From the Stage

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Who You Are Booking

I have spent more than twenty years in wellness, meditation, and leadership, and I have built and run successful businesses the whole way through. I am an entrepreneur at the root, which means I am practical, I am direct, and I do not perform wisdom at a room from a safe distance. I have spoken, run workshops, and held rooms in every mood there is, and I have learned that presence carries a room further than polish ever will.

I also host The Crone Stories, a podcast collecting women's stories of transformation through midlife and beyond.

And I will not ask a room to go anywhere I have not gone myself. This is not a gift I found in midlife. It is one I have had my whole life and finally turned toward on purpose. That is the altitude I take women up to. Not as a guru on a stage. As a woman who has been exactly where they are.

The Talks

The View From Above

You cannot change a life you cannot see.

The signature talk. Most women are too close to their own lives to see the shape of them. In this session I take the room up above the noise, through a live guided practice and the honest questions underneath it, until each woman can see her own life from above for the first time in years. It is not a lecture about perspective. It is the experience of it, happening live in the room. Women leave having seen something they had stopped seeing, and having named one thing they would never choose if they were choosing it now.

The room walks away with: a felt experience of getting above their own life · the one honest question that changes how they see everything below · one thing each woman has stopped noticing named out loud · a practice they can return to any time long after the room empties.

You Built This Life

You built this life. Which means you are the only one who can build something different.

The fiercest of the three, and the one that tends to make a room go quiet. Most women are quietly waiting for someone else to change before they can. A husband, a grown child, a circumstance, a kind of permission that is never coming. This talk walks the room from this life belongs to someone else and none of it is my fault, all the way to the most freeing sentence I know. You built this life, which means you are the only one who can build something different. It is not blame. It is the moment her hands go back on the wheel.

The room walks away with: why waiting for someone else to change keeps a woman stuck · the difference between blame and ownership and why ownership is the freeing one · the reframe that hands her back the wheel · a first honest step she can take without blowing anything up.

Reclaiming the Crone

Somewhere along the way we turned crone into an insult. It was never meant to be one.

Part history, part reckoning, part invitation. The crone was never the hag in the fairytale. She was the third stage of a woman's life, after maiden and mother. The wise one. The one who had lived enough to stop performing and start telling the truth. The one the whole village came to. This talk traces how we lost her, why a culture that profits from women feeling past it was never going to hand her back, and what it means to claim these years as the most powerful of a woman's life rather than the ones to dread. Warm, a little funny, quietly radical. A natural fit for any gathering of women in midlife and beyond.

The room walks away with: the real history of the crone and how the word got twisted · why midlife and beyond is a beginning and not a winding down · the wisdom that only becomes available in these years · an invitation to stop performing and start telling the truth.

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What It Is Like To Book Me

I do not perform wisdom at your room and I do not arrive with a fixed script I deliver the same way every time. I shape the talk to your gathering, your women, the moment you are holding. I am warm, I am direct, and I am as present with ten women as with five hundred. You will not get a polished stranger. You will get a woman who has done her own work, and who will hold the room while yours do theirs.

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Let’s Talk

For women’s circles, wellness gatherings, retreats, and conferences. If you are holding a room of women who are ready to get honest about their own lives, let’s talk about what we could do together.

Let's talk about your room

For women's circles, wellness gatherings, retreats, and conferences. If you are holding a room of women who are ready to get honest about their own lives, let's talk about what we could do together.

In love, light and laughter, Karen.