The Boomer Woman’s Podcast

Erika Andersen is one of those wonderful people who talk the talk and walk the walk. After more than three decades of executive consulting and coaching, she has turned her attention to the challenge of getting old well, using everything she’s learned helping individuals and organizations succeed to write her latest book, The New Old: Crafting Your Best Later Life.

Today Erika discusses:

• Why “The New Old”… with statistics!
• Be t...

Bern Mendez helps accomplished & authentic women thriving in midlife attract the love of their life through neuroscience and resonant design, not chance.

Today we discuss:

• How he, a man, can coach women about dating
• Neuroscience and trauma-informed somatic approaches based on polyvaGal theory
• Some may need counselling before they get to relationship coaching
• At our age, a lot of our views about partners are learned, AND we...

Al Kushner is the author of Virtual Medicare – 10 Costly Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make. He offers information that’s especially helpful for Boomer women (that’s us!) who are navigating the next chapter of their lives.

Today he explains:

• The difference between Medicare and Medicaid in the US
• Different plans
• Deadlines for enrollment
• How to avoid common mistakes that can cost you
• IRMAA (Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amoun...

Lisa Haynes is a certified executive and retirement coach and the author of Retired and Killin’ It. After decades as a CFO, she now helps retirees and soon-to-be retirees design a life they’re excited to live, focusing on the non-financial side of retirement.

Today we discuss:

• Six Saturdays and a Sunday
• Retiring at age 58
• External identity is easy, finding internal identity not so easy
• Why/how to find/create new connections
• Th...

Gila Melamed is back! Gila first joined me in 2023 to talk about her decision to adopt a nomadic life… by choice. She came back last year to update us and share how this lifestyle had helped her grow to a place of forgiveness and healing.

Today, she talks about:

• Making the best of it means being flexible, adaptable
• “Fear” – whether it’s the elements or gut feelings
• How she deals with fear – it’s not fear, it’s an opportunity t...

Pat Fenner’s divorce provided a kick in the pants to deal with mental health issues such as self-image, self-worth, and imposter syndrome. Combining these skills and experiences, she helps other “mature” women find their voices and thrive in life.

Today Pat discusses:

• The changes in self over 37 years of marriage
• The challenges in starting over
• time, counsel, prayer, reading, patience
• self-image, self-worth, and imposter syndr...

Patti Bevilacqua is in my socials a lot and her accomplishments since we last spoke 3 years ago are almost too many to count.  Why is that impressive? Well, 35 years ago, Patti was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis – MS.

Today Patti discusses:

• What exactly MS is
• Canada has highest rate of MS in the world and 3 out of 4 are women
• Evolution of Patti’s journey
• Patti shares some great stories
• Be your own hero
• why people with disab...

Donna Barr has lived a life many of us dream of living. She’s trail-blazer: joining the U.S. Air Force in the 70s when few women considered the possibility and during the Viet Nam War. She’s made a difference: working in Samoa with The Peace Corp.

Today Donna describes:

• How The Peace Corp and the Air Force were early interests
• Making changes at age 57
• The Peace Corps – no age restrictions and choose your adventure
• The process ...

Dr. Foojan Zeine has so many credentials in the Behavioral Psychology field that there is no way to write a synopsis. She founded the International Awareness Integration Institute and she co-founded the “Foojan” App, offering AIT to the public globally.

Today, Dr. Zeine explains:

• The structured, evidence-based framework called Awareness Integration Theory (AIT)
• Being intentional in being you
• How our reality is based on percept...

Jennifer Rovet is a Certified Professional Retirement Coach who works with individuals and couples alike, exploring values, priorities, and purposes to help design a rewarding retirement lifestyle. She’s seen firsthand the struggles many retirees go through.

Today Jennifer discusses:

• How there is so much more to retirement planning than money
• Redefining identity post-career
• How to make new friends outside the workplace
• Having ...

Bobbi Barrington is a trans woman, but her message is not about gender – it’s about the universal challenges we all face: fear, uncertainty, and the courage to create the future we truly want.

Today she discusses:

• Spending 59 years in the wrong body
• Her advice for both men and women, given that she has lived as both
• Her two transitions: in body, and in mindset
• Great insight for people who challenge the right of trans people to...

Emily Allen is a certified alcohol-free life coach who empowers women in midlife to break free from our wine culture and create their next chapter full of confidence, clarity and true freedom.

In this episode she explains:

• “Wine-mom” culture
• Her trigger to quit and her process to stop
• Alcohol as “Self-care” and “self-medication”
• Her path from self-disappointment to becoming an Alcohol-Free Life Coach
• The 80% increase in drinki...

Mariana Cooper (Mari) is an internationally acclaimed intuitive life strategist, third generation intuitive and host of the Aha! Moments Radio Show.

In this episode, Mari explains:

• Third generation intuitive
• Aha Moments
• 3D and 5D Frequency
• The Energetic Communication system that we are all born with
• Man-made constructs: shame, blame, guilt, fear, anxiety
• “Clear, connect, communicate, create”

Mari has an interesting descr...

Brenda Cumby McGee – aka Maxx McGee – is that fabulous dichotomy of fashion model and union carpenter. She was also a trail-blazer for women in the trades.

Today, Maxx explains:

• How those two parallel careers originated

• Her covid success story

• How things have changed for women in the trades in the last 30 years

• Women in a traditionally male environment “sisters in the brotherhood”

• “The Pant”

• The process of getting a...

Zulma Williams has had her share of challenges, and sometimes struggled to overcome them. But she is a warrior, and she made it her mission to inspire people to discover and honor the warrior inside themselves.

“The swearing therapist” has such energy! The past proves it was enough to get her over her own hurdles and I’m sure it becomes contagious with her clients.

In this episode she discusses:

• Her country of origin, Argentin...

Joe Owens is a story-teller… and an author. He’s released fiction and non-fiction, graphic novels and kids’ books. He’s also written a book for Boomers called “Feeling Groovy: A Boomer Guide to Ageless Aging”.

We talk about the book but also many other things:

• Supra Ventricular Tachycardia
• His interesting career
• Staying young-ish
• Technology & AI
• How acting old invites age-ism
• Internalized age-ism
• We get on a tangent about ...

Joelle Kaufman says “My passion is supporting cancer patients in finding their voice, taking control of their journey, and reducing the chaos and terror. As my family says, we’ve seen the movie. We know how to write a better ending.”

In this episode, Joelle explains:

• Her mother, her sister, then her story
• Cancer as a class of diseases
• To celebrate life’s events… and non-events
• Questions, Reactions and minding the joy
• “Happines...

Jannette Anderson, like many of the women she works with, is #NotDoneByALongShot! She is passionate about working with maturepreneurs to identify, claim and position their value so  they can make a meaningful difference AND a magnificent living!

Today she explains:

• Why she’s so passionate about Maturepreneurs?... especially womanpreneurs
• Why this group is growing so fast
• The biggest challenges Maturepreneurs face
• What a woman ...

Anne Goldberg was looking for direction after 2009 happened. Then, in less than two weeks, six different seniors called and said the same thing: “I hear you teach the computer. Can you help me?”  But… Anne had never told anyone she taught computers, despite the fact that she was always helping my friends with their tech. Eleven years later, she is known for her outstanding teaching skills and patience working with older people.

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