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Transformative Travel for Midlife Women: Confidence, Connection, and Mindfulness in Africa

Discover how travel during midlife empowers women through transformation, connection, and mindfulness. Follow our journey through Africa, where self-discovery and awe-inspiring experiences shaped new perspectives and a renewed sense of purpose. Perfect for those seeking adventure and personal growth.

Photos are from the personal archive of Janice Rombeck

In July, 13 midlife women embarked on a transformative adventure through Africa. This adventure pushed us beyond our comfort zones and deeply impacted our confidence and spirit.

Witnessing majestic wildlife like elephants and penguins and reflecting on South Africa’s rich history opened everyone’s eyes to new perspectives. The awe-inspiring landscapes and meaningful connections with fellow travelers helped us discover a more profound sense of self-acceptance. This trip changed how many of us view the world and strengthened our commitment to engage more actively in shaping our future.

Travel during midlife, emphasizing transformation, connection, and mindfulness, profoundly shapes our perspectives. For each of us, the experiences become a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, offering a break from routine and a chance to step outside our comfort zones. Immersing ourselves in new cultures, experiences, and environments pushes us to confront our fears, grow, and embrace change, helping us to build confidence and resilience.

During our 16 days, we made meaningful connections with fellow travelers and locals. The conversations made us reflect on our own lives and broaden our understanding of this part of the world. These interactions foster empathy, open-mindedness, and a sense of shared humanity, helping us each reevaluate our roles and relationships.

Mindfulness—being present during each experience—enriches the travel experience by immersing ourselves fully in each moment. Whether it's the awe of natural wonders or navigating through challenges, being present helps us appreciate life’s fleeting beauty. This mindfulness carries over into our daily lives, encouraging us to savor each moment more fully and prioritize what truly matters. Staying present is an integral part of flourishing through midlife.

Ultimately, traveling with other midlife women catalyzed our personal growth and offered new perspectives on how we see ourselves, our relationships, and the world around us. It empowered many of us to approach the future with renewed purpose, clarity, and strength.

If you’ve ever found yourself seeking more meaning in your adventures or curious about the transformative power of travel, this post will speak directly to you. Get ready for two insightful and heartfelt stories from two of our fellow travelers.

We’re excited to have Janice Rombeck share her experience in our group. As a reporter, editor, freelance writer, and communication manager, Janice brings a unique perspective on travel and offers insights that we think you'll find inspiring and actionable.

Here are thoughts from Janice: Travel brings with it many gifts -- adventure, exploration, companionship and the awakening of our senses. The memories from travel stay with you for a lifetime. And the lessons you learn during the journey shape who you are and who you are becoming.

But perhaps travel’s greatest gift is offering us the opportunity to stay in the moment, live in the here and now, be fully aware of what we are experiencing without being distracted by thoughts or feelings of the past or future.

During the Africa trip, we were transported to a new time and place, even a new season, where we could leave behind the troubles, pressures and worries of our daily lives and focus – really focus – on the moment.

Staying in the moment was sometimes a result of awe as in the first time we saw a family of rhinos from our safari jeep. Or staying in the moment was a necessity of survival as in navigating over rocks and through streams during the rugged hike to the waterfalls in Moremi Gorge.

Of course, we thought about and talked about our lives, our work, our families and our environments at home. It was an important tool to learning about each other and, for some, a connection to loved ones left behind. But during the activities of our jam-packed, adventure-filled days, we were there. In the present.

We observed, photographed, expressed joy or fright, laughed at penguins and perhaps shed tears touring the Robben Island prisons. We supported each other, toasted our guides and helpers, danced when the music moved us, sang with the soundtrack on the bus.

Looking at my photos and videos of the trip, and those posted on the Internet by others, can take me back to Botswana, Zimbabwe and South Africa, at least for a while. I can feel the wonderment of watching a young elephant cross the road in front of us, or a giraffe sustaining its huge and complex body by nibbling at leaves above its head, a hippo crawling its way out of a mudhole as we float along the water in a riverboat, a monkey skillfully stealing a muffin from our table, the magic of seeing the sun and the moon at the same time on the Mkadigadi Pan, the sound and fury of Victoria Falls spilling over massive cliffs, or the simple clinking of wine glasses as we celebrated the end of another awesome day on a continent 10,000 miles away from our homes.

Those memories bring the realization of what a special experience Africa 2024 was and a reflection of the gifts we received during the journey. As I returned to my real life, I sometimes longed to be back where I can hear hippos at night in the nearby river, taste springbok meat fresh from a braai grill, take in a gorgeous sunset with brilliant colors painted against the sky, observe from a safe distance mammals and birds not found in North America and once again enjoy the enormous break from the world I left.

Not that every moment of our trip was pleasant. We experienced hard hikes, daily fatigue, lifting heavy suitcases and backpacks, hours on bus rides in temperatures that seemed way too hot to be winter, unexpected illness, disappointments and frustrations. But even in these moments we were living, experiencing and feeling what was before us, around us and within us and were grateful for the awareness and the lessons these moments gave us.

Undeniably, we have moments of sharp focus and intense attention in our daily lives. Some of us are skilled at daily meditation, mindfulness exercises and periods of quiet reflection. But more often, we are likely to be planning, scheduling, organizing, always trying to be a step ahead of what may happen next.

Africa 2024 provided a sustained period of staying in the present, not just for us individually, but for us as a group. Living in the here and now with each other and experiencing the awe and wonder of Africa in those moments enriched the benefits of travel for all of us. Those gifts from travel will stay with us and I’m grateful beyond measure to have made the journey with this group of adventurers.

We’re also thrilled to introduce you to Jolene, who has an incredible story from our trip! Jolene offers a fresh and inspiring perspective on embracing a transformational and life-changing travel experience. She shares how these experiences have shaped her new outlook on life.

Here are thoughts from Jolene: Our July 2024 Africa adventure was incredible! Not only did I demonstrate to myself that I can survive with zeal outside of my comfort zone, the trip impacted my self-confidence and spiritually. My self-confidence and self-worth have always been easily shaken. Whether it was rolling with our 50 degree swing in daily temperatures, listening and sharing stories with our group and guides or being in such a different place than I’ve ever visited I discovered a lot of self-acceptance in 16 days. It has carried into my life after returning home.

The impact spiritually and in my soul is all encompassed with the experience. Seeing elephants, giraffes, rhinos, lions and especially the penguins being free to live in their own habitat and humans of all races fitting into their lives shows that we really are one world. Walking and flying over magnificent Victoria Falls, one of the seven natural wonders of the world, provided such a visual of Earth’s creation. All the animals crossing or walking along side of the highways as we drove was so cool! Watching the penguins outside of Cape Town absolutely was the best highlight because they made everyone happy and laugh and were in general fascinating.

The people experience, everything from conversations with our group and locals, the history of the South African vineyards and learning about Nelson Mandela and apartheid kept confirming that each person in this world has a different lens that shapes their everyday decisions and life. The trip provided me with a new lens to view and accept others as well as being more aware of how others might view me. History really does repeat itself. And, in the United States we are so fortunate to live in a democratic nation. Whether it was the wisdom that I gained in Africa or the events that happened while we were in Africa I have come home with the purpose of educating and encouraging people to vote and hope that one day in the near future our nation will be less divided.

Travel in Midlife is Transformational

Whether you're looking to step out of your comfort zone, seeking more mindful travel experiences, or simply want to travel with other midlife women, we hope Jolene and Janice's wisdom and personal experiences resonate with you. And we hope you’ll join us for a Rumblings travel adventure in the future! Stay tuned for more travel adventures in 2025 (hint: it may include Greece!). Don't forget to share your thoughts and where you’d like to travel in the comments below—let’s start a conversation!

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Embrace the Journey: Rediscover Purpose in Midlife

Embrace the journey of midlife with courage and resilience. Rediscover purpose, navigate transitions, and find fulfillment in this new chapter of life. Join us as we explore the challenges and opportunities of midlife, offering insights, inspiration, and practical tips for living your best life.

"What are you doing with your life?" It echoes through the corridors of our minds, haunting us like a persistent shadow. We remember asking ourselves this in college, maybe even later in our twenties. But life happened—kids, careers, responsibilities—and that question got buried beneath the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

Fast-forward to today, and here we are, a community of midlife women, each navigating a unique maze of caregiving duties, changing relationships, and evolving roles. The question resurfaces, taunting us with its insistent presence.

"What are you doing with your life?"

Reinvent Midlife

But this time, instead of feeling a surge of possibility, doubt creeps in. Is it too late to chase your dreams? Can you reinvent your life, find new purposes, and acquire new skills?

The answer is a resounding YES!

Yes, even if you're unsure. Yes, even if you don't have all the answers. Yes, even if the path ahead seems daunting. Why? Because you are wiser now than you've ever been. You've weathered storms, faced challenges, and emerged stronger and more resilient on the other side.

Rewrite Your Story

It's still possible to rewrite your story. This is just the beginning of a new chapter filled with endless and untapped possibilities. And the best part? You're not alone on this journey.

As a community of midlife women, we are here to support and uplift each other.

Let's embrace uncertainty, fear, and the unknown together. Let's forge ahead with courage, curiosity, and a willingness to explore. Ultimately, what matters most is not where we've been but where we're going—and the incredible adventures that await us along the way.

