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Today. On the bright side, we're talking about the best parts of aging, specifically aging imaginatively with the founder and creative director of the online community, Glorious Broads.

It's Friday, March 29. I'm Danielle Robet.

I'm Simone Boyce. And this is the bright side from. Hello sunshine, Danielle.

Hello.

We have some kind of big news to share.

We do. We have some big news.

We made the top ten on Apple podcasts.

And when we say we, we mean everybody listening. We all made the top ten.

We did it, y'all. We can't thank you enough. We're such a new show and we have been working so hard on this show behind the scenes just to be really thoughtful about how we approach all these topics, making sure that we're representing you in everything that we do. So thank you so much for the support.

One of our goals when we started this show was thinking about women, not as a monolith, but that if we do this the right way that it will represent the collective consciousness of women in 2024. And I think the fact that we made the top ten makes Simone and I feel like maybe we did that the first week. So big thank you to you all. Thanks for listening and thanks for your DM's. It's so fun to talk with you about the episodes on Instagram.

It means so much, means the world to us.

We're closing out Women's History Month today. And so in celebration, we're talking about and talking with some amazing women. I'm thinking a little dose of inspiration, you know?

And today is an extra special day because Beyonce's new album, Cowboy Carter is here.

Wow. This is a day that everybody has been waiting for. So Beyonce first announced her new music last month and the Internet has not stopped talking about it since. I feel like it's one of the most anticipated drops out right now.

Oh, for sure. The album includes a track called Jolene, which is inspired by the queen of country herself, Dolly Parton, plus a Miley Cyrus collab. I mean, don't forget Willy Nelson. Willy Nelson, too. We've got so much buy in from the greats of country music. I think I'm going to need a full day to digest this album, so we're going to check in on this next week.

You know, when she announced it a while ago, she wrote that this album has been over five years in the making. It was born out of an experience that she had years ago where she didn't feel welcomed, and everybody was kind of talking about how that was probably a 2016 CMA moment that she had. There was some backlash from the country music industry. So not only am I excited that it's out, but I think that this actually holds a really deep meaning because for Beyonce, this is more than music. She did disco with Renaissance. She's now doing country. She mentioned the next one's gonna be rock and roll. She is creating a legacy here that is so much bigger than music, and I'm here for it.

I think lately there's been a lot of dialog around who is country music for and who gets to create country music. And this album, I think, is gonna redefine that narrative. And she alluded to this in her instagram post when she said that. I hope that any mention of an artist's race becomes irrelevant years from now when it comes to releasing different genres of music.

Plus, can we talk about the country corps? That's about to happen.

Oof.

Are you bringing out your cowboy boots?

Move aside, coquette. Move aside, coquette corps. Yee haw. Corps is here.

I wore a sparkly belt here that was country corps inspired. And I feel like everybody was like, oh, yeah, it's Beyonce inspired.

I have a cowboy hat sitting at the top of my closet. It's waiting to come out. It's ready to come out. My husband makes fun of me because every time we go to a more rural or country town, I always shop for cowboy boots. But I can never make a decision. So maybe I'll finally purchase my own pair of cowboy boots.

Now is the time.

It really is.

Now is the time. Now is also the time to let us know what you think. Where does cowboy Carter rank for you? Is it up there with lemonade or renaissance? Let us know@hellobrightsidepodcast.com.

Dot all right, let's get to another leading lady. Shirley Chisholm is in the spotlight over 50 years after her political career first began. That's because Regina King's Shirley Chisholm biopic that she produced and stars in is on Netflix. Now we have to take a moment to just give Shirley her flowers. Because she accomplished so many firsts over the course of her career. First black woman elected to Congress. The first black woman to run for president. And she was also a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus.

But here's the thing. Shirley Chisholm is somebody that has had such an impact on my life. I think it's important to take these feminist figures and actually get to know them as people. She was born in New York. Her dad was guyanese. Her mom was from Barbados. And she married a private investigator from Jamaica. In her twenties, which I love. She took night classes at Columbia University. In her thirties, she worked as the director of childcare centers in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Before becoming a consultant in New York City's Bureau of Child Welfare. And then it was just after her 40th birthday that her political career began. And we've been talking so much about second acts on this show. Talk about a second act.

