
2025 is the 6th Season of The Boomer Woman’s Podcast. Each episode is a conversation between me – I’m Agnes Knowles, your host – and a guest who talks to a subject that, someway, somehow, is relatable to Boomer Women. The guests can be any age, any gender, as long as their message is positive, informative, pertinent to our demographic. You, dear listener, might need to be open-minded, curious, tolerant, inclusive… and if you are, you will enjoy these conversations, maybe learn something, and I encourage you to share each and any episode! Click the Follow/Subscribe button to be notified of the next great guest.
Episodes

Thursday Dec 12, 2024
Reclaiming Midlife Power with Dr. Shayna Kaufmann
Thursday Dec 12, 2024
Thursday Dec 12, 2024
Dr. Shayna Kaufmann is the founder of Embrace the Middle—a company dedicated to serving women in midlife. She challenges us to challenge the negative cultural midlife paradigm.
In this episode, Shayna explains:
- How she defines midlife
- The cultural differences and similarities in her global research
- The difficulties women have
- All the positives that come with midage
- Despite what we see in media, most women don’t buy into all the anti-aging hype
- What it means to “Embrace The Middle”
Shayna and I have a good laugh over what we wish our elders would have told us about midlife. Her advice for all of us midlife women though, is powerful.
Find Shayna Kaufmann at https://www.embracethemiddle.com/
Learn more about Shayna and find all her links at https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-shayna-kaufmann/
https://buymeacoffee.com/agnesk
https://agnesknowles.substack.com

Thursday Dec 05, 2024
The Key to a Fulfilling Retirement with Wendy Leggett
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Eight years ago, Wendy Leggett found herself at a crossroads after a successful and energizing 25-year career in sales leadership. So, she took the leap and ultimately founded her company, where she guides clients through a fulfilling retirement transition, focusing on well-being, identity, feelings of purpose, connectedness, and positive aging.
In this episode, she discusses:
- What, beyond the financials, is critical for retirement success
- Significant misconceptions about retirement
- How to go about reframing both purpose and identity
- “Transitions” as an internal change
- How being single or married affects a lot of choices
- Our role models for retirement probably weren’t positive
- Pro-aging and positive aging
Wendy has many nuggets throughout our conversation, some of my favourites are “If you are what you do, who are you when you don’t?” and the difference between finding our purpose and feeling purposeful.
Listen now and then share this episode!
Find Wendy at https://confluxretirementcoaching.com/
Learn more about Wendy and find all her links at https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-wendy-leggett/
https://buymeacoffee.com/agnesk
https://agnesknowles.substack.com

Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Intimacy, Sex and Pleasure for Boomers with Chloe Mascord
Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Thursday Nov 28, 2024
Chloe Mascord helps women who avoid sex, or are stuck in unfulfilling intimacy to stop faking it and start thriving. Through bite-sized, actionable strategies, she shows women how to reignite desire, build deeper connections, and live authentically in their intimate lives.
In this episode, Chloe explains:
- Performative intimacy
- The most common reasons desire fades in long term relationships
- The importance of communication and curiosity
- Safe ways to open the doors to a conversation about sex, intimacy
- Low libido
- Men aren’t all-knowing like we may have been told
- Body image as we get older
Chloe’s advice to us all is to give ourselves some grace.
I also offered some advice: be as gentle with the changes below the neck as we are with the changes above the neck.
Listen now and then share this episode!
Find Chloe at https://www.honey-ed.com/
Learn more about Chloe and find all her links at https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-chloe-mascord/
https://buymeacoffee.com/agnesk
https://agnesknowles.substack.com

Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Overcoming The Ageism in Our Lives with Corinne Auman
Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Thursday Nov 21, 2024
Corinne Auman is on a mission to change the conversation around aging. In a culture where many avoid thinking about older adulthood until the last minute, she urges us to embrace aging in a positive light.
Needless to say, we discuss ageism:
- Has it always existed or is it more obvious now that we’re living longer
- Ageism in the workplace
- Being “invisible” but needing to advocate for ourselves or our older parents
- Why new doctors might avoid elderly patients
- Facility care competency vs dementia awareness
- Kind lies
- Preparing for aging
Corinne uses the term “Keenagers”. I’ve heard the term “Wellderly”. I believe we agree the Keenagers will be the Wellderly of the future.
Find Corinne at http://www.navigateseniorcare.com/
Learn more about Corinne and fin all her links at https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-corinne-auman/
https://buymeacoffee.com/agnesk
https://agnesknowles.substack.com/

Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Achieving Alignment, Authenticity and Blissipline with Ramona Galey
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Thursday Nov 14, 2024
Ramona Galey started one day, ten years ago, in the depths of despair and, before that day was done, was introduced to a path to her current life where she lives in joy and alignment and authenticity.
You’ll understand more when she explains
- Authenticity and self-love
- How to disrobe from the “brules” – the bullshit rules we grew up with
- personal assets, success, and entanglements
- blissipline
- “Pitfalls at The Peak”
Ramona also introduces us to and explains Opra; she describes herself as a “Vibrational Mentor” and then tells why she came up with that term.
Listen now and then go share this episode!
Find Ramona at https://www.ramonagaley.com/
Learn more about Ramona and find all her links at https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-ramona-galey/
https://buymeacoffee.com/agnesk
https://agnesknowles.substack.com/

