I spent years looking for something rigorous, heart-felt, and built for our generation. I couldn't find it. So I built it.
I am a Gen X, midlife woman. The woman I was in my 20s who trekked across Nepal seeking Buddhist wisdom now wants to know what this whole midlife thing is actually about.
For more than 25 years I've worked with accomplished women asking the same questions: What comes next? What's required to create a life with deeper meaning around the things I care about now? I've watched what happens when capable women function inside structures they've quietly outgrown. And I've watched what happens when they don't.
We are not our mothers. We're not going to follow existing models that missed the mark on our generation's psychological makeup. The Midlife Curriculum is what I built when I realized the gap between who accomplished Gen X women are and how they're living isn't shrinking. It's growing. And we have limited time to close it.
About Leah
✓ Stanford Lecturer & Researcher
✓ Author, How We Work (HarperWave)
✓ 25+ Years Working with Leaders at Stanford, Google, NATO, NASA
✓ Scholar-Practitioner: Academic Depth + Real Life
✓ Based in Portland, Oregon
The Six Domains
The full map of your midlife.
Over the year, the community rotates through each domain — giving you real time to work on each part of your life, not just read about it.
01
Personal Growth & Identity
Updating who you are — from the woman who was useful to everyone else, to the woman who has room for her own power, rage, play, and desire.
02
Physical & Embodiment
Health as capacity and agency, not performance. Gen X bodies navigating midlife inside a culture that never accounted for caregiving in two directions.
03
Relationships & Connection
Midlife relationship pivots — staying, leaving, renegotiating. Building a support web so you're not the single point of failure holding everything up.
04
Creative & Professional
The second-wave career that uses your expertise without burning you out. Small, well-designed experiments. Work that aligns with your values.
05
Financial & Security
Gen X reality on the table: sandwich generation finances, retirement landscapes with fewer pensions, and what redefining "enough" actually looks like.
06
Spiritual & Meaning
What purpose looks like after decades of being useful. Your Gen X Midlife Manifesto — not how to age gracefully, but what you want to prove is possible.
The gap between who you are and who you want to be is closable.
But it requires more than thinking about it. It requires structure, support, and women beside you doing the same work. That's what this year is.
The Midlife Rite of Passage Community
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The Midlife Rite of Passage Community •
This is for you if:
You recognize yourself in at least a few
of these.
✓ You've done the thinking. You need the doing — with structure and accountability.
✓ You feel like you've outgrown your life, but have no interest in burning it down.
✓ You're tired of being told "this will pass" when you know something deeper is happening.
✓ You're managing work, aging parents, kids or no kids, health shifts — all at once.
✓ You want real conversations, not bypassing or productivity hacks.
✓ You're well-resourced (therapy, books, discipline) and still something is missing.
✓ You want a community that matches your sophistication and your exhaustion equally.
✓ You know you can't close this gap alone. You've tried.
What you get
Everything included in your year.
Midlife Navigation Course
A clear roadmap through the six domains of midlife. Replay access for every session so life doesn't knock you off track. You leave with language for what's shifting, awareness about what needs your attention the most and where you're headed.
↗ Your Midlife Manifesto & Action Plan
Your Curated Pod
6–10 Gen X women placed with you intentionally. Light structure so it's not a venting session. Optional voice-note thread between calls. These are your peers for the year — the people who get it without explanation.
↗ Built-in belonging from day one
Monthly Live Teachings + Q&A
Two live sessions each month: one deep-dive teaching with Leah on the domain of the month, plus a second session for Q&A, hot seats, or a guest expert. Bring what's actually happening in your life — this isn't curriculum for curriculum's sake.
↗ 24 live sessions over the year
Weekly Reflection & Renewal Hour
A consistent, lightly guided hour each week to come back to yourself. What pulled on you. What fed you. What needs to change. A gentle nervous-system-friendly practice, not another productivity workshop. One hour that makes the whole week make sense.
↗ 52 touchpoints to stay on track
Book Club & Movement Practices
Curated books for each domain. Walking prompts and walkie-talkie audio from Leah you can take on your commute or morning walk. Bite-sized, body-based practices that fit a real Gen X day — no blank calendar required.
↗ Embodied practice, not just ideas
Full Resource & Replay Library
Access for the full year to all course recordings, community teachings, Q&As, meditations, and domain worksheets. When life throws a curveball — and it will — you have a toolbox to return to.
↗ Yours for the entire year
Your Investment
Choose how you want to do this year.
You're not buying information. You're buying a year of support to actually live your Midlife Manifesto — with a community of women who understand the chapter you're in.
The Standard Program
Midlife Curriculum + 12 Months in the Midlife Rite Of Passage Community. Best for women who know they need ongoing support, not a one-and-done course.
$3,600
Pay in full — save $325
Or 3 payments in the first three months of $1,962.50 / $981.25 / $981.25
Total $3,925
✓ Midlife Navigation Course + replays
✓ Curated Gen X pod (6–10 women)
✓ Your Midlife Manifesto & Action Plan
✓ 12 months in the Midlife Rite of Passage Community
✓ Monthly live teachings + Q&A with Leah
✓ Weekly Reflection & Renewal Hour
✓ Book club + walking prompts + walkie-talkie practices
✓ Full resource & replay library for the year
Payment plan: 50% deposit at enrollment, then 2 equal monthly payments
Standard + 1:1 Coaching with Leah
Everything in the Standard Program, plus 8 individual sessions with Leah over the year for the women who want to go deeper on their own terms.
$6,000
Pay in full — save $600
Or 3 payments in the first three months of $3,300 / $1,650 / $1,650
Total $6,600
✓ Everything in the Standard Program
✓ Individual midlife invitation call to begin
✓ 6 individual sessions with Leah — one per domain
✓ 1 individual integration call at year end
✓ Private support tailored to the specific chapters of your life
Payment plan: 50% deposit at enrollment, then 2 equal monthly payments
You get a full year of midlife-specific coaching, community, and practices for significantly less than you'd spend piecing together therapy, workshops, and support groups on your own.
This is not a course you buy and forget. It's not a Facebook group that becomes noise. It's a structured year — designed for the way Gen X women actually live, with the intelligence and nuance this chapter deserves.