No Country for Old Women
A podcast for women navigating life in today's world, hosted by writers Jennifer Romolini and Kimberly Harrington. The show explores topics relevant to women, offering candid conversations and insights. It is produced independently and supported by listeners via Patreon.
Episodes
Is this a gratitude podcast?
This week! The gift of your kids' stability, fancy grocery stores, the deep and abiding pleasure of sleeping alone, and all the connection categories we've lost. Plus, how to get dressed now (beats the hell out of us!) and, turns out, cheese and beer was a bad choice!WHERE TO FIND USOur Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [INCLUDING OUR CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryfor
Feral and overly involved
This week: The hell of Cornell/bullshit university systems/tech villains as fashion muses [barf]/the nihilism of AI overlords/the trap of parenting as homework cop/malapropisms/the armor of self-righteousness and a whole lot more!WHERE TO FIND USOur Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [INCLUDING OUR CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini
Every woman I know is overfunctioning
This week! Cohabitation with other women your age, learned hypervigilance from anticipating everyone else's needs, over-identifying with this stage of life, cross-generational conversations, silver-haired grunge concerts, and reconnecting with your personal style. Plus: Jenn has an encounter with a Liza Minelli impersonator who's also a medium and finds she just might be psychic-proof.WHER
When vices attack
This week! Jenn has a surprise (self-inflicted) black eye, and we're talking all about emergency contacts, community, communal living, LinkedIn overhauls and outfoxing the bots, the AI apocalypse, gaining hope, losing hope, how the vices are turning on us, daytime television, and — sorry!— remaining, despite our best intentions, miserable as f*ck. Plus, when your feed is filled with baby anima
Rivers of regret
This week! A short, sweet, themed episode about the regrets we carry, those we’ve learned to let go of...and how it all seems to work out in the end. WHERE TO FIND USOur Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [INCLUDING OUR CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.com Hosted on Acast.
Preparatory grief
This week! Accidentally twinning, cosplaying as real professionals, plans after 7:30pm, why Jenn wants to live in a village, the tyranny of private equity, brushing your dog's teeth, the sorry state of women's healthcare in 2026 America, and being forced into tech we hate. Plus: High school reunions, RIP Classmates.com, why men are "scentmaxxing" in their own funk and a whole lot more!WHERE TO FIN
Tits akimbo
This week! Selling the furniture out from under us, clothes for the wrong life, Dolly Parton and how all the wrong 80-year-olds are dying, raising Gen Z teens and eventual empty nesting, plus the carnival from hell that is Instagram and a whole lot more!WHERE TO FIND USOur Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [INCLUDING OUR CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's news
Big back-to-school energy
This week! Temperamental dogs, Kimberly's back in the full-time-work Slack-iverse, Jenn's ADHD body doubling, and everyone's eyeing Jon Ossoff. Plus: A brow regrowth serum that could grow hair on a rock, a Dawson's Creek rewatch, last chance for merch, and there's some big back-to-school energy on the NCFOW Patreon.SHOW NOTESLimited-edition merch: nocountryforoldwomenpod.comNeubrow brow serum: htt
Influence without responsibility!
This week! Celebrity press tours, questionable "experts," the sketchy truth about all those influencers selling you shit, performative Bookstagram, Bama Rush, the alarming HGTV-ification of dorms, IKEA as the song of our people, and a whole lot more!Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [INCLUDING OUR CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Limited-edition merch: nocountryforoldwomenpod.
Patiently waiting for cake
This week! Getting back to work (literally), #lifeafterlayoff, AI ageism, and the sneaky side door of August. Plus, Jenn is the first to explain the movie "Wicker" to Kimberly and a whole lot more!Show notes:That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief from Harvard Business Review [March 20220]The Grief Iceberg by Cheryl StrayedWe know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief? by Meg
Reading, get into it!
An entire episode about books! We're shifting gears a bit this week to discuss the best things we've read recently, plus have an impassioned debate about a book everyone seems to love — or hate.Here's our list:Hope In the Dark — Rebecca SolnitThe End Comes Before the Beginning — Rebecca SolnitIf You Want to Write — Brenda UelandThree Six Five, Prompts, Acts, Divinations — Lucy IvesStrangers — Bell
Domestic bitch in my heart
Come for the foul-language rant about ageism, stay for the heated debate about Andrew McCarthy vs. James Spader in Pretty In Pink.Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [INCLUDING OUR CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Limited-edition merch: nocountryforoldwomenpod.comOur Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyhar
Literally in the sh*ts
This week! Albert Brooks in "Broadcast News," the ramifications of the whole country shitting itself, Mitch McConnell in the Bardo, "Love Story," "Girls," and how nostalgia hits different in 2026. Plus: The horniest songs from our GenX youth and a whole lot more!Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [INCLUDING OUR CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Limited-edition merch: nocountryfo
Never a good time to be thinking about LinkedIn
This week! Jenn gets news bad enough that it takes up the entire episode! Plus: The Bear season finale, the cobble economy, how it's never a good time to be on LinkedIn, "loser's smug," health insurance and a whole lot more!Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [INCLUDING OUR CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Limited-edition merch: nocountryforoldwomenpod.comOur Instagram: @nocount
Narcing on Claude
We're back! This week: Vacations that are really "trips," never turning off work brain, how Jenn is a Claude narc now, Kimberly's theory of the big swing, plus Matt Damon is selling water and a whole lot more!Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [INCLUDING OUR CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Limited-edition merch: nocountryforoldwomenpod.comOur Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpo
