Dawn’s career has spanned major magazine covers, global beauty brands, bestselling books, and decades inside the fashion and beauty industries. But this conversation goes far deeper than skin. Dawn shares what she saw behind the camera: the pressure on young models, the lack of voice women were given in shaping their own image, the predators hiding in plain sight, and the impossible beauty standards sold to women as if they were instructions for survival. Charming little system. Very profitable. Deeply broken.

Together, Dawn and Dominique explore what it means to move from aging to “staging”—seeing each phase of life not as a decline, but as a new expression of wisdom, radiance, and self-respect. Dawn talks about self-care not as indulgence, but as self-preservation; about beauty as health, happiness, kindness, and lived experience; and about why women in their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond must be heard in leadership, culture, and the decisions shaping our future.

Because women are not milk cartons. There is no expiration date on beauty, purpose, or power.

Dawn’s Links

IG: @dawnlgallagher

Web: dawngallagher.com

YouTube: @DawnGallagher

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Gary explores how family systems, ancestral imprints, trauma, and early conditioning can create “neuro sensitivities” that affect how quickly we are triggered, how long we stay in reaction, and how difficult it can be to return to center. In other words: sometimes the thing we think is “just us being dramatic” is actually old wiring looking for a little mercy. Imagine that.

This conversation moves through relationship dynamics, inherited beliefs around money, toxic masculinity, women’s power, emotional regulation, spiritual practice, and the profound transition into later-life wisdom. Gary offers a generous and grounded view of post-menopausal life as a time of contribution, balance, awakening, and embodied power—not a retreat from relevance, but a deeper arrival into it.

Because relationships don’t just show us who other people are.

They show us what is ready to be healed.

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Becky is a trained personal trainer and nutrition coach, but her work goes far beyond meal plans and exercise routines. After her own experience with disordered eating, bullying, anxiety, body shame, and the brutal legacy of 90s diet culture, Becky saw the missing piece in the fitness world: mindset, history, environment, identity, and the whole person.

This conversation digs into the systems that teach women to shrink—physically, emotionally, socially—and why diets alone can never heal a wounded relationship with food or the body. Becky and Dominique explore body acceptance, the patriarchal roots of beauty standards, medical dismissal of women, the seduction of “solutions” that keep us stuck, and the courage required to step into a new era.

Because the body was never the enemy.

The story was.

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LaKisa Renee is a dynamic media professional, journalist, host, and entrepreneur working at the intersection of media, fashion, beauty, wellness, and culture. Tammy Reese is an award-winning multimedia journalist, content creator, publicist, and mental health advocate dedicated to elevating diverse voices through intentional storytelling.

Together, they bring a sharp, honest, and deeply necessary perspective to the conversation around aging, menopause, media representation, women’s leadership, and the stories culture tells us about our worth.

After watching Wise Women – Humanity’s Untold Origins, Tammy and LaKisa reflect on how aging is framed in entertainment and media, why menopause has so often been presented as something to fear, and what changes when women begin seeing this transition not as decline—but as wisdom, power, and leadership.

This conversation moves across generations, touching on reproductive pressure, women in politics, collaboration, mental health, holistic healing, storytelling, and the urgent need for women to support one another now.

Because the future doesn’t change when women politely wait their turn.

It changes when we speak up.

LINKS

IG: @tammyreesemedia

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April is 45, in perimenopause, and very much “in the trenches,” as she puts it. But instead of treating this transition as a medical inconvenience or cultural disappearing act, she sees it as something deeper: a spiritual initiation.

Together, we talk about intuition, patriarchy, the rise of women, and the strange, sacred moment when you wake up inside your own life and think: Wait. This cannot possibly be all there is.

April names five stages women often move through in midlife: disillusionment, descent, reclamation, reorientation, and embodiment. Which sounds poetic until you remember descent may involve night sweats, 3 a.m. existential dread, and forgetting the word “spatula” while holding one. Transformation is rarely tidy. Shocking, we know.

This conversation is for every woman who has felt the old roles stop fitting, who has wondered whether the unraveling might actually be the beginning, and who suspects—quietly or loudly—that menopause is not the end of her power, but the return of it.

Link Block

Website: http://www.namastemagical.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/namastemagical/

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Kelly’s career has moved through entertainment, philanthropy, fashion, foster care advocacy, and women’s community-building. She has written for major studios, produced films, helped launch social-impact ventures, fostered teenagers with her husband, created Barely Canadian, a clothing brand that supports and employs foster youth, and founded Power Ladies, a growing global community of women across North America and Europe.

But beneath the resume is the real story: a woman willing to begin again, follow the tug toward service, admit she doesn’t have all the answers, and build anyway. Imagine that. A woman not waiting for permission. Revolutionary, we know.

