We’re your age-positive community and membership club for midlife women challenging outdated ageist stereotypes by supporting and celebrating women in the second half of life hosting peer-driven events, our first-ever SecondAct|Women Unplugged Conference coming in 2025 and meaningful pro-age online content for a vibrant community of over 22,000 women and allies across the globe.
We’re hosting weekly small business and career workshops led by experts from SecondAct|Women. Although the program is centered around Women’s Small Business Month, we know there are eleven other months of hard-earned work throughout the year.
Our Insider club members get perks from free to discounted tickets to our events, opportunities to promote their businesses inside the community and members can apply to lead workshops. Learn more.
Working with Social Responsibility, DEIB and ERGs, our founder, Barbara Brooks can be found keynoting or leading facilitated workshops to boost belonging in the workplace. Learn more about her talents to help reframe the narrative on aging and boost the knowledge of the power of multigenerational here.
Jump in and become an Insider. You’ll connect with some of the most amazing women like you who’ve been there. Done that and looking for more – or not. You can’t put baby in a corner.
Either way, it’s a different kind of women’s club. We talk about leaving corporate – or staying and going up the ladder or across, starting businesses from scratch and making it work, and having honest conversations about menopause, depression, and imposter syndrome. Life at 40+ gets messy, but it does get better every year like a fine wine as they say. We’re here to lean on each other in business, career, and everywhere in between, girlfriend.
I’m Barbara, and I proudly exclaim I’m in chapter 57 of life.
I started SecondActWomen mostly because I COULDN’T GET HIRED at 51 in 2018. Instead of job offers, I got Dear Jan letters – if I received anything at all, frankly. Most emails said I was either “too experienced, not experienced enough, or we went in another direction. Either way, you’re probably picking up what I’m putting down. AGEISM. So, I decided to do something about it by creating a company to provide a space for us. A community for us to blossom (again), collaborate, support, and educate.
Our brand values are to be confident, daring, bold, you, and BE. You are welcome here. – Barbara Brooks
Voted on by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce 2023.
Next Avenue, an online media platform part of PBS, recognized Barbara Brooks to its distinguished list of honorees.
Barbara has led panels and workshops at the nationally recognized, Denver Startup Week.
Last March, we kicked off Women’s History Month on the Kathie J. Show and shared our vision for you – women 40+. Give it a quick watch to learn a wee bit more about Barbara and now former co-founder turned Insider member Guadalupe Hirt.
Sign up for our weekly Aging Out Loud biz+life e-Newsletter and grab a FREE Seasonal Live Life template too. At 40+ we're all about living our lives in full color and our Live Life List is your kickstart to creating a checklist of all the things you've wanted to do. Oh, and others call it a Bucket List but not around these parts. Who wants to think about kicking the bucket when having fun?
