Half A Century Apart
“Half a Century Apart — a grandmother and her granddaughter explore what we cherish, what we create, and how we grow.” Bridging a 50-year age gap, we come together in authentic, intergenerational conversation shaped by two distinct worlds. Laura, born into the babyboomers, brings the wisdom of a life lived through great social change as a poet, teacher, and Elder. Oceana, born in 2000 and part of Gen Z, offers the voice of a younger generation shaped by creativity, emotional awareness, and a longing for authenticity and meaning in an increasingly overwhelming world, drawing from her work as an artist, art therapist, and creative facilitator. It’s a place that feels like home — where we dive into real, soul-rich conversations that heal, reveal, and inspire. Our bond is the glue: the blood that connects us, the love that guides us, and the stories that have shaped us.
Episodes
What does it actually mean to be authentic?
In this episode, we explore authenticity as something more nuanced than simply “being yourself.” We speak about presence, imperfection and congruence, and what it feels like when our inner experience and outer expression are genuinely aligned.
In a time of AI, curated identities and an acceleration of w...
Marketers have long used our insecurities to sell us the myth, “You are not enough.”
In this episode, we explore body image, identity and our changing ideas of beauty. Across generations, we reflect on the pressures placed on women and young people, the desire for external validation, and how these pressures have been amplified by social media.
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In this episode, we explore control versus surrender and the ways intuition — or the voice of the heart — can guide us. We reflect on how honouring this inner voice can grow our capacity to listen, trust ourselves, and surrender more deeply to the flow of life.
We also explore how art and creativity can reveal intuitive messages, giving form to something we may sense or ...
In this episode, we explore what joy means to us, why it appears when it does, and how it can arise even in the midst of grief. We reflect on the ways we resist joy, and why, at times, it can even feel vulnerable or embarrassing to express our joy to others.
Alongside our conversation, we share gentle reflections and a short heart-focused appreciation meditation, inspired by the work of HeartMath, inviti...
In this episode, we explore the inner masculine and feminine parts of ourselves, the lower and higher expressions of these energies, and the path toward inner balance. We speak about how these dynamics shape our relationships, creativity, confidence, and sense of self, touching on nervous system regulation and the ways these parts emerge when the body feels safe enough to express them.
We also weave in ...
In this episode, we explore the primal need to express and create, and reflect on the many ways women have historically been restricted or deprived of that freedom.
We speak to creativity as something that lives through us — as lineage, as liberation, and as a lifeline.
Inspired by The Artist’s Way, we took ourselves on an artist’s weekend away, reconnecting with our own creative rhythms and practices.
We share th...
In this episode we speak about romantic love and the dance of relationships. How we meet another, and how we are met in return.
We explore soulmates, lust bombs, online dating, love, and conscious uncoupling, reflecting on how love is experienced and understood across generations. What does love look like when viewed fifty years apart?
The episode also features poetry woven through the co...
In this episode, we explore ancestral trauma, inherited belief systems, rites of passage, and the journey toward conscious healing. We speak about adolescent emotional insecurity, loneliness, and confusion, and how these experiences can echo across generations. A gentle trigger warning is included, as we briefly touch on suicidal impulses.
A few years ago, something shifted when one of us chose to open up and share our story fully,...
Two voices, one thread. A grandmother and granddaughter record the first of many conversations, raw, real, and filled with heart. We weave stories across generations, exploring creativity, memory, and what it means to be human, together.
In this episode, we introduce ourselves Laura, a poet in her 70s, and Oceana, an artist in her 20s and share how the idea for this podcast came to be.
What does it mean to be an Elder in the 21st c...
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