This conversation explores foster care, empty nesting, midlife reinvention, women’s friendship, men’s loneliness, community, and the kind of leadership that doesn’t need a podium—it just needs people willing to show up.

Links

Barely Canadian:https://barelycanadian.com/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/kellyslattery/

Wise Women links

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Not because they lost their power.

Because the culture stopped knowing how to see it.

In this episode of Wise Women… Forward, Dominique Debroux and Christopher Henze sit down with author Lydia M. Hawke, creator of the Crone Wars series, for a joyful, witchy, deeply human conversation about visibility, aging, fiction, power, and the radical act of reclaiming the word crone.

Lydia began writing these books as she approached her 60th birthday and found herself feeling like a side character in her own life. She wasn’t done. Not even close. She wanted stories that centered women like her: older, wiser, unfinished, funny, complicated, and still burning with possibility. Not background grandmothers. Not comic relief. Not women politely fading into the wallpaper while everyone else gets the plot. Women with power. Women with magic. Women with a little righteous “no, I don’t think so” in their bones.

Together, Lydia, Dominique, and Christopher explore what it means to become visible again after a culture has trained women to shrink with age. They talk about the hunger for stories where mature women are not merely supporting characters, but the heart of the adventure. They dig into the difference between magic and power, the freedom that comes with refusing other people’s expectations, and why the so-called “crone” phase may be less an ending than an initiation.

This conversation is tender, funny, and delightfully defiant. It is about books, yes — but also about the bigger story so many women are living right now: the moment when you stop asking permission to matter.

Because life does not end at 50, 60, or anywhere culture decides to stop paying attention.

Sometimes, that’s exactly when the magic finally starts behaving itself.

Lydia M. Hawke

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https://www.facebook.com/LydiaMHawke

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In this episode of Wise Women Forward, we sit down with Toks Olagundoye—known for her roles in The Neighbors, Veep, Castle, and more—for a deeply personal and transformative conversation.

After being diagnosed with breast cancer, Toks was pushed into menopause suddenly through chemotherapy. What followed wasn’t just physical change—it was a complete shift in identity, clarity, and power.

We talk about:

* Sudden menopause and navigating the unexpected

* Brain fog, ADHD, and reclaiming mental clarity

* Letting go of people-pleasing and stepping into truth

* Cultural differences in how women are valued as they age

* Why post-menopause may be our most powerful leadership phase

Toks shares what many women feel—but rarely say out loud:

“I don’t care anymore… and that’s made me a better parent, a better actor, and a happier person.”

This episode is a reminder that aging isn’t about disappearing—it’s about arriving.

Because when wise women lead… everything changes.

Links & Resources

Watch the film:wisewomenmovie.com

Follow Toks:https://www.instagram.com/toksolagundoye

Book Toks on Cameo:https://www.cameo.com/toksolagundoye

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In this episode of the WW Forward Podcast, Dominique and Christopher sit down with Leah Van King for a candid, energizing conversation about voice, visibility, and what it means for women to take up room in their own lives. Together, they explore why so many women learn to self-edit, soften themselves, and disappear in plain sight — and how that conditioning can be challenged, unlearned, and replaced with something truer.

Leah shares her own journey of speaking up, using her gifts, and refusing to stay quiet just because the culture is more comfortable when women do. This is a conversation about unshrinking, about expression, and about the fierce midlife permission to be seen and heard.

Because at some point, enough with the polite vanishing act.

Leah Van King Links

Website: https://leahvanking.com

Instagram: https://instagram.com/leahvanking

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This episode of Wise Women… Forward, we talk with Christine Rae Briskin—grassroots organizer, playwright, producer, performer, and all-around “b******t-meter fully activated” wise woman—about what happens when you stop asking “Now what?” and start building the answer with your neighbors.

Christine founded Resistance Alliance, a local Indivisible group in Hawthorne, NJ, and helped co-organize Hands Across New Jersey—mobilizing communities statewide in defense of democratic norms. But her favorite origin story is simpler: she invited people into her living room, admitted she didn’t have all the answers, and a community formed anyway.

In this episode, we talk about:

* Why the patriarchy’s favorite trick is keeping us looking backward

* How anger and fear can become fuel (instead of paralysis)

* What grassroots organizing actually looks like—meetings, visibility actions, and learning as you go

* Why “remaining silent” costs us more than we think

* How to stay smart, strategic, and human while taking action

If you’ve been waiting for permission, consider this your loving shove: get loud, get organized, and go find your people.

* https://www.indivisible.org

* https://www.5calls.org

* https://www.govtrack.us

Hands Across New Jersey website:

https://www.handsacrossnj.org

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