Our New Podcast, Midlife Moms, Is Here (Tech Skills Not Included)

Hi, loves! Our life as Midlife Moms is getting a new format, and you're getting something for your ears! We've wondered for ages whether the Lisa-and-Katharina conversations we have almost every day anyway should be shared with a wider audience. Then, pretty suddenly and spontaneously, we just... started!

We never could have done this alone, so a thank-you goes right up front: Thank you, Justus and Heiko from Calluna and Christoph from 42sounds, for being so phenomenal on the tech side (and for still being there!). It's been a seriously wild week. And thank you to the wonderful voice talent Julia Roebke, who jumped in within minutes to record our intro and outro. It always takes a few crazy people teaming up to try something new.

We're keeping it real from the very start

And you know us: we're starting the way we always do, totally authentic and fine with a few rough edges. Sometimes the video stutters. Sometimes the episode cut out and we had to start a new meeting (you can't hear it thanks to the superstar editing, merci, guys!). And we're not going to tell you HOW long it took us just to find the “Record” button (or to download the version where that's even possible).

Here's what to expect from now on: Katharina is always one of the more ambitious ones and thinks we should put out an episode every week. I'm not quite sold yet, but we're going to give it a try! So every Friday, you'll get about 25 minutes of us. We're keeping it short on purpose to deliver truly snackable content, because we know how little time we moms have in a day.

We each record from our own homes. We're not ruling out guests now and then, but at first this will really be a dialogue... just like when we started Stadt Land Mama as a blog, with pieces we wrote back and forth to each other. Just the two of us talking.

What's coming every week from now on

Each episode has roughly three and a half categories. The first is how we're doing right now and what's going on in our lives, with seven kids between them, ages three to 20. In the second, we talk about the week's article topics, the ones that were on your minds and that we want to dig into a little more.

The last category is about us and the world: What happened out there... which book, which movie, which event, which trash TV show, which royal family has had our attention? How do we feel about female politicians resigning? And what does all of that actually have to do with us as working, self-employed women in the middle of life?

MIDLIFE MOMS: The Podcast from Stadt Land Mama

At the end, there's always a barrage of rapid-fire questions, and you're welcome to play along: “Nutella or peanut butter?” “NUTELLA, obviiiiiously!” Where can you find all this from now on? Well, in for a penny, in for a pound: we're on all the major platforms. Find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Deezer and Podigee. It's always an adventure!

We're a little nervous and hope you can't hear our first-episode jitters too much. But we'd be thrilled about EVERY one of you who tunes in and gives us feedback, who has topics you'd love to hear in future episodes, or who has a question we should talk about out loud. THANK YOU, YOU'RE THE BEST!