by WomenOver70 | Apr 22, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Spirituality and Healing
Elise’s career didn’t follow a straight line—and that’s exactly what makes it so compelling. She began as a contract interior designer in Minneapolis before moving to Chicago in 1981, where a friend’s suggestion led her in an entirely new direction: theology. Studying...
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...
by WomenOver70 | Apr 8, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Social Activism
In 2001, Kathleen (Keen) Harrison, PhD, took a leave from her university faculty position in medical genetics to travel with the Semester at Sea program. A visit to Kenya’s first orphanage for HIV-positive children changed the course of her life. She returned home...
by WomenOver70 | Apr 1, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Social Service
At 84, Phyllis Mitzen is still reshaping how communities care for older adults — with curiosity, courage and a fierce commitment to action. Phyllis spent 24 years at CJE Senior Life (formerly Council on Jewish Elderly) and went on to consult with Health & Medicine...
by WomenOver70 | Mar 25, 2026 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Mariann Aalda—actor, hypnotherapist, and joyful “pro-aging evangelist”—invites us to rethink what it means to grow older. She interrogates ageism, asking“ Why should youth get all the good press?” And declares, “My vibrancy and vitality are due to my being Age-full,...
by WomenOver70 | Mar 18, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Social Service
At 86, Sandra “Sandy” Taenzer reflects on a lifetime of innovation in Early Childhood–Special Education that began in the 1960s in Germany and still resonates today. Working in a large Illinois School District, Sandy helped initiate early childhood special education...
by WomenOver70 | Mar 11, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Some people discover their purpose early in life. For Karen Olson, 81, that moment came at age 18 when she offered a simple sandwich to a homeless woman outside a New York train station. Decades later, after retiring from her marketing career, she revisited that...
by WomenOver70 | Mar 3, 2026 | Advocates for Women Aging, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Ilana Landsberg-Lewis went to law school to understand how power works—so she could help transform it in the service of justice, especially for women. Alongside her father, she co-founded and led a nonprofit funding community-based organization in sub-Saharan Africa...
by WomenOver70 | Feb 24, 2026 | Play, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
https://youtu.be/JaxQJ-ITlHY At 75, Arlene Borner may not be running marathons, but she is still running—and skiing on snow and water and playing pickleball. She may no longer be teaching children how to swim or speak English in places like Sweden or Bangladesh, but...
by WomenOver70 | Feb 17, 2026 | Author, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
https://youtu.be/2bVX8SBTOGc Diane Heiler shares her deeply moving journey of caring for her husband during his 20‑month “death sentence” from an incurable disease — a journey she chronicles with raw honesty and artistry in her memoir, A Widow’s Fire: An Intimate...
by WomenOver70 | Feb 10, 2026 | Podcast, Season 6, Season Four, Social Service
When Patricia (Pat) Koko, age 82, reflects on her life’s work as a young homemaker turned consummate volunteer and community change-maker, she often says things like, “that was kind of fun,” or “there just was a need”—-simple phrases that belie an extraordinary...
by WomenOver70 | Feb 4, 2026 | Expressive Arts, Podcast, Season 6, Season Four
Living high throughout the 1960s and early ‘70s filled Suzi’s life with glitter, dazzle, and celebrities who sadly, broke her heart. As a luxury designer of women’s clothing in New York, Suzi was sought after by big name clothiers. This is Suzi’s life: from design to...