Speaker 1: You're listening to a MoMA mea podcast. Mamma Mere acknowledges
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Speaker 1: I'm Holly Wainwright. Welcome to Season two of mid Conversations
Speaker 1: for Gen X Women who are Anything. But maybe you've
Speaker 1: listened to season one, and if not, why not? And
Speaker 1: you've already heard me talking to some very interesting women
Speaker 1: and one man about the mess and wonder of midlife.
Speaker 1: We talked about bodies and booze and grief and dating.
Speaker 1: Just go listen. Well, like women in their second acts,
Speaker 1: we're just warming up, and in season two, coming to
Speaker 1: your ears on August six, we're kicking it up aer Notch.
Speaker 1: We asked midwomen what they wanted us to talk about,
Speaker 1: and they told us, And so we're starting here with
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Speaker 1: you move into midlife, the blistering reality that, despite what
Speaker 1: jen Z thinks, money worries don't just vanish because you're
Speaker 1: a proper grown up. And yes, the reality of being
Speaker 1: the Sandwich generation simultaneously shouldering the mental load for aging
Speaker 1: family and growing kids. Mid women's lives do not all
Speaker 1: look the same, and midlife for us doesn't look like
Speaker 1: it looked for our mothers. We were and we are
Speaker 1: a rule breaking generation. Some of us have empty nests,
Speaker 1: some of us are parents still dealing with kids knits,
Speaker 1: while some of us are grandparents now. Some of us
Speaker 1: never wanted to or got to be, either of those things.
Speaker 1: Some of us are leaning into changing our careers, leaving
Speaker 1: bad relationships, leaping into great ones, working on the ones
Speaker 1: we have, setting off to go all the places and
Speaker 1: do all the things and taste all the everthings that
Speaker 1: we've always fantasized about. Some of us are struggling, and
Speaker 1: the women I'm talking to Season two reflect all of that.
Speaker 1: From big names like the Australian supermodel who knows more
Speaker 1: than most about making peace with a face that no
Speaker 1: longer looks like it did at twenty to one of
Speaker 1: Australia's most successful authors, to actors and TV anchors whose
Speaker 1: names you definitely know, and some thoughtful writers and thinkers
Speaker 1: whose names will be a new but whose words will
Speaker 1: stay with you. We're talking divorce and rage and invisibility
Speaker 1: and ambition and friendship and all the things the conversations
Speaker 1: are mid are like the conversations you're having with your
Speaker 1: gen X friends. It's the only kind of conversations we
Speaker 1: have time for now. The powerful ones, the funny ones,
Speaker 1: the helpful ones, the honest ones. Mid Season two is
Speaker 1: dropping wherever you listen to your podcasts on Tuesday, August six.
Speaker 1: I know you're busy, but go follow us. I'll be
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