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#106: Stoop Stories with Marj Kleinman

August 4, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

40 mins Amid the lockdown, hanging out on her stoop, Marj Kleinman had a realization.  Stoops are where people sit, talk, and share stories and they are a perfect six feet from top to bottom. So Marj createdStoop Stories, a community portrait project documenting how Brooklynites are coping with the Coronavirus pandemic and racial injustice.  Marj, photographer, award winning children’s content producer, and visual storyteller, with her team have curated over seventy features of families,...

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#105: What Happens Next?

July 28, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

22 mins Did you know that you have a story?   Do you realize that your story is fluid, complex, and even inspirational? Bella tells the story of her trauma.  She tells it over and over again.  It was a story of abuse, pain, and helplessness.  And the story always ended with Bella on the floor.   Until Hannah asked her this question: “What happens next?” Psychologists, anthropologists, and scientists all agree; we are a storytelling animal. But what many of...

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#104: Feeling Lost with Cecilia and Hannah

July 21, 2020

Twisting The Plot

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32 mins Up until 50, most women have been going along following the rules and living their lives according to a preset roadmap.  We took our cues from families, social media, and cultural role models. Then we turn 50, and the roadmaps stop. The direction becomes vague, and the cues fade.  We get hit with negative biases about aging, disdain for older bodies, and hints to our irrelevance.   We learn that we have lost our edge, our beauty,...

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#103: From bereft and bereaved to badass mama, Twisting the Plot with Laura Dintino

July 14, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

28 mins Listen as Laura Dintino describes her surprise and shock when her husband of 29 years suddenly announced he was interested in a younger woman and ready to move on. It was a plot twist that turned the world she had built and the life she had known completely upside down. She had not only lost her partnership; she lost her identity. Who was she now? How can a woman in her 60’s remake...

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#102: Starting Again, with Ana Maria Seligmann

July 7, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

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

June 30, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

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

June 22, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

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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Each week Dr. Cecilia Dintino and Psychotherapist Hannah Murray Starobin will speak with women who have twisted their plots and discovered that life after 50 can be filled with imagination, inspiration, laughter, and endless possibilities.

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