Two Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and Rebel

SO 10 Episode 01: Alison Buchanan – Finding Your Voice & The Essence of Freeness

May 04, 2026

What happens when a woman decides she will no longer be quiet—on stage or in life? That question is at the heart of our conversation with Alison Buchanan, an internationally respected soprano, teacher, and the Artistic Director of Pegasus Opera Company. Alison has spent decades building a career in spaces that were never designed for her, and she's done it by refusing to shrink, soften, or be anything less than her full, "precocious" self. You may recognize Alison's voice from Netflix's Queen...

SO 9 Episode 10: Ai-jen Poo – A Woman Who Cares

December 01, 2024

Ai-jen Poo is a woman who cares. That caring shapes her activism as a next-generation labor leader, a gifted organizer, campaigner, advocate and author. Ai-jen is also faithful. At the threshold of the second half of life –she just turned 50— she has spent the last 25 or more years dedicated to growing a domestic workers' movement. Always crucial yet routinely undervalued, family caregivers are more and more essential as our nation ages, as we age. Ai-jen founded and leads the National Domest...

SO 9 Episode 09: Meenu Vadera - Making the Impossible Possible

October 01, 2024

Meenu Vadera greets the world and all it has to offer with curiosity and buckets of ideas and inspiration. We met Meenu in Delhi more than 10 years ago.  A friend wisely advised us to hire newly-trained women chauffeurs to drive us around the city. These inspiring and fierce young women had graduated from the program that Meenu founded and led – Sakha Cabs for Women and its sister organization, Azad Foundation, which trains low-income women to become drivers. It continues to grow with more th...