Lydia M. Hawke: Becoming Crone, Reclaiming Power

There comes a moment in midlife when many women realize they’ve been quietly moved to the edge of their own lives.Not because they lost their power.Because the culture stopped knowing how to see it.In this episode of Wise Women… Forward, Dominique Debroux and Christopher Henze sit down with author Lydia M. Hawke, creator of the Crone Wars series, for a joyful, witchy, deeply human conversation about visibility, aging, fiction, power, and the radical act of reclaiming the word crone.Lydia began writing these books as she approached her 60th birthday and found herself feeling like a side character in her own life. She wasn’t done. Not even close. She wanted stories that centered women like her: older, wiser, unfinished, funny, complicated, and still burning with possibility. Not background grandmothers. Not comic relief. Not women politely fading into the wallpaper while everyone else gets the plot. Women with power. Women with magic. Women with a little righteous “no, I don’t think so” in their bones.Together, Lydia, Dominique, and Christopher explore what it means to become visible again after a culture has trained women to shrink with age. They talk about the hunger for stories where mature women are not merely supporting characters, but the heart of the adventure. They dig into the difference between magic and power, the freedom that comes with refusing other people’s expectations, and why the so-called “crone” phase may be less an ending than an initiation.This conversation is tender, funny, and delightfully defiant. It is about books, yes — but also about the bigger story so many women are living right now: the moment when you stop asking permission to matter.Because life does not end at 50, 60, or anywhere culture decides to stop paying attention.Sometimes, that’s exactly when the magic finally starts behaving itself.Lydia M. HawkeLydiaHawkeBooks.comhttps://www.facebook.com/LydiaMHawkeRent Wise Women - Humanity’s Untold Origins herebingeable.net/wisewomenWise Women Filmwisewomenmovie.com#WiseWomenForward #LydiaMHawke #BecomingCrone #MidlifeWomen #WomenOver50 #AgingBoldly #WomenAuthors