Wise Women Forward

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The origin story of humanity is wrong. This is the correction. A companion to the documentary Wise Women: Humanity’s Untold Origins, this podcast explores the ideas we were never meant to question—women’s power, post-reproductive wisdom, evolution, and the cultural systems that buried them. Hosted by filmmaker Christopher Henze and producer Dominique Debroux, Wise Women Forward features conversations with thinkers, elders, artists, and disruptors who challenge the myths of patriarchy, menopause, and “how things have always been.”This isn’t self-help. It’s a reframe of who we are—and where

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Get Loud. Get Organized. (Christine Rea-Briskin | Grassroots Organizing & Indivisible) 23.02.2026 45:40

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...

Widowed at 50. Now What 13.02.2026 36:20

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...

Jody Day on Elderhood, Kinship & Life Beyond the Narrative 19.01.2026 39:54

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...