Get ready to get your summer beach book picks on! Writer Annabel Monaghan shares what’s on top of her to-be-read pile, beach books not to miss, writers that get midlife right, and the back story behind her buzzy new book Nora Goes Off Script. Plus, we dish on midlife joy and fangirl over Paul Rudd.

Fired at 50 from a job that was her identity, Wendi Knox had a life-changing, storybook run-in that was so transformative, she just couldn't keep it to herself. We talk reinvention and breaking free of the “age cage” that can keep you stuck.

Want a surefire way to be lit up about midlife and how you spend your days? Find Your Unicorn Space author Eve Rodsky has ideas to wire your brain (and life) with more joy, energy, and meaning. Bonus! We explore toxic time messages and women’s rage and resentment.

Grace Bonney, author of Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women Over 50, shares intimate, triumphant tales of more than 100+ women living extraordinary lives. Equal parts inspo, art.

Writer Angie Kim of the bestseller “Miracle Creek” shares her pivot from law to fiction. Plus, what’s in store next for this literary supernova.

Meet Zibby Owens, podcasting powerhouse, author, big-time book lover, and host of the award-winning literary podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books. Plus, summer reads not to miss, the one book to read again and again, and the prefect book gift.

Comic Carole Montgomery built a 40-year career doing stand-up, often as the only woman on stage. Now, she has helmed two Showtime comedy specials, Funny Women Of A Certain Age, and more. Learn what’s making her LOL.

Kristin van Ogtrop, the former editor-in-chief of Real Simple, dishes on midlife indignities in her laugh-out-loud funny book, Did I Say That Out Loud?

Author and essayist Rachel Levy Lesser shares ideas for weathering grief, mothering, and claiming joy, one baked good at a time.

Emerging screenwriter Barbara Ward Thall hit her late-fifties and decided she wanted a wildly different third-act. After decades in senior ad and marketing roles at buzzy companies like Amazon's Audible, she now writes highly personal, female-led screenplays and TV.

Listen in as two award-winning ad creatives talk launching their #AgeisNOTjustaNumber video campaign -- an "Age Anthem" tackling ageism head-on. Plus, why the duo launched a creative agency focused on the 50+ female market.

Novelist Karen Dukess published her first book at 56. She talks midlife creativity, giving yourself permission, and why the fear of not “doing it well” eventually takes a backseat to the fear of not doing it all.