One for the books.

I mean, she made such an imprint. And she was hugely influential in passing the Equal rights Amendment. Everybody talks about how she had this gift for language. And her campaign slogan when she ran for president was unbought and unbossed. And I have that book on my bookshelf. It has this beautiful blue cover. And she gives me this inspiration because it's like no one's ever done it before. Doesn't mean you can't. Everybody's saying no. Doesn't mean you can't get a yes. She just really never took no for an answer.

That's that contrarian spirit that Reese was talking about, too. You know, when I think of Shirley Chisholm, I think of all the women of color who ran for office because of her. And my grandmother was one of them.

What?

Yes. So my grandma's name was Bonnie Johns. And when she was little, I actually never got to meet her, which is really sad. She died just before I was born.

Wow.

But she's a legend in my eyes from everything that I've learned about her. Her name was Bonnie Johns. And when she was little, she was so poor, she only had one pair of shoes to wear to school. And all the kids would make fun of her. But she knew that education was going to be her ticket out. And she was right, because later in life, she won a seat on the school board in Maryland during the seventies, when integration and bussing was taking place. And she was fighting for black students to have access to the same quality of education as their white peers. So my grandmother ran for public office because of Shirley Chisholm.

That's an unbelievable story. Is this your mom's mom?

Yes. Yes.

So you come from a long line of unbought and unbossed women.

Exactly. A long line of agitators, organizers, civil servants. And to this day, there are several buildings named after my grandmother in my family's community in Maryland.

Have you been?

Yes.

Yeah, I've seen all the buildings.

You have to post photos of those. That's amazing.

Yeah. It's a special legacy that we have. And I think about, like, what it must have been like for my grandmother to take that step and take that risk and all the ridicule and criticism that she was probably up against at that time because there wasn't a ton of representation in public office. Huge thanks to women like Shirley for paving the way.

I mean, what a way to close out women's history month. Simone, that's incredible.

Thank you.

Speaking of icons of the women's liberation movement, we want to take a second to recognize the legendary Gloria Steinem. She turned 90 this week. 90. And she's such a personal hero of both of ours. And I think birthdays are sort of this one and only beautiful time that you get to eulogize someone to their face. You get to dedicate a day to love on them and tell everybody what's special about them in your eyes. And so I love reading people's birthday wishes to Gloria. But have you ever met Gloria?

I have met her in passing. She would never, ever remember me. I'm sure you have a much better story, so I won't.

She definitely won't remember me either. But tell me.

No, no, no. I met her at a party once. That's it.

At a party.

It was like, you know, like a women's, you know, like a feminist party. But it's an uneventful story that's not worth mentioning. I wanna hear your story.

Hold on. First of all, I love a feminist party.

I wore a pink pantsuit.

I made a whole segment about that.

Tell me your Gloria Steinem story.

I went to the makers conference years ago and went backstage to go meet her. I specifically asked to go meet her because I was like, I don't like, I don't really care about meeting celebrities. Gloria Steinem. I was shaking and I was like, what do I ask her if I get one question? So my friend Corey. Gloria and I went backstage and Corey is trans and spoke with Gloria first. And Gloria was like, first of all, she looked at her and affirmed her in the best way because she goes trans. People have always been around Native Americans had two spirit people, and I've never seen Corey's face light up like that. Like, you could just tell what Gloria Steinem gave her in that moment. And then I went up to her and she looked at my belt, and I wore this big statement belt because Gloria always wears statement belts. It's like her only piece of fashion that I think she cares about. And I was like, what does it feel like to have all the answers? Like, you're the person that every feminist turns to?

Great question.

