Maddy Dychtwald is an expert on aging and the influence of older women on the global economy, as well as cofounder of Age Wave, a consultancy and thought leader on on issues relating to an aging population. Her latest book is called AGELESS AGING: A Woman's Guide To Increasing Healthspan, Brainspan, and Lifespan.

- Women can expect to live seven years longer than men, but far less healthily.

- The average 50-year-old woman can expect to live another 35 years.

- More than 50% of the country's wealth is now in the hands of women.

- Women today make up 80% of centenarians, which are the fastest growing segment of the world’s population.

So, what are we going to do to maximize all of the extra years we get…and what are we going to do with all of our newfound monetary influence along the way?

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Cari Sietstra is a reproductive health warrior, a global women's abortion rights advocate, and the Director of The Period Pills Project. With a bachelors from Harvard and a JD from Stanford Law School, Cari has dedicated the past 20 plus years to keeping girls and women safe.

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Is your relationship stuck in the loop of defensiveness? What part do you play in the spiral?

Identity explosion is an internal shift in how someone perceives and/or expresses their place in the world (and it can include anything from gender to sexuality to motherhood, religion, and more).

Moraya Seeger DeGeare is a neurodivergent Black Biracial therapist, and the granddaughter of famed musician Pete Seeger. Growing up in Beacon NY in a home filled with extended family, music, art, activism and achievement, she learned early to be aware of the spaces that she occupied, and how she was perceived. Currently a couples therapist specializing in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Moraya also authors the monthly Refinery29 column called 'Can We Talk,' so she bears witness to a lot of what is changing about society…beginning on the inside.

Today’s podcast covers something that’s been coming up a lot recently in her sessions with clients. How to navigate the grief a person can feel when their partner experiences an identity explosion, while also staying supportive. Some explosions involve more externally visible changes than others…but they all alter the romantic relationship. In particular gender-based identity explosions can be complicated to navigate, but also a chance to grow closer, if handled with care. Are heteronormative relationships destined not to survive it? Are queer or gender fluid couples necessarily better equipped to work through the confusion in order to hold on to the love? What does working through something like a gender transition or a sexuality transition raise to the surface in terms of the assumptions we all make…in every relationship of our lives?

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Soraya Chemaly is a Bahamian-American author, activist, feminist and the author of RAGE BECOMES HER. She’s written as a freelance journalist for The Atlantic, Time, The Guardian, Huffington Post and Ms. Magazine, among others, on topics including freedom of expression, gender, women's rights, sexualized violence, media and technology. She is also the Director of the Women's Media Centre Speech Project, and has been named among other things, one of Elle Magazine’s 25 most inspiring women to follow on Twitter.

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Cady Coleman is a NASA astronaut who retired as a colonel in the US Air Force, flew twice on the Space Shuttle Columbia, is a Chemist by trade. She departed the International Space Station in 2011 as a crew member of Expedition 27 after logging 159 days in space.

What can a gay, Persian, cardiologist and single father teach us about how to take care of ourselves? Turns out quite a lot. Dr. Dan Yadegar is a trusted voice in integrating medical innovation and science with the art of wellbeing. After fleeing Iran with his family as an infant he spent his early years in the Dominican Republic, before they settled in Long Island, New York, where he mainly grew up. After Harvard college and Cornell Medical School he has spent his career serving the wealthiest as well as the most disadvantaged, has worked in healthcare venture capital, launched a wellness startup called Wellbel, and served on various boards. But when he’s not engaged in moving the needle of wholistic wellness forward, he’s focused on his two children he is raising on his own, after an IVF journey which he feels he was destined for. And he could not be a more grateful papa.

On today’s podcast we are looking at how our choices and attitudes can affect our health outcomes, and how our daily  micro-contracts with our own health can add up over time. We’re diving in to his journey as a gay man in a traditional culture, and the unique challenges and benefits of being a solo gay parent…via IVF and by choice. 

It’s possible that being gay has made him a better dad, that being a dad has made him a better doctor, and that being on this podcast, hopefully…has made Dr Dan feel just a little bit seen.

Have you ever heard the term Kingmaker? Well, meet the Queenmaker. Denise Conroy. A former 4X founder, 3X CEO, Fortune 500 CMO, and board director, she has been defying expectations her entire life, and she wants to help other women (and men) who are her executive coaching clients do the same. By looking inward.

Given all the mixed messaging about what defines healthy masculinity these days, where will the next generation of young men ultimately land?

Studies say we lose half of our friendships every seven years. Does that make you consider who you will move on from…or who’s gonna dump you?