Women Living the Questions

About Women Living the Questions

“Women Living the Questions” celebrates older women and the courage, curiosity, and wisdom they gain over decades. Host Ruby Tugade speaks with extraordinary women about reinvention, love, resilience, and living fully. From her mother’s story of leaving everything familiar to claim a new life in the U.S., to conversations with some of the first female students at Yale College, Ruby highlights the richness and power of womanhood at every stage. This podcast invites listeners to honor the stories often overlooked, and to see aging as a time of deepening, growth, and continuous possibility.

Publisher

Ruby Tugade

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Mar 2026

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Sheila Nevins: All True.

   In this episode, host Ruby Tugade speaks with Sheila Nevins, the celebrated documentary producer whose extraordinary career helped make her one of the defining figures in nonfiction film and television. For nearly four decades at HBO Documentary Films, Sheila championed generations of filmmakers and developed a remarkable instinct for stories that illuminate the human experience. She talks with Ruby about the arc of her own life, from Manhattan’s Lower East Side to Barnard and the Yale School of Drama, and eventually into the company of some of the most remarkable people of our time. In her famously forthright way, she talks about the people she’s loved, the choices she’s made, the work that has mattered to her, and the possibility of what comes next. Music: “Love” by Alex-Productions, licensed under CC BY 3.0

2. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Joan Kron: A 98-Year-Old Troublemaker

   In this episode, host Ruby Tugade speaks with Joan Kron, a 98 year-old writer, journalist, artist, and cultural observer whose career has taken her from the New York art world to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Allure. Joan began writing at ten, when her mother sent her science-fiction story about life on Mars to the local newspaper. She went on to work with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Indiana, creating art objects now held by the Museum of Modern Art. After leaving the art world, Joan found journalism almost by accident, turning a story about marijuana into a magazine cover story and later creating the fashion beat at The Wall Street Journal. She spent twenty-five years covering plastic surgery at Allure. Joan also speaks candidly about losing her daughter and living with grief across seven decades, as well as independence, beauty, aging, friendship, and the women of her generation who found ways to make their own platforms. Music: “Love” by Alex-Productions, licensed under CC BY 3.0

3. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Phyllis Rosenblatt: That’s Why I’m an Artist, My Dear

   In this episode, host Ruby Tugade speaks with Phyllis Rosenblatt, an artist and teacher whose work has been a lifelong quest to discover what art can reveal beyond words. Phyllis found her calling early and has taught generations of students. She shares her thoughts on growing older, artistic bravery, and endless curiosity, as well as the mysterious territory between what we can experience and what we can explain. This is a conversation about a life devoted to seeking, and about learning to look beyond ourselves, and to stay open to what we find there. Learn more about the guest: https://phyllisrosenblattpainter.com/ Music: “Love” by Alex-Productions, licensed under CC BY 3.0

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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