My friend Nathalie Dupree died this week. I was shocked though I knew she had not been well, because she hadn’t texted me back. She always texted me back. We had things to discuss. She always led with, “I can only say this to you.” I could hear her clucking between the lines. Rereading all our texts, I decided to save them. They are copied and pasted into my friendship diary. I’ll need them in the future when I’m missing her. I wanted to hear Nathalie’s voice so I asked Cindie if she would repos...
Jan 17, 2025•35 min•Ep. 268
Media, communications and content specialist, Barbara Weller is with us to talk about her client, Grace O and FoodTrients, a unique program for optimizing wellness and longevity. Grace is a fusion chef with a mission to deliver delicious recipes built on a foundation of anti-aging science and on her 30 years in the healthcare industry. Barbara’s experience includes launching the Affinity Development Group, Broadthink, and BroadLit, Inc. Her career began as a journalist and editor where she worke...
Nov 25, 2024•38 min•Season 6Ep. 267
In a world where socializing and relaxation often revolve around alcoholic beverages, Jennifer brings us a refreshing alternative with her Monday Night Mocktails. This vibrant collection offers unique and delightful non-alcoholic mocktail recipes for every week of the year. Monday Night Mocktails is more than just a recipe book; it's an invitation to explore a world of creative, flavorful beverages that rival their alcoholic counterparts in sophistication and taste. Each recipe is thoughtfully c...
Nov 11, 2024•38 min•Season 6Ep. 266
Nancie McDermott is back with us! She’s here to talk about the amazing new book she’s part of, When Southern Women Cook: History, Lore and 300 Recipes with Contributions from 70 Women Writers. Get her recipe for Virginia Brock’s Georgia-Style Brunswick Stew below! A food writer and cooking teacher based in Chapel Hill NC. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand, Nancie has authored 14 cookbooks, including Southern Cakes: Southern Soups and Stews; Real Thai; and The Wok & Skillet Cookbook....
Oct 21, 2024•47 min•Season 6Ep. 265
Pat Greenberg is back to tell us all about her newest book, It’s OK to Be Old: Thoughtful Acceptance of Your Age. As we get older, society often treats aging as something to be feared, avoided, or lamented. But in this enlightening book, author Patricia Greenberg offers a refreshing perspective - that getting older can be a positive and liberating experience. She encourages readers to embrace the freedom and wisdom that comes with age, and challenges the negative stereotypes around aging, reject...
Sep 30, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 6Ep. 264
Brigit Binns is a well-known and prolific cookbook author but this week she’s here to talk about her memoir, Rottenkid: A Succulent Story of Survival. Her narrative includes Hollywood stories, an alcoholic actor father, a glamorous narcissistic mother, a bit of political intrigue, world travel, and the search for belonging. It’s a story of both privilege and profound neglect and shows how she found comfort and self-worth in the kitchen. Brigit’s memoir is a testament to female determination and ...
Sep 16, 2024•47 min•Season 6Ep. 263
Welcome to season 6! Pamela Rand is with us to chat about the power that laughter has on our health and longevity. Pamela is an actor, comedian, sketch comedy performer and inspirational speaker. Through her company, Past Primetime Productions, she creates and acts in a wide variety of hilarious sketches across social media platforms. Try not to laugh! https://youtu.be/l3matQTOWzM You can find out more about Pamela and her work on her website . Watch her videos at Adventures in Feeling Young . P...
Sep 02, 2024•39 min•Season 6Ep. 262
Bonnie Lester is back with us to talk about her new book, to be released on September 5, Unwinding Pain: Affordable and Accessible Ways to Feel Better Today. When you suffer from debilitating chronic pain, living a vibrant, pain-free life may seem impossible. Bonnie’s book is your guide to shake free of the isolation and hopelessness of chronic pain! This is a life-changing guide for chronic pain suffers. Bonnie guides reads through a wealth of simple, budget-friendly, and science-backed methods...
Aug 19, 2024•41 min•Season 5Ep. 261
Maria Brown is with us to talk about discovering herself after divorce. Maria is an executive producer and television comedy writer with a Golden Globe Award for the TV series CYBIL, and Emmy nominations for FULLER HOUSE and HANNAH MONTANA (and a whole slew of other awards for Hannah Montana, too!) Maria's article, “I’m a Divorced Women. Was I Ready to be Naked with a New Guy?” was recently published in the L.A. Times. MARIA’S LINKS: IMDB LinkedIn Read the article Women Beyond a Certain Age is a...
Aug 05, 2024•54 min•Season 5Ep. 260
Sky Bergman is an accomplished, award-winning photographer. Her documentary, Lives Well Lived , was Sky’s directorial debut. Lives Well Lived celebrates the wit and wisdom of people aged 75-100, who reveal their secrets for living a meaningful life. Encompassing 3,000 years of collective life experience, diverse people share life lessons about perseverance, the human spirit, and staying positive in the midst of life’s greatest challenges. Their stories will make you laugh, perhaps cry, but mostl...