Embrace Change

Midlife is a time of transition. It's a period marked by profound shifts in our lives, both internally and externally. As we navigate the complexities of aging parents, grown children, and changing careers, it's natural to question our place in the world and our purpose in life.

But amid the uncertainty, there lies an opportunity—to reinvent yourself, rediscover your passions, and pursue your dreams with renewed vigor. This is your chance to embrace change, lean into the discomfort, and emerge on the other side stronger, wiser, and more fulfilled than ever before. The potential for growth and fulfillment in this new chapter of life is immense and within your reach. It’s a time to reset your mindset and renew your vision to live vibrantly and purposely.

Seek Fulfillment

Finding fulfillment in midlife is not about achieving some elusive ideal of success or happiness. It's about embracing the messy, imperfect journey of self-discovery and growth. It's about learning to appreciate the beauty of the present moment, even as you strive for a better tomorrow.

So, lean into the unknown with an open heart and mind. Trust in your ability to navigate life's twists and turns with grace and resilience. And remember that no matter where this journey takes you, you're never alone.

Together, we can face whatever challenges come our way and emerge more robust and resilient than ever.

Now is the Time

Midlife is not the end of the road – it's a new beginning. It's a chance to reinvent yourself, pursue your passions, and live on your terms. So, embrace this opportunity with courage, curiosity, and a sense of adventure. Write the next chapter of your life with boldness and determination.

Start creating your vision for this next chapter. Check out the following resources for support:

Remember, the best you is about to bloom and flourish!

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Women are Underrepresented in Research. Why Should You Care?

As a woman, you have unique health needs and experiences that can differ from those of men. If women are underrepresented in research studies, the results may not accurately reflect their health outcomes or address their health concerns. This could lead to inaccurate diagnoses, ineffective treatments, and missed opportunities for preventative care. We need equity and fairness in research funding. Research is critical for advancing our understanding of diseases, treatments, and health outcomes.

Women comprise half of the population, and their voices and experiences should be equally represented in research studies. It is a matter of fairness and equity that women have the same opportunities as men to participate in research that impacts their health and well-being.

Research is critical for advancing our understanding of diseases, treatments, and health outcomes. Our knowledge in these areas may be limited if women are underrepresented in research studies. This can slow down progress in medical advancements and result in missed opportunities for discoveries and breakthroughs that could benefit everyone.

It’s our mission at Rumblings to ensure you have the science-based facts and education you need to understand what can impact your health so that you can take informed actions. We feel it is crucial for all women to care about underrepresentation in research because it can directly impact our health and well-being.

So this month, we interviewed women’s health expert and assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, Manda Keller Ross, Ph.D., DPT. Dr. Keller Ross shares her research background and interest in women's health in this interview. She discusses the gender gap in research, particularly in heart disease risk in women, which has been historically studied more in men. She focuses on studying the influence of menopause symptoms on blood pressure regulation and heart disease risk in women. Additionally, she highlights the barriers women face when participating in research and the importance of addressing the diversity in experiences and physiology among women. Lastly, she emphasizes the need for more women to participate in research to improve preventative strategies and treatments for women.

Rumblings Interview with Dr. Keller Ross.

Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, and how you became interested in the research that you’re currently doing?

I am a mother of three young girls (8, 7, and 5 yrs), a scientist, and an educator. I have been studying blood pressure regulation and heart disease risk for about 10 years. In the last seven years, our laboratory has transitioned to studying primarily women’s health due to the dearth of information regarding heart disease risk in women and, in particular, how age and menopause influence this risk. The majority of the research in the area of heart disease has primarily been on men, and women have been traditionally underrepresented in medicine and science, particularly women with a non-white racial and ethnic background. This also means we have less available information regarding safe and effective therapies for women who are at risk for or have already developed heart disease. Our laboratory hopes to close this knowledge gap and be able to better understand some of the early risk factors of heart disease for women to identify effective preventative and therapeutic strategies to reduce heart disease risk for women.

We know that there are many age-related changes that women go through that increase their health risk, but is there a particular reason why you decided to focus on research related to menopause?

From what the literature suggests, prior to menopause, men have a greater prevalence of high blood pressure and increased heart disease risk compared with women. After the typical age of menopause, around 50-51 years, this risk increases substantially in women and surpasses that of men. This means that there is something in particular about the loss of sex hormones (estrogens and progesterone) in women that contributes to this greater risk. There is also evidence that menopause symptoms can be associated with heart disease, particularly hot flashes, night sweats, and difficulty sleeping. Our lab focuses on the influence of these symptoms and how the age of menopause influences blood pressure regulation to contribute to these greater risks.

Why is research on women’s health so important?

Women are important and have traditionally been ignored in research and science. For example, women participate in clinical trials much less than men for many reasons; however, this means that many drug trials are conducted only in men, but these same medications are given to women. Much of what we know about physiology was determined in men. Now we are playing catch-up to understand women’s physiology. It’s frustrating, but we are trying to be part of the solution.

What are the barriers for women to participate in research?

Women often carry several responsibilities simultaneously, and participating in research is not often at the top of their priority list. Women are working; they may be primary caretakers and are often not able to get the time off, cannot afford to take the time off, or need to be with their children. We have opened up our laboratory on the weekends for studies to help reduce this barrier, but often childcare is an issue. We have tried to set up childcare at the University for parents, but we have not been successful as there are some liabilities with this process. In addition, there is a lack of information provided to people in general about research and clinical trials, and information about menopause is often not shared with women unless women inquire directly with their physicians. There are often additional barriers for people of color, particularly the African American community, who have been traditionally exploited in research, and as scientists, we need to do a better job of connecting with their communities and building strong relationships and trust before engaging them in research.

Are there certain subsegments of women where we particularly need more research information, and why is that necessary? Can’t we generalize women’s research to all women?

Yes, there are definitely subsegments of women that we particularly need additional knowledge on regarding their health and strategies for disease prevention and treatment. We cannot generalize across subpopulations of women because life experiences have a strong impact on our physiology. One of the strongest examples that I can provide is racial stress. Non-white communities have experienced macro- and micro-aggressions for centuries, and we haven’t even really begun to understand how that has impacted their physiology. We know diverse communities are often at a greater risk for high blood pressure, heart disease, and kidney disease, just to mention a few, but we don’t have a clear understanding of why. These factors are often erroneously discussed in the literature as being connected to genetic or physiological differences, but we, as scientists, need to incorporate how life experiences, such as the trauma and stress surrounding racial discrimination, influence risk factors for these diseases.

Why is it important for women to participate in research studies from a researcher's perspective? What benefits can women experience by participating in research?

The majority of the knowledge we have obtained from the research, including clinical trials, drug trials, etc., has come from studies conducted in mostly men, in particular white men. This knowledge gets generalized to the community when it doesn’t always apply to women. Over the last 20 years, we have identified many breakthroughs in how the physiology of men and women are different. Sex hormones, including estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, influence our muscles, heart, lungs, and blood vessels differently, and men and women have varying levels of these hormones. Thus, it is important for women to participate in research so that we can delineate differences in physiology between men and women, which will lead to improved preventative strategies and treatments for women.

Another important benefit of women participating in research is that they would contribute their experiences to the depth and breadth of knowledge on women. This knowledge will lead to better treatments for them, their daughters, and generations to come. If women do not participate in research, we can’t make strides in understanding risk factors that are specific to women and develop tailored treatments to prevent/reduce heart disease risk in women.

How can women learn about research studies they may be eligible to participate in?

There are national websites that women can browse for research studies, such as clinicaltrials.gov
Women can learn about studies at the University of Minnesota’s StudyFinder website: studyfinder.umn.edu
Women can learn more about our lab and studies occurring in our lab by visiting: https://med.umn.edu/rehabmedicine/research/labs/cardiovascular-rehabilitation-lab.

What questions should women ask before participating in a study?

What is the purpose of the study?
What procedures are involved in the study?
What are the risks of the study?
How long does the study last, how many visits are there, and how long is each visit?
Is there compensation for being a part of the study?

What should we do to advocate for getting more women involved in research?

We should educate women on what we know and do not know about women’s health and the consequences of that lack of knowledge. In addition, we should build relationships with the community and discuss the importance of their participation in research.

What is your hope for the future if we could close the gap in women’s health research?

My hope for the future is that we significantly reduce the risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, and mortality in women; that women know their risks and how to reduce their modifiable risk factors for these diseases; that women feel there is a space and place for them in research and clinical trials; and that women feel comfortable enough to talk to their family, friends and health care providers about menopause and advocate for themselves.

Thank you to Dr. Keller-Ross for taking the time to highlight the progress made in recent years to include more women in medical research and acknowledging that there is still a way to go to ensure equal representation in research. As moms, daughters, sisters, and friends, we need to spread the word and advocate for women to be included in research studies and to raise awareness of the importance of why our representation matters to our health and health care.

Learn more about Dr. Keller-Ross, The Cardiovascular and Rehabilitation Lab, and The effects of menopause on cardiovascular health in women study by clicking the links.

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Recognizing Midlife Challenges: Ladies, you’re not alone!

Midlife women have shared with us the many challenges they face. Weight changes, changes in their physical body shape, loss of strength and balance, or changes in their metabolism.

They’ve shared feeling achy, having pain, and experiencing a lack of stamina or fatigue which interefered with achieving their exercise and fitness goals. Eating healthfully and getting adequate sleep were also on the list.

