BANGS 'N' BOTOX™: Women Who Wear Aging Well

Diane Dean-Epps
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Let’s face it: until someone invents a time machine, we’re all getting older whether we like it or not. BANGS 'N' BOTOX exists as a podcast launching at least 1,000 conversations about A-G-I-N-G, and what-all that means for us non-famous, non-influencer, "regular" women who are partners, Mamas, Mimi's, friends, worker bees, and other descriptors, but we're ALWAYS relevant. Diane Dean-Epps is here to make sure we get in a good laugh or 10, along with her patented feel-good motivational offerings. P.S. Wanna get a feel for the podcast? Check out Diane's humor book, BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX (Amazon).

  1. Sep 25

    🧹🪣 🧼A 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. 💯 You bring in the mail. 📭Grab one of the 10 flyers left on your porch by roofers, evangelists, and wayward salespeople. 📰Clean out the front seat of your car. 🚙Then you remember whatever-the-heck holiday is coming up, so you haul a few bins in from the garage. 📦 And suddenly…you have Old People Piles. 😳 Piles as in stacks of stuff. Not the medical condition. 😂 🎧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. 🗑️ ✨ THE SOMETHINGS: Diane shares what she’s spending her money on, what she’s wearing, what she’s reading, and the LARGE thing she did. 🚨Spoiler alert 🚨 The latter is launching her BANGS ’N’ BOTOX™ Etsy shop, loaded with fun merch for active seniors. 🛍️ 🛒⬇️(Link below.) 📖 STORY TIME: “The File Cabinet” — There’s mystery. There’s intrigue. There’s even a Beatles reference. 🎸🎶It’s too good to be true…or is it? 🤔 Plus, there’s a Funny Fact 💡 🤓you’ll be sharing with everyone you know, a full-on share MENSA Moment from Diane 🧠, and plenty more. 🔗🏬👚etsy.com/shop/BANGSNBOTOX

  2. Aug 19

    🚪 🤷‍♀️ 🌀 The Portal of Weird & Aging.

    👏 👏 👏 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.❓ ❯❯❯❯ ⏳ Having experienced her fair share of odd situations as she’s traveled down the “becoming an elder” timeline, Diane offers up ways to ride out the universe’s version of a cosmic rollercoaster. 🎢 (Not surprisingly, humor as a coping mechanism figures in LARGE. 😂) 📖🏰As a devotee to storytelling, Diane says the antidote to being walloped by weird is an anecdote, and so she provides an entertaining one—VERY CIVILLY YOURS—in Story Time with Diane. ↩️ SHARE 🎙️This highly relatable show is one you’ll want to share with your friends and family who are, no doubt, trying to figure out how to navigate the PORTAL OF WEIRD, even as we speak. 🧭

  3. Jul 22

    🦋🪞😈Beauty and the Aging Beast.

    🥳Diane calls 🪞BEAUTY AND THE AGING BEAST😈 her “Sweet Sixteen” episode because this show marks the 16th episode🎂 for her ✂️BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX💉 podcast. A year has passed, and she’s STILL finding plenty to talk about, laugh about, and think about that relate to aging. 📢 ✚ 🧐✚😅🟰 🎧🔥 ❓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. Diane talks about that, specifically, in her featured “Storytime with Diane” piece 🐌Snail Gel.) 😂🤣🤪😁Have no fear! Diane has attached the humor lens, providing plenty of funny sit-down standup takes on the topic of BEAUTY...which is a state of mental and physical being you'll NEVER age out of!❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 ✅To round out the multitude of highly engaging deliverables, Diane provides a thematic groove with the extremely loopable 🟢ᯤSpotify playlist she’s put together—YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL—and, yes, YOU are! ▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။|||| | 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕♪ ༘⋆🔗You’ll want to bookmark this linkᯓ➤ https://bit.ly/4fnihD4 ✂️BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX💉 WOMEN WHO WEAR AGING WELL is guaranteed to pump you up mentally and physically. 🏋🏼‍♀️🪄

  4. Jun 21

    🤸‍♀️💃🏋️‍♀️Getting Physical!

    ▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။|||| |🎙️GETTING PHYSICAL 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.) 🤾‍♀️🥒🏓 📢⚠️SPOILER ALERT🚨🔔 Everything!!!🚴‍♀️🏊‍♀️👟⚽🏒🏃‍♀️🥍🏈🏓🤼🥎🛹⛷🎿⛸🏀🏹🏸🧘🏻‍♀️🩰 ✦·┈๑⋅⋯ ⋯⋅๑┈·✦ ✦·┈๑⋅⋯ ⋯⋅๑┈·✦ ✦·┈๑⋅⋯ ⋯⋅๑┈·✦ 📻In this latest installment of 💄BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX✂️ WOMEN WHO WEAR AGING WELL 💉the theme is STRENGTH—inner AND outer. 💪 Diane talks about the fact that active seniors pursue oodles of activities, some of which have really served to humble her. 🫣Like Spinning...which is featured in Storytime with Diane. 🚲 💫She addresses the assumptions around aging, which often lead to projected limitations. Not on her watch! 🤩We can try—and still do—whatever activities interest us.🔎 💡In fact, Diane says elder fitness provides a plethora of gifts, sharing specifics about what those are. 🎁And speaking of sharing… ⬇️Down yonder you’ll find the link to the Dance/workout-themed playlist she’s sharing with you🎶 that’ll have you searching for the repeat button on Spotify. 🔁 (PS It's on the "Now Playing" screen, right next to the skip button.👍) 🟢ᯤ Spotify 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gVxrjqzg 🎙️ You're going to love - and relate to mightily - this show!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

  5. May 24

    🛣️🏎️ 🏁 Choose 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. 🏁 🛋️Get comfy for this empowerment-themed episode packed with goodies like: 💃 Storytime featuring Diane's pole dancing adventure 🎶 Songs you’ll be humming ⬇️[Link below] 💡 THE SOMETHINGS recommendations ❓Essential questions to inspire & ponder 🧘‍♀️An energizing daily (original) mantra  You're going to feel like a million bucks after you listen to this show!💵 🔎Looking for more of Diane’s work? You’ll find her wherever fine social media channels exist—Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Medium—where she also appears under her alter egos of MS.WRITE and MS. WRITE NOW, cozily positioned under her ✂️BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX brand.💉 🟢ᯤSpotify Female Empowerment songs ᴺᴼᵂ ᴾᴸᴬᵞᴵᴺᴳ♫♬♪ https://bit.ly/4uoegVl

  6. Apr 22

    🎢♀️💦 THE 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. 😂🥊This episode is a hilarious, painfully relatable reminder that sometimes the only thing to do is laugh…preferably before you sneeze. 🤧 ♫⋆｡♪₊˚♬ﾟ.AND she’s put together a smokin’ hot Menopause-Themed playlist you didn’t know you needed…until NOW. ❤️‍🔥 ❓📢Ready to feel seen, heard, and slightly less alone in the hormonal jungle? 🎙️Tune in, laugh hard, and then grab her📙companion book BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX for even more unapologetic, side-splitting truths about life after the “pause” that never actually pauses.

  7. Mar 24

    🏳️🫦💃Hip, Hip, Hooray!

    ✅This episode falls squarely into the “write—and talk about—what you know” category. 🪶📜 🦉How so❓ Our BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX 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. Not having a hip issue? Just swap out “hip” and insert the name of the body part that works—or isn’t working—for you. 🦶 🦵💪 🎙️In this episode’s amusing thematic anecdote, “I’ve got to get out of this joint,” Diane riffs on her stages of structural failure acceptance plus she tells us the ways she knew it was time to consult someone other than WebMD. ⚕️ 👩‍🍳Mixed in with this funny, relatable, and honest episode about aging’s effects is an actual musical mix. 📼⋆.˚🎧Who doesn’t LOVE a fun playlist? And a THEMED playlist? Pure joy! ✨ 🎶Debuting a new segment Diane calls, “Songs You’ll Be Humming," means she’s put together a runs-the-gamut-of-musical-styles ▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။|||| | hip-themed playlist that’ll get you moving & grooving! 💃

  8. Mar 5

    👶 🧸 🍦 The Gift of Grandtwinkies.

    No grandchildren? 👧 👶No problem! 📻This episode of BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX based on the book by the same name 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. 🏰 Storytime with Diane rolls out “Mimi is a Potato Head,” 🥔 which provides the detes about choosing the exact wrong gifts, and how sometimes your best just isn’t good enough. 🎁But you keep trying because try you must when your grandtwinkies’ happiness is your primary goal. 🥅 (And for Diane, it most assuredly is. ✔️) 📢You’ll hear just the right amount of quote goodness, 🧂sprinkled lightly with inspiration in the form of positive messages and, of course, there’s always the funny throughout. 😂🤣🤪😁  👉Don’t miss BANGS‘N’ BOTOX: Women Who Wear Aging Well—a Swiss Army knife of a show that has a little something-something for everyone. 👏 👏👏

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Let’s face it: until someone invents a time machine, we’re all getting older whether we like it or not. BANGS 'N' BOTOX exists as a podcast launching at least 1,000 conversations about A-G-I-N-G, and what-all that means for us non-famous, non-influencer, "regular" women who are partners, Mamas, Mimi's, friends, worker bees, and other descriptors, but we're ALWAYS relevant. Diane Dean-Epps is here to make sure we get in a good laugh or 10, along with her patented feel-good motivational offerings. P.S. Wanna get a feel for the podcast? Check out Diane's humor book, BANGS ‘N’ BOTOX (Amazon).

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