Jul 22, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 259
Claire Berger wrote “How Much Is Enough? Getting More by Living with Less” as an interactive memoir, to give voice to the ever-present conversation we’re all having in our heads. How Much Is Enough… Exercise? Religion? Health? Shoes? Family? Food? Claire tackles an array of topics in twenty-two chapters that can be adapted into an entertaining, interactive keynote that will engage audiences in every age and stage of life. Check her website for speaking dates in and around Los Angeles in July! Fo...
Jul 01, 2024•48 min•Season 5Ep. 258
Alison Tucker started off with a $50 PX store guitar. From there she got kicked out of the Baptist church for drinking, cussing, smoking and dancing. Then she became a grownup for about 20 years (a highly overrated state to be in), married, kids, and working in corporate America. When that life fell apart, Alison realized she needed to become the person she was always meant to be. Alison’s music reflects her magical gift for storytelling and her voracious curiosity about life. Her multifaceted s...
Jun 04, 2024•53 min•Season 5Ep. 257
Show bestie Pat Greenberg is here to have a very direct chat about her recent hip replacement and the surprising things no one every told her to expect. We’re also talking about aging and changes and grace. It’s always a great episode when Pat joins us! PAT’S LINKS: Website Email Pat your questions Buy Pat’s book Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to ...
May 20, 2024•45 min•Season 5Ep. 256
Author Sharon Wishnow is with us to talk about her new novel, The Pelican Tide, and to talk about the writing process. Says she writes “stores about flawed, educated women with plots that have environmental themes, but not dystopian doom. I’m drawn to stores that show how changes in the environment change people.” Sharon is the former Vice President of Communications for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA), the founder of Women’s Fiction Day, and is the Executive Editor of the WFWA ma...
May 06, 2024•40 min•Season 5Ep. 255
Jean Tidd helps people stop fighting their ADHD brain and, instead, make it their ally. With an unparalleled zest for life, an unbreakable spirit, and a relentless determination that can move mountains, people with ADHD can hyperfocus on their passions and turn themselves into unstoppable forces of nature. Jean helps people channel that electrifying energy, and embrace life with an unapologetic intensity that’s nothing short of extraordinary. Jean’s own ADHD journey led her to become and expert ...
Apr 22, 2024•42 min•Season 5Ep. 254
Debbie Gendler Supnik is with us to chat about her new book, I Saw Them Standing There: Adventures of an Original Fan During Beatlemania and Beyond. Debbie received an album by an unknown (in the US) British band named the Beatles and nothing was the same ever again! She said, “Yes!” to the opportunities that presented themselves, ending up in the audience of The Ed Sullivan Show, meeting Brian Epstein, attending the 1965 press conference welcoming the Beatles to America, visiting the Abbey Road...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 253
Life coach and personal chef Stacey DiVerde is back with us for a discussion on how past trauma and disease can keep us from living the life we want. Download Stacey’s “ Let’s End Self-Sabotage ” workbook for free! Stacey helps transform lives through holistic health, nutrition and comprehensive coaching tools and strategies, empowering individuals to achieve sustainable lifestyle changes for overall wellbeing. Stacey says, “Within all of us, we have courage, our intuition nudging us to try some...
Mar 25, 2024•33 min•Season 5Ep. 252
Life coach and personal chef, Stacey Diverde is with us this week to discuss how to stop the victim mindset and how to get out of your own way. Download Stacey’s “ Let’s End Self-Sabotage ” workbook for free! Stacey helps transform lives through holistic health, nutrition and comprehensive coaching tools and strategies, empowering individuals to achieve sustainable lifestyle changes for overall wellbeing. Stacey says, “Within all of us, we have courage, our intuition nudging us to try something ...
Mar 10, 2024•46 min•Season 5Ep. 251
Join us for a conversation with Chef Rossi about her memoir, The Punk Rock Queen of the Jews! It's a rollercoaster that whisks you through a world bursting with rich characters, uproarious dialogue, vivid snapshots of the Orthodox community and the gritty, pulsating 1980s New York City scene -- raw, on the edge, but gloriously alive. Rossi was raised in a conservative Jewish family, expected to toe the line, marry right, and play by the kosher rulebook. But at 16, she flipped the script, blossom...
Feb 19, 2024•49 min•Season 5Ep. 250
Denise chats with her friend from Australia, Anne Coulter, about her remarkable vitality, energy, and zest for life! Denise and Anne met at a memoir writers retreat and hit it off immediately. Anne says she is a mature spontaneous spirit on a life pilgrimage for the joy of the journey. EPISODE LINKS: Alison Waring, Memoir Writing, Ink. Disrupt Aging by Jo Ann Jenkins Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experi...
