New in July 2026

174 new resources joined CroneHub in July 2026 — books, podcasts, films, blogs, and the women behind them.

Books (106)

Whispers of Echo Canyon

Book one of the Women of the Canyon series. In a near-future desert community, five women aged 58 to 74 find each other at the…

Love Later in Life: 52 True Stories of Love’s Unexpected Next Chapter

Fifty-two true accounts from people who had decided their romantic chapter was closed — widowed, divorced, discouraged, or simply tired of looking. Relationship coach Nancy…

Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk

On New Year’s Eve 1984, 85-year-old Lillian Boxfish—once the highest-paid advertising woman in America as R.H. Macy’s star copywriter—sets out on a ten-mile walk across…

Afterlife

Antonia Vega, an immigrant writer and newly retired English professor, has barely begun to grieve her husband’s sudden death when her unpredictable sister disappears and…

Bloom: On Becoming An Artist Later in Life

When Janice Mason Steeves surveyed 138 artists aged 59 to 79 about their journeys into art, a pattern emerged: later life, far from being a…

ReSet: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life

Growing older isn’t the problem. Outdated thinking about aging is. ReSet is a practical guide for anyone in midlife and beyond who knows there must…

Aging Sideways: Changing Our Perspectives on Getting Older

Social gerontologist Jeanette Leardi makes the case that later life is a time of growth, purpose, and possibility, not inevitable decline. Drawing on research, vivid…

Clitapalooza: Her flower blooms power

A spicy, satirical romp about a sixty-something woman who stumbles into a digital trap and comes out the other side owning her desire and her…

How I Made a Huge Mess of My Life

In this frank, funny midlife memoir, Billie Best tells the truth about a life that looked perfect from the outside. Widowed after 32 years of…

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Podcasts (33)

Hot Flashes & Cool Topics

The voice for women in midlife and beyond. Hosts Bridgett Biagi Garratt and Colleen Rosenblum cover the whole of life over 50 – relationships, careers,…

Crow’s Feet Podcast: Life As We Age

Getting older is not for the faint-hearted, but it also brings wisdom and humor. The Crow’s Feet Podcast features the voices of writers and innovators…

Two Wise Women Talking

Would you like to learn how to love yourself more, to be truly kind to yourself, no matter what kind of stress or challenge is…

Grown-Ass Woman’s Guide

Everyone sees a woman who has it together. What they don't see is everything she's holding in her head, running the house, the money, supporting…

The Sanity Check: Perimenopause and Menopause Uncovered

A podcast for women navigating the emotional and psychological journey of perimenopause and menopause. This isn’t just about the physical symptoms—it’s about understanding the mental…

The Ancient Wisdom of Women – Growing older, your way.

In this podcast series I am looking at how women can ensure they have a positive experience of growing older and eventually taking their rightful…

Midlife Women: Live The Life You Love Today

You’re not broken you’re in midlife, and no one taught you how to navigate it. The Live the Life You Love Today podcast is for…

This Is Perimenopause: Menopause, Perimenopause and Women’s Health in Midlife

Each episode will share life stories and expert insight into women's perimenopause and menopause journey in midlife, where suffering is optional Menopause isn't the end,…

Midlife Women Conversations with Jean Macdonald

In this captivating episode, I chat with Cassie Lewis, a unique Independent Financial Advisor who expertly balances her career with the realities of raising school-age…

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Films (12)

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

A documentary revisiting the women captured in a landmark 1977 book of photographs that chronicled the awakening of the feminist movement — and asking, decades…

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Now in her fifties and widowed, Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger) raises two young children while tentatively re-entering the dating world — caught between a much-younger…

Relative Strangers

A polished self-help author (Ron Livingston) about to marry into a refined family discovers he was adopted — and tracks down his boisterous, unfiltered biological…

Lilly

The true story of Lilly Ledbetter (Patricia Clarkson), an Alabama Goodyear supervisor who discovers she has been underpaid for years and launches a decade-long fight…

Tammy

After losing her job and her marriage in a single day, Tammy (Melissa McCarthy) hits the road with her hard-drinking, diabetic grandmother Pearl (Susan Sarandon),…

Christmas on the Square

A wealthy, embittered woman, Regina Fuller (Christine Baranski), returns to the small town she now owns intending to evict everyone for a shopping-mall deal —…

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Voices (11)

Helen Hirsh Spence

Helen Hirsh Spence is the founder and CEO of Top Sixty Over Sixty, an Ottawa-based initiative working to shift the narrative of ageing from decline…

Jeanette Leardi

Jeanette Leardi is a Portland-based social gerontologist, writer, and public speaker on a mission to change how we think about growing older. Through provocative articles,…

Justine Gaubert

Sheffield-based writer, award-winning marketer and social entrepreneur who founded Crone Club, a Facebook community turned e-magazine (Tits to the Wind) reclaiming crone as a positive…

Jocelyn Lee

A fine-art photographer (Yale, Hunter MFA, Guggenheim Fellow) based in Maine, Jocelyn Lee has spent 40 years making psychological portraits. Her acclaimed 2020 monograph Sovereign…

Suzanne Noble

Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Advantages of Age, a social enterprise busting negative narratives about growing older. After finding herself the oldest person in London’s…

Teri M. Brown

Author, podcaster, and late-blooming adventurer. At 58, after leaving an abusive relationship and healing during a 3,102-mile tandem bicycle ride across the United States, Teri…

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Blogs (8)

Knowing Yourself Through Fiction

Marylee Pangman’s Substack, where the Women of the Canyon novels are written in public — chapter excerpts as she drafts them, standalone micro-fiction, and “Life’s…

A New Kind of Old

Veteran broadcaster and producer Phyllis Haynes (Haynes Media Works, Profonde.TV) writes “The Chronicles of the Crone Wars” — a playful serialized fiction in which a…

Louder Girl

A women’s storytelling community and its blog, LoudHer Stories – personal essays on breaking free from limiting beliefs and internalized patriarchy, reclaiming power, and getting…

Pushing 70 Without Flooring It

Comedian and writer Roberta Gale’s Substack: sharp, foul-mouthed, and frequently hilarious dispatches on barreling toward 70. Three decades of stand-up aimed squarely at the absurdities…

Ageful Living

Jeanette Leardi’s blog on ageful living: provocative, hopeful essays that dismantle ageist myths and reframe later life as a time of growth, purpose, and possibility,…

The Daily RE-Wire

The Daily RE-Wire is Monica Hebert’s daily Substack for women over 60 who are done caretaking and ready to come back to themselves. An artist,…

Tits to the Wind – Crone Club e-magazine

The Crone Club e-magazine, a monthly Substack building a kick-ass crone identity and a positive roadmap for female ageing and menopause, one messy story at…

Things I Used to Say – Ashton Applewhite

Things I Used to Say is the Substack of Ashton Applewhite, author of This Chair Rocks and a leading voice in the global movement to…

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