As a distinguished beauty, lifestyle and fashion creator over 55, Lori Altermann is not just a voice in the crowd—she is a one-of-a-kind force in the social media landscape. Her devoted audience of more than 100,000 is deeply engaged and eagerly anticipates her handpicked recommendations, knowing that a product endorsed by Lori is worth every moment of their attention! With an authentic and comedic perspective that stands out from the rest, she brings a refreshing blend of insight and charisma t...
Dec 27, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 51
Amy Kemp is the owner and CEO of Amy Kemp, Inc. In her work within this growing company, Amy helps leaders and business professionals understand how deeply thought habits impact every part of their work and lives. As a certified Habit Finder coach, Amy has led more than 400 female business leaders through a four-month small group engagement called Encounter. This experience is designed to help clients replace subconscious thought habits that are no longer serving them with more healthy ones. She...
Dec 20, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 48
Grace Redman is a charismatic entrepreneur, success coach and speaker with a passion for guiding entrepreneurs and high performers to shatter their self-imposed glass ceilings and elevate their success. Blending practical and holistic principles, Grace empowers her clients to harness their talents, unlock their optimal potential, and transform both their professional and personal lives. As the best-selling author of Can I Live?! Dare To Go From F*cked up to Fabulous and host of the Real Talk wit...
Dec 13, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 48
Anne Abel is an author and storyteller. Her first memoir, Mattie, Milo, and Me , about unwittingly rescuing an aggressive dog, was inspired by her Moth StorySLAM win in New York City. It was published in 2024. Her second memoir, High Hopes Bruce Springsteen and Me, about fighting depression by following Bruce Springsteen’s Australia tour, at the age of 60, even though she hates to travel and hates to be alone, won a Moth StorySLAM in Chicago. It will be published September 23, 2025, Bruce Spring...
Dec 06, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 48
Detroit-area author Lynne Golodner's newest novel, Cave of Secrets arrived this August. Lynne made multiple midlife pivots in her life, moving from journalism to a complete commitment to her own writing-focused businesses. She actively chose to chase the things she most wanted — and found them. While dedicated to her own craft – 10 books and counting — she lifts up other writers in other ways, including running her own coaching, publishing and marketing businesses. She speaks with great expertis...
Nov 29, 2024•27 min•Season 4Ep. 47
In the new book, Inflamed: Theory , Kathryn Walker, an accomplished nurse anesthetist and psychiatric nurse practitioner, delves into the intricate relationship between mental health and the neurological and inflammatory processes within the brain. This insightful book challenges traditional mental health theories and introduces innovative approaches to understanding and treating mental health conditions. The book covers a wide range of topics, including: The disruptive force of psychedelics in ...
Nov 22, 2024•37 min•Season 4Ep. 44
International Speaker and Violinist Diane Allen is a TEDx/TED Speaker, and Thought Leader who speaks on increasing the meaning, joy and fulfillment in one's work and life by accessing the flow state. As the author of Flow: Unlock Your Genius, Love What You Do , Diane shares her insights on how to harness the power of flow. Years before neuroscientists discovered the positive impact of the flow state, Diane had already experienced its transformative power in her own career as a violinist. Diane w...
Nov 15, 2024•28 min•Season 4Ep. 42
Vicki Larson is a longtime award-winning Bay Area journalist and the former lifestyles editor, writer and columnist at the Marin Independent Journal whose writing can be found in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post and Newsweek among numerous other publications. She specializes in writing about living and loving outside conventional models of coupling and the nuclear family, as well as busting ageist and sexist narratives about aging as a woman and women’s sexuality and desire....
Nov 08, 2024•26 min•Season 4Ep. 43
Stacy Blemaster defied odds when she was told that she would never live a normal life outside of a mental health facility. After a number of incorrect diagnoses, Stacy finally found a doctor who listened to her and allowed her to open up and feel validated. Detailing her childhood, college life and mental health challenges in To Be Or Not To Be: Shedding An As-If Personality , Stacy details what it's like to have manic episodes, be in and out of treatment, deal with toxic family members who fear...
Nov 01, 2024•24 min•Season 4Ep. 47
Laura Venecia Rodriguez is dedicated to helping individuals over 50 regain their mojo and “shine” with renewed purpose and passion after reaching an impasse or experiencing a major upheaval in their lives—empty nest, death of a loved one, divorce/breakup, job change, retirement, or health crisis. Her YouTube channel, Shine After 50: In Your Body, Mind, Spirit and corresponding blog and newsletter offer weekly advice and inspiration for women over 50 who want to make conscious, wise lifestyle cho...
