Most Myself

Michelle Madrid
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Most Myself is a podcast about the deeply personal journey of remembering who you are and returning to yourself in midlife. Hosted by Michelle Madrid, each episode explores the grief, identity shifts, and awakenings that often arrive in this season of life. Through honest conversations and shared stories, Michelle offers a space for reflection, compassion, and the quiet work of finding your way back to yourself. Join Michelle’s free monthly gathering for women in midlife: Midlife, Together: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com/Together Learn more about Michelle and her work: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com Follow Michelle on Instagram: @TheMichelleMadrid

  1. 6d ago

    The Last Summer Before College: Paying Attention, Not Holding On

    There's a particular kind of ache that comes with knowing something is ending before it actually has. Your child is still here. But they're already somewhere else — thinking about college, about apartments, about a future that's pulling them forward while your memories pull you back. And you're standing in the middle of it, trying to figure out how to stay present in a chapter you know is closing. In this episode, Michelle names that in-between season — not the goodbye itself, but everything leading up to it. She talks about the quiet, unconscious counting so many mothers do (one more summer, one more birthday, one more ordinary Tuesday), and why that awareness can make even a pair of sneakers in the hallway feel unbearably tender. This one's for the mothers in the doorway, watching the future arrive one ordinary day at a time. Music @ByChristianBranch ✨ Join Michelle’s free monthly gathering for women in midlife: Midlife, Together: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com/Together ✨Learn more about Michelle and her work: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com ✨Follow Michelle on Instagram: @TheMichelleMadrid 📌 Reminder: Please Subscribe & Review If this episode resonated, please subscribe and leave a rating. Your support helps Most Myself reach more women navigating midlife.

    The Last Summer Before College: Paying Attention, Not Holding On

  2. Jul 5

    Graduation Grief: The Goodbye Hidden Inside the Celebration

    There's a grief that lives inside graduation season that nobody prepares you for. Because everyone expects you to be happy. And you are. You're proud beyond words. And you're heartbroken beyond words. And somehow, both of those things are true at the same time. In this episode, Michelle kicks off her summer series — The Summer Before Goodbye — by exploring what she calls graduation grief: the invisible loss tucked inside one of life's most celebrated milestones. She talks about why gratitude doesn't eliminate grief. Why your role changing doesn't mean your worth is changing. And why the ache you're feeling isn't a sign that something is wrong with you. Music @ByChristianBranch ✨ Join Michelle’s free monthly gathering for women in midlife: Midlife, Together: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com/Together ✨Learn more about Michelle and her work: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com ✨Follow Michelle on Instagram: @TheMichelleMadrid 📌 Reminder: Please Subscribe & Review If this episode resonated, please subscribe and leave a rating. Your support helps Most Myself reach more women navigating midlife

    Graduation Grief: The Goodbye Hidden Inside the Celebration

  3. Jun 21

    This Made Me Question Everything We’ve Been Told About Midlife

    There's a story you inherited about what midlife means. You didn't choose it. You were just handed it. And somewhere along the way, it started to cost you something you couldn't quite name. In this episode, Michelle shares a powerful writing prompt that stopped her in her tracks — and what happened when she began applying it to every narrative she'd been carrying about womanhood, aging, and what midlife is supposed to look like. She also shares a deeply personal experience with a Māori healer whose words she has never forgotten. Your body is carrying what your voice has not released. Because the stories we inherited about midlife — about fading, about irrelevance, about self-sacrifice as virtue — were never the full truth. And maybe the bravest thing a woman can do right now is finally question them. Music @ByChristianBranch ✨ Join Michelle’s free monthly gathering for women in midlife: Midlife, Together: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com/Together ✨Learn more about Michelle and her work: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com ✨Follow Michelle on Instagram: @TheMichelleMadrid 📌 Reminder: Please Subscribe & Review If this episode resonated, please subscribe and leave a rating. Your support helps Most Myself reach more women navigating midlife.

  4. Jun 7

    Losing Both of My Parents—and Finding Myself Again

    Grief changes what you can tolerate. Not just emotionally, but relationally. Spiritually. It strips away your willingness to keep minimizing yourself, to keep accepting less, to keep abandoning yourself for the comfort of others. In this episode, Michelle shares what she learned in one of the hardest seasons of her life — losing both parents within a month of each other — and why she has no desire to return to the woman she was before that loss. Sometimes grief doesn't just break us open, it makes it impossible to keep pretending. Music @ByChristianBranch ✨ Join Michelle’s free monthly gathering for women in midlife: Midlife, Together: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com/Together ✨Learn more about Michelle and her work: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com ✨Follow Michelle on Instagram: @TheMichelleMadrid 📌 Reminder: Please Subscribe & Review If this episode resonated, please subscribe and leave a rating. Your support helps Most Myself reach more women navigating midlife.

