Midlife Private Parts: Dina Aronson & Dina Alvarez on Reinvention, Visibility & Owning Your Story

What happens when two bold midlife women stop asking “Who am I to do this?” and start asking “Why not me?” You get Midlife Private Parts—a revealing, empowering new anthology that explores the raw, real, and often unspoken truths about midlife womanhood.

In this episode of Reinvention Rebels, I’m joined by the dynamic duo Dina Aronson and Dina Alvarez, co-editors of Midlife Private Parts: Revealing Essays That Will Change the Way You Think About Age.

Together, we dive into:
 ✨ Why visibility matters more than ever in midlife
 ✨ How Instagram helped both Dinas build creative courage and community
 ✨ The surprising paths that led them from law and journalism to storytelling and book publishing
 ✨ Why collaboration can be a powerful force in reinvention
 ✨ What they learned emotionally and spiritually through collecting and editing stories from women around the world

We also explore the themes of the book—everything from menopause and reinvention to grief, dating, and feeling invisible—with honesty, humor, and heart.

💌 If this conversation moves you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a midlife friend who needs a reminder: it’s never too late to rewrite your story.

💡 Resources & Links

🎉 Midlife Private Parts is available now! (Released June 24)
📚 Learn more or grab your copy: https://www.midlifeprivateparts.com/

🔗 Connect with Dina Aronson: 

Instagram: @patina_life
Substack: Patina Life with Dina Aronson

 🔗 Connect with Dina Alvarez: 

Instagram: @thewritestyles
Substack: @dinaalvarez

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Chapters

• 0:00 Empowering Women
• 8:29 Discovering Visibility in Midlife Women
• 22:14 Facing Fears in Midlife
• 29:09 Celebrating Women's Empowerment in Midlife

Transcript

00:00 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
I was surprised by how much these stories impacted me. We set out to impact other people, right, and we alluded earlier these stories would come through and we'd read them. We were like, oh my God, one was better than the next. And that's not. They're all incredible, but I just you know these women were willing to be so vulnerable and so raw and go so deep and I found it shifting me in the process and I learned so much from them. 

00:36 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Welcome to Reinvention Rebels. Stories of brave and unapologetic women, 50 to 90 years young, who have boldly reinvented life on their own terms to find new purpose and possibilities. I'm your host, Wendy Battles. Ready to kick your fears to the curb, do it scared and step into who you are meant to be in midlife and beyond. These amazing women, these reinvention rebels, can help light your reinvention path. Come join us and let's get inspired together. Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Reinvention Rebels podcast. I'm your host, Wendy. I am so glad you are here. 

01:32
This show, the Reinvention Rebels podcast, is all about where bold women over 50 share their extraordinary stories of reinvention, resilience and self-discovery. Today, I have the pleasure of welcoming not one, but two remarkable women who have reimagined midlife on their own terms and then teamed up to shine a light on the experiences so many of us have lived but rarely talk about. Meet Dina Aronson and Dina Alvarez, co-editors of the powerful new anthology Midlife Private Parts, revealing essays that will change the way you think about age. These two Dinas are trailblazers, storytellers and visionaries. They didn't just reinvent themselves, they created space for other women to do the same. Their paths to this moment are uniquely inspiring. 

02:36
Dina Aronson began her career in law but made bold pivots over the decades, eventually launching her blog Patina, a space celebrating the beauty and texture of aging. Dina Alvarez started as a freelance writer in New York City and reconnected with her voice and visibility in midlife, stepping into the spotlight on Instagram for the first time in 2020. Together, they bet on themselves and on the power of honest storytelling to bring to life a stunning collection of essays that tackle everything from aging and grief to joy, self-expression and liberation. In this episode, we dive deep into how they stepped outside their comfort zones, navigated fear, embraced creativity and created something bigger than they ever imagined. Get ready for a thoughtful, funny and deeply inspiring conversation that will leave you feeling empowered to own your story and rewrite your next chapter, no matter your age. Let's dive in. Welcome Dina A and Dina A, the Dinas, to the Reinvention Rebels. Guest chair. 

04:00 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
Thank you. 

04:01 - Dina Alvarez (Guest)
Thank you, Wendy thank you so much. That is the loveliest intro. 

