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Mikelann Valterra is a financial psychologist and author who helps women transform their relationship with money to create a life they love.
My biggest takeaway from this conversation was that the more you know about your spending, the less you will have to think about money. If you get clear on exactly where your money is going, and then decide what is most important to you, you can create a life where you get everything you need, don't waste money on things you don't care about, and actually think about money less.
What a blessing that would be, right?
She combines emotional intelligence with practical money strategies help her clients feel in control of the money, while escaping financial stress and anxiety.
We talk about how to get control of your money, the importance of having a passion that brings you joy (hers is Argentine tango), why opposite money personalities tend to partner up, and so much more.
Links:
Mikelann Valterra
Free ebook on how to stop stressing about money
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Instagram
Twitter
LinkedIn
Pinterest
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I was surprised by this interview so many times: Dry farming with no electricity—what?Founding said farm at 16, and sticking with it for 23 years? Colon cancer diagnosis at 37, and beating the odds with a full recovery, thank heavens. Oh, and gray hair at 18!
Jennifer Lee Segale is a professional botanist and founder of Wildflower Farms, an organic landscape design and consulting company specializing in coastal plantings, edible gardens, habitat restoration and unique plant sourcing. She has a rich background in farming and plant propagation, and her design and consulting services focus on plant and soil care.The farm's no-till, dry-farmed medicinal herbs also supply Segale's skincare and wellness brand Garden Apothecary, with two storefronts in Half Moon Bay, CA.
"Garden Apothecary is really set apart from other brands by our growing of ingredients and making everything in-house," she says. "We really try to come from the plant's perspective, with gentle growing techniques and minimal harvesting—thus being able to offer unique and sustainable products, with a lot of integrity behind them."Jenn lives by the beach with her husband, two step-children, piles of books and her two sweet dogs, Sorrel and Oolong.
Links:
Wildflower Farms
Garden Apothecary
Wildflower Farms on Instagram
Garden Apothecary on Instagram
American Cancer Society—Colorectal Cancer
What is Colorectal Cancer—CDC
UCSF Colon Cancer
UCSF Mission Bay
Garden Apothecary herb teas
Half Moon Honey
Garden Apothecary Higher Ground facial serum
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Dr. Louann Brizendine completed her degree in neurobiology at UC Berkeley, graduated from Yale School of Medicine and did her internship and residency at Harvard Medical School. In this episode we talk about her new book The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond.
She also wrote the New York Times best seller The Female Brain and its follow-up, The Male Brain, which continues to be read around the world.
This episode is filled with so much great information, enjoy and please review the podcast on Apple Podcasts!
Watch the interview YouTube
Dr. Louann Brizendine
The Upgrade book
Dr. Brizendine on Instagram
Facebook
Twitter
The Female Brain
The Male Brain
The Women's Health Initiative
I Feel Bad About My NeckSupport the Show.
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Erin Hupp has been creating beautiful ceramics for more than 20 years. But it wasn't until she was knee-deep in a successful career in law that she made ceramics her main gig.
After earning her law degree, the San Francisco-based artist practiced land-use and child-welfare law. But the call of her art was always at the back of her mind, and after giving birth to her third child, she decided to make an enormous change: she would pursue her art, but not just as a hobby—as a full time business.
Her focused approach—she marks every ceramics-related task on the family calendar—has paid off.
Erin is now a professional artist known for her texturally-rich tableware. She partners with restaurants and interior designers to create site-specific pieces, all by hand on her potter’s wheel. You'll find her work at restaurants including Hilda and Jesse, Californios, Nightbird, Sorrel and Pasta Bar.
Listen to our conversation to find out how she made the seemingly unlikely transition from lawyer to potter a very successful one.
Links:Erin Hupp Ceramics
Erin on Instagram
Advokids
Californios
Hilda and Jesse
Windy Chien
Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Noz Nozawa
Erin Hupp + Hilda and Jesse article at Forbes
The Upgrade by Louann Brizendine
The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine
Video and audio editing by Sofija Jovanov.
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If you're navigating midlife and think it's time to give up rocking (or trying to rock) a smokey eye look, this episode with disabuse you of that thought (also see Carine Roitfeld.)
I met makeup artist Brigette Caille through the #silversisters network on Instagram, and quickly invited her onto the show to get her valuable tips on easy makeup when you're 50-ish. And I'm so glad I did because I finally know how to create a smokey eye look in less than 5 minutes!
