🎙️BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX™ PODCAST

I’m a year and a half in, and still going strong with my podcast, y’all!💪

💉✂️BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX™: Women Who Wear Aging Well is part of my BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX™ brand offering that includes my books, columns, essays, podcast, and the latest? My BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX™ boutique. (Oh, alliteration, I love you so.)

And how about that podcast, Diane?

📰The Latest News

Oodles has happened since I launched this creative endeavor, including the expansion of my distribution. I’m a podcast contributor for the babyboomer.org network and this will be followed by my soon-to-be-launched distribution of my podcast through my friends at GRAND Media. I’m having loads of F-U-N!🤩That includes making lots of social media reels and YouTube Shorts.

🎧Running List of ALL the Episodes

(📝Ordered from the latest episode down through to the inaugural episode.)

👉Visit this link to click on individual episodes for descriptions.

ᯓ🏃🏻‍♀️‍➡️1️⃣9️⃣The Active Seniors Club. ✨ 𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓂𝓮 ✨ to the Active Seniors Club! 📢 No membership cards required! 🪪We’re talking identity, personal power, and the freedom to define who we are—and what we want to do with this fabulous Third Act!🎭🤣 In Story Time With Diane: “Day Tripper,” Diane shares a tale about her lifelong talent non-gift that is taking unplanned and spectacular spills. Funnily enough, she can dance, but walking? 💃That’s another story!📖
🧹1️⃣8️⃣A Purge Will Do You Good.🙋🏻‍♀️Are you worried you’re entering your hoarding years? Have no fear, my dear. As it turns out, you may not be a hoarder so much as an accumulator. And wow, does it happen insidiously. 💯🎧In this episode of BANGS ’N’ BOTOX™, we’re talking about why a good purge may be exactly what we need—and how clearing out our physical space can give us emotional space, and a little breathing room, too. 💪Because sometimes the best way to lighten your load is to get rid of some of it. 🗑️✨
🚪1️⃣7️⃣ Portal of Weird.👏 👏 👏 In Diane’s inimitable style, she’s come up with an episode that manages to make you laugh out loud AND ask yourself a question you never saw coming: 🚩🚩🚩Am I experiencing a PORTAL OF WEIRD situation?⋆⭒˚.⋆ 🚪 ⋆⭒˚.⋆The PORTAL OF WEIRD is all about the many ways it gets weird out there, living off the mat. 🧘‍♀️Sometimes it just seems to be some sort of Supermoon, Blue Moon or Capricorn rising situation that sets off the crazy with quite odd vibrations pinging around in the universe. 🌑 ♑🔭Diane says you’ll know the Portal of Weird is WIDE open when occurrences, comments, and situations, aren’t connected to anything you’ve said or done. 😵‍💫These interludes aren’t necessarily good. ⭐They’re not necessarily bad. 🚨They’re just plain weird.❓
😈1️⃣6️⃣Beauty and the Aging Beast. What IS beauty❓is a ponderable question you can lose an entire weekend over. And snap on that aging lens that adds fine and not-so-fine lines? Whew!💯 You’ll enter a contemplative state like no other. 🧖🏻‍♀️🫧🧴💕BEAUTY AND THE AGING BEAST doubles down on the idea that beauty isn’t about your skin. It’s about your story. 📖 (PS that doesn’t mean you can’t exercise self-care in any way you see fit.
💃1️⃣5️⃣Getting Physical! ▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။|||| | 🎙️This episode talks about the fallacies, realities, and sometimes even the maladies that surround what the older crowd actually DOES to keep fit. And nope. Nope. It’s not JUST pickleball. (Although pickleball is righteously challenging, athletic, and a “no joke” physical pursuit.) 🤾‍♀️🥒🏓
🛣️1️⃣4️⃣Choose ALL the Lanes! 🎙️This time around on BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX Diane challenges the notion that we need to, “Pick a lane!” 🛣️She urges us to choose ALL THE LANES—because who decided we only get ONE lane in life anyway?! 🏎️Careers, hobbies, reinventions, adventures… Diane is here to remind you that you can swerve gloriously across ALL of them. 🏁
💦1️⃣3️⃣THE NEVER-PAUSE ⋆.˚✮🎧✮˚.⋆ In this laugh-out-loud episode of BANGS‘N’ BOTOX, Diane dives into her Storytime segment later in the show📖🏰—“Coming in by a Whisker”—when she talks about whiskers belonging on cats, not on her chin, thank you very much. 🐈 ✨ 𝓦𝓮𝓵𝓬𝓸𝓂𝓮 ✨to what Diane calls THE NEVER-PAUSE—that magical phase of life when menopause symptoms don’t just visit…they move in, unpack, and refuse to leave. 🚚🧳🏡 Hot flashes? 🔥Of course. Surprise facial hair? 🪒Naturally. A sneeze that doubles as a high-stakes “Please, don’t let me embarrass myself” gamble? 🎰 Absolutely. 💯 Add in heart palpitations that feel like cardio (without the benefit of actual exercise), 🏋🏽💪🏼🏃🏻‍♀️❓and a body chemistry plot twist that keeps deodorant working overtime—and you’ve got a full-blown hormonal variety show. 📺 🎙️But Diane doesn’t just survive it—she narrates it. With razor-sharp humor and zero shame, she turns the chaos into comedy, proving that if menopause won’t pause, neither will the punchlines. 😂🥊
