The Boomer Woman’s Podcast, episode 338
Menopause, Grief, Humour & the Courage to Keep Becoming with Teri M. Brown
When author Teri M. Brown first joined me on the podcast, we talked about adventure, resilience, and the tandem bicycle journey she shared with her husband Bruce before his death.
This time, our conversation begins with her new novel, Peg, Unhinged — a funny, honest story about menopause and midlife upheaval — but expands into something much deeper: grief, reinvention, emotional survival, creativity, and the fierce determination to keep living fully after life changes shape.
- The inspiration behind Peg, Unhinged and why menopause became the perfect setting for humour and truth
- How grief temporarily silenced Teri’s sense of humour — and how writing helped her rediscover it
- Why women often feel pressure to “quiet down” with age — and why Teri rejects that completely
- The life lessons Teri learned cycling across the United States with her late husband Bruce
- Historical fiction, human nature, and why history keeps repeating itself
- The importance of community, showing up, and playing the long game creatively
- Why Teri believes women can continue becoming, reinventing, and dreaming at every age
This conversation is a reminder that grief and joy can exist side-by-side. That reinvention is not always chosen. And that midlife women are far more powerful, creative, and unfinished than society often suggests.
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About the guest: Teri M Brown
Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M Brown graduated from UNC Greensboro. She began her writing career helping small businesses with content creation and published five nonfiction self-help books dealing with real estate and finance, receiving multiple awards.
In 2017, after winning the First Annual Anita Bloom Ornoff Award for Inspirational Short Story, she began writing fiction in earnest, and published her debut novel in 2022, Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, a historical fiction set in Ukraine. Her second novel published in 2023, An Enemy Like Me, takes place during WWII. Her third novel, Daughters of Green Mountain Gap, a generational story about Appalachian healers came out in January 2024. 10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure (Feb 2025), is an inspirational look at the life lessons she learned riding across the United States on a tandem bicycle. Little Lola and Her Big Dream, is a children’s picture book helping children realize that it is okay to have big dreams even in the face of opposition. Her newest work, Peg, Unhinged (April 2026), is a humorous contemporary women’s fiction looking at menopause.
Teri is a wife, mother, grandmother, and author who loves word games, reading, bumming on the beach, taking photos, singing in the shower, hunting for bargains, ballroom dancing, playing bridge, and mentoring others.
Visit Teri M. Brown’s website
Check out Teri’s new book: Peg, Unhinged
Listen to Teri’s first conversation with Agnes
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