The Brazen Maven Society

This week on The Brazen Maven Society, Gabriela Brown and Sasha Travassos discuss the challenges of parenting aging parents, highlighting the emotional and practical aspects. Gabriela shares her experience with her father's decline, noting signs like physical deterioration and home neglect. They emphasize the importance of early intervention and professional support, such as geriatric care manager...

In this episode of The Brazen Maven Society, Gabriela and Sasha sit down with MaryAnn Lentini, a veteran social worker and life care manager with over 45 years of experience supporting families through serious illness and end-of-life care. MaryAnn demystifies hospice and palliative care, explains what services are actually available (often at no cost through Medicare), and shares how these program...

Welcome to The Brazen Maven Society, a podcast for women and men navigating the bold, beautiful, complicated decades after 50. If you’ve ever felt like this stage of life is supposed to be quieter, smaller, or somehow less important… we’re here to say the opposite. This is the era where wisdom meets freedom, where experience finally has a voice, and where the rules get rewritten. Hosted by Gabriel...

Welcome back to The Brazen Maven Society — conversations about life after 50 with insight, humor, and sometimes a little irreverence… because this stage of life deserves honesty. You may have noticed that it’s been about four months since our first episode. When we recorded that one, we had every intention of jumping right into the next. But life had other plans. Not long after we launched the pod...