    Losing Both of My Parents—and Finding Myself Again

  5. May 24

    Keeping the Peace: The Toll of Being Endlessly Understanding

    A gentle heads up: this episode includes themes of abuse of power, harassment, and emotional impact related to those experiences. You said, "It's fine," but your body knew it wasn't. In this episode, Michelle shares something personal: what it took for her to finally stop swallowing her own pain, and why so many women have been conditioned to do exactly that. She explores the difference between compassion and self-abandonment — and what it actually looks like to stop leaving yourself behind inside your own life. Your voice doesn't have to start as a roar. It just has to start. Music @ByChristianBranch ✨ Join Michelle’s free monthly gathering for women in midlife: Midlife, Together: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com/Together ✨Learn more about Michelle and her work: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com ✨Follow Michelle on Instagram: @TheMichelleMadrid 📌 Reminder: Please Subscribe & Review If this episode resonated, please subscribe and leave a rating. Your support helps Most Myself reach more women navigating midlife.

    Keeping the Peace: The Toll of Being Endlessly Understanding

  6. May 10

    When Being Needed Changes: What Empty Nesting Is Really About

    There's a grief that comes when your children stop needing you the same way. No one names it. No one brings casseroles for it. But you feel it — in the quiet bedroom, the fewer texts, the rhythm of a life that used to revolve around you and now doesn't. In this episode, Michelle explores the invisible loss that lives inside the empty nest season, and why the ache so many mothers feel isn't a sign that something is wrong. It's a sign that something is ready to change. Music @ByChristianBranch ✨ Join Michelle’s free monthly gathering for women in midlife: Midlife, Together: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com/Together ✨Learn more about Michelle and her work: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com ✨Follow Michelle on Instagram: @TheMichelleMadrid 📌 Reminder: Please Subscribe & Review If this episode resonated, please subscribe and leave a rating. Your support helps Most Myself reach more women navigating midlife.

    When Being Needed Changes: What Empty Nesting Is Really About

  7. Apr 26

    When Growing Feels Like Drifting Apart: What the Friction Is Telling You

    Something shifts when you stop disappearing inside your own life. You start saying things you didn't say before. You stop saying yes when you mean no. In this episode, Michelle explores what happens to your closest relationships — especially your marriage or partnership — when you begin to change. She shares a personal story about a solo trip to England — her birth country — and what one January birthday taught her about what she was no longer willing to give up. Because the friction you're feeling in your relationship might not mean something is broken. It might mean something in you is finally becoming whole. Music @ByChristianBranch ✨ Join Michelle’s free monthly gathering for women in midlife: Midlife, Together: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com/Together ✨Learn more about Michelle and her work: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com ✨Follow Michelle on Instagram: @TheMichelleMadrid 📌 Reminder: Please Subscribe & Review If this episode resonated, please subscribe and leave a rating. Your support helps Most Myself reach more women navigating midlife.

    When Growing Feels Like Drifting Apart: What the Friction Is Telling You

  8. Apr 12

    I Can Handle It: The Cost of Being the Woman Who Never Breaks

    There's a phrase so many of us have quietly worn as a badge of honor. "I can handle it." But handling everything and living your life are not the same thing. In this episode, Michelle shares a deeply personal story about the moment she realized that being the woman who could handle it all had come at a profound cost — and how feeling the ache she'd been overriding for years became the first step back to herself. Because the ache isn't the problem. It's the message. Music @ByChristianBranch ✨ Join Michelle’s free monthly gathering for women in midlife: Midlife, Together: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com/Together ✨Learn more about Michelle and her work: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com ✨Follow Michelle on Instagram: @TheMichelleMadrid 📌 Reminder: Please Subscribe & Review If this episode resonated, please subscribe and leave a rating. Your support helps Most Myself reach more women navigating midlife.

    I Can Handle It: The Cost of Being the Woman Who Never Breaks
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Most Myself is a podcast about the deeply personal journey of remembering who you are and returning to yourself in midlife. Hosted by Michelle Madrid, each episode explores the grief, identity shifts, and awakenings that often arrive in this season of life. Through honest conversations and shared stories, Michelle offers a space for reflection, compassion, and the quiet work of finding your way back to yourself. Join Michelle’s free monthly gathering for women in midlife: Midlife, Together: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com/Together Learn more about Michelle and her work: www.TheMichelleMadrid.com Follow Michelle on Instagram: @TheMichelleMadrid

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  • Creator
    Michelle Madrid
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    26
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Michelle Madrid

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