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Tell your story and join forces with entrepreneurs and self-starters, health experts, creatives of all kinds, and women who get sh** done.

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Amy Cuevas Schroeder

Aging out of f#cks: The neuroscience of why you can’t pretend anymore

+ How to stop being a people-pleaser

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Gifts for women made by women

Guaranteed not to be like any other gift guide

Nov 24 •

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Amy Cuevas Schroeder

Work is broke AF. Want to start a revolution?

+ Meet the woman who wrote the book on sober menopause and sugar addiction

Nov 13 •

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Amy Cuevas Schroeder

Sara Blakely on when to quit your day job

+ Health Testing Olympics • Harvard Business Review research on goal harmony, which 'helps workers feel less stressed, more productive, and less likely…

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What the actual f#ck is happening to our work?

Oct 23 • The Midst and Cool Best Friend

Let's talk about Kristin Davis' filler removal

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After Barnes & Noble acquisition, Emily McDowell enters her post-burnout reinvention period

Aug 13 • The Midst and Emily McDowell

Meet Mimi Ison, 62: Instagram fitness star

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Become the woman you're meant to be. And want to be.

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What LinkedIn Doesn’t Say about Lindsey Stanberry, founder of The Purse and former editor at Fortune and Refinery29's Money Diaries

The financial writer reflects on not fitting in at Martha Stewart, working across the street from Martin Scorcese’s house, finding her voice at…

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2 years after Jamie Lee Curtis exploded with joy for Michelle Yeoh ...

+ Your November horoscope | Call for stories about midlife eating disorders

Nov 2 •

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Amy Cuevas Schroeder

What the actual f#ck is happening to our work?

The malaise is real

Oct 23 •

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Riot grrrl + music exec Molly Neuman continues the good fight for musicians

The Bratmobile drummer on raising a pre-teen in L.A., her reckless ambition, and celebrating Sleater-Kinney's 30th anniversary

Oct 22 •

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Amy Cuevas Schroeder

Solopreneurs' $1.7 trillion moment

The good news + the bad news about employment

Oct 16 •

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Amy Cuevas Schroeder

Dream job alert: L’Oreal Thompson Payton sells infertility memoir and opens bookstore

Her happiness meter: 9.5/10 on life but -1,000 on the state of the world

Oct 14 •

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Anorexia and bulimia in midlife?

+ Rest in Power, Diane Keaton

Oct 12 •

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Lauria Locsmondy

OMG, The Midst community is on 🔥

Watch comics Casey Balsham & Carole Montgomery + bestselling author Mary Laura Philpott live from your couch on October 14! | Meet the career coach who…

Oct 9 •

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Amy Cuevas Schroeder

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REPLAY + TRANSCRIPT: Building a Women's Health & Wellness Business

Funding, bootstrapping, building audience, the future of the market — it's all here and then some.

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Esther Sedgwick

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Cortney Bigelow

Is Dr. Elizabeth Poynor the next big thing in women’s health and longevity?

Her podcast, "Decoding Women's Health," leans into cutting-edge topics — from the role of medical cannabis and psychedelics in midlife women’s health to…

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Amy Cuevas Schroeder

+ Winona Ryder turns 54, Gwen Stefani turns 56, and Julia Roberts turns ...

+ Jane Goodall's final words

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