04:06 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I love it and it's like so true, you both are these dynamic women that are up to so many cool things and just this way that you sort of came together, became friends and, you know, started on this project. Started on this project and the thing I think about in having had a chance to talk to both of you a little bit before we did the interview a couple of weeks ago, I see that you both have taken bold steps. So Dina Alvarez posting on Instagram as an introvert that's like a big deal and Dina Aronson launching this blog when you couldn't find stories that reflected your experience. So I really would love to begin our conversation by asking what helped you move from? Who am I to do this, which we often ask ourselves to? Why not me, or why? 

05:00 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
not us. I mean, Wendy, I'm not going to lie, sometimes I still hear that voice that says who am I to do this Right? But I think for me, I just there was this sort of steady drumbeat and I knew I wanted to have a different kind of impact. And I was approaching 50 and I couldn't find anything that was reflecting what was happening in my life and it was, from, you know, sort of the serious, like health things, to like the fun, like what are women wearing, you know, and so I just it became evident that, like I did want to do this I didn't quite know how, but I just started to take a little step. For instance, set a Google alert. Right, I set Google alerts for, like, some of the things that I thought I wanted to learn about and write about. 

05:47
And I think there's this thing and I remember my favorite class in college was this behavioral psychology class and the idea is that, like, your mind follows action. So when you start to take these little steps, even if they're baby steps, you start to believe and you start to think differently, and I think that's sort of what got me to the why not me? I'm doing this. You know it's happening and it might not happen overnight. It certainly didn't. I talked about this blog and it took me probably two plus years to actually get it done or to get it started. But yeah, I mean, you just have to start doing it. You have to stop worrying and just take some steps. 

06:26 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I love that, that you're just like oh, you know what, I don't see it. I'm going to build it, even if it takes time, and I don't know what I'm doing. But I'm just going to take those first steps. Dina Alvarez, what about you? 

06:36 - Dina Alvarez (Guest)
Well, you know, posting my first photo on Instagram not only shocked me but shocked my entire family and they were like what? They just couldn't wrap their head around it and it kind of came out of the pandemic being home trying to just put myself out there a little bit. I'd always loved photography and I always loved writing, and I was able to marry both things by doing a little micro blogging on there. But in terms of the anthology, I actually really love that you asked this question because it gives me pause. It's one of the few times in my life that I actually didn't ask myself like who am I to do this? Or what? You know, why me? Or because it just it felt something very natural and very deep to me and it was. 

07:22
You know, I'd always had a deep love of anthologies and I had an idea for an anthology that was different to this one. 

07:28
It was still woman-centric, but along a different theme. So I think when I met Dina and I met the midlife community, it, you know, it wasn't about like why, you know, am I the right person to do this? Like I just felt very natural and the right thing to do at the right time, and that's this is really one of the first times in my life that I've really felt that way, that I haven't questioned myself and sure, there was a learning curve, but I definitely felt ready for it. And also, partnering with someone else to do it together actually brings a different dynamic to it and makes it, you know, to be able to bounce off of each other, makes it a bit more real and it's just a wonderful way to work together. So you know the Instagram thing yes, that was definitely a very stepping out of my comfort zone, but I think the book was one of the few times that I didn't ask myself am I the right person for this? And it's just been one of the best things I've ever worked on. 

08:23 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I love that you said it just felt right, you had this knowingness, because sometimes we question ourselves so much that it's almost dizzying or exhausting, and it feels like often, as we age, we get more in tune. 

08:38
As we get more in tune with ourselves, we can get more comfortable with that knowingness that I have this hunch, that this partnership with Dina I mean the fact that you both even have the same name is so crazy and you're both Dina A is like what it makes it so fun to just be like, hey, the Dinas. 

08:55
But I love, though, that we can kind of grow into these things as we evolve, because that's part of what's happened, I think, for all of us, that you know, in our projects with the my podcast, with your book, with the writing that you both do this, I'm getting more comfortable in my skin, which makes it easier to kind of take those steps, and I feel like that feels really good. You also, Dina Alvarez, mentioned the idea of community, and I know all three of us rely so much on the power of community, especially on Instagram, but you know, in the many other communities in which we find ourselves in midlife and I'm really curious, how has community especially women, supporting women. Women played a role in your reinvention and in bringing midlife private parts to life. I know it's been so critical. Tell us more about that. 