To be honest I never really had the confidence to try a smokey eye before. In fact I'm so intimidated by eye makeup in general that I had resigned myself to using only mascara. I just didn't feel I had the time or energy to experiment, especially when I was sure it would end in me washing my face and going back to the mascara-only look.
If you feel the same way, I promise you'll change your mind after checking out Brigette's tips. Please let me know if you try it, I'd love to hear how it goes, good or bad!
Links:
Brigette Caille
Brigette Caille on Instagram
Supplies that could come in handy for creating a smokey eye:1. Eye crayon
NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil, $5.50
Charlotte Tilbury Eyeshadow Pencil, $29
Thrive Causemetics Brilliant Eye Brightener, $24
Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Color, $29
2. Fluffy blending brush
e.l.f. Mint Melt eyeshadow brush set, $6.50
Laura Mercier Finishing Ponytail Brush, $32
Makeup by Mario EF1 Makeup Brush, $22
Fenty Beauty by Rhianna Tapered Blending Brush, $24
3. Small blending brush (or us a Q-tip)
e.l.f. Mint Melt eyeshadow brush set, $6.50
Laura Mercier Smudge Brush, $26
Sephora Collection Makeup Match Smudge Eyeshadow Brush, $8
4. Eyelash Curler
Sephora Collection eyelash curler, $14
Laura Mercier Artist eyelash curler, $22
Lash Star Stardust lash curler, $24
5. Mascara
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The fact that spellcheck still doesn't know how to spell perimenopause kind of says it all.
A wide-ranging lack of knowledge and utter confusion (even among gynecologists) around perimenopause, menopause and women's health during this transitional time of life are why today's guests, Gwendolyn Floyd (CEO) and Julie Kucinski (CMO)—along with founding partners Judy Greer (yes from Arrested Development!) and Corey Scholibo—founded Wile Women.
Wile Women makes products to support women's health after 40ish. Using plant medicine supported by clinical studies, the brand demystifies and embraces hormonal health. Products support and regulate the big three: estrogen, progesterone, and cortisol, with tinctures, supplements and drinks.
Instead of using single ingredients to tackle symptoms, the brand says: "Wile looks at women and formulations holistically, because that’s how our bodies and nature really work."
That's why, for example, their Drinking Your Feelings, Un-Anger, and Tranq Drank, products contain a blend of ingredients that work together to combat unwanted symptoms.
In this episode, we discuss the flawed Women's Health Initiative study of 2002, which, incredibly, 20 years later is still scaring us away from hormone treatments. We also discuss naturopathy, medical gaslighting and so much more. I learned so much from these two during our conversation and I hope you will too!
Wile has also offered a generous 20% discount to Mean Mag readers! Use code MEAN20 for 20% off your entire order.
Links:
Wile Women
Gwendolyn Floyd
Julie Kucinski
Judy GreerSupport the Show.
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Introducing: Brad King, the first man on The Mean Show podcast!
I talk in my recorded intro a lot about Brad being supportive of women, which is obviously awesome. He gave female authors a platform when Covid descended upon us all and no one could do book tours. Really awesome.
But what I neglect to mention in the intro is his support of BIPOC communities. His self-awareness and introspection about his status and role as a white man in America is inspiring and all too rare. Not that he would ever say any of that.
Brad and I worked together long ago at Wired—in the intro I say early 2000s but I think it was actually the late '90s if you can believe that. We talk about writing, therapy, Ted Lasso, and so much more.
LINKS:
Brad King
The Downtown Writers Jam podcast
KP on the Downtown Writers Jam podcast
Vendettas: Clay County War
The 'Lost Tribe' of Appalachia
This episode is sponsored by Hydronique Hydration, a new wellness brand crated by a healthcare worker to help hydrate and ease the frequent headaches experienced by him and his fellow frontline workers due to dehydration during the pandemic as a result of aggressive PPE, overwork and burnout. Check it out on Amazon!Support the Show.
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Today's episode features Nina Lorez Collins, chief creative officer for Revel, an events and community platform for women over 40. She's also the founder of The Woolfer, which Revel acquired earlier this year.
In 2015 she started a closed Facebook group called What Would Virginia Woolf Do?, which eventually became The Woolfer. That led to a book with the same name, plus the subtitle: As I Attempt to Age Without Apology.
As we discuss in the podcast, the idea of aging without apology resonates for me because as I get older, I feel like I should be sorry for getting old—like I'm letting people down somehow.
But things are changing: Revel was founded (with VC funding) by two women in their thirties who saw the value in women in our 40s and 50s.
