Two Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and Rebel
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Two Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and Rebel
Love your bitchy self! Join us – Idelisse Malavé and Joanne Sandler the Two Old Bitches (from New York City) – as we celebrate kick-ass, unstoppable women from around the world. Women over 50 tell us how they re-imagine their lives, their bodies, their relationships and their creativity as they go t...
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SO 9 Episode 10: Ai-jen Poo – A Woman Who Cares
Ai-jen Poo is a woman who cares. That caring shapes her activism as a next-generation labor leader, a gifted organizer, campaigner, advocate and autho...
SO 9 Episode 09: Meenu Vadera - Making the Impossible Possible
Meenu Vadera greets the world and all it has to offer with curiosity and buckets of ideas and inspiration. We met Meenu in Delhi more than 10 years ag...
SO 9 Episode 08: Shop with Us!
When the world is too much to bear, we go shopping. When we celebrate, we also go shopping. When we’re bored or in search of distraction...you guessed...
SO 9 Episode 07: Screen BITCHES – Introducing the TOBies (and much more!)
TOB followers know that we are obsessed with discovering positive and powerful roles for older women in movies and TV. That’s why we lure our sister S...
SO 9 Episode 06: Kathy Swarts – This is Your One Glorious Life
True confessions: as Two Old Bitches, we fully expected the Golden Bachelor to
be the height of cringey, old-people porn. Watching 22 women in...
SO 9 Episode 05: Age Has Revealed My Nature to Me
American sculptor Jeanne Silverthorne, 73, is an “artist’s artist” known for cast rubber pieces and installations drawn from her studio, turning every...
SO 9 Episode 04: Who Are You?
Who Are You? It’s a simple and profound question that we ask (almost) every guest on Two Old Bitches. And given that most of our guests are women over...
SO 9 Episode 03: June Millington - Music is Life
If you were deeply enmeshed in the ‘womyn’s’ music scene or romped topless through the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festivals in the 1970s and 1980s, then y...
SO 9 Episode 02: The Only Two-Old Bitches Interview of ChatGPT Ever!!
We couldn't resist. We were way too curious about ChatGPT to let all of the controversy and (rightful) concern about the dangers of AI deter us from a...
SO 9 Episode 01: Maryjane Fahey - Glorious Broad
Two Old Bitches love a good reinvention story. By her count at 73, MaryJane Fahey is on “her 5th reinvention!” (But who’s counting?) She was a designe...
SO 8 Episode 10: Branca Moreria Alves - Call Me Feminist
Branca Moreira Alves, 82, is absolutely certain about a lot of things: that her primary identity is ‘feminist’, that life is a lot of fun, and that mo...
SO 8 Episode 09: Epiphanies, Turning Points and Serendipity
You know those “aha” moments, those flashing lights of clarity, the thundering realization that you’ve met your passion? We realized that so many of t...
SO 8 Episode 08: Rosanne Ebner and Liberty Valance – The Clay Knows Better
Gifted ceramic artists Rosanne Ebner, 67, and Liberty Valance, 73, have worked with clay for five or six decades. They say laughing that “it just happ...
SO 8 Episode 07: Donna Uchizono - Still the One and Only
Donna Uchizono is the first and only American-born choreographer of Asian ancestry to receive notable national and international recognition in the hi...
SO 8 Episode 06: Jody Oberfelder - A Creative Move a Day
Gutsy, vital, creative Jody Oberfelder is committed to a life of ‘becoming,’ recognizing that becoming older is also about learning to trust your voic...
SO 8 Episode 05: Marlies Yearby – Deep Body Listener
“I have to create, because that is an extension of my breath,” is just one of the many insights into living deeply and meaningfully as an artist that...
SO 8 Episode 04: Screen Bitches on Good Luck to You Leo Grande, Hacks and Borgen
What are you streaming these days? Two Old Bitches always wants to know, especially if you find shows that feature pithy, provocative and stereotype-b...
SO8 Episode 03: Judy Gold – You Can’t Argue With An Older Woman
As soon as we learned we landed an interview with Judy Gold, stellar comedian, actor and writer, Two Old Bitches started grinning and giggling. What a...
SO8 Episode 02: Ayesha Pande – Understanding the World Differently
Fifteen years ago, Ayesha Pande, a successful editor with top publishers (e.g. Farrar Straus and Giroux) struck out on her own to build a mission-driv...
