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Twisting The Plot, Author at Twisting the Plot - Page 15 of 33

#102: Starting Again, with Ana Maria Seligmann

43 mins When Ana Maria Seligmann moved from Panama to Houston, Texas, she focused on helping her children acclimate to a new school and a different culture. When everyone was settled, she began thinking about her next challenge.  What new purpose would she seek in her new country?  For guidance, Ana turned to her religious practice and what came through loud and clear was her innate desire to help people.  Ana set out on a...

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#101: Calling The Birds Home, with Cheryl St. Onge

48 mins With my camera, I document the joy and the light of her last years of life – the ways that she circles back home, even as she is leaving.  Cheryle St. Onge in the New York Times, Sunday June 28, 2020.  Photographer Cheryle St. Onge’s plot twisted when her mother was diagnosed with vascular dementia. Her mother began to disappear, and Cheryle grew increasingly depressed.  Her friends suggested that she make art instead of complain. ...

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#100: The Keeper of Stories, Charisse Brown

45 mins As a little girl Charisse Brown would scoot across the floor on her belly to listen to the family stories told behind closed doors. Today, as an adult, she’s made a career of listening and holding the stories of others. Charisse is a professional actor and a teaching artist. When she was 50 she started graduate school and became a drama therapist. She currently works with youth who are detained in the criminal...

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#99: Kids Today. Taking the lead from our children, with Marianne Franzese and Lili Chasen

49 mins Marianne Franzese reacted to the murder of George Floyd with horror, grief and sadness.  It literally made her cry.  When her grown children saw this, they called her out.  “Stop crying.  What are you doing about it?”  Indeed. Most of us were raised to feel the feelings, have empathy, and care for others.  But we were not encouraged to get angry, speak out, or disrupt the status quo. Luckily we still have time...

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#98: What Do You Know? An open conversation with La-Verna Fountain and Victoria Benitez

60 mins La-Verna Fountain has spent decades listening.  She is a practitioner and teacher of Kingian and Gandhian methods for conflict resolution.  The one thing she knows for sure is that we all have answers inside of us.  On this week’s podcast, Hannah, Cecilia La-Verna and Victoria Benitez, two black and two white sixty something women talk.  La-Verna asks each of us to answer the question: What do you know?     Then we consider what we...

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#97: What Now – an intimate conversation with MaryAnn Plunkett

61 mins Maryann Plunkett is a woman in her sixties who is not invisible, although she regularly portrays women who are.  This past year, the Tony award-winning actor was seen in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and as Mrs. Rogers in A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood with Tom Hanks. Originally, we wanted to talk to Maryann about her experience performing in the recent online production of What Do We Need To Talk About, produced by the Public Theatre in which the...

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#96: Let Your Wildest Dreams Be True: an intergenerational conversation with Madeline Dintino

45 mins Ok, listen up.  Our number one mission is to help women over 50 evolve by imagining who it is we can be, both as individuals and as a grand collective.   One of the ways we do this by listening to a Gen Z influencer. Why? Because our futures require our creative participation and it starts with a loosening of our limited beliefs.  Things have to change in order to be new. We begin...

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