Sexy in Your 60s

Nothing in this episode is medical advice. It is education and lived experience. Anything you are weighing for your own health is a decision to make with your own healthcare provider, who knows your history and your whole picture. I have been a nurse for almost forty years and a board-certified health coach for the last several, and I still come home from vacation needing a vacation. In this solo...

Dvora spent forty years as a nurse and never once had to explain what she did. Now she does something that takes a paragraph, and it still does not land. This episode is about what she felt on the drive home from that conversation, and why naming it accurately matters more than most of us realize. In this episode, we talk about: The difference between self-doubt and imposter syndrome, and why conf...

Valerie Mummert designs in-person retreats for women, and she has spent years watching what happens when you put a group of women in a room together and give them three days. She sees who arrives apologizing. She sees who takes up more room by day two. In this conversation we get into what actually happens inside that room, what it takes for a woman our age to walk into it, and what she manages to...

Episode 42: Taking Up Space at the Table: First We Grieve the Body We Thought We Would Have Solo episode. Space in the Body, the first of the four dimensions of taking up space. Education, not medical advice. This episode discusses fasting, GLP-1 medications and hormone therapy. Talk with your own healthcare provider about what is right for you. I hid my vegetables in a napkin when I was three. By...

Episode 41: Taking Up Space in the Exam Room: You Are the Leader of Your Medical Team Guest: Dr. Jordan Emont, MD, MPH, MSCP Education, not medical advice. This episode discusses hormone therapy and other treatments. Talk with your own clinician before changing anything about your care. So many of us have walked out of an appointment feeling rushed, unheard, or told that what we are feeling is jus...

Episode 40: Taking Up Space: Midlife Confidence for Women 50+ Season 3 Premiere - Solo episode with Dvora Citron, RN, MS, NBC-HWC Season 3 of Sexy in Your 60s is called Taking Up Space, and this opening episode defines exactly what that means and what it does not. Dvora starts in her father's petite women's clothing store in Los Angeles, where she spent her childhood watching women in dressing roo...

In the final part of our Making Friends in Midlife series, Ricki Radosh tells the story behind a simple question her son sent her: who’s your person? She did not have an answer, until a hospital crisis forced her to find one. What she discovered is that her person had been there all along, in a relationship she had spent years overlooking. In this episode, we talk about:   - The question that...

Episode 38: Building New Friendships From Scratch: Midlife Friendship with Ricki Radosh (Part 3 of 4) Sometimes the friendship task in front of you is not reconnecting with old people. It is building a circle from nothing in a place where you know no one. In Part 3 of our midlife friendship series, happiness coach Ricki Radosh walks through what it actually took to make new friends after she moved...

Reaching Back: Reconnecting With Old Friends in Midlife with Ricki Radosh (Part 2 of 4) Making Friends in Midlife mini-series This is part two of a four-part mini-series on making friends in midlife, all drawn from one conversation with writer and happiness coach Ricki Radosh. In Part 1 we asked whether you really have the friends you think you do. In Part 2 we turn to the people you have lost tou...

Do You Really Have Friends? Midlife Friendship with Ricki Radosh (Part 1 of 4) Making Friends in Midlife mini-series This is part one of a four-part mini-series on making friends in midlife, all drawn from one conversation with writer and happiness coach Ricki Radosh. We start with the most basic question of all: do you really have the friends you think you do? Ricki shares how she spent decades c...

I just got home from family camp with all four of my granddaughters, something I had been dreaming about for years. The only reason it happened is a family crisis I would never have chosen. This episode is about the harder skill nobody trained me for after forty years as a nurse: not the skill of responding, but the skill of standing next to my adult children's lives with my hands at my sides, wai...

Elaine Ebner spent 35 years in technology and technology media before reinventing herself, again and again, in the second half of her life. In this conversation she shares how she founded CancerSux after watching her son lose his sense of taste during treatment, why she builds companies and friendships one deliberate step at a time, and what it really takes to support an adult child through a heal...

You can be surrounded by lovely people and still feel a little bit lonely. In this solo episode, Dvora unpacks the difference almost nobody names: knowing people and having real friends are two completely different things. She walks you through exactly how to close the gap, with four simple moves and three habits that turn a friendly acquaintance into a true friend. In this episode, we talk about:...

