Becoming Your Best Version

Maria Leonard Olsen

maria@marialeonardolsen.com

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Booking Overview

This interview-led personal-development show focuses on life transitions, reinvention, purpose, aging, and lessons from accomplished women and specialist guests. PR agencies could credibly pitch authors, coaches, speakers, lawyers, founders, and subject-matter experts in areas such as longevity, retirement transitions, death education, leadership, and personal growth; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need a strong professional platform, distinctive expertise, or published work.

Metrics

Episodes: 281

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 87 subscribers

Instagram: 2.8k followers

Contact Information

maria@marialeonardolsen.com

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Host

Maria Leonard Olsen - Award-winning lawyer, journalist, author, and two-time TEDx speaker who served in the Clinton Justice Department and practices law in Washington, D.C. She is the author of 50 After 50: Reframing th...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Authors, coaches, speakers, founders, lawyers, and recognized subject-matter experts with distinctive expertise in life transitions, aging, leadership, end-of-life planning, or personal development.
Required Achievements:  
Published books, TEDx speaking experience, Founded a company or specialized practice, Recognized professional expertise, Awards or leadership in a niche field

Recent Guest Discussions

Helen Hirsh Spence - Ageism, Longevity, Age Inclusion, Age Diversity, Multigenerational Workforces, And Later-life Reinvention.

Johanna Danaher - Emotional Preparation For Retirement, Identity After Leaving A Long-held Career, Midlife Transitions, Reframing Uncertainty, And Intentional Reinvention.

Gail Rubin - End-of-life Conversations, Funeral Planning, Grief Education, Death Education, Downsizing, And Medical Aid In Dying.

Recent Topics

Midlife, Reinvention, Longevity, Women's Issues, Personal Development

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Becoming Your Best Version
:

A Conversation with Oona Metz, Nationally Recognized Therapist and Author of Unhitched: The Essential Divorce Guide for Women

July 31, 2026

Oona Metz is a nationally recognized therapist and author who has spent more than 30 years studying the strange, tender, deeply human ways we navigate relationships, self-abandonment and change. Her new book, Unhitched: The Essential Divorce Guide for Women (Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster), launched in January and has already earned remarkable attention. Gayle King praised it on CBS Mornings, Maria Shriver highlighted it in her newsletter, Time Magazine ran an exclusive excerpt, and it’s ...

A Conversation with Helen Hirsh Spence, Ageism & Longevity Specialist and Founder of Top Sixty Over Sixty

July 24, 2026

"Aging is the ultimate triumph of living," says ageism & longevity specialist, Helen Hirsh Spence. Helen is a later-in-life Canadian entrepreneur, speaker and age-equity advocate. She also is a leader navigating the demographic shift; TEDx and global speaker, author; age provocateur & mindset shifter; older & multigenerational workforce expert; and founder of Top Sixty Over Sixty.Top Sixty Over Sixty is a social enterprise advancing age inclusion, longevity literacy, and...

A Conversation with Johanna Danaher, Life and Leadership Coach Who Helps Pre-Retirees and Mid-Life Professionals Navigate Who You Become After You Leave a Long-Held Career

July 17, 2026

Johanna Danaher is a mindset, life and leadership coach who helps high-achieving pre-retirees and mid-life professionals navigate one of the most overlooked transitions of all: who you become after you leave a long-held career. After more than 25 years in high-level corporate leadership, guiding global talent, culture and leadership strategy at Pfizer, Johanna understands how deeply identity can become intertwined with a title—and how destabilizing it can feel when that chapter comes to an en...

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