Fate, Forty, and Beyond

Sue spent more than 30 years helping other people tell their stories while feeling invisible in her own. After divorce, a visit to a crystal booth led her toward Angelic Reiki, sound meditation, and a growing collection of instruments she never expected to own. In this episode, I talk with Sue about returning to music without the pressure to play perfectly, what happens during her sound meditation...

What Happens When Your Faith No Longer Fits? What happens when the beliefs you've held your entire life no longer make sense for the person you're becoming? This week, I'm chatting with Sam, whose spiritual journey has taken her from Catholic school to a convent, a Hare Krishna temple, and eventually into Reiki, reflexology, massage therapy, and end-of-life care. And somehow, with all the differen...

What happens when you've spent years doing the inner work, but life still doesn't seem to get any easier? Sometimes the biggest shift in our healing journey comes from changing what we expect healing to actually look like. In this episode of Fate, Forty & Beyond, I'm talking with Sheila Doerfler, a certified Biofield Tuning practitioner, about the reality of personal growth, the challenges of...

What if a spiritual awakening isn’t about becoming someone new—but finally realizing which patterns, fears, and stories you’re ready to stop carrying? In this episode, I’m joined by Laura Swan, a self-described spiritual alchemist, medium, energy healer, and horse trainer, for one of those conversations that goes everywhere in the best possible way. We talk about shifting our language from “what c...

This week, I’m sitting down with Ashley Langford for one of those conversations that somehow goes everywhere—and still manages to come right back to what it really means to find yourself in midlife. Ashley is a fractional marketing consultant who found herself navigating back-to-back layoffs, a major career shift, and becoming an empty nester all around the same time. We talk about what happens wh...

There is something strange happening in my house right now. What started as clearing out the space above my washer and dryer has somehow turned into a full-blown decluttering mission—and somewhere between expired medicine, abandoned hobbies, random charging cables, and things I haven't touched in years, I realized this isn't really about cleaning anymore. In this episode, I'm talking about the dee...

What happens when we stop forcing spirituality and mental health to live in separate worlds? In this episode of Fate, Forty, and Beyond , I sit down with Joelle Doherty, a licensed professional counselor, shamanic practitioner, and Akashic Records reader, and we have one of those conversations that somehow touches everything —EMDR, spirituality, soul contracts, intuition, plant medicine, grief, pa...

Welcome to the Woo Buffet What if you’re way more woo than you think you are? In this episode of Fate, Forty, and Beyond , I’m taking you on a walk through what I lovingly call the Woo Buffet —because spirituality is a whole lot bigger than crystals, tarot cards, astrology, and talking to dead people. We’re talking intuition, synchronicities, numerology, sound healing, nature, family superstitions...

In this episode of Fate, Forty, and Beyond , I’m joined by branding expert, confidence coach, and Byte Size Brands podcast host Kusha Kalra for a conversation about trusting yourself, taking risks, and creating a life that actually feels aligned. Kusha shares her journey from leaving a successful corporate career to prioritize motherhood, navigating the uncertainty of entrepreneurship, and eventua...

Ever followed advice that was objectively good and it still didn't work for you? It's probably not a you problem...it might just not have been built for how you're wired. In this mini episode, I break down human design: what it is, where it comes from, and how it actually works in real life. I cover the body graph and its nine energy centers, the difference between defined centers (consistently yo...

At 44, Sonia had a customer service job she loved and a second marriage that finally felt safe...and she still enrolled in welding school, because she didn't know what she wanted next and decided to find out. In this tarot reading, Gen and Sonia cover a lot of ground: what it looks like to reinvent yourself without a crisis to justify it, why receiving good things doesn't have to be earned, and So...

What Happens When You Stop Apologizing for Who You Are? This week Gen sits down with Trinity Peterson — owner of Esoteria LLC, tarot reader of 31 years, registered behavioral technician, spiritual guide, and someone who recovers out loud so other people don't have to die in silence. What starts as a live tarot reading turns into one of the most wide-ranging, honest conversations this show has had....

What is Chiron in Taurus — and why does it matter so much in midlife? In this mini episode, Gen breaks down one of the most significant astrological shifts in years — Chiron moving into Taurus — and explains exactly why it's especially powerful for women in their 40s and 50s. No astrology background needed. Just an open heart and a willingness to look at the beliefs about worth that have been runn...

