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WOW: Wise Older Women
“Wisdom That Grows Louder with Time.”
Welcome to WOW: Wise Older Women a podcast dedicated to raising the status of ageing women and dismantling the narratives that silence them.
Here, older women speak with authority, beauty, depth, and fire. Their stories challenge, inspire, and illuminate.
In a world that too often ignores, isolates, or diminishes older women, we choose to listen. To revere and celebrate the brilliance, courage, humour and tenderness they bring along with plenty of high‑vibration wisdom carried in their words.
These conversations aren’t just stories, each one of them is a teaching. A personal map from the past, forging the way ahead, full of magic, medicine and momentum.
This storytelling series presents ageing not as decline, but as ascent. It’s a platform where older women don’t need to hide. This is where they are honoured, uplifted, heard and held; with reverence, respect, and wonder.
Their voices are powerful, their wisdom is vibrant, and their stories are a gift to us all.
Welcome to the podcast. Settle in. Let their voices guide you.
Episodes
13 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 w...
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...
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 throug...
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...
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 forwa...
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 psyche...
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 t...
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...
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 Peni...
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 ...
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 diff...
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 hear...
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 under...
