Four anonymous confessions from real women (and a personal bonus from Leah herself) about the stuff that lives quietly in the back of your mind but rarely makes it out of your mouth. The mom who has started lying about her ambition because liking her work makes her feel like a bad mom. The one who broke down crying in the school pickup line because another mom looked put together and she had not felt like a person in so long she forgot what that felt like.

The woman who has been building something for months and it is not working the way she thought it would and she feels embarrassed and invisible and is not sure whether to keep going. And the one who cannot explain why she feels this way because nothing is technically wrong — she is just flat. Just blah. Just waiting to feel like things feel like something again.

No fixing. No silver linings forced on it. Just two women reading your words out loud and saying we hear you and you are not alone in this.

If you have been carrying something quietly, this one is for you.

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Summer ended. Fall started. The calendar flipped and everyone around you seemed to shift into routine mode and you are standing there going — wait. I did not get the memo.

In this episode Leah and Katherine sit in the in-between. That specific feeling of being between seasons, between answers, between the version of yourself you were and the one you are becoming. Katherine tells the story of being at a wedding, running into old friends, getting asked the most normal question in the world — so what are you doing these days — and completely freezing. Because she is doing a lot of things and none of them feel finished enough or settled enough to say out loud as a clean answer yet.

She also brings in something from Jay Shetty's conversation with Oprah that completely stopped her in her tracks — about being in a season of not knowing and why that might not be a problem to fix but something to actually be in. And then there is the astrology — because right now the sky is literally in its own massive transition, with Uranus stationing retrograde, a Virgo new moon handing off its energy at the equinox, and multiple outer planets changing chapters all at once. The in-between is not just personal right now. It is collective. The sky is in it with you.

This episode is permission. Permission to be in the in-between without rushing through it. Permission to not have the answer. Permission to let the season reveal itself on its own timeline instead of yours.

Topics covered: seasonal transitions, fall astrology 2026, in between seasons, not knowing what you're doing, Virgo new moon, Uranus retrograde, Libra season, Jay Shetty Oprah podcast, identity, life transitions, permission to not have a plan, uncertainty, before we get it right podcast

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n 2020 Jen Buchheit was a stay-at-home mom trying to get through the days indoors with her daughter. She started making crafts. She started an Instagram account. She called it Studio Rosie. Today she has 1.3 million followers, a published book, and a platform built entirely around whimsical crafts made from stuff around the house.

But the more interesting story is everything in between. In this episode Jen talks about what building something this big actually looks like from the inside, how she navigates paid partnerships without losing the authenticity that made people fall in love with her in the first place, what a real Tuesday looks like when you are a stay-at-home mom running something a million people watch, and what she is still figuring out about balancing all of it.

She also talks about her passion for bringing more art to kids through schools and free community events, what making things with their hands actually gives children, and she gives us one craft every mom can do tonight with stuff already in the house.

This one is for every mom who has a creative idea sitting in their head and has not done anything with it yet. Jen started with glue and cardboard and her kitchen table. You already have what you need.

Topics covered: Studio Rosie, building a creative business, Instagram growth, influencer world honest, stay-at-home mom entrepreneur, kid crafts, The Big Book of Fantasy Kid Crafts, paid partnerships social media, creativity for kids, pandemic silver lining, mom and business owner, before we get it right podcast

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