As I began working more deeply with midlife women, I realized something powerful about strength and reinvention.
For most of my life, winning meant crossing a finish line. It meant early mornings, long training blocks, podium photos, and hearing my name called at Ironman races. For years, that version of “strength” served me: as an athlete, a coach, and a woman who knew how to push herself.
But somewhere along the way, something shifted.
Not suddenly. Quietly.
A whisper before it became a truth I couldn’t ignore.
I didn’t fall out of love with triathlon. I simply outgrew the version of myself who needed to prove her strength through performance.
And that realization is exactly what led me to the work I do today with midlife women and their own version of their Ironman Triathlon.
When I retired from Ironman racing after 15 Ironmans and a dream finish in Kona, I expected to feel lost. Instead, I felt clarity.
True strength has nothing to do with medals or PRs.
Strength is found when you choose yourself.
When you slow down.
When you reinvent your life.
When you listen to the truth your body has been whispering for years.
This became the foundation of my next chapter and the reason I shifted my entire career toward helping midlife women reclaim their power.
Women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond aren’t “losing themselves.”
They’re simply buried under years of caregiving, performing, working, hustling, pleasing, and surviving.
They don’t need a bootcamp.
They need a reset.
When I began supporting women through movement, mindset, metabolism, and meaning, everything clicked. I wasn’t just coaching workouts, I was guiding women back home to themselves.
Women started to tell me:
“I feel strong again.”
“My energy is finally back.”
“I’m not rushing through my life anymore.”
“I’m becoming me again.”
This is what midlife transformation really looks like — not chaos, but clarity.
Strength in midlife looks different than strength in your 20s or 30s.
It looks like:
Leaving a relationship that isn’t aligned
Changing careers or building a new one
Healing from burnout
Navigating menopause
Rebuilding your metabolism and energy
Setting boundaries for the first time
Learning to trust yourself again
This is the work I was always meant to do.
My years as an Ironman athlete prepared me for it — the discipline, the resilience, the mindset. But stepping off the podium allowed me to create space for my purpose.
Today, I help women become strong in every layer of their lives: physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and energetically.
And that strength lasts longer than any medal ever could.
I didn’t step back because my career was ending.
I stepped back because a new chapter was beginning.
Helping women step into their own strength — through midlife, through reinvention, through menopause, through transformation — has become the most meaningful work of my life.
I didn’t give up the podium.
I traded it for purpose.
And there is nothing more powerful than watching a woman rise into who she was always meant to be.
If you’re craving clarity, energy, and confidence in this season of life, this is exactly what I help women do inside my Rise Strong coaching programs.
My work is dedicated to helping midlife women rise strong, rebuild their strength, and step into a life that fully aligns with who they are today.
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