Everything is Fine

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Everything is Fine is a series for women on life over 40. Hosted by former Lucky magazine founding editor Kim France and author and editor Jennifer Romolini, each episode digs deep into the identity shift that comes with navigating this alternately weird and liberating stage of life. A chat-show with themed episodes and interview guests from the media and entertainment worlds, we tackle our fears, our health, our careers, self-care, and how to negotiate being called “middle-aged” when you feel anything but.


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  • JC44578
    Yeah,no …. YES!!!!
    I love these women. I look forward to Mondays!!!! The best is when it’s just the 2 of them. With so much fakery on social media, they are so authentic. Please don’t change!!
  • Srahahaha
    I enjoy chatty podcasts
    So this is my favorite kind of podcast but please someone tell them we don’t use the term masseuse to refer to licensed massage therapists!
  • EmmySav1
    Love!
    Jenn and Kim are the best. My favorite episodes are the ones where they just gab. I feel like a little girl listening into a convo between my mom and her best friend!
  • amaleela
    Blackheads!!!
    Jenn! Corsx has a serum for this. Aha/bha solution specifically for blackheads.
  • sdc70
    Yeah. No.
    The amount of "yeah. no." responses from bith of them in every episode is staggering. Please ladies, go back and listen. I got through one episode, barely. I started the second and had to stop. Yeah, no. I can't do it.
  • KAH21
    Best Friends
    I found this podcast a few months ago when listening to Kim’s interview on the “Her Money” podcast. Now I am hooked. I have gone back and listened to older episodes as well. I have recommended to family friends and family members. Listening is like being part of a friendship. You laugh and I smile throughout the episode. You may even pick up a tip or two. But just like being with friends, you don’t need to agree with everything. Just enjoy and be grateful.
  • Patsy-2
    Brilliant, funny, real
    The only podcast that makes me laugh out loud. Please don’t get super organized! Don’t hire a mean producer! Just keep doing what you’re doing. Love it.
  • Shanouxnoux
    Loved it since day one.
    As a Sassy and Lucky Mag reader, when I first heard Kim France was cohosting a podcast, I knew I had to listen. And listen I have, since episode one. I just love EIF. As a 50+, Gen X woman, EIF hits all the right notes for me. Topics discussed are spot on. And Kim and Jen (and previously Tally) have such great rapport, whether with just themselves, or with their guests. I highly recommend!
  • chilldc
    Love Kim & Jen
    I love this podcast, Jen and Kim talk about the real ups and downs of getting older. I love how they find the good in aging and embrace it but they also can’t help griping about it too. They also just crack me up! I really laugh out loud.
  • April5878
    Love the show but…
    LOVE these ladies and they make my Mondays SO much better AND they need to get some real skincare people on. Suggestions: look up Angie Hot and Flashy on youtube. She is a gem. Lots of derms that wld be good but no idea if they are over 40. I like Dr. Sam Bunting (Brit) and Dr. Sam Ellis (maybe too young). Trinny Woodall wld be a FABULOUS guest, as would Liz Earl (both are Brits with big US following and both have current books to promote. Still I LOVE LOVE LOVE these gals 💜
  • rockledge zen
    What an absolute Gem
    I recently found this podcast, and without a doubt, it is now my favorite! I have learned a lot from them about art, culture, and the world of beauty for older women. Kim and Jennifer’s musings will have you laughing out loud. Thanks for the tip on Nivea cream as I will be traveling to Germany soon and will be sure to pick up a tin! Thank you ladies!
  • N0273
    Thank you
    I’ve been meaning to write a review for over a year. Your podcast is the first one I chose to listen to each week. I always enjoy your honest conversation. I feel like I’m having brunch with girl friends. Thank you for making me smile each week.
  • APiddy24
    Unexpectedly has become a favorite pod
    I discovered this podcast through the cat marnell interview. I had no intention of becoming a listener. Especially being on the younger side of the target demographic. Kim and Jen have totally won me over! They’re funny, smart, witty, and totally authentically themselves. Love their perspective on life and pretty much everything else. Thank you Kim and Jen for the podcast!
  • Dina’s ears
    Love these two!
    A podcast I look forward to every week. Appreciate Kim and Jenn’s banter, authenticity and integrity.
