Confident Midlife
Culture is constantly coaching us. Through psychology, cinema and storytelling, I decode the invisible narratives shaping confidence, leadership and identity—revealing how the stories we've been told all our lives quietly influence the lives we lead.
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Let Gloria Activate You (opens the original)
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Since Gloria Steinem died on September 2nd, aged 92, I’ve found myself thinking about what activism looks like now. For us: women in 2026 with more power, more voice, and more of a platform than any generation before us.<source
‘Articulation’ apps? Give me strength... (opens the original)
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Pomodoro + Martin Short = Winning at Life (opens the original)
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Last time I wrote about something that’d been unwittingly derailing me - and, I suspect, many of you too. To recap, I realised (via an intense identity crisis that wasn’t much fun!) that I’d assumed my potential as a woman to be entirely wrapped up in my feminine. I know I know: that’s nonsense. But my unconscious had concluded: who needs the masculine, right, when it’s doing what it’s doing in the world?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8
Is Half of You Actually Missing...? (opens the original)
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