The Boomer Woman’s Podcast

Lisa Haynes is a certified executive and retirement coach and the author of Retired and Killin’ It. After decades as a CFO, she now helps retirees and soon-to-be retirees design a life they’re excited to live, focusing on the non-financial side of retirement.

Today we discuss:

• Six Saturdays and a Sunday
• Retiring at age 58
• External identity is easy, finding internal identity not so easy
• Why/how to find/create new connections
• The changing face of friendships
• Purpose can be harder to realize
• What is in your wheelhouse that can bring you joy

Lisa quotes Maya Angelou “your legacy is every life that you touch”. That thought, combined with Lisa’s closing advice to us, is so very impactful.

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Find Lisa Haynes at https://retiredandkillinit.com/

Learn more about Lisa and find all her links at The Boomer Woman's Podcast: Lisa Haynes.

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Gila Melamed is back! Gila first joined me in 2023 to talk about her decision to adopt a nomadic life… by choice. She came back last year to update us and share how this lifestyle had helped her grow to a place of forgiveness and healing.

Today, she talks about:

• Making the best of it means being flexible, adaptable
• “Fear” – whether it’s the elements or gut feelings
• How she deals with fear – it’s not fear, it’s an opportunity to learn
• Solitude
• The dream that has grown within her as she’s traveled and talked with other ‘nomads’
• Her two books written about her travels and her growth

**Trigger warning: we do discuss suicide in our conversation today.

Gila also credits the books by others and the talks she’s listened to as important parts of her growth. It’s quite the reading list and you can find it at the bottom of this page.

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Find Gila Melamed at https://www.gilacolorguru.com/

Learn more about Gila and find all her links (and her reading list) at The Boomer Woman's Podcast: Gila Melamed 2025

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Pat Fenner’s divorce provided a kick in the pants to deal with mental health issues such as self-image, self-worth, and imposter syndrome. Combining these skills and experiences, she helps other “mature” women find their voices and thrive in life.

Today Pat discusses:

• The changes in self over 37 years of marriage
• The challenges in starting over
• time, counsel, prayer, reading, patience
• self-image, self-worth, and imposter syndrome
• ageism, gratitude
• couple friends, adult children

Pat interjects comments throughout our conversation about her life as divorce was happening to her that so many of us will identify with. Take inspiration from how she pushed herself through and came out the other side.

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Find Pat Fenner at https://www.patfenner.me/

Learn more about Pat and find all her links at The Boomer Woman's Podcast: Pat Fenner

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Patti Bevilacqua is in my socials a lot and her accomplishments since we last spoke 3 years ago are almost too many to count.  Why is that impressive? Well, 35 years ago, Patti was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis – MS.

Today Patti discusses:

• What exactly MS is
• Canada has highest rate of MS in the world and 3 out of 4 are women
• Evolution of Patti’s journey
• Patti shares some great stories
• Be your own hero
• why people with disabilities will change the world

If you have the ear of Christine Sinclair, listen in to Patti and then share this episode with Christine!!

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Find Patti Bevilacqua at https://pattibevilacqua.com/

Learn more about Patti and find all her links at The Boomer Woman's Podcast: Patti Bevilacqua

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Donna Barr has lived a life many of us dream of living. She’s trail-blazer: joining the U.S. Air Force in the 70s when few women considered the possibility and during the Viet Nam War. She’s made a difference: working in Samoa with The Peace Corp.

Today Donna describes:

• How The Peace Corp and the Air Force were early interests
• Making changes at age 57
• The Peace Corps – no age restrictions and choose your adventure
• The process of starting a project in a country
• Some insights into local governance and lifestyle
• Unexpected highlights

Donna’s love for her new life might be the impetus you’re looking for to take your giant leap. Enjoy her journey by reading her book My View From The House By The Sea.

Find Donna at https://www.donnamariebarr.com/

Learn more about Donna and find all her links at The Boomer Woman's Podcast: Donna Barr

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Dr. Foojan Zeine has so many credentials in the Behavioral Psychology field that there is no way to write a synopsis. She founded the International Awareness Integration Institute and she co-founded the “Foojan” App, offering AIT to the public globally.

Today, Dr. Zeine explains:

• The structured, evidence-based framework called Awareness Integration Theory (AIT)
• Being intentional in being you
• How our reality is based on perception
• When interpretation of an event leads to “self-medication”
• The dominoes of change and communicating change
• Mira – when AIT and ChatGPT meet!

Foojan is so enthusiastic in her advice to our demographic that you have to pay attention!

Find Dr. Foojan Zeine at https://foojanzeine.com/

Learn more about Foojan and find all her links at The Boomer Woman's Podcast: Dr. Foojan Zeine

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Jennifer Rovet is a Certified Professional Retirement Coach who works with individuals and couples alike, exploring values, priorities, and purposes to help design a rewarding retirement lifestyle. She’s seen firsthand the struggles many retirees go through.

Today Jennifer discusses:

• How there is so much more to retirement planning than money
• Redefining identity post-career
• How to make new friends outside the workplace
• Having some structure and purpose to our day
• When a couple retires at the same time
• Some of the possibilities for our demographic

Throughout, Jennifer emphasizes the fact that we are all unique, that there is no single path to follow to or through retirement.

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Find Jennifer at https://retirereadycanada.com/

Learn more about Jennifer and find all her links at The Boomer Woman's Podcast: Jennifer Rovet

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Bobbi Barrington is a trans woman, but her message is not about gender – it’s about the universal challenges we all face: fear, uncertainty, and the courage to create the future we truly want.

Today she discusses:

• Spending 59 years in the wrong body
• Her advice for both men and women, given that she has lived as both
• Her two transitions: in body, and in mindset
• Great insight for people who challenge the right of trans people to exist
• Our lives are finite so we have to embrace dreams and change

Bobbi is a living, breathing embodiment of transformation – stepping into the unknown, falling down and getting back up, embracing the messiness of the journey, and proving that we are never a finished product but always learning, growing, and evolving.

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Find Bobbi at https://www.bobbibarrington.com/

Learn more about Bobbi and find all her links at The Boom Woman's Podcast: Bobbi Barrington

Emily Allen is a certified alcohol-free life coach who empowers women in midlife to break free from our wine culture and create their next chapter full of confidence, clarity and true freedom.

In this episode she explains:

• “Wine-mom” culture
• Her trigger to quit and her process to stop
• Alcohol as “Self-care” and “self-medication”
• Her path from self-disappointment to becoming an Alcohol-Free Life Coach
• The 80% increase in drinking in the last 30 years
• The health risks
• What happens in our bodies with alcohol and when we cut out all alcohol

Emily’s “food for thought” for us at the end comes from her heart and is very sobering and thought-provoking.

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Find Emily at https://www.livingfreewithemily.com/

Learn more about Emily and find all her links at The Boomer Woman's Podcast: Emily Allen

 

 

Mariana Cooper (Mari) is an internationally acclaimed intuitive life strategist, third generation intuitive and host of the Aha! Moments Radio Show.

In this episode, Mari explains:

• Third generation intuitive
• Aha Moments
• 3D and 5D Frequency
• The Energetic Communication system that we are all born with
• Man-made constructs: shame, blame, guilt, fear, anxiety
• “Clear, connect, communicate, create”

Mari has an interesting description of how younger generations are choosing their own paths, not following social expectations like we did.

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Find Mari at https://beyondintuitionbook.com/

Learn more about Mari and find all her links at The Boomer Woman's Podcast: Mariana Cooper

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