We are not going to shrink
One evening. A room of women. The conversation no one prepared us for.
The script most women are handed runs out around age 42.
Up to that point, there is a path. Be useful. Hold it together. Amass credentials. Work hard. Take care of everyone. Then the path just stops, and most of the noise from there forward tells us to get smaller. Want less. Take up less room.
We are not going to shrink.
This is one evening to talk honestly about the back half of life with a small group of women who get it without the explaining. No script. No slides. No performance. Just the conversation we have all been having alone, finally out loud and together.
Nobody before us did this part the way we are about to. Not our mothers. Not the women in the magazines. We are the ones inventing it. So let us compare notes.
What we will get into:
What the back half of life is actually for, once the old script runs out
How to keep working at what we love and stop working at what we don't
Taking care of ourselves out loud, without apology, and letting the people we love watch us do it
What it looks like to claim the years we have left on our own terms
Who this is for: The woman who has spent decades being useful to everyone and is ready to be honest about what she wants. She is not in crisis. She is in transition. She has stopped waiting for permission. If that is you, you already know.
What to expect: Seventy-five minutes. Cameras on. A real conversation, not a lecture. There is no replay, so you have to be here. Come with a cup of something and your honesty.
Free. Bring yourself.
P.S. This evening grew out of a longer experience I run called The Back Half™, seven nights with a small group of women at a stone house in the Scottish glens. I will say a little about it near the end for anyone who wants more than one night. But that is not why you are here. You are here for the conversation. So come.
HOST
Moe Carrick
I've spent 35 years studying what people need to do their best work and live their fullest lives, backed by over 1.5 million workplace data points. I am the author of Fit Matters, Bravespace Workplace, and When Work Is Good, and a three-time TEDx speaker. I've crossed oceans in a small boat, keep company with horses, and am doing the back half on my own terms in Bend, Oregon.