Is that a lot of pressure? And she looked me down in the eye and she giggled, and she was like, I feel no pressure at all. Nobody has all the answers. All you can do is live present in the moment. And she spoke so intently, and that word presence really stuck out to me because that's all she was. She met hundreds of people that day and gave everybody her eye contact. And I was like, if I take anything from that moment, it's presents. Also, have you ever read the book dedication of my life on the road?

I haven't read it.

The dedication is to the doctor that gave her an abortion. And it says, I've done the best I could with my life. This book is for you. Gives me chills when I read that.

Well, that makes me think about how that decision changed the course of her life and how that doctor changed the course of her life. Like all the things that she went on to achieve that might not have been possible had she not made that choice.

That's all she's ever been fighting for, I think, is choice. She always said that feminism is not about right or wrong. It's just about choice.

Yeah. Well, we want to wish Gloria Steinem a happy birthday. We hope that you enjoyed your celebration. You deserve it, girl.

Yes, 90. A whole new decade.

Okay, after the break, we're talking aging and joy with Mary Jane Fahey. It's a segment we're calling grand ole Grammys. You don't want to miss it.

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Welcome back. I'm Danielle Robet here with Simone Boyce, and we want to introduce a regular segment on the bright side called grand ole Grammys. Celebrating. Yes, absolutely. Celebrating aging.

We want to recognize the wisdom of the women who came before us, and our inaugural guest is here to help us confidently and boldly embrace aging. Mary Jane Fahey is the founder and creative director of the fast growing online community for aging. Glorious broads. And even though Mary Jane technically isn't a grandma herself, we like to think of her as a universal matriarch, dropping knowledge bombs for all of us. You gotta check them out on Instagram and TikTok. They're fabulous. Mary Jane, welcome to the bright side.

Welcome, Mary Jane.

Hi.

Love to be here. Such a fan.

We're so happy to have you. Okay, Mary Jane, can you define what is glorious broads?

We're a community that wants to spread the word, to go forward unapologetically. Don't complain about your age. Do not talk about being invisible. You decide to be visible. We really, really want to get to women like you, to the younger women, and say, there's plenty of joy here. Look, look what's ahead of you.

Yes. Okay. So when I think of the word broad, I think of someone's old, crotchety grandpa using the word in an old timey voice. But I looked it up, and there seems to be a few histories of the term online. So some people say it comes from broad hips, which is funny. And some people trace it to American English, meaning a broad wife, which was like a word for a woman often a slave away from her husband.

Oh, my goodness.

I kind of always thought of it as a derogatory word, but just like great feminists do, you flip the term on its head. So why do you call yourselves glorious broads?

Well, I just want to give credit where it deserves. Broad city. Do you remember that show?

Yes.

No way it was inspired by that.

Absolutely. See, I was not a Sex and the City fan. Yeah, I'm gonna say it. I was a broad city girl. And I love that they brought that term back. And I think of abroad, I do not think Frank Sinatra. Thank you very much. I think of so many owning it. Their sexuality, their sassiness, their everything. It's a girl who kind of stomps through life like those two girls did.

So who is Mary Jane, the glorious broad?

Oh, I will tell you, I had a very successful publishing career, and it was design. And then I decided somewhere along the line, probably when print went kaput, that I was going to start writing something I always thought I'd do. I started writing. Wrote a very funny book called dumped, and I loved it, and I was good at it. And I got a gig at ARP AARp to design for them. And I got offered the editorship of something called disrupt aging. So I literally walked across the hall and started my new career.

Amazing. So who are the most influential broads in your life?

Good question. I had a wonderful mother, a kick ass mother, and I had a great grandma, and we all lived in the same house. It's not a house. It was a Brooklyn apartment. We squashed the men. Sorry. Sorry, boys. But we did. And so those older women were an inspiration to me until. Until we all left the house. And I saw that you really have to hold on to your power, and not through kids. So this may sound odd, but later in my life, with all my sisters, all my sisters were kick ass broads as they grew older. But I read an obituary. Clara Hancock's. And this woman, at 85 years old, decided to become a lesbian, move to the country, write a book, took up motorcycling. She was everything I ever wanted to be. And that's what kind of started Gloria sprogs.

