Do you feel anxious even when nothing is wrong?

Does your body feel tense, wired, or exhausted — but “relaxation” doesn’t help?

Have you tried breathwork, meditation, movement, or nervous system tools… only to feel worse?

You’re not broken.

You’re just using stress tools for anxiety — and anxiety tools for stress.

In this powerful, hour-long deep dive, Kate Garland, nervous system–informed coach and intuitive guide, explains the critical difference between stress, strain, and anxiety — a distinction almost no one is taught, and one that changes everything once you understand it.

This episode is for women who are:

• chronically stressed but can’t pinpoint why

• high-functioning yet secretly overwhelmed

• anxious without a clear trigger

• burned out, but unable to truly rest

• frustrated that “nervous system regulation” hasn’t worked the way it was promised

Blending neuroscience, endocrinology, somatic psychology, and lived experience, Kate offers a framework that replaces self-blame with clarity — and confusion with relief.

This episode reflects the core philosophy behind The Second Firing — Kate’s signature midlife initiation container for women navigating burnout, anxiety, identity shifts, and profound transformation.

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🎙️ Everything You Know About Breathing Is Wrong

A foundational episode on CO₂ tolerance, nervous system regulation, and why over-breathing fuels anxiety — essential listening alongside this conversation.

• My Inner Circle gets the first drops—new podcast sneak peeks, early access to offers, and the notes I only share off-mic. Join us here.

🌿 Free Support for Your Nervous System

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.

• Leave a review—it helps other women find this work. 🙏
• Or forward this episode to a friend who could use a little nervous system magic today. 💛

Email kate@radicallykate.com or DM on Instagram: @radicallyKate

In this episode, we blow up the most common myths about burnout and get honest about what’s really happening beneath the surface — especially for women in midlife who feel exhausted, foggy, emotionally flat, or quietly overwhelmed for “no logical reason.”

Kate reframes burnout not as a failure of willpower or self-care… but as a nervous system overload problem.

You’ll hear:

• Why burnout isn’t fixed by sleep, vacations, or “trying harder”
• What emotional load actually does to your nervous system
• How your body experiences unfinished emotions as background threat
• Why midlife burnout feels different than exhaustion in your 20s and 30s
• What capacity really is — and why “regulation” isn’t about being calm
• The neuroscience of unresolved emotional loops
• How clarity returns not through escape, but through completion

This conversation is for you if:

• You’re “technically fine” but deeply tired
• You’ve rested, retreated, and recalibrated… and still feel off
• You wonder why your body seems louder than it used to be
• You’re craving relief but don’t want another wellness performance playbook
• You suspect burnout is deeper than overwork — but haven’t had words for it

This is not a “burnout recovery checklist” episode.

It’s a perspective shift.

A nervous-system truth bomb.

And a compassionate invitation to stop carrying what your body can no longer hold.

You’ll leave understanding:

Burnout isn’t about doing too much.

It’s about holding too much open.

⭐️ And you’ll be guided through a simple nervous-system reset you can use anywhere — even in your car — to begin creating safety and capacity in real time.

Because you don’t need to fix your life.

You just need enough safety inside your body to close one tab.

• My Inner Circle gets the first drops—new podcast sneak peeks, early access to offers, and the notes I only share off-mic. Join us here.

🌿 Free Support for Your Nervous System

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.

• Leave a review—it helps other women find this work. 🙏
• Or forward this episode to a friend who could use a little nervous system magic today. 💛

Email kate@radicallykate.com or DM on Instagram: @radicallyKate

If you’re in your 40s or 50s, exhausted to your bones but still wide awake at 2:37am, this episode is for you.

This isn’t the “newborn years” kind of tired.

This is the my body literally will not let me sleep kind of tired.

In this episode, Kate Garland unpacks why so many midlife women feel tired but wired — and why it’s not because you’re broken, weak, or “bad at self-care.” We’ll talk about what’s actually happening with your hormones, brain, and nervous system in perimenopause/menopause, and how your weird, fragmented sleep might have more purpose than you’ve been led to believe.

You’ll walk away feeling less crazy, less alone, and with a few grounded tools you can start using tonight.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why midlife insomnia isn’t “in your head” — and what’s really going on when your body is exhausted but your brain won’t stand down
• How hormonal changes (estrogen, progesterone & friends) quietly reshape your mood, stress response, and sleep architecture
• The idea of three major initiations in a woman’s life — and why midlife hits so hard when the first two were rushed, numbed, or medicalized
• How your brain actually reorganizes itself during the menopausal transition (and why that 3am life review might be part of the process)
• A different way to see your “tired but wired” nights: not as a personal failure, but as a threshold your body is walking you through
• Practical, doable tools to soften this season

This episode is for you if:

• You’re a woman 40+ in perimenopause or menopause who feels utterly wiped out but can’t seem to get restorative sleep
• You’re tired of being told to “just relax” or “take a pill” and want a deeper, more respectful explanation of what’s happening in your body
• You’ve started to wonder if your midlife sleep changes have a deeper meaning or purpose (and you’d like that framed in a grounded, non-fluffy way)
• You want both validation for how hard this is and concrete tools to make it more humane

Hit play when you can’t tell if you need a nap, a nervous system reset, or a completely new script for what midlife is supposed to feel like.