09:52 - Dina Alvarez (Guest)
I was just going to say that it was the women on Instagram who really kind of spurred me on to continue writing and they would DM me or send me messages and say, oh, I love the way you write. Are you going to, you know, do a book someday and put all your stories in the book? And so that community really spurred me on and it was about feeling seen in that sense by the people who mattered to me. It was this small community of women who was so incredibly supportive and they're the inspiration behind this book really is. They were going out and doing some fabulous new things. You know you started Reinvention Rebels. There are other women who have started podcasts. You know small businesses, jewelry companies. They've pivoted into style and reinvention. So watching them and then their reaction to me was what made this book possible and that community really created this book. 

10:42 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
I would add, there is no book without community. So community has been everything. And, Wendy, you said something earlier which was, you know, getting more comfortable in our skin as we get older, and I think at least what we've seen is that women have been so incredibly generous. I mean, I think often we think it's really hard to make friends and define community, but and it is hard if you're sitting in your home or your apartment and not going out and not reaching out and not showing up but once you start to do those things, you find your people. And I think I can speak for both of us when I say we've been blown away by the incredible generosity of the women we've met in this world, in this community, in this circle, and what they've shared with us in terms of their stories has been not just shared with us. What they're sharing with the world with very deep and personal and intimate stories in an effort to help other women to feel seen. This whole thing is just a swirl in community. I mean it's really everything. 

11:43 - Wendy Battles (Host)
It is being part of this community and meeting some of the some of the women that are in your book, some of those women I've interviewed or I know them peripherally or I follow them and just the other women I meet. It is so dynamic and people do have this generosity of spirit that you're talking about people. I know that there's this. There's been this perception, especially when we're younger, that women are catty and that they're not supportive, and I feel like it's such a different thing in this stage of my life where, whether it's online, you're meeting people or you're meeting people in some other way, you just can find your people when you're open and realize just how amazing it is when we find that tribe, and it's kind of exciting in my mind. 

12:26 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
You know, and the truth is, we know ourselves so much better than you know we did when we were 20 and 30. And I think it makes it easier to be sort of intentional about the people that you choose to be around. It's not just because you're in school together or at work at the water cooler together. It's like you're making a choice to seek out certain kinds of people, right, People that you think are going to light you up. And so I think that's just another gift of becoming older and becoming more settled and comfortable in your skin is you do know yourself and you know what you need a little bit more. 

12:59 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Totally. I want to talk to you guys about your book, this beautiful book that I've had the chance to see, this advanced copy of that is full of these amazing stories. So the book title alone, midlife, private Parts I mean it can't help but make people lean in. It's like what? Oh, that sounds like really interesting. So I want to know how did you land on it and what do you hope women feel, feel when they read it? 

13:30 - Dina Alvarez (Guest)
Well, there was a lot of spit-balling, as Dina likes to call it, which was just throwing stuff out and see what sticks, you know, kind of hitting the wall. And the first title we landed on, which I really love not that I don't love midlife are you there, god? It's me midlife, and I just I don't know it's just when she said it. I remember my reaction. I just threw my hands up in the air. But then we thought about it and midlife private parts came out and we knew that it would be an attention grabber. We knew that it would speak to all the things we want to share. I mean, there's a lot of private things women go through in midlife that we are either ashamed to talk about or considered taboo, and we wanted to strip that away. And we thought that that title would do that. And I'll let Dina add her take on midlife private parts. 

14:24 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
Yeah, I mean, I love the title. I loved our first title too, and I think it bears saying that it's a perfect lesson in not getting too attached to any kind of outcome or being too stubborn about anything as you're trying to create something new, because it just there were. There were certain parties in our lives that said, no, that's not the title we're going to use. So you know, you just have to. I think it's a. It was a great lesson, because Dina and I both really loved the first one, but it was a great lesson in sort of learning to flow and saying, okay, and I think we came up with something that I like at least as much, if not better, echoing Dina, there's just so much we're not talking about and I think, finally and mercifully, we are talking about menopause and I will say I remember I talked about doing research for that blog when I was leading up to 50. 