  • fraud-fighter1
    Amazing
    I love this podcast and talk about it with everyone who will listen. Kim and Jenn- you took it to the next level with your conversation with Lucy Sante. I loved everything about it and would have been happy listening to all of you talk for hours. Lucy is inspiring, and having her on your podcast brings awareness to the fact that all women have a voice and a female perspective, regardless of their path to womanhood.
  • awakestill
    Loved this show since I found it recently…
    …and I never write reviews, but while spending time in the deep back catalogue of episodes without guests (my favorites by far, TBH; you two are by far the most entertaining voices!), I felt so seen when Kim recommended my favorite near-forgotten novelist, Laurie Colwin. Just another example —there are dozens!— of how much I relate to both of you, which, again, never happens to me. Thanks so much for being my imaginary, age-appropriate friends. :)
  • MallyKnablach
    Aspiring gen x
    I’m 32 and now addicted to the pod. As y’all discuss your various gripes with aging, I find myself really looking forward to it! I know I’ll be just as annoyed to find more wrinkles year by year, but it feels like listening along is shining a light on the years of womanhood that are less explored in media and culture. Thanks for making the future look bright, ladies!
  • RosinLakeside
    Kim and Jennifer- my new BFFs
    Love this podcast. I look forward to it every week.
  • Cruise's mom
    My favorite podcast!
    Jenn and Kim are so entertaining, loving and informative in that best friend way. Love you both!
  • Oldpye
    Excellent
    Relatable
  • Aly_in_the_City
    My BFF of Podcasts
    I look forward to listening to this podcast whenever I can. Kim & Jen express so well the ups and downs of midlife womanhood, as well as pop culture and the world. They are totally relatable and have a great insights rolled up in great sense of humor. I’m always in a better place after getting in an episode of EIF! Like having coffee with your BFF. I enjoy the EIF Facebook community too. I hope to meet these people in real life someday.
  • EvaVerena
    Highlight of my week
    Smart, and so funny. Like hanging out with the coolest-yet-approachable girlfriends. Kim and Jen balance each other so well. Keep up the great work!
  • Em Drake
    My kind of people
    This podcast is such a good hang, and timely, and honest. All the things you want in a friend. Plus you inspire ME to keep going with my pod! Thank you for the vibes, you two. You make my day better.
  • loverofallspecimens
    Love this Podcast
    I think Jen and Kim are doing the best work of their careers. I wasn’t a Sassy subscriber at the time but I feel like these two need to know they are contributing valuable work to the world NOW. Reminding all of us midlife women that we are vital, have something to contribute, can be sexy, intelligent and vulnerable. Love the podcast and the interview with Julie Lythcott-Haims prompted me to write a review now. OK- I just listened to the Ho Ho Hum episode -12/11/23 and wanted to write another review and just realized that maybe I didn’t even send this first one! It still stands but after today’s podcast, both of your honesty about parenting teens, BO, young men today, the wish that there were clothes designed to fit a older woman’s body properly and having a beginners mind when starting new again in career/life is so refreshing and needed. So many outstanding topics today! I would love to try to make it work to see you if there is a live show in LA. Keep going!
  • KMorgan18
    I could listen to Kim and Jen talk all day!
    I love how funny, smart and real they are!! I’m only 32 but I still get so much out of it.
  • Annie4273
    Such a fantastic show
    I started listening to this recently after reading Kim’s Blog for years and it is so funny and full of tidbits that I (as a 49 yr old woman) NEED TO KNOw! Honestly not sure how I functioned before this podcast.
  • C.Debra
    Like being with funny friends
    Kim and Jenn are witty, wise and blunt and listening to them is like having some cool friends for whom no subject is off-limits. I listen while I walk, laughing loudly enough to make people give me strange looks.
  • Futureballad
    Estrogen cream for my neck!!!
    The dry senses of humor and no nonsense approach to aging are just a tiny nugget of gold in a much larger treasure. The number of product recommendations and life advice I’ve gleaned has been immeasurable.
  • CHGunther
    The best!
