We’ve worked with hundreds of women who have reached their professional goals, here are the 8 habits we attribute to their success.

Women in midlife face tremendous challenges and add our hormones and the demands and our anxiety goes through the roof. Here are three ways to help anxiety in midlife.

Don’t wait for anything to be handed to you. Instead, go and ask for what you want - it may feel uncomfortable, but it is much better to ask than to hope.

Women need to gain more power so we can take back control of our bodies and our choices. A woman’s body is not Taboo, regardless of what Florida thinks. Gen X Women, it’s time to be the change we want to see.

Do you know what happened to Madonna’s face? It’s none of our business.

Modern Gen X Women are not taking the bullshit responses we get about menopause as the final answer.

Women like Catherine Balsam-Schwaber over at Kindra, women like Tamsen Fadal at Thrive in Midlife and Beyond, and women like Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz author of Menopause Boot Camp are changing the conversation.

Generation Xers are proud to call themselves resilient. We’ve had to be from a very young age. It is an admirable trait, however, it also makes me wonder, are we tolerating unhealthy situations in the name resilience?

A decade ago we were cleansing our bodies, today we’re cleansing our minds. We are aware of our mental state, unpacking past trauma, and finally healing ourselves.

Unraveling our minds at this level gives us a great opportunity to do the deep work, set boundaries, take care of ourselves, and change the course of our lives. Lord knows Gen X Women need this; we’ve been stuffing things down for decades.

Anxiety has been with me for as long as I can remember so even though I get the butterflies, knots, and pounding heart, I always push through to the other side only to realize it wasn’t that bad. 

Blending in, staying in the background, and not confidently articulating our value and demanding our worth has hurt us in closing the wage gap -- for both career women where it is 82 cents on the dollar and for entrepreneurs where it is 80 cents on the dollar.

4 Ways to Spark Creativity, especially in a world where innovation in critical for success.