They also shared difficulties staying connected and engaged with friends (or the loss of friends) and family due to life transitions. The lack of connection was often described as feelings of loneliness.

Women also felt torn between managing grown children, aging parents, and not having enough personal time to care for themselves.

The good news is you are not alone! Read more to find out what you can do to flourish after 50!

*Fashion After 50, A Fashion Week MN Event. Photo credit: G. Marie Images*

“Right after your breakdown is your breakthrough.” – Trent Shelton

Do any of the following midlife challenges sound familiar? Weight changes, including changes in your physical body shape, loss of strength and balance, or changes in your metabolism.

We’ve been surveying women since 2021; those were the most common challenges they shared experience in midlife.

Women also told us about feeling achy, having pain, and experiencing a lack of stamina or fatigue. All of which interfered with achieving their exercise and fitness goals. Eating healthfully and getting adequate sleep were also on the list.

Women also felt torn between managing grown children, aging parents, and not having enough personal time to care for themselves.

Financial stress and feeling prepared for retirement were also reported as challenges.

The list challenge list continued, although not as many women reported the following:

Feeling stressed
Getting healthcare professionals to listen
Being self-compassionate
Enjoying life without guilt
Feeling invisible
Experiencing ageism at work
Having anxiety
Dressing for age
Increasing disease risks
Finding purpose

How do you feel when you hear the challenges and struggles of other midlife women? Do they resonate with you?

Sharing this list is not to overwhelm you with midlife challenges you may or may not be experiencing but to help you see YOU ARE NOT ALONE. Midlife is a time of transition, and with transition and changes come challenges. Our bodies are changing. Our kids are leaving home. Our parents are aging. Our friendship groups are changing and evolving. We may be reassessing what we want during this phase of our careers. Many women ask themselves, ”What is my purpose, and what should my life look like for the next decades?”

Experiencing these challenges that come with midlife are common than most women believe them to be. And the difficulties faced during this time are natural too. It’s time to normalize, talk, and share the realities of midlife and lean on each other as we learn to position ourselves to live vibrantly. We can and should flourish through our 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, and beyond!

The good news is that we can overcome the new challenges of midlife! With the right tips, tools, and techniques, you can tackle these challenges and live your best life!

Here’s what you can do to overcome your midlife challenges:

Write down the challenges you face in midlife. Be very specific. It is not an exercise about wallowing in our challenges but recognizing them to address them.
Keep your list visible. Add to the list throughout the week.
Sign-up to receive our bi-weekly email newsletter. In each email, we provide tips, tools, and techniques for overcoming challenges and creating lasting change in your life.
Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn, where we provide additional tips and talk about living vibrantly together.
Review your list frequently. Develop a plan to tackle one or two of the most pressing challenges you are experiencing.
Take small steps every day to address your challenges.

Most importantly, you’re not alone. We’re on this journey together, and at Rumblings, we believe women can and should flourish after 50!

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2022 Holiday Gift Guide for the Midlife Woman in Your Life

Rumblings Media is excited to support women-owned businesses with our second annual Rumblings Women's Gift Guide featuring unique items for any midlife woman in your life. This list was curated from recommendations from our Rumblings community, as well as from our personal experiences. We hope you’ll join us this holiday season and throughout the year in supporting and lifting up amazing and inspiring entrepreneurs, makers, and small businesses by shopping female-owned whenever possible!

Midlife is a time of transition that often leads to reflection and transformation for so many women. We’re inspired by their stories and are excited to support women-owned businesses with our second annual Rumblings’ Women's Gift Guide featuring unique items for any woman in your life. This list was curated from recommendations from our Rumblings community, as well as from our personal experiences.

Supporting women comes in many forms, and shopping at women-owned small businesses is one way you can do that! Join us in making purchases from these and other small businesses this holiday season to cheer for and encourage women in their many endeavors.

We love these homemade herbs and garlic salts from Heirloomista—a women-owned, woman-run farm in Amador, Minnesota. Kelsey Love is the driving force behind the farm with a mission to heal the earth through agriculture and inspire people to engage with the planet in a meaningful way. These salts (and you should check out her candles, too) make a perfect gift for colleagues or neighbors.

You can find beautiful yet practical ceramic pieces at Fringe & Fettle—a one-woman show. You can explore the wonderful pieces on the website or shop them on her Etsy shop.

We recently heard about Abby Alley, and with one glance through the website, we knew the reasonably priced, beautiful jewelry pieces would be perfect gifts for our girlfriends. In 2016, Abby began working with East African artisans and testing the market with an online store. She launched her own brand, Abby Alley, in November 2018.

We have several pieces of MEND’s natural gemstones and crystal jewelry. Not only have we fallen in love with the jewelry, but we’re also so impressed with MEND’s founder, Jordyn. Each MEND piece has meaning, and the healing crystals offer restorative empowerment to conquer life’s circumstances. You can find the perfect gift for any woman in your life on the website.

Our friend, Emily Maxson, wrote a beautiful cookbook. The simple recipes use real food and are easy to make (and enjoy) any day of the week. Order a signed copy of her cookbook for a friend, family member, or neighbor. It’s a gift any woman would enjoy for years to come.

We’re obsessed with Clare V handbags, straps, and accessories. Originally from St. Paul, Minnesota, Clare noticed a lack of functional yet stylish laptop cases while working as a journalist for French TV. Clare now produces a full range of bags and accessories, including tech, travel, small leather accessories, men's, t-shirts, and shoes. While the brand has continued to grow, the line continues to be made exclusively in Los Angeles. You can shop the full line of her new products and Le Resale—a peer-to-peer marketplace for pre-loved treasures from past seasons—on the website.

Isadore Nut Company makes award-winning snacks and gifts that are more than just delicious and good for your body. They also ensure half of their staff is people with disabilities. The others are women, people of color, and immigrants. They give people a chance to learn new skills and accomplish their goals by giving them a job.

Give a gift of good health and sustainability—honey. Bees are responsible for pollinating ⅓ of the world’s food supply, including many fruits and vegetables that are important to a healthy diet. Honey is a natural sweetener with nutritional benefits, but it’s also critical to the existence of honey bees, which are in turn essential to our health. Gift natural honey straight from Bolton Bees Beekeeper Chiara Bolton. Shop location-specific, solar-produced, or custom-label honey.

Gaderian Wines is a women-owned winery and wine you can drink with your friends and family around the table, firepit, picnic blanket, or living room. Celebrate these women with the woman in your life by sharing a bottle of Gaderian wine.

Robin Asbell is an author, educator, and natural foods chef who creates luscious, feel-good food. Treat the food lover in your life to a new cookbook for inspiration or a virtual cooking class for fun times with friends.

Handcrafted jewelry utilizing new, recycled, and vintage materials. Shop Ear Things By Laura Wolovitch.

Art jewelry by Laura Stamper Designs is described as the antidote for ordinary. Laura has been creating one-of-a-kind pieces for 29 years. You can find her jewelry on her website or Etsy.

Find Minnesota jewelry designer Susan Horowitz’s designs at one of her Etsy sites, SHExclusive or Minnesota Stoned.

Inspirational clothing with a deeper purpose embodies what the woman in your life believes. Find motivational t-shirts, tank tops, sweatshirts, flannels, and more by Monique Maxwell.

ModernWell is a women-centered collaborative workspace that balances independent spirit with holistic well-being, championing a one-of-a-kind, work-like community. Membership in a well-being-focused women’s co-working space in your community is a great gift.

Tameka Jones helps women feel good one tube at a time—lipstick. Lip Esteem is a new cosmetic brand born out of pure ambition and passion. With more than 25 shades, the Lip Esteem look is plant-based, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and full of life and vibrancy!

Still stumped on what to get for the woman in your life? Consider a Rumblings Gift Card to be used on an upcoming 2023 event, Reignite course or a trip to Vietnam.

Women-owned businesses represent a critical part of economic and business growth. And studies show that women reinvest up to ninety percent of their income in their families and communities. We hope you’ll join us this holiday season and throughout the year in supporting and lifting up amazing and inspiring entrepreneurs, makers, and small businesses by shopping female-owned whenever possible!

Are you inspired to start a new hobby, volunteer position, or career? Check out our most-read 2021 blog post-Discover How to Make Work and Life Transitions After 50.

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2022 Galentine’s Day Gift Guide

Rumblings Media is excited to support women-owned businesses with our Valentine’s (or Galentine’s) Day Gift Guide featuring unique items for any woman in your life. This list was curated from recommendations from our Rumblings community, as well as from our personal experiences. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating women in your life by supporting and lifting up amazing and inspiring entrepreneurs, makers, and small businesses by shopping female-owned whenever possible!

Let’s celebrate our favorite midlife women on Valentine’s (or Galentine’s) Day with a gift made or curated by women!

There has never been a better time to shop and support women-owned small businesses.

Isadore Nut Company makes award-winning snacks and gifts that are more than just delicious and good for your body. They also ensure half their staff is people with disabilities. The others are women, people of color, and immigrants. They give people the chance to learn new skills and accomplish their goals by giving them a job.

Give a gift of good health and sustainability—honey. Bees are responsible for pollinating ⅓ of the world’s food supply, including many fruits and vegetables that are important to a healthy diet. Honey is a natural sweetener with nutritional benefits, but it’s also critical to the existence of honey bees, which are in turn essential to our health. Gift natural honey straight from Bolton Bees Beekeeper, Chiara Bolton. Shop location-specific, solar-produced, or custom-label honey.

