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The 40 Portal

Catherine Zack

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The night before my 40th birthday, I did something kind of wild. I invited the fabulous, inspiring, real-life women I knew to join me at a wine bar and asked them to "sign my yearbook." Not happy birthdays, not well wishes. I wanted wisdom.

What they wrote was so raw and honest that I couldn't stop asking.

The 40 Portal is a coming of aging story told by 40 real women about the portal that is midlife. Each episode, I sit down with a different woman to explore the threshold she's walking through — the portals we all face between who we were and who we're becoming.

I believe a woman in her 40s is one of the most interesting, creative, powerful, and inspiring creatures in the universe. And as more and more of us step into our power, claim our own voices, our bodies, our good work in the world, this world is going to be a kinder, more beautiful, more emboldened, and more just place for all of us.

Portals can be big and specific—turning 40, battling cancer, losing a loved one, divorce, becoming a mother, leaving a career. Or they can be less specific but still all-encompassing—the "everything looks fine but I'm dying inside" feeling, the army crawl, the resentment. We talk about it all.

Each episode is anchored by handwritten wisdom submitted by listeners. Because typing is fast — it's what we're DOING all day. Handwriting is slow. Handwriting reveals our BEING. When you slow down, truth slips through.

This isn't a podcast about experts or influencers. This is a podcast about real women telling the truth about their real lives.

Because when women tell the truth (not the polished Instagram version, but the actual truth) it sets us all free.

New episodes weekly starting January 25, 2026. Submit your handwritten wisdom at the40portal.com.

Hosted by Catherine Zack, former Big Law attorney turned meditation teacher, executive coach, speaker, writer, and collector of women’s wisdom.

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On Fawning No Longer, the Village, & Refusing to Disappear After 40 with Becca Piastrelli

Saison 1 · Épisode 4

samedi 28 février 2026 • Durée 55:37

Becca and I spent last summer voice-memo-ing each other deep questions and raw answers in the weeks before we each turned 40, two days apart from each other. Somewhere in those exchanges I felt it — a collective quickening.

Real women standing at the threshold, telling their stories. Worthy not because of what they’d accomplished or achieved or could put on a resume. Worthy simply by virtue of being here. That’s what became The 40 Portal Podcast.

This episode is foundational. If you want to understand what the portal actually is — what liminality means, why this threshold matters, what’s on the other side — this is the episode to send your friends.

In this episode, we talk about:
→ What the portal actually is — liminality, the birth canal, the hallway, the messy middle — and why 40 is not a day, it’s a journey
→ Fawning, conflict avoidance, and outsourcing your worthiness to what others think — and what it actually takes to stop
→ Learning to give less f*cks about being misunderstood, judged, or unliked — and how to practice that in real life
→ Decoupling “feeling younger” from “feeling vibrant” — there are other words than young
→ Smutty romantasy, Dipsea, All Fours, and so forth ;)
→ The fear about disappearing as we get older and wisdom from The 40 Portal that BLOWS that fear wide open (you don’t want to miss this convo at the end!)

TW: we mention death of an animal during birth and Epstein & pedophilia re: the beauty standards we’re done with.

ABOUT BECCA: Becca Piastrelli is a land steward, storyteller, and gatherer of community living in the Hudson Valley. She dreams of a world where we eat slower, respond to emails slower, sleep on decisions, and create space for the full spectrum of emotions to be felt. She’s a mother and a daughter, a deep and present listener, and the host of the podcast Belonging: Conversations about rites of passage, meaningful community, and seasonal living.

Find her: @beccapiastrelli | beccapiastrelli.com

THE 40 PORTAL NOTEBOOK: The call-and-response you'll hear in this episode came from the handwritten notebook I passed around my 40th birthday party. Women wrote their questions, their fears, their wisdom — and sometimes they wrote back to each other without knowing it.

You can add your voice to the Portal right now: the40portal.com/submit

SHARE THIS EPISODE: If this conversation moved you, share it with another woman who needs to hear it. The more of us who refuse to disappear, the braver and more beautiful this world becomes.

JOIN THE 40 PORTAL RETREAT: A gathering of women in the Hudson Valley, June 17-19. ALMOST SOLD OUT!

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Questioning Everything at 40: On Existential Crises and Creativity as Resistance with Dinah Alobeid

Saison 1 · Épisode 3

dimanche 22 février 2026 • Durée 58:45

There's a photo of Dinah at age one, in Syria visiting family. Her hands are full of freshly peeled orange, juice glistening, about to drip off her chin. Direct eye contact with the camera. Fully present. Her zest for life started early — hands always full, finding the sweetness, already deeply committed to connection. She hasn't changed.

Dinah Susan Alobeid is 39, turning 40 this summer — and she is asking the question many of us are thinking but not many of us have the guts to ask out loud.

"What if I'm living the wrong life?"

She has the job. The kid. The husband. The whole resume. And yet — this persistent, devastating question burning through her heart.

But here's what you need to know: this is not an hour of existential doom. This conversation is bold, spicy, creative, and genuinely fun. I laughed till I cried in this episode. Dinah is one of those people who makes the big questions feel survivable — even joyful — because she's living her way into her answers in real time.

A tender trigger warning: we mention miscarriage and infertility.

In this episode, we talk about:
→ The question no one wants to ask out loud — and why asking it is the bravest thing
→ Music as medicine and creativity as resistance
→ Why sharing intergenerational women's stories is a radical act right now
→ Deprogramming the messages we've been fed about female value, desirability, and aging — and what it actually takes to unlearn them

ABOUT DINAH: Dinah Susan Alobeid is a VP at a tech company, a mom, a writer, and the host of Play This at My Funeral — a podcast at the intersection of music and existentialism. She's a Cancer sun and moon. She's turning 40 this summer. And she is standing at the threshold, letting us all watch. What a fierce f*cking almost-40-year-old.

