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In this session of ‘Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elderwomen’, Jody Day (founder of Gateway Women) and her #NomoCrone panel (Nomo=not mother + crone is not an insult!) discuss what it means to each of us to be and become ‘Radical Old Women’. What does the word radical actually mean?
Recorded on the June 2023 Solstice; a powerful fulcrum moment in the year, whether you are in the Northern or Southern hemisphere, this was a conversation by turns powerful, tender, shocking and surprising.
Featuring: Jody Day: https://gateway-women.com https://instagram.com/apprenticecrone
Sue Fagalde Lick: https://childlessbymarriageblog.com/
Elizabeth Grambsch: https://www.elizabethgrambsch.com/
Mary Henson: https://inconceivable.wordpress.com/
Kate Kaufmann: https://www.katekaufmann.com/
Maria Hill: https://magicofjoy.com/ https://sensitiveevolution.com/
Susan Dowrie: https://www.gw-community.com/
Patricia Faulks: https://www.justmeandlilley.co.uk/
Karen Malone Wright: https://www.thenotmom.com/
We will be back in September 2023, when we will be recording a special session for World Childless Week.
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YOUR HOST: JODY DAY (UK/IRL) is the 58-year-old British founder of Gateway Women (since 2011) and the author of Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children (PanMac 2016/2020). Jody is childless due to ambivalence, infertility, and circumstance. Chosen as one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2013 & a UK Digital Woman of the Year in 2021, she’s a global thought leader on female involuntary childlessness, a psychotherapist, a 2017 and 2022 TEDx speaker, a founding and former board member at Ageing Without Children and a former Fellow in Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School. She’s also a proud Ambassador for World Childless Week. She lives in rural Ireland where she’s trying to finish building a house and finish her first novel, as well as nurturing the emergent Gateway Elderwomen project.
SUE FAGALDE LICK (US) is 70 and is the author of the memoir & blog ‘Childless by Marriage’ and most recently ‘Love or Children: When You Can’t Have Both’, as well as novels (featuring childless heroines!) journalism & poetry. She is childless by relationship, due to her second husband changing his mind about having (more) children. A musician and singer, she is widowed and single. www.childlessbymarriageblog.com
MARY HENSON (UK) is in her mid-50s. She is childless after multiple pregnancy losses and fertility treatments, a journey which began in her late 20s, and has recently also recovered from breast cancer. A veteran of the childless support space, Mary was a long-time volunteer at a pregnancy and baby loss charity, and has been an active member and moderator in the Gateway Women / Lighthouse Women online community for many years. She blogs candidly and insightfully about her life at It’s Inconceivable.
ELIZABETH GRAMBSCH (USA) is in her late 50s and is a musician, performance coach and licensed Gateway Women workshop facilitator. Elizabeth has shared Germanic and Obijwe heritage which deeply informs her approach to ancestral healing and reintegration after trauma. She and her husband are childless due to health-related issues and after multiple miscarriages. elizabethgrambsch.com
KATE KAUFMANN (US) is in her late 60s and the author of “Do You Have Kids? Life When the Answer Is No”. Kate’s blog for Psychology Today, “Unapparent,” explores the lives and issues faced by the childless and childfree. She is divorced and childless due to failed infertility treatments. www.katekaufmann.com
SUSAN DOWRIE (AUS) is 60 and a long-time member of the Gateway Women/Lighthouse Women Online Community, as well as having hosted the Gathering for Brisbane members for several years. A student and practitioner of NVC (Non-Violent Communication), Susan describes herself as a Spinster and is single and childless due to not meeting the right man. https://gateway-women.com/community/
MARIA HILL (US) is in her mid-70s and is the founder of Sensitive Evolution and a leader/coach in the field of HSP experience and growth as well as an inspiring entrepreneur, fine artist and writer. She is a long-time member and volunteer moderator of the Gateway Women/Lighthouse Women online community, and the creator of the marvelous ‘Magic of Joy’ program. Maria is divorced and childless by relationship. sensitiveevolution.com
TRISH FAULKS (UK) is 73 and blogs regularly and candidly about being a widower and single childless elderwoman living alone in a small Lincolnshire market town with her dog Lilley. An only child of an only child, she is childless due to her infertility in her marriage in her twenties. Her subsequent partner died many years ago. www.justmeandlilley.co.uk
KAREN MALONE WRIGHT (US) is 65 and the founder of The NotMom, the site for women ‘childless by choice or by chance’ and The NotMom Summit. She and her husband are childless due to health issues. She now co-hosts ‘The NotMom Conversation‘ on YouTube. www.thenotmom.com
