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Are you feeling like you’ve lost your spark lately? You’re always a bit sluggish, despite getting plenty of rest. You’re gaining weight that you can’t seem t...

From the outside, my business looked like a huge success. I was making the big bucks, selling out courses, writing books and travelling the world as a well-p...

https://youtu.be/lYKcW0MmChI Sandy Lowres, Founder of WB40 magazine (Women Beyond 40) and The Good Girl Confessional podcast is a woman who has found her gro...

We are going to continue to recognize and acknowledge birth trauma awareness week. Even though it's a designated one week out of the year, we feel that it's ...

This week I introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Menopause; I wasn’t happy with the result. AI art yielded the same negative stereotype I discovered wi...

I'm Sandy Lowres, the host of The Good Girl Confessional Podcast and I am so excited to bring you the 100th Episode today with our special guest Kayte Murphy...

https://omny.fm/shows/map-it-marketing/marketing-to-40-year-old-women-with-sandy-lowres Episode Eighty Three Marketers used to ignore anyone over forty . And...

Today’s guest on the Not Just About Copy podcast is Sandy Lowres. Sandy is a pro-ageing advocate and the founder & Creative Director of the award-winning...

Sandy was a guest on the Don't give a Fifty Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ZtOANb44HIQiYKm7L5gzz?si=b76cd71faea644eb

In the current issue of the Women who Podcast Mag - the Podcast, 'Alex the Seal' is featured with our founder Sandy, check it out below. https://issuu.com/wo...

It would be nigh impossible to not know that singer/songwriter Kate Bush is back in the charts, thanks to the 80s-themed Netflix mega-series ‘Stranger Things...

https://hercanberra.com.au/life/kate-bush-still-running-up-that-hill/

Rochelle Courtenay is the Founder & Managing Director of Australian Charity Share the Dignity. This is her story. I am passionate about being a voice for...

Jenn Donovan is passionate about helping small business owners be seen. She is the Founder of online community Buy From a Bush Business, and the host of the ...

Sandy Davies is an innovative Entrepreneur and the Founder of HappyPause Menopause Balm - This is her story In remote regional areas, it can take weeks to ge...

Stephanie Thompson is the founder of the Bravemumma community, Podcaster and Birth Trauma Advocate - this is her story . Just like my cancer diagnosis, my ex...

From Columbia to Melbourne - Liliana Bravo Quiroz is the Founder of The Casa Bonita Shop and Women’s Empowerment Hub - This is her story. Creating this busin...

Dr Lisa. is the the founder of Candor. She is a registered General Practitioner and a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. She ho...

Fiona Holmstrom, the Founder of Stem Punks, is passionate about STEM for girls - Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths - This is her story When I was 8 ...
Healer of a devastated coastal community That commitment grew over time and as the ability to recruit GPs to rural Australia has became more and more difficu...

Ashton Applewhite, the celebrated NY based author and the self-described “pro-aging radical” has defined ageism as something that “occurs when a dominant gro...

i am gone here but not there but not in out out in floating, gone again i am dissociation i am pelt of shame a foreign heart i am come apart i am And then hi...

At 93, Emily Milligan (Silbery) is a beacon for women in midlife and beyond. Proving age is not a barrier, Emily is a star of the Reality TV show Gogglebox, ...

Jules Brooke is an Entrepreneur, Public Relations Guru and Founder of Handle Your Own PR, and She's The Boss. She is passionate about women being seen in the...

Michelle Roger is an older Disabled Model, Advocate & Fashionaista - This is her story I want to see people like myself, over 40 and Disabled in fashion ...

Welcome to the debut edition of Wb40 In Business Magazine, the sister magazine to Wb40 – Women Beyond Forty. We would love you to join us in congratulating t...

My Nan used to roll out the saying ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ when I would ask her to do something new with me or help me with my homework. As a...

“ Not only did I butt-in but proceeded to wave my hands about with the pageantry of a peacock train-rattling his plumage.”

“I console myself with the knowledge that turtles can breathe out of their butts, wisdom imparted from the trivia printed on the strip of an overnight maxi-p...

Jane Caro AM is a Walkley Award winning Australian columnist, author, novelist, broadcaster, documentary maker, feminist and social commentator. She spent 35...

My Nan used to roll out the saying ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ when I would ask her to do something new with me or help me with my homework. As a...

Your youngest child has left to begin their independent life, you close the door behind them & turn around to an empty home of deafening silence. Now wha...

Vanessa (she/they) is a sexologist, yoga teacher, speaker, community facilitator and pleasure activist of Armenian and Anglo-Australian descent living, lovin...

Alex The Seal is the new Podcast co-hosted by Jo Pybus (Columnist and Late Onset Feminist) and Sandy Lowres (Creative Director of Award-winning platform Wb40...

Sandy joined Tracey on her Podcast. You can find it here. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/mind-the-good-girl-confesses-sandy-lowres/id1553709670?i=1000...

After partnering with Jeep, United Colors of Benetton, and Sesame Street, she built a global manufacturing company in her twenties. Collaborating locally to ...

She is a woman who has lived two lives in one lifetime. The first part was a life of childhood abuse and trauma which grew into the full-blown disease of alc...

After worlds collided in their mid-30s, Lise and Sarah became a duo with a difference and blasted onto the Australian media scene in 2017. Their genuine frie...

The Byron Bay region of Australia is picturesque and has long been synonymous with alternative lifestyles, down to earth people, and more recently a string o...

This is the first Post for WB40 for Business.

Mia Northrop is a trained coach, cohost of the Life Admin Life Hacks podcast and coauthor of the book Life Admin Hacks . After a diverse and dynamic ca...

Melissa Griffiths is a transgender authority and advocate who lives in Melbourne. She is a diversity and inclusion consultant who has managed to get a gender...

They are Gillian and Carolyn, and started this blog seven (!) years ago as a way to encourage women to take time out for themselves, and to be a part of a su...

With a gypsy as a mother, Annette sought refuge in stories. By the time she was 17 she’d lived in 96 houses. The books in the library became her best f...

With over 15 years experience to her name, Shannah Kennedy is one of Australia’s foremost strategic life coaches. Her proven expertise enables clients to gai...

Susie O'Brien is a columnist and journalist, writing on family, social, political and lifestyle issues. She also writes about parenting, or 'sharenting' as i...

Jane Vandermeer is a highly intuitive, gentle & innovative thought leader . She has always had a love of high-end fashion …..you could say that it is her...

We're searching for the top 10 amazing women we should all be following in 2022. Could this be you?! Do you know an amazing woman aged 40, 50, 60 or bey...

Sally Hepworth is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, most recently The Younger Wife (October 2021 Australia / April 2022 U.S. U.K).  ...

So, this week I'm more than a little chuffed to bring you an interview with Sandy Lowes who has launched a magazine, digital and print, called WB40 – Women B...

So when it comes to deciding to make the birthday cake, it can feel like there are only two choices. One, have a go myself, fail, let my child down and look ...

Australian indie folk artist Eliza Hull is known for her stirring lyrics and haunting vocals and it’s not hard to understand why she has a huge loyal followi...

I was 35 when I