Their gift to you is free shipping on orders over $14. Code: RUMBLINGS

Handcrafted jewelry utilizing new, recycled, and vintage materials. Shop Ear Things By Laura Wolovitch.

Art jewelry by Laura Stamper Designs is described as the antidote for ordinary. Laura has been creating one-of-a-kind pieces for 29 years. You can find her jewelry on her website or Etsy.

Find Minnesota jewelry designer Susan Horowitz’s designs at one of her Etsy sites, SHExclusive or Minnesota Stoned.

We confess these handcrafted clutches are one of our favorite gifts to give and receive. They are perfect for a casual lunch or date night, but we also use them for cords, make-up, and other miscellaneous items. They are a must-have go-to accessory! You can shop designs here and here.

Trying on swimsuits has never been a positive experience for either of us until we found Nani Nalu Beachwear Boutique. Rumblings women have described the unique in-store or virtual shopping experiences as "life-changing.”

Give the gift of a unique shopping experience to your friend, sister, daughter, wife, or mother by making an in-person appointment and purchasing a gift card for a new suit or other pieces of resort wear or a gift card to the online experience called SUITCASE. Get started here.

Founded by Pam Kirton, an award-winning artist and illustrator, and Saeteesh, a model and entrepreneur, Kirtonized is a unique one-of-a-kind clothing gift. Contact Pam and Saeteesch by DMing them on Instagram at @kirtonized to co-design a custom gift.

ATELIER957 is a women's fashion boutique offering hand-picked clothing and accessories from small design houses worldwide. They believe in being chic, flattering, and unique at every age, size, & shape.

Inspirational clothing with a deeper purpose embodies what the woman in your life believes. Find motivational t-shirts, tank tops, sweatshirts, flannels, and more by Monique Maxwell.

Grethen House has been at the forefront of introducing cutting-edge fashion to Minneapolis since 1990. They showcase a thoughtfully curated collection of designers available locally and online that any woman would love.

Kula Yoga is an all-inclusive, woman-run, boutique yoga studio providing in-person, streaming, and 24-hour playback yoga classes, workshops, private lessons, and retreats for all fitness levels. Classes range from high-intensity conditioning classes or open flow vinyasa classes to restorative classes to help you gain flexibility and relax. Kula Yoga specializes in safe, results-oriented instruction with a keen focus on physical alignment and spirituality. Give the gift of movement in an enviroment that allows women to explore and deepen a yoga practice in fresh and exciting ways.

Help someone you love transform fears into compassion for being good enough as she is and find support for her to dare to become what she desires with life coaching sessions from Shelly Melrose from Rhythm For Living.

Do your female friends or family members have an upcoming trip or simply enjoy seeking new and exciting local hot spots? The Scout Guide connects people with local businesses, entrepreneurs, and others in more than 60 U.S. cities that both locals and travelers should know about.

Tameka Jones helps women feel good one tube at a time—lipstick, that is. Lip Esteem is a new cosmetic brand born out of pure ambition and passion. With more than 25 shades, the Lip Esteem look is plant-based, gluten-free, and cruelty-free, and full of life and vibrancy!

Personal stylists help any woman look fabulous and radiate confidence in the colors and shapes that suit her best. Check out the consultant directory to find a House of Colour stylist in your area.

Between Grit and Grace: The Art of Being Feminine and Formidable by Sasha Shillcutt, MD

Her Path Forward: 21 Stories of Transformation and Inspiration Edited by Julie Burton and Chris Olsen

Notes from the Rocket by Christine Mason Miller

Unlocked: How Empowered Women Empower Women by Jane Finette

Women-owned businesses represent a critical part of economic and business growth. And, studies show that women reinvest up to ninety percent of their income in their families and communities. We hope you’ll join us this holiday season and throughout the year in supporting and lifting up amazing and inspiring entrepreneurs, makers, and small businesses by shopping female-owned whenever possible!

Are you inspired to start a new hobby, volunteer position, or career? Check out our most-read 2021 blog post-Discover How to Make Work and Life Transitions After 50.

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5 Ways to Reinvent Your Career

Today’s midlife women came of age during an era where women were told they could have it all; family, career, and fulfilling life where they could shape their destiny and choose their path.

We’ve spent the last year speaking with amazing midlife women who felt that same rumbling and have reimagined their lives and reinvented themselves to design a path for themselves that is more aligned with their values. They’ve reinvigorated their careers, built businesses, or taken risks to create a life to live well and flourish.

Read their advice and listen to your inner RUMBLING. You can take steps to align your career with your values to flourish through midlife.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom - Anais Nin

Today’s midlife women came of age during an era where women were told they could have it all; family, career, and fulfilling life where they could shape their destiny and choose their path.

Many women chose to work. Others worked out of necessity, decided to work at home, or returned to work when children were school-aged. For decades women balanced work and life, leaned in, advanced in careers, and entered their 50s thinking it would be their time.

Midlife is a time of transition. Children are leaving the nest, careers are peaking, and there is more time to focus on what is essential. It is a life stage when men are at the peak of their careers and earning potential. However, what women encounter is a society that expects us to remain ageless. We experience gender ageism in the workplace. Regardless of our prior accomplishments, we face a society that finds countless subtle ways to tell us we’re not as relevant, not as attractive, and less deserving.

It’s natural and normal to feel unsettled with a desire to explore what’s next. These internal rumblings can also come with inner self-doubt and negative self-talk — “I’m too old,” “I don’t look like I should,” “I’m not seen or heard.” Many midlife women feel stuck even though we have decades left to work, live well, and flourish.

Women also describe lacking authentic and deep connection with other women, feeling burned out, exhausted, and disappointed at a time that is supposed to be the pinnacle of their lives.

Women have been trying to live up to an unrealistic standard for too long, and as a result, they feel they’re climbing a mountain but never reaching the top. Sound familiar? The good news is that you can define what will come next. You don’t have to succumb to societal norms of acceptable and how we should age. If the original path no longer contributes to how you want to live your lives, it’s time to find a new one.

Read their advice and listen to your inner RUMBLING. You can take steps to align your career with your values to flourish through midlife.

Define your universal skills. You have learned many things from your prior roles as mother, sister, daughter, aunt, caretaker, homemaker, and career woman that you bring to the table. You’ve balanced many demanding tasks and been successful at them. For example, women have a unique ability to context switch. It means you can switch between multiple unrelated tasks and improvise as you do it.

You have superb negotiation skills from your personal, volunteer, and professional lives that you can use in any situation. You have negotiated salaries, employee engagement, bedtimes for a 3-year-old, rules for teenagers, daily living capabilities with aging parents, and everything in between.

You are resilient. You’ve successfully navigated every challenge that has come your way. You know your strengths, and you’ve learned how to either overcome, mitigate, or ask for assistance in areas of weakness.

Write down the skills you possess that are universal to any situation and how you can use them. Ask friends and family what they think your strengths are and add them to your list.

Choose your core values and purpose over societal pressure. Consider what is most important to you. What are your core beliefs? What are your values? What is most important to you in the future?

Have those values and beliefs been aligned with your decision-making? For example, have you made career or life choices that are in line with your values and best interests, or have you made sacrifices to put the interests of others first?

Answering these questions provides an opportunity to be thoughtful and intentional about your importance. For many women, it can be about supporting and empowering others. It can be about giving back to the community and making a difference in the lives of others.

It’s difficult for many women to focus on putting themselves first and discount any societal norms, but it’s crucial for finding meaningful work. If this is a challenge, ask yourself what matters more than money. Those are your values.

Dream and design your path. Consider the course that keeps you closest to your integrity, values, and goals for your life and the future.

What are the ways you can start to move towards that? It could be making changes to your current role, seeking new employment or career, taking on a side job, or volunteering. Where can you find other like-minded people with similar interests or who you can learn from?

Networking and establishing connections with people you don’t know well is another universal skill that women possess. It is a great place to use those skills to meet new people and hone what unique gifts you have to offer.

We have been amazed at how willingly other women have been to spend time with other women to share ideas, knowledge and magnify the voices of other women as they endeavor to design a new path.

Living from the inside out creates a foundation of health. It takes a foundation of good health to flourish after 50. Make your health a priority. It will support your self-confidence and help you feel connected while living genuinely from the inside out.

It’s never too late to pivot. The science around aging and lifespan is evolving. We have been amazed and inspired by all of the remarkable women we’ve met who are continually learning, growing, and changing.

Today, women who accomplish great things are more frequently in midlife and beyond. Fear is part of the equation, but courage is the calling to find clarity and purpose, and that belief is vital in the women we’ve worked with.

You are not alone in what you’re feeling or experiencing.

Women want to support other women in achieving their dreams. If the women in your life don’t support your dreams, seek out those who do.

Striving to discover your remarkable and fulfilling midlife journey ensures your process will foster purpose, belonging, joy, and gratitude. It feels good!

Embracing and stepping in the beauty, liberation, and wisdom as you move into and beyond midlife empowers other women, young and older, to do the same. By tapping into your knowledge, experience, and wisdom, you engage with others differently and bring value to the people around you.

Together we can change the way our culture views midlife and older women. We’re excited about midlife, the new things we’ll do, the risks we’ll take, and the women we’ll meet!

Let’s reinvent, reignite, and RUMBLE through midlife together!