💃1️⃣2️⃣Hip, Hip, Hooray! ✅This episode falls squarely into the “write—and talk about—what you know” category. 🪶📜 🦉How so❓ Our BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX (https://www.amazon.com/BANGS-BOTOX-Jo…) Hostess with the Mostest has a hip injury that unfathomable optimism, bold make-up, 💄and strong denial can’t heal, so she’s going to need a replacement part. 🆕 In the blink of an eye Diane says she’s gone from answering the question, “What’s your major in college” to “Who’s your orthopedic surgeon?” 👀 🙃Humor being Diane’s coping mechanism of choice means she’s managed to find the funny in this aging body part experience. 🤣😂🤣 🙋‍♀️You know how you keep hitting a bottle of lotion after turning it upside down to get all the lotion out of the bottle out? 🧴Yeah, so the equivalent of that is what she’s been doing with her hip joint for about 4 years. 💃
🎁⏸️The gift of grandtwinkies. No grandchildren? 👧 👶No problem! 📻This episode of BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX based on the book by the same name (https://www.amazon.com/BANGS-BOTOX-Jo…) is still for YOU because the theme is UNCONDITIONAL LOVE💗& the joy it brings. 🤩 Though grandchildren and love would be plenty of fodder for one session, Diane overachieves right on into even more territory. 🗺️Also on tap is everything from emoji no-no’s, 🍆 to celebrating love, 🤗 to fielding annoying woman-specific questions.
💞🔟Love & Aqua Net are in the air. 💘Just in time for that lover-ly celebration known as Valentine’s Day, ⁠Diane⁠ has an episode on tap for you ABOUT love. 💖🌹🍫Mostly. As is her way, she also talks about grabbing hold of your personal power and enjoying the freedom that is being unique and fabulous YOU. ✗♡✗♡ Diane encourages everyone to revisit their own love story 🏰—or stories, as the case may be. Sharing her personal “meet cute” love story called, ⁠We Met at a Bar…an American Love Story⁠, Diane sets the stage for a 1980’s-era romance fueled by Aqua Net-supported BIG hair, multiple-stories-high shoulder pads, and an openness to what can be even if she thought it never was to be. 🔮
🐶9️⃣And they call it puppy love. 🐾This episode has really gone to the dogs!🐶Are you a BIG-TIME dog lover, like our funny AND “pour out a cup of auditory kindness” BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX author (https://www.amazon.com/BANGS-BOTOX-Jo…) and podcast host?❤️🚀The New Year launches with Diane’s tail wagging big-time as she celebrates the fun that is being the new Mama of her fur baby—Teddy. 🧸Peanuts cartoonist, Charles Schulz, really knew what he was talking about when he famously wrote, “Happiness is a warm puppy,” unconditional love being a HUGE gift, along with providing humorous writing fodder. 🎁😂Diane artfully weaves together her hilarious stories about puppy adoption—including her story time piece🏰, AND THEY CALL IT PUPPY LOVE (https://udayton.edu/blogs/erma/2025/1…) —with her inspiring messages about self-care that includes small joyous moments. ✨
🤶 8️⃣Falalalala…’tis foofy drink season! 🌟 🌟 🌟 ‘Tis the Season for foofy drinks! 🌟🌟 🌟At the time of recording this episode it’s December which means the show is holiday inspired. 🦌🦌🦌🎅🏻 If there’s one thing you can say about our ⁠BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX⁠ “Hostess with the mostest,” she LOVES a good theme! 💚❤️ 💚❤️ 💚🪭 🙇‍♀️ This time around, Diane fangirls over caffeinated beverages, specifically coffee drinks infused with all manner of peppermint, pumpkin, gingerbread, caramel, and egg nog yumminess.🍵🍬 🍫[🤫Psssttt…she also provides seasonally-inspired bonus content, rolling out, “⁠Oh, Christmas tree of controversy⁠.”🎁] 🚫🍞🍶🍨
🦹‍♀️ 7️⃣What are YOUR (senior) superpowers? 😂 This show is both motivational AND funny when the ⁠BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX “Super Host”⁠ talks about superpowers and how EVERYONE possesses an exceptional skill or natural talent where they excel uniquely. 🤹‍♀️🪄 Superpowers—senior and otherwise—can be a mixture of the serious AND the humorous. 🐹Maybe you’re a gerbil whisperer, an accurate weather predictor because your achy, trick knee “talks” to you when a certain weather front is coming in, ⛈️ or maybe you have a photographic memory. 🖼️👩‍🍳🎧Well-positioned in the podcast mix are the BEST recommendations—called THE SOMETHINGS—along with one TO-DON’T. Guaranteed you’ll share these with your friends as soon as you hear them. ☎️ (Please do come back and finish listening to the show, though.
