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I wish you knew...what it was like to be a woman in the 1960s

4/9/202639 min

How much do you know about the experiences that shaped your mom or grandma?

In this episode, host and therapist Sreela Roy-Greene sits down with Kim Murstein and Gail Rudnick, the granddaughter–grandmother duo behind the podcast Excuse My Grandma, for a conversation that bridges two generations of womanhood. Gail reflects on her early adulthood in the 1960s — the choices she made, the family norms she embraced, and the world as she experienced it — while Kim shares what it means to build a life in her twenties today. Instead of debating whose path is “right,” they lean into...

Clips

Fallout of Women’s Lib
Can Women Have It All?
Living Together Debate
Gail’s Closing Advice
Why Simpler Times Vanished

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Gail Rudnick· Guest0:00

    The women left their husbands in the '70s because they felt they had been cheated out of the workforce, out of doing their own thing. It was a v- a w- time of women's lib. We had, uh, you know, l- loads of controversies at, at that point, uh, and they were angry.

  2. Speaker 20:16

    [instrumental music] Hey, can I talk to you about something? I wish you knew...

  3. Gail Rudnick· Guest0:23

    I wish you knew how lonely menopause felt.

  4. Sunny Williams0:27

    I wish you knew why it's so hard for men to share their feelings.

  5. Kim Murstein· Guest0:32

    I wish you knew what it was like growing up in a low-income family. I wish you knew how hard it was not having a college degree.

  6. Sunny Williams0:38

    I wish you knew what it's like to be me.

  7. Sreela Roy-Greene· Host0:41

    Welcome back to Mind If We Talk, where you get to be the fly on the wall for mini therapy sessions and learn some mental health tips along the way. I'm Cerella Roy Green, a licensed mental health counselor with BetterHelp, with over 19 years of experience and your friendly guide for season two. This season is all about bringing together two people who see the world a little differently, and helping them trade assumptions for understanding. Not to win the conversation, just to get closer. Because honestly, sometimes the most healing sentence in a relationship isn't, "I agree," it's, "Tell me more." And just like last season, we'll spend the second half of each episode sitting down with a BetterHelp therapist to break down what we can learn. And today's episode is a perfect

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