We’ve been there, done that, and are here to help you get a leg up. We help spur your big ideas, small businesses, and second-act careers, providing you with development workshops, conferences, and boot camps. Along with our dynamic community of women like you, we are here to help you foster business growth, land the job you deserve, and maneuver through middlescence to advocate for yourself.
Sadly, gendered ageism is the new sexism. We’re here to remind the world of #womendontexpire, but we’re unstoppable.
We teach business and career growth best practices to gain traction. Grab a live or virtual seat at our peer-to-peer development conventions, boot camps, and deep dive workshops.
Imposter Syndrom. Menopause. Caregiving. Living life in full color at 40+. We connect, conversate, and collaborate as midlife-questing women inside our private Insider membership community.
Insider members have free access to our tailor-made small business and career marketing and development done-for-you templates and worksheets to go further faster inside your business and career. Join us as an Insider member today.
We’re committed to working with your DEI and ERGs to help advance their seasoned employees and better their intergenerational team dynamics. Led by Barbara Brooks, SecondActWomen’s founder, visibility coach, and presenter, we deliver high-energy career and personal development workshops. Our popular event, Professional Branding: 7 Steps to Boost Your Influence at Work, helps to raise employee confidence, inclusion, belonging, and company productivity. Want more information or to learn about the other facilitated workshops and speaking topics? Contact SecondActWomen at hello@secondactwomen.com.
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.
You are unstoppable.
Verona Matthews, Michelle Vos, Jess Bonasso (left to right), and our entire community of Insider members are rethinking, reinventing, and rebooting in their second act. And we welcome you to join us on our journey.
I’m Barbara, and proudly exclaim I’m in chapter 56 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.
By the way, our brand values are to be confident, daring, bold, you, and simply put, just BE. You are welcome here.
in 2020, 14,000 Facebook communities applied. Only 31 made the cut for Facebook’s Community Accelerator Program. Together we worked to build a stronger second act Facebook community and thanks to the grant received, hired from within our very own second act tribe.
Since 2015, Next Avenue, an online media platform part of PBS, has recognized influencers advocating for age positivity. In 2021, Barbara Brooks joined this distinguished list of honorees.
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.
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