Molly Webster

When she started to have menopause symptoms or really perimenopause symptoms.

In what sense is that the case?

Whoa.

But this all kind of tracked with what she was expecting to happen because she, like kind of all of us, had heard that this time in her life would be pretty brutal.

Right.

The only thing you hear it feels like is how dreadful it will be.

Right.

She felt like a lot calmer and clearer.

And that's when she realized.

And for this part of her life, she told me really the only messaging she was getting is what, like, not to do.

Because women, as they get older, are getting told things like... We have to watch our bones.

But beyond that, she kind of didn't have a roadmap.

She felt kind of lost.

Meanwhile, men her age, everywhere they look, they have tons of scripts, tons of icons.

And she was like, why can't we have that?

And she met all these different women in their 60s and 70s and 80s that were doing like totally badass stuff.

These are not women who are worried about bones breaking.

Not at all.

And like, well, that's great.

But, you know, as somebody who's maybe not the most physically adventurous person, I also really appreciated some of the other stories she told me about women who were going on quieter but still very meaningful adventures.