1. 03: Happily Getting Older Jane Leder 34:22

Ilana Landsberg-Lewis has spent her entire adult life engaged in the struggle for the rights of women and girls. Although she is not a grandmother yet, she is inspired by what she calls the “disrupters” and “influencers,” elder women who kick stereotypes to the curb with their wisdom and their personal and public contributions.

Jane Leder Podcaster & Author

I am an award-winning author of books about teen suicide, siblings, and men and women during WWII. My feature articles have appeared in publications from Psychology Today to the Chicago Sun-Times. I enjoy the journey of writing, the process. But as I celebrated my seventy-seventh birthday, I wanted a change of focus and turned my creative energies into launching "Older Women & Friends," a podcast. The challenge has been exhilarating and will certainly help me make it through the dead of winter in the Midwest.