Talk Fifty To Me

Actress Andrea Bendewald (Suddenly Susan, Friends, The Morning Show) walked off the audition treadmill in midlife and founded The Art of Circling, a women's-circle practice she has led in Los Angeles and online for more than a decade. She tells Heidi and Constance what actually happens in a circle, why it works on women our age and how it grew into a second career, including her podcast Circle Thi...

Dating after fifty is a trip, and Luna Lauren Vélez minces no words about it. The Brooklyn-born Afro-Latina actress and identical twin has spent three decades in HBO prison dramas, Showtime crime thrillers and animation: Oz, New York Undercover, Dexter, Power Book II: Ghost and American Rust, plus the voice of Rio Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Across the Spider-Verse. She was re...

Omisade Burney-Scott took the lack of language for what was happening to her body and built the language other women now use. The 59-year-old Durham, North Carolina, mother of two is a seventh-generation Black Southern feminist, storyteller and reproductive justice advocate, and the founder of The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause, the first Black-women-led platform normalizing menopause t...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month gets personal. Constance Zimmer shares her DCIS (stage 0 breast cancer) diagnosis, which she kept private through her very public "Love Story" press tour and Emmy nomination. Most doctors pointed her toward a mastectomy; breast surgeon Dr. Kristi Funk, founder of The Pink Lotus breast center and author of "Breasts: The Owner's Manual," was the first to say, "I think w...

In her fifties alone she became the CEO and founder of the biggest BIPOC-owned beauty marketplace in the US called Thirteen Lune. She also launched her own clean inclusive skincare brand Relevant, is an ATELIER 100 Most Influential People of 2026 honoree, keynoted on a panel at SXSW in March titled “Still Standing: How Women Build Through Chaos, Cycles and Curve Balls,” She’s also a “former chroni...

A rarity on the pod now - our second woman under fifty joins us today. She is turning 50 at the end of year,  but what she has been accomplishing heading into her next decade while being on her own perimenopause journey is what is going to help all the next generations to come. A Board-certified concierge OB/GYN, one of the most prominent Black women in mainstream women's-health media and the...

You may know today's incredible female from the zip code she lived in for 10 years, 90210, but Jennie Garth in her 50’s is busier than ever building a brand around the three words her character Kelly Taylor said in the 90’s "I Choose Me." She now leads powerful conversations on her podcast by the same name. 2 years ago she debuted her QVC fashion line “Me by Jennie Garth.” AND Just this year she r...

Get out your adult diapers for Missi Pyle! A character actress, a cult sci-fi icon, country rocker, a certified yoga instructor who doesn't teach, has been on Broadway and even played a character that was named Constance Zimmer in the oscar winning movie “The Artist.” You may know her from one of the hundreds of incredible movies like Galaxy Quest or the remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Fac...

A true icon joins us this week - one of the most enduring Asian-American actresses of the last thirty plus years, but let’s focus on what she has been doing in her 50’s and now 60’s - early 50’s she was one of the longest-running female leads on a Marvel show: Agents of Shield, around 55 Began publicly arguing for the “Tom Cruise effect” — that women, especially women of color, deserve long c...

She is a Chicago-born film, stage and TV actress and most known for her role as Sarah Pfefferman in the Emmy and Golden Globe and SAG Award-Winning series TRANSPARENT, not to mention, Handmaid’s Tale and Your Honor. What Amy Landecker is doing in her 50’s is inspiring..She directed her first short, Then Wrote her first feature, Directed, starred and produced it at 55. Released at 56  When mos...

Julie Bowen is an actress, producer, and director who spent eleven seasons as America’s most type-A TV mom on “Modern Family.” The show ended as she turned 50, but that didn’t stop her. She directed and produced her first short film, launched a production company ‘Bowen and sons’ with a first look deal at Universal television. She continues to rack up more fun characters with Hysteria! on Peacock;...

She spent over two decades as one of TV's most recognizable faces — on Angel and Law & Order, but its now in her 50’s that she is in the middle of the busiest creative stretch of her career . Elisabeth Rohm has turned into one of Lifetime's most prolific female-forward true-crime directors, she co-founded a production company Rohm Feifer Entertainment with Kara Feifer, and has created 50+ projects...

This is our very first and only guest this season who has not yet hit fifty BUT we did it for a reason. She calls Perimenopause the amuse bouche to an old cooch and featured those words in her brilliant, brutally honest, and constantly sold out show about the challenges of aging called “Nobody Cares.”  Laura Benanti stepped on to a Broadway stage  at age 18 playing Maria Von Trapp in The...

A funny raw incredibly honest conversation about midlife dating, acting and having no fucks left to give from the wildly talented actress Justina Machado. She has been in the business for over 30 years and is still crushing it at the top of her fifties.  Starring in 3 seasons of the reboot "One Day at a Time", the lead in Amazon’s black-comedy-horror The Horror of Dolores Roach, and having a...

We first saw this wonder woman in the very first documentary about menopause called the M Factor and she said so many eye opening facts it blew our minds … like - “menopause isn’t a moment it’s the rest of your life.” wow.   A board certified obgyn and menopause practitioner - she spent 35 years in the exam room before entering private practice because she said she was done being quiet. ...

She is a SAG Award–winning actress, producer, voice over talent, activist and advocate for many causes including reproductive rights, a self-described “eco-emissary” who started an eco fashion zero waste initiative, Livari.  She had seven seasons on Orange Is the New Black as the villainess “Fig” before deciding the stories she wanted to tell about women weren’t going to tell themselves. In h...

She is true comedy legend who has been delivering absolute gold non stop from a stand up stage for over 40 years while also pumping out award winning one woman shows like “Twenty Five Question for a Jewish Mother” and “The Judy show my life as a sitcom.” Her television writing on The Rosie O'Donnell Show won her two Daytime Emmys.  On screen she's appeared in Better Things, Madame Secretary,...

She left one of America's top food shows and created her own brand new reality hit. Padma Lakshmi on taking risks in midlife and creating new opportunities after 50!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Get ready for Elsbeth - the one and only Carrie Preston - who the NY Times dubbed The Queen of Quirk!! Born in Georgia, Juilliard-trained, Emmy winning actor, a director and now producer, Carrie has never stopped showing up as a working actor,  and has spent over 25 years playing the kind of woman all women need to see on television - smart, capable, and confident. On this weeks episode Carrie tal...

You don't know everything about Garcelle Beauvais but you're about to learn so much more! Like why she left #RHOBH - one of the hottest reality shows on tv and watched her career grow - in her fifties. Named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful,”  Haitian-born award-winning actress, author and executive producer, her career is a dynamic blend of creative and businesswoman, she has been a be...

She won her first Emmy at 58 for The Pitt and women everywhere screamed YES!! Hear why Katherine Lanasa was grateful to trade 9 pairs of spanx for her Nurse Dana black eye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We cried a lot during this one!!! For our first episode back we decided to interview each other and answer some questions for our Season 2 launch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

She is known as the midlife muse but she teaches women how to become their own muse in life. A powerful conversation with Dr. Amanda Hansen . You will want to take notes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Extremely funny writer Ali Adler joins us for a fabulously raw and real conversation about menopause - dating women - and a word she really wishes she didn't say during our 30 minutes together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

She's been wowing you for years from Rent to The Devil Wears Prada - now Tracie Thoms is officially fifty and talks about having a seat at the grownups table. But does she have a nickname for her vagina? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices