A warm, humorous, honest podcast for midlife women who’ve gotten really good at doing all the things—and are ready to make a little more room for themselves in the lives they’ve built.
What happens when you spend 25 years building a business, finally close the doors, and realize you're not entirely sure who you are without it? You take a grown-up gap year, of course. And if you're Mitra Palmer, you somehow turn that one year into two. In this Play Date, Mitra and I chat about giving ourselves permission to take a beat between seasons of life, finding a creative obsession (pottery, in her case), and the surprisingly tricky business of answering the question, “So, what do you...
7 Oct 2026
Play Date with Becka Rahn
What happens when you stop trying to be good at everything and give yourself permission to simply make stuff, love stuff, and occasionally have grape-candy-colored hair? In this Play Date, I’m catching up with teaching artist Becka Rahn about bringing more joy into everyday life, the exhausting business of always waiting for someone to say yes, why grown women need more chances to be beginners, and what happens to our brains when we put down the screens and make something with our hands. We ...
23 Sept 2026
Play Date with Teresa Thomas: Fun is Fuel
Meet the Joy Concierge! That's the nickname my guest Teresa Thomas earned after turning her 50th birthday into a wildly contagious practice: a list of 50 fun things to experience before the big day — everything from Santorini-sized dreams to finally ordering the latte instead of the regular coffee. We dig into why saying what you want out loud seems to summon it (wait for the drum jam story), the real difference between toxic positivity and joy as an act of resistance, and why "I'm good...
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