👚 6️⃣What are you wearing? 😜Diane isn’t afraid to tackle—more like poke fun at—the tough(?) issues of our day. That means, this time around, she addresses the hot button topic🚨that is Elderwear, to wit: how elders should—and do—dress. 💯Our intrepid host aims to amuse, inspire, and empower you as she tells you the amusing story about getting stuck in her sports bra—yes, you read that right—and she offers up plenty of laughs even when she delivers truth bombs.💥 📢This show riffs off the question yodeled out by pop culture journalists to famous people when they sashay down some sort of red-carpeted or gold-doubloon-encrusted walkway at a posh event. 💎ᴠɪᴘ🎟️ 👗 In that scenario they want to know what designer the celebrity is wearing. 🏛️In the baby boomer and baby boomer-adjacent female fashionista version, when we don’t live up to the societal standards set for how we should be outfitted, the very moral fiber of society begins to fray, leaving us hanging by a thread. 🧵
✨5️⃣Honey…maybe? 👫 ➕ 💖 🟰🪄 The topic this time around is what Diane calls “Active Senior Relationships.” While this subject is suitable for the 50+ crowd, truth be told, this is a relatable discussion for anyone who is rocking a (committed) relationship. 🔏 Secrets to a happy long-term relationship may not be offered up, but there are plenty of quippy “warm” tips and amusing asides. ♨️ (Spoiler Alert: Grooming figures in…and lists…so many lists.) 🪒 🚿📝 Having an Authentic Relationship🆚a Facebook Relationship is one of the keys to happiness. 🗝️ What that REALLY looks like—and how you measure the aforementioned happy—is hilarious as told by the 42-years-and-counting married host. It’s all wrapped up with a fun—and funny—Story Time segment. 🏰
👩‍🦳 4️⃣Hair’s the thing. 💇‍♀️Episode 4 of BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX offers up HAIR-lariouspuns as Diane talks about her devotion to her hair and where that lands her on the superficiality meter with equal parts candor and humor.🎯😂 🏎️She amusingly describes her hair highlights as racing stripes letting us in on—sort of—the special secret sauce crafted by her hair magician that creates her anything-but-natural hue. 🪄 🪞When faced with the mirror Diane says she’s able to ignore most of the work aging has performed on her face—fine lines, not-so-fine lines, cavernous pores, unsightly spots that can’t remotely be classified as beauty marks—because she JUST focuses on her manufactured mane. 👩‍🍳 🏰In the story-time segment, Diane entertains us with “The Summer of My Discon-tint” which speaks to the perils of home hair dying coupled with the further perils of trying to teach teenagers when THEY witness first-hand the perils of home hair dying. 😮
💪3️⃣What IS a good body, anyway? 🛰️Today’s episode of ✂️BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well 💉orbits around a pretty heady theme, namely, THE FEMALE BODY, and how the perception of it is impacted by unrealistic narratives, ideals, cultural expectations, AND AGING. ♀️ Whoooaaa…that requires a double snap, right there! 🫰🫰Multiple relatable stories like the ultra-funny “Held Prisoner By My Sports Bra”💦illustrate the challenges and sometimes humorous outcomes that arise when podcast host Diane Dean-Epps has been forced to navigate these unrealistic norms. ⛵Diane says she has a good body; a great body; the best body. Listen in to find out how she can even make that claim. ☑️
👄2️⃣Tell me a story with your lips. 💡This episode of BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX is all about using storytelling and humor as coping mechanisms.😂 I can only lie prone on my comfy-cozy bed yodeling out, “Why me?” for so long before even the dogs get up and leave. 🛏️For me, I end up with way better results when I channel my angst, sadness, grief, and life event detritus into something I create or something I process in the moment with humor. 🌞In this way, I alchemize my challenging emotions into emotional gold.🪙
🐔1️⃣Are you a chicken with a spring? This is the inaugural episode for my humorous podcast about aging: BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX. (I call it my podcast pancake, and when you give this a listen, you’ll hear why.) 🥞In this segment I cover the format of the show which includes storytelling, sit-down standup comedy bits, and motivational snippets. This time around I shared a story – and rant – about when I was talking to a much-older-than-me boss who told me I wasn’t a “spring chicken.” 🐔Now, I need you to know we weren’t talking about spring, chickens, nor anything to do with fowl or seasons of any kind. We were talking about my career, which I dared to think wasn’t over in my 50’s. I also talk about permission…as in YOU DON’T NEED PERMISSION to create your own opportunity. What do YOU really, really want to do in your life? What opportunity(ies) can YOU make FOR YOURSELF? Don’t wait…if not now, when?🙋‍♀️