And if this episode lands for you, it would mean the world if you’d share it with a friend who’s also lying awake at 2:14am wondering if she’s losing it. She’s not. And neither are you. 💛

• My Inner Circle gets the first drops—new podcast sneak peeks, early access to offers, and the notes I only share off-mic. Join us here.

🌿 Free Support for Your Nervous System

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.

• Leave a review—it helps other women find this work. 🙏
• Or forward this episode to a friend who could use a little nervous system magic today. 💛

Email kate@radicallykate.com or DM on Instagram: @radicallyKate

If you think your breath is “just breathing,” this episode is going to blow the doors off everything you thought you understood about your body, your nervous system, and your emotional life.

Because your breath?

It’s not neutral.

It’s not random.

It’s not quiet.

It’s revealing you.

Every inhale, every pause, every exhale you cut short — it’s all data.

It’s your subconscious speaking in Morse code.

And once you know how to read the signals, you’ll never see yourself the same way again.

Today, you’ll take what might be the most accurate personality assessment of your entire midlife, using nothing but the way you’re breathing right now.

This isn’t a quiz.

It’s not a gimmick.

This is the map your body has been trying to hand you for years.

Get ready — this one’s light, fun, wildly illuminating, and just irreverent enough to feel like a cosmic mirror held up to your Monday morning.

And once you hear this?

You’ll never un-hear it.

You’ll discover exactly who you’ve been breathing as… and who you’re becoming.

This is the assessment of the decade — and it’s happening in your body, right now.

Resources:

• Everything You Know About Breathing Is Wrong

• My Inner Circle gets the first drops—new podcast sneak peeks, early access to offers, and the notes I only share off-mic. Join us here.

🌿 Free Support for Your Nervous System

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.

• Leave a review—it helps other women find this work. 🙏
• Or forward this episode to a friend who could use a little nervous system magic today. 💛

Email kate@radicallykate.com or DM on Instagram: @radicallyKate

Let's talk about why smart, sensitive women get overwhelmed, resentful, and exhausted during the holidays… and how to break the caretaking pattern without guilt.

You’ll learn:

• The difference between caring vs. caretaking
• Why midlife makes you less willing to carry everyone’s emotional weight
• How to stay grounded when family drama and holiday pressure spike
• Simple tools to support the people you love without disappearing yourself

💛 FEELING GOOD is my audio-first reset: simple, doable practices that calm your system, unlock energy, and make life feel lighter—fast. Listen at your own pace, all delivered through private podcast!

→ Start when you’re ready → Finish feeling brand new!

Inside your FEELING GOOD journey:

• 14 private podcast modules A new episode drops every 3 days. Listen to anywhere, anytime. . . and listen again!
• Science-backed nervous system tools to reduce stress + increase energy
• Tiny, compounding upgrades to sleep, mood, movement, and boundaries
• A quiet, confident recalibration—without diet rules, gym guilt, or overwhelm
• Engage at your own pace, knowing these recordings are yours to keep!
• Craving more support? Upgrade for a personalized experience with Kate (gentle accountability, tailored check-ins, and customized tweaks to fit your life).

👉 Learn more + enroll

• My Inner Circle gets the first drops—new podcast sneak peeks, early access to offers, and the notes I only share off-mic. Join us here.

🌿 Free Support for Your Nervous System

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.

• Leave a review—it helps other women find this work. 🙏
• Or forward this episode to a friend who could use a little nervous system magic today. 💛

Email kate@radicallykate.com or DM on Instagram: @radicallyKate

Safety isn’t something the world gives you—it’s something you build inside your own body.

In this episode, Kate explores what safety means—and why we’ve been taught to search for it everywhere except inside ourselves.

Through her own story of chaos, control, and hurricanes, she reveals the deeper truth: safety isn’t the absence of danger, it’s the presence of trust—trust in your body, your breath, and your ability to meet the moment.

If you’ve ever felt like your peace depends on keeping everyone else calm, this one will feel like a deep exhale.

• Why “staying safe” became a cultural obsession—and what it’s really costing us
• The hidden difference between protection and safety
• How your nervous system actually determines whether you feel safe (hint: it’s not mental)
• Why midlife is the perfect moment to reclaim internal safety and sovereignty
• What happens in the body when we stop outsourcing safety—and start embodying it
• The truth about “comfort vs. control,” and how to build real stability from within

💛 FEELING GOOD is my audio-first reset: simple, doable practices that calm your system, unlock energy, and make life feel lighter—fast. Listen at your own pace, all delivered through private podcast!