Older women hold so much wisdom, and a lot of it is untapped. So I'm really curious as to the biggest surprise you've personally had when it comes to aging.

Mm. I would say the freedom. As a young woman, I was harassed on the street. I had, like, 38 d cups, and I was tortured. I like men. I don't hate men. I don't hold it all against you, but it wasn't fun. So as I get older, I like it when I choose to be invisible. And I like it if I don't feel like wearing makeup or I don't feel like putting my lipstick on and I just put on a baseball hat and I could put on a sweater. That may disguise the assets that were probably more prevalent when I was in my twenties and thirties. I am free, and that has been the surprise for me.

Everything changes when you're no longer seeking the approval of men, right?

Absolutely. And that is another one of those surprises. Waking up one day and for me it was almost like that, and realizing, oh, I no longer care about what they think, and I no longer care if I'm mated or not. That is incredibly freeing.

I have to admit, when I'm 60 plus, I still kind of hope I care about getting laid. Oh, yes, I hope I care.

Oh, no, that is a big part of what I'm talking about too. That we remain sexual and sensuous. Absolutely. But I mean that it drives you. So it's a different kind of drive.

Please tell me more of that. Because I think while it's taboo for women at virtually every age to start talking about sex, it's definitely taboo for women as they get older. And so how do you think that sex has changed as you've aged? And is it as enjoyable at 70 as it was at 30?

I'm gonna be blunt, Mary Jane. Does the sex get better with time?

It has for me. And I say more, say more. I am not alone. I am not alone. I just had a dinner with one of my very, very fabulous friends from Washington, DC. And she went off for about five years. I too went off for about. Well, it wasn't five years, but four years. I just needed a little detox after my marriage broke up.

Off the sex, you mean? Just to clarify.

Yeah, just like off sex. Yeah, I needed a little detox and a little time for me, me, me, me. And so did she. But wow, did she come back roaring. And so did I.

And why is that?

I think it's because there's almost a feeling of being more in control as you age. You know what you want. And I know this is a little cliche, but it's true, ladies, you know what you want, and if you remain healthy, that is an issue for me. And even if you lose your health, a friend of mine, this is a great one, a friend of mine recently said I may not be able to get all the positions, but I still have my mouth. And I was like, okay, girlfriend. And that's what I'm saying. I am not alone. If you choose not to have sex, good for you. But I just feel like so many choices are ours rather than when I was young. Anyway, I chased a lot, and I wanted that phone. Now I just, like I do the dialing.

Mary Jane, speaking of choices, we also get to choose how we perceive our own bodies. Right. How has your relationship with your body changed over time?

I think I really became friends with my body when I hit 50. I was always a fitness girl, but I always had idealistic pictures of myself on my fridge. And I must have hit about 50 when I said, fuck this. I'm just gonna do the best I can and be the best I can at whatever decade I'm in. I think that I'm much more comfortable with having my flabby belly at this age than I was when I was 20. It's okay.

It's more than okay. Okay. So I wanna pivot back to talking about glorious broads. Who is in this community of women? Is there one criteria they all share in common?

Well, I think most of the women that I talk to are unconventional, and I don't mean that necessarily. They're not married or they don't have kids. But there is definitely a thread of saying, fuck the system. Am I allowed to say that?

Please. Hell, yeah.

Say more. Say more.

Oh, yeah. And they live imaginatively. So I just want to say to all of the younger ones that you can have a wonderful older life, and in many, many ways, it's freeing.

What have you learned from the very oldest gloria sprotts? Cause you've interviewed so many people.

Yeah. I would say my very favorites is a very good friend of mine. She's 85 and also a one year old woman who every time I go out, I learn something remarkable from. I now recognize the courage it took to be single for so long. I never looked at it that way, but I am still treated differently around the holidays. And I'm like, oh, no, no, no. Don't feel sorry for me. So I think it took my friend to make me realize that the decisions that I made in life were, in fact, they took some. They took some guts. I'm just so thankful for having these old broads in my life.

