WOW: Wise Older Women
WOW: Wise Older Women is a podcast dedicated to raising the status of ageing women and challenging the narratives that silence them. Older women share their stories with authority, beauty, depth, and fire, offering wisdom, courage, humor, and tenderness. Each conversation is a teaching, a personal map from the past that illuminates the way forward. The series portrays ageing not as decline but as ascent, honoring older women as vibrant and powerful voices.
Episodes
S2 Ep6: Simone O'Brien (Pt.2)
This is Part 2 in Episode 6 with Simone O’Brien: performer, firercracker, unapologetic feminist and a bloody great storyteller!We’ve heard about feminism, patriarchy, queer 90s warehouse parties, menopause, sexuality and as we continue with Simones's story, we’ll hear what happens when a world‑touring aerial performer falls from a silk to come crashing to the ground, broken but not defeated.
S2 Ep6 Simone O'Brien (Pt.1)
You know the sorts of people who carry a spark, the ones who walk into a room and before you know they’ve lit it up? Well today’s guest is one of those people.Simone O’Brien is a physical theatre performer, a feminist, a firecracker of a woman and a bloody great storyteller. She grew up on the edge of a National Park with five brothers, and learned toughness the hard way, discovering early on in l
S2 Ep5: Kara Gray (Carole)
My guest Kara Gray lived a life shaped by forces no child should ever have to face. But she’s also lived a life shaped by ancestors, ceremony, by intuition and compassion, and by a fierce commitment to breaking cycles that have travelled through generations.She joins us not to relive the past, but to share the wisdom she’s gathered, the healing and reclamation, the return to her inner child, and t
S2 Ep4: Gabrielle Griffin (GG)
Today’s episode is the story of a woman who has created a full and colourfully creative life by choice. The choice to seek truth, to choose dance, to say yes when others might have said no. Gabrielle Griffin aka GG was born in France, raised across Europe, and grew up in a family shaped by secrets, including one that didn’t surface until she was in the throes of teenage life, when her mother revea
S2 Ep3: Gayle Cue
Gayle Cue is a woman who grew up under a wide Montana sky in the Northwest of the US. That harsh and heavenly country provided her with grit and groundedness along with the gift of resilience and strength which continues to help carry her forward.Gayles story weaves through all the juicy ingredients of a life lived in flow, allowing what is meant to be, to simply be. It might have taken her a few
S2 Ep2: Eliza Rix
In this episode we sit with a herbal rebel who helped spark a cultural movement.Heard of HHH? (Happy High Herbs). That's the one! We get to know an artist who builds worlds out of imagination and recycled magic. We’ll wind through psychedelic forests and enter a story of queerness before language, of sensuality as a compass, of menopause as meno-morphosis, and of a body that has been both bat
S2 Ep1: Kathryn Roberts
Kathryn Roberts grew up in Perth as the youngest of three, wandering gardens as a toddler, talking to nature, and asking questions most adults couldn’t answer. Questions like: Where do we come from? Where do we go? Is there something more than this human experience?Her parents were socialists, activists, the kinds of people who encouraged her to think outside the square. But life had its own lesso
S1 Ep6: Lila Grace aka Cosmic Grandma
Birthing doula, activist, astrologer, public speaker and respected community Elder.While still at school this budding cosmic astrologer was chosen as Australian ambassador for the United Nations and travelled to the US during 'The Summer of Love'.Some would say Maha is homeless, although I'm sure she will tell you the world is her home.We meet spontaneously between the ocean and the
S1 Ep5: Sandy Leathem
Octogenarian, Founder of 'Movement Matters’, Feldenkrais Practitioner, Physiotherapist, Embodied Aging Consultant, Grandmother and the inspiration behind this project.Growing up as a kid in a Tasmanian National Park on the Freycinet Peninsular, informed within her a healthy childlike curiosity, playful creativity, and quirky ‘outta-the-box’ common-sense thinking.The osmotic ripples from this
S1 Ep4: Christina Covington
Long-time local, dancing devi, businesswoman and Ayurvedic alchemist.Known for her presence on the Byron Shire dance floors for over 25 years and as the creative force behind the inaugural We Dance Festival in late 2024.Christina was Founder & previous Owner/Director of Hari Har Chai and winner of the 2017 APAC awards for her innovative approach to business.She received a Bachelor of Science d
S1 Ep3: Nancy Jo Falcone
Nancy Jo to her listeners, is a proud founding member of BAYFM community radio and has been involved in the Community broadcasting sector for over 30 years.She worked for 12 years as a volunteer in the early days of BAYFM presenting different programs, serving all executive committee positions, including President, fundraising, and sponsorship to name a few.Over the years she has also worked as a
S1 Ep2: Lilith Rocha
One of Australia’s most respected astrology columnists, writer for Women's Weekly, published poet, model, survivor, teacher to Hawaiian Hula Troupe: Mana Aloha and ongoing astrology columnist for the Echo newspaper.Nothing fills her heart like the islands of Hawaii and the principles of aloha, but Lilith also shares traumatic events that shaped her life and reshaped her beautiful face.Lilith
S1 Ep1: Helena Norberg-Hodge
Linguist, author, filmmaker, pioneer of the new economy movement, and founder/director of Local Futures.Based on decades of experience in indigenous cultures, in particular Ladakh and Bhutan, Helena has been promoting a big picture understanding of the foundations of human, as well as ecological wellbeing.Her work has gained her the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peac
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