Virtual Campfire with Changemakers: Owning Our Bodies in Midlife
Menopause can feel like a distant thing — something for "later," for other women, for another day. But the perimenopause transition can actually begin as early as your 40s. So how much do you really know about it? How often do you talk about it?
Join us for Virtual Campfire with Changemakers, our online gathering where we come together beyond borders to spark meaningful conversations, share stories, and hold space for one another. Host Carmen Chan, Founder of Girls Be Change, brings together a small circle of women from around the world to have the conversations we don't always get to have — up close, personal, and honest.
We're continuing our theme, "Owning Our Bodies." This time, we're turning toward a chapter many of us are approaching, living through, or trying to understand from a distance: midlife.
Our focus is "Leading & Loving in Midlife: The Threshold of Menopause." This session is a safe space to talk about the transition through perimenopause and menopause — the physical and emotional shifts, the identity questions it stirs up, what it means to keep leading and loving through it, the silence and stigma many of us inherited, the medical gaps that leave us guessing, and the ways we're learning to meet this threshold with more agency, care, and even pleasure.
Come ready to share, vent, question, or simply listen. No topic is off-limits. No experience is too small or too complicated.
Joining Carmen for this gathering are Leeliu Mak, a spiritual guide and somatic embodiment coach specializing in sacred sexuality and self-love; and Rebeca Cabezas, an environmental lawyer for indigenous communities and women's rights advocate in Peru.
This is not a panel. Not a webinar. Not a lecture. It's a circle. What's said here, stays here.
Come as you are. Leave feeling less alone.
In order to curate a more engaging experience, we limit each Virtual Campfire session to 10 participants only. This session will not be recorded.
Meet Your Campfire Host
Carmen Chan | Girls Be Change
Carmen Chan is a people-driven entrepreneur and founder of Girls Be Change, a social business dedicated to empowering girls and women to become explorers and changemakers. Building on her decade-long experience running ventures like Carmen Chan Jewelry and Studio C, as well as her networks with nonprofits and social enterprises, Carmen founded Girls Be Change to address the pain points faced by underserved women and the challenges of women leaders. Through building communities and sharing expertise among global changemakers, she is on a mission to tackle gender inequality collectively and foster supportive networks of changemakers.
And Our Wonderful Co-Hosts!
Leeliu Mak | Spiritual Guide & Somatic Embodiment Coach
Leeliu is a spiritual guide and somatic embodiment coach specializing in sacred sexuality and self-love, with 18 years of experience rooting into her own feminine body.
She helps female leaders, facilitators, and creative women move out of their heads and into the sacred intelligence of their Eros, womb, and body — releasing shame, reclaiming sensuality, and expanding their capacity for pleasure, visibility, and authentic self-expression.
Her practice weaves together 18 years as a somatic movement artist with training in yoga, Taoist massage, reiki, and death/birth doulaship, alongside 13 years devoted to ancestral Goddess and Earth-based wisdom — ancient in root, embodied in practice.
Over the past decade, she's shared this work with thousands across Europe and Asia through workshops, retreats, festivals, and online programs.
Rebeca Cabezas | Environmental Lawyer & Advisory Board Member, Girls Be Change | Peru
Rebeca Cabezas is a Peruvian lawyer with deep expertise in environmental law and Indigenous peoples' rights, with a particular focus on Amazonian issues. She has worked across public and private institutions, advising on forest governance, Indigenous policy, environmental sustainability, and forest management. Rebeca also completed all coursework for a Master's in Environmental Sciences at Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, strengthening her science-based approach to complex social and environmental challenges.
Her commitment to sustainable development extends to volunteer work with ARBIO PERÚ and the Loretano feminist collective "Furia Charapa." She is recognised for her interdisciplinary approach to advancing legal solutions for environmental protection and Indigenous community support — and for being someone who, by all accounts, did not wait.
About Girls Be Change
Girls Be Change is a global social business that empowers girls and women to become explorers, leaders, and changemakers. Through community-building initiatives, impact-driven expeditions, and transformative retreats, we create spaces — both online and offline — where women can learn, connect, and co-create solutions for a more equitable and sustainable future.
Since our founding in 2024, Girls Be Change has brought together a community of over 300 women changemakers from around the world, forming partnerships with more than 40 organizations and hosting 20+ gatherings across cities including Hong Kong, Bali, Jakarta, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Copenhagen, Malta, Lima, and New York. Together, we are redefining what it means to lead with purpose, collaboration, and courage.
This gathering is open to women only. For RSVP enquiries, please contact Carmen at cc@girlsbechange.com.
Language: English