What happens when creativity becomes more than a hobby — and turns into a lifeline, a healing tool, and a business?
In this episode of Midlife Badassery, I’m joined by Katya McEwen, creator of Oracle Connections and Oracle Cards Magic, mindset coach, hypnotherapist, and soulful creative guide. I also fully confess that I am basically Katya’s biggest fan. Badge included. 😂
Katya shares her powerful story of being born in Russia, raised in Ukraine, and moving through the grief and identity crisis that came after the war in Ukraine began. When her usual mindset tools stopped working, she found her way back to creativity through painting, AI art, and oracle cards — eventually turning pain into purpose and “war into art.”
We also talk about the money blocks spiritual creatives carry, why women need to stop martyring themselves, how oracle decks become transformational tools, the ethics of AI, community over competition, and why midlife women belong in rooms where money, magic, and impact are all allowed to exist together.
This conversation is soulful, practical, funny, a little woo, and deeply human.
In this episode, we talk about:
Katya’s LIFE philosophy: love, impact with integrity, freedom of expression, and evolvement
Why so many women think they “aren’t creative anymore”
Using art and AI as a way to process grief
The story behind Katya’s Ukrainian goddess of protection images
The ethical conversation around AI and creativity
Money, spirituality, and why Katya says, “I know my shit and I’m going to get paid for it”
How oracle cards can become healing tools, business tools, and transformational tools
Why your next deck, offer, or body of work may already be hiding in your Google Drive
Community, collaboration, and the power of women lifting women
The magic her younger self would see in her life now
Chapters / Timestamps
00:00 — Meet Katya McEwen + why I’m her biggest fan
03:04 — Katya’s LIFE philosophy: love, impact, freedom, evolvement
08:05 — What to do when you don’t feel creative anymore
12:38 — Katya’s childhood in Russia and Ukraine
16:11 — The war in Ukraine, identity crisis, and finding AI art
22:38 — The ethical conversation around AI and creativity
28:11 — Detaching from outcomes, goals, and the Skool Games
34:17 — Money blocks, spiritual work, and getting paid for your gifts
41:07 — Oracle cards as healing tools, business tools, and transformational tools
49:36 — Community, collaboration, and women lifting women
59:06 — The signature magic question
Katya McEwen joins Midlife Badassery to talk oracle cards, AI art, creativity, money, community, and her powerful journey of turning grief from the war in Ukraine into art, purpose, and transformational work.
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