Sexy in Your 60s

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October 13From Behind the Scenes to the Page and the Stage: Laura Bergman on Becoming a Writer in Midlife
Laura Bergman spent almost forty years raising money for the arts. Now she is writing and performing her own work, from her Menopause Monologues piece “Menopause Showdown” to her debut memoir, Waiting for Miles. We talk about what it takes to become the one making the art, and why this season of life makes it easier.
In this episode, we talk about:
How a theater board seat and a friend’s workshop led Laura to write and perform
The true stories behind “Menopause Showdown,” including her experience with hormone pellets
What her mother told her about performing, and what she let go of to do it anyway
Turning a short story about adopting her son into a book, and finding a publisher for women over 50
Why beginner’s doubt is not imposter syndrome
“Just write for the fun of it,” and why the process matters more than the result
About Laura Bergman:
Laura Bergman spent almost 40 years in the nonprofit world, most of it raising money for the arts. She was executive director and later development director of Z Space in San Francisco, and she serves on the boards of Z Space, Town Hall Theatre in Lafayette, The Job Forum, and the Menopause Monologues. Her piece “Menopause Showdown” has been performed in the Menopause Monologues and was a nonfiction finalist in a San Francisco writers’ conference anthology. Her debut memoir, Waiting for Miles, the story of adopting her son, comes out April 23 from Sibylline Press.
Connect with Laura Bergman:
Substack: Laura Bergman Writes
Instagram @laurabergmansays
Laura performs “Menopause Showdown” at Litquake with the Menopause Monologues on Sunday, October 18 at 3:00 p.m., in “Menopause Extravaganza: The Science and Culture of a Subject No One Used to Want to Talk About,” at Gray Area in San Francisco’s Mission District.
Mentioned in this episode
Episode 15: The Menopause Monologues, with Lulu Braunstein, Carrie Vanhouten and Lisa Anne Morrison
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Thursday, November 19
The 5-Minute Reality Check for Women 50+. One hour, live and free.
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Nothing in this episode is medical advice. Any decision about your own health belongs with your own healthcare provider, who knows your history and your whole picture.
40 min
October 06Taking Up Space at the Ballot Box: Midlife Women, Health Care, and the Power of Showing Up
What on your ballot touches your body? In this solo episode, I draw on almost forty years as a nurse to walk through what is actually at stake for women's health this November. It is nonpartisan: know what is at stake for your health, then vote your values.
In this episode, we talk about:
Mary Poppins, "Sister Suffragette," and why the fight does not end once you win the vote
A nurses' strike, a fentanyl overdose, and why health decisions are made in rooms most of us never enter
Why women over 50 are the voters close elections turn on
Marketplace premiums before Medicare, menopause research funding, and Medicare drug costs
How California menopause coverage became law after two vetoes
Where to look on your ballot, and a 15-minute voting plan
Mentioned in this episode
Episode 42: Taking Up Space at the Table
Vote.org (check your registration)
Vote411 from the League of Women Voters
CalMatters (California)
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Thursday, November 19, 2026
The 5-Minute Reality Check for Women 50+, a free one-hour live workshop.
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Nothing in this episode is medical advice. It is education and lived experience. Anything you are weighing for your own health is a decision to make with your own healthcare provider, who knows your history and your whole picture.
20 min
September 29I Always Need a Vacation From My Vacation
Nothing in this episode is medical advice. It is education and lived experience. Anything you are weighing for your own health is a decision to make with your own healthcare provider, who knows your history and your whole picture.
I have been a nurse for almost forty years and a board-certified health coach for the last several, and I still come home from vacation needing a vacation. In this solo episode I say that gap out loud, offer five honest guesses about why it happens, and share the question I now want to measure every trip by.
In this episode, we talk about:
Why a restorative yoga retreat in Yelapa still sent me home depleted
Travel as a health intervention: a week that changes your sleep, food, movement and stress all at once
Five honest guesses, from overbooking to the unwritten rules of getting your money's worth
The role that rushes in when you set the others down, and what a family camp taught me about meal planning
Why a decision made before you need it beats willpower in a hotel room at seven in the morning
My experiment for an upcoming trip, and a four-minute reflection for you
Mentioned in this episode
Your Passport to Longevity: Why Travel May Be the Best Medicine After 50, with Adriane Berg
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Starts October 8:
EMERGE: The Naked Truth, a four-week live experience about what actually changed in your body after 50 and what you can do about it.