The Super Bowl of shame
This week! A special episode dedicated to all things women and shame — love, ambition, marriage, foundational agency, whether or not to have kids, motherhood itself, divorce, and a whole lot more! Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [INCLUDING OUR CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Limited-edition merch: nocountryforoldwomenpod.comOur Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's news
Greyhound Bus behavior
* BREAKING NEWS*MERCH DROP * As promised/threatened, and just in time for the Fourth of July, we've released a limited-edition No Country for Old Women tee and a non-flimsy, actually substantial, heavyweight No Country for Old Women tote. You can pick them up (while supplies last!) at nocountryforoldwomenpod.com In this week's episode! Travel, packing, being forever "coach" people, Ivanka Trump ne
Classy ladies
This week! (Re)discovering your personal style, epic vintage shopping runs, the glory of small(er) cities, adult pitfalls and minimizing the dumb shit, TV character crushes, the exquisite misery of Ben Affleck, and the emotional hangover you get after a good extended hang with a great friend.Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH OUR NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our I
Detoxing and re-toxing
This week! Kimberly's hungover, Jenn's feeling uncharacteristically optimistic. Plus: White lady yoga chat, learning and re-learning how to swim in midlife, corporate retreats, the hell of icebreakers, decoupling health insurance from our jobs, and are we seeing lights at the end of the 2026 garbage tunnel?Show notes"The End Comes Before the Beginning" by Rebecca SolnitNote: The swim class Kimberl
Sentient bandaids
This week! Another wild ride! Tech overlords, the AI graduation mess, an honest conversation about class, a reluctant chat about menopause, plus corrections, clarifications, and: are we just old (ish) ladies yelling at clouds?Show notes:Classy podcastWhat Fresh Hell Is This? Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You by Heather CorinnaDr. Jen GunterWhere to find us: Our Patreon: pat
Top-tier experiences
This week! Top-tier moments amid (despite?) the sociological rubble, making a home wherever you go, and everyday tech death by a thousand cuts. Plus, internalizing the failures of the system as your own personal failures, a new plan for eminent domain, staying open to new experiences, rich-people yard sales, should we run for office? our first listener 'suggestion box,' and more!Where to find us:&
Tyranny of the shants
This week! Kimberly's jaunty, Jenn is stressed, and we're talking all about culottes/shants/JAMS, AI, fuse boxes, death, the jobs landscape, Bezos's Met Gala, the lives we've already lived, becoming new people, and, somewhat inexplicably, a whole lot more!Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's
Bringing back the joy
This week! Kimberly's crying. Jenn's trying to "bring back joy," and they're talking all about friend breakups, Kash Patel, personal perception, Mel Robbins, information overload, and the mind-bending news channel that is Instagram. Plus self-deprecation, sarcasm, razzing, haters, and other GenX hallmarks!Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO T
Blood beard, ahoy!
This week! Sex talks, arrested emotional development, vanity, talking about aging without talking about aging, can you ever find your perfect place? Plus jealousy as a guiding force, the writer Helen DeWitt and lots more!Show noteGuardian story about Helen DeWitt.Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpo
Garfield is in the air!
This week! Marketing without consent; the compulsive need for self expression; Lena Dunham, Garfield, JD Vance, and the Pope (but not in that order); feedback loops; haters; IS THIS SHOW JUST COMPLAINING? Plus: Why we should all be writing more thank you notes and... AN ANNOUNCEMENT! Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @n
Resting f*ck-off face
Firmly in our fall down era! Plus: Road rage, crying at the ob/gyn, GenX men, our self-help-proof moment and: how is everyone dealing right now?Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomenOur Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.comICYMI: We wrote some books!AMATEUR HOUR, AMBITION M
The lil' treat economy
Wiping out while attempting to get a lil' treat, the sea change in creative pursuits, late-to-the-party chats about last week's news and how no one needs April Fool's Day in Trump's America. Plus, dirtbag activism, a long talk about tattoos for the hell of it and — wah wah — will we ever write again?Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomenOur Instagram: @nocountryforold
The people love mess!
Kimberly and Jenn discover they're a top-10 new podcast?! Plus: the Lindy West memoir controversy, why writing memoir as a woman blows, how the non-stop news assault is scrambling our brains, nostalgia for old-timey reporting (support local news!) and also somehow the story of how we met and also jeans?Show notes:Rachel Cusk + Sheila Heti podcast, "Why Memoir Is a Dead End"Julie K. Brown's newslet
Secret dirtbag or clean bitch?
Kimberly's in Instagram jail, Jenn's the worst student in Reiki class, and "manosphere victims" are spending $20K on strip-mall penis filler! Plus, a call for jazz-handy writing, a post mortem on our first episode, and one of us has a shameful secret about bras.Where to find us: Our email: nocountryforoldwomenpod@gmailOur Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomenOur Instagram: @nocountryforol
Welcome back, cigarettes!
OUR INAUGURAL EPISODE! We're talking about birthdays and long-term marriages and sharing a bed and the circle of hell that is navigating health insurance and this stupid f*cking war and men in charge wearing too-small shoes and parenting teens through the darkness. Plus: Smoking is back, so is cocaine and, apparently, Costco is the only thing currently working in the U.S. of A.Where to find us:&nb
Introducing: No Country For Old Women!
CULTURE. CREATIVITY. POLITICS. WORK. MONEY. RELATIONSHIPS. FRIENDSHIPS. DATING. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Are you a woman just trying to live in this world? Do you often whisper to yourself “what the hell is going on?" Are you a bitch in the streets but a compulsive crier in the sheets? Do you like to laugh?Well, you’ve come to the right place. HELLO.Hosted by GenX writers Jennifer Romolini and Kimberly Har
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