Nina is a graduate of Barnard college and has a master's degree from Columbia narrative medicine. She has a long professional background in book publishing both as a literary scout and an agent. She serves as a trustee of the Brooklyn Public Library, and board member of the publishing house Spiegel and Grau.
Nina also manages the literary estate of her late mother, the filmmaker and writer Kathleen Collins.
Links:
Kathleen Collins
Nina Lorez Collins
Nina Lorez Collins on Instagram
Revel
Revel on Instagram
The Woolfer on Facebook
What Would Virginia Woolf Do? And Other Questions I Ask Myself As I Try To Age Without Apology
Womaness
Kindra
No. 6
Beklina
Weight Watchers
The Fuck It Diet
TabuSupport the Show.
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Karen Randall helps women at midlife explore the questions that not many on Instagram are talking about. As we look at our changing faces in the mirror, many of us ask: What's next for me? What path do I take when it feels like my best years are behind me? I have so many ideas, how do I pick the right one when time feels so short?
While it's wonderful that we're seeing more midlife women on social media, and that we're all encouraging each other to embrace our age with empowering mantras, (Own it! Do you! Don't give an F what anyone thinks!), for many of us, it's so much easier said than done.
In this episode, Karen discusses how you can explore those questions to actually get to that chill-AF-about-aging state of mind. It was really fun digging into all of this with Karen, I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as I did!
Find out more about Karen's work at her website!Support the Show.
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This is a super-long one, but I just could not bring myself to make it shorter because I loved every minute of this conversation.
To make it easier to navigate, I have broken it down for you below. Listen to it beginning to end (which, you know, I totally recommend because it's good), or pick and choose the topics that interest you most.
I highly recommend not missing the Vivienne Westwood section, as well as the yoga and trends parts, oh, and the part about what Andrea loves about this phase of our lives.
And if you'd like to watch the video, please click here.
Please let me know what you think!
Video and editing by Sofija Jovanov.
Jump to Key Topics
3:22: Girl in Transition + Timbuk2 9:30 A designer’s business sense and entrepreneurship
16:44 Chicago origins (she wasn’t always a fashion girl)
26:10 First fashion gig with the legendary Vivienne Westwood (and how she got it with a the craziest resume)
32:57 Being open and spontaneous and also a responsible adult
35:42 AGING and being an overgrown teenager and planning to live until 139 and dating younger men
46:45 Mentee and mentorship over the years
51:46 YOGA
1:00:33 TRENDS! Loved and hated
1:09:09 “Genderless fashion is the NOW of fashion”
1:16:28 What she loves about this phase of our lives (don't miss this one!)
Key quotes
“I”ve never moved for a job.”
“Genderless fashion is the now of fashion.”
“Sometimes I look like a grown up woman, sometimes I look like a teenager, sometimes I look like a hight school skater boy.”
"The time has gone by when only certain people are allowed to have certain experiences.”
Links
As Timbuk2 turns 30, its female executives are building a lifestyle powerhouse
Anti-aging ads are out
Podcast with Wini Linguvic my yoga instructor
The Spring/Summer 1993 Vivienne Westwood show with the last-minute dyed dress as the finale
Pharrell on the cover of Vanity Fair, November 2019Support the Show.
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Giną Nowicki, a marketing and communications specialist who lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area, up and moved her family to Europe smack dab in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. As you probably recall, just as we all thought things were getting better earlier this year, they actually got worse. But the lure of an amazing life experience and to live in a beautiful French town was undeniable, so Gina's family decided to go for it anyway.
It was not easy, but they have no regrets. Their 9-year-old is going to school and learning French, and Gina and her husband are figuring out the work thing—the remote employment movement was very good timing.
If you've ever dreamed of living abroad but maybe thought you were too old or that having kids made it impossible, you won't want to miss this one!
Links:
Gina in France
Crossroads Trading CompanySupport the Show.
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Margo Krasne rebooted her life at the age of 50. A dyed in the wool New Yorker, she worked as an actress, an ad gal, a sculptor and started over again at 50 as a communications coach. She is the author of Say It With Confidence, I Was There All Along: A Memoir and What Would I Do Without You.
Now 83, Margo has a perspective on career, midlife, owning your age, living alone, friendship and so much more that we rarely get to hear in today's youth-obsessed culture.
During the pandemic lockdown, she became so convinced she would be felled by Covid-19 that she filled a bag with her medical history, meds, and extra masks for the EMTs who would cart her away. She "hung it by my door almost as an amulet."
