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The W.I.S.E. Podcast

A nine-episode conversation series hosted by Rosie Acosta about women, wisdom and the long road to empowerment. Recorded in 2019 and 2020, with guests including Elizabeth Gilbert, Marisa Peer and Tererai Trent. Season One is complete and free to watch.

Quick answerThe W.I.S.E. Podcast is a nine-episode series hosted by Rosie Acosta, exploring how women build wisdom, confidence and self-trust. Season One ran through 2019 and 2020 and is archived in full on YouTube. The most-watched episode is a two-part conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert.

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About the Show

What W.I.S.E. Was About

W.I.S.E. began as a series of long conversations with women who had built something — a career, a body of work, a life they had chosen — and who were willing to talk honestly about what it cost.

The episodes run long on purpose. Most sit between forty minutes and an hour and a half, because the interesting part of a story usually arrives after the polished version has been told.

Season One closed in 2020. Rosie's current show, The Radically Well Podcast, carries the same approach into conversations about perimenopause, mental health and midlife.

The interesting part of a story usually arrives after the polished version has been told.

Most Watched

The author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic joined Rosie for a two-part conversation about grief, creative work, and what it means to accept life as it actually arrives rather than as you planned it.

It remains the most-watched episode of the series by a wide margin.

EP 009 Living Life on Life's Terms — Part 1with Elizabeth Gilbert Watch →
EP 009 Living Life on Life's Terms — Part 2with Elizabeth Gilbert Watch →

Season One

All Episodes

EP 001 Empowering Women Through Fashion & Stylingwith Char Roxborough Watch →
EP 002 Why You Don't Need to Be Successful Nowwith Melissa Hunter Watch →
EP 003 Learn the Secrets to Holistic Beautywith Joanna Vargas Watch →
EP 004 Honoring Women's Journey to Empowermentwith Tererai Trent Watch →
EP 005 How to Understand Your Feelings with Wisdomwith Marisa Peer Watch →
EP 006 Directing Your Energy Toward Self-Empowerment, Wisdom & Successwith Tal Rabinowitz Watch →
EP 008 Q&A: Creating W.I.S.E.with Rosie Acosta Watch →

Season One is archived in full on YouTube. Episode 007 was not released.

What Rosie Is Doing Now

Where to Go From Here

If the W.I.S.E. conversations resonated, the work has continued — just pointed somewhere more specific. Rosie now writes and teaches about perimenopause, nervous system regulation and the parts of midlife nobody prepares women for.

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