Wise Not Withered

Welcome to the Wise Not Withered Podcast Season 2, the Character Showcase! This is Week 4. Today I am proud to highlight the Walk-in-the-Park Pageant Queen, Cassandra! She is a 65-year-old writer, blogger, mother, grandmother, former pageant queen, and celebrity from the fictional world of Filizuela. Story Background The writer for this story is the lovely Izhar , from the Philippines. The illustr...

Welcome to the Wise Not Withered Podcast, Season 2: the Character Showcase! Today I will be talking about Huan Ling, the 96-year-old Traveling Model. I am currently battling a particularly intense flu and will most likely go to sleep right after recording this, so please bear with my sniffly, congested voice today. The last two weeks featured wise women with complex, emotional stories. One of the...

Welcome to the Wise Not Withered Podcast, Season 2: The Character Showcase! This is Week 2. Today I am thrilled to exhibit Basira, a seventy-year-old Pakistani woman who manages a library. Basira lost her husband and son ten years prior to the beginning of the story, and she has become very jaded, bitter, and cold. At the library where she works, she discovers a mysterious book that becomes a port...

Welcome to the Wise Not Withered Podcast, Season 2! Over the next 25 weeks, I will be showcasing each of the characters in the Wise Not Withered project. I decided to do this showcase right now because it has been exactly one year since I sent my first cold emails to recruit writers and illustrators for the project. All twenty-five characters have at least a story draft and/or one or two illustrat...

Thanks for listening to another episode of the Wise Not Withered Podcast. This is the last episode in Season 1: part two with Zoë Kors. Check out wisenotwithered.com for partial transcripts and more! And please go to zoekors.com to see what Zoë has been up to! :)

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Wise Not Withered Podcast. This episode will be Part 1 of the last episode of Season 1. Next time we'll hear from Zoë Kors again, as she was yet another person whom I interviewed twice, realizing there was a lot more that I wanted to ask her about. Stay tuned! :)

Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the Wise Not Withered Podcast. This week I am sharing my two-part interview with Scarlett Maebh. I met Scarlett at a women's retreat almost two years ago. She and next week's guest were two of the activity leaders at the retreat, and they led extremely powerful and healing rituals with our small group. I was thrilled when Scarlett agreed to be interviewed...

Welcome to the next episode of the Wise Not Withered Podcast! I had the opportunity to speak with Mrs. McGuirk, who was my counselor in high school ten years ago. On her relationship with her mother: “I love her, and I have enormous respect for her, but sometimes I might have wished she could’ve just you know, not been quite so involved in everything [while I was growing up]. … I would say now, it...

Welcome to the next episode of the Wise Not Withered Podcast! This week’s interviewee is the mother of one of my best friends. I’ve known this wonderful, kind lady for a little over ten years, and it was really great to get to know her even more. My friend and I always say how alike our mothers are, in their overall positive and upbeat demeanor. About her relationship with her mother: “I was prett...

Welcome to the 5th episode of the Wise Not Withered Show! This time I interviewed the lovely Kirsten Malinee. We met at a women’s retreat that focused on creativity and connection. “I’m completely conflict-avoidant. I would rather not speak, which is in its own way is conflict. (laughs) So I’m learning to not give my power away, and have my voice.” “I do love to take classes. I register for a lot...

Welcome to Episode 4 of the Wise Not Withered Show! This episode is quite special, as it features an interview I did with my own mother! Check out  https://wisenotwithered.com/2019/01/03/the-wnw-show-interview-with-my-mother/  for partial transcript.

Welcome to Episode 3 of the Wise Not Withered Podcast. Starting this week, I will be posting partial transcripts, highlighting what I consider to be key points that each woman talked about in each episode. Feel free to share the audiograms that I post up on my Instagram page, @wisenotwithered, with one-minute-or-less quotes! This week’s episode features my own Japanese teacher from high school. It...

Episode 2 of the Wise Not Withered Podcast. Entire transcript available at  https://wisenotwithered.com/2018/12/07/the-podcast-interview-with-kate-west/ . Thanks for listening to the Wise Not Withered Podcast. If you found this episode particularly interesting or inspiring, please share! Read more about the Wise Not Withered project at wisenotwithered.com, also @WiseNotWithered on Instagram.

Episode 1 of the Wise Not Withered Podcast. Entire transcript available at www.wisenotwithered.com . https://wisenotwithered.com/2018/11/30/the-podcast-interview-with-karen-joy-fritz/