Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCheryl Woodson: Aging Excellently is an Intention
Season 3 Episode 104
As a mother, physician, businesswoman and daughter, who navigated her mother’s 10 year journey with Alzheimer’s disease, Dr. Cheryl encourages all ad…
5 years ago
103 Elaine Mays: From Tragedy to Tranquility
Elaine Mays, age 84, loves her newly created home in the Maroon Village of Accompong, Jamaica. How did an educator who participated in school desegre…
5 years ago
Betty Rauch: Freak Out, then Volunteer!
Season 3 Episode 102
Living in New York City, Betty Rauch became a highly skilled marketer who was sought after by high profile clients. When she retired, nonprofits beca…
5 years ago
Beatrice (Bebe) Magee: Progress for Women in Science, Rowing and Music
Season 3 Episode 101
Imagine what it might have been like to be a serious female science student in the early 1960s
only to be barred from a doctoral program after receiv…
5 years ago
Jean Ketcham: Aging But Dangerous
Season 3 Episode 100
Women Over 70 is celebrating its 100th episode by featuring Jean Ketcham, affectionately known as Aging But Dangerous. Jean has a laserlike focus …
5 years, 1 month ago
Sheila Collins: Our Story Comes from the Body
Season 3 Episode 99
With her background in dance and social work, Sheila K. Collins, Ph.D., brings embodied practices to many forms of self-care, particularly for healin…
5 years, 1 month ago
Hedy Ratner: Activist for Women’s and Civil Rights
Season 3 Episode 98
In semi-retirement, at age 79, Hedy Ratner imparts her prodigious wisdom on
women’s issues to high level policy makers. For over 50 years, as an advo…
5 years, 1 month ago
Sunny Fischer: Philanthropy for Women’s Rights
Season 3 Episode 97
At age 76, Sunny Fischer (Evanston, IL) has advocated for women to be free from
violence, exercise reproductive choice, afford their homes and posses…
5 years, 1 month ago
Diana Swezy: The Gift of Self-Care
Season 2 Episode 96
Two years ago, Diana Swezy, age 70, made a dramatic life change. She left her home in the Midwest and her work as a professional educator to live in…
5 years, 1 month ago
Audrey Peeples: Eliminating Racism and Empowering Women
Season 3 Episode 95
Audrey Peeples, age 81, from Chicago’s southwest side, is a history maker--the first Black
woman to hold leadership positions in different kinds of o…
5 years, 2 months ago