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MIDLIFE BY DESIGN: CURATING YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
by Kiran Singh
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 pr
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From an Idea on a Bus to a Global Movement: The True Story Behind The Sattva Collective
Earlier today, I had an amazing conversation with a lovely woman in the UK, and it inspired me to share the real, unfiltered story behind why I started The Sattva Collective. To be completely honest with you, last year, I was on my way to Cambridge for a day trip (and a helicopter lesson!) when I...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Episode 104: From Becoming to Belonging
From Becoming to Belonging On candles, contentment, and the life that has been quietly waiting for you to notice it. This week, I sat in a different seat. That's it. That's all I did. I moved from my usual chair to the main sofa, and the room looked completely different. The tea lights on the...
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Episode 103: A Life Built One Ritual at a Time
On devotion, ordinary days, and the home you are building from the inside out. It started with a mug holder. Which sounds absurdly small. But that's rather the point. Somewhere between donating a spice rack I'd been organising but never really using, creating autumn traditions with Khushi, and...
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She's Finally Here
There’s a version of this story that sounds tidy in retrospect. The heartbreak that made her stronger. The loss that redirected her. The season of overgiving that finally taught her where her edges were. The slow, quiet rebuilding of a life that actually felt like hers. But it wasn’t tidy. It was...
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Episode 102: She's Finally Home
On pain, purpose, energy, and the woman you have been becoming all along. There's a version of this story that sounds tidy in retrospect. The heartbreak that made her stronger. The loss that redirected her. The season of overgiving that finally taught her where her edges were. The slow, quiet...
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The Medicine of Doing Nothing
It started on a Saturday afternoon. Tea going cold. No phone. No list. No role to perform. Just three uninterrupted hours that belonged entirely to me, and the quiet realisation that I had been hungrier for this than I had allowed myself to admit. In this episode, I’m talking about the particular...
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Episode 101: THE MEDICINE OF DOING NOTHING
On solitude, silence, and the season of becoming your own muse. It started on a Saturday afternoon. Tea going cold. No phone. No list. No role to perform. Just three uninterrupted hours that belonged entirely to me, and the quiet realisation that I had been hungrier for this than I had allowed...
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Episode 100: Still Building
This episode is different. Episode 100 falls on a day that carries more weight than a milestone. It falls on what would have been my brother’s 36th birthday. And so, instead of a celebration, I wanted to do something I’ve never quite done on this microphone before. I wanted to tell the truth. In...
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Episode 100: Episode 100: Still Building
A dedication, a reflection, and everything this journey has really been about. This episode is different. Episode 100 falls on a day that carries more weight than a milestone. It falls on what would have been my brother's 36th birthday. And so, instead of a celebration, I wanted to do something...
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I Stopped Being the Expert. Then My Substack Finally Started to Grow.
What does it actually take to build a meaningful presence online after 40, without losing yourself in the process? In this episode, I sit down with Csilla 🌹 Feminine in midlife 💃, a former corporate finance executive turned pole dancer, choir singer, and Substack writer based in Spain. Six…
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Episode 99: Substack Live | Forget Algorithms. Here's How We're Actually Growing on Substack Over 40
With guest Csilla Gergely, writer of Feminine Energy for Midlife Women What does it actually take to build a meaningful presence online after 40, without losing yourself in the process? In this episode, Kiran sits down with Csilla Gergely, a former corporate finance executive turned pole dancer,...
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Forget Algorithms. Here's How We're Growing on Substack Over 40
First of all, Thank you Laurie Flynn, Janelle Wright, rhonda doruiter, Wallflower Riot, Emma Louise Hudson, Elizabeth Norvell, Human Doing Being and many others for tuning into my live video with Csilla 🌹 Feminine in midlife 💃, it meant a lot x Nobody tells you the truth about growing on...
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Substack Live | Women on Identity: When Who You’ve Been No Longer Fits
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m sharing the audio version of my very first Substack Live: a beautiful conversation hosted by Lana Jean Telles on Worthy and Wild, alongside Rosanne | Well This Is New. The conversation, Women on Identity: When Who You’ve Been…
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Episode 98: Substack Live | Women on Identity: When Who You’ve Been No Longer Fits
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m sharing the audio version of my very first Substack Live: a beautiful conversation hosted by Lana Jean Telles on Worthy and Wild, alongside Rosanne from Well This Is New. The conversation, Women on Identity: When Who You’ve…
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Curating the Life You Actually Want to Live
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m talking about the quiet but powerful work of curating your life, not in a perfectionist or picture-perfect way, but as an act of alignment. Midlife has a way of showing us what no longer belongs: the old routines, clothes,...
