50 Women Over 50

We are now deep in the throes of Summer 2023 and that means I’m taking my foot off the gas and am trying to relax a little. While I’m spending some travelling and visiting family, please enjoy this encore presentation of one of my most popular episodes… Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes radio and TV personality Candace Sampson to the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Candace entered her fifties as she w...

This is a special episode for you because the person in the hot seat is your host Sherrilynne Starkie. In episode 19 Sherrilynne welcomed Agnes Knowles, host of the Boomer Woman podcast, 50 Women Over 50. Then Agnes invited Sherrilynne to be a guest on her show. Sherrilynne expected to talk about her podcast project, but she didn’t expect Agnes to ask all the questions that she usually has her own...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes Tina Davidson, acclaimed American composer and author to episode 38 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Her music stands out for its emotional depth and lyrical dignity. It’s a style that’s been informed by a traumatic childhood shrouded in secrets and Tina has explored this in her recently published memoir “Let Your Heart Be Broken.”   In this interview Tina talks...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes a true leader of the Canadian communications profession, Marie Fitzpatrick to episode 37 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Marie has enjoyed a long and storied career, first as a journalist then as a public relations advisor. She is a divorced mother of two adult children and is not in a relationship although she is actively dating and loves meeting new people an...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes Historian Barbara Ann Mojica , author of the Little Miss History children’s books to episode 36 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  After a long and successful career as a teacher and education leader, Barbara found herself divorced after a 30-year marriage. But she wasn’t alone for long before she met the man who would become her husband and collaborator. She says...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes Brigitta Hoeferle CEO of the Centre of NLP, one of the world’s largest self-development companies to episode 35 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Brigitta hails from Germany, where, as a kid, she felt the other children never really liked her. She wanted something better than that for her own children, so she emigrated to the United States and set up her own Mont...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes author and certified financial coach Patti Handy to episode 34 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  As a divorced mother, Patti has learned firsthand that a marital breakdown can be financially devastating. She raised her son single-handedly while working as a financial advisor and then at age 62, a time when many people are thinking of retiring, she’s made a career...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes decorated endurance athlete and author Susan Gold to episode 33 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Susan’s new book, Toxic Family: Transforming Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom is a powerful memoire of her own journey of growing up in a troubled home and using self empathy and kindness to heal and thrive.  She ended her marriage when she was 53 and entered proc...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes Publisher Nancy Erickson, owner of Stonebrook Publishing and an award-winning book coach to episode 32 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  At age 50 Nancy left a bad marriage, got sober and walked away from a promising career at Oracle, the world’s third largest software company. Now 65, she says she’s in the prime of her life.  She explains, “About 90 per cent of...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes Lynne Bowman, author of the bestselling cookbook “Brownies for Breakfast” to episode 31 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Lynne Bowman shares her wisdom about the post menopausal diet and how to fight that creeping weight gain. She also offers incredible insight about finding success after 50 on her own terms, pioneering working from her home, long before the res...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes leadership expert Heather Marasse to episode 30 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast . Heather Marasse, is Sherrilynne’s former client and is a fellow podcaster. Her 50s were about breaking patterns.  She broke relationship patterns with her husband, her daughters and her employer. In fact, she went quite a bit down the road towards a divorce before reconsidering and r...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes clinical psychotherapist and transition coach Kirsten Beske to episode 29 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Kirsten started out adult life as a corporate lawyer married to a wonderful guy and by 50 she’d become a psychotherapist, got divorced and fell in love with a fantastic woman. Then, just as she was approaching the empty nest stage of life, Kirsten doubled d...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes TV news veteran Susan Murphy to episode 28 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Susan is now a voice coach and mentor working with broadcasters around the world. To be successful in network news takes a certain toughness and resilience, but nothing could have prepared her for the utter devastation of losing her husband who died by suicide when Susan was in her late...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes author Rona Maynard to episode 27 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Rona’s successful career in publishing culminated as the editor of Chatelaine , Canada’s most popular women’s magazine. Soon after she had retired, Rona’s husband talked her into rescuing a little dog. Casey proved to be Rona’s muse and she’s recently published her third book, a memoir entitled S...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes software brand strategist Corien Kershey Ph. D. to episode 26 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Corien is the owner of Brand Clarity, a successful management consulting firm that the puts the brand at the centre of strategy and whose clients include many household name brands and public sector organizations.   In this interview she discusses being a cancer surviv...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes software sales executive Kerri-Jane Diffin to episode 25 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  This is the halfway point of the podcasting project with interview 25. To mark this milestone today’s episode is a bit of a family affair because Sherrilynne’s guest is her sister Kerri-Jane, and the discussion gets really personal.  Kerri is celebrating 13 years of sobriet...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes author and activist Larissa Russell to episode 24 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Larissa’s life was quite a struggle until when, at age 50, an autism diagnosis was a turning point. It helped her make sense of her life and is a big part of why she says that life in her 50s has been ‘amazing’.  Since her diagnosis, she’s become an entrepreneur, an international...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes celebrated author Dr. Norma Dunning to episode 23 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  She’s a woman who’s life took a whole new turn the year she turned 50. Norma had never been to university and wanted to try it.  Within a few years she’d earned a PhD. in Indigenous Peoples Education and is now a professor at the University of Alberta.  Dr. Dunning’s story collect...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes bestselling author Ann Douglas to episode 22 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast . For decades Ann has been Canada’s go-to expert on all things parenting as the best-selling author of 25 non-fiction books.  In her newest book, Navigating the Messy Middle: A Fiercely Honest and Wildly Encouraging Guide for Midlife Women, is based on interviews with 118 middle aged wome...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes author and leadership trainer Sharon Jones to episode 21 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Sharon remembers her 50th birthday as a landmark day, because what happened changed the whole trajectory of her life. She shares the lessons she learned in her book, Tread Gently: For the Emotionally Clumsy.   In this interview Sherrilynne discovered that she and Sharon hav...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes author Marjorie Turner Hollman to episode 20 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast . Marjorie Turner Hollman celebrated turning 50 by getting married to a younger man! She has written four best-selling Easy Walks books and has recently released her fifth book, a personal memoir entitled, My Liturgy of Easy Walks: Reclaiming Hope in a World Turned Upside Down. Since life...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes podcaster Agnes Knowles to episode 19 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Agnes Knowles says she’s retired although she’s very busy and host of The Boomer Woman podcast and she continues to work as a fitness instructor and a carer for people with dementia in Victoria, B.C. on the west coast of Canada.  When the police showed up at her 50th birthday party, Agnes jus...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes author and executive coach Julie Ellis to episode 18 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Julie is a serial entrepreneur and an angel investor who has taken several start up companies past Series A funding into high performing enterprises. She’s learned a lot about business and life along the way and put that wisdom into her first book for women entrepreneurs who wa...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes executive director and founder of an organization called Silent No Longer Tennessee, Greta McClain to episode 17 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Greta is a former police officer who, in her late 40s, suffered a brutal sexual assault that left her suicidal. The ‘Me Too’ movement of 2017 gave her the inspiration to move forward with her life and her fifties have...

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes radio and TV personality Candace Sampson to episode 16 of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast .  Candace entered her fifties as she was going through a divorce of epic proportion which left her living in rented accommodation with her two teenage daughters and feeling she had very little autonomy over her own life.  She felt sad and angry. And yet, she has come through it...