The Mean Show: Get older, stay cool
Media & Entertainment Podcasts
The Mean Show is hosted by journalist and blogger Kristen Philipkoski, who interviews grown women who are creative, ambitious, progressive and engaged. You'll hear from women who are diving into the second half of their lives with style. We see you, even though most media don't seem to. Please get in touch if you'd like to be interviewed for the podcast or if you'd like to contribute to the online magazine.
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United States
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The Mean Show is hosted by journalist and blogger Kristen Philipkoski, who interviews grown women who are creative, ambitious, progressive and engaged. You'll hear from women who are diving into the second half of their lives with style. We see you, even though most media don't seem to. Please get in touch if you'd like to be interviewed for the podcast or if you'd like to contribute to the online magazine.
Twitter:
@kphilipk
Language:
English
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4158463383
Website:
https://meanmagazine.com/
Email:
kp@meanmagazine.com
Episodes
Jenn Segale: Colon cancer recovery and a farm that thrives with no water or electricity
7/3/2022
I was surprised by this interview so many times: Dry farming with no electricity—what?Founding said farm at 16, and sticking with it for 23 years? Colon cancer diagnosis at 37, and beating the odds with a full recovery, thank heavens. Oh, and gray hair at 18!
Jennifer Lee Segale is a professional botanist and founder of Wildflower Farms, an organic landscape design and consulting company specializing in coastal plantings, edible gardens, habitat restoration and unique plant sourcing. She...
Duration:00:53:20
Dr. Louann Brizendine explains how women level up at midlife
6/19/2022
Dr. Louann Brizendine completed her degree in neurobiology at UC Berkeley, graduated from Yale School of Medicine and did her internship and residency at Harvard Medical School. In this episode we talk about her new book The Upgrade: How the Female Brain Gets Stronger and Better in Midlife and Beyond.
She also wrote the New York Times best seller The Female Brain and its follow-up, The Male Brain, which continues to be read around the world.
This episode is filled with so much great...
Duration:00:55:47
Episode 43: Learn how Erin Hupp left law to launch her ceramics business
6/5/2022
Erin Hupp has been creating beautiful ceramics for more than 20 years. But it wasn't until she was knee-deep in a successful career in law that she made ceramics her main gig.
After earning her law degree, the San Francisco-based artist practiced land-use and child-welfare law. But the call of her art was always at the back of her mind, and after giving birth to her third child, she decided to make an enormous change: she would pursue her art, but not just as a hobby—as a full time...
Duration:01:01:45
A makeup artist demonstrates an easy smokey eye for women over 50
5/2/2022
If you're navigating midlife and think it's time to give up rocking (or trying to rock) a smokey eye look, this episode with disabuse you of that thought (also see Carine Roitfeld.)
I met makeup artist Brigette Caille through the #silversisters network on Instagram, and quickly invited her onto the show to get her valuable tips on easy makeup when you're 50-ish. And I'm so glad I did because I finally know how to create a smokey eye look in less than 5 minutes!
To be honest I never really...
Duration:00:43:57
Wile Women founders talk perimenopause and menopause symptoms, gaslighting, and how to fix all of it
4/3/2022
The fact that spellcheck still doesn't know how to spell perimenopause kind of says it all.
A wide-ranging lack of knowledge and utter confusion (even among gynecologists) around perimenopause, menopause and women's health during this transitional time of life are why today's guests, Gwendolyn Floyd (CEO) and Julie Kucinski (CMO)—along with founding partners Judy Greer (yes from Arrested Development!) and Corey Scholibo—founded Wile Women.
Wile Women makes products to support women's...
Duration:00:56:32
Writer Brad King on white men as weapons, masculinity as kindness, Captain and Tenille and more
3/14/2022
Introducing: Brad King, the first man on The Mean Show podcast!
I talk in my recorded intro a lot about Brad being supportive of women, which is obviously awesome. He gave female authors a platform when Covid descended upon us all and no one could do book tours. Really awesome.
But what I neglect to mention in the intro is his support of BIPOC communities. His self-awareness and introspection about his status and role as a white man in America is inspiring and all too rare. Not that he...
Duration:01:16:15
Nina Lorez Collins on The Woolfer, Revel, and aging without apology
1/20/2022
Today's episode features Nina Lorez Collins, chief creative officer for Revel, an events and community platform for women over 40. She's also the founder of The Woolfer, which Revel acquired earlier this year.
In 2015 she started a closed Facebook group called What Would Virginia Woolf Do?, which eventually became The Woolfer. That led to a book with the same name, plus the subtitle: As I Attempt to Age Without Apology.
As we discuss in the podcast, the idea of aging without apology...
Duration:00:56:25
Episode 38: Midlife coach Karen Randall on making peace with your past and embracing the opportunities of life after 40
10/25/2021
Karen Randall helps women at midlife explore the questions that not many on Instagram are talking about. As we look at our changing faces in the mirror, many of us ask: What's next for me? What path do I take when it feels like my best years are behind me? I have so many ideas, how do I pick the right one when time feels so short?
While it's wonderful that we're seeing more midlife women on social media, and that we're all encouraging each other to embrace our age with empowering mantras,...
Duration:00:44:51
Episode 37: Designer and fashion executive Andrea Chynoweth on being creative in business, yoga, dating at midlife and much more
10/7/2021
This is a super-long one, but I just could not bring myself to make it shorter because I loved every minute of this conversation.
To make it easier to navigate, I have broken it down for you below. Listen to it beginning to end (which, you know, I totally recommend because it's good), or pick and choose the topics that interest you most.
I highly recommend not missing the Vivienne Westwood section, as well as the yoga and trends parts, oh, and the part about what Andrea loves about this...
