Welcome to Mother McIntosh. This is Kennedi speaking ❣️
This podcast is for people who want to love better. Love themselves without shrinking. Love others without losing their center. Love life without rushing past it.
These episodes are conversations, not lessons. Honest reflections on growth, embodiment, patience, and staying open in a world that teaches us to harden. Sometimes I’m learning in real time. Sometimes I’m looking back with clarity. Always human, and usually intimate.
If you’re learning how to stay soft, present, and yourself while loving deeply, I’m happy you found me 💋
Mother McIntosh is BACK, baby! A year older, a little wiser, and apparently still finding ways to turn an ordinary walk with my dog into a full existential experience.
This week, we’re talking about rain. Yes, actual rain. But also the storms we convince ourselves are coming just because we’ve seen those clouds before. We’re catching up on life, celebrating some anniversaries, listening to jazz, sharing a little poetry, and learning that sometimes courage isn’t knowing the sun will come out. It’s trusting yourself to make it through the rain.
So get cozy, and come hang out with me. I’ve missed you <3
And remember, sometimes you gotta get a little wet💋
3 Aug 2026
Episode 22: It’s Just My Turn
It’s been a little over two months… and goodness, I’ve missed you.
In this episode, we’re catching up on where I’ve been mentally these last few months and a realization that completely changed the way I look at hard seasons. Somewhere between feeling disconnected, convincing myself I was a burden, getting stuck in my own head, and somehow always ending up in the only lane that wasn’t backed up with traffic, one sentence landed:
It’s just my turn.
We talk about loneliness, why it always feels like we’re the only person in the world struggling, how easy it is to accidentally build a house in a season you were only meant to visit, and why I think we sometimes hold onto our turn for far too long simply because we forget the wheel is supposed to rotate.
If you’ve been waiting to feel “better enough” before letting yourself be loved, laughing with your friends again, or saying yes to life… this one’s for you.
17 May 2026
Episode 21: Poetry Night
This episode is about belonging.
I talk about how I almost joined the military last year and truly thought it was the path I was supposed to take. I had the scores, the physical, the job picked out, the support, the direction. On paper, it made complete sense. But when it came time to actually go, something in me just… wouldn’t move.
And after months of wondering if I had walked away from something important, I finally realized it wasn’t the military I was craving. It was community. It was people. It was a place to belong.
I had convinced myself there was nothing for me in Cincinnati. But once I stopped trying to escape and started asking myself what I could build here, everything changed.
This episode is about poetry night, grief, moving out on my own, feeling different, creating spaces for people to show up exactly as they are, and the realization that maybe community isn’t always something you find. Sometimes it’s something you create.
And if you’re in Cincinnati and want to experience the room that inspired this episode:
Poetry Night: The Listening Room
First Monday of every month
@ CobbleStone OTR
8:30pm ☕️🕯️💌
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