What's the Real Difference Between Magic and Manifestation? This week, Gen sits down with Sunshine Witchski — known as Sunshine the Pink Haired Sober Witch — host of the Sober Witch Life Podcast, author of Sober Witch Life and The Recovery Grimoire , and founder of a growing recovery coven movement. In recovery from alcohol use disorder since 2019 (with roots going back to 2015), Sunshine brings a...

In this solo mini episode of Fate Forty and Beyond , Gen explores how tarot can be used as a powerful tool for self-reflection and decision-making. Rather than treating tarot as fortune-telling, Gen explains how symbolic imagery can help uncover thoughts, emotions, fears, and truths that may already exist beneath the surface. Drawing from her own experience as a tarot reader and spiritual practiti...

I Wasn't Buried...I Was Planted What happens when life knocks you down — not once, but twice, twenty years apart? In this episode, Gen sits down with Irene Vaksberg , a Soviet-born immigrant, hairdresser, mother, grandmother, and soul inspirer whose story will stop you in your tracks. At 23, Irene was pulled from a crushed car by the Jaws of Life — and had a full near-death experience where she me...

The Identity Hangover | Ep. 24 When Who You Were No Longer Fits — And Who You're Becoming Hasn't Arrived Yet Have you ever looked in the mirror and felt like a stranger was staring back? In this mini episode, Gen dives into the "identity hangover" — that disorienting in-between space that so many women hit in midlife, when the roles that defined them no longer fit, but the next version of themselv...

What happens when two women who found each other in an online woo community finally sit down to talk — really talk? Pure magic. In this episode of Fate Forty and Beyond, Gen sits down with writer Michelle Angone for one of the most honest, wide-ranging conversations you'll hear all year. From coming out of the broom closet in your 30s to tracking the Mother Goddess all the way back through history...

Gen opens up about a personal struggle — a project that brought her to tears — and uses it to explore why showing up for ourselves consistently is one of the most spiritual, scientific, and emotionally profound things we can do in midlife. She weaves together neuroscience, psychology, and wisdom from spiritual traditions worldwide to reframe consistency not as a productivity hack, but as a devotio...

In this warm and wide-ranging conversation, Gen sits down with Caren Paskel, self-evolution coach, author, and yoga teacher who transformed profound loss into a blueprint for radical reinvention. After losing her husband to brain cancer, her yoga studios during the pandemic, and eventually her home in Detroit, Caren didn't just rebuild — she completely reimagined what her life could look like. Now...

In this mini episode, Gen responds to a listener question that stopped her in her tracks. Their question: how do you know what's grief psychosis and what's real? Gen's answer is warm, grounding, and deeply personal. Gen walks listeners through six of the most common signs that someone is opening up to mediumship, including clairaudience, knowing when someone has passed before being told, visitatio...

In Episode 19 of Fate, Forty, and Beyond , Gen welcomes Lisa Eva Zack — mother of five, women's advocate, and founder of a new nonprofit — for a conversation that moves from tarot cards to theology to tiny homes and back again. Lisa shares how a breaking point at work and the end of her second marriage became a catalyst for total reinvention, leading her toward a deeper trust in intuition and a mi...

What if the reason manifesting hasn't fully clicked for you is that you've only been working with one law out of twelve? In this mini episode, Gen breaks down all 12 Universal Laws — rooted in Hermetic philosophy dating back to ancient Egypt — and brings each one into the context of midlife. This is ancient knowledge made practical for women who are deep in the work of reinvention. From the Law of...

Sometimes midlife doesn’t look anything like what we thought it would. In this episode, Gen sits down with Denean for a deeply honest conversation about grief, recovery, rebuilding after loss, and what it means to keep going when life has completely changed shape. What starts as a tarot reading unfolds into a real conversation about widowhood, addiction recovery, abusive relationships, friendship...

Perfectionism isn’t who you are. It’s something you learned to survive. In this mini episode, Gen shares a raw and honest reflection on what happens when perfectionism stops working in midlife. Through the lens of the Star and Judgment tarot cards, she breaks down the moment where everything clicks. The moment you realize you’re exhausted from trying to be everything for everyone. This isn’t about...