Duration:01:15:20
How to move your family to Europe during a pandemic
9/20/2021
Giną Nowicki, a marketing and communications specialist who lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area, up and moved her family to Europe smack dab in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. As you probably recall, just as we all thought things were getting better earlier this year, they actually got worse. But the lure of an amazing life experience and to live in a beautiful French town was undeniable, so Gina's family decided to go for it anyway.
It was not easy, but they have no...
Duration:00:43:15
Margo T. Krasne shares perspective at 83 on friendships, quarantine, career and change
5/14/2021
Margo Krasne rebooted her life at the age of 50. A dyed in the wool New Yorker, she worked as an actress, an ad gal, a sculptor and started over again at 50 as a communications coach. She is the author of Say It With Confidence, I Was There All Along: A Memoir and What Would I Do Without You.
Now 83, Margo has a perspective on career, midlife, owning your age, living alone, friendship and so much more that we rarely get to hear in today's youth-obsessed culture.
During the pandemic...
Duration:00:42:40
Debbie Mink on how to re-ignite and protect your creative life
4/29/2021
Debbie Mink is on a lifelong quest to integrate her creative life with the need in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the world, to have two-income family. She started out as a ceramicist, has been a go go dancer (in the podcast I incorrectly say she was a burlesque dancer, apologies!), performs spoken word, and is a curly hair advocate. She has a new online course called How to UnF*ck yourself and co-hosts her own podcast called Talking Smack!
Also don't miss the fun song...
Duration:01:02:41
Episode 33: Claire Gill is the PR we needed for menopause
3/19/2021
In this episode you'll meet Claire Gill, founder of The National Menopause Foundation. After more than 20 years in marketing and public relations for both nonprofits and Fortune 500 companies, Claire founded the organization in September 2019 (can you believe it didn't exist until then??).
Her goal is to help women thrive at every stage of their lives with access to information and networks that help make menopause a positive, inspiring and empowering time in every woman’s life.
When...
Duration:00:51:39
Episode 32: Barbara Hannah Grufferman is a masterclass on life after 50
3/3/2021
Welcome to episode 32! This week we speak with Barbara Hannah Grufferman, 60-something ultra-marathoner, menopause expert, and award-winning author.
Grufferman has written two books focusing on positive aging: Love Your Age: The Small Step Solution to a Better, Longer, Happier Life and The Best of Everything After 50: The Expert's Guide to Style, Sex, Health, Money and More. She speaks all over he country—well, she did before the pandemic, but that hasn't stopped her from bringing her...
Duration:01:05:19
Episode 31: Celebrate the Gray founder Stephanie O'Dell is a champion of models over 50
2/18/2021
It's episode 31! This week we speak to Stephanie O'Dell, founder of Celebrate the Gray, a full service agency for and about the 50-plus woman. Celebrate the Gray works to connect brands with her agency's more than 40 models, bringing to the forefront real faces and authentic stories of what she calls "aging with power."
Women are living longer, healthier lives, and advertising and messaging doesn't reflect that. After speaking with 1,000 of women over 50, she is working to update the age...
Duration:00:52:36
Episode 30: Motherhood Later's founder on becoming a mom after 40
2/4/2021
This week we feature Robin Gorman Newman, who founded an organization called Motherhood Later… Than Sooner. It’s a group that she started in Manhattan for women who became mothers later in life. I had been looking for something like it for a long time and I was so excited to find Motherhood Later. It has chapters all over the world from the U.S. to Nigeria and beyond.
Little did I know this is just one of the many creative hats Robin wears. She is a Tony Award nominated Broadway producer...
Duration:00:43:04
Mightly's 3 cofounders talk Fair Trade certification, the pandemic, Gen X and more
1/14/2021
This week's episode features not one but three guests on the podcast. As luck would have it, the three founders of Mightly, an affordable, sustainable kids’ clothing brand, are all Gen X women.
Tierra Forte is the CEO, Barrie Brouse is the Creative Director and Anya Emerson is the COO. We had a really fun conversation and one thing that really stood out for me was their description of what it’s really like to make clothing that’s Fair Trade Certified, and how that gets complicated during a...
Duration:00:49:43
Episode 28: How yoga (and other things) can be caught, not taught
1/7/2021
This week, we welcome back to The Mean show a previous guest, my beloved yoga instructor, Wini Linguvic, founder of The Elevate Practice. I wanted to invite her back because, well, she's amazing.
Also, even though we are hopefully in the homestretch of this pandemic, we still likely have at least a few more months of doing mostly everything, including exercising, at home, and Wini knows how to make that work.
Quickly after the world began shutting down last March, Wini launched her online...
Duration:01:21:47
Episode 27: The What founder Gina Pell on perennials, quarantine, Taylor Swift and more
11/6/2020
Our guest this week, Gina Pell, was the inspiration for everything happening here at Mean. She came up with the concept of Perennials, and when I read her article Meet the Perennials, I knew I had an audience. The idea that a demographic can be about more than the year you were born struck a chord. Perennials are ever-blooming people of all ages who continue to push up against their growing edge, always relevant, and not defined by their generation.
Mean has shifted since then to focus...
Duration:01:03:51
Episode 26: Author Alisson Wood on Being Lolita
10/15/2020
This week's episode is an interview with author Alisson Wood, who recently published her memoir, Being Lolita. Alisson is a bit younger than most of my guests, but her story is relevant for pretty much every generation.
The memoir describes how as a lonely and vulnerable high school senior, Alisson was groomed and seduced by her English teacher, which lead to an abusive relationship.
Mr. North gives Alisson a copy of Lolita to read, telling her it is a beautiful story about love, but it...
Duration:00:58:30