50 Women Over 50

In the next episode of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast, Host Sherrilynne Starkie is diving deep into the burning questions that resonate with women over 50 and tackles a question that she herself struggled with and many other women are asking: Is it too late to change job or career at this point in our lives?

The powerful stories of incredible women facing a divorce after 50.

Host Sherrilynne Starkie gives a sneak peek peek into what's coming up on "50 Women Over 50" in the next few months.

As the mother of a young man with a rare neurological disease, Sandra Markus is on a mission to improve the lives of patients, families and caregivers living with rare disorders.

Having experienced heartbreak and tragedy firsthand and seeing many of her dreams come true, children's book Author Carrie E. Pierce speaks honestly with a rich insight into the human heart about life after 50.

Actor, lawyer and author Stephanie Cotsirilos discusses her experience of being widowed shortly after she and her husband had adopted a baby boy from Peru.

Best Selling Author Marilyn Shannan discusses breaking down stigmas, the importance of relationships, the challenges of aging, the impact of social media, and the joys of being a grandmother.

Author Janelle Anderson carried a burden of shame for decades and it was only in midlife that she awakened to how her past was impacting her ability to find her life’s purpose.

Ottawa's Stacey Diffin-Lafleur, a skilled and talented marketing and communications specialist , has a lot of opinions and shares them quite freely in this high energy podcast interview.

Best selling author Bridget Cook-Burch shares how her 50th birthday was a day that turned a corner for her and how, on that day she decided to take control, set goals for the impacts she wants to make with her life. And she shares how she’s shaping her own legacy each and every day.

Successful freelance journalist Nicola O'Connell shares her experiences of being in the sandwich generation where she still has young children at home and is caring for her mother while juggling a demanding career and a busy life in London.

In this interview Montreal based mindset coach Isabelle Fortin shares her life’s journey and her lessons to help women over 50 live their very best lives. She advises: “Give yourself grace. Be kind to yourself. You did what you could. You played with the hand that you were dealt. Give yourself grace.”

In this interview best-selling, multiple award-winning author, playwright and performer Alison Wearingshares talks about what she learned from Aztec culture about life in your 50s.

In this interview Business Growth Consultant and Author Ann Carden shares her insights on running a business when your husband is retired and about how life keeps getting better with every passing year.

Certified health and nutrition coach Dyna Vink joins Sherrilynne Starkie on the 50 Women Over 50 podcast, to discuss how women struggling with symptoms of perimenopause can restore their vitality and improve their quality of life.

In this interview, radio personality Kathy Buckworth shares her mission to change the narrative about grandparenting. Her goal is to break the stereotypical view of the older generation as past it, doddering or old fashioned. Today’s grandparents are healthy, active and living life to the fullest.

An encore presentation of Sherrilynne's interview with Dr. Helen Ofosu, author of ow to be Resilient in Your Career: Facing up to Barriers at Work.

Ann Bell's 50th birthday gave her a sense of urgency about ‘getting stuff done’, so she retrained and refocused her career and has launched a whole new business to help women find the love, sex and rewarding relationships they need and deserve.

Julie Ellis is someone who reached the top of her career and achieved her dream of flipping her business and yet, she was surprised when she felt sad and a sense of loss when it was gone.

From the very start of working life, Christine Lefebvre has been in the building trades and often is the only woman on a jobsite. At weekends, you’ll find her touring the countryside on her 2019 Yamaha MT07 motorcycle. Her fifties began with a double tragedy when she lost her mother and her boyfriend within a couple of months of each other.

Host Sherrilynne Starkie welcomes Canada’s Money Coach, Judith Cane to this encore presentation of episode nine of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast to discuss the idea of retiring.  What will you do and how will you finance it?

Professional portrait photographer Anna Epp joins Sherrilynne Starkie in an encore presentation of the first ever episode of the 50 Women Over 50 podcast, to discuss life in their sixth decade.