15:14
I was researching menopause and perimenopause and I will tell you that this is unscientific, but at least 85 plus percent of the articles I was seeing were out of the UK. There were no articles here in the US and so happily that's changed. But we are so much more than menopause and there's all these other things that we weren't really talking about. Right, there's a cheekiness to it. There's a little other things that we weren't really talking about. Right, there's a cheekiness to it, there's a little bit of literal, but you know it really does speak to what we're trying to accomplish, which is share these private things, reveal, you know, what's really going on inside, so that others will see themselves reflected back, because we live in a culture still, despite progress, where midlife and older women are just either underrepresented or misrepresented. The narrative out there does not apply. The world is taking a little time to catch up, so we're trying to push it along and maybe move that needle. 

16:10 - Dina Alvarez (Guest)
I just want to add that the women really got the assignment because they really showed up with great essays that Dina and I would read and be like, oh wow, like this is fantastic, like they really were very honest and they really put themselves out there and I think that takes a lot to be that vulnerable and write an essay for a book in that way. So I'm just honestly, I'm so proud of all of them. 

16:33 - Wendy Battles (Host)
I am am too. Just from the ones I read. They were like they drew me right in. And the things that people share, the insights that they have often the bravery to even talk about some of those things and one of you mentioned that we often don't talk about, we don't talk about enough. It feels to me like it's permission. This book helps give us permission to talk about those things that are hard to talk about for whatever reason, and I just I'm so excited. I'm just so excited. I know that you've both written essays about feeling invisible or disconnected in earlier life phases, which I think is true for so many of us. I mean the things we learn along the way and the wisdom we now have. What, would you say, helped you reclaim visibility? And what advice do you have for women who still feel unseen in midlife? There's those of us who feel like, yes, I'm arriving, and then there's others that are, you know, they're not necessarily as far down on that path and maybe still feel unseen. 

17:38 - Dina Alvarez (Guest)
For me. I think age gave me a certain freedom that I never had before. I was, you know, always concerned about living a life that was expected of me and for other people being a good mother, a good daughter, a good friend and I was also an introvert. And something happened when I turned 50 that I really can't explain. It really coincided with getting on Instagram, also shortly thereafter, and, you know, all I can say is that you reach a point in life where you start really living for yourself and you become visible by putting yourself out there in the spaces where you're more comfortable, meeting people that are, you know, like-minded and welcoming. And, you know, not, we don't fit in every single space. 

18:24
And so, I think, getting to a certain age, I realized like, okay, this is kind of where I fit, and I was meeting these midlife women and I, my visibility, came by just really allowing myself the confidence and the freedom to take chances and to let myself, you know, be vulnerable. You know I didn't fit into every space, not every relationship I started with people. You know it wasn't always a match, but it really taught me, you know, a lot about myself, how I fit in and where I fit in, and also the freedom to say okay, this isn't my space, let me maybe try over here. So it's just a sense of of you working your way into areas that interest you and that you're curious about, and I think that's what allowed me to go onto Instagram. To begin to write again was a curiosity and an interest in meeting other people and allowing myself to be visible once again. 

19:18 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Self-permission. Self-permission is so key and I like how you talked about, like the curiosity part of it. Dina Aronson, what about you? 

19:26 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
Yeah, I would say I didn't so much feel invisible as much as this feeling of disconnection I was. I had this sort of this feeling of not sort of where I want to be in terms of like I and, and that's that's hard, because a lot of the things that I wanted were and I had were great marriage, I have two amazing stepkids but there was still something like gnawing at me and I felt very stuck during my forties, like trying to figure out like what is this and like I have all these things that like equal success. But somehow I felt dissatisfied, you know, in terms of like I couldn't see myself doing what I was doing for the rest of my life in terms of like career, and I just wanted, as I said earlier, to have a different kind of impact. I think the way I started to like work through that is I, and what I would say to somebody who's feeling unseen is you have to see yourself right, like you have to see yourself first for other people to see you, and so think about you. Really have to spend a lot of time like reflecting and I did, and maybe sometimes too much time in my head, but you know, but none of this stuff can just happen with a wave of a wand. You've got to, like, go deep and you've got to really ask yourself hard questions and think about what it really is that you want. 

20:45
And I think it helped, you know, because I think sometimes people think reinvention is like this magical thing that happens. But I think it's hard, it takes a lot of thought and I think that you, you know you, for me, like I started to think about all I had accomplished. Instead of thinking how am I going to be seen in this space where I've never occupied, how am I going to be a writer? I started to think about all the things I had done and how those things connected. Like I wasn't really starting a thing from scratch, I was bringing myself, you know, and bringing all that experience, and so that helped me to see myself a little bit differently. 

