Midlife by Design - Curating Your Next Chapter

About Midlife by Design - Curating Your Next Chapter

Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s an invitation. Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter is a podcast for women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond who sense that something is shifting and want to meet that change with intention, honesty, and self-trust. Hosted by Kiran, Award-winning Midlife Lifestyle Coach, Author, and founder of The Sattva Collective CIC, this podcast explores what it really means to come home to yourself in this chapter of life. Through personal storytelling, reflective solo episodes, expert conversations, and listener letters, Kiran speaks openly about perimenopause and menopause, identity shifts, nervous system health, relationships, boundaries, purpose, and the quiet art of rebuilding a life that feels aligned rather than performative. This isn’t about fixing yourself or chasing a “better” version of who you are. It’s about slowing down, listening in, and designing a life that supports the woman you’re becoming now. Each episode offers perspective, permission, and practical wisdom to help you feel steadier in your body, clearer in your choices, and more at ease with where you are and where you’re heading. If you’re navigating midlife with curiosity, courage, and a desire to live more intentionally, you’re in the right place. Here’s to the next chapter. One honest conversation at a time. www.kiransinghuk.com (https://www.kiransinghuk.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher

Kiran Singh

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Jan 2021

Latest episode

24 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

143 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Sept 2026

   LIVE: The Courage to Drop the Mask and Charge Your Worth

   For years, my purpose has been to serve, but when you keep giving everything away for free, you slowly start undervaluing yourself. I realized recently that underneath all my work was a quiet, lingering belief that I wasn’t enough, that I wasn’t worthy of actually charging people for my time and knowledge. I hesitated to ask for the sale, to promote my work, or to stand firm in my value, even though this is my livelihood. For months, I’ve had 30 or 40 emails sitting in my inbox from people wanting to be guests on my podcast. I kept putting them off because of my own insecurities. Can I talk properly? Will I mess up? Am I good enough in front of the camera? I used to hide behind the mask of “the expert who has it all figured out,” but the truth is, I’m a human being who is still learning. Doing these spontaneous lives has been my way of building confidence, taking off the mask, and stepping out of my biggest insecurities, like showing up on camera in my glasses with no makeup, just as I am in real life. So, I decided to brave it. After my book release in October, a European road trip, November workshops, and a quiet December, I’m launching podcast interviews in January. Instead of taking the easy route of pre-recording, I’m doing them live. And for the first time, I set a small £25 admin fee to honour my time. When I replied to four emails today, one person immediately said no, that it wasn’t in her budget. My old self would have taken that rejection to heart and felt crushed. But my current self thought: That’s okay. I am worthy of charging for my time, my experience, and my platform. Minutes later, another email came through saying, “Hell yes, let’s do this! Where do I pay?” When you align with your own value, the right people invest in you. This shift isn’t just about business; it’s about deeply accepting who I am. Growing up as a big people-pleaser, I looked for external validation through awards, certificates, and media coverage because I never felt enough as a child. When I got glasses, my dad told me I didn’t look like his daughter, and that comment stayed with me for decades, making my glasses my biggest insecurity. But I’m in my late 40s now, navigating perimenopause and running two businesses as a one-woman show, and I’ve come to realise that the more I share my raw, messy, authentic moments — mumbles and all — the more life meets me there. When you show up as your true self instead of who others want you to be, you reach people’s hearts. You don’t need a folder full of certificates to prove your worth. You just have to believe in yourself first, put down the need for approval, and trust that you are worthy of every single thing you’ve ever wanted. Questions for You: * Does this flow capture the balance of reflection and conversation you were looking for? * Which Title and Subtitle option feels most aligned for this piece? Thank you to everyone who tuned in to my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.kiransinghuk.com/subscribe (https://www.kiransinghuk.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   LIVE: Breaking the Cycle: On Gemini, Decluttering, and Showing Up Unfiltered

