Talk Fifty To Me
by Heidi Clements & Constance Zimmer
Talk Fifty to Me is midlife unfiltered: honest, often hilarious conversations for women over 50, hosted by Emmy-nominated actress and director Constance Zimmer (UnREAL, House of Cards, Love Story) and comedy writer/pro-aging influencer Heidi Clements. So you just turned 50—now what? Your 50s are like leaving a cult. How do you deprogram yourself from everything that’s been baked into you while figuring out your place in your own body? If you don’t know who you are, your 50s will demand you finally figure it out. Every week, Constance and Heidi sit down with incredible women who are crushing it in their 50s and beyond for real conversations about menopause and perimenopause, midlife reinvention, careers, style, and aging gracefully (or not so gracefully). No experts lecturing, no anti-aging sales pitch. Just women who refuse to disappear because they hit the big five-o. Guests have included Julie Bowen, Padma Lakshmi, El
Episodes
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Andrea Bendewald on Women's Circles, Friendship & Walking Away From Acting
Actress Andrea Bendewald (Suddenly Susan, Friends, The Morning Show) walked off the audition treadmill in midlife and founded The Art of Circling, a women's-circle practice she has led in Los Angeles and online for more than a decade. She tells Heidi and Constance what actually happens in a…
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Luna Lauren Vélez on Dating After 50, Menopause & Midlife
Dating after fifty is a trip, and Luna Lauren Vélez minces no words about it. The Brooklyn-born Afro-Latina actress and identical twin has spent three decades in HBO prison dramas, Showtime crime thrillers and animation: Oz, New York Undercover, Dexter, Power Book II: Ghost and American Rust…
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Omisade Burney-Scott on Black Women, Menopause & Finding the Language
Omisade Burney-Scott took the lack of language for what was happening to her body and built the language other women now use. The 59-year-old Durham, North Carolina, mother of two is a seventh-generation Black Southern feminist, storyteller and reproductive justice advocate, and the founder of…
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Dr. Kristi Funk: DCIS, Lumpectomy & Constance Zimmer's Breast Cancer Story
Breast Cancer Awareness Month gets personal. Constance Zimmer shares her DCIS (stage 0 breast cancer) diagnosis, which she kept private through her very public "Love Story" press tour and Emmy nomination. Most doctors pointed her toward a mastectomy; breast surgeon Dr. Kristi Funk, founder of The...
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Nyakio Grieco on Founding 13 Lune in Her 50s & Learning to Say No
"What people think of me is really none of my business." Nyakio Grieco turned a family coffee business into a beauty empire. In her 50s she founded 13 Lune, the biggest BIPOC-owned beauty marketplace in the US, and launched the clean, inclusive skincare brand Relevant. A former chronic people...
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Dr. Jessica Shepherd on Perimenopause, Menopause & Self-Compassion
Board-certified OB/GYN Dr. Jessica Shepherd, one of the most-booked menopause doctors in American media, joins us on her own perimenopause journey as she heads toward 50. We talk midlife, perimenopause and menopause, why all women in menopause aren't treated equally, and one of the hardest things...
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Jennie Garth on "I Choose Me," Reinvention & Life After 90210
Jennie Garth is building a brand around three words her 90210 character Kelly Taylor said in the '90s: "I choose me." In her 50s she has become a New York Times bestselling author with her memoir I Choose Me, launched the QVC line Me by Jennie Garth and hosts her own podcast. She talks…
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Missi Pyle on Sobriety, Comedy & Reigniting Her Country Band in Her 50s
Prepare to say "wait, what?" a lot. Missi Pyle, the character actress and cult sci-fi icon from Galaxy Quest, once played a character named Constance Zimmer in The Artist. In her 50s she's two years sober, working nonstop and reigniting her country-rock band Smith & Pyle after 14 years. Hilarious...
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Ming-Na Wen on Star Wars, Becoming a Disney Legend & Her Family Cookbook
Ming-Na Wen on midlife, family and Star Wars. She became the first Asian woman named a Disney Legend at 56, got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 59, and has argued for the "Tom Cruise effect": long careers built on craft, not age. She also talks about turning her family history into the...
