With a magnetic personality, unwavering confidence, and a passion for life, today’s featured Fierce After Forty Alumni, Denise, age 50, learned to embrace her individuality and redefine what it means to live authentically.  We asked Denise a few quick response questions about her life, what it means to be a woman over forty, and about […]

Meet Fierce After Forty Spark Alumni, Robin! Her story is one of overcoming adversity with the support of an intimate and powerful community of friends. They helped her step into her power and create a life full of love, friendship, and exploration. Through photography, this strong, resilient mother of twins began to see her outward […]

Fierce After Forty Alumni, Kerri, age 44, epitomizes the word love.  In all that she does, she leans into love over fear and teaches others to do the same. Having overcome tremendous hardships in life, she is not only surviving but thriving and living a life of her own creation rooted in her deep knowledge and […]

Social media, self-help books, commercials, and ads constantly tell us what we “should” be doing with our lives. Everything from how to brush our teeth, win the perfect job, exercise, or improve our mental health, has an expert (or more) telling us what we should be doing and sometimes with conflicting advice!  As helpful as […]

When we first launched our Fierce After Forty Project in 2023, we envisioned a culminating event for the Fierce After Forty Project – a gallery show to showcase the incredible women who participated. But after applying to several galleries, we had an epiphany inspired by YOU, our fierce community. “Why wait for someone else’s approval?” […]

There’s something truly remarkable about meeting a woman who embodies grace, strength, and resilience all at once. This is more than apt for our Fierce After Forty Project’s oldest participant. Self-described as patient, kind, and blessed, Spark Alumni Judy offers a perspective created by a life richly lived. In this interview, Judy shares with us […]

Show Your Spark’s Fierce After Forty Project celebrates the beauty, strength, and wisdom of women over the age of forty.   Why celebrate women over the age of forty?  We’ll tell you why! Reaching the age of forty comes with a wide variety of experiences full of challenges and victories that create plenty of personal insights. […]

Have you ever thought it’s too late to start over? As you read this post about one of Show Your Spark’s recent clients, you will discover an example of how to find fierceness after forty. Many women in midlife find themselves at a crossroads – a journey of self-discovery fueled by failed narratives that no […]

Have you learned to prioritize self-care?   Today’s Show Your Spark Fierce After Forty participant has! But it hasn’t always been easy.   Learning to prioritize self-care has been a predominant message we’ve heard from our Fierce After Forty Participants. For many of these women, they spent their youth and 20s and 30s placating and serving others, […]

Spark Alumni Dawn isn’t just a participant in our Fierce After Forty Project – she’s the embodiment of it. Pushing herself out of her comfort zone to be vulnerable in the Show Yoru Spark Studio, she sat down with us to discuss what it means to be a woman over 40 and the wisdom she […]