This. Life. Now.

This is the last lyrical episode of Season 2. Some chapters in our lives remain unread and the endings still unseen. And yet, sometimes we encounter moments when everything falls into place when we most need it to. Why is that? This is the one where we talk about unfinished chapters and divine timing.

We often stay stuck in situations that no longer serve us, even when our hearts are begging for change. Why do we do this, and why does our subconscious resist change? Letting go isn’t a one-time decision – it’s a practice, a pathway toward becoming. On the other side of your quiet courage awaits a life that’s been waiting for you all along.

This episode is for my manifesters! When bringing into fruition our desires, why isn’t ‘living in the end’ enough? Why my tried and true triad of detachment, abundance, and LITE have become my criteria for manifesting instead.

For my golden birthday year - here are 28 life lessons I’ve learned by year 28. Life is ever-expanding, and so are we. I’ve navigated my own biggest life lessons in my twenties for better, for worse, and for better. I’m honored to share my experience with you.

Feeling behind in life is the trope of our twenties and thirties. This episode is for what to do when you’re triggered and feel stuck in an endless waiting period. (Featuring guest perspective: Alex Roche Blackwell)

This isn’t an episode about the importance of making money or how to make money. This is a larger life conversation on identity and how that gets realized through our income. You are a multi-dimensional human being with multiple identities, passions, and pursuits that may not need to fit into a single job, and that’s okay.  (Featuring guest perspectives: Melissa Morriss-Olson and Simson Musante)

I used to believe forgiveness was about someone else. I hope they’re sorry for what they did! They’ll eventually come to their senses and apologize! Then maybe I’ll forgive them and get the closure and healing I need! What I learned instead is forgiveness is about an experience that starts and ends with you.

Why do we feel alone in relationships? This episode is for when you feel abandoned in love. Such a counterintuitive, yet raw and honest, topic that I have yet to hear someone talk about. In this episode I leave you with two love letters for you to listen to on your own healing journey.

Making friends as young adults can be hard! No one prepares us for the reality of making and maintaining meaningful friendships as we get older and our pathways diverge. In this episode I share common challenges and offer advice while asking some of my own friends about their experiences. (Featuring guest perspectives: Allie Bridger, Grace Olson, Caitlin Castineiras, and Hannah Pozzebon)

This episode is for those who are recovering from the habit of people pleasing. People Pleasing is so much larger than just ‘caring what people think.’ In the episode I unpack the psychology behind both the healing and unlearning of this survival strategy and how we can show up to feel safe in the world. (Featuring guest perspective: Amanda Blackwell)

Welcome to Season 2 of This Life. Now. podcast. This season of life is the opening of our inner wisdom – a time full of self-pursuit, lonely questions, emotional healing, and unexpected clarity. In this season we cover the quiet ache of ‘almosts,’ the courage it takes to let go, the messiness of love, the inner work of healing wounds, and the path of honoring your life’s timing, and in-between sea...

Words on the page, words in the air, this concludes our 2020 summer series of This. Life. Now. I leave you with the gift of 5 of my prose poems. So we’ve been around the sun now with coming to understand how the Universe does have our back. Relationships where the heart and hearth is built from the beautiful self-home infrastructure. Purposeful practices at the intersection between us and the sacr...

Today’s episode is a conversation walk that I give you for times when you find yourself needing a meditation for inner strength and healing. When we remember how to access our authentic selves, we discover that all the resources we could ever need are already within us. On this guided visual meditation journey, I walk you through some these. How do we shed the skin of what no longer serves us? Wha...

In today’s episode I use dance as a metaphor for honoring the body and personal movemeng unique to each of us, and more largely our phenomenology within the larger world. This conversation is a “wander-ment“ of thoughts where grounding in dance composition and pedagogy actually opens room for greater philosophical and metaphorical rumination that is self-reflexive and large context-related to life...

Everyone wants to improve their productivity skills and time management, but when it comes down to effective planning, we need to frame the conversation more largely around how to become a boss along the pursuit towards fulfilling the objectives we set out for ourselves. These 5 ways to rethink achieving your goals have greatly changed the routes to my success. What specific mindsets, resources, a...

Today’s conversation is all about having a critical conversation on teaching and learning with technology, which couldn’t be more relevant to the present moment since COVID-19 proving nothing but the fact that we need to have well thought through mixed-modes of instruction, including that of the digital. Where has my own authority within learning design, a field that has always been at the forefro...

In this week’s episode, I discuss my undergraduate experience at the country’s first established women’s college. What values have I learned from an institution committed to intellectual inclusion and critical thinking, gender inclusivity, and service beyond the campus? What has my uniquely Mount Holyoke network taught me? Today I invite another special guest to join us, Emily Dickinson Professor...

Welcome to another episode conversation where we discuss what it means to become an innovative leader. In this episode, I reveal the process of creating my own self-designed major, taking innovative academic risks, self-advocacy, and how to “make things happen.” Join me as I feature a special guest, Hannah Pozzebon, Mount Holyoke College alumna ‘20 who shares part of her own trailblazing journey.

In today’s cosmic conversation let me share with you how to start cultivating your own sacred space. Rarely do we give a second thought to the everyday mundane spaces we inhabit. Each one of us engages in some sort of purposeful practice, which is why we need to create intentionality towards our “being-ness” and energy within site specific places. I walk you through my 3 step question exercise on...

So you’re in a relationship now, already have been in a few, or want to be in one! Today we talk about two kinds of relationships - first the relationship with ourselves and second, our romantic relationships. I have created a metrics called the 4 C’s for what we can hold ourselves and loved ones accountable to. What should we be willing to accept and receive into our orbits? I have always loved r...

We all experience times throughout our lives when we are forced to partake in some of the greatest changes, decision making, and transformations about life as we once knew it. How do we reconcile with feeling safe and right in the world when everything is in flux? Whether you’re waiting for the current of life to pick up again or wondering when it will slow down, here are 5 ways you can allow the...

This. Life. Now., hosted by Madeleine Olson, conversations to start your week off mindfully covering emotional wellness and inner aece, productivity skills, and larger life lessons. Whether you need a podcast to start brewing your morning off with deep inspiration or you’re looking for a restorative way to fold the end of the day over, come on over to This. Life. Now. I encourage you to hit subscr...