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10 Ways to Empower Women Right Now

When we help one woman we lift up all women. Discover 10 easy and doable ways to empower women right now from Jane Finette’s recent book Unlocked: How Empowered Women Empower Women. Change starts by taking one action with another person for the sake of all women. The opportunity is great and is now!

Saeteesh from @saeteeshunleashed and Jennifer Cermak from @naninalubeachwear shared personal advice and stories to empower other women at our Fashion After 50 Fashion Week MN Event. Photo credit: G. Marie Images

Have you ever asked yourself, “What is one small thing I can do to start a revolution?” Jane Finette did just that during the pandemic. She felt down and overwhelmed, so she started connecting with other strong women in her network to find out how they were coping and what they were doing. Although the media headlines were dismal, she discovered empowered women doing fantastic work to support the advancement of women and girls, and their efforts did not stop during these stressful and unprecedented times.

Talking to other women, she also found their impact did not start with a huge business plan. It began with simple, quiet, and repeatable things that they did in sisterhood. She felt these empowering stories needed to be told, so Jane summarized the lessons into her new book, Unlocked: How Empowered Women Empower Women.

Our Rumblings community had an opportunity to have a virtual conversation with Jane to discuss our ability to influence societal change, especially when systemic and policy changes necessary to address fundamental issues of gender, age, and racial biases seem so impossible.

She emphasized that change starts by taking one action with another person in our world. The opportunity is great, and we need to understand that we lift up all women when we help one woman. When we collectively do that as a regular practice, enough women will be standing in their full power, and systems and policy changes will follow.

Our conversation was so rich and empowering that we wanted to share the key takeaways for women who missed it.

How do you begin?

Start by seeing yourself as a female activist. If you think of your actions as feminist actions, you will realize the impact goes beyond helping one dear friend or work colleague, and instead, you will recognize your simple steps are for the sake of all women. When you embrace female activism as a part of your personality and identity, you will seek ways every day to fulfill your way of being that type of person in the world.

We’ve all had our own lived experiences as we’ve climbed the corporate ladder, raised children, taken care of aging parents, and made our way in the world. We know it hasn’t been easy, and we’re not here to claim that carving out even more time to help more women is easy either.

However, we hope we all agree that we want a smoother path for the women—our daughters, nieces, neighbors, colleagues, etc.— coming behind us. This starts with being vulnerable, sharing your experiences—good and not so good—and asking for help when needed.

You’re the most important person in your life. The first act of being a feminist is committing to take care of yourself first. When you make yourself a priority, you have the capacity to help other women.

10 Keys to Unlock the Potential of All Women

Say yes to help another woman. Make an introduction. Have a call. Give advice when asked.
Tell her she is ready! Be her cheerleader. Sometimes she just needs a gentle reminder to own her truth and claim her destiny.
Stand behind her. Back her up. Support her through struggles. Let her know you’re there for her.
Help her help herself. Help her see everything available for her to clearly make her own choice or decision.
Talk about money. Women earn less, invest less, and two-thirds of women have the potential to retire into poverty. You must get comfortable talking about money, encouraging women to ask for what they’re worth, and sharing how to invest money.
Stand up for her. Support fairness, equity, and truth, especially when those principles are violated.
Be the example. Share your stories and personal experiences. Role model helping yourself and other women. Having empowered women as examples empowers other women.
Give her confidence. Help her see her strengths, showcase her previous successes, and move past her fear.
Send the elevator down. Make the journey easier for her by giving her a hand, hiring her, promoting her, or showcasing her talents.
Be a sister. Show up as a sister. Offer a kind word. Listen. Smile. Share a hug.

“To empower another woman is a selfless act with untold possibilities.”

- Jane Finette

Now is the time. Get started today!

It’s all about this moment. You are ready. All that you have done before now has prepared you for this moment. You know how to put the keys to work to unlock the potential of women around you. Just begin. Start today.

Jane summed up our conversation brilliantly. “We all have everything inside us to live our fullest, and most exciting, and wild lives. We have all the wisdom from the women who came before us, and we have an incredible community of women supports. Ask for help from each other and give, receive, and keep showing up to moments like this because it’s a village; we need a village.”

If this summary has inspired you, we encourage you to buy and gift the book to all the women in your life. The proceeds from your purchases go to The Coaching Fellowship, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing young women leaders working in the social impact space, founded by Jane and described as her life’s work.

A foundational principle, or Rock, at Rumblings is to advocate for and inspire women around us. Read more about our Four Rocks to Flourish After 50

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Together We Live Well and Flourish After 50

Living well and flourishing after 50 is achievable! We're proving when women come together to learn, connect, and inspire one another we thrive. We're grateful to you for believing in this mission and committing to live your best life. Take a few moments this holiday season for you. Reflect, realign, and get ready to RUMBLE into 2022.

Thank you, friends! We are deeply grateful for you, our Rumblings' community, and we wish you a very happy, joyful, and reflective Thanksgiving day and long weekend, however you celebrate.

We’ll both be celebrating locally, but If you’re traveling this weekend, check out our Top Seven Tips for Successful Multigenerational Travel. Sometimes the biggest holiday stresses come from the expectations of family members and friends from different generations coming around the table together. Plan ahead, prepare yourself, and relish your time together. If we’ve learned anything over the last 20 months is that time together is valuable and something we won’t take for granted again.

We also plan to get out and enjoy the long weekend by doing a little shopping, decorating, and consuming lots of leftovers! Small business Saturday (November 27) is a great chance to support small local retailers in your area. We encourage you to seek out and support small women-owned businesses this holiday season. If you haven’t checked out our 2021 Holiday Gift Guide for Women which highlights gift ideas from small women-owned businesses, now is the time!

This is the time of year we prioritize time to pause, reflect, and celebrate our annual accomplishments, as well as strategize and plan for the next year. One annual ritual we’ve done individually and now as a business is setting one to three-word intention(s) for the year. Our Rumblings words for 2021 were learn, connect, and inspire. If you’ve never set your word(s) for the year, check out the process we use to choose our words. We’ll be going through this process in December to set our 2022 intentions.

We love hearing from you. One thing we’ve learned since we launched Rumblings is that many midlife women are looking for alignment between their professional or volunteer work, and their personal values. Two years ago, we were there too.

This rumbling often takes the form of wanting to start a new hobby, transition to a new job role, or jump into an entirely new career. We’ve been inspired by the midlife women we’ve met who have literally reinvented their career paths and are happier as a result. Whether you are just starting to feel a new rumbling that something needs to change or you’re ready to leap headfirst into a new career, read our most popular blog post of 2021—Discover How to Successfully Make Work and Life Transitions After 50.

Living well and flourishing after 50 is achievable! Together we thrive. Take a few moments this holiday season for you. Reflect, realign, and get ready to RUMBLE into 2022.

We look forward to RUMBLING right alongside you.

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2021 Holiday Gift Guide for the Women in Your Life

Rumblings Media is excited to support women-owned businesses with our first annual Rumblings Women's Gift Guide featuring unique items for any woman in your life. This list was curated from recommendations from our Rumblings community, as well as from our personal experiences. We hope you’ll join us this holiday season and throughout the year in supporting and lifting up amazing and inspiring entrepreneurs, makers, and small businesses by shopping female-owned whenever possible!

After celebrating quietly amongst our immediate families in 2020, we are in the holiday spirit earlier this year, ready to shop and pick out the perfect gift for family, friends, and neighbors.

The pandemic has been a time of deep reflection and transformation for so many women. We’re inspired by their stories and are excited to support women-owned businesses with our first annual Rumblings Women's Gift Guide featuring unique items for any woman in your life. This list was curated from recommendations from our Rumblings community, as well as from our personal experiences.

There has never been a better time to shop and support women-owned small businesses with worldwide shipping delays and sparse inventory at national retailers.

Give a gift of good health and sustainability—honey. Bees are responsible for pollinating ⅓ of the world’s food supply, including many fruits and vegetables that are important to a healthy diet. Honey is a natural sweetener with nutritional benefits, but it’s also critical to the existence of honey bees, which are in turn essential to our health. Gift natural honey straight from Bolton Bees Beekeeper, Chiara Bolton. Shop location-specific, solar-produced, or custom-label honey.

Their gift to you is free shipping on orders over $14. Code: RUMBLINGS

Handcrafted jewelry utilizing new, recycled, and vintage materials. Shop Ear Things By Laura Wolovitch.

Art jewelry by Laura Stamper Designs is described as the antidote for ordinary. Laura has been creating one-of-a-kind pieces for 29 years. You can find her jewelry on her website or Etsy.

Find Minnesota jewelry designer Susan Horowitz’s designs at one of her Etsy sites, SHExclusive or Minnesota Stoned.

Inspirational clothing with a deeper purpose embodies what the woman in your life believes. Find motivational t-shirts, tank tops, sweatshirts, flannels, and more by Monique Maxwell.

Personal stylists help any woman look fabulous and radiate confidence in the colors and shapes that suit her best. Check out the consultant directory to find a House of Colour stylist in your area.

Between Grit and Grace: The Art of Being Feminine and Formidable by Sasha Shillcutt, MD

Her Path Forward: 21 Stories of Transformation and Inspiration Edited by Julie Burton and Chris Olsen

Notes from the Rocket by Christine Mason Miller

Unlocked: How Empowered Women Empower Women by Jane Finette

Are you inspired to start a new hobby, volunteer position, or career? Check out our most-read 2021 blog post-Discover How to Make Work and Life Transitions After 50.

