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About Karen
space holder · story keeper
For as long as I can remember, women have told me things. In a treatment room, at a kitchen table, in a parking lot after a class. Somebody would start talking, go quiet for a second, and then say the true thing, the one she had not said out loud to anyone. I did not have a name for it for a long time. Now I do. I am a story keeper.
For most of my life I was busy building. I spent thirty years in wellness, regenerative health, meditation, leadership and food service, and I built and ran real businesses the whole way through. I am an entrepreneur at the root, practical and direct, someone who knows how to make a real thing stand up in the world. I am no good at floating wisdom at a room from a safe distance.
I also built a life the same capable way I built everything else. For everyone else. One yes at a time, until I looked up and could not quite find myself in it. Finding my way back has been slow, and I am still in it. What carried me was not a book or a guru. It was the women. Their stories showed me mine.
That is the whole idea behind what I do now. For most of history a woman did not have to work out her life alone. There was a circle of older women who had already lived it, and you learned just by sitting near them. Somewhere along the way we lost that circle and started calling those women old instead of wise. I am pulling the chairs back into a circle, one story at a time.
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These days that work lives in a few rooms.
I host The Crone Stories, a podcast collecting the real, unvarnished stories of women moving through midlife and beyond. It is the clearest expression of what I do, guiding women to rewrite their lives, one story at a time. Not the highlight reel. The unravelling, the reckoning, the quiet becoming. I sit with women privately and shape their story with care, because a story deserves to be held, not just broadcast.
I speak, to circles of ten and halls of five hundred, about the lives women are actually living underneath the ones they perform. I have stood up and held rooms through celebration and through grief, because presence carries a room further than polish ever will, and the hardest days are the ones that most need someone steady in them.
And I write Wisdom from the Circle, a letter every Monday for the woman who looks around at a life that looks right and feels wrong, carrying what the women in the circle have lived.
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If that is you, you are in the right place. You built this life. Which means you're the only one who can build something different.
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In love, light and laughter, Karen
Karen Amy
space holder · story keeper