Older Women & Friends: Stories of Aging Well

Jane Leder

Booking Overview

This interview podcast focuses on aging well, longevity, purpose, resilience, and the lived experiences of older women, typically featuring accomplished older women, authors, academics, and people with compelling personal stories. Suitable pitches include gerontologists, healthy-aging and longevity experts, memoirists, grief and caregiving specialists, and advocates with distinctive later-life experience; booking difficulty is low because the show features credible but generally accessible guests rather than requiring major public prominence.

Metrics

Episodes: 98

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 1 subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

j.leder@comcast.net

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Host

Jane Leder - Award-winning author focused on personal stories, aging, grief, resilience, and the experiences of older women.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low

Typical Credentials:

Authors, academics, healthy-aging professionals, advocates, and older adults with substantial lived experience and practical insight into aging, grief, purpose, resilience, or later-life transitions.

Required Achievements:

Published books or memoirs, Academic or professional expertise, Advocacy work related to aging or resilience, Distinctive personal experience of later-life transition or achievement

Recent Guest Discussions

Evelyn Kelly - Purpose, Lifelong Learning, Travel, Resilience, Genetics, Gerontology, Retirement, Ageism, Independence, Emotional Health, Intergenerational Friendships, Widowhood, And Active Aging.

Diane Heiler - Widowhood, Anticipatory Grief, Caregiver Burnout, Healing, Journaling, Poetry, Reinvention, Resilience, Companionship After Loss, And Finding Purpose In A New Life Chapter.

Recent Topics

Older Women, Aging, Longevity, Resilience

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Older Women & Friends: Stories of Aging Well

Reinvention & Creativity: Judy Norton on Life Beyond The Waltons

August 06, 2026

In this inspiring episode of Older Women & Friends, Jane Leder sits down with actress, writer, producer, director, singer, and lifelong creative Judy Norton, best known for portraying Mary Ellen Walton on the iconic television series The Waltons. Together, they explore how creativity, resilience, and a willingness to reinvent yourself can lead to a meaningful and fulfilling life at every age.Judy reflects on her remarkable journey from child actor to accomplished storyteller, sharing the ...

Good Grief w/ Jane Leder

July 25, 2026

The older we get, the more loss and grief we experience. For me, my brother's death by suicide when I was 33 and he was 30 turned my life upside down.I turned to writing a book to help me work through my grief. Dead Serious: A Book For Teenagers About Teen Suicide tells the stories of parents who lost a child to suicide, teens who attempted suicide, and friends of teens who took their own lives.I am dedicating today, my 81st birthday, to GOOD GRIEF, the organization that helps children, teens...

Living Without Limits: Evelyn Kelly Shares Her Life of Purpose, Travel & Curiosity at Age 91

July 23, 2026

Evelyn challenges many of society's assumptions about aging. She explains why curiosity, lifelong learning, resilience, and purpose matter far more than the number of candles on a birthday cake. Jane Leder sits down with Evelyn Kelly, a 91-year-old author, world traveler, professor emeritus of genetics, and passionate advocate for healthy aging to explore what it truly means to live a vibrant, purposeful life at every age.Having written 22 books, traveled to 90 countries across all seven cont...

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j.leder@comcast.net

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