    I look forward to each show like an email from a best friend. Love Kim and Jens chemistry, intelligence and ability to dance from deep questions of existence and self acceptance to face serum and underwear. This episode with Alex ?? Was one of my favorites (although in feel that each week). She was such a great guest! I’ll be getting her book, probably audio book version so I can listen to the stories. Thank you EIF team ❤️
  • DeannaDarling
    Smart, funny, spontaneous and wise
    Do you know how podcasts say that the hosts are "like your best friends"? Well these two ARE like your best friends – wise, funny and grounding friends who don't mind being vulnerable about their lived experiences to help you feel less alone, feel less of a weirdo in your second or third act as a woman in this culture. Ladies, I always laugh and think, and don't care what you chat about, I will always want to tune in 😆
  • valerina
    Could not love this more
    I look forward to this one every week. I’m a 40-something artist who spends a lot of time as a studio soloist. While I work, Jen and Kim’s banter feels like listening to friends and gives me some much needed laughs and vigorous head nodding. I love the distinct energy and personality each of them brings to the conversation, the vulnerability, the realness, and the humor. Thanks to these ladies, I can fully own my B-grade mothering! 😂 Keep it up, the conversation is a valuable contribution to the culture and speaks to people who are not often prioritized. We love you!
  • JenFromCharlotte
    First, part of my pandemic pod…now my regular squad
    Since the first episode, I’ve enjoyed the spectrum of relevant topics brought to air with the perfect mix of depth and levity. As a 52 year old going on 36, I’m thrilled to have a space to visit weekly to hear many smart women’s journeys through life. I’m not a creative, but this duo has introduced me to the joys and challenges of women who are. I’ve learned so much. Thanks to Talli, Kim and Jen!
  • Anna.Jaye
    Fun, honest, insightful
    My favorite podcast. From a 38-year old listener in LA who is totally fine with you talking about food. More food talk even. I encourage the food talk! Thank you for this podcast. You both are such a joy.
  • miller-josselyn
    my favorite podcast!
    Love the realness, the humor, the hosts, the guests. I have been fans of both Jenn and Kim forever, and even if they are new to you, I guarantee you will love them too. A must listen for women of a certain age ;) BUT I also listen with my nine year old daughter and she is learning a ton, and we discuss so much more of what it means to be a woman in our culture. xo
  • RobinMG73
    So relatable!
    Thanks Kim and Jen for being my walking buddies. I’m constantly laughing or nodding my head like I’m about to add to the conversation. So relatable!
  • verymary28
    Fun - but question…
    Kim, why are you taking prescription stimulants if you are not diagnosed with an attention deficit disorder? Especially when there’s a shortage affecting so many who do have this diagnosis.
  • An irritated app user
    Love it
    I love the banter. I love the laughing. I love the tensions and the hard discussions. The guests are fabulous (except one a a few years ago ahem! Who seemed to be quite under the age demographic and made me roll my old-lady eyeballs and feel very get-off-my-lawn but I’ll forgive that) and compelling and wise and funny. I really enjoyed Tally’s gentle and analytical perspectives but I also have loved the chemistry between Jen and Kim - and as I’ve mentioned on a comment on Facebook, every time I hear Kim’s voice my brain conjures up Big-era Elizabeth Perkins and Jen’s conjures Laura Dern. Is that super weird? Oh well. Keep up the greatness - you are doing the lord’s work (and by that I mean that “lord” = the great goddess).
  • sheilamaps
    So much wonderful information
    This pair is so thoughtful, hilarious, real and full of life ! The guests led me here and now I’m staying. Keep up the podcast! Y’all are the best part of my commute. 💕💕💕💕
  • Thee Real Kirstenb
    Officially obsessed 🤩
    EIF is the only podcast I truly look forward to listening to. As someone in their 50s, I find Jen and Kim completely relatable and listening to them is like having a fulfilling conversation with great friends. I also highly recommend joint the Patreon for more content from this duo. Can’t wait for more episodes!
  • H000ligan
    The Sound of Fine/the Art of Conversation
    I have been enjoying catching up with listening to all of your podcasts! What makes it especially enjoyable is how Kim and Jen’s voices create a listening counterpoint: Jen’s vivacious sound contrasts perfectly with Kim’s deadpan delivery. 😍. I am a big Lucky Magazine fan. I think Lucky was the last women’s/fashion paper magazine that I subscribed to, as the dawn of the digital age slowly crept upon the scene. Since childhood, starting with fishing “Cosmop” out of my neighbor’s trash as a preteen, magazines were my visual scrapbook and inspiration boards. (I couldn’t pronounce Cosmopolitan at the time, so I called it Cosmop.). Could you talk about magazine cover models in an upcoming episode? What I’m talking about is how women’s magazines always had models as their “cover girls;” then one day, celebrities ruled magazine covers. I remember the shift as a Lucky subscriber! Also, I wanted to add that it is a joy to listen to the both of you because you are both great listeners! Have you ever had friends who talk over others, and when you finally get a chance to talk, either the topic of conversation has changed, or the big mouth suddenly thought of something else to ramble about?! It is great to hear an equal conversation, spoken and listened, like a great tennis match!
