Grassroots organizer and artist Christine Rea-Briskin joins Wise Women… Forward to talk about turning fear and anger into action. She shares how a small living-room gathering grew into a local Indivisible group, why “forward” matters when everything is trying to drag us backward, and what real community organizing looks like—visibility actions, democratic defense, and showing up with strategy and heart.

Topics: grassroots organizing, Indivisible, civic action, women’s leadership, community power, resistance, democracy

• https://www.indivisible.org

• https://www.5calls.org

• https://www.govtrack.us

Hands Across New Jersey website:

https://www.handsacrossnj.org

https://www.hhwtsproductions.com

Colleen Kochannek on grief, reinvention, and claiming your third act as your power season.

What happens when the life you built disappears?

 At 50, Colleen Kochannek lost her husband, her career, and her only sibling in a cascade of unimaginable change. What followed wasn’t retreat—it was awakening.

In this intimate and unfiltered conversation, we explore what it means to outgrow the “good girl” script, to confront the question “What about me?”, and to step into midlife not as an ending—but as a first life.

 This is not a story about survival.

It’s about reclamation.

 If you’ve ever felt the ground shift beneath you—and wondered who you are now—this episode is for you.

Links

 For Colleen

 https://www.colleenkochannek.com

 https://www.facebook.com/TheColleenKochannek/

 https://www.instagram.com/colleenkochannek/

 https://www.youtube.com/@ColleenKochannek

 https://www.tiktok.com/@colleenkochannek

For Wise Women

 Rent the film

Bingeable.net/wisewomen

More on the movie

Wisewomenmovie.com

In this first conversation on Wise Women Forward, filmmaker Christopher Henze and producer Dominique Debroux speak with psychotherapist, author, and founder of Gateway Women—Jody Day—about what it means to live beyond the narrow definition of womanhood.

They talk about elderhood, grief, kinship, post-menopausal clarity, chosen family, and why the nuclear family model is failing us all. Jody shares the story behind her groundbreaking work, how she’s helping women find meaning outside of motherhood, and what it really means to age without vanishing.This is not about self-help. This is about cultural recovery.

➤ Learn more about Jody Day:

• Download her book intro: gateway-women.com/book• Substack: jodyday.substack.com

• Fireside Wisdom Webinars: gateway-women.com/childless-elderwomen

➤ Learn more about the film Wise Women: Humanity’s Untold Origins• www.wisewomenmovie.com