No Country for Old Women

This week! Kimberly's hungover, Jenn's feeling uncharacteristically optimistic. Plus: White lady yoga chat, learning and re-learning how to swim in midlife, corporate retreats, the hell of icebreakers, decoupling health insurance from our jobs, and are we seeing lights at the end of the 2026 garbage tunnel?Show notes"The End Comes Before the Beginning" by Rebecca SolnitNote: The swim class Kimberly referenced is no longer being held, but her original instructor recommends Cori Myka and her Orca Swim School.Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week! Another wild ride! Tech overlords, the AI graduation mess, an honest conversation about class, a reluctant chat about menopause, plus corrections, clarifications, and: are we just old (ish) ladies yelling at clouds?Show notes:Classy podcastWhat Fresh Hell Is This? Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You by Heather CorinnaDr. Jen GunterWhere to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week! Top-tier moments amid (despite?) the sociological rubble, making a home wherever you go, and everyday tech death by a thousand cuts. Plus, internalizing the failures of the system as your own personal failures, a new plan for eminent domain, staying open to new experiences, rich-people yard sales, should we run for office? our first listener 'suggestion box,' and more!Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week! Kimberly's jaunty, Jenn is stressed, and we're talking all about culottes/shants/JAMS, AI, fuse boxes, death, the jobs landscape, Bezos's Met Gala, the lives we've already lived, becoming new people, and, somewhat inexplicably, a whole lot more!Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week! Kimberly's crying. Jenn's trying to "bring back joy," and they're talking all about friend breakups, Kash Patel, personal perception, Mel Robbins, information overload, and the mind-bending news channel that is Instagram. Plus self-deprecation, sarcasm, razzing, haters, and other GenX hallmarks!Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week! Sex talks, arrested emotional development, vanity, talking about aging without talking about aging, can you ever find your perfect place? Plus jealousy as a guiding force, the writer Helen DeWitt and lots more!Show noteGuardian story about Helen DeWitt.Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week! Marketing without consent; the compulsive need for self expression; Lena Dunham, Garfield, JD Vance, and the Pope (but not in that order); feedback loops; haters; IS THIS SHOW JUST COMPLAINING? Plus: Why we should all be writing more thank you notes and... AN ANNOUNCEMENT! Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomen [WITH NEW CREATIVE PRO TIER!]Our Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Firmly in our fall down era! Plus: Road rage, crying at the ob/gyn, GenX men, our self-help-proof moment and: how is everyone dealing right now?Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomenOur Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.comICYMI: We wrote some books!AMATEUR HOUR, AMBITION MONSTER, BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY, WEIRD IN A WORLD THAT’S NOT. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wiping out while attempting to get a lil' treat, the sea change in creative pursuits, late-to-the-party chats about last week's news and how no one needs April Fool's Day in Trump's America. Plus, dirtbag activism, a long talk about tattoos for the hell of it and — wah wah — will we ever write again?Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomenOur Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.comICYMI: We wrote some books!AMATEUR HOUR, AMBITION MONSTER, BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY, WEIRD IN A WORLD THAT’S NOT. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kimberly and Jenn discover they're a top-10 new podcast?! Plus: the Lindy West memoir controversy, why writing memoir as a woman blows, how the non-stop news assault is scrambling our brains, nostalgia for old-timey reporting (support local news!) and also somehow the story of how we met and also jeans?Show notes:Rachel Cusk + Sheila Heti podcast, "Why Memoir Is a Dead End"Julie K. Brown's newsletter, The Epstein FilesL.A. MaterialMidcoast VillagerOld Navy jeansAlso: We wrote some books!AMATEUR HOUR, AMBITION MONSTER, BUT YOU SEEMED SO HAPPY, WEIRD IN A WORLD THAT’S NOT.Where to find us: Our email: nocountryforoldwomenpod@gmailOur Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomenOur Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kimberly's in Instagram jail, Jenn's the worst student in Reiki class, and "manosphere victims" are spending $20K on strip-mall penis filler! Plus, a call for jazz-handy writing, a post mortem on our first episode, and one of us has a shameful secret about bras.Where to find us: Our email: nocountryforoldwomenpod@gmailOur Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomenOur Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.comReferences:Secret boom in penis enlargements as ‘manosphere victims’ pay $20,000 in strip mall clinics to boost their packages Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

OUR INAUGURAL EPISODE! We're talking about birthdays and long-term marriages and sharing a bed and the circle of hell that is navigating health insurance and this stupid f*cking war and men in charge wearing too-small shoes and parenting teens through the darkness. Plus: Smoking is back, so is cocaine and, apparently, Costco is the only thing currently working in the U.S. of A.Where to find us: Our Patreon: patreon.com/NoCountryForOldWomenOur Instagram: @nocountryforoldwomenpodJenn's newsletter: jennromolini.substack.comKimberly's newsletter: kimberlyharrington.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CULTURE. CREATIVITY. POLITICS. WORK. MONEY. RELATIONSHIPS. FRIENDSHIPS. DATING. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Are you a woman just trying to live in this world? Do you often whisper to yourself “what the hell is going on?" Are you a bitch in the streets but a compulsive crier in the sheets? Do you like to laugh?Well, you’ve come to the right place. HELLO.Hosted by GenX writers Jennifer Romolini and Kimberly Harrington, No Country For Old Women is a podcast about what it's like to be alive in these times. Each week, we'll be processing the world in the only way we know how — through chaotic yap sessions where we’ll think and overthink, and talk about everything and nothing.Join us, won't you?Catch new episodes of No Country For Old Women starting March 18th wherever you get your podcasts.For updates, bonus content, and to support the show: patreon.com/nocountryforoldwomen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.