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[B]old Age

[B]old Age

USA

[B]old Age is Debbie Weil’s Substack newsletter on living boldly in your 60s, 70s, and beyond. Weil — a writer and former corporate communications consultant…
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4-Quarter Lives / Elderberries

4-Quarter Lives / Elderberries

USA

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox writes about navigating the second half of life with intention and strategy. Her Substack explores gender, leadership, and the distinctive opportunities that come…
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Age Out Loud

Age Out Loud

USA

Age Out Loud is Margo Arrowsmith’s Substack newsletter celebrating aging as a time of power and possibility. Arrowsmith writes about reclaiming confidence, navigating cultural ageism,…
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Author-Come-Lately

Author-Come-Lately

USA

Author-Come-Lately is Kisane Slaney’s Substack for women who begin writing later in life. Slaney writes about the creative process, late-blooming authorship, and the particular freedom…
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Better After 50

USA

Felice Shapiro’s site for women over 50 features articles on health, beauty, relationships, career reinvention, finance, and the full spectrum of midlife experience — with…
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Build Your Own Boat (Substack)

Build Your Own Boat (Substack)

Build Your Own Boat is a Substack newsletter by, for, and about women who launch entrepreneurial ventures in midlife and beyond. Written by award-winning serial…
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Knowing Yourself Through Fiction

Knowing Yourself Through Fiction

Marylee Pangman’s Substack, where the Women of the Canyon novels are written in public — chapter excerpts as she drafts them, standalone micro-fiction, and “Life’s…
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Kris Keppeler Talks

Kris Keppeler Talks

USA

Kris Keppeler Talks is Kris Keppeler’s Substack exploring creativity, reinvention, and meaning-making in midlife and beyond. Keppeler writes about pivoting professionally and personally after 50,…
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Louder Girl

Louder Girl

USA

A women’s storytelling community and its blog, LoudHer Stories – personal essays on breaking free from limiting beliefs and internalized patriarchy, reclaiming power, and getting…
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Melissa Davey

Melissa Davey

The website and blog of documentary filmmaker Melissa Davey, who left a corporate career to make her first film at 65. Her work — including…
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Midlife & Beyond with Jo Blackwell

Midlife & Beyond with Jo Blackwell

Jo Blackwell’s weekly letters on ageing well — confidence, purpose, identity, and what she calls “the good news about midlife and growing older.” Written from…
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Midlife Divorce Recovery

USA

Suzy Brown’s compassionate resource for women rebuilding after midlife divorce — covering grief, finances, co-parenting, dating again, identity, and the practical and emotional work of…
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Stella Fosse

USA

Stella Fosse shares stories, ideas, and resources to empower women after midlife.
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The Daily RE-Wire

The Daily RE-Wire

The Daily RE-Wire is Monica Hebert’s daily Substack for women over 60 who are done caretaking and ready to come back to themselves. An artist,…
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Things I Used to Say – Ashton Applewhite

Things I Used to Say – Ashton Applewhite

USA

Things I Used to Say is the Substack of Ashton Applewhite, author of This Chair Rocks and a leading voice in the global movement to…
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This Chair Rocks – Ashton Applewhite

USA

Ashton Applewhite’s anti-ageism blog challenges the cultural narratives that make aging feel shameful, offering a fierce and funny reclaiming of what it means to grow…
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Women At The Edge Of The Woods

Women At The Edge Of The Woods

Kyra Faison-Gardner’s Substack, subtitled “an examined life after 50: notes on sovereignty, sisterhood, and becoming.” Writing from 62, she publishes several essays a week on…
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WonderCrone

WonderCrone

Jennifer Butz founded WonderCrone after colliding with ageism at sixty, and the blog is the long-running heart of it — more than a hundred numbered…
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Your Encore Life Coach

Your Encore Life Coach

Lynette Reiling writes short pieces on what the second half actually asks of a woman — living alone after fifty, moving across the country to…
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