Old Chicks Know Sh*t Podcast

Do you have a vision for your next chapter? Do you know clearly what you want from your life. Can you see it? Todays guest is Barbara Pellegrino who, as well as being a transformation coach and NLP practitioner, is a leading authority on vision board success strategies.  In this episode we talk about the power of knowing what you want and having a vision for your life. A vision board can be powerf...

So many of us resign ourselves to soul sucking jobs and careers that no longer serve us because we think that we have no choice.  I know what feels like and honestly that’s what kept me stuck for longer than I care to admit. The truth is however, that we do have choices and it is possible to get paid for doing what you love.   Today I’m chatting with Kathryn Birchwood who is an income strategist a...

Todays guest is Jacqueline Perez, founder and creator of the Keul life, an online resource of information and inspiration for midlife women. Jacqueline  founded the site after feeling the frustrated at the lack of relevant information for midlife women.     This episode is a lively conversation between two midlife mavens who whole heartedly believe that midlife is the best chapter yet.  We share o...

Weight loss is probably one of the most talked about subjects when it comes to midlife and menopause. I don't think there’s anyone who has not struggled with this at some point on the midlife journey.  But like everything else at this time of life, things change. What used to work for you no longer does and it can leave you feeling frustrated and hopeless. I know, I’ve been there.  In todays episo...

Today’s guest is Kelly Bermingham, a long-time listener of the podcast who wrote to me to let me know how much the show and my guests have impacted her midlife journey. I want to share Kelly's story with you today because she is a real-life example of how tapping into and honoring your soul's voice can lead to finding your passion and purpose. From a  career in education and an empty nest, Kelly f...

This week's podcast is a lively conversation with Jen Marples, who after a 25 year career in public relations reached a crisis point and took a massive leap of faith to follow her passions. She became a life and business coach, an activist dedicated to women’s empowerment, a podcaster and self proclaimed “champion for midlife women”.  We talk about taking radical responsibility for your life and o...

Hailey Rowe is a Certified Behavior Change Specialist and Marketing Coach & who helps women start and grow successful service businesses . She joins me on the podcast today to talk about why women in midlife often don’t acknowledge and embrace their greatness after having careers, balancing personal life and business and surviving all of life's challenges. And why as women we often don’t give ours...

I loved the conversation with this week's guest Anne Zuckerman. She started her first successful online  business in her 50’s and has continued to challenge herself and grow well into her 70’s, recently launching a new podcast called “Just Wanted to Ask”.     Anne shares with us her incredible life story about living with the attitude of “it’s possible”. She has proved to us all that staying open...

In today's episode, the conversation is with speaker, fashion designer, and host of Menopause Whilst Black podcast, Karen Arthur. We chat about the menopausal journey and what we can learn from it as a necessary process to get us to our next chapter.  Her story shares a lot of similarities to my menopause journey.  In our discussion, we speak about the lessons and gifts that we are given throughou...

Today's episode is with Julie Foucht, a Feminine Marketing Expert who teaches how to market without hustle, grind, or force.  We delve into understanding feminine energy, how it evolves, and how we can use it in our personal lives and businesses.  We talk about how women have been taught to operate like men and how it's actually doing us a huge disservice.  In this intriguing conversation, Julie t...

The episode today is kicking ass and shifting the menopause culture forward.  Midlife women will not be put out to pasture with all of the wisdom and experience we have acquired.  Our guest, Rachel Lankester joins us in a discussion about exploring the evolutionary reasons for and the magnificence of menopause.  We talk about claiming our positions of power as leaders in our careers and communitie...

Today we have Robin Joy, JOY Architect, Molecular Geneticist, TEDx Speaker, Author & Lunch & Life Talk Show Co-Host who teaches women self-love, self-mastery, and how to crack the JOY code to create a JOY lifestyle. We’re talking all about fear and how to move past it to create a life you love. Robin shares her tips and strategies for leaning into your fears and moving through them to find joy on...