What do you do for the holidays now? Because I think whether you're older or you're simply single at any age or just alone for some of those moments, I'm so curious as to what you do to make sure that they're full and happy.

Well, the delicious thing. I do whatever the fuck I want, but I also have a good group of pals. I often have a man in my life, and I do now, and he's usually involved with the women. But I like to go away or if I'd stay in town. I have a nice full day. My birthday is coming up, 74, and I want to do everything that I want to do that day. And that's kind of like a big holiday to me. I'll go to San Ambrose down the block and have one of my fantastic sandwiches. I'll go to the museum. I love New York. I love getting old in this town. I'll go see piece of theater, and I'll see my buddies at Joe Allen's. That's a holiday to me, no different from Christmas, because, you know, I don't have as many people in my family as I did. And that's okay. You come to peace with that. All the changes in life, including death.

We constantly hear this narrative of fearing our birthdays. Like, I can't tell you how many times, my friend, a lot of my friends are turning 40, and they're like, oh, I'm so scared. I'm so scared. Do you age out of those fears around your birthday?

Oh, I have to say I did have older sisters, and they had such a great attitude about aging that I had them to look up to. But again, for me, I'm going to bring up the fifties. For some reason, all of my ladies say, the fuck you fifties are a real thing. And I know they were for me. They were definitely for me.

It's funny cause we have it written down as the fuck it fifties, but you keep saying the fuck you fifties, which is even more powerful.

But you'll see, I can't wait to find out if you get there earlier.

Good for you.

Yeah, right.

That's the goal.

Yeah.

Simone and I are in our thirties. She's 36. I'm 33. What is something at 74 that you think we absolutely need to know at our age?

Mm. You know what I would say, ladies? I would say to let go of the timeline you may have for yourself, whether it's career, although obviously you're both kicking ass. Whether it's a love life, whether it's even baby making. You know, try to let go of that timeline, and you will have a more joyful life.

Mary Jane, we often hear leaders saying that finding your authentic self is so important. And yet to me, that word has never felt more meaningless or overused, today it is overused. I have a feeling that you and all the glorious broads could school us on authenticity. So what do glorious broads know about authenticity that we don't?

Oh, that's a very good question. I'm going to say that that imaginative living is the way they all live. Meaning, they really listen to their guts. And if you lived your life where you're really listening to that little authentic voice, that voice in your head that said, quit that job or try harder or write that book or write, if you follow that gutsy voice in your life, it'll be authentic.

Wow. Danielle has tears in her eyes.

Aw.

What's, what's making you emotional, Danielle?

I really didn't think I was gonna cry this week. On the bright side, I wish we.

Could go have a martini right now.

I'll use one of those.

Same.

You know, I have been feeling really, I turned 33 in January, and I've been feeling really anxious about my timeline. I really want kids, and I'm single. I don't have a partner, and I don't really try to go find one, which is not to my mother's liking. However, I really needed to hear that. I loved that you said imaginative living.

Yeah.

So thank you for that.

Oh, you're welcome. You have plenty of time.

And now I'm empathy crying alongside her. This is just a really blubbery episode of the bright side.

It really takes a lot to make Simone cry, too.

Mary Jane, you brought it out of us. Gosh, this interview, I mean, this conversation, I don't even want to call it an interview. It's a conversation has just been so revelatory and soul filling. Thank you so much.

You're very welcome.

Thank you, Mary Jane.

All right, have a great afternoon, ladies.

You too. Please have a martini or two for us.

I think I will.

Mary Jane Fahey is the founder and curator of Glorious Broads. Check it out at glorious Broads on Instagram and TikTok.

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What an incredible conversation we just had with Mary Jane Fahey.

Yeah, she was special.

I don't know about you, but it felt like I was talking to an older version of myself, like an older, wiser version of myself.

I could tell you felt that in the conversation.

Why?

