes they are currently undergoing individually and as a family.  In today's episode, Michelle and Lindsay discuss how changes of heart are currently seen in our cu...

It seems a simple thing to tell someone to just "forgive and forget" a transgression.  But looking around our world today, it is clear that this is clearly an act that is easier said than done!  This week, Michelle and Lindsay discuss a recent viral video that showed such a powerful moment of forgiveness (amidst a culture obsessed with holding grudges, no less) and why a proper understan...

Ladies (and gentlemen), it is time.  After over a year of recording weekly episodes here at The Modern Lady Podcast, we are finally due for an entire episode of deep diving the formidable and incomparable works of the one and only: Jane Austen!  Though she lived hundreds of years ago, in an era much different from ours, we believe there are many aspects of a Regency-period lifestyle that...

The world of education is exploding with a variety of different pathways, from homeschooling to charter schools, road-schooling to your traditional brick and mortar.  In many ways, it is such exciting time to be a student... and the parents of a student!  But the decision-making process can sometimes be overwhelming.  This week, Michelle and Lindsay discuss some of the consideration...

Gossip is a sneaky temptation that cannot be taken lightly.  Idle chitchat about other people can have consequences far beyond what we could ever imagine!  In an age where communication is so easy and instant, it's never been more important for us to hold our tongues!  This week, Michelle and Lindsay discuss the various kinds of gossip that are common in our world today and practica...

When we speak about a home having "good bones", it is usually referring to all the planning and architecture that lies beneath the trendy paint colours and fancy candles.  To make your house into a home with good bones, you need to have creativity, good sense and a predisposition towards being content with what you have.  This week, Michelle and Lindsay chat about what they have learned...

In this special episode of The Modern Lady Podcast, join Michelle as she chats with the one and only Kathryn Whitaker about living with intention and the importance of authenticity!  In Kathryn's recently released book, Live Big, Love Bigger, she uses examples from her own life to propose ways in which the reader can intentionally embrace a "hell yes!" kind of life in a busy culture.  We...

Anxious thoughts about either the past or the future rob us of the gift of "right now".  This week, Michelle and Lindsay dig into how anxiety affects us physically and mentally, and they discuss how they have personally managed the different forms of anxiety in their lives, in order to remain rooted and focused in the here and now!

Life is often made up of all those little moments that come together in big ways.  Women throughout history know exactly what those little things are and tend to carry the brunt of the responsibility for taking care of them for their households.  In this week's episode, Michelle and Lindsay respond to an online post discussing emotional labour in marriage and discuss what it is, exactly,...

On this week's episode, Michelle and Lindsay are thrilled to welcome The Catholic Traveler, Mountain Butorac, to the show!  In this interview, he gives his top tips on how to travel smart, whether you're flying solo or bringing the whole family, and shares his Top 5 places to visit when in Rome!  In his usual way, Mountain brings travelling to these places to life through personal anecdo...

It's a wonderful, fascinating, vast world out there... more than enough to satisfy the curiosity of any person throughout their life!  In this week's episode, Michelle and Lindsay take a look at what developing a lifelong love of learning means and share some of their favourite tips on how you can seek to do so every day!

The advice "be ladylike" can sometimes seem vague, especially in our culture today. In this week's episode, Michelle and Lindsay discuss important qualities to be desired in a lady and how it might look if women en masse were encouraged to embody this kind of "modern ladyship"!  From do's-and-don't's of etiquette to sharing some examples of the better known women they admire, the ladies dig i...

We're often encouraged to "stand by what you believe in" and to "live by your convictions", but are often quickly shut down when we move to express them.  In this week's episode, Michelle and Lindsay discuss why it is important for everyone, especially women, to work to develop their convictions, live courageously by them and learn to speak in defence of them while in conversation with others...

The summer months are made for putting your feet up, digging into your latest read and soaking up some sunshine, right? But alas, amidst all the warm weather revelry, somehow the laundry still needs washing and the meals still need prepping!  So in this week's episode, Michelle and Lindsay give practical tips on how every homemaker can plan to keep on top of things AND enjoy HER summer too!&n...