I'm Doing the Dance: On Full Plates and Holding Complexity in Your 40s: Clara Artschwager

Saison 1 · Épisode 2

dimanche 15 février 2026 • Durée 53:37

Life is full. Your plate is full. You're doing the dance.

In this conversation, Clara Artschwager and I talk about what it means to navigate the fullness of midlife — the work, the kids, the relationships, the inner reckoning — without emotionally freaking out all the time.

We met four years ago. Clara wasn't married yet. She didn't have kids. We clicked on business stuff. Now we're walking through multiple portals together: motherhood, marriage, creative work, the midlife squeeze. Our friendship has grown with us through voice memos, those timeless-yet-totally-2026 conversations that feel like we're back in the 90s with the phone cord wrapped around us.

In this episode, we talk about:

→ Female friendship in your 40s: How friendships can grow with you as you move through different life stages
→ "I'm doing the dance": The fullness of midlife and holding complexity without losing yourself
→ How women solve the world's problems through voice memos alone
→ "There's no there there": Letting go of "if I can just get to THIS point, then I'll be happy"
→ Contentedness in your 40s: Being delighted by what you already own
→ Doing the inner work in community: Why Portal work is better together

ABOUT CLARA: Clara Artschwager is a coach, writer, and teacher who helps people do the foundational work of becoming themselves — before, during, and beyond relationships. She's curious about why we are the way we are, and she's spent years guiding clients through the deep reckoning that transforms how we show up in every area of our lives. Clara cooks with the exact right ratio of butter and salt, loves a good voice memo, good book, & good pastry, and is doing the midlife dance with grace.
Find her: @ithinkilikeyou.co https://claraartschwager.substack.com/ CHAPTERS:
04:21 How we met
06:51 Female friendships in your 40s
08:43 "I'm doing the dance" 12:48 Voice memo friendships 19:18 Holding complexity in your 40s 25:21 "No bad days" - not emotionally freaking out when plates are spinning 32:36 "There's no there there" - letting go of external fixes 38:39 Being delighted by what you already own 42:03 Contentedness vs. content consumption in your 40s 46:55 40 Portal wisdom: "I wish I had been told I didn't have to be married to be successful" 50:03 How do we be in relationship without losing ourselves? 56:11 Retreat InvitationSUBMIT YOUR WISDOM: JOIN THE PORTAL RETREAT THIS JUNE

40 Is Your Sixth Sense: Friendship, Creativity, and Being Cool Because You're You: Kate Schmieding

Saison 1 · Épisode 1

samedi 7 février 2026 • Durée 01:01:35

You start to see with your ears and listen with your belly.

That's how my first guest, Kate Schmieding, describes what happens when you turn 40.

Forty is your sixth sense — you begin to recognize what you already knew but can now KNOW. Really know.

In this conversation, Kate and I talk about:

→ Friendship in your 40s (her 3-strikes rule, why reciprocity matters, how to stop forcing connections that aren't reciprocal)

→ Being cool because you're YOU (not performing, claiming who you've always been, "I recognize the cool in me as the cool in you")

→ Creative work without overnight success (Kate writes pop culture poetry — staying in the "low hum" instead of chasing viral moments)

→ You're not a late bloomer ("I've been blooming this whole time, my friends. I just haven't given it a name.")

→ Doing things because you WANT to (not because you're supposed to — this is your permission slip)

→ The midlife squeeze (parenting, work, everyone depending on you — and how to navigate it without losing yourself)

ABOUT KATE:

Kate Schmieding (rhymes with meeting) is a writer, poet, creative leader, joiner, hand-raiser, and hard-conversation-haver. She writes pop culture poetry, and her work studies the intersection of the mundane and the meaningful. She is the Creative Operations Director for NYS. Kate loves the 5 Ps: people, poetry, pop culture, push-ups and parmesan. She's also one of the most generous friends I know.

Find her on Instagram: @kateschmied | @pop_culture_poetry

SUBMIT YOUR WISDOM:

Submit your voice to Portal & your words might just anchor the next episode of the podcast.

Send your wisdom here: the40portal.com/submit

Welcome to The 40 Portal Podcast.

dimanche 25 janvier 2026 • Durée 10:39

Welcome to the trailer episode of The 40 Portal podcast, a coming of aging story, told by 40 real women.

Host Catherine Zack shares the origin story: how a sketchbook at her 40th birthday party turned into something bigger. She asked inspiring women to write their wisdom in her notebook instead of signing a card. What she got back was raw, honest, beautiful — the kind of truth that doesn't show up through the algorithms.

That notebook became the catalyst for this podcast.

Over 40 episodes, Catherine sits down with 40 different women (ages 20s-80s) to explore the portals they're walking through — divorce, turning 40, career changes, loss, or the well-known "everything looks fine but I'm dying inside" feeling. These are threshold moments. These are the portals real women are walking through.

This podcast is about what happens when women tell the truth — not the polished version, but the REAL stories. Because when women's real voices get heard, it sets us all free.

Life is cyclical. Portals are natural. And a woman who knows herself is one of the most powerful, magical, and creatures on earth.

Welcome to The 40 Portal, babe.

Learn more and submit your wisdom and questions to The 40 Portal Podcast at the40portal.com
Substack: https://substack.com/@the40portal
Instagram: @the40portal

Keywords: 40 Portal Podcast, women's stories, portals, threshold moments, midlife transitions, turning 40, Catherine Zack, personal transformation, women's wisdom, handwritten wisdom, authenticity, coming of age, real stories, women in their 40s, portal stories, life transitions, becoming, conscious aging, women's voices, storytelling podcast, portal work, self-knowledge, real talk, vulnerability, women over 40, midlife transformation, feminist podcast

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