At thirty-nine, Cat Pierce had no marriage, no career, no baby, and no plan. If you did the math on her life the way we're all quietly taught to, she was failing. The music money was gone. The marriage was over. She had never been the one left before, and suddenly she was. And then she said the thing that made me put my pen down. Underneath all of it, she felt a flicker of freedom. Because for the first time she could admit she wasn't fulfilled, and now she got to build the life she actually wanted.I found Cat the way half the internet did, one of those videos where her whole inner monologue plays across her face without a word, and I've been a little mesmerized ever since. I wanted to know what she was drinking. Turns out the answer is a life she made twice. First act: signed at nineteen, fifteen years on the road with her sister, opening for Coldplay and Elton John, writing the song that became the sound of an entire generation. Second act, the one that got me: a beauty line she started while trying to conceive, a tarot deck she drew by hand and published, a New York Times feature, a memoir, and a daughter she had at forty-four with donor eggs and a husband she called in by writing him down on a list.None of it happened on the timeline she thought she was failing. That's the whole thing. We get into the rockstar years and what fifteen years of needing to be seen quietly did to her. The collapse, and the strange grace that grew out of it. Whether she believes we're all a little bit witches. And the line I keep repeating to every woman I know: you can miss every timeline you ever set for yourself and still land somewhere better than the place you were aiming.This is for the woman who watches everyone else hit the milestones and keeps quietly moving her own goalposts back. The one grieving a version of her life that never showed up, not yet realizing a completely different one already did. You are not behind. You are not late. You're just early to a life you haven't met yet. This is Cat Pierce.New episodes of Not Alone every Wednesday. Subscribe so you never miss one.FOLLOW CATInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/iamcatdogOmen Beauty on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/omenbycatpierceOmen Beauty + The Omen Oracle Deck:https://omenbycatpierce.com/FOLLOW VALERIAInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/valerialipovetskyTikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@valeria.lipovetskyFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/valerialipovetskyblogFOLLOW NOT ALONEInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/notalonepodTikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@notalone.podWebsite:https://www.notalonepod.com/Shop Valeria’s look from this episode:https://shopmy.us/shop/collections/7077651Amazon Storefront:https://www.amazon.com/shop/valerialipovetskyWHAT WE TALKED ABOUTDISCLAIMERSome links in this description may be sponsor or affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I may earn a credit or commission at no additional cost to you.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices