My Story
Over the next few years, I found answers in good medical providers, books, scientific journals, podcasts and my friends’ experiences.
I’ve channeled my frustration into curating events to educate women on their hormonal journey and empower them through it. I’ve spoken to employee resources groups in Washington state and in the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia; presented in 2024 at the Tri-City Regional Chamber of Commerce Women in Business conference on menopause in the workplace; and hosted an event in March 2026 to screen a perimenopause documentary and facilitate a panel of experts for more than 125 local women.
I’m currently in training as a certified menopause coaching with Women of a Certain Stage, set to complete in August 2026.
I’ve built the Unfiltered Midlife for women, those who care about them, and those who invest in them in workplaces.
Who This Is For
If you are a woman navigating this transition: Honest information, practical tools, and a community that meets you where you are. Not a protocol. Not a supplement stack. The truth.
If you are an employer or HR leader: A policy and culture perspective from someone who has sat at your table, understands your constraints, is experienced in employee engagement and change management, and has lived the experience your employees are navigating in silence. A legislative wave is building. The employers who move now keep their best people. First, you need to understand the science, the impact of symptoms on your female employees, and the new legislative requirements.
No Filters. The truth, even when it's uncomfortable. Because women, their employers, and the people in their lives all deserve better.
No Shame. I spent decades trapped in it. I'm not going back, and I'm not letting anyone who finds their way here stay stuck in it either.
No Limits. On what becomes possible when a woman finally gets the truth. On what an organization can unlock when it supports those female employees.
Let’s do this together.
I am a mission-driven founder who worked for 30 years building and protecting the reputation of institutions. Now I’m building and protecting women in midlife so they can thrive, not just survive, through their remaining decades. This is my legacy work, and I’m here for you, your friends, your colleagues, and the companies looking to support their most experienced women.
I know what it takes because of my lived experience. My hormonal journey started at 49, when a friend who is an integrative nutritionist mentioned the role of nutrition in hormones. I decided to be proactive and get a ‘baseline.’ Little did I know that I was way beyond baseline — my testosterone was nearly zero.
Like millions of other women, my hormonal fluctuations could explain my depression, brain fog, feelings I was going crazy with rage or tears minute to minute. I couldn’t recall simple words.
I wasn't falling apart. I was navigating a massive transition that nobody had prepared me for — and I was one of the lucky ones who found help.
Luck is not acceptable as a system.
The more I learned, the more frustrated I became. Not because the science doesn't exist — it does. But because there’s very little of it. And what there is, isn't reaching the women who need it. It's buried in journals, lost in jargon, or cherry-picked by an industry that profits from keeping women desperate for answers, proving the answers will come in a weighted vest or supplement.
I had one advantage many women don't: nearly 20 years translating complex scientific results into plain language. I know how to read a clinical study, challenge assumptions, and tell the difference between credible research and a marketing claim dressed up as science. When I started digging into the research on menopause — that training kicked in hard.
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