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Top 7 Tips for Successful Multigenerational Travel

Over time, and through trial-and-error, we’ve discovered our top seven tips for successful multigenerational travel. Whether you are planning a trip with family or friends representing different generations, use one or more of these seven strategies for a frictionless fun-filled trip.

I recently returned from a daughter, mother, grandmother trip to visit my son at Michigan State University (MSU). For almost 20 years, the three of us have intentionally planned trips to learn, connect, and seek adventure together.

The trips have ranged from visiting the American Girl store in Chicago, a long weekend in Door County, week-long getaways in Michigan to two weeks in Italy and France during my daughter’s time studying abroad.

We’ve had great times and created wonderful memories, but we've also learned how to travel well together. It’s not always easy when there is a 57 year age difference.

Over time, and through trial-and-error, we’ve discovered seven strategies that work for us for successful multigenerational travel.

1. Choose a Destination with a Personal Connection

My mom (grandma) grew up in Michigan. I was born in Michigan, lived there until I was two years old, and spent summers in my youth traveling back to Michigan to visit my grandparents. It’s been fun to intentionally plan trips back to Michigan to stir up memories and reminisce. Our trip to MSU was to visit my son at college, but also for my mom to share her stories of being a student there too.

As you plan your trip, think about the purpose of traveling together. Is there a destination that would be fun for everyone, but also have a special connection for one or more of your family members? Do you want to create memories for your children? Do you want your children to get to know your parents and their life stories better? Craft an itinerary that fulfills the purpose for everyone.

2. Plan Activities You All Can Enjoy

Given our age differences, choosing activities that we all enjoy can be challenging. Adventure sports, long strenuous hikes, or even hours spent in a museum don’t bring the same joy for all of us. However, there are two things we can all agree on—our love for local culture and food. We seek out innovative restaurants, local markets, or unique local boutiques while also stopping by meaningful locations during our trips.

During our recent weekend away, we drove by the house my parents built (my first home) and the hospital where I was born. My mom enjoyed seeing the changes in these places over time, and my daughter and I enjoyed hearing her relive her memories from her time in Lansing.

Planning activities with a mixture of new and old experiences creates excellent conversation and rich new memories together.

Have a conversation before your trip and identify what type of activities each person would enjoy. Consider each traveler's passions. Can you include that type of activity into your itinerary for everyone to enjoy?

Do your research. We’ve found unique activities via travel books, blogs, and most recently, Tik Tok and Instagram influencers. Keep your mind open! Some of our most memorable experiences lately have come from ideas discovered by my daughter through social media.

3. Let the Young Navigate

One of the biggest roadblocks we have tackled is how to get from A to Z. I have frequently felt stuck in the middle of a map reader (my mom) and an online Google Maps expert (my daughter). It came to a head on our trip to Europe four years ago. After living in France for six months, my daughter had Google Maps iPhone navigation down to a science. She could map us on any type of public transportation — trains, buses, and subways —in no time flat. Growing up using paper maps, my mom felt lost without seeing the big picture of where we were going to ensure we were going in the right direction. She would get anxious and frustrated with my daughter and me for not slowing down so she could review the map before deciding which direction we should go. Within a few hours, I realized I had to help my mom let go of control, trust her granddaughter's navigation skills, and be ok with following her lead so we could travel together without angst.

In our experience, letting the young navigate creates less friction and gets us where we are going more quickly. This is not always easy for the older adults in the group who have been reliant on paper maps for travel. Our advice is to discuss this before your trip, review a paper map before your day begins, and encourage older travelers to trust, relax, and let go of the need to navigate during the day.

4. Pack Light

A travel mantra I heard over and over growing up was never to pack more than you can carry. This has been critically important to remember during our multigenerational trips. We pack light and do not worry about wearing the same outfit multiple times. It keeps us mobile and allows us to quickly help one another when needed.

We recommend traveling with a lightweight roller bag with 360-degree wheels and a backpack that can easily fit under the airplane seat and be light enough to carry while exploring new areas. Traveling light helps everyone in your group feel in control of their belongings, move more efficiently, and stay together during your trip.

5. Listen

While walking the MSU campus, my mom started reminiscing about her time there from 1958 to 1962. Hearing her stories about being required to wear heels and suits to the football games, wear skirts to classes (women were not allowed to wear pants), and be in her room by curfew made Ella and I realize how far women have come in two generations. It made us appreciate the challenges women have fought to overcome so that our lives are better.

Listening to stories from the generations ahead of you can help you better appreciate your life and opportunities while gaining new respect and appreciation for their past. This experience can create new connections between all travelers.

Ask questions and listen. There is nothing like learning about someone in the place they lived or through an experience they had as a child as they relive it as an adult with you. It’s also fun for the adults to see a place through the eyes of younger generations for a fresh take on a familiar place.

6. Slow down

Let’s face it, our travel speed changes as we age. As my daughter, mother, and I have traveled together, we have had to adjust our expectations, pace, and patience as we have gotten older. We don't move at the same speed or schedule as many activities into a day as we once did.

Technology has added travel challenges. Mobile tickets, online check-ins, and QR codes can feel overwhelming when a person in your group is less comfortable with these new processes. Navigating technology-enhanced travel naturally takes more time for anyone not as familiar with digital changes.

Yet, slowing down has benefits. There is more time to enjoy the scenery, take in the sounds around you, and appreciate the moment you're in instead of anticipating the next activity or sight to see.

It’s unrealistic to expect your multigenerational travel companions to all move at the same speed. Be realistic. Modify your expectations before you travel. Take the time to help others in your group who move more slowly. Walk with them. Help them with their luggage and work with them to navigate new technology. You’ll build new bonds and nurture a new relationship.

7. Be Grateful

My daughter, mother, and I are grateful for our time together traveling and the memories we’ve created. We understand that we’re lucky to have these opportunities. We have years of travel memories together. This past weekend, we added to those as we ate gelato for breakfast, wandered local boutiques, introduced my mom to Lululemon leggings and kombucha, shared memories over coffee and wine, and walked miles and miles around campus.

Whether you are planning multigenerational trips with family or friends, consider these seven strategies for success.

What did we miss? What has worked for you and your family? Let us know.

Are you wondering what to pack when you travel? Check out our favorite tips and items in our Jetsetter's Guide: Master the Art of Savvy Packing.

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Best Ways to Support Friends and Family During a Crisis

During a crisis, you can show support in multiple ways to someone you care about. It’s not what you do, it’s that you step forward and reach out. Not sure what to do? Check out our nine best ways to show support.

August 19, 2020, changed our family forever. My (Rebecca) husband had a massive stroke. I shared the details in a previous post, so I won’t go into the story again here, but as my four kids and I moved through the first anniversary, we reflected on what helped us feel supported during the last year.

The reality is after 50, we’re at an age when sickness, health events, accidents, or death happen to people we care about and love. As I’ve gotten older, seeing people I care about in crisis has happened to too many people, too often. It has felt a bit overwhelming at times.

Our family was lucky. My husband recovered well. And, we’ve felt tremendous amounts of love during a very challenging year.

I have to admit before I went through this experience, I often wondered if I was saying or doing the “right” thing for someone going through a trying time. In hindsight, I often let this discomfort prevent me from doing enough to show I cared.

Experience is our teacher.

After reflection, I thought these ideas could be helpful if you’re wondering what to do when someone you care about needs similar support.

Send a text or email without an expectation for a response. As I was sitting in the hospital for three weeks with my husband, I loved getting little notes of support from colleagues, friends, and family, just to say ‘I heard. I am thinking about you. Don’t feel obligated to respond.’ I was often happy to respond, but knowing there was no expectation to helped, a lot.

Drop off a plant or flowers. After eight to 10 hours at the hospital, I loved coming home to a house full of flowers and plants. It felt like a big hug after a long stressful day. Even a year later, I see the plants around our house and feel the support from our friends and family.

Prepare a meal. Knowing my kids were well fed was a huge relief. The love radiated from the meals and food dropped at our home. It was especially helpful to have healthful foods that could be frozen and were easy to reheat. My neighbor organized a meal train for a month. At the time, I didn’t realize we’d need it that long, but we did, and we appreciated every meal.

Gift a meal. Gift cards may feel impersonal, but I can’t express how thankful we were to receive them at this time. My son’s friend group dropped off a stack from various local restaurants that the kids frequented together. When I was stuck at the hospital longer than expected, these gifts allowed my kids to fend for themselves. My out-of-town relatives found a local meal delivery service, and when I had time to cook again (I love to cook), it was nice to jump online, place an order, and have all the ingredients delivered to our door.

Ask first before sharing ‘your’ story. I think it’s easy to want to connect with what someone else is going through by sharing your story. It says you understand and have been through something similar. However, I realized quickly that when you’re in a crisis, you can’t appreciate the connection, and it feels like you’re diminishing what the person is going through. Instead, what helped my kids and me was hearing, ‘I went through something similar with X. If it would help to talk about it, I am happy to share my experience when the time is right for you.

Recognize the caregiver(s). It’s essential to think about the person going through the event, but it made a huge impact to have someone ask, “How are you?” I am fortunate to be involved in a caregivers’ support group. I recognize I am one of the lucky spouses. My husband is doing well. However, many caregivers are struggling. The life they knew does not exist. They’re feeling profoundly disconnected. They feel alone and unrecognized. Reach out.