But her 2020 turned out to be better than she could have imagined. Listen to hear her story!
Margo's books:
Say It With Confidence
I Was There All Along: A Memoir
What Would I Do Without You
Margo's essay at Mean MagazineSupport the Show.
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Debbie Mink is on a lifelong quest to integrate her creative life with the need in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the world, to have two-income family. She started out as a ceramicist, has been a go go dancer (in the podcast I incorrectly say she was a burlesque dancer, apologies!), performs spoken word, and is a curly hair advocate. She has a new online course called How to UnF*ck yourself and co-hosts her own podcast called Talking Smack!
Also don't miss the fun song she wrote, Bangs or Botox. Keep an ear out for it in the podcast.
Last but not least she created an amazing Pussy Quilt out of Blue Bottle coffee bags in response to the 2016 election! You can get a peek at that if you check out the video version (our first ever!) or the podcast!
LINKS:
Check out this episode on YouTube!Debbie Mink
Debbie Mink on Instagram
Talking Smack podcast
UnF*ck Yourself digital courseSupport the Show.
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In this episode you'll meet Claire Gill, founder of The National Menopause Foundation. After more than 20 years in marketing and public relations for both nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies, Claire founded the organization in September 2019 (can you believe it didn't exist until then??).
Her goal is to help women thrive at every stage of their lives with access to information and networks that help make menopause a positive, inspiring and empowering time in every woman’s life.
When Claire, who is also CEO of the National Osteoporosis Foundation, realized there was no national nonprofit dedicated solely to women’s journey to and through menopause, so she set out to create one. The National Menopause Foundation is working to create a positive change in how people perceive, understand and experience menopause through education, peer-to-peer support, activism, and research.
Check out the foundation's website, The Positive Pause podcast, The Hot Flash newsletter, and its online community, The Menopause Metamorphosis for tons of great info that will make you feel less alone and be more informed on your menopause journey.
Links:
The National Menopause Foundation
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram
GennevSupport the Show.
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Welcome to episode 32! This week we speak with Barbara Hannah Grufferman, 60-something ultra-marathoner, menopause expert, and award-winning author.
Grufferman has written two books focusing on positive aging: Love Your Age: The Small Step Solution to a Better, Longer, Happier Life and The Best of Everything After 50: The Expert's Guide to Style, Sex, Health, Money and More. She speaks all over he country—well, she did before the pandemic, but that hasn't stopped her from bringing her pro-age insight to audiences around the world virtually.
Grufferman also publishes a newsletter called The Menopause Cheatsheet, which educates women about that all-too-mysterious time of life.She is also a wealth of knowledge on over-50 on health, fitness, beauty, fashion, style, relationships and more.
In the podcast, we discuss the AARP's evolving cool factor, how running is not actually bad for your joints, easy ways to avoid osteoporosis and lots more.
Links:
Barbara Hannah Grufferman
The Menopause Cheatsheet
BHG on Instagram
Love Your Age: The Small Step Solution to a Better, Longer, Happier Life
The Best of Everything After 50: The Expert's Guide to Style, Sex, Health, Money and More
AARP
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Motherhood LaterSupport the Show.
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It's episode 31! This week we speak to Stephanie O'Dell, founder of Celebrate the Gray, a full service agency for and about the 50-plus woman. Celebrate the Gray works to connect brands with her agency's more than 40 models, bringing to the forefront real faces and authentic stories of what she calls "aging with power."
Women are living longer, healthier lives, and advertising and messaging doesn't reflect that. After speaking with 1,000 of women over 50, she is working to update the age diversity of models that advertisers use. "Women can't be what they don't see!"
If you’re starting to see more women with gray hair in fashion shows and in advertisements, you can thank Stephanie.
Links:
Celebrate the Gray
Celebrate the Gray on Instagram
Stephanie O'Dell on Facebook
Revel
Athleta
KicocoJoani Johnson for Fenty
Debra Darling
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This week we feature Robin Gorman Newman, who founded an organization called Motherhood Later… Than Sooner. It’s a group that she started in Manhattan for women who became mothers later in life. I had been looking for something like it for a long time and I was so excited to find Motherhood Later. It has chapters all over the world from the U.S. to Nigeria and beyond.