Oct 25, 2024•29 min•Season 4Ep. 42
Kamini Wood, who grew up in a small Connecticut town as a first-generation American with immigrant parents. Early in her life, she navigated the complexities of identity and belonging. Feeling the pressure to blend in and seek external validation, she excelled academically and in helping others, driven by the belief that hard work equaled acceptance. Becoming a mother of five while pursuing a career as a certified project manager, she realized her identity was externally defined. Raising high-pe...
Oct 18, 2024•29 min•Season 4Ep. 41
In a world where aging is often feared, award-nominated author, poet and psychotherapist Jane Seskin, who is 80 years of age, takes readers on an emotional road trip where they can celebrate the joys and challenges of aging. In Older, Wiser, Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life After 65 (Tallfellow Press, 2024), Jane reflects on how resilience and self-discovery helped her combat life’s trials and tribulations, especially as she grew older. Through a collection of 89 poems, Jane redefines the na...
Oct 11, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 21
Terry Repak shares the lessons she learned in her expat life in a beautiful way. When Terry and her husband moved to West Africa with two small children at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, she seized the opportunity to connect with people of other cultures and bear witness to the ravages of the horrible disease, the finding of a cure and education about prevention methods. Circling Home: What I Learned from Living Elsewhere (She Writes Press, 2023) chronicles the adventures and chal...
Oct 04, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 37
Sarah Dale's love of nature and experiences in the wilds of Montana are what started her wish to get other corporate women to build their own badassery and confidence by learning outdoor skills. She moved from New York City to Montana after a solo vacation to Big Sky. Sarah started Project 1490 to provide the opportunity not only for women to have a unique, outdoor experience that helps them go beyond who they think they are, but they can also build their corporate networks and confidence and ha...
Sep 27, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 38
Glenda "GG" Goodrich, 72, has been questing in the Lakota tradition for 25 years. Questing, a form of going out on the land for self-discovery, has been used for eons. It involves separating from one's regular life, spending time alone and incorporating what the lessons learned can mean in your life. "Nature becomes a mirror that reflects what is going on inside you," Glenda says. "Over a number of years, I undertook a series of wilderness quests in Oregon, Washington and California in a search ...
Sep 20, 2024•37 min•Season 4Ep. 35
Christine Fruehwirth almost died twice from stress-related health crises. She shares her hard-fought experience in her new book, Surviving Life's Storms and Thriving in the Aftermath, as well as in her life coaching and career counseling business to help people reach their full potential. Surviving Life's Storms and Thriving in the Aftermath discusses the four stages of living that she developed and identifies as Surviving, Stabilizing, Emerging and Thriving. She explores the distinct stages of ...
Sep 13, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 36
Deb Johnstone helps people discover who they are now to determine what they want to do next. She is a professional speaker, transformational life, business and career coach, personal stylist, midlife transition mentor, neurolinguistic practitioner, EDISC profiler (profiles energetic types) and yoga teacher. She is the founder of Transformational Pathways Australia and Women Reinventing MidLife. She also is the creator of her signature program, HER Rediscovery (another group is forming this month...
Sep 06, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 32
La’Vista Jones was raised with messaging that her voice did not matter. She grew to realize that simply was not true. She became an award-winning podcaster and systems strategist who has helped some of the world's top thought leaders amplify their impact through podcasting. She is a certified coach, six-time author, host of the BOSS Talk podcast and professional speaker with a message that challenges others to shift the way they engage with their work and care for themselves in the process. Her ...
Aug 30, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 20
Fran Bailey had a near death experience at age 12 that served as the impetus for her spiritual awareness. She became a renowned energy healer and founded the transformative SHEVA Method. Her energy work also helped her beat stage four cervical cancer that she believes was connected to the death of her father. "We all have cancer cells," Fran says. "I learned how to run energy into the cells and clear it." Fran's journey began with a passion for dance, which seamlessly melded with her innate unde...
Aug 23, 2024•36 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Divorce lawyer Pat Barbarito, the co-managing partner of Einhorn Barbarito in New Jersey, thought she knew all about complex relationships and the laws that govern them – until her own marriage of 17 years ended and she determined to get to the heart of love, marriage, and human connection. Her journey spanned the entire scope of relationships – from the science of attraction to the financial impact of separation, to old myths that society still touts as true to new laws that outline how to navi...
