Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Podcast Rankings and reviews

This podcast is exactly what my life has been missing! Love Julia’s easy way with her guests. She’s a natural host and conversationalist and asks great questions that we the listener want to know about. Every episode I walk away with more insight into fascinating strong women, take away great advice & get a greater sense of pride in being a woman!! Thanks Julia and guests for letting us listen in- grateful!!

Superb podcast. Bringing us voices we so rarely hear in our society, the voices of women who have lived a long time. They are from a wide range of backgrounds and have come through to their 70s, 80s and 90s with great wisdom. Julia Louis-Dreyfus welcomes and celebrates them, asks great questions and listens to them. What a gift to us all!

I love everything about this podcast! Topics and guests are always intriguing but what makes this podcast shine is Julia herself! I love her interview and her intelligent conversational style with each wiser woman. I especially enjoy the prologues to each episode and the personal stories or parts of herself Julia shares. The phone call to her mom at the end is the cherry on the very top of this delicious cake! I can’t wait for future seasons. Congratulations, Julia, for creating a perfect podcast!

I absolutely love listening to these conversations. They are a beacon forward through the realities of life. I’ve always felt older women’s wisdom was an untapped treasure so when I found this podcast, I was so grateful. Each episode has left me with truth that I can hold on to. Not to mention the chance to laugh out loud which feels so good especially now in our current world. Thank you Julia and team for bringing some light into this world. I sure hope there are more episodes to come.

I loved this podcast in the beginning. Now it’s just painfully embarrassing to listen to JLD tell every woman she interviews how much she loves them and that she’s crying — there’s too much of this! I am hoping Julia can turn this around and get a little edge back. As an interviewer, she’s the stand-in for the listener. This means pushing aside her celebrity status and thinking about what the listener might want to hear/ask/know. The obsequiousness doesn’t establish the right tone for that.

She comes off as self-interested, insincere, and offensive (in terms of aging these other women). Opening anecdotes are strangely simultaneously cringy and fascinating, same as the indifferent closing scripted phone call w mom. It seems like private therapy sessions would be a better choice for her time investment.

2nd season update: the first season was well produced but this follow-up is a masterclass of podcasting, really impressive work and the loyal listenership is clearly deserved.