Little did I know this is just one of the many creative hats Robin wears. She is a Tony Award nominated Broadway producer for Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. She was Associate Producer of Motherhood Out Loud, and is a co-producer on forthcoming musicals earmarked for Broadway. Robin authored the books How to Meet a Mensch in New York and How to Marry a Mensch, serving as inspiration for a musical she and her producing partner are developing. She’s been seen on CNN and The Today Show, and has appeared as an author/Love Coach at Off-Broadway shows.
Robin founded LoveCoach.com and works as a Love Coach for singles helping them lead more successful social lives. When she became a mom in her early 40s, Robin launched Motherhood Later to help support other women on the same path. Her organization, as seen in Time, USA Today and beyond, now has in-person chapters worldwide and hosts an ongoing Zoom for later moms across the globe to connect. She is also a Co-Host of 3 WOMEN PRESENT, a new Zoom discussion series she and two other "later moms" launched to have conversations with inspiring game changer authors and experts who resonate with women over 40.
We talk about the pros and cons of becoming a mother later in life, being mistaken for grandmas, our paths to becoming later-life moms and lots more.
Relevant Links:
Motherhood Later
Motherhood Later on Facebook
Motherhood Later on Twitter
Love Coach
Robin on Twitter
LinkedIn
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This week's episode features not one but three guests on the podcast. As luck would have it, the three founders of Mightly, an affordable, sustainable kids’ clothing brand, are all Gen X women.
Tierra Forte is the CEO, Barrie Brouse is the Creative Director and Anya Emerson is the COO. We had a really fun conversation and one thing that really stood out for me was their description of what it’s really like to make clothing that’s Fair Trade Certified, and how that gets complicated during a pandemic. But it turns out the requirements involved with running a Fair Trade business actually protected Mightly’s factory workers during the Covid and at the same time helped them both stay in business.
We also talk about the Gen X advantage when it comes to sheltering in place, what it’s like working on a 100% female executive team, and—despite the pandemic—how crying at work happens less often for all of us these days.
Links:
MightlyMightly on Instagram
Mightly on Facebook
COO Anya Emerson
CEO Tierra Forte
Creative Director Barrie Brouse
Fair Trade Certification
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This week, we welcome back to The Mean show a previous guest, my beloved yoga instructor, Wini Linguvic, founder of The Elevate Practice. I wanted to invite her back because, well, she's amazing.
Also, even though we are hopefully in the homestretch of this pandemic, we still likely have at least a few more months of doing mostly everything, including exercising, at home, and Wini knows how to make that work.Quickly after the world began shutting down last March, Wini launched her online membership website, which you should definitely check out. You are fortunate that wherever you may be, you can access The Elevate Practice. It's not like any other exercise membership site you'll encounter for many reasons. Wini teaches with a clear curriculum in mind. She’s extremely thoughtful, always with the goal of making your body and mind feel and function better not just while you're in class but long after you walk out of the studio.
But the number one takeaway at this moment in time is something that Wini talks about a lot in the podcast: we can't expect exercise, or anything else for that matter, to be something it's not. It can’t be during a pandemic.
And let's look for the opportunity in that. Let’s not try to force it to be what it was like before, because it's not. She has a lot to say about how we can make a yoga practice really work during these extremely unusual times.
She also talks about what makes a great teacher, how yoga can be caught rather than taught, the plusses of being 55 and so much more. Just don't ask her about fourth grade math.
Links:
The Elevate Practice
Follow Wini on Instagram
Sign up for Wini's newsletter
Check out Wini's livestream classes
Become an Elevate Practice memberSupport the Show.
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Our guest this week, Gina Pell, was the inspiration for everything happening here at Mean. She came up with the concept of Perennials, and when I read her article Meet the Perennials, I knew I had an audience. The idea that a demographic can be about more than the year you were born struck a chord. Perennials are ever-blooming people of all ages who continue to push up against their growing edge, always relevant, and not defined by their generation.
Mean has shifted since then to focus mostly on women at mid-age, but Pell is as inspiring as ever. She's been a tech entrepreneur since the 90s when she founded Splendora, which was eventually acquired by Joyus. She's currently Content Chief of The What, a vibrant community as well as an email newsletter that provides five eclectic, curious things you should know about every week including books, health tips, life, style, travel, and tech.
Listen in on our conversation to learn how she's weathering the pandemic, what inspired the concept of Perennials, how women can get Jack Nicholson sexy, and lots more.
Sign up for The What newsletter
Meet the Perennials
The venture capitalists making a bet on aging consumers
The Keep Going On Song
Watch Miss Americana on Netflix
Next Draft
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