→ Start when you’re ready → Finish feeling brand new!

Inside your FEELING GOOD journey:

• 14 private podcast modules A new episode drops every 3 days. Listen to anywhere, anytime. . . and listen again!
• Science-backed nervous system tools to reduce stress + increase energy
• Tiny, compounding upgrades to sleep, mood, movement, and boundaries
• A quiet, confident recalibration—without diet rules, gym guilt, or overwhelm
• Engage at your own pace, knowing these recordings are yours to keep!
• Craving more support? Upgrade for a personalized experience with Kate (gentle accountability, tailored check-ins, and customized tweaks to fit your life).

👉 Learn more + enroll

• My Inner Circle gets the first drops—new podcast sneak peeks, early access to offers, and the notes I only share off-mic. Join us here.

🌿 Free Support for Your Nervous System

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.

• Leave a review—it helps other women find this work. 🙏
• Or forward this episode to a friend who could use a little nervous system magic today. 💛

Email kate@radicallykate.com or DM on Instagram: @radicallyKate

In this episode, Kate unearths the real origins of Samhain — the ancient Celtic festival that gave birth to Halloween — and explores how this season of darkness was never meant to be spooky. It was sacred. A time to honor endings, commune with mystery, and meet the parts of ourselves we’ve buried.

From the bonfires of ancient Ireland to the marigolds of Día de los Muertos, we trace how cultures around the world have danced with death, shadow, and renewal. And we ask the deeper question:

What if this season isn’t about fearing the dark… but becoming friends with it?

You’ll hear stories of ancient rituals (and one very modern Tampa pirate festival), how repression fuels the shadow we’re trying to avoid, and why integration — not denial — is the real alchemy of transformation.

Inside this conversation:

• 🌑 The true Celtic meaning of Samhain
• 🎃 How Halloween became the sacred-silly hybrid we know today
• 💀 The parallel heartbeat between Samhain and Día de los Muertos
• ⚡ Why our “dark costumes” might be medicine, not mischief
• 💋 How repression feeds the shadow — and how embodiment heals it
• 🔥 A candlelight practice for meeting your shadow self this season
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Because the veil that’s truly thinning isn’t just between the living and the dead — it’s between you and the parts of yourself you’ve been afraid to meet.

• Existential Kink by Carolyn Lovewell — a masterclass in shadow integration and liberation through self-awareness.

• My Inner Circle gets the first drops—new podcast sneak peeks, early access to offers, and the notes I only share off-mic. Join us here.

🌿 Free Support for Your Nervous System

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.

• Leave a review—it helps other women find this work. 🙏
• Or forward this episode to a friend who could use a little nervous system magic today. 💛

Email kate@radicallykate.com or DM on Instagram: @radicallyKate

Hormones, Safety & Enoughness in Midlife

What does it really mean to have enough — and to be enough?

In this deeply human episode, Kate Garland unpacks the biology and the soul of enoughness — how our hormones, brain chemistry, and nervous system shape our sense of satisfaction, safety, and self-worth, especially in midlife.

You’ll learn why so many women feel restless or “flat” in their 40s and 50s even when life looks full on paper — and how the quiet decline of estrogen, dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin changes the way we experience joy, motivation, and connection.

This is science through the lens of soul work: equal parts biology, story, and nervous-system wisdom.

Because enough isn’t a number or an affirmation —

it’s a state your body learns to regulate into.

💛 FEELING GOOD is my audio-first reset: simple, doable practices that calm your system, unlock energy, and make life feel lighter—fast. Listen at your own pace, all delivered through private podcast!

→ Start when you’re ready → Finish feeling brand new!

Inside your FEELING GOOD journey:

• 14 private podcast modules A new episode drops every 3 days. Listen to anywhere, anytime. . . and listen again!
• Science-backed nervous system tools to reduce stress + increase energy
• Tiny, compounding upgrades to sleep, mood, movement, and boundaries
• A quiet, confident recalibration—without diet rules, gym guilt, or overwhelm
• Engage at your own pace, knowing these recordings are yours to keep!
• Craving more support? Upgrade for a personalized experience with Kate (gentle accountability, tailored check-ins, and customized tweaks to fit your life).

👉 Learn more + enroll

• My Inner Circle gets the first drops—new podcast sneak peeks, early access to offers, and the notes I only share off-mic. Join us here.

🌿 Free Support for Your Nervous System

• Start here → The Free Anxiety Reset: a 7-minute guided tool to calm spiraling thoughts and come back to yourself. Think of it like a nervous system reboot—on demand.

• Leave a review—it helps other women find this work. 🙏
• Or forward this episode to a friend who could use a little nervous system magic today. 💛

Email kate@radicallykate.com or DM on Instagram: @radicallyKate