SO8 Episode 01: Stephen P. Williams - Are You Stephen’s People?
What does it take to be a man whom we interview on Two Old Bitches? Stephen P. Williams, 64, only the second man on our show in five years, is an exce...
SO7 Episode 14 Reprise: Lecia Brooks and Lisa Veneklasen - Politics and Possibility
How do we respond to this political moment? Pessimism is tempting and optimism may feel foolhardy, yet a sense of possibility fueled by hope made endu...
SO7 Episode 13 Reprise: Maya Wiley - The Possibilist
Maya is a nationally renowned racial justice and equity activist and advocate who ran for mayor of New York City in 2021. She should have won! In our...
SO7 Episode 12 Reprise: Leah Wise - The Perfect Balance
Our conversation with activist historian and organizer, Leah Wise, now 75, originally aired in 2017. She spoke with us about the threat to democracy...
SO7 Episode 11 Reprise: Mothers - It’s Complicated
In honor of Mother's Day we are bringing back this classic from season 4.
“Two of my heroes are mother and my grandmother…My mother taught me to...
SO7 Episode 10: Ellen Bravo - Standing Up
We have long marveled at Ellen Bravo’s ability to balance the demands of being a feminist activist and author. Her books are driven by the same social...
SO7 Episode 09: Red-Boots Kickass Bitch and Wisdom Hag
What a treat to talk with a fierce feminist who’s been a force of nature for more than half a century! At 71, Nadine embodies a lifelong commitment an...
SO7 Episode 08: Two Old Bitches/StoriedLives
Stories transport us across time and space, bring us together, help us make sense of our lives and the world, make us laugh and cry, and even change o...
SO7 Episode 07: Sari Botton – The Oldster
What’s better than ‘talking shop’ with a serious and sensational sister traveler? That was the joy that TOB experienced when we interviewed Sari Botto...
SO7 Episode 06: Screen Bitches – Why We Love Hacks
There could be no greater gift to Screen Bitches than finding the HBO-Max series Hacks, starring Jean Smart. We brought together three of our most ded...
SO7 Episode 05: Isa Infante – Of Course I Can!
Prepare to be utterly astounded as you listen to our conversation with Isa Infante! This self-described “life force,” follows her heart and her values...
SO7 Episode 04: Meet the Authors!
When do you turn to books? Sometimes for escape (mysteries, anyone), sometimes for the joys of fine literature (Matrix by Lauren Goff or Haiku Mind by...
SO7 Episode 03: Julie Cajune & Jennifer Finley – “Bad Indians”
“What I want all of my work to do is expand the definition of who Indians think they can be and how they think they can be in the world and their spac...
SO7 Episode 02: Tammi Leader Fuller - Campowerment
If you are committed to ‘choosing your own adventure’ you’ll want to tune in immediately to TOB’s conversation with Tammi Leader Fuller, the effervesc...
SO7 Episode 01: Claron M. McFadden - This Is My Destiny
Just before the pandemic shut down live performances across the world, the American soprano Claron M. McFadden appeared with pianist Alexander Melniko...
SO7: Trailer
Feminist thinkers, activists and authors Idelisse Malavé, 74, and Joanne Sandler, 70, created and host Two Old Bitches, a podcast featuring conversat...
SO6 Episode 10: Heidi Woordhuis - Crone of Anarchy
“The world tells women-of-a-certain-age to be invisible, be innocuous with quiet voices. We’ve got news for you, world…WE’RE DONE WITH YOUR BULLSHIT!”...
SO6 Bonus Episode: Call Your Girlfriend Podcast Summer of Friendship - Two Old Bitches
Two Old Bitches co-hosts and friends, Joanne Sandler and Idelisse Malavé, were invited by the wonderful and popular Call Your Girlfriend podcast to ha...
SO6 Episode 09: Trudy Berlin - A 98-Year-Old Work-in-Progress
Imagine your life as a perpetual learning journey where you grow braver and more transcendent as the years pass. That is how Trudy Berlin has lived. S...
SO6 Bonus Episode: A Guided Meditation
Jaune Evans was originally ordained as a priest in the White Plum Lineage by Bernie Glassman and Taizan Maezumi Roshi in 1983 at the Zen Community of...
SO6 Episode 08: Bodhisattvas & QuaranQueens
Surprise! Despite being at higher risk, older folks have weathered this past year in better spirits than younger people, according to recent studies....