Stay connected. Health events can change people. As a result, relationships may change. The ways you interacted with the person previously may need to evolve based on the health of your friend or family member. It’s often easier to avoid or pull away than adjust. Change is hard. Our family appreciates our friends who have stayed and included us in dinners, gatherings, golf outings, and walks through a tough year.

Offer to do a simple task. Everyday tasks that friends offered to do (or just did) like walking the dogs, hiring out yard work, making a Target run, grocery shopping, or covering mandatory school volunteer requirements were very helpful. We didn’t always say yes and take advantage of the offer, but we felt supported by the thought during a stressful time.

Don’t hesitate, just ask. I know people are often uncomfortable approaching someone going through a crisis. My advice is to reach out. I appreciated anyone and everyone talking to us and asking how we were doing. It felt more awkward when people turned away because they didn’t know what to say, didn’t feel comfortable approaching us, or thought we didn’t want to discuss the challenges we were facing.

What feels supportive differs for all of us, but the point here is to do something. Whatever it is will be appreciated.

You can make a difference to someone you care about. It’s not what you do, it’s that you step forward and reach out.

Surround people with support during challenging times.

Together we Rumble in good times and bad!

Rumblings Media 7/21/21 Rumblings Media 7/21/21

Seven Great Tips for Finding the Courage to Change During Midlife

Midlife is full of change. We experience transitions ranging from kids graduating and starting on their own, caring for aging parents, health issues of our own, becoming grandparents, changing marital status, household moves, and career moves. Not to mention the changes that are happening with our bodies! Some of the changes are wonderful. Others are very messy and complicated. The only constant is the change itself.

How do you move through change in a way that is healthy and develops resiliency? These are a few of the guideposts that we’ve used to help ourselves and others navigate change.

‘Courage and daring are coursing through your veins. You were made to live and love with your whole heart. It’s time to show up and be seen. That’s midlife.’ Brene’ Brown

One of the many things the two of us have in common is our strong desire to embrace change. You might even say we intentionally seek it out. As we prepare for a significant announcement for Rumblings representing a giant leap outside our comfort zone, even for us (check our social media and website for more information coming soon), we started thinking about how we approach change.

The focus of our careers has been helping people navigate through behavior change. We’ve helped individuals change their health behaviors, assisted populations create a culture of wellness, and worked with large companies to transform their approach to improving the health of the people they serve.

Personally, each of us has always embraced change. Sometimes, we’ve purposefully sought out change, even when life events weren’t requiring it of us.

How do you move through change in a way that is healthy and develops resiliency? These are a few of the guideposts that we’ve used to help ourselves and others navigate change.

Learning to navigate through change is a skill. One of the best ways to build skills is through experience. You’ve been through change before and survived every single time. These skills you’ve developed help you become resilient in the face of change.

Try to let go of what people think and realize perfectionism is not healthy striving. When you slip, make mistakes, and even fail, give yourself grace. Be mindful of your self-talk by respecting yourself as you would speak to others about making mistakes. It is hard for everyone to show this level of self-love. We tend to live in a world framed by the words “I’m supposed to do this” or “I need to do that” before everything is good in life.

Spend time reflecting on what is truly important to you. The place to start is for each of us to spend time with ourselves in stillness, whether in nature, walking, reading, yoga, or meditation, to let our inner awareness reveal the things that no longer serve us. Being still, or time relaxing, helps cultivate creativity, reduces stress, and prevents burnout during times of change.

Cultivate a learning mindset. A learning mindset might include resetting your mindset to focus on the pleasure you experience from new things you are learning versus what you cannot do right now. It can be challenging to do this while in the middle of change, but it will help you discover the joy of so many new experiences in your life. It could be as simple as identifying what you are grateful for in the new day before your feet touch the floor in the morning.

Develop a support system. These are the connections and your community that will stand by you in times of need. They won’t try to fix your problems, try to change you, or minimize what you are going through. Instead, they are the ones in your life that will listen, provide a word of encouragement, a hug, and a reality check that you are not alone. Then, reach out to these people when you’re in need!

Minimize mindless and numbing behaviors. During times of significant change, we need a temporary respite. Are the activities you’re choosing while taking a break an escape or numbing behaviors? What actions can you select to contribute to your ability to manage through change? Be mindful to choose the activities enhancing your creativity rather than diminishing your mental and physical health. It’s challenging to think about flourishing during times of change, but you can focus on replenishing your spirit.

Remember to breathe. Change can be overwhelming, even for those of us who intentionally seek it out. When you start to border on panic, fear, stress, or paralysis, take a few deep breaths and remind yourself that you’ve experienced massive change before and made it through in one piece - although perhaps altered mentally or physically. You have what it takes to survive, and you are not alone.

The reset mindset that change is something to embrace rather than dread may be one of the most important learnings of midlife. The challenges we experience in midlife don’t go away. It’s part of life. The difference comes from understanding that we can no longer carry both the pretend facade we’ve built for the outside world and embrace showing up and giving our true gifts.

Time is growing short. We have unfulfilled dreams to live and things about ourselves to explore still. Resisting inevitable change prevents us from growing into a life that may be messy and inconvenient but also full of adventure and whole-hearted living.

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Together we Rumble!

Karyn and Rebecca

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Rumblings Media 6/22/21 Rumblings Media 6/22/21

25 Ways to Build Strong Loyal Friendships After 50

Social connections matter throughout your life, but especially in your 50s. Research has shown that strong relationships and personal connections help you live longer and bring joy to your life. Imagine the difference you can make in your own life and the lives of others by taking the first step to connect and build deeper relationships with these 25 fresh ideas.

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Social connections matter throughout our lives, but especially in our 50s. Research has shown that strong relationships and personal connections help us live longer and bring joy to our lives.

Too often, women in this life stage have told us they feel anxious, lonely, and socially isolated. But this year, more than ever, people are feeling disconnected and alone. Many women are languishing—living between feeling great and feeling down. It’s as if the effort of holding everything together to get through the pandemic has taken a toll. Now that things are opening up again, it may feel difficult to jump right back into a pre-pandemic routine and social life. And, you may not even feel like it.

These feelings are common after difficult times, disasters, emergencies, and health crises.

In addition, midlife is a time of life transition — kids leave home, marriages may end, careers peak, homes get downsized, and aging family members need care and support. Social connections built while raising kids or building careers often disappear due to these midlife challenges and can result in a lack of deep and loyal friendships at a time when we need them most.

Many women find themselves hungry for strong loyal friendships again but may struggle knowing how to develop new relationships with other women.

Maybe this isn’t you. You have a robust and abundant network of female friends you can share and confide in. You feel socially connected. Your friendships bring you joy. Great news, this puts you in a perfect position to help other women.

Whether you feel lonely, socially isolated, or deeply connected, these 25 ideas will help you build strong, loyal friendships and foster a strong social network after 50.

Connecting with other women matters. It’s up to us to ensure all women feel connected, supported, visible, and valued. We must lift each other up and ensure all women thrive through meaningful connections with one another. We need each other now, especially.

Make a goal to reach out to one woman this week who you haven’t connected with recently, or at all.

Imagine the difference you can make in your own life and the lives of others by taking the first step to connect, build deeper relationships, and create safe spaces for women to talk about what they’re emotionally experiencing.

To get started, invite a girlfriend, neighbor, acquaintance, or complete stranger to try one or more of the following ideas with you.

Share a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share and make a date to meet and divide the share each week
Explore a new local trail on foot or on bikes
Check out a local pizza farm
Try a new restaurant with a great patio
Go berry picking
Have a picnic
Get coffee at a different shop each week
Go for a walk
Check out the fresh produce at a farmer’s market
Sign up for a community education class
Learn a new sport like pickleball
Take an exercise class together
Meet at an outdoor yoga class
Take a cooking class
Go to a free summer concert
Make s'mores around a bonfire
Attend a neighborhood association meeting
Cook a meal together and try a new recipe
Host a potluck or book club
Go to a festival
Walkthrough a zoo
Explore a museum
Take a dance class
Buy tickets to a sporting event
Go bowling

Don’t stop with just one invitation. Deep, meaningful relationships take time. Reach out. Be inclusive and supportive. Reap the personal benefits of connection and give the gift of social connection to others!

Do you need more evidence supporting the value of social connection? Check out our four discoveries from Rumblings’ 31-day Commit to Connect Challenge last October.

Together we can make a difference!

Rumble on!

Rumblings Media 9/16/20 Rumblings Media 9/16/20

Together Women Over 50 Create Transformative Change

Together women over 50 need to disrupt the status quo that aging women are irrelevant, unattractive, less deserving, and invisible compared to our younger selves. As we work together to magnify our voices and rumble, we will create a movement for a transformative change.

“Together we need to disrupt the status quo for  women over 50 and replace it with something that is new, bolder, and bodacious for the prime time of our lives. We do this while remembering with gratitude all the phenomenal women that came… — “Together we need to disrupt the status quo for women over 50 and replace it with something that is new, bolder, and bodacious for the prime time of our lives. We do this while remembering with gratitude all the phenomenal women that came before us as we carry forward a strong desire to create a new path for the women who will follow. Together we will create a rumbling which will become a movement for a transformative change through action. “ – Karyn Entzion, Rumblings Co-founder

Entering into my 50s the story that I told myself was that I had ‘arrived’. With an empty nest, a new job, and a move across the country to a new city, I glamorized that this would be the time to focus on myself, thrive, and grow in new ways. I believed my accomplishments at work, raising a son, being active in my community, as well as the strides that women had made in equality would position me better than ever. The thing was, I was so busy living my life, working, taking care of family and holding it all together that I didn’t really understand how society viewed me, as a woman, transitioning to a new stage of my life.