The Friendships Worth Traveling For in Midlife Episode #32 with Dvora Citron Two years ago, Dvora took a solo trip to New York and discovered it was really a friendship trip in disguise. In this solo episode she talks about the half of midlife friendship we rarely discuss: how to keep the people you already love when life keeps pulling everyone in different directions. The answer is that when prox...

Episode 31: You Can Never Be Lonely with Purple Hair with Lorraine Sasner At 85, Dvora's mother Lorraine Sasner is living her best life: purple hair, daily golf, plant-based soup for the neighbors, and a deep comfort with her own company. In this warm, personal conversation, Dvora talks with the woman who has been her lifelong role model for vibrant aging about movement, connection, purpose, and t...

Episode 30: Moving to a 55-Plus Community in Midlife: What Actually Happens to Your Social Life What actually happens to your social life when you move to a 55-plus community in midlife? Dvora Citron talks with her longtime friend Micki Cooper, who recently made a deliberate, intentional move to Rossmoor in Walnut Creek, California. Micki shares what drove the decision, what surprised her, and wha...

Making friends in midlife is harder than anyone prepared us for, and it has nothing to do with your personality. In this solo episode, Dvora Citron breaks down the structural reasons connection fades after 50, what the research actually says about loneliness and health, and what real women in her community have found that works. In this episode, we talk about: Why the "invisible architecture" of p...

Episode #28: To Girl Travel! How Morocco Changed How I Think About Midlife Friendship Season 2 opens with a personal story: I went to Morocco because my stepmother needed a roommate. What I found changed how I think about friendship, connection, and who I am. Eleven days, a group of mostly strangers, and a country whose history I did not expect to fall in love with. In this episode, I talk about:...

In Part 2 of this two-part conversation, Jacinda Shapiro steps back from the science and gets into what it actually looks like to live a metabolically healthy life. From the myth of moderation to what your CGM is really telling you, to how she moved through menopause in six months, this is where the conversation gets actionable. In this episode, we talk about: Why "moderation" does not work when t...

Insulin resistance is not a sugar problem. It is a fat problem. In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Dvora sits down with Nurse Jacinda Shapiro to get into the science behind what is driving metabolic disease in midlife women, and why most conventional medicine is still missing the mark. In this episode, we talk about: Why insulin resistance is caused by dietary fat accumulating in the liver,...

This is where the bridge lands. In the final episode of her four-part solo series, Dvora names the feeling she has been building toward, speaks directly to the woman in midlife who has been listening, and opens the doors to the Sexy in Your 60s Coaching Experience. If you have recognized yourself anywhere in these four weeks, this episode is the invitation. In this episode, we talk about: The feel...

Dvora didn't choose her audience through market research. She followed a thread for forty years without knowing she was following it -- from GYN nursing to the NICU to twenty-five years as a School Nurse -- and one day looked back and could see the whole line. In Part 3 of A Bridge, she traces the career arc that led her to women in midlife, the community post that made this work feel true, and wh...

Episode 23: I Was the Last One to Know (A Bridge, Part 2) In 2012, recovering from back surgery on her therapist's couch, Dvora was asked a question she wasn't prepared for -- and her answer told her everything about what had been getting in her way. In this solo episode, she traces the story from that couch to a seventeen-course sushi dinner, and asks the question she wants every woman in midlife...

There's a Friday that looked like every other Friday -- until it didn't. In this solo episode, Dvora Citron tells the story of a fentanyl overdose she responded to as a school nurse, and what it revealed about twenty-five years of showing up scared and doing it anyway. This is Part 1 of a four-part solo bridge series leading up to something she's been building for a long time. In this episode...

Episode 21: Nothing Is Wasted: Reinvention and Confidence with Annette Naif Annette Naif has spent nearly four decades producing events that mark the biggest moments in people's lives. In this conversation, she and Dvora explore what a nonlinear career path really teaches you, why confidence is something you practice rather than possess, and what it looks like to advocate for yourself in healthcar...