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One more time because it matters. Nothing in this episode is medical advice. Any decision about your own health belongs with your own healthcare provider, who knows your history and your whole picture.
19 min
September 22Self-Doubt Is Not Imposter Syndrome
Dvora spent forty years as a nurse and never once had to explain what she did. Now she does something that takes a paragraph, and it still does not land. This episode is about what she felt on the drive home from that conversation, and why naming it accurately matters more than most of us realize.
In this episode, we talk about:
The difference between self-doubt and imposter syndrome, and why confusing them keeps women stuck
Why "you are early" is a more useful sentence than "your perception is broken"
What happens when even a man who builds and sells companies cannot place what you do
Why a polished elevator pitch can sound good and describe nothing
What sitting with self-doubt actually means, and how that advice gets misused as permission to stop
Why the evidence and the doubt keep sitting next to each other, even when strangers stop you on your morning walk
What eight weeks of coaching actually looks like, described plainly
Taking a seat at a table nobody offered you
About Dvora Citron
Dvora Citron is a Registered Nurse with forty years in the field, a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, a Lifestyle Medicine practitioner and the founder of slant2plants®. Twenty-five of those nursing years were spent with teenagers, their families and an entire school community. She has been living a plant-based, lifestyle-medicine life for at least eight years.
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If this sounds like where you are:
EMERGE: The Naked Truth is a four-week live experience starting October 8, about what actually changed in your body after 50 and what you can do about it. slant2plants.com/emerge
Nothing in this episode is medical advice. It is education and lived experience. Anything you are weighing for your own health is a decision to make with your own healthcare provider, who knows your history and your whole picture.
20 min
September 15The Room Where Women Stop Apologizing
Valerie Mummert designs in-person retreats for women, and she has spent years watching what happens when you put a group of women in a room together and give them three days. She sees who arrives apologizing. She sees who takes up more room by day two. In this conversation we get into what actually happens inside that room, what it takes for a woman our age to walk into it, and what she manages to carry home.
In this episode, we talk about:
Why loneliness is a mortality risk, not a mood problem, and what the WHO found last June
The difference between a vacation and a retreat, and the red flags on a retreat sales page
Why your retreat starts the day you say yes, and what a luggage tag has to do with belonging
Decision fatigue disappearing, and the silent morning that makes people panic
What women really mean when they say they don't have the time or the money
The mini retreat: a hotel five miles from your house, and why it counts
An 86-year-old who wants to drive a forklift
About Valerie Mummert
Valerie Mummert is a retreat and event strategist and a certified life coach. She partners with women entrepreneurs to bring their in-person events to life, handling the logistics so they can show up as the expert rather than the event coordinator. She grew up making lists for everything, raised and homeschooled seven children in a blended family, raised and homeschooled seven children of her own, and ran church events, retail and conference logistics before building her business around what she had been doing for free her whole life.
Connect with Valerie Mummert
MyRetreat.me
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The 5-Minute Reality Check for Women 50+, Thursday September 17. Free, about an hour.
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Nothing in this episode is medical advice. It is education and lived experience. Any decision about your own health belongs with your own healthcare provider, who knows your history and your whole picture.
1 hr 1 min
September 08Taking Up Space at the Table: First We Grieve the Body We Thought We Would Have
Episode 42: Taking Up Space at the Table: First We Grieve the Body We Thought We Would Have
Solo episode. Space in the Body, the first of the four dimensions of taking up space.
Education, not medical advice. This episode discusses fasting, GLP-1 medications and hormone therapy. Talk with your own healthcare provider about what is right for you.
I hid my vegetables in a napkin when I was three. By the time I was a teenager, the lesson at our table had changed from what to eat to how much room I was allowed to take up. Vegetables are now practically my profession, and I still carry the diet culture I learned from the same woman I later worked alongside at an eating disorders clinic. This episode is about the gap between knowing better and living better, and about what actually matters nutritionally for a woman over fifty once you stop eating for size.