Friday Nov 08, 2024
The Legacies We Leave with Julie Noonan
Friday Nov 08, 2024
Friday Nov 08, 2024
Julie Noonan coaches Women Executives Passionate About Leaving their Wisdom to the Next Generations of Strong, Confident Leaders.
You may not consider yourself a business executive, but there’s a good chance you manage a household, a home… and you are interested in leaving your wisdom with your next generations. Many of the same rules apply.
In this episode, Julie discusses
- Her past as a square peg trying to fit into a round hole
- The challenges of leaving a career
- The multi-generational workplace
- Age-ism
- Sexism
- The learning curve for older workers as opposed to younger
- How we might apply the same rules within our homes and families
Julie teases us at the end with her life as a digital nomad. I’ll pester her to come back and talk about that option in the new year!
Find Julie at https://www.jnoonanconsulting.com/
Learn more about Julie and find all her links at https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-julie-noonan/
https://buymeacoffee.com/agnesk
https://agnesknowles.substack.com/

Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Rescuing Young Women from the Sex Trade with Kenny Sacht
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Thursday Oct 31, 2024
Kenny Sacht finds himself in the calling of a lifetime because of one late-night pop-up on his computer. His heart has broken several times over the last decade and a half, but his focus to rescue girls and women from the sex trade doesn’t waver. Today he explains
- his journey from school teacher to advocate for these girls and women
- How girls get lured into – and trapped in - the sex trade
- exploitation of vulnerability
- the beginning of Wipe Every Tear
- the role of Hope House in creating a future for the women
- how bar owners discourage the girls
- babies and STDs
- why the rescues can’t happen without Western helpers
Kenny is so driven he evens gives out his phone # - that’s a man with a Mission!
Find Kenny and Wipe Every Tear at https://www.wipeeverytear.org/
Learn more about Kenny and find all his links at https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-kenny-sacht/
Want more information? Want to help? Call Kenny at 208-866-1967
https://buymeacoffee.com/agnesk
https://agnesknowles.substack.com

Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Turn Your Inner Critic into Your Inner Coach with Arlene Cohen Miller
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Thursday Oct 24, 2024
Arlene Cohen Miller, like so many of us, has some “people pleaser” in her past. Now, however, she coaches woman to create balance and boundaries in their life.
Today, Arlene discusses:
- Our inner critic
- How to turn that critic into our inner coach
- Setting boundaries, with interesting concepts about energy
- Celebrating the wins
- Being grounded
- Meditation and gratitude
- Her soul readings
Arlene’s suggestions for all of us are pretty simple, think kindness, patience and tolerance.
Find Arlene at https://www.jewelconsultancy.com/
Learn more about Arlene and find all her links at https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-arlene-cohen-miller/
https://buymeacoffee.com/agnesk
https://agnesknowles.substack.com/

Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Boomer Women and Podcasts with Ande Lyons
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Thursday Oct 17, 2024
Ande Lyons has been a podcast host/live stream host since 2012 – her current podcast is her 6th podcast. In this episode, we discuss both sides of the mic: Listeners and host wanna-bes.
- Ande’s history with the medium
- What exactly is a podcast
- The huge variety of podcasts and formats
- Quick and east podcast start-up
- Some of Ande’s favourites and my all-time favourite
- My genius idea for spreading the word about podcasts (better than a book club!)
Ande and I have chatted before so there are lots of laughs… and I hope our passion for the art of podcasts comes through.
Listen and then go share this episode!
Find Ande at https://www.dontbecagedbyyourage.com/
Learn more about Ande and find all her links at https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-ande-lyons-on-boomer-podcasts/
https://buymeacoffee.com/agnesk
https://agnesknowles.substack.com/

Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Expat Life in Japan with Robert Norris
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
Thursday Oct 10, 2024
In this episode, Robert Norris gives us so many insights into life as an expat, life in Japan – from the day-to-day to the bureaucracy involved in moving there – so much great information and much of it accompanied by interesting anecdotes.
Today he explains:
- his early envy of those who spoke more than one language
- a six-mat room and a three-mat room
- local public baths
- living his dream
- why you should immerse yourself instead of speed-visiting
- Kanji lettering and the Japanese language
- tidbits of cultural history and current changes
- earthquakes
I enjoyed the moment when Bob was telling us about earthquakes and had the Japanese word but had to think about the English word! That's immersion!
Listen to my previous chat with Bob where he talks about his amazing Mom, his life as a conscientious objector, his travels and, finally, finding "home" in Japan: https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-robert-w-norris/
Find Bob at: https://robertwnorris.com/
Learn more about Bob and find all his links at: https://boomwithabang.com/the-boomer-womans-podcast-robert-norris-expat/
Robert mentions: https://www.retirejapan.com/
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