Episode 141: When I'm 85 - an interview with Madeleine Kunin

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A few years ago I spoke to former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin for a show called Politics is Power. When I took some of her career advice and wrote it up in a LinkedIn post, it got hundreds of (positive) comments. So when I heard she had a new memoir out about being in her eighties, I couldn't wait to talk to her again. In this show we discuss what it's like to officially be an old woman, and talk about some of the highs and lows of reaching your eighties. We discuss how she's changed as a person and go back in time to her childhood, to parts of her career, and to the time she became single again at 60 after years of marriage. She found love again at 71. Being 85, she says, 'is not what I pictured in my mind.'

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0:35.9	But for now, just relax.
0:37.8	Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.
0:53.8	I'm Ashley Milntight. This time, a woman with a long career, Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.
0:55.2	I'm Ashley Milne Tite.
1:02.0	This time, a woman with a long career in public life reflects on what it means to be in her 80s.
1:05.6	You can still enjoy a sunset at 85.
1:09.9	And so I try to dwell on things of beauty.
1:20.4	When you know there's not much time left, you have to focus on what really gives you joy and what makes life meaningful. Retired politician Madeline CUNin comes of age.
1:24.4	Coming up on the broad experience.
1:35.2	Thank you. of age, coming up on the broad experience. We rarely hear the voices of older people in the media, and a lot of us don't have a person
1:40.8	in their 70s or 80s or 90s with whom we spend any amount of time.
1:46.1	That's a really different situation from the one we had for centuries when we all lived in our
1:50.8	hometowns in tight family groups. Some of you will remember I interviewed Madeline CUNYunin back in
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