Zibby Owens' Top Podcast Picks for Wisdom & Inspiration 🎧

A list of podcast recommendations from women sharing stories and wisdom.

Curator:

👉🏽 Zibby Owens (she/her)

Why this theme?

👉🏽I'm 48 and I’m always searching for relatable wisdom from friends a few years older. These shows do exactly that!

Podcast Picks

Fearlessly Facing Fifty and Beyond podcast cover art

Amy Schmidt talks fashion after 50 in this episode. In this episode, we hear Karla's story, which is a masterclass in following your soul's calling, no matter how daunting the journey might seem.

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I love Christina Davies and her thoughtful interviews with badass women. Leslie Kenny is an entrepreneur, longevity expert, and founder of Oxford HealthSpan and the Oxford Longevity Project. With degrees from both Harvard and Berkeley, Leslie's passion for health and science grew even stronger after a life changing diagnosis in her 30s.

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An epic on-camera hot flash on live TV started Emmy award-winning journalist Tamsen Fadal on her menopause journey. For the first time in decades, she didn't finish the newscast. She would later receive a message from her gynecologist in her health portal saying, "In menopause... any questions?" but with no guidance on navigating a flood of symptoms. Now, Tamsen has written the menopause manual she needed, How to Menopause, an expert-driven, girlfriend-approved guide to feeling your best in menopause, midlife, and beyond.

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Judith Viorst talks about her life at age 90 and what we should all learn from it. With her trademark wit, wisdom, and unflinching eye for the agonies and absurdities of ordinary family life, Judith talks about life’s later chapter (the “Final Fifth”), touching on grief, community, and rediscovering identity beyond being a wife

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Psychologist Dr. Jaime Zuckerman talks with women about their innermost feelings. In this episode, a conversation with Zibby, an author and podcast host who shares what it looked like to rebuild her life after divorce. At 40, with four young kids and weekends suddenly quiet, she didn’t launch into some grand reinvention. She started writing again. And then she kept going.

EarBuds Extra Episode✨

Smart Girl Dumb Questions

We’ve reached peak singledom: 51% of American women aged 18-40 are not paired up. Nayeema is part of that demo, and asks the dumbest (and most vulnerable) questions she could think of to Tamsen Fadal, a journalist and former matchmaker turned healthcare advocate, and someone who has redefined aging in the modern world.

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Community

🌁In a recent episode of Building Bridges: That Which Unites Us, host Michael Hershman sits down with Richard Esposito, an award-winning journalist, author, and communications strategist. They explore the evolving landscape of journalism and its profound impact on democracy.

🎙️How To! from Slate presents a new four-part series about what holds us together when so much threatens to break us apart. Courtney Martin and Carvell Wallace bring a listener on to the show to solve their toughest problems with the help of world-class experts.

💖In Podcast The Newsletter, Lauren Passell writes, “✨I’ll be serving as a judge for the 2025 Quill Podcast Awards, which were created to celebrate and recognize standout podcasts and creators pushing the industry forward. Enter your submissions before April 21st.”

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Podcast news from Podnews

  • The Podcast Show London has confirmed new partners and speakers, including Gary Lineker and Jack Davenport from Goalhanger, and Alison Lomax from YouTube UK & Ireland.

  • Women’s podcast listenership has tripled in ten years, according to the Women’s Audio Report: Women & Podcasts released by Edison Research and SiriusXM Media. 45% of all women in the US (60mn) are monthly listeners; and 52% consume podcasts in some form (whether listening or watching).

  • The shortlist of the sixth annual Publisher Podcast Awards has been released. The winning podcasts will be decided by over fifty judges from across the world. There is also a Publisher Podcast Summit on the same day, Jun 11, in London.

Spotlight

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Anybody got a way to escape 2025? Or tips on navigating the Baptist church we're stuck in? This crash-landed time traveling duo would appreciate it. No future spoilers from us. Promise. Ish. Oh also, the captain has turned into a cat.

Don't tell him I told you. He's touchy about it.

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