Welcome to The Boomer Woman's Podcast
That Was Then, This Is Now: Design Your Own Next Chapter
2025 is the 6th Season of The Boomer Woman’s Podcast.
Each episode is a conversation between me – I’m Agnes Knowles, your host – and a guest who talks to a subject that relates to Boomer Women. The guests can be any age, any gender, as long as their message is positive, informative, pertinent to our demographic.
When we were young many of us fell into step with societal or parental expectations and put our own dreams on the back burner. Now, this is our time.
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Meet the guests of 2025!
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Passion Project to Purpose with Anne Alexander-Sieder
Guest: 13 March 2025
As a young woman in the U.S., Anne Alexander-Sieder was an actress. That ended when she followed a handsome young German fellow back to Germany as his wife. Sixteen years later she made the huge decision to go back to acting… in a second language… in a foreign country… at 47. Yikes!
Today she shares:
- What prompted that decision
- The community she found
- How too many women are defined by their “roles”
- “Our curiosities are the key to unlocking our purpose on this planet”
- Reframing nervousness and fear as excitement
- The concept of curating experts
- Small intentional steps
Anne’s rekindled career in acting has included Netflix and Hallmark movies and has led to her program “Passion Project to Purpose”.
Listen in!
Navigating Life’s Transitions Through Art Journaling with Susan Hensley
Guest: 06 March 2025
Susan Hensley helps with transitions and she brings a unique angle… using art journaling as a tool to navigate life’s changes, rediscover joy, and silence that inner critic. To say this time of life is a time of change might be an understatement. Perhaps you’ve made the leap from 9-5, perhaps you’re considering it, perhaps you’re planning your next adventure.
Today Susan explains
- Art journalling and the Zen of art journalling
- Processing emotions
- Making sense of life’s chaos
- Silencing the inner critic
- Working with duality using colour
Finally, Susan has traveled to 90+ countries! That part of our conversation is pretty cool!
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10 Little Rules for Adventures and Life with Teri M Brown
Guest: 27 February 2025
Teri M Brown has written 5 self-help books, a number of historical stories… but this last one… about double butts – two mid-age people on a tandem bike cycling across the US, well, the title made me chuckle but the story caught my attention.
For Teri, it was an epic adventure. Today she shares:
- Why, and how, an epic adventure came to pass
- Never quit on a bad day
- You get a lot of junk out through tears
- Becomes an author
- The research that goes into writing a novel set in another place and time
- Her writing process
Teri has great thoughts for us all when I ask what she wants you, dear listener, to think about. She is a true inspiration.
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Counter-Feminism (not Anti-Feminism) with Jack Kammer
Guest: 20 February 2025
Jack Kammer is an advocate for men’s social issues and sexism against men. He says “Important social advances around gender equality remain to be realized by understanding sexism against men and boys.”
Today, he explains:
- How men tend to see their role in the family
- The training for men 60 years ago: “don’t show emotion”, “man up”.
- His idea for a dating app.
- Making men’s issues more prominent
- The Maryland General Assembly and the Wimp Bill
Jack also discusses the possible update and republish of his book “Good Will Toward Men: Women Talk Candidly About the Balance of Power Between the Sexes”.
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Blending Creativity and History to Honor Our Past with Mica Anders
Guest: 13 February 2025
Mica Anders is a genealogist with very impressive credentials. She’s worked with clients and organizations in the U.S., Canada, Jamaica, and the UK, bringing underrepresented stories to light. Today she shares information and stories!
- Tracing European heritage and African/American heritage
- Digitized records vs “doing the legwork”
- Finding surprises, skeletons and legends
- Adoption and sperm donation
- Two types of client searches
- Searching the backgrounds of communities
Mica also gives us a few tips on getting started including the fine art of… are you ready?… Facebook “stalking”.