In this episode, I talk about:
The lesson at the table that did not start until puberty, and the two different rules my parents had about who was allowed to take up room
Working at the UCLA eating disorders clinic alongside my mother, and carrying the diet culture home anyway
Why women over fifty overload protein and miss the thing that matters more, which is fiber
The protein range I work from and why the number goes up in your mid-sixties
Intermittent fasting windows that help versus restriction wearing a new name
Thirty-seven rounds of ProLon, and the honest reason I keep doing it
How GLP-1 medications actually work, and the twenty-five to forty percent nobody mentions
The three things I tell a woman who is starting one
How your own body makes more GLP-1 in response to fiber, for free
What changed in my closet, and the question to ask every piece of clothing you own
“Savta, is that vegan?” and the word I made sure my granddaughters heard
Why the goal shifted from smaller to stronger, and why the old goal is still in the room
One thing to do this week:
Add one high-fiber food to one meal a day, every day this week. If you have been skipping breakfast in the name of fasting, make it breakfast and make it fruit.
Mentioned in this episode:
The 5-Minute Reality Check for Women 50+ — live workshop, Thursday, September 17, one hour, free
Emerge: The Naked Truth — four-week live experience starting October 8
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Disclaimer: this episode is general education, not medical advice. Dvora Citron, RN MS, NBC-HWC, is a Registered Nurse and National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, not your nurse and not your doctor. Fasting, GLP-1 medications and hormone therapy are decisions to make with a healthcare provider who knows your history and your whole picture. Nutrition targets named here are general ranges, not a prescription for any individual. Do not start, stop or change anything based on a podcast.
23 min
September 01Taking Up Space in the Exam Room: You Are the Leader of Your Medical Team
Episode 41: Taking Up Space in the Exam Room: You Are the Leader of Your Medical Team
Guest: Dr. Jordan Emont, MD, MPH, MSCP
Education, not medical advice. This episode discusses hormone therapy and other treatments. Talk with your own clinician before changing anything about your care.
So many of us have walked out of an appointment feeling rushed, unheard, or told that what we are feeling is just aging. Dr. Jordan Emont is a board-certified OBGYN and certified menopause practitioner who built his practice around the opposite: appointments that run 60 to 90 minutes, for women who have been dismissed everywhere else. We talk about why the system keeps failing women our age, what is actually happening in our bodies that gets waved away, and what each of us can do to be heard.
In this episode, we talk about:
Why he finished residency at Columbia knowing almost nothing about menopause, and what he did about it
The first symptom of perimenopause, which is not a hot flash: “I just don’t feel like myself”
How estrogen loss drives blood pressure, cholesterol, insulin resistance, and visceral fat, and why almost no one connects those dots for you
Why menopause is not a gynecologic condition but a full body life transition, and why every specialty should be able to treat it
What happens to breast cancer survivors who are told hormones are off the table and then told nothing else
Why your doctor only has fifteen minutes, how reimbursement created that, and what direct primary care offers instead
The sexual health conversation 90 percent of women want their doctor to start, and how rarely it happens
The exact language that gets a clinician to lean in when you describe your symptoms
About Dr. Jordan Emont:
Dr. Jordan Emont is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and Menopause Society Certified Practitioner with degrees in medicine and public health. He specializes in menopause, perimenopause, women’s longevity, and complex conditions that too often get missed, with a particular focus on cancer survivors excluded from menopause care. He sees patients virtually across several states and also practices at a community health center.
Connect with Dr. Jordan Emont:
drjordanemont.com
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Instagram @drjordanemont
ISSWSH find-a-provider directory (the referral directory he mentions in the episode)
Mentioned in this episode:
The 5-Minute Reality Check for Women 50+ — live workshop, once a month, about an hour
Emerge: The Naked Truth — four-week live experience starting October 8
Sexy in Your 60s Starter Guide
Sexy in Your 60s Coaching Experience waitlist
Book a discovery call
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Disclaimer: this episode is general education, not medical advice. Dvora Citron, RN MS, NBC-HWC, is a Registered Nurse and National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, not your clinician, and Dr. Emont is not your physician. Nothing here creates a patient relationship. Hormone therapy is not right for everyone and depends on your own history. Do not start, stop, or change any treatment based on a podcast. Bring it to the person who knows your chart.
1 hr 4 min
August 25 Taking Up Space: Midlife Confidence for Women 50+
Episode 40: Taking Up Space: Midlife Confidence for Women 50+
Season 3 Premiere - Solo episode with Dvora Citron, RN, MS, NBC-HWC
Season 3 of Sexy in Your 60s is called Taking Up Space, and this opening episode defines exactly what that means and what it does not. Dvora starts in her father's petite women's clothing store in Los Angeles, where she spent her childhood watching women in dressing rooms, and traces a line from there to why so many women 50 and older quietly stop trying things on. This is not a pep talk. It is an argument about confidence, identity, and what the research actually says about staying engaged with your own life.