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Amy Landecker on Making Her First Film at 55 & Defying Hollywood Ageism
Amy Landecker, Sarah Pfefferman on Transparent, wrote, directed, produced and starred in her first feature at 55 and released it at 56. Her film For Worse is a midlife romantic comedy about a newly divorced sober mom, made while most actresses are asking "Am I too old?" A conversation about…
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Julie Bowen on Life After Modern Family & Trying New Things at 50
Julie Bowen spent eleven seasons as TV's most type-A mom on Modern Family, and the show ended as she turned 50. Since then she has directed her first short film, launched her production company Bowen & Sons and made her stage debut. She gets real about the anxiety and fear that come with trying…
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Elisabeth Rohm on Finding Love Later in Life & Directing Law & Order
After two decades on Angel and Law & Order, Elisabeth Rohm is having the busiest creative stretch of her career in her 50s as one of Lifetime's most prolific true-crime directors. She talks about finding love later in life when you know who you are and what you want, going back to Law & Order as…
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Laura Benanti on Perimenopause, "Nobody Cares" & Leaving the Male Gaze
Our first guest under 50, Tony winner Laura Benanti, has figured out a lot about midlife anyway. The creator of the sold-out show Nobody Cares, who calls perimenopause "an amuse-bouche to an old cooch," talks about finding her witchiness, leaving the male gaze behind, and learning to forgive who…
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Justina Machado on Midlife Dating, Body Image & HRT
Justina Machado gets funny, raw and honest about midlife dating, sex, body image and HRT. The One Day at a Time and Horror of Dolores Roach star went from playing the daughter in Real Women Have Curves on a Chicago stage in her 20s to a Tony nomination for playing the mother on Broadway 32 years...
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Dr. Sharon Malone on HRT, Menopause & the Truth About Hormones
Why did hormones used safely since the 1940s suddenly get a black box warning? Board-certified OB/GYN and menopause practitioner Dr. Sharon Malone, Chief Medical Advisor at Alloy Health and author of the New York Times bestseller Grown Woman Talk, sets the record straight on HRT and menopause.…
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Alysia Reiner on Sex After 50, Pleasure & Asking for What You Want
Morning sex, the perfect vibrator and how to ask for what you want in bed: Alysia Reiner, Fig on Orange Is the New Black and now on The Diplomat, has a side hustle as a sex and pleasure columnist. The actress, producer and activist also talks reproductive rights, her zero-waste fashion initiative...
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Judy Gold on Aging in Stand-Up Comedy & Getting Through Depression
Comedy legend Judy Gold has been on stand-up stages for more than 40 years, and she has a story about the people who thought she'd aged out of it. The two-time Daytime Emmy winner (The Rosie O'Donnell Show) talks about her mentor Joan Rivers, a very dark time fighting clinical depression, and why...
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Padma Lakshmi on Leaving Top Chef & Taking Big Risks After 50
Padma Lakshmi on taking risks in midlife: walking away from Top Chef after 19 seasons to create, produce and host CBS's America's Culinary Cup, becoming a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model at 52, and her cookbook Padma's All American, inspired by her grandmother. A revealing look at what drives…
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Carrie Preston on Elsbeth, Being the "Queen of Quirk" & Thriving at 58
Elsbeth star Carrie Preston, the actress, director and producer the New York Times dubbed the Queen of Quirk, looks back at her childhood beginnings and more than 25 years of playing smart, capable, confident women on TV. The Juilliard-trained, Emmy-winning actor explains why, at 58, it pays to…
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Garcelle Beauvais on Leaving RHOBH, Dating & Thriving in Her 50s
Garcelle Beauvais on why she left The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, dating in midlife and blasting past age-old expectations. The Haitian-born actress, author and executive producer, named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful," became the first Black cast member on RHOBH in her 50s and has...
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Katherine LaNasa on Winning Her First Emmy at 58 for The Pitt
Katherine LaNasa won her first Emmy at 58 for The Pitt, after more than three decades in the business. In her early 50s she had been out of work for a few years, was diagnosed with breast cancer and asked for a sign about whether to keep going. She talks about getting out of the "sexy box,"…
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Heidi Clements & Constance Zimmer Interview Each Other: Season 2 Premiere
Season 2 kicks off with just us. Constance Zimmer and Heidi Clements interview each other about Constance landing roles on two of the year's biggest shows, The Lincoln Lawyer and Love Story, and answer your questions. Fair warning: we cried a lot during this one.
