Category: Podcast

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

June 16, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

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

June 11, 2020

Twisting The Plot

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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

June 8, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

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

May 26, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

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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#95: Hello 50 with Marijo Kober and April Rinehart

May 19, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

39 mins We love it when we connect with like-minded women who share our realization that women over 50 deserve attention. When friends Marijo and April turned 50, things felt different. They had questions about their bodies, relationships, careers, and fashion. Not sure where to turn, they decided to take the bull by the horns and created HELLO 50 IT’S MY TIME a place dedicated to supporting women as they continue to learn, find purpose and get...

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#94: How Fascinating: a conversation with Emilie Ward

May 14, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

33 mins Emilie Ward joined our 12 in 12 in December, when the agency where she had worked for 24 years shut its doors without warning. Little did she know that this was just the beginning of a disheartening whirlwind including a global pandemic, her need to take on a caretaker role for her ill mother, the withdrawal of state funding for her independent business, and her personal battle with Covid 19. But she refused...

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#93: The Reinvention Maven: Lesley Jane Seymour

May 12, 2020

Twisting The Plot

Podcast

55 mins My hope is that this is a moment when women can stop knocking at the door of a system that was set up by men and for men. So says Lesley Jane Seymour, our special guest on this week’s Twisting the Plot podcast. Lesley has had her finger on the pulse of the collective imagination of what it means to be a woman for decades. As editor in chief for More Magazine she brought possibility...

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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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