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Episode 97: Curating the Life You Actually Want to Live
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m talking about the quiet but powerful work of curating your life, not in a perfectionist or picture-perfect way, but as an act of alignment. Midlife has a way of showing us what no longer belongs: the old routines, clothes,...
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The Pause I Didn’t Plan For
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m sharing a story about something that initially felt frustrating and disorienting, but slowly revealed itself as something else entirely. A month and a half ago, my Facebook account, business page, and three Instagram accounts...
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Episode 96: The Pause I Didn’t Plan For
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m sharing a story about something that initially felt frustrating and disorienting, but slowly revealed itself as something else entirely. A month and a half ago, my Facebook account, business page, and three Instagram accounts...
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Enjoy Being While Becoming
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m talking about the in-between, that tender, uncomfortable, deeply human place where life no longer feels like the one you’ve outgrown, but it doesn’t quite look the way you want it to yet either. This is a conversation about...
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Episode 95: Enjoy Being While Becoming
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m talking about the in-between, that tender, uncomfortable, deeply human place where life no longer feels like the one you’ve outgrown, but it doesn’t quite look the way you want it to yet either. This is a conversation about...
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A Podcasthon Special | Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter
In this special Podcasthon episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m exploring what Midlife by Design really means, not as a slogan or a self-improvement plan, but as a lived, honest practice. This is a conversation for the woman who feels the quiet shift of midlife: when the...
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Episode 94: Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter | A Podcasthon Special
In this special Podcasthon episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m exploring what Midlife by Design really means, not as a slogan or a self-improvement plan, but as a lived, honest practice. This is a conversation for the woman who feels the quiet shift of midlife: when the...
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When the Strong One Has to Surrender
In this week’s episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m sharing a personal life update before surgery. I was meant to be in India right now, visiting my dad and soaking up some warmth after a long winter in the UK. Instead, I received a last-minute hospital call, and I’m now...
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Episode 93: When the Strong One Has to Surrender
In this week’s episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m sharing a personal life update before surgery. I was meant to be in India right now, visiting my dad and soaking up some warmth after a long winter in the UK. Instead, I received a last-minute hospital call, and I’m now...
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Not Reinvention, Integration: The Midlife Return
Last week, I took a solo trip to Lille, expecting long walks, sightseeing, and that romantic version of a “reset” we all imagine, and I did taste a little of that, enough to feel the city breathe around me. But then my body stepped in, hip pain flared, overstimulation crept in, and suddenly the...
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Episode 92: Not Reinvention, Integration: The Midlife Return
Last week, I took a solo trip to Lille, expecting long walks, sightseeing, and that romantic version of a “reset” we all imagine. And I did taste a little of that, enough to feel the city breathe around me. But then my body stepped in, hip pain flared, overstimulation crept in, and suddenly the...
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Mum guilt vs Self-trust: Choosing rest without needing permission
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, we’re talking about the kind of midlife lesson that doesn’t arrive as a big breakthrough… but as a small decision that changes everything. It starts with a solo trip to France, an early train, a £47 hotel room near King’s Cross…
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Episode 91: Mum guilt vs Self-trust: Choosing rest without needing permission
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, we’re talking about the kind of midlife lesson that doesn’t arrive as a big breakthrough… but as a small decision that changes everything. It starts with a solo trip to France, an early train, a £47 hotel room near King’s Cross…
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When I Stopped Negotiating With the Present
There’s a moment in midlife when you realise you’ve been living one step ahead of yourself. Not in an ambitious, visionary way. In a restless way. The kind where you’re mentally rehearsing the next chapter while real-life you is standing in the kitchen, hungry, tired, staring at a counter that...
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Episode 90: When I Stopped Negotiating With the Present
There’s a moment in midlife when you realise you’ve been living one step ahead of yourself. Not in an ambitious, visionary way. In a restless way. The kind where you’re mentally rehearsing the next chapter while real-life you is standing in the kitchen, hungry, tired, staring at a counter that...
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The Truth About My Midlife Body No One Prepared Me For
Hello, my Love. And welcome back to Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter. Today, I want to talk about the moment your body stops whispering… and starts asking. Not loudly. Not dramatically. But clearly enough that you can’t unhear it anymore. For me, that moment didn’t arrive all at…
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Episode 89: The Truth About My Midlife Body No One Prepared Me For
There comes a moment in midlife when your body stops whispering and starts asking. Not loudly. Not dramatically. But clearly enough that you can’t ignore it anymore. In this episode, we explore that turning point so many women reach in their 40s and 50s, when disrupted sleep, lingering pain,...