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Dr. Amanda Hanson, the Midlife Muse, on Learning to Love Yourself
Clinical psychologist Dr. Amanda Hanson, known as the Midlife Muse, teaches women how to become their own muse. After 27 years in practice, she calls women's inability to love, honor and value themselves a global crisis, and shares how she got less angry and more in tune with midlife. You'll want...
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Ali Adler on Menopause, Dating Women & Making Midlife Funny
Supergirl and The New Normal co-creator Ali Adler, one of the funniest writers around, joins us for a raw and real conversation about menopause, dating women, surviving a rare spinal cord injury and breast cancer, and the word she really wishes she hadn't said during our 30 minutes together.
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Tracie Thoms on Turning 50 & Finally Sitting at the Grown-Ups' Table
From Rent to The Devil Wears Prada, Tracie Thoms has been wowing audiences for years. Now officially 50, she's ready to break down the decade that breaks so many women, and she calls it finally getting a seat at the grown-ups' table. Plus: does she have a nickname for her vagina?
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Rachael Harris on Aging in Hollywood, Menopause & Motherhood
Rachael Harris (Lucifer, Suits, Best in Show, Diary of a Wimpy Kid) gets raw about aging in Hollywood and handling the shrinking roles for women over 50. She also talks menopause, motherhood and finding a new sexuality at 50.
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Caissie St. Onge on Writing for Joan Rivers & Stepping Into the Spotlight
If you love Hacks, meet the real-life version. Caissie St. Onge spent decades writing jokes for Joan Rivers, Bette Midler, Rosie O'Donnell and David Letterman. In her fifties she has stepped into the spotlight herself, co-hosting Busy This Week on QVC with Busy Philipps. A true joy, and your new...
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Tamsen Fadal on The M Factor, "How to Menopause" & Breaking the Silence
If it weren't for Tamsen Fadal, we'd still be living in a black hole of menopause information. The journalist created The M Factor, the first documentary about menopause, wrote How to Menopause, threw the World's Hottest Menopause Party and hosts The Tamsen Show. Now she's making sure no woman in...
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Sherri Saum on Love, Grief & Reclaiming Sexuality After 50
A beautiful conversation about love, loss and reclaiming sexuality after 50. Sherri Saum (The Fosters, Good Trouble) lost her husband to cancer on Christmas Eve and shares how she keeps moving forward for herself and her kids. Get ready to cry and laugh.
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Sasha Alexander on Reinvention After 50 & Advice From Sophia Loren
One of America's hardest-working actresses, Sasha Alexander (Rizzoli & Isles, Shameless, NCIS), on shifting gears after 50: starting a business to help get college kids squared away, her podcast Convos and Coffee, finally working with Constance on The Lincoln Lawyer, and advice from her...
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Diane Farr on Posing Naked at 56, Directing Fire Country & Age Parity
Diane Farr posted a naked photo for her 56th birthday, pushed past her own "I'm too old to learn new things" to direct an episode of Fire Country, which she also stars in, and fights for age parity every chance she gets. The actress, director and writer is hilarious, brave and busier than ever in...
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Merrin Dungey on Finding Love in Her 50s & Why This Decade Is Radical
From finding love in her fifties to why she calls this decade radical, Merrin Dungey (Alias, King of Queens, Big Little Lies) shares some midlife magic, including her role in the new Buffy the Vampire Slayer series and fighting for democracy through dance. An episode that makes you believe in…
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Kimberly Williams-Paisley on Losing Her Voice & Finding Strength in Her 50s
Imagine losing your voice right when you need it most. Kimberly Williams-Paisley, star of Father of the Bride and Nashville, lost hers for two years and had to figure out who she was without it. Now the host of Farmer Wants a Wife is crushing her 50s, joining Ryan Murphy's Nashville 911, and...
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Mally Roncal on Makeup Over 50, Family & the "Age of Freedom"
Come for the makeup tips, stay for the inspiration. Makeup artist Mally Roncal, who has worked with Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez, calls 53 the "age of freedom." The host of QVC's Over 50 and Fabulous and Forbes 50 Over 50 honoree talks family first, raising daughters who can't wait to be 50, and...
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Simran Baidwan of The Pitt on Writing Women Over 50
Golden Globe-winning executive producer and writer Simran Baidwan of The Pitt on why women over 50 shouldn't be left behind in storytelling and what it takes to put older women on TV. A former criminal prosecutor who made writing her second career, she also talks motherhood, family and choosing...