Radio & TV personality Candace Sampson entered her fifties as she was going through a divorce of epic proportion which left her living in rented accommodation with her teenage daughters and feeling she had very little autonomy over her life.

This is a special episode for you because the person in the hot seat is your host Sherrilynne Starkie.

Acclaimed composer and author Tina Davidson on about how secrets from long ago can have a real power over you, your whole lifetime.

In this interview Communications Advisor Marie Fitzpatrick, ABC describes living life on her own terms. She shares her experience of dating over 50 and advises on the importance of having fun every single day.

Historian and Author Barbara Ann Mojica tells us how she navigated the journey from her life as an educator, wife and mother to, in her 60s, becoming a celebrated children’s author.

Centre of NLP CEO Brigitta Hoeferle discusses her philosophy for aging with dignity, while still having a lot of fun.

Author and certified financial coach Patti Handy discusses taking on life over 50 with boundless energy, optimism and a deep faith that will set up her new venture for success and will, no doubt, bring much prosperity to her clients too.

Author Susan Gold's new book, Toxic Family: Transforming Childhood Trauma into Adult Freedom is a powerful memoire of her own journey of growing up in a troubled home and using self empathy and kindness to heal and thrive.

At age 50 Publisher Nancy Erickson left a bad marriage, got sober and walked away from a promising career at Oracle, the world’s third largest software company. Now 65, she says she’s in the prime of her life.

Best selling author Lynne Bowman shares her wisdom about the post menopausal diet and how to fight that creeping weight gain. She also offers incredible insight about finding success after 50 on her own terms, pioneering working from her home, long before the rest of the world was forced to stay away from the office.

In her 50s, leadership development expert Heather Marasse broke relationship patterns with her husband, her daughters and her employer. In fact, she went quite a bit down the road towards a divorce before reconsidering and reconciling with her husband.

Kirsten Beske started out adult life as a corporate lawyer married to a wonderful guy and by 50 she’d become a psychotherapist, got divorced and fell in love with a fantastic woman. Then, just as she was approaching the empty nest stage of life, she doubled down on parenthood by adopting a seven-year-old little girl.

To be successful in network news takes a certain toughness and resilience, but nothing could have prepared TV news veteran and voice coach Susan Murphy for the utter devastation of losing her husband who died by suicide.

In this interview celebrated author Rona Maynard discusses how rescuing a dog gave her a new way of seeing the world as she explores her neighbourhood on their daily walks, making new friends and discovering hidden beauty spots.

Brand strategist Corien Kershey discusses being a cancer survivor, the loneliness of becoming a widow, the continuing joy of motherhood and of becoming a grandmother.

Recovery community leader Kerri-Jane Diffin is celebrating 13 years of sobriety and her struggles with addiction are now behind her. In this episode she talks about what she’s learned from this and how she turned her life around.

Author and activist Larissa Russell is a textbook example of how, for many women, life begins at 50. Since her autism diagnosis, she's become an entrepreneur, an international best-selling author, a feminist activist and an advocate for the LGBT+ community.

Award-winning Author Dr. Dunning talks about how becoming a grandmother changed her world view. She says that she never really had that desire to publish until she had grandchildren. For her it was important that her grandchildren knew their Inuk history.

In this interview bestselling author Ann Douglas discusses how women aged 50+ have spent decades of their lives accumulating wisdom and life experience and, she says that “it’s not ok that some people would love to shove them off stage at the very moment they’re reaching the peak of their abilities.”

Author Sharon Jones discusses the importance of developing emotional intelligence and how, by gaining the self awareness she needed, she was able to take life's reins and chart her own journey to finally find happiness with husband No. 4.

Author Marjorie Turner Hollman celebrated turning 50 by getting married to a younger man! She has written four best-selling Easy Walks books and has recently released her fifth book, a personal memoir entitled, My Liturgy of Easy Walks: Reclaiming Hope in a World Turned Upside Down.

When the police showed up at her 50th birthday party, podcaster Agnes Knowles just took it in stride, much like she did everything about that milestone birthday.