Feb 05, 2024•50 min•Season 5Ep. 249
Raeanne Sarazen is with us to talk about her incredible new book, The Complete Recipe Writing Guide: Mastering Recipe Development, Writing, Testing, Nutrition Analysis, and Food Styling, a one-stop resource for developing, writing and producing recipes for cookbooks, magazines, online publications, and social media platforms. This is a master class on recipe writing, readers will learn timeless recipe development techniques and best practices for each stage of creating recipe content such as rec...
Jan 22, 2024•41 min•Season 5Ep. 248
Seattle-based chef and author Becky Selengut is with us to talk about her newest cookbook, Misunderstood Vegetables: A Culinary Odyssey into the World of Underappreciated Produce. This is not just a cookbook; it's an educational journey. Each section includes history, preparation tips, and storage advice to help home cooks feel comfortable working with these unusual ingredients. It’s also not just for vegetarians or health enthusiasts; it's for anyone looking to expand their culinary horizons. T...
Jan 08, 2024•48 min•Season 5Ep. 247
Pat Greenberg and Denise chat about what they’ve learned this year and about how they want to age going forward. We are inundated by societal messaging on aging but are those messages really what’s best for us? As always, we tackle the big questions! PAT’S LINKS: Website YouTube Facebook LinkedIn Women Beyond a Certain Age is an award-winning weekly podcast with Denise Vivaldo. She brings her own lively, humorous, and experienced viewpoint to the topics she discusses with her guests. The podcast...
Dec 08, 2023•51 min•Season 5Ep. 246
More than twenty-five years ago, Colleen Worthington rolled up her sleeves and built a baking empire out of her own kitchen, which provided a place for her children and now grandchildren to learn hard work, dedication, and creativity. Together with her husband, Gary, the Worthington pursued their interest in scratch-made artisan breads by training at both the American Institute of Baking and San Francisco Baking Institute. They worked closely with Lehi Mills to develop an exclusive flour mixture...
Nov 27, 2023•27 min•Season 5Ep. 245
Sandra Gutierrez is visiting us once again! Her new cookbook, Latinísimo: Home Recipes from the Twenty-One Countries of Latin America, is a monumental work with over 300 recipes reflecting the incredible breadth and richness of the culinary traditions of the region. It’s filled with history and stories and is an essential resource for every kitchen. Sandra is a journalist, food writer and historian, professional cooking instructor, and author of four cookbooks. She is an expert on Latin American...
Nov 13, 2023•47 min•Season 5Ep. 244
Chef Michael Kalanty chats with us about the interesting road that led him to a career in baking. From a mathematics major to graduate school in architecture, to writing his thesis on the flying buttress of France’s cathedrals where he couldn’t help but notice the boulangeries next to every cathedral. He was so drawn to them that he apprenticed with a baker he met while there. This episode is worth listening to just for the description of focaccia with olive oil and “little pools of harvest grap...
Oct 08, 2023•55 min•Season 5Ep. 243
Chef Debbi is back to talk about her farm, food and wine tours! A California native, Chef Debbi has cooked in some of the finest restaurants in Orange County; owned two catering companies, provided personal chef services, and was a corporate chef for Melissa's Produce. The author of What's in Your Pantry and A Little Book of Cheese, Debbi Dubbs has been a culinary instructor for Williams Sonoma, Sur la Table, Bloomingdale's and now owns Deb's Kitchen where she provides private and team building ...
Sep 24, 2023•37 min•Season 5Ep. 242
A California native, Chef Debbi has cooked in some of the finest restaurants in Orange County; owned two catering companies, provided personal chef services, and was a corporate chef for Melissa's Produce. The author of What's in Your Pantry and A Little Book of Cheese, Debbi Dubbs has been a culinary instructor for Williams Sonoma, Sur la Table, Bloomingdale's and now owns Deb's Kitchen where she provides private and team building classes as well as food and wine tours in California and hosts o...
Sep 10, 2023•30 min•Season 5Ep. 241
George Geary is back with us to talk about his other new book, Made in California, The California-Born Diners, Burger Joints, Restaurants & Fast Food that Changed America, 1951-2010. It’s a wonderful journey into California’s culinary history. Available in May 2024! With wit and wisdom, George guides home cooks on everything from cookies and pastries to cheesecakes, sauces, dressings, and rubs, to how to use a food processor. George had been a featured speaker and lecturer aboard the Holland...
Sep 03, 2023•36 min•Season 5Ep. 240
Our guest this week is author, cooking teacher, culinary tour leader, and pastry chef, George Geary. George’s newest book is L.A.’s Landmark Restaurants, the follow-up book to L.A.’s Legendary Restaurants. This gorgeous coffee table book is an illustrated history of 60 famous Los Angeles restaurants from throughout the 20th century. Includes over 100 recipes! With wit and wisdom, George guides home cooks on everything from cookies and pastries to cheesecakes, sauces, dressings, and rubs, to how ...
Aug 20, 2023•49 min•Season 5Ep. 239