21:21
And I just and Adina mentioned this like show up. You have to start showing up so you can't be seen if you're not in the room. Figure out what those rooms look like for you. And if you can't find them, make them right. And like the nice thing about being alive today, despite the crazy, is that we now have these, this, this phone, that we can pop into these squares and start to connect with people, and I know I think a lot of people, if they haven't done it, think that sounds like crazy, like how would? How do you get to know somebody online? I mean, Dina and I could not be closer and we literally met on Instagram. So it's possible. This whole book is a result of connecting with women, many of them online or showing up to events where we knew our people would be. So you have to take action. Like I talked earlier about baby steps, they can be baby steps, but you have to start moving in a direction and see yourself and other people will start to see you. 

22:20 - Wendy Battles (Host)
You know, it reminds me and listening to what you're saying, that there's no right way to do this, to step into ourselves, because it takes many different things. It takes the self-reflection that you're talking about and going within to really think about what is it I want. It takes many different things. It takes the self-reflection that you're talking about and going within to really think about what is it I want. It takes being curious, Dina Alvarez, that you mentioned, and trying things. Not everything we try works out. It takes being willing to put ourselves out there to build community, whatever that looks like. However, we do that. Again, there's no right or wrong way. There's only the way we find that works for ourselves. So all of these things, you know we can. We don't have to have a blueprint, but we can create this path for ourselves in midlife. And that's really what I hear the two of you saying that you've discovered this for yourselves. You've had these experiences both individually, solo, solo, looking within, and then more outward, even as an introvert right that we can. 

23:18
We can find our lane, we can find our people, and it just manifests in different ways. I am curious to ask you about what surprised you most, about yourselves while putting this book together, either creatively, spiritually, what's something that you're like? Huh, who knew? 

23:36 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
I think, personally, I was surprised by how much these stories impacted me. We set out to impact other people, right, and we alluded earlier these stories would come through and we'd read them and we were like, oh my God, one was better than the next. And that's not. They're all incredible, but I just you know these women were willing to be so vulnerable and so raw and go so deep and I found it shifting me in the process and I learned so much from them. So here I am. You know we're going to put this out in the world and we're going to teach other women, but, like I was one of those women, so that was surprising to me, I think women, so that was surprising to me? 

24:14
I think yeah no, that's great. 

24:15 - Dina Alvarez (Guest)
I do agree with Dina, that is, it was great to read all the essays and kind of reel back sometimes because you know, you think you know people through these little squares, but it's only a tiny piece of who they are. 

24:26
So getting to know them better through their essays was great and I think for me, like emotionally and spiritually, I felt like this book was always meant to be for me and I think Dina probably feels the same way. You know, it just felt like such a natural culmination of loving stories, loving to write, being a storyteller, being an introvert and always kind of shining the light on other people. And this book, to me, is it's so incredibly special because it made me feel like we all come to this earth to do many things right, and I don't know what the other things are, but I know that I'm here to be a part of this book and create this book and get these stories out there, and it's such a satisfying and fulfilling experience for me and meeting all the women has just been amazing. So I think, you know, emotionally and spiritually, it really put me in a place of feeling like this is where I'm supposed to be right now, at this time in my life. 

25:20 - Wendy Battles (Host)
That's an amazing feeling to feel that kind of feeling like this is it, this is what's meant to happen, and I love that, and I just can't wait for the launch of the book and hearing everything people have to say about it. I already can see myself in many of the stories, so I'm excited to really dig deeper. I want to wrap up this fabulous conversation by asking you a little fun question. I want to ask you to finish a sentence for me, and I'm going to. Let's see Dana Arrington. I'll start with you. 

25:53 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
I know I've bet on myself in midlife because I know I bet on myself in midlife because I stopped waiting for everything to be perfect. I stopped waiting until I had all the answers and I just like, trusted myself to start to figure it out. 

26:15 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Yes, forget perfection. It's so overrated and a waste of my energy too. 

26:21 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
Tremendous waste of energy and I wasted a lot of it over the years. Trust me. 

26:30 - Dina Alvarez (Guest)
I think we all have on myself in midlife, because I have had to face so many fears this past year and even still moving forward. You know, as someone who's always been an introvert, I don't love public speaking. Yet it's part of the foray now. It's coming down the pipeline in the future and you know, Dina and I have had the conversation where she's very eloquent when she says you have to face your fears and once you face them, it'll be easier the next time. And she's 100% right. 

27:01
And you know I still go through the motions about getting nervous. There's certain things that are uncomfortable for me. So I've had to face these fears and so the only way I could do it is if I bet on myself and I say like, come on, you know you're in this space for a reason. You have to step out and you have to own it. So I think that that's pretty much how I feel that I'm betting on myself by facing the fears that I have about whether it's public speaking or being in crowded rooms or whatever it is I have to do. That is uncomfortable is you know? I have to face them in midlife because, if not now, when? 

27:37 - Wendy Battles (Host)
That is so powerful and I feel the same way, because even when we get over one fear, there's always going to be something else later on. It's not like you conquer public speaking and then you're done with all your fears. You know how like, because we're constantly changing and growing and evolving. But I love that. Oh, you guys are so awesome, so awesome, and I just love this book. So, of course, people who are listening want to know Midlife Private Parts. When is it out? How can I find it? Where can I buy it? You know, how can I learn more about the Dinas? So please tell us about that. 

28:11 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
The book is officially on sale and launched on June 24th. You can buy it now I'm not sure when we're dropping Wendy, but if this comes out before June 24th, you can buy it now. I'm not sure when we're dropping Wendy, but if this comes out before June 24th, you can purchase for for presale. There's a website around the book where you can learn more about all of our incredible contributors. We have links to all of their bios and that's wwwmidlifeprivatepartscom. And then, personally, I have a sub stack called Patina with Dina Aronson, and on Instagram I'm patina underscore life. 

28:47 - Dina Alvarez (Guest)
I am on Instagram at the right styles and on sub stack I have a publication called a few good things. 

28:54 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Oh, I love it. That's awesome. Well, all of that is in the show notes, so everybody can tap on midlifeprivatepartscom and buy the book and also follow the two Dinas and get inspired by all the amazing things they're doing, Dina Aronson and Dina Alvarez. I am so excited we had this conversation. I can't thank you enough for joining me so we could shine a light on this beautiful book that it's our stories. It's really, I feel, like it's a collective. 

29:26
I'm like, oh, I get to read these juicy stories and see myself in these stories and build my midlife muscles and be reminded of the things that are possible that maybe I didn't see were possible. But if so-and-so is doing that, if so-and-so is doing that and so-and-else is doing that, then what could I do? How could I find my lane? And I think that so many of us right now need hope because we live in this very complicated world and this book is so hopeful and it's joyful and it's fun. It's so many different things. So I'm grateful to the two of you for writing this beautiful book or, you know, having the idea I should say I know you have all these amazing contributors, but having the idea for pulling this together and finding these amazing women. So thank you, ladies, thank you. 

30:12 - Dina Alvarez (Guest)
Well, thank you for having us. This has been so much fun. I love it, thank you. 

30:17 - Dina Aronson (Guest)
So much fun, such a joy to talk to you. 

30:39 - Wendy Battles (Host)
Thank you for having us. Omg, this was so freaking fierce these two women, this book that they edited midlife private parts. I started reading advance copy. I can't wait to get my hands on the physical copy, which, by the way, is available now, and I hope that you will too. Details are in the show notes, both to find the Dinas online on social media and also to purchase their book. But how cool was that? Midlife women we are truly extraordinary, and just the few stories I've read so far have just sparked something in me, that reminder that I believe we all need about anything is possible. I really, truly hope that you will check out this book and also share this conversation with your girlfriends, your family, your colleagues anyone in midlife that could really benefit from hearing what they have to say and shining this light on how amazing we are. I do have a free gift for you 100 ways to reinvent in midlife. So this sparked something in you about what could be possible as you continue to evolve and reinvent. Well, check it out. Just click the link in the show notes. You can download it with ease and let's get started. Just some great ideas to fuel your next reinvention. 

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One last thing before we go. Women over 70 aging reimagined. That's the podcast hosted by my friends Gail and Catherine. You really need to listen. This award-winning podcast features inspiring stories from women who are between 70 and 110. Imagine these women shattering stereotypes and breaking the mold to emerge and age in bold ways. I know you love Re-Invention Rebels and I know you're going to love this too. Details are in the show notes. Thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for joining me for this extraordinary episode. As I always say, keep shining your light. Rebels. The world needs you and all that you have to offer.