In this episode, we talk about:
- What taking up space actually means, and why it has nothing to do with being louder or demanding more
- Where midlife guilt really comes from, and why it is not laziness or a failure of discipline
- The roles that expire in midlife, and the confirmation that disappears with them
- Why "imposter syndrome" is the wrong phrase for a woman who is genuinely new at something
- What the research on social connection and purpose says about longevity
- Dvora's own reckoning after two back surgeries and two hip replacements
- Why her mother plays golf in her eighties without finishing the course
About Dvora Citron:
Dvora Citron is a Registered Nurse with more than forty years in the field, a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, a Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, and the founder of slant2plants. She helps women 50 and older become the CEO of their own healthy aging, with the clarity, structure, and support to make it last.
Research referenced in this episode:
Holt-Lunstad J, Smith TB, Layton JB. Social Relationships and Mortality Risk: A Meta-analytic Review. PLoS Medicine, 2010;7(7):e1000316.
Boyle PA, Barnes LL, Buchman AS, Bennett DA. Purpose in Life Is Associated With Mortality Among Community-Dwelling Older Persons. Psychosomatic Medicine, 2009;71(5):574-579.
Start where you actually are:
The 5-Minute Reality Check for Women 50+ is a live workshop Dvora runs once a month, about an hour, built around a five-minute self-assessment. You leave knowing where you actually stand, without anyone asking you to fix a thing.
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14 min
August 18 Episode 39: Who’s Your Person? with Ricki Radosh (Part 4 of 4)
In the final part of our Making Friends in Midlife series, Ricki Radosh tells the story behind a simple question her son sent her: who’s your person? She did not have an answer, until a hospital crisis forced her to find one. What she discovered is that her person had been there all along, in a relationship she had spent years overlooking.
In this episode, we talk about: - The question that would not leave Ricki alone: if you won a million dollars, who would you call first? - What happened in the hospital the night her partner passed, and the thought that kept circling - Why “the conversation doesn’t disappear just because you do different actions,” and how old beliefs keep running underneath a changed life - How Ricki realized her mom was her person, and the twenty-plus trips that had been telling her so for years - A reframe worth borrowing: notice the old story, question whether it is still true, then put actions in - Ricki’s honest answer to what “sexy” means to her now, and why the word she reaches for is peaceful
About Ricki Radosh: Ricki Radosh is a writer, speaker, and happiness coach, and the host of the Claim Your Happiness podcast. Her work centers on a simple method for shifting the stories we tell ourselves: name it, frame it, claim it. She is also a contributor to the anthology The Grass Grows Where I Am.
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Website
Instagram @ricki_radosh
Substack
Claim Your Happiness podcast
The Grass Grows Where I Am (book)
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Catch up on the series:
Part 1: Do You Really Have Friends?
Part 2: Reaching Back to Old Friends
Part 3: Building a New Circle After a Move
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9 min
August 11Building New Friendships From Scratch: Midlife Friendship with Ricki Radosh (Part 3 of 4)
Episode 38: Building New Friendships From Scratch: Midlife Friendship with Ricki Radosh (Part 3 of 4)
Sometimes the friendship task in front of you is not reconnecting with old people. It is building a circle from nothing in a place where you know no one. In Part 3 of our midlife friendship series, happiness coach Ricki Radosh walks through what it actually took to make new friends after she moved into a brand new community: showing up, choosing what she genuinely enjoyed, and staying open long enough for someone to walk over and say, “You look like the people I’m looking for.”
In this episode, we talk about:
Why everyone in a new community is starting over the same way, and how that makes people more open than you expect
The relief of a setting where the menu of activities is handed to you, so all you have to do is choose one and show up
The moment a stranger walked over to Ricki in an exercise class and a whole friend group formed from it
Why doing what you actually enjoy, not what you think you should do, is what makes new friendships stick
The difference between isolation and loneliness, and why connection now counts as a real health practice
The one small step Ricki gives anyone who finds this hard: name one thing you enjoy, then go looking for it
About Ricki Radosh:
Ricki Radosh is a writer, speaker, and happiness coach, and the host of the Claim Your Happiness podcast. Her message is that you don’t have to change your circumstances to change your experience. She teaches a simple practice she calls Name It, Frame It, Claim It, and she is a contributor to the Amazon best-selling anthology “The Grass Grows Where I Am.”
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Claim Your Happiness podcast
Instagram @ricki_radosh
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