   I thought I’d share something I realised the other day: I broke up with ChatGPT. After using it for about a year and a half alongside a brief stint with Claude, I looked at my digital space and asked myself which platform genuinely fits my lifestyle best. Since I already run so much of my life on Google Calendar, Drive, and Meet, it just made sense to make the move over to Google AI Plus and Gemini. Before closing my account, I had ChatGPT generate a detailed hand-off document to upload directly into Gemini. I’ve been busy curating custom gems ever since: my own AI chef tailored to recipes I love, a personal trainer, and spaces for financial abundance where I’ve fed in expert interviews I’ve hosted over the years. I’m still in the curation process, but that feels like the whole point. Every single detail in my life right now is being carefully, lovingly curated. We spend so much of our lives living for everyone else, forgetting who we are and what we actually want. After my hip replacement surgery six months ago, I had two months of enforced stillness followed by three intense months of decluttering and simplifying everything: my wardrobe, my skincare, my entire home. I love interior design and styling our space for the seasons, so right now it’s all burnt orange, pumpkin-scented candles, and fairy lights for autumn, my soulmate season. But I’ve also noticed how easy it is to get drained when other people step into your space. After living on my own for over 22 years, hosting family recently made me realise how hard it is to let others in when you’re so used to your own rhythms. Between perimenopause symptoms and sharing a small flat, I’ve had to be deeply intentional about carving out quiet, quality time for myself: even if that just means locking myself in my daughter’s room with a candle, a bouquet of flowers, a cup of tea, and some chocolate. That same pull toward simplicity led me to look at how I live day-to-day. As much as I love smart tech, there’s a sacred comfort in the old-fashioned, slow-living ways I grew up with: putting on a record, making tea in a proper teapot, playing board games, or just being present. When my mom passed away, I promised myself I wouldn’t live like she did, constantly reheating the same morning cup of tea and never sitting down to enjoy it. When I visited family in Norway recently, it amazed me how many of them are still stuck in the exact same place I left them 18 years ago, living in unhappiness because they aren’t willing to change. Breaking the cycle meant choosing not to remarry after my divorce and leaving Norway so I could stop living in survival mode. It gave me the freedom to build a life on my own terms, and I know my mom would be so proud that I broke those traditional expectations to be free. Living intentionally also means stripping away the excess that holds us back. Over the last six years, I’ve gotten rid of 90% of my belongings, unlearning the cultural mindset that more stuff equals more happiness. Now, Khushi and I keep our home curated to only what we actually use: two plates, two bowls, two cups, two glasses, and two pans. We don’t save the best items for “someday” or for guests while using mediocre basics ourselves; I deserve to use my best cashmere jumper, my ceramic mug from Spain, and my favorite perfume every single day, because tomorrow is never guaranteed. Living well isn’t about the big milestones; it’s about having the daily freedom to wake up, write, walk, or go to Paris on a whim. I know there are quite a few ramblings in this live as I jump from topic to topic, but showing up on camera — mumbles, hot flashes, and all — is part of the practice. I’m learning to let go of control, release the guilt of unfinished plans, and simply go with the flow. My dream is to eventually host my own online TV show, and this raw, unedited step of getting on camera and sharing whatever is on my mind is where it all begins. Kiran x PS. Thank you Next 30, Your Terms (https://substack.com/profile/191794568-next-30-your-terms), rhonda doruiter (https://substack.com/profile/407426711-rhonda-doruiter), and to many others for tuning into my live video! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.kiransinghuk.com/subscribe (https://www.kiransinghuk.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

3. 

   19 Sept 2026

   LIVE: The Beautiful Destruction of My Old Life

   In my first spontaneous Substack Live, I reflected on a message from Vishen Lakhiani’s Expert to Authority Summit that really stopped me in my tracks: the idea of “beautiful destruction” — that sometimes what has been working in our lives has to be dismantled to make space for what comes next. “Sometimes you have to destroy a part of your life that is merely good to allow something truly great to enter.” I looked back at 2023, when I genuinely felt I had everything figured out. My health was good, my business was thriving, my home was beautiful, and I felt like I had finally created the life I had worked so hard for. Then everything changed. Moving to Bedford, an experience of living with family that didn’t work, starting again in a new home, perimenopause, anxiety, declining work, and then losing my youngest brother in 2024 completely changed the trajectory of my life. 2025 became a year of coming back to myself through deep personal growth and self-discovery. Then 2026 brought another layer of change: improving my health, having hip replacement surgery, simplifying my business, merging my website and Substack, moving my CIC onto the same platform, and letting go of hundreds of old articles and, with them, older versions of myself. Looking back now, I can see that the destruction wasn’t simply something that happened to me. It created space. By letting go of old systems, beliefs, ways of working, and ways of living, I created room for new ideas, opportunities, and a version of myself that couldn’t have emerged if I had stayed exactly where I was. My takeaway is simple: sometimes when life seems to be going downwards, something else is making space to come up. We aren’t meant to stay the same forever. We’re meant to learn, evolve, grow, and become more fully ourselves. And sometimes the best thing we can do is simplify, let go, show up, and allow life to lead us. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.kiransinghuk.com/subscribe (https://www.kiransinghuk.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2)

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 24 / 100

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36

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0

YouTube

0

Engagement

31

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