Wise Women Forward

Grassroots organizer and artist  Christine Rea-Briskin  joins  Wise Women… Forward  to talk about turning  fear and anger into action . She shares how a small living-room gathering grew into a local Indivisible group, why “forward” matters when everything is trying to drag us backward, and what real community organizing looks like—visibility actions, democratic defense, and showing up with strateg...

Colleen Kochannek on grief, reinvention, and claiming your third act as your power season. What happens when the life you built disappears?  At 50, Colleen Kochannek lost her husband, her career, and her only sibling in a cascade of unimaginable change. What followed wasn’t retreat—it was awakening. In this intimate and unfiltered conversation, we explore what it means to outgrow the “good girl” s...

In this first conversation on  Wise Women Forward , filmmaker Christopher Henze and producer Dominique Debroux speak with psychotherapist, author, and founder of Gateway Women— Jody Day —about what it means to live beyond the narrow definition of womanhood. They talk about elderhood, grief, kinship, post-menopausal clarity, chosen family, and why the nuclear family model is failing us all. Jody sh...