What I discovered was that the world found many subtle ways to tell me ‘no’ and put me on notice to expect a professional and personal decline after 50 because I was becoming less relevant. Society finds hundreds of subtle ways to tell women of a certain age that we’re not relevant, not attractive, and less deserving, regardless of our prior accomplishments. At a time when men are viewed as being at the peak of their careers and earning potential and described as ‘distinguished’, it’s suggested that women retreat and fade into the background.

Consequently, I found myself in a situation where I was bullied and gaslighted at work by my male boss, lived far away from home without family, friends, and lacked a strong social support to boost my confidence and morale. And, still I persevered, determined to push through believing if I tried harder all would be well. After leaving that company and going into yet another role with tremendous gender bias, where women weren’t promoted beyond a certain level. I was often told to be ‘softer’ while my male peers were praised for exhibiting the same behaviors, I had enough, was burned out and exhausted and left.

I was deflated, beaten down, and emotionally spent. Once a confident, self-assured, comfortable in my own skin woman, I felt diminished. For decades I had put aside my fear of not belonging to hold steadfast to maintain my self worth and sense of integrity. This often elicited a response of criticism, unfair judgments from others that often included backlash of varying degrees. I was broken and battle weary. I was in a pit and unable to see a way to climb out of it. It was my friends who bolstered me up, and convinced me it was time to quit. They gave a new view that was unfiltered. It gave me the assurance that it would be possible to find a career where I could be my authentic self and find true belonging. I felt wonderful and more myself than I had in many years once I started on my new, healthier path. Yet, many people saw it as fanciful or flighty, and a failure and discouraged me. It’s difficult to move forward when people you care about try to talk you out of doing what you know you must in order to be your whole self.

We should all turn to friends who prop us up and help us regain our strength in these situations, and I was no different. I spent a lot of time reflecting and talking with other women about the idea of ‘failure’, and how society views women, very differently than how we see ourselves. This is even more true for those of us over 50. Almost every woman I spoke with had a version of a story of coming up against a real or subtle wall of resistance from either society or others trying to tell us to accept that we’re in a decline of some sort. All these women seemed to have paid a great price whether they made themselves smaller in life, or carried battle scars from the hurt that comes with judgment for being authentic.

Conversely, many women I spoke with voiced feelings that they were just beginning to come into their own understanding of the meaning of their lives. Their sense of purpose was greater than their fear of failing. As a result, it became impossible to accept the false story others had been telling us. Our narrative is one of beginning rather than the one of ‘decline’ others are trying to get us to accept.

Collectively, many women express an unwillingness to let go of their dreams because other people and society at large were telling them they should. Is it possible that the opposers fear the power of the collective purpose and the strength of our experienced voices?

We have transitioned to the best part of our lives, not the decline. In fact, we’re coming into the prime time of our lives. This is not the time to let false voices of authority talk us out of the boldness of our ability to unfold the vision of the rest of our lives.

I began to recognize that while I had established friendships with other women in the background of my life, I needed a deeper social connection more than ever before. From these experiences, I’ve come to realized several key things about meaningful connections with other women:

We’re not alone in what we’re feeling or experiencing.
We can magnify our collective voices - we’re stronger together.
Supporting each other and learning from one another helps us achieve our dreams.
Sharing in a collective experience for the remarkable accomplishments yet to be attained fosters purpose, belonging, joy, and gratitude. It feels good!

And, perhaps most importantly, the understanding is real that we need to establish these deep connections now. At this time and in this place in our lives. We’re starting to see the impact that solitude and loneliness has on our parents in their later years due to the absence of deep friendships.

This is why we’ve started Rumblings. Together we need to disrupt the status quo for women over 50 and replace it with something that is new, bolder, and bodacious for the prime time of our lives.

We do this while remembering with gratitude all the phenomenal women that came before us as we carry forward a strong desire to create a new path for the women who will follow.

Together we will create a rumbling which will become a movement for a transformative change through action.

We’re excited about this journey, and we hope you’ll come with us so we can Rumble together!

Karyn

Rumblings Media 8/19/20 Rumblings Media 8/19/20

Coming Around the Table During COVID

Research has shown the health and wellbeing benefits of meals shared with family and friends. Stop, slow down, connect, and reap the benefits by coming around the table for conversation and nourishment. It's good for your mind, body, and soul.

It’s an unprecedented time. It’s normal to lose sight of our current blessings amidst the upheaval of our lives.

Like many of you, additional young adults have descended on our home since March—one for a few weeks during an apartment transition and another for months as he finished his sophomore year in college. Those two, plus the two still at home, add in the two Morkies, and we’ve had a full house. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve loved the chaos, conversation, and unexpected reality from the entire family unit being under one roof once again. As the grocery bill skyrocketed and screams of — “There’s nothing to eat” — resonated throughout the house, it felt like a little bit of normalcy during a trying time.

After weeks into quarantined life, we were sitting around the table sharing a family meal when I realized that no one was jumping up from the table the minute their plate was empty. Conversations were growing more robust and lasting for longer and longer each night, until one evening my college student proclaimed, “Family dinners are great!”

As restrictions have loosened over time, more and more often I join friends in backyards or on outdoor restaurant patios for dinner dates. Amongst the mask mandate and new safety precautions, it is a few hours to listen, share, connect, and catch-up. Those few hours bring happiness and joy to my week.

It’s easy to lose sight of the value of coming around the table to share a meal with family or friends when we’re busy and running from one activity to the next. If there is a shining moment in the middle of a pandemic, it may be the beauty of friends, families, neighbors, and colleagues slowing down to truly experience the power of conversation, awareness of what and how much we’re eating, true connection over food, or joy of uninterrupted time.

Research has shown the health and wellbeing benefits of meals with family and friends:

Lower rates of depression
Lower rates of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, as well as higher grade-point averages and self-esteem
Lower rates of obesity and eating disorders
Better family functioning, including connectedness, cohesion, and communication

And if that’s not enough, studies have shown that people make healthier food choices (e.g. more fruits and vegetables) the more often they sit down for meals.

So I am stopping to appreciate the opportunity for my family to come together around the table for a meal every evening without distractions. I am slowing down and appreciating the long conversations with friends over food and drink. I am taking time to ask more questions, debate current events, and listen deeply to the opinions of others even when they differ from my own. And, when we’re back to “normal” and our evenings are full of scheduled events once again, I am making it a goal to prioritize meals, around a table, full of conversation and connection. It’s good for my spirit and soul.

Rumble on…

Rebecca

Rumblings Media 7/28/20 Rumblings Media 7/28/20

Turning 50 Inspires A New Business

We’ve spent decades talking to women who are struggling with the same unrealistic standards of staying young, fit, and winkle-free. During this time, we’ve listened and heard women, from every walk of life, describe feeling undervalued, invisible, and less confident as they’ve grown older. When we turned 50, we started to share similar feelings. We quickly realized that this had to change. Women needed science-based effective tools and resources to guide them in aging well.

Welcome to Rumblings! Today marks our first official day online. We’ve been working for months behind the scenes in preparation for the official launch of an idea that started percolating years ago.

We hope you’re inspired to join our community of women on a journey to learn, connect, and inspire one another to flourish after 50.

Why Rumblings? We’ve spent decades talking to women who are struggling with the same unrealistic standards of staying young, fit, and winkle-free. During this time, we’ve listened and heard women, from every walk of life, describe feeling undervalued, invisible, and less confident as they’ve grown older. When we turned 50, we started to experience similar feelings. We quickly realized that this had to change. Women needed science-based effective tools and resources to guide them in aging well.

No woman wants to be in the prime of her life feeling inadequate for failing to live up to unrealistic and unattainable social standards. Heck no, we want to flourish through our 50s and beyond. To find resources, we scoured the web for online communities that support aging well and found what we were looking for didn’t exist for women our age. Raging with frustration, we started to RUMBLE!

We understood how it feels to struggle with these unrealistic social norms and we knew how unsettling it was to feel like it shouldn’t be this way. We’ve spent over 30 years in the wellness and healthcare industries designing and delivering solutions to improve health and wellbeing for men and women of all ages.

Rumblings seemed like a reasonable next step in our careers and a natural union of expertise. Rebecca, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, and Karyn, an Exercise Physiologist, met more than 25 years ago, early in our careers in the wellness and healthcare industries, and are thrilled to reunite to launch a business to help women on their journey of living and aging well.

Rumblings, a supportive community for women over 50, is on a mission to help women:

Reset their mindset
Live inside out
Listen, learn and connect with other women
Advocate for and inspire change so generations behind us never feel the same way

We’ve brought our expertise, along with our decades of professional experience, together to create a platform to lift up, change the conversation (#sherumbles), and help women live well and flourish after 50.

We’re so happy you joined us on this aging well journey. Please introduce yourself and join the conversation over on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest. Stay connected by subscribing to our blog here and signing up for our newsletter here.

We created this platform for you and look forward to serving you with the resources and support you need.

Together we Rumble,

Karyn and Rebecca

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