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Two Old Bitches: Stories from Women who Reimagine, Reinvent and Rebel

Love your bitchy self! Join us – Idelisse Malavé and Joanne Sandler the Two Old Bitches (from New York City) – as we celebrate kick-ass, unstoppable women from around the world. Women over 50 tell us how they re-imagine their lives, their bodies, their relationships and their creativity as they go through huge transitions. Be inspired! Laugh and cry with us! Contact us and let us interview you! ------------------------------ Visit www.twooldbitches.com Follow us on Instagram @twooldbitches, Twitter @TwoOldBitches, Facebook @TwoOBPodcast
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Now displaying: March, 2021
Mar 26, 2021
What are we talking about when we talk about “reinventing” ourselves? Our conversation with writer, teacher and Japanese home cooking guru, Sonoko Sakai, reveals how failure is a pathway to discovering long-standing passions and new opportunities. After two decades as a successful film buyer and producer, Sonoko confronted financial and career loss. To heal, she discovered “putting my hands in flour was the most therapeutic way.” In 2008, she took a noodle-making class in Japan and went on to teach Japanese home cooking in her house in California. Her reputation grew, her soba noodles were celebrated, her classes were sought after for birthdays, corporate events and by individuals, she developed a community project to preserve heirloom grains, and wrote a popular cookbook. Then, in 2020, COVID hit. At 65, she shifted again and brought her classes online, grew her audience fivefold, brought in young women to co-create with her, and built what is becoming a women’s cooperative venture. Sonoko keeps learning and innovating, proud that, at 65 she’s got more energy than most millennials and hopes to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps and live to at least 100. Try her cookbook recipes, shop at her online store, and listen to our delicious conversation with Sonoko to get a flavor of the joy that reinvention evokes.  
 
Order Sonoko’s book – Japanese Home Cooking: Simple Meals, Authentic Flavors (https://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Home-Cooking-Authentic-Flavors/dp/161180616X)
 
Check out the NY Times article about Sonoko: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/t-magazine/sonoko-sakai-chef-cooking-soba.html
Mar 11, 2021

“What have you been watching?” “See anything good lately?” are questions many of us routinely ask each other, especially during the pandemic. A trusted recommendation for a movie and, for some of us even better, a series with many seasons is cause to celebrate.  How often, though, do you hear of a good movie or series about, for, or by older women? Not often. So when we heard about the film “Let Them All Talk” at the end of 2020, we asked book agent Malaga Baldi, Debbie Zimmerman who heads Women Make Movies and Emmy-nominated former TV producer and wellness and lifestyle coach Renata Joy to join us for a conversation about it and other films and series featuring older women. Two Old Bitches, Joanne and Idelisse, call them geriatric rom-coms. You know the ones we mean. “Something’s Gotta Give,”(Diane Keaton), “It’s Complicated” (Meryl Streep), “Book Club” (Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candace Bergen, Mary Steenburgen), “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” (Judy Dench and Maggie Smith) and a number of others sprinkled over the past two decades. Too many of them are not very good. “Why is that?” the five of us wondered. We have some answers and laughs we’d like to share with you, as well as a list of films and series we recommend.  And, we enjoyed doing this so much that we plan to do it again.

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