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Elizabeth Banks on Aging in Hollywood, Gen X & Plastic Surgery
Actress and director Elizabeth Banks on aging in Hollywood, the power of Gen X in midlife, plastic surgery versus aging naturally, and the thing that always makes her cry. She entered her fifties directing her seventh movie and hasn't slowed down, from reproductive rights advocacy to an Emmy...
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Angela Kinsey on The Office, Office Ladies & Aging With Joy
She spent her thirties in The Office and built her own office in her fifties. Angela Kinsey talks about Office Ladies with her best friend Jenna Fischer, landing a lead romantic role for the first time, the cookbook You Can Make This with her husband, and how she and Jenna trade advice on…
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Carmindy on Sex After 50, Midlife Mushroom Retreats & Owning Her Brand
Let's talk about sex after 50. Carmindy of What Not to Wear now owns her beauty brand outright and has refocused it on women over 40. She shares her midlife psilocybin retreats ("ten years of therapy in a weekend"), going nomadic and her total sexual awakening. Fasten your seatbelts.
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Paulina Porizkova on Dating After 50, Divorce & Becoming Pro-Aging
From supermodel to "super invisible": Paulina Porizkova calls her fifties a real shitshow. She gets raw about dating after 50, divorce, public heartbreak and self-worth, and how she turned it all around to become a pro-aging activist and find love again. Funny, heartbreaking and unfiltered.
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Yvette Nicole Brown on Finding Love After 50, Caretaking & Self-Care
Yvette Nicole Brown (Community, Drake & Josh, Avengers: Endgame) thought midlife would be a Golden Girls situation with her lady friends. Instead she found love and got married after 50. She talks about the joy of paper underpants, being a caretaker, why she's terrible at her own self-care, and…
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Ricki Lake Gets Real About Love, Loss & Plastic Surgery
When the interview starts with "my edible just kicked in," you know it's going to be good. Ricki Lake, Hairspray's Tracy Turnblad, the youngest talk show host in history and the filmmaker behind The Business of Being Born, gets brutally honest about love, loss and plastic surgery in her fifties.
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Margaret Cho on Why Menopause Is Fabulous & Revealing Her Childhood Trauma
Margaret Cho on why she no longer feels the need to pay for her existence, why menopause is fabulous, and why she was finally ready to reveal her childhood trauma. Hilarious, and full of midlife wisdom.
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Teri Hatcher on Turning 60, Stand-Up Comedy & Parenting Your Parents
Bond girl, Lois Lane and Desperate Housewife Teri Hatcher gets raw and funny about her 40s, 50s and now 60s. She talks parenting your parents, starting stand-up comedy in her fifties, and launching the Desperately Devoted podcast with her daughter. Reflective, thought-provoking and packed with...
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Nicole Eggert on Beating Breast Cancer & Life After Baywatch
From Baywatch to breast cancer warrior: Nicole Eggert takes us through the 2023 diagnosis that changed her 50s, what it was like to face it on camera while filming her docuseries After Baywatch: Moment in the Sun, and how cancer ultimately changed her life for the better. The Charles in Charge…
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Stacy London on Menopause, Style & Wearing Whatever You Want After 50
Twenty years ago Stacy London taught women What Not to Wear. Now in her fifties she's teaching us to wear whatever the F we want and turning menopause into a movement for midlife women everywhere. Our launch-day guest and Menopause Awareness Month poster woman gets funny and raw about life in the...
About this show
Talk Fifty to Me is midlife unfiltered: honest, often hilarious conversations for women over 50, hosted by Emmy-nominated actress and director Constance Zimmer (UnREAL, House of Cards, Love Story) and comedy writer/pro-aging influencer Heidi Clements.
So you just turned 50—now what? Your 50s are like leaving a cult. How do you deprogram yourself from everything that’s been baked into you while figuring out your place in your own body? If you don’t know who you are, your 50s will demand you finally figure it out.
Every week, Constance and Heidi sit down with incredible women who are crushing it in their 50s and beyond for real conversations about menopause and perimenopause, midlife reinvention, careers, style, and aging gracefully (or not so gracefully). No experts lecturing, no anti-aging sales pitch. Just women who refuse to disappear because they hit the big five-o.
Guests have included Julie Bowen, Padma Lakshmi, El
Hosted by
Heidi Clements & Constance Zimmer