How can we add meaning and ritual to growing older? For my 40th birthday, I hosted and experienced a Threshold Crossing: an embodied and community-led ritual that initiated me into my next decade. In today’s episode, I sit down with my dear friend Mara Glatzel, who designed and led part of the ritual with and for me. With her, I share about how my desire to claim this threshold saw me move past feelings of cringe and embarrassment and embrace the process of creating something meaningful, incorporating others in it and feeling witnessed in the process.

Tune in to hear more from me on:

• What it means to ritualize a threshold crossing and the transformational power it holds
• How I designed the celebration and what factors were involved
• The vulnerability I had to lean into throughout the whole experience
• What it looked like and meant to me to leap across the threshold
• How I have been integrating the experience and the importance of the pause of becoming
• The power of being witnessed and witnessing transformation
• How Mara celebrated her own 40s threshold crossing and how it differed to mine
• What it means to us to grow older and different ways we’re embracing that

Resources + Links

• Rooted Magic, my October 2025 retreat at the Kripalu Center
• Previous podcast episode #66 and episode #112 with Mara Glatzel
• Find Mara on Instagram @maraglatzel, her website MaraGlatzel.com and her book, Needy
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

[0:00] Introducing Mara and the Threshold Crossing Ritual

[8:21] Claiming and Witnessing the Threshold of Turning 40

[19:20] The Vision and Process of the Ritual

[29:30] Leaping over the Threshold

[44:55] The Transformational Power of Ritual

[48:39] Embodying and Integrating a Threshold Ritual Experience

[52:00] Different Ways of Experiencing the 40s Threshold

[59:27] Experiencing the Joy of Being Alive and Growing Older

In this episode, I reflect on the significance of my roadside honor system farm stand on a personal, communal and environmental level. This small physical, and seasonal, structure is a prayer for community, an altar to trust, and a quiet form of resistance to disconnection and urgency. Join me in this musing on how meaning isn’t created from scale, but from depth.

Tune in to hear more from me on:

• The embodiment of rightsizing and experiencing more tactile, IRL living
• Where my love for farmstands originates
• Reclaiming a sense of enoughness and building resilience
• The farmstand as an altar for people to feel nourished and connected
• Reconnecting with the earth and local community
• The joy of simple, sacred interactions
• The farmstand as a place of reciprocity and regeneration

Resources + Links

• Episode #133 with Stevie Storck on Rightsizing Life and the Sharing Table
• Episode #136 with Carmen Spagnola on Satisfiability as a Collapse Skill
• My Substack piece on ‘The Community Economics of a Roadside Farmstand’
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

• [0:00] Introduction to my Farm Stand Journey
• [4:26] The Origin Story of my Love for Farm Stands
• [9:30] Rightsizing: The Intention behind my Own Farm Stand
• [13:52] The Embodiment of Satisfiability
• [20:10] The Farm Stand as a Sacred and Regenerative Tool of Exchange
• [27:15] Community Identity and Neighbourliness
• [30:25] The Farm Stand as a Place of Reciprocity

Today I am joined by my dear friend Erin Claire Jones, one of the world’s leading experts on Human Design and founder of Human Design Blueprint. Through her coaching content and digital products, Erin has empowered hundreds of thousands of people to overcome their biggest obstacles and find their flow in life, love and work. And she now has a gorgeous book out: How Do You choose? A Human Design Guide to What’s Best for You at Work, in Love and in Life.

Personally, I love Human Design as a tool to understanding myself and the people around me. In this episode, Erin and I dive deep into my own blueprint as well as my family’s to illustrate how knowing one’s Human Design can empower your relationship with yourself, as well as with your partner, children and anyone else you are close to and/or care about.

Tune in to hear more from us on:

• My family’s Human Design charts and what they mean
• Understanding the gifts and challenges of each of our designs (including my 4 year old’s)
• Being seen and recognized for your soul’s unique blueprint
• The Types and Authorities in Human Design
• How your blueprint can define your relationships and ways to navigate that

Resources + Links

• Order Erin’s book How Do You Choose? A Human Design Guide to What’s Best for You at Work, in Love and in Life
• Look up your own design on Human Design Blueprint and use code ‘BELONGING’ for a 10% discount on your guide
• Study Human Design with Erin: humandesignblueprint.com
• Find Erin on Instagram @erinclairejones and @humandesignblueprint
• Listen to my first podcast episode with Erin, #105: Human Design for Parents and Partners
• My book, Root and Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect to Land, Lineage, Community, and the Self
• Connect with me on Instagram @beccapiastrelli

Timestamps

• [0:00] Introduction and Celebrating the Book Launch: Making Human Design Practical
• [13:12] Understanding People’s Human Design
• [16:46] Finding Recognition in Relationships
• [20:17] Navigating Family Dynamics and Parenting through the Lens of Human Design
• [33:32] A Partnership between Two Sacral Authorities and Making Gut Decisions
• [41:32] Observing People as a Human Design Expert
• [45:53] Growing Up in a Family with Projectors and Manifestors
• [48:58] The Main Types and Authorities within Human Design