In this episode I speak with my very good friend Kate Antoniotti about the decision to sell their home, cars, and thriving chiropractic practice so their family could travel the world and join a world school. The conversation centers on burnout, body trust, perimenopause, and the difference between staying in a life that looks good and choosing one that actually supports health, family, and soul.

Kate shares how a year of inner work led her to recognize that she had built a life for everyone else, not for herself. Kim and Kate explore the cycles of feminine energy, the role of masculine structure in holding big decisions, and what it means to make choices that create grief, release, and freedom all at once.

You can find Kate on Instagram @our.milife.rises

Boundless Life World Schooling @boundlesslife

Key topics

• In this episode, Kate describes meeting Kim twice, first at her first in-person ceremony with women and then a year later when she realized she did not love the life she had built.
• Kate explains the family decision to sell everything, including a chiropractic practice built over 15 years, to travel with their children and join a world school.
• The hosts discuss how worldschooling first began as a one-year sabbatical, then became a longer commitment after the family realized they were not ready to stop.
• Kate shares the burnout she experienced as a private practice owner, mother, and healthcare provider who felt pressure to be consistent, high-performing, and available at all times.
• A major turning point was Kate realizing that while she trusted her body, her body could no longer trust her because she was overworking, under-resting, and ignoring clear warning signs.
• Kate connects her health issues, including hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s, and early perimenopause, to chronic stress, adrenal burnout, and years of pushing through.
• Kim and Kate discuss masculine and feminine energies as complementary forces, with Kate describing her husband as the grounded anchor that helped hold the decision while she focused on creative solutions.
• The conversation repeatedly returns to cycles within cycles—moon phases, seasons, business cycles, and life transitions—and the idea that life is never a perpetual summer.
• Kate explains how motherhood complicated the decision, because her children were being asked to adapt to repeated transitions, and the family had to consider their needs for stability too.
• Both hosts reflect on grief, identity loss, and the need to let go of ego, possessions, reputation, and old roles in order to step into a new life.

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In this episode I speaks with Natalia Dunne, an occupational therapist turned Mary Magdalene guide and retreat leader, about how Mary Magdalene can be approached through both academic inquiry and embodied, heart-led experience. We explore the tension between head and heart, the power of discernment, and why so many women feel personally called to Mary Magdalene’s story.

The conversation moves through pilgrimage sites in southern France, the symbolism of descent and rebirth, and how surrender, nervous system regulation, and feminine cycles show up in spirituality, business, and everyday life. Natalia also shares a personal framework for inner coherence and reflects on collective sisterhood wounds in Mary Magdalene spaces.

Mary Magdalene Online Pilgrimage. Beginning 9/19/26.

The Sister Wound Masterclass

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Six months ago, Kim announced she was going to podcast more often. Instead, life presented a series of unexpected invitations to release even more.

In this deeply personal episode, she shares the journey that unfolded after closing a 4,000-square-foot warehouse, navigating major changes within a 30-year family business, and confronting the truth that growth isn't always about building more. Sometimes it's about letting go.

Drawing on the ancient story of Inanna's descent into the underworld, Kim explores cycles of expansion and contraction, nervous system capacity, identity shifts, and the courage it takes to become radically honest about who you are now, rather than who you've always been.

She reflects on the evolution of Purple Rose & Co., the decision to embrace a slower and more intentional way of working, and a transformative solo journey to France that revealed a powerful truth: the deepest transformation often comes not from being fixed, but from being truly seen.

This conversation is about releasing old identities, trusting life's seasons, and returning to the woman you've always been beneath the masks, expectations, and conditioning.

In This Episode:

• Why declarations often reveal what still needs to be released
• The story of Inanna and the wisdom of descent before rebirth
• Recognizing the difference between looping patterns and true transformation
• Closing a warehouse and letting go of a version of success that no longer fit
• The hidden eight to ten year cycles that shape business and life
• Moving from hustle, scale, and expansion into intentionality and sustainability
• Nervous system capacity, regulation, and personal growth
• Why growth isn't about eliminating your shadow but integrating it
• The shift from retailer and builder into mentor and guide
• A powerful experience of being reflected back to herself by women she'd just met
• Softness, fierceness, boundaries, and becoming your truest self
• The Threshold, The Audit, and the work Kim is bringing into the world now

Key Themes:

The Descent
Growth rarely begins with expansion. More often, it begins with release.

Capacity
Your life can only hold so much. As long as fear, scarcity, and outdated identities occupy the space, your gifts have limited room to emerge.

Cycles
Nature never stays in perpetual summer. Neither do businesses, relationships, or people.

Identity
The challenge isn't becoming someone new. It's having the courage to stop pretending to be someone you're not.

Witnessing
Transformation doesn't come from fixing yourself. It comes from seeing yourself clearly enough to choose differently.

Resources & Links

Website: The Wilde Rose

Instagram: @the.wilde.rose

Read Kim's essays beginning with The Descent in the Musings section of the website.

Explore Kim's Mentoring 1:1 Offers:
• The Consult
• The Audit
• The Threshold

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