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Sex and Gender and Transition with Amethysta Herrick
Guest: 06 February 2025
Amethysta Herrick is… or has been… a geneticist, a chemist, a software engineer, and a manager. She is also a transgender woman. If that sounds a little outside your comfort zone, in these times it’s all the more reason to listen in.
Ami was candid and open so our conversation went long – it’s divided into two parts on her page.
In this episode, Ami discusses
- gender & identity; sex vs gender (things get sciencey!)
- non-binary, pansexual, asexual, intersexual
- dysphoria as pathology
- the two aspects of transition
- the truth behind puberty blockers and young people
- advice for Grammas, and lots more.
Facts! and Science! are not the norm it seems these days so if you need to listen twice like I did, do it.
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Reclaim Your Rights, Hold Employers Accountable with Taylor Crabill
Guest: 30 January 2025
Taylor Crabill has had the privilege of representing clients against some of the largest and most formidable companies in the world. These experiences have not only honed his expertise in employment law but has also reinforced his dedication to ensuring that employees are treated fairly and lawfully.
In this episode Taylor discusses:
- The allure of employment law
- Colour, sex, disability discrimination
- Retaliation charges
- Workplace incidents and hiring concerns
- How to prepare to present to your lawyer
- What happens next
- Repercussions for employer
Taylor’s advice for you as an older employee feeling discrimination is really encouraging: times have changed since our parents were eased out of the workplace, and it costs you nothing.
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Living Trusts and Other Estate Documents with Oscar Vasquez
Guest: 23 January 2025
Oscar Vasquez is all about Living Trusts and other estate documents such as wills, POAs and authorizations. It’s so important to get these documents organized as soon as you can, and then review them regularly. In this episode, Oscar explains:
- How 68% of American homeowners don’t have an estate plan
- Living Trusts
- Comprehensive Living Trusts
- Advanced directives
- Revocable vs irrevocable
If you’re an American, be sure to check out Oscar’s generous offer near the end!
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The Difficult Process of Divorce with Andra Davidson
Guest: 16 January 2025
Andra Davidson is a divorce coach. She isn’t going to tell you whether you should or shouldn’t, she’s going to help you maintain your health and conscience and minimize conflict throughout the process.
In this episode, Andra discusses:
- The rise of grey divorce
- What coaching looks like
- Acrimony during the process
- Adult kids and long-term friends
- Collaborative approach and collaborative law
I was surprised when Andra explained the #1 question she gets asked; I was pleased with her advice to anyone going through this difficult process.
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Urinary Tract Infections and Related Issues with Paula Cobb
Guest: 09 January 2025
Paula Cobb is a patient advocate for women who have been misdiagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis. She is a retired physical therapist who has dealt with bladder issues since the age of 5. In this episode, Paula explains so much about UTIs and IC and more that I can’t list it all!
- The bacteria and what they do to cause UTIs
- Why antibiotics can be the problem
- How a woman might suspect she has a UTI
- Why women have to be their own advocates still (how often have we heard that?)
- Castor oil! (Gramma, don’t say a word!)
- Menopause, catheterization and the elderly
- Procedures
- How we can reduce our risk of a UTI
Like so many women who face a health issue, Paula has made it her life’s work to learn as much as she can, stay informed and stay up-to-date about Urinary Tract Infections and related issues.
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Awesomeness and 'Done Doesn't Exist' with Stella Scott
Guest: 02 January 2025
Stella Scott defies limits. A dancer who conquered club feet, she founded a dance company at 20. As an opera singer, she graced stages as Donna Elvira and the Queen of the Night.
She’s also a coach, Gestalt therapist, and astrologer. Stella helps women leaders transform their self-image and life story, guiding them to become the queens of their own lives through a unique blend of holistic practices.
In this episode, Stella explains
- “Cosmic orchestra”
- Flaws she perceives in western religion
- Our awesomeness
- “Done doesn’t exist”
- Love and compassion for ourselves
Stella and I also discuss her amazing app. Her genius seems to have no finish line.
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