In this episode we are chatting with nationally recognized wealth management advisor, author, and speaker, Kim Curtis about retirement and how to make our money work to create the life we want to live. For a lot of women, thinking about life after retirement can feel overwhelming, others fear it and some don’t even think about it until they are in it. Kim’s mission is to get women comfortable with...

She’s joyful, talented, and oh so funny. This podcast was so much fun to record. My guest today is the multi-talented Wendy Farha who found her true gift for making people laugh through her greatest adversity. Not once but twice. Wendy shares how her midlife dreams of being a missionary on the beaches of Hawaii were detoured when she received life-altering news that steered her on a completely dif...

I hate the whole concept of antiaging. It's almost like getting older is some kind of human failure. However, I am a huge proponent of aging well to have the energy and vitality to live your best life well into old age. In today's episode, I chat with Zora Benhamou, who is a gerontologist and host of the “Hack your Age” podcast. Zora studies evidence-based techniques that slow the aging process to...

In today's episode, I chat with Suzanne Pool, a Women’s Sexual Empowerment Coach, author, and speaker who helps women find success and abundance in life, and business through prioritizing their pleasure. Suzanne shares her personal transition from a celibate, career-obsessed existence to purposeful and abundant life through sexual pleasure. We chat about why pleasure is important, how it impacts s...

If you've ever been in the dating pool in midlife you know that it can be challenging. I definitely have had my share of bad dating stories. Today's guest, Lisa Copeland, is an expert over-50s dating coach.  She shares her winning formula for helping midlife women find a quality man. We talk about “chemistry”, having the right dating mindset, creating your quality man template, as well as, both sp...

Oftentimes, we hear these stories of other people finding their purpose in life and it sounds so grand, and they are making a ton of money from it.  When the truth is, though that may very well be for them, that's not exactly how you may find your life's purpose.  Finding purpose in midlife isn't necessarily connected to material gains. It's all about becoming the best version of you. I discovered...

After finding out her husband of 22 years was having an affair and being thrown into singlehood in her late 40’s, Laura Friedman Williams set out on a path of unknowing self-discovery through dating and sex.  As the author of “Available: A Memoir of Sex and Dating After a Marriage Ends”, Laura discovered a midlife sexual mojo she didn’t even know she had. This is a beautiful story of awakening, em...

Gratitude and meditation are two practices that have made a huge difference in my own life. I would even go so far as to say they’ve been life-changing.  Today’s guest Lori Saitz is the CEO of Zen Rabbit and host of the podcast “FINE is a 4-Letter Word.” She shares with us her journey to understanding the power of meditation and gratitude and why she now teaches others to do the same. In this epis...

In this episode, we explore the definition of sexuality and our relationship with it with Dr. Juliana Hauser, a licensed marriage and family therapist and expert in the field of sexual health. I will be honest; going into this interview I had a very different perspective on what it meant to explore your sexuality meant and was very curious to find out how Dr. Juliana’s work impacted midlife women’...

Today we're talking about money and more specifically your relationship with it with finance expert Connie Vanderzanden.   We all relate to our money through some level of past conditioning and programming that can impact how our money works or doesn’t work for us. Becoming aware of our perceptions of money can help us create the financial outcome we want. We also talk about how our conditioning a...

This is a fun and high energy episode with Sisters Abby Rodman, psychotherapist, and Julie Howard beauty/trend expert cohosts on the Sisters Cracking Up Podcast for midlife women,    We talk about all the pet peeves of midlife from beauty and aging, empty nest, divorce, switching careers to finding ourselves and living our best lives. And collectively we agreed that the biggest pet peeve is not be...

This week we turn the podcast spotlight to an incredible story of resilience and triumph with disabled army veteran, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Major Jas Boothe.  Having survived a military career-ending illness, depression, and homelessness all while navigating single motherhood Jas dug deep to find a way to turn each tragedy into triumph. Instead of allowing her life experience to get her...

This week on the podcast we get into the “woo" in a conversation with my personal spiritual mentor Kisma Orbovich. We talk about trusting the power source within us to create the life we dream about. We all have the power to change our experience and create the life we want but we haven’t been taught how to tap into it.  We talk about the spiritual power of decisions and taking action which have b...