In this episode of HerStory, Kylie King (Founder of the Australian Ladies in Business Initiative) sits down with Michelle Wollaston, a mentor who supports women, especially in midlife: through astrology, Human Design, and practical tools that help them quiet the external noise and reconnect with themselves.

If you’ve been feeling like things “aren’t working” anymore, like you’ve hit a wall, or you’re questioning what’s next then this conversation is a grounded, empowering reminder: you’re not broken, you’re transitioning. Michelle explains how understanding your energetic framework can help you stop pushing against life and start working with the season you’re in.

What You’ll Learn in Episode 67

Michelle shares how she uses three main “diagnostic tools” before meeting a client:

• Natal chart (your energetic blueprint)

• Progressed moon (life phases across ~29.5-year cycles)

• Human Design type (how your energy best moves through the world)

Kylie and Michelle also unpack why the phrase “midlife crisis” is unhelpful and how a shift in language can change everything. Instead of seeing midlife as doom, this episode reframes it as a wisdom phase, a realignment, and a powerful opportunity to set boundaries, simplify, and choose what truly matters.

If You Don’t Know Your Birth Time, You’re Not Stuck

A practical highlight: Michelle explains what to do if you don’t know your exact birth time (which is common in Australia). You can often narrow it down by asking family, checking hospital records, or using best estimate and even without an exact time, you can still get meaningful insight from the information you do have.

One Small Step That Changes Everything

A key theme in this episode is that transformation doesn’t need to be earth-shattering. Michelle encourages women to start with one small boundary. One simple shift that reduces the load. When you prove to yourself that you do have control, confidence builds, and bigger changes become easier.

Michelle Wollaston is a mentor for women navigating emotionally tangled and transitional seasons of work and life.

With more than 25 years of experience in adult learning, leadership development, and vocational education, she brings a strong foundation in business, coaching, and training and assessment to her work.

Michelle has spent her career designing programs, leading teams, and supporting people through demanding and high-pressure environments.

Her approach is grounded, practical, and informed by decades of working with individuals at their most stretched and uncertain moments.

She is an Amazon bestselling author, the host of the Soul Loom podcast, and a contributor to several online publications.

Her work centres on helping women make sense of their internal landscape so they can move forward with clarity, confidence, and direction.

Find Michelle:

Website – www.michellewollaston.com/
Facebook – www.facebook.com/michelle.wollaston.7
YouTube – Living with Purpose & Intention Michelle Wollaston – YouTube

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