Aug 16, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Marina DelVecchio, PhD, launched her memoir, Unsexed: Memoirs of a Prostitute’s Daughter after ten years of being unsexed in her marriage and getting divorced, because of trauma and mixed messages she received about sex for women. In this episode, Marina talks about writing her book to understand why she was so touch-averse, patriarchal effects on sexuality, and how trauma trickles into how we parent our children. "I clear tables when I talk about women's issues," Marina says, of her frankness o...
Aug 09, 2024•33 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Christine Fallert Kessides became a first-time novelist at age 70, when her young adult book, Magda, Standing , was published and received significant acclaim. Christine was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was interested in the fact that all her ancestors (those she could identify) were from Germany. After reviewing her family genealogy and reflecting on some of her relatives’ experiences, she was inspired to write Magda’s story. About the novel Magda, Standing : When her father...
Aug 02, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 30
At age 60, Amy Goober wanted to bring something new into her life. She started her own Boston area-based business and became a successful Action Coach for women. Amy is the founder of Drive Your Life®, a dynamic group coaching program that supports women to get into the driver’s seat of their own lives using a unique five-step process to achieve their most sought-after goals. Amy’s signature program Drive Your Life ™ helps women put themselves back on their own To Do List and get into action. Dr...
Jul 26, 2024•33 min•Season 4Ep. 30
Linda C. Butler is midlife reinvention coach. She is a former executive in the telecom industry, who turned her considerable talents to empowering midlife professional women to become the CEOs of their own lives. Following her own midlife transformation after being laid off at age 50, Linda leverages her MBA, corporate leadership background and neuroscience-based coaching expertise to guide women to redefine personal success, dispel limiting beliefs, and embrace their authentic leadership, to cr...
Jul 19, 2024•29 min•Season 4Ep. 29
Should you forgive? How and under what circumstances? A deeply moving memoir by Susan Shapiro, a gifted, award-winning writer and professor, explores the nuanced topic of forgiveness in her book, The Forgiveness Tour: How to Find the Perfect Apology, which comes out in paperback on July 23. "[W]hat if the person who hurt you most refuses to apologize or express any regret? That's the question haunting Manhattan journalist Susan Shapiro when her trusted advisor of fifteen years repeatedly lies to...
Jul 12, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 28
Sue Camaione is the author of a new sexually charged memoir, The Practical Seductress: How I Learned to Take My Hat and Run . Sue’s memoir exposes the dangerous path to sexual equality. Filled with humor and learned wisdom as a woman in midlife, Sue exposes the double standard of desire and turns it into a “practical” how-to approach while navigating treacherous and unpredictable paths. It’s an inspiring tale of resilience that defies social norms in a world where men seek adventure, and women f...
Jul 05, 2024•31 min•Season 4Ep. 27
Carla Rockmore, 57, has been fashioning her own fun and designing clothes, accessories, and bags for more than 30 years. She began her foray onto the digital fashion scene during the pandemic, garnering numerous followers through her exuberant approach to styling. Things really kicked off when her audience and, later, Vogue magazine coined her the real-life Carrie Bradshaw of Sex in the City television show fame. Carla always prioritizes the colorful and the joyful. Her content centers on stylin...
Jun 28, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Penny Lane is a writer, wife and mother with an insatiable passion for life and books. Her latest book is Redeemed, A Memoir of a Stolen Childhood, a rise-from-the-ashes hero’s story of overcoming abuse, trauma, and unbearable odds, of being waylaid by both family and religion’s promise of love, and harnessing the resilience to find the way home. Redeemed offers a rare window into Eastern European immigrant culture and reads like a page-turning thriller. Especially relevant today, a time when ma...
Jun 21, 2024•30 min•Season 4Ep. 28
Junie Moon, CEO of Midlife Love Out Loud, allowed her naked middle-aged body to be painted by an internationally renowned artist--and filmed for a documentary--which served as a metaphor for doing the work to free oneself from the stories that may hold us back from living with access to each of our own full and unique expressions. She is a Global Love mentor, best-selling author, women's empowerment leader, and certified Shadow Work® Coach, has supported thousands of women over the past 30 years...
Jun 14, 2024•32 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Lisa Woodruff, along with 87% of Americans, believes that organization is a learnable skill. Yet less than 18% of those same Americans feel they are organized. Through Organize 365®’s courses, Lisa aims to teach Americans young and old the skill of organizing and unlocking their time for what they are uniquely created to do. Under Lisa’s direction, Organize 365 has conducted academic research, establishing the definitions of housework, home organization, and the weight of paper in the American h...
Jun 07, 2024•36 min•Season 4Ep. 22