Just the way you were talking to her. I felt that you aligned with her spirit, with what she was saying. What did you feel like you needed to hear?

What I love about our conversation with her and what I love about a lot of the videos that she posts on glorious broads is that the advice that comes from these older women really debunks a lot of the things that we tend to worry about in our thirties or forties or, you know, definitely our twenties.

And the things that we hear culturally. Right, like, for women, so much of the cultural conversation is, well, you better hit a milestone before this age because you expire. And then when you see wonderful older women do quite the opposite, you're like, hmm, maybe I've been sold a bill of goods.

Exactly. And I also. I just really get angry and resent all of the anti aging messaging that were fed through ads, through media, through celebrities who will go unnamed. And I love to see a woman like Mary Jane who is thriving in her seventies.

I actually will not buy a product that is marketed as anti aging. I know that's actually controversial. Cause I've said that on my instagram, and people are like, well, sometimes I do want to refine fine lines or wrinkles, but I think saying that is very different than saying anti aging.

I heard an ad the other day that was like, do this, and it'll take five years off your face. It's just so rude.

Well, we don't say it to men.

Forget about that. I mean, the whole double standard when it comes to silver hair thing with men. We see silver haired, gray haired news anchors all the time. Just speaking from, like, my own industry. We see them all the time. But do you ever see a gray haired female news anchor?

It's very rare. There was actually a canadian news anchor that got fired because of her gray hair. She let it go gray during COVID and they were like, you're out. It was crazy. They didn't say that explicitly, but that's. That's what happened.

I hope she took him down.

I loved when she started talking about imaginative living. Same the idea that we have the power and the ability to create the life that we're looking for, and it doesn't have to be this cookie cutter thing. And you mentioned the hedonic treadmill the other day. But I think that it's been making me reflect on what's important to me and what is, like, what am I coming home to? And I started thinking about my life differently and wondering if I've spent too much time professionally and not enough time pouring into my romantic life. And I've decided I don't regret it, but I am, I think, gonna make a shift. And her words really inspire that. Like, no shame of the past, no regret of the past, but maybe do something different moving forward.

I'm really proud of you. I know that sounds weird because we haven't been friends for that long, but that's a really massive realization to have and a very mature one and a very wise one.

Thank you. I realized through therapy it's about collecting information. And so I'm just noticing, but I'm noticing a shift within myself, and Mary Jane's words hit home. Did anything in particular hit you?

I have to agree. It's the imaginative living part, this idea that you are the creative director of your own life and imaginative living, what I love about that phrase is that it reflects back to ourselves. It's not about, like, our imagination is something internal. Our imagination is completely unique and different from someone else's imagination. So it's not about comparing yourself to other people and living by a timeline that you see represented in everyone else. It's about what does my life look like according to my imagination, according to my vision for it? So, you know how we like to leave our bright side besties with a little spark to carry throughout their day. Yes, I have an idea.

Tell me.

I want to leave everyone with this affirmation. I am a force of imaginative living.

We also want to share a voice memo that we got from Jacob Rivera Sanchez at Texas Wesleyan university. He was talking about which parts of the Reese Witherspoon interview meant the most to him.

Good morning. My name is Jacob and I just finished listening to the first episode of the bright side podcast. It's a rainy Monday morning here in Texas, so it definitely was a bright spot to my work week. The thing that I took away the most from your interview with Reese is about the impact of strong female figures and influences in your life. But at least for me, and I know some other young men out there, it helps us to become better advocates and better supporters because we also have had strong female influences in our lives, from mothers to grandmothers, aunts, sisters, cousins, even co workers. So I'm looking forward to hearing more from the bright side podcast than just hello Sunshine projects in general about how I can be better for the women who make me better. So, yeah, I just wanted to share a little bit about that and I'm looking forward to listening to more from the podcast.

Jacob, that voice memo made our day. Your mama raised you right.

Oh, he is so sweet, Jacob. Thank you for that. When he said, we want to support the women who supported us. Whew. That is a good man.

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