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GROUNDBREAKING: Reflecting on the Professional Life of a Woman in the 20th Century and Her Garden

Guest Speaker: Lynne Elizabeth | Founding Director of New Village Press and a close friend of Clare Cooper Marcus

Episode Host: Susi Stadler | Executive Director of At Home With Growing Older

Join us on Thursday, June 18, at 5:30 p.m. PST to celebrate the release of Groundbreaking: My Unmapped Path as an Academic, Mother and Gardener — the sweeping memoir of the late Clare Cooper Marcus — and to honor a life of remarkable depth and innovation.

Clare Cooper Marcus was a pioneering figure in the nascent field of environmental psychology, whose work transformed how we understand the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit. Groundbreaking spans nine decades, moving from a wartime childhood in England through a distinguished academic career in the United States. It is a reflection on personal endurance, professional courage, and an unwavering belief in the healing power of nature — all rooted in her life’s deepest passion: her garden. The memoir was completed only weeks before Clare’s death at age 91 in January of this year.

We will be in conversation with her close friend and publisher, Lynne Elizabeth of New Village Press, New York — an innovator in her own right — as we reflect on what it meant to forge an unmapped path as a professional woman in the 20th century, and what Clare’s life and work continue to teach us.

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Senior Women Living Together: A Canadian Grassroots Initiative

Guest Speaker: Pat Dunn, Founder and Executive Director of Senior Women Living Together

Episode Host: Susi Stadler

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Thursday, May 28th for a live At Home, On Air conversation with Pat! The recording of this episode will be released as a podcast episode soon.

When Pat Dunn’s husband died six years ago, she was facing two challenges faced by many in this phase of life: loneliness and affordable, stable housing. Her solution was simple — find some housemates. So she started a Facebook group, moved in with two women she met there, and then realized she wasn’t the only one who needed this. Pat is 75, and she now runs a non-profit, Senior Women Living Together, that has inspired hundreds of senior women across Ontario to do the same and has 2,000 followers in its Facebook group.

In our conversation, Pat shares how it actually works — the practicalities, the agreements, the hard conversations — and why she thinks this might be one of the most underrated ways to navigate getting older.