Revisiting New York City’s Glory Days with Dorinda Medley

Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Rebecca Minkoff

Society & Culture

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Welcome back to the Morning After Series on SUPERWOMEN, sponsored by Magnum Ice Cream! In the fourth and final episode of this series, Candace Bushnell, the creator of “Sex and The City,” and I met up with with Dorinda Medley—beloved “Real Housewives of New York” alum, author of “Make It Nice,” and ultimate New York icon—for an unfiltered conversation about reinvention, relationships, and what it really means to grow into yourself. In this episode, Dorinda brings her signature wit and honesty to the table as she reflects on the wisdom and peace that come with age, the art of the hard reset, and how she learned to manage anxiety by embracing stillness. From spontaneous kisses over Sunday lattes to morning walks in Central Park (with perfectly groomed dogs), Dorinda reminds us that life is best lived with heart, intention, and a healthy dose of humor. We also dive into the evolution of dating after 50, why women should lean into saying yes, and how Blue Stone Manor became not just a home but a sanctuary. We get into the “floozy clause” of prenups, the realities of Upper East Side divorce culture, and the beauty of female friendship. This episode is sponsored by Magnum Ice Cream (US). Magnum believes you deserve the best possible dessert experience every time and for lovers of chocolate and caramel, their double caramel ice cream bar is exactly that! Magnum Double Caramel ice cream bars are the #1 Caramel ice cream treat on the market. See why More is More with Magnum Double Caramel! Find them at retailers nationwide and at magnumicecream.com. Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to order my book, “Fearless: The New Rules for Unlocking Creativity, Courage, and Success.” Follow SUPERWOMEN (@rmsuperwomen), Candace (@candacebushnell), Dorinda (@dorindamedley) and Magnum Ice Cream (@magnumicecream) on Instagram. Support this podcast: https://bit.ly/rmsuperwomen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the morning after series. In this final episode of the series, Candace Bushnell,
0:04.2	creator of Sex and the City and I, are going to be chatting about everything from career and
0:08.6	adulting to relationships, friendships, and of course love or the struggle to find it, maybe with a pet,
0:14.6	here in New York City with Dorinda Medley. The series is sponsored by Magnum Ice Cream.
0:19.0	Magnum Ice Cream believes in more chocolate, more sauces, and more of what makes you, you.
0:24.5	Magnum Double Caramel Ice Cream bars are the number one caramel ice cream treat in the market.
0:29.2	Magnum Ice Cream believes in more chocolate, more sauces, and more of what makes you you, you.
0:34.1	See why More is More with Magnum Double Caramel.
0:37.1	Trust us. You'll love them. I hope you
0:39.1	enjoy the episode. On that note, welcome to our last and final episode together. I'm sad it's
0:45.7	coming to an end. I am too. I didn't even know what was going on. So that's great. And I'm all right. I got
0:50.3	caught it at the end. Yes. Well, we thought, you know what, we've interviewed women from like every decade. And I think it's interesting to hear different perspectives of dating, love, work, family life from like so many different perspectives. Durenda, welcome. And you two go way back. I said that we've been around the block. We've gone around again and we're going around a third time.
1:11.3	Exactly. We still got a smile on our faces. What's different about the block this time?
1:17.6	Wisdom. I think wisdom's a big thing. I'm thinking, what's different? We're older.
1:24.4	Okay, but do you feel like you have wisdom? I feel like I have wisdom and I feel like I have a lot of
1:28.8	peace and I'm much more content with myself. You know, I still, I mean, people would realize about
1:33.8	this, realize this about me because I come off as very happy, go lucky, but I do suffer from anxiety
1:38.8	because I'm an overachiever. I'm pretty pleased with how I run my life. I'm quite a control freak of the way I'm
1:45.6	scheduled in my life. But every once in a while, anxiety catches me. So, and when I was younger,
1:51.8	I had that a lot more. So now as I'm older, I definitely have more self-confidence, far more
1:56.9	accepting of myself, less fearful. And I just think overall contentment. I also feel
2:04.0	less anxiety, but I also feel less, you know, sort of desire to like manifest things and make
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