Making Older Friends

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Women over 50 are too often erased, including on this very podcast. Grace Bonney has been collecting inspiration and advice from women of more advanced experience in her new book, Collective Wisdom. She's gathered interviews and intergenerational conversations with over 100 trailblazing women, who describe the ups, downs, and lessons learned while forging their unique paths.

Grace Bonney founded Design*Sponge, a daily website dedicated to the creative community, and Good Company, a print magazine at the intersection of creativity and business. In 2019, she shuttered both of these publications to focus more on in-person community, and she’s currently in graduate school training to become a therapist. She is the author of In the Company of Women: Inspiration and Advice from Over 100 Makers, Artists, and Entrepreneurs.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:03.8	A podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:06.4	I'm Amina Tussaud and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:09.0	Hey Anne Friedman, what's up this week?
0:11.3	On today's agenda, we are talking about aging.
0:14.6	Specifically being older, being an elder.
0:18.4	Our guest is Grace Bonnie, who has a new book out called Collective Wisdom, Lessons, Inspiration,
0:24.2	and Envice from Women Over 50.
0:27.3	This book is a revelation.
0:28.8	It's a collection of interviews and intergenerational conversations with over 100 women who talk
0:34.8	really frankly about the ups and the downs and the lessons they learned while forging their
0:39.6	identities and their unique paths in the world.
1:09.6	Grace comes to this work from a really interesting place.
1:18.4	You might know her as the founder of Design Spunge, which began as a daily website dedicated
1:23.1	to the creative community, or perhaps you've read Good Company, which is her print magazine,
1:28.9	which is all about creativity and business, or maybe you've heard her podcast.
1:33.4	There was a Good Company podcast as well.
1:35.7	In 2019, she shuttered both of these publications because she wanted to focus more on in-person
1:40.7	community rather than this big, diffuse online community.
1:44.4	She had fostered.
1:45.8	Right now, she's in graduate school training to become a therapist.
1:49.5	Her previous book was in the company of women, Inspiration and Advice from Over 100
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