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When There’s No Old Version to Go Back To
Today’s episode is a Midlife Living Journal entry from one of those tender, heavy days. The kind where you feel flat, two days away from your bleed, emotions sitting close to the surface, and your body asking for softness instead of productivity. I watched part of the documentary BALANCE: A...
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Episode 88: When There’s No Old Version to Go Back To
Today’s episode is a Midlife Living Journal entry from one of those tender, heavy days. The kind where you feel flat, two days away from your bleed, emotions sitting close to the surface, and your body asking for softness instead of productivity. I watched part of the documentary BALANCE: A...
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Episode 86: The Art of Winter Reflection: Journaling and Soul Work in Midlife
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m inviting you into the quieter magic of winter, the season that asks us to slow down, soften our pace, and turn inward. Winter has always carried a certain stillness for me. But it wasn’t until midlife that I stopped resisting…
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Episode 85: Beyond the Vision Board: A Midlife Practice in Remembering Yourself
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, we explore that quiet, tender moment so many women reach in midlife, when you realise you don’t want to go back… but you’re not entirely sure who you’re becoming either. This isn’t about blowing your life up or chasing a shiny new...
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Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter Trailer
Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter is a podcast for women standing in the in-between. The season where life looks full on the outside, but something inside is quietly asking for more truth, more ease, more alignment. In this trailer, I share what this space is really about: honest...
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Episode 84: New Year, True You
If the start of a new year leaves you feeling more tired than inspired, this episode is for you. In this reflective conversation, I’m inviting you to pause before the lists, the goals, and the pressure to reinvent yourself. We explore why traditional New Year’s resolutions so often leave us…
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Ending the Year Softer
Hello, my Love, and welcome back to Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter Podcast. This is our final episode of 2025. And I want to take a moment to let that land. Because before we rush toward what’s next, before we start naming intentions or dreaming up a “best year yet,” I want to tell...
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Episode 83: Ending the Year Softer
This is the final episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter for 2025, and it’s a quiet, honest pause before we step into whatever comes next. In this deeply personal episode, I reflect on a year that didn’t unfold the way I imagined it would. There were no neat timelines or glow-up...
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Episode 82: Letters from Midlife: When Anxiety Creeps In
This episode is a gentle hand on your back for the moments when anxiety arrives quietly and takes up more space than you expected. In this Letters from Midlife conversation, I respond to a letter from a woman navigating that familiar midlife anxiety that seems to come from nowhere. The racing...
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Episode 81: When Christmas Doesn’t Land
This episode is for the woman who’s done Christmas beautifully… but hasn’t quite felt it. In this Letters from Midlife conversation, I’m sharing something quietly honest: despite the lights, the styling, the rituals, and the intention, Christmas didn’t land for me this year. And instead of…
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When Christmas Doesn’t Land
Hello, my Love. And welcome back to the Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter Podcast. I want to begin today somewhere very honest. I haven’t really felt Christmas this year. And that feels almost rebellious to admit out loud. Our home looks beautiful. We styled it gently, intentionally,...
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Episode 80: Letters from Midlife: Learning to Love the Woman in the Mirror Again
In this episode of Letters from Midlife, I’m responding to a letter from a woman who’s struggling with a shift so many of us experience in midlife, yet rarely speak about with real honesty: no longer recognising the woman looking back at us in the mirror. She writes about the weight, the…
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Letters from Midlife: Learning to Love the Woman in the Mirror Again
Hello, my Love, and welcome back to Letters from Midlife, part of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter Podcast. I’m Kiran, and today I’m responding to a letter from one of our listeners, a woman who is facing a shift so many of us feel deeply in midlife, yet rarely talk about with…
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Episode 79: Letters from Midlife: When Sleep Disappears in Perimenopause
In this week’s episode of Letters from Midlife, Kiran reads a deeply familiar letter from a listener who’s found herself awake at 2 or 3 am most nights, exhausted, overwhelmed, and wondering why her once-reliable sleep has suddenly fallen apart. If you’re in perimenopause and your nights feel...
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Letters from Midlife: When Sleep Disappears in Perimenopause
Hello, my Love, and welcome back to Letters from Midlife, part of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter Podcast. I’m Kiran, and today I’m responding to a letter from one of our listeners, a woman who is standing in that foggy, frustrating, heartachingly familiar place where sleep has...
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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 pr
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