When Your Reality Breaks Open

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 mission to build real community for women who have nowhere to land. Lisa opens up about leaving a job that was crushing her, navigating solo parenthood of five, and her dream of creating a sanctuary for mothers in transition. Gen and Lisa also get into spiritual deconstruction after Catholic upbringings, self-love as the oxygen mask you put on first, and the grief that quietly arrives when life doesn't look the way you planned. Timestamps: [00:18] Welcome & Introduction to the Show [01:00] Meet Lisa Eva Zack: Advocacy, Motherhood & Evolution [04:19] The Tarot Reading Begins [06:32] Lisa's Story: When Your Reality Breaks Open [09:35] Catholic Upbringings and Spiritual Deconstruction [17:26] The Gen X Productivity Trap and Learning to Be Still [18:36] The Breaking Point: Quitting, Leaping, and Trusting the Fall [29:19] Lisa's Vision: A Sanctuary for Single Mothers [31:05] Spiral Dynamics and The World Card — Going Back for Others [41:37] Self-Love First: The Oxygen Mask Reframe [50:40] The Grief of a Life That Didn't Go as Planned [1:04:10] Goddess Oracle: Vesta [1:08:06] Wild Offering: Loneliness [1:09:07] Closing Reflections RESOURCES & LINKS MENTIONED Lisa Eva Zack — (women's advocacy organization, in development) Bhante Sujatha — Loving Kindness Monk, https://bhantesujatha.org/ Spiral Dynamics — framework for stages of human psychological development https://spiraldynamics.org/ Goddess Guidance Oracle Deck - https://amzn.to/3O2gzxv Wild Offering Oracle Deck — https://amzn.to/4tHNYMS If you love warm, real midlife conversations with humor and heart, you'll feel right at home here. Follow the show & connect with Gen: Gen's Website: http://www.soulfulexistence.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/soulfulxistence TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@soulfulxistence Podcast homepage: http://www.fatefortyandbeyond.com Podcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fatefortyandbeyond Podcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fatefortyandbeyond This contains affiliate links with may result in a small commission from sales.