WOW: Wise Older Women

About WOW: Wise Older Women

“Wisdom That Grows Louder with Time.” Welcome to WOW: Wise Older Women a podcast dedicated to raising the status of ageing women and dismantling the narratives that silence them. Here, older women speak with authority, beauty, depth, and fire. Their stories challenge, inspire, and illuminate. In a world that too often ignores, isolates, or diminishes older women, we choose to listen. To revere and celebrate the brilliance, courage, humour and tenderness they bring along with plenty of high‑vibration wisdom carried in their words. These conversations aren’t just stories, each one of them is a teaching. A personal map from the past, forging the way ahead, full of magic, medicine and momentum. This storytelling series presents ageing not as decline, but as ascent. It’s a platform where older women don’t need to hide. This is where they are honoured, uplifted, heard and held; with reverence, respect, and wonder. Their voices are powerful, their wisdom is vibrant, and their stories are a gift to us all. Welcome to the podcast. Settle in. Let their voices guide you.

Publisher

Rasela Torise

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Jul 2026

Latest episode

23 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Aug 2026

   S2 Ep6: Simone O'Brien (Pt.2)

   This is Part 2 in Episode 6 with Simone O’Brien: performer, firercracker, unapologetic feminist and a bloody great storyteller! We’ve heard about feminism, patriarchy, queer 90s warehouse parties, menopause, sexuality and as we continue with Simones's story, we’ll hear what happens when a world‑touring aerial performer falls from a silk to come crashing to the ground, broken but not defeated. Combine that with a life changing diagnosis that forces a reckoning, with her body, her past, a...

2. 

   23 Aug 2026

   S2 Ep.6 Simone O'Brien (Pt.1)

   You know the sorts of people who carry a spark, the ones who walk into a room and before you know they’ve lit it up? Well today’s guest is one of those people. Simone O’Brien is a physical theatre performer, a feminist, a firecracker of a woman and a bloody great storyteller. She grew up on the edge of a National Park with five brothers, and learned toughness the hard way, discovering early on in life that the world wasn’t going to hand her anything, so she built her own world instead. ...

3. 

   21 Aug 2026

   S2 Ep5: Kara Gray (Carole)

   My guest Kara Gray lived a life shaped by forces no child should ever have to face. But she’s also lived a life shaped by ancestors, ceremony, by intuition and compassion, and by a fierce commitment to breaking cycles that have travelled through generations. She joins us not to relive the past, but to share the wisdom she’s gathered, the healing and reclamation, the return to her inner child, and the deep knowing that we are more than what happened to us. Before we begin today’s conversation,...

4. 

   16 Aug 2026

   S2 Ep4: Gabrielle Griffin (GG)

   Today’s episode is the story of a woman who has created a full and colourfully creative life by choice. The choice to seek truth, to choose dance, to say yes when others might have said no. Gabrielle Griffin aka GG was born in France, raised across Europe, and grew up in a family shaped by secrets, including one that didn’t surface until she was in the throes of teenage life, when her mother revealed she’d had a baby before GG was born. That revelation cracked open GG’s world and set he...

5. 

   14 Aug 2026

   S2 Ep3: Gayle Cue

   Gayle Cue is a woman who grew up under a wide Montana sky in the Northwest of the US. That harsh and heavenly country provided her with grit and groundedness along with the gift of resilience and strength which continues to help carry her forward. Gayles story weaves through all the juicy ingredients of a life lived in flow, allowing what is meant to be, to simply be. It might have taken her a few years or even a few decades to reach that conclusion and that’s what we’re here to acknowledge i...

6. 

   6 Aug 2026

   S2 Ep2: Eliza Rix

   In this episode we sit with a herbal rebel who helped spark a cultural movement. Heard of HHH? (Happy High Herbs). That's the one! We get to know an artist who builds worlds out of imagination and recycled magic. We’ll wind through psychedelic forests and enter a story of queerness before language, of sensuality as a compass, of menopause as meno-morphosis, and of a body that has been both battleground and oracle. It’s a story of losing pleasure, fighting tooth and nail for it, and reclaiming...

7. 

   31 Jul 2026

   S2 Ep1: Kathryn Roberts

   Kathryn Roberts grew up in Perth as the youngest of three, wandering gardens as a toddler, talking to nature, and asking questions most adults couldn’t answer. Questions like: Where do we come from? Where do we go? Is there something more than this human experience? Her parents were socialists, activists, the kinds of people who encouraged her to think outside the square. But life had its own lessons in store for her. Family breakdown, loss, illness, spiritual searching, a two-year "Blues Bro...

8. 

   27 Jul 2026

   S1 Ep4: Christina Covington

   Long-time local, dancing devi, businesswoman and Ayurvedic alchemist. Known for her presence on the Byron Shire dance floors for over 25 years and as the creative force behind the inaugural We Dance Festival in late 2024. Christina was Founder & previous Owner/Director of Hari Har Chai and winner of the 2017 APAC awards for her innovative approach to business. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Flinders University, Adelaide, before studying Ayurveda while living in India. Havi...

9. 

   27 Jul 2026

   S1 Ep5: Sandy Leathem

   Octogenarian, Founder of 'Movement Matters’, Feldenkrais Practitioner, Physiotherapist, Embodied Aging Consultant, Grandmother and the inspiration behind this project. Growing up as a kid in a Tasmanian National Park on the Freycinet Peninsular, informed within her a healthy childlike curiosity, playful creativity, and quirky ‘outta-the-box’ common-sense thinking. The osmotic ripples from this nature-based upbringing have permeated throughout her life, yet it’s only now that Sandy feels able ...

10. 

    27 Jul 2026

    S1 Ep6: Lila Grace aka Cosmic Grandma

    Birthing doula, activist, astrologer, public speaker and respected community Elder. While still at school this budding cosmic astrologer was chosen as Australian ambassador for the United Nations and travelled to the US during 'The Summer of Love'. Some would say Maha is homeless, although I'm sure she will tell you the world is her home. We meet spontaneously between the ocean and the bush, the sound of cicadas vibrating loudly in the background and without any formal preparation, to record ...

11. 

    27 Jul 2026

    S1 Ep2: Lilith Rocha

    One of Australia’s most respected astrology columnists, writer for Women's Weekly, published poet, model, survivor, teacher to Hawaiian Hula Troupe: Mana Aloha and ongoing astrology columnist for the Echo newspaper. Nothing fills her heart like the islands of Hawaii and the principles of aloha, but Lilith also shares traumatic events that shaped her life and reshaped her beautiful face. Lilith also talks openly about the planning of her own funeral party after being told by 'the voice' she wo...

12. 

    27 Jul 2026

    S1 Ep3: Nancy Jo Falcone

    Nancy Jo to her listeners, is a proud founding member of BAYFM community radio and has been involved in the Community broadcasting sector for over 30 years. She worked for 12 years as a volunteer in the early days of BAYFM presenting different programs, serving all executive committee positions, including President, fundraising, and sponsorship to name a few. Over the years she has also worked as a station manager in the First Nations sector in WA, an administrator for the National Ethnic and...

13. 

    27 Jul 2026

    S1 Ep1: Helena Norberg-Hodge

    Linguist, author, filmmaker, pioneer of the new economy movement, and founder/director of Local Futures. Based on decades of experience in indigenous cultures, in particular Ladakh and Bhutan, Helena has been promoting a big picture understanding of the foundations of human, as well as ecological wellbeing. Her work has gained her the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the s...

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