42 Minutes Kwavi Agbeyegbe has a mission. She wants to make women over 50 aware of their potential and value. As a life coach, she started by asking 50 women who were over 50, from all over the world, to describe themselves. Over 80% of the women she talked to reported feeling invisible. The women don’t see themselves represented in the media. They feel erased, insignificant, and not a vital to the cultural conversation. Kwavi...
43 Minutes At 75 years of age, with life of plot twists that include physical, emotional and relational challenges, Ronda Tamerlane has decided it’s time to tell her story. Ronda’s 12 in 12 2021 project is to write her personal memoir. Listen to this week’s Twisting the Plot Podcast as Ronda talks with us about how writing her memoir is giving the opportunity to take on new perspectives, let go of resentments, deepen her connection...
54 Minutes We are so often bombarded with negative messages about aging that it makes us not want to do it. We don’t want to get older. But what if aging could be a process that’s creative, intuitive and deepening? What if getting older was a creative act? On this week’s Twisting the Plot Podcast, we speak with three 12 in 12 group members about how their experience in the year-long program has given them...
52 Minutes Here’s a question to ponder. “Can you love yourself in a hostile world?” This is the question Dr. Thema asks on this week’s podcast. “We have to shift the individual, but we also have to shift the world in which the individual is living, so that we’re not constantly having to push back against these messages but that we can change the larger story, that we’re all worthy and deserving.” Dr. Thema Bryant-Davis...
56 Minutes Who am I anyway? Twisting the Plot’s Twelve in Twelve Program asks each participant to bring all of herself to the year-long experience. Together as a group, we invite the shadow self, the wise ones, role models, inner guides, mentors, avatars, nemeses …. all are welcome. By the time one gets to our age there are a multitude of selves to encounter. Somedays our virtual 12-member group feels like a filled stadium. Listen...
56 Minutes What does it mean to be resilient? How does one overcome tough challenges and yet continue to inspire? On today’s podcast, we hear from Aleka Artemis Munroe, who lives with serious physical disabilites. A member of Twelve in Twelve 2021, Aleka discusses her struggles with her body, and shares the tools she uses to get through that include mindfulness, acceptance, creativity, and an incredible sense of humor. She is the creator of Compasspoints:...
42 Minutes What is a creatrix, you might ask? According to Stephanie Raffelock the word creatrix is defined as “a woman who makes or creates things.” Stephanie suggests that creatrix may be a good replacement for crone when it comes to selecting an archetype for women to age into. We love the idea of a woman continuing to “make things” beyond the biological clock of fertility. Stephanie Raffelock herself is a creatrix. She is a...
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.