Limitless Women

09/11/2026

You didn’t lose yourself you outgrew the system 💜

What’s one thing you’re quietly ready to let go of before next year? Tell me below 👇

Take the second chapter quiz, link in bio and stories 🤘🏻

07/11/2026

For a few years now, a lot of us have been holding our breath. Watching rights we thought were settled get reopened. Watching women’s health, women’s choices, women’s safety treated like a debate to be won rather than a line that doesn’t move.
This week, it turned.

Democrats took both chambers. More than 100 Democratic women will sit in the US House the most women any party has ever had in a legislative body.

So: take the hope. Then do something with it.

Because I have just spent four episodes arguing that representation is the input, not the conversion and she’s not abandoning that the moment the news gets good.

Check out the latest podcast episode, better still share it with a woman who needs to hear it.

Podcast Episode · The Midlife Power Shift · 6 November · 15min

04/11/2026

I have never loved the colour blue this much. 💙

I have hope in my chest for the first time in a long time.

Women elected. The first Black woman elected a US governor. A public that looked at where things were heading and said, not on our watch.

And before anyone asks why a woman in Australia (with a UK heart) cares about an election on the other side of the world, it’s because it doesn’t stay on the other side of the world.

Women’s rights, reproductive rights, child safety, climate, the funding that keeps equality moving, it ripples out to every one of us.

For too long it’s felt like women were being quietly edited out, our rights treated as up for debate, power pooling in fewer hands.

This week, people spoke.

The rights we fought for are not going backwards. 💙
To a brighter, blue-sky future.

I am so here for it.

Double tap if you agree!

03/11/2026

Most of us don’t end the year. We just run out of it.

We limp to the finish line, then bolt into January with new goals and the same exhaustion. No wonder they’re gone by February.

Here’s a better way to close the year 👇

The Reflect & Reset Workshop — free, 60 minutes, live.
📅 Thursday 3 December, 6.30pm AEST

One hour to:

✍️ look back on your year — honestly
🎯 map where you actually are (using the Wheel of Life)
🌱 choose one or two things worth changing — on your terms

No highlight reel. No twelve resolutions. Just an hour that’s yours.

For the woman who’s done with the New Year sprint that never sticks.

Free. Bring a notebook.

Save your spot — link in bio 💌

01/11/2026

You’ve always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself.”

Jo Tarnawsky ended our conversation with Glinda the good witch but not in the way you’d expect.

That line came to her in therapy. After the case was over. Walking back through the worst of it.

Because here’s what she told me about courage.
She used to think it meant armour. Impervious to fear.
Then she pointed out that we only ever hear those stories in hindsight, we already know how they ended.

She was terrified. Shaking like a leaf in front of a wall of cameras. She still can’t watch the footage.

She did it anyway.

“You’ve always had the power” isn’t advice. You can’t hand it to a woman standing at the start of the road.

It’s what you can only see looking back.

🎧 Link in bio

27/10/2026

One week ago today, Parliament House Queensland.

I had the privilege of facilitating a Ministerial roundtable on digital power, influence and the social climate we’re creating for women and young girls and boys, hosted by Shannon Fentiman MP.

The topic itself is overwhelming. In preparation for this roundtable I have learnt so much about AI Generated image abuse and deep fakes, algorithm radicalisation and youth misogyny, along with what children are being exposed to online and what teachers are seeing in classrooms.

That’s a lot to discuss in 90 minutes!

But we did and it became obvious that;

- This isn’t a set of separate issues, it’s a system. Big tech is monetising the manosphere.
- Behaviour is being normalised faster than policy can keep up with.
- Women and girls bear the cost in their health, their safety, their economic security and their leadership.

The word that came up more than once was exhaustion but underneath it a sense of urgency and a very clear appetite to do something about it.

Certain areas highlighted a need for action
→ Schools and the implementation of consistent policies through principals
→ Law reform, particularly around AI-generated image abuse and nudify apps
→ Better information for parents, closing the gap between what exists and what people actually need

What would you add?

To everyone in that room, thank you. To Sarah Davies AM who wasn’t in the room, thank you for supporting me to pull all this together, I could not have done this without you.

Tuesday was a beginning, not an end.

23/10/2026

325 days.

That’s how long it took Jo Tarnawsky to reach a resolution to her workplace dispute and be able to go back into her own office at Parliament House and collect her things.

She was the most senior female chief of staff on the Hill. She raised a workplace concern privately with her boss, the Deputy Prime Minister, a man she’d known for over a decade.
She was put on leave. When she tried to return, she was told she couldn’t.

She stayed silent for five months.

What struck me in this conversation, aside from the fact that Jo is a remarkable woman, was something I’d never considered before.

Silence inside an organisation is data.

It tells you how safe that place actually is. You can usually read it off one question: what happened to the last person who spoke up and were they still there six months later?

Most of us know the answer about our own workplace without having to look it up.

The part that resonated with me the most though, was this. We spend an enormous amount of energy asking women to be braver. Jo thinks that’s the wrong question.

The better one: What are the rest of us doing to make it less brave a thing to do?

Because if speaking up requires that much courage, the courage isn’t the thing that’s broken. I think that speaks to every aspect of our society at the moment, whether you are a woman in leadership, a guy seeing harassment and stepping in or identifying the absence of women in a room.

This episode is full of knowledge from a remarkable woman, Iet me know what resonated with you in the comments below.

New episode 'The Real Cost of Speaking Up - with Jo Tarnawsky is out now, link below.

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-midlife-power-shift/id1896813802?i=1000797677375

Angela Henderson

22/10/2026

A few years ago I was driving in the direction of progress.

Gender equality was the destination, Waze had the route, estimated arrival well within my lifetime.

Then it rerouted. Congestion ahead. Then the traffic stopped moving altogether. Then there was a collision and now I’m sitting in a stalled car turning the key over and over, wondering whether this thing is going to start at all. If you're Gen X you wil be screaming at me right now, that I'm going to flood my engine...I hear you.

That’s roughly where we are.

In July, UN Women surveyed 855 women’s organisations across 52 countries, the ones running the shelters, the legal aid, the maternal health outreach.

- Two in five expect to close within the year.
- Eight in ten are watching girls drop back out of school.
- One in five have suspended their work on women’s leadership specifically,

because when the money tightens somebody sorts the list into essential and optional. Guess which column we landed in?

That same month, here, Chief Executive Women (CEW) found women’s share of ASX 200 executive teams had fallen for the first time in ten years.

Different hemispheres. Same decision.

‘How Much Longer?’ is the theme for International Women’s Day 2027.

I’ve written about why it’s exactly the right question.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-much-longer-andrea-ryan-ttasc

UN Women Australia

15/10/2026

500 Downloads!

Very grateful for the love and glad it's resonating with women on the journey into their second chapter, aka Midlife!

Where we step into our power, let go of the things that no longer serve us and embrace the life we have wanted all along.

The next episode drops tomorrow, it's the last in a four part series discussing the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Number 5, which is...you guessed it, Gender Equality and how bloody far away we are from achieving it.

Take a listen on your way to work 🎧

Buzzsprout

12/10/2026

UN Women has announced the official theme for International Women’s Day 2027.

How Much Longer?

Notice who that question is aimed at.
Not at women. Not our confidence, our visibility, or our willingness to lean into anything.

At governments. At institutions. At the people who’ve had the power to change this and haven’t.

Four years out from the 2030 deadline, not a single target under the gender equality goal is on track.

At the current rate, it takes 171 years.

How much longer, indeed.

New episode — link in bio.