Save the Date: Are You There Mid-Life?
Are You There Mid-Life?
A morning of real talk, support, and community for women navigating perimenopause, menopause, and everything in between.
📅 Thursday, April 8th | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
📍 WTHN Upper West Side, 69 W 71st St, New York, NY 10023
Remember when you could binge My So-Called Life and your biggest worry was the CD you were saving up for? Now it’s hot flashes, sleepless nights, and a whole new set of questions nobody prepared us for.
Join WTHN for a morning about the physical, emotional, and everyday support women may need during this transition, and a chance to connect with other women going through the same thing.
What to expect:
An expert panel on navigating mid-life with honesty, humor, and evidence-based guidance
Complimentary express acupuncture sessions and ear seeding from WTHN
Light bites and refreshments
A curated mid-life wellness goody bag
MEET THE PANEL
Kanika Chadda-Gupta (Moderator)
Journalist | Host, That’s Total Mom Sense podcast | Founder, IN MODERATION™
Kanika is a former CNN International anchor, an award-winning journalist, and host of the hit podcast That’s Total Mom Sense, which has over a million digital streams. Long before the red carpets and interviews with Chelsea Clinton and Kelly Rowland, she was a Seventeen magazine lover who kept up with everyone’s astrology forecasts and won Indian beauty pageants, where the Q&A round was her jam. Today, she combines her journalism experience with her entrepreneurial spirit to help women trust their intuition (their mom sense), amplify their voices, and build community.
📼 90s Snapshot
Favorite Singer/Band: Mariah Carey & TLC
Favorite TV Show: Full House
Favorite Fashion Item: Claw clips!
Michelle Larivee
Founder, WTHN
Michelle is on a mission to make acupuncture accessible, so more people can unlock better health and quality of life. Under her leadership, WTHN has grown to five studios in New York City and is quickly expanding its studio footprint and its line of holistic wellness products, including a recent launch at Ulta Beauty. WTHN is driving a shift in health and wellness toward preventative care, a more seamless integration of Eastern and Western medicine, and affordable holistic options. Before founding WTHN, Michelle spent 12 years in healthcare and emerging markets as an investment professional and management consultant, structuring more than $5B in debt, equity, and blended finance transactions. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA from Penn’s Lauder Institute, and a BSFS from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Recognized as a pioneer in the wellness space, she has been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, Well+Good, and Forbes.
📼 90s Snapshot
Favorite Singer/Band: The Cranberries
Favorite TV Show: Sex and the City
Favorite Fashion Item: Black velvet choker
Jackie Giannelli, FNP-BC, MSCP
Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner | Menopause & Women’s Sexual Health Expert | Founder, Well+Versed Collective
Jackie is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and a Menopause Society-certified practitioner. Her career sits where women’s health meets what’s next. As the founding nurse practitioner and Director of Clinical Practice at Elektra Health, one of the first venture-backed menopause companies, she helped write the playbook for virtual mid-life care. She later advised health-tech startups as an Operator-in-Residence at 25m Health. Before that, as a bedside clinician, she kept seeing the same gap: mid-life women with real symptoms and nowhere to turn for answers that connected the dots. That gap became her life’s work. Today, Jackie practices in Connecticut and on the Upper East Side, serves as a clinical strategist for Mount Sinai’s Carolyn Rowan Center for Women’s Health and Wellness, and brings evidence-based mid-life education to thousands of women through her media platform for women’s health literacy.
📼 90s Snapshot
Favorite Singer/Band: Whitney Houston & Notorious B.I.G.
Favorite TV Show: The Real World
Favorite Fashion Item: Steve Madden Slinky platform wedge
Lauren Tetenbaum, LCSW, JD, PMH-C, MSCP
Psychotherapist | Author, Millennial Menopause
Lauren is a psychotherapist who specializes in women’s reproductive mental health. She’s a former lawyer and a lifelong advocate for women. As she approached her 40s, she realized she knew far too little about mid-life, so she became an expert in perimenopause and menopause and wrote the guide for the girlies of her generation. Millennial Menopause: Preparing for Perimenopause, Menopause, and Life’s Next Period is full of pop culture references and millennial nostalgia alongside evidence-based guidance from a range of women’s health experts. Whether she’s counseling women and moms, speaking to professional organizations, or talking to the media, Lauren’s direct, positive vibe always shines through.
📼 90s Snapshot
Favorite Singer/Band: Anything on the TRL countdown
Favorite TV Show: Saved by the Bell
Favorite Fashion Item: Slip dresses