by WomenOver70 | Jun 21, 2023 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Dr. Val and Byrdie are co-founders of Boom Home Medical, a “lifestyle brand that makes home medical products.” Dr. Val, a public health and preventive medicine physician, and Byrdie, a literary agent turned health care leader, recognized that home medical equipment is...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 14, 2023 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
This cross-generational pair—Phoebe 76 and Erica 43—believes that younger women don’t hear enough from older women about what it looks like to keep “living out loud…and contributing actively” during the later decades. Why should women accept the cloak of invisibility...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 7, 2023 | Podcast, Season Five, Season Four, Spirituality and Healing
Living through the unimaginable – caregiving her son from his diagnosis of carcinoma at age 13, and through a 2nd diagnosis at 19, completely altered the trajectory of Allura’s life. Her son died at 20. Even before that, Allura’s brother, with whom she...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 1, 2023 | Enhancing Career, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
“There will be junctions where it will be important for you to ‘just let it happen.’ We ourselves are many people at the same time.” Deanna Berman is an interior architect working with the bones, geometry and structure of 3-dimensional living and working spaces. She...
by WomenOver70 | May 24, 2023 | Expressive Arts, Podcast, Season Five, Season Four
Roxanne Lorch, age 85, from Cary, NC, is a full-time artist with a studio in Durham NC who exhibits her work in juried shows and wins awards. Roxanne was among the first women to work in commercial design and graphics (who was not a secretary) and then in sales. In...