Wise Women Forward

In this episode of  Wise Women… Forward , Dominique and Christopher sit down with Jonathan and Carla Sanger—two dear collaborators on  Wise Women – Why Menopause Matters  and two people who understand that storytelling is never just storytelling. It is how culture decides who matters. Jonathan Sanger is an award-winning film, television, and theater producer and director whose career includes  The...

Margaret Cho joins Wise Women… Forward for a fearless conversation about menopause, identity, power, aging, comedy, politics, and the freedom of no longer living as the woman the world expected you to be. Margaret describes menopause as the moment when the old mythology of the self begins to fall away. Hormonal imperatives quiet. Social expectations lose their authority. And a new woman starts to...

In this conversation, Dr. Jonna Cohen, founder of She Rises in Abundance, joins Wise Women Forward to talk about women’s stories, joyful resistance, menopause, social media, and the growing movement toward a more compassionate, collective form of leadership. We explore what it really means to be “radicalized into the matriarchy” — not as women replacing men at the top, but as a return to community...

Nancy Cushing-Jones entered Universal Studios in 1979, when only three other women at the company worked above the level of secretary. She went on to become the first female division president in the studio’s history, transform publishing into a global revenue-generating business, and help build the emerging video-game licensing industry.   But this conversation is about more than an extraordinary...

After being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Kristen Shelt didn't just seek a cure — she sought coherence. That journey took her deep into quantum physics, matriarchal history, and a radically different way of understanding reality and women's place in it. Kristen is the founder of Ether Well, a structured plasma water company, and is currently getting certified as a lecturer in...

In this episode of  Wise Women Forward , Dominique and Christopher sit down with  Angela Gentile , founder of the  Single and Child Free Network , an international community for women living outside the traditional expectations of marriage and motherhood. Angela’s work challenges the old, exhausted script that tells women their lives only become meaningful when they are chosen, partnered, married,...

Kukuwa and Coach Cass are a mother-daughter team leading a global African-rooted wellness movement through Kukuwa Fitness , their app and online community, and Africa With Us , their cultural wellness travel program. In this episode of Wise Women… Forward , they join Dominique Debroux and Christopher Henze for a conversation about movement as medicine, food as foundation, ancestral healing, menopa...

Paige Connell is one of the leading voices on the mental load of modern motherhood, known for her honest and deeply relatable commentary on marriage, parenting, invisible labor, work, and the realities women are often expected to carry quietly. In this episode of Wise Women… Forward , Paige joins Christopher Henze and Dominique Debroux for a conversation about what women carry, why so many mothers...

In this episode of Wise Women… Forward , Dominique speaks with Dawn Gallagher , former supermodel, author, beauty expert, and television host, about beauty, aging, self-worth, and what happens when women stop letting youth define their value. Dawn’s career has spanned major magazine covers, global beauty brands, bestselling books, and decades inside the fashion and beauty industries. But this conv...

In this episode of Wise Women… Forward , Dominique speaks with transformational coach and teacher Gary De Rodriguez about the invisible patterns that shape our relationships, our money stories, our sense of power, and the way we move through the world. Gary explores how family systems, ancestral imprints, trauma, and early conditioning can create “neuro sensitivities” that affect how quickly we ar...

In this episode of Wise Women… Forward , Dominique speaks with Becky Jones , also known as The Empower Coach , about diet culture, body image, food freedom, mindset, and what it really takes to stop fighting your own body. Becky is a trained personal trainer and nutrition coach, but her work goes far beyond meal plans and exercise routines. After her own experience with disordered eating, bullying...

In this episode of Wise Women… Forward , Dominique is joined by two powerful media voices: Tammy Reese and LaKisa Renee . LaKisa Renee is a dynamic media professional, journalist, host, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of media, fashion, beauty, wellness, and culture. Tammy Reese is an award-winning multimedia journalist, content creator, publicist, and mental health advocate dedicated...

In this episode of Wise Women… Forward , we sit down with April Wall , psychic medium, author, tarot and tea leaf reader, and creator of Namaste Magical , for a conversation that walks straight into the mystical, messy, and magnificent terrain of midlife. April is 45, in perimenopause, and very much “in the trenches,” as she puts it. But instead of treating this transition as a medical inconvenien...

In this episode of  Wise Women… Forward , Dominique sits down with songwriter, producer, social entrepreneur, and founder Kelly Slattery for a conversation about what happens when success stops being enough—and service starts calling. Kelly’s career has moved through entertainment, philanthropy, fashion, foster care advocacy, and women’s community-building. She has written for major studios, produ...

There comes a moment in midlife when many women realize they’ve been quietly moved to the edge of their own lives. Not because they lost their power. Because the culture stopped knowing how to see it. In this episode of Wise Women… Forward , Dominique Debroux and Christopher Henze sit down with author Lydia M. Hawke , creator of the Crone Wars series, for a joyful, witchy, deeply human conversatio...

What if menopause isn’t the end… but the beginning of your most powerful chapter? In this episode of Wise Women Forward , we sit down with Toks Olagundoye —known for her roles in The Neighbors , Veep , Castle , and more—for a deeply personal and transformative conversation. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, Toks was pushed into menopause suddenly through chemotherapy. What followed wasn’t...

What does it take to stop shrinking after a lifetime of being taught to stay small? In this episode of the WW Forward Podcast , Dominique and Christopher sit down with Leah Van King for a candid, energizing conversation about voice, visibility, and what it means for women to take up room in their own lives. Together, they explore why so many women learn to self-edit, soften themselves, and disappe...

Grassroots organizer and artist  Christine Rea-Briskin  joins  Wise Women… Forward  to talk about turning  fear and anger into action . She shares how a small living-room gathering grew into a local Indivisible group, why “forward” matters when everything is trying to drag us backward, and what real community organizing looks like—visibility actions, democratic defense, and showing up with strateg...

Colleen Kochannek on grief, reinvention, and claiming your third act as your power season. What happens when the life you built disappears?  At 50, Colleen Kochannek lost her husband, her career, and her only sibling in a cascade of unimaginable change. What followed wasn’t retreat—it was awakening. In this intimate and unfiltered conversation, we explore what it means to outgrow the “good girl” s...

In this first conversation on  Wise Women Forward , filmmaker Christopher Henze and producer Dominique Debroux speak with psychotherapist, author, and founder of Gateway Women— Jody Day —about what it means to live beyond the narrow definition of womanhood. They talk about elderhood, grief, kinship, post-menopausal clarity, chosen family, and why the nuclear family model is failing us all. Jody sh...