by WomenOver70 | Jul 8, 2026 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Visionary. Connector. Builder. Those words describe Katina Strauch, 79. When we spoke with Katina, she was recovering from a broken leg, talking with us from her bed on her smartphone. Despite the setback, she remains what she has always been: an active writer,...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 30, 2026 | Creative Expression, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Writing has been a guiding force in Nancy Morgan’s life, woven together with her love of language, travel, and cross-cultural learning. Across a career in teaching, curriculum design, media production, and study-abroad leadership, writing has remained at the heart of...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 24, 2026 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Kathy Bresler, founder of ALTAR Community in Chicago, has created a welcoming space where women of all ages come together to be seen, heard, and supported. ALTAR is a third space for women centered around meaningful gatherings, conversation, creativity, reflection,...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 17, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Social Activism
At 80, Regan Burke is still organizing, advocating, and speaking out. But her path to becoming a respected activist, columnist, memoirist, and political influencer was anything but straightforward. Before she found sobriety in her twenties, drugs and alcohol shaped...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 10, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Social Activism
For nearly fifty years, Sybil Kolon has devoted herself to protecting 79 acres of family land in Michigan’s Irish Hills. Originally owned by her grandparents, the property was placed under option with Legacy Land Conservancy in 1976 with the hope that it would someday...
by WomenOver70 | Jun 2, 2026 | creativity, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Author and artist Jill G. Hall, 71, joins us with her luminous new novel On a Sundown Sea, inspired by the mysteries surrounding the visionary woman who built Lomaland—a utopian community near the home Jill grew up in. Fascinated since childhood by the stories...
by WomenOver70 | May 26, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Social Service
For more than six decades, Sandra Sokol has devoted her life to building stronger, more equitable communities. Although she once imagined a career teaching in schools serving children of color her path evolved into groundbreaking volunteer and public service work...
by WomenOver70 | May 19, 2026 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
https://youtu.be/lKqwXIhnhzk Joan Greene, 84, trained to be a teacher but found her true calling as a social worker and innovative advocate for older adults. In New York State, she helped create programs from the ground up—from nutrition services and Meals on Wheels...
by WomenOver70 | May 13, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
This episode, first released in 2021, is a reminder that Mental Health Awareness Month requires all of us to tell our stories. We checked back in with Mindy and learned that, even though she is now retired, she continues to advocate for reforms in mental health,...
by WomenOver70 | May 6, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re revisiting a powerful earlier conversation with Ilene Dillon (Episode #148). A pioneering voice in emotional well-being, Ilene is an Emotional Realignment Master Teacher and the creator of Emotional Mastery for...
by WomenOver70 | Apr 29, 2026 | Catherine and Gail, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
For more than five decades, Lynn Larson has followed her curiosity across continents—and she’s nowhere near finished. At 71, she travels light and lives large, forging deep connections everywhere she goes. Her journey began as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, where...
by WomenOver70 | Apr 15, 2026 | Creative Expression, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
At 75, Ashley Rogers is not reinventing her life—she’s reawakening it. Living in Ecuador and thriving in her latest entrepreneurial chapter in real estate, she began asking a familiar question: What’s next? What is mine to do now? The answer arrived in an unexpected...