Description

In this deeply resonant conversation, Nancy Drope reflects on resilience, independence, and breaking generational patterns of silence and struggle. She shares how her yoga practice, astrology, and oracle cards ground her in optimism while guiding her journey as a grandmother of six. Together with Lee, Nancy explores themes of fierce self-compassion, gratitude, and the importance of play as a radical act in a culture obsessed with productivity. This episode is a call to embody unconditional love and to claim relevance in every season of life.

Key Topics Covered

• Maintaining visibility and relevance in a culture that erases older women
• The influence of grandmothers as independent role models
• Breaking cycles of trauma, grief, and emotional repression
• Practising fierce self-compassion and kindness toward oneself
• Tools for grounding: yoga, astrology, oracle cards, optimism
• Gratitude as both starting place and destination
• Reframing resilience without glorifying hardship
• The power of play and joy as radical, healing practices

After you listen to this episode, consider what practices — whether play, gratitude, or fierce self-compassion — help you stay visible and grounded in a world that often tries to erase women as we age? 

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Crone Rising is for every woman who’s done being quiet and done being small. We’re not here to fade. We’re here to rise — unapologetic, unmuted, and unmissable.

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