  • Betsy’s mom
    So honest and real
    I adore this show! Kim and Jennifer pull no punches about life at this age, the good and the bad. They’re hilarious and sometimes they make me cry, but they always make me feel ok about my life…everything really IS fine!
  • sedfan
    Thank you!
    Kim thank you so much for the foyer episode. I am going to talk to my doctor right away. You summed up my feelings about this issue perfectly. I know this information will help a lot of women. Thank you!
  • annie644
    The Best!!!!
    You guys are the best but the live episode made me double over with laughter. I loved all the nervous energy and totally related to that feeling of excitement and nervousness that makes you feel like laughing and throwing up at the same time. Both of you had so much fun it was infectious!!
  • shale42
    Exactly what I needed to survive post-40
    I found this by searching for “podcasts for women over 40” on my 40th birthday, and I’m so glad I did. I realized just today why this show immediately felt so familiar and good — it’s the rare and PARTICULAR satisfaction you get when art understands women’s lives and female friendships. Today they were talking about Kim’s well-intentioned mom leaving a giant neon sign at her wedding, and she said “I had a certain minimum level of taste I was trying to keep—“ and Jennifer said, “How about let’s stay away from quantifying taste and just say, you had a particular aesthetic?” While I was absolutely dying laughing, I realized it was the same feeling as watching a lunch scene from Sex and the City, but if the characters were real and acted as normal people do, and were mostly healthy about men instead of mostly toxic, and if the primary purpose was to warn you and delight you about everything that comes with aging. What sets it apart is the authenticity. They have just the right balance of topics, just the right guests, and you can tell they’re smart/successful but they’re never pretentious. It’s really like they’re your actual friends. Can’t recommend it enough. (PS: if you happen to be in the cannabis profession like I am, you will LOVE the ongoing real, funny, non-stigmatizing discussions about weed and older women!)
  • JenJF2023
    Did they make this podcast just for me?
    What can I say except Sassy changed my life, and this podcast is the 2023 version for me now. Thank you Kim and Jenn! (Btw Jenn I ❤️ Weird at Work and can’t wait until I can read your next book.)
  • baileyim
    A plea for a LA live show
    Long time listener, first time caller. Kim & Jen, I sat on my sofa laughing enviously with everyone in attendance for the NY show. From Kimberly’s sex-and-dating-while-over-50 stories to Eve’s sage wisdom, this is my new favorite episode, which is high praise considering I’ve listened from the very beginning with Tally. PLEASE bring the show to LA because I need this IRL.
  • annettegalloward
    I am so happy “Everything is Fine” exists
    It’s the perfect 40+ modern woman’s podcast. Honest discussion and insightful programming. Thanks ladies!! ❤️
  • Brandettes
    Delightfully salty and sweet
    You two put together the most engaging, inclusive, informative, funny, inspiring and entertaining episodes…and somehow manage to do it weekly. Love, love, love!
  • cmpm arsenal fan
    My favorite podcast
    I’ve had a really rough year, with almost all the “women over 40” issues arising in the last 12 months. Between a dying parent and perimenopause this year has been crap. I cannot emphasize how much hearing Kim and Jen talk honestly about a wide variety of serious and silly topics has helped me. This is so relevant and it’s one of the few places that I feel really seen. I love this podcast and never miss it. These two women are so clever and funny and I really appreciate their work.
  • paradise found for realz
    Can’t do without
    I am so not a podcast listener, but this is the only one of three shows I ever listen to on a regular basis. Kim and Jen are legit! They are honest, open and intelligent women I aspire to be in my about to be midage:) thank you for this free content! Makes me more human, tender and all around informed. Excellent guests as well. Where do you all find the time to produce these???! Much appreciation.
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