Serial entrepreneur and author Julie Ellis is someone who reached the top of her career and achieved her dream of flipping her business and yet, she was surprised when she felt sad and a sense of loss when it was gone. In this interview, she talks about learning to be kinder and gentler with ourselves as being the key to both business success as well as overall happiness.

Greta McClain is a former police officer who, in her late 40s, suffered a brutal sexual assault that left her suicidal. The ‘Me Too’ movement of 2017 gave her the inspiration to move forward with her life and her fifties have been an incredible journey from being a victim of crime to becoming a community leader and vocal women and victims advocate

Radio and TV personality Candace Sampson explains how her four-year divorce ordeal actually turned out to be a bit of a blessing as a journey of self discovery and personal growth.

Award winning newscaster Rita Rich describes her grief of suddenly becoming a widow. She tells us why she went back to broadcasting and shares her hopes for the future for her nation.

In this interview Certified Relationship Coach & Sex Expert Ann Bell discusses what she learned travelling the world as a single, over 50 woman. She offers some important advice and practical tips about relationships and sex for post-menopausal women.

In this frank interview, Author Martina Clark shares her journey through life from her HIV diagnosis, to becoming a public health activist, having an international career with the United Nations, and following her dream of becoming a writer.

Host Sherrilynne Starkie is taking a holiday break from interviews for the 50 Women Over 50 podcast, and instead has prepared a little Christmas Cracker prize—2022’s top 10 books for women over 50 as recommended by podcast guests.

Motorcyclist Christine Lefebvre is determined to take chances, have adventures and to live life to the very fullest. And it’s this attitude that has led her into a new relationship that she describes as the love of her life.

In this interview, Financial Counsellor Pamela George recalls watching the sunrise on the morning of her 50th birthday. Then and there she embraced the new era of her life with intense hope and is taking on her fifth decade with energy and ambition.

In this interview The Style Council saxophonist Hilary Seabrooke shares the highs and lows and the lessons of a fifth decade filled with serious health concerns along with her hopes for her future

In this interview, Canada's Money Coach Judith Cane explains how, by following her own advice, she and her husband are about to embark on their own retirement filled with travel and adventure.  But not before having had some false starts and facing other sandwich generation concerns.

In this interview, Mabel's Labels Founder and Author Julie Cole reflects on her shift from a law career into entrepreneurship because it gives her the flexibility and freedom, she needs to be the best mother to her six children. She talks about aging out of the ‘mommy’ cohort that is her customer base and describes her approach to parenting in a household full of teenagers. She generously shares the life lessons she’s learned from her hectic, but happy life.

In this interview, industrial psycologist Dr. Helen Ofosu, PhD. explains how to build career resiliency and reflects on her own lived experience of building her successful career as a single mother.

In this interview, Rebel Petal's Michelle Vanderbosch explains why she has stopped setting goals for herself but plans to continue in her rebellious ways always changing things up and taking on life on her own terms.

In this interview, award winning author and media personality Kathy Buckworth shares her mission to change the narrative about grandparenting. Her goal is to break the stereotypical view of the older generation as past it, doddering or old fashioned. Today’s grandparents are healthy, active and living life to the fullest.

Basia Vanderveen is on a quest to keep her energy high and sees life as more of a mental state than a physical one. After a 25-year successful career in marketing and communications, she changed tracks to go into real estate and she’s having a blast!

When her daughter fell ill with a mysterious disease that took years to diagnose, Mary Daly learned to navigate our complex healthcare system in order to advocate for her daughter and along the way she discovered the healing power of her own subconscious mind.

Certified health and nutrition coach Dyna Vink explains what perimenopause is and how her own experience was 13 years of feeling unwell and not being offered any kind of useful advice or treatment from doctors, nutritionists nor fitness experts. She had determined to figure it our and researched it herself.

In this interview, professional photographer Anna Epp reveals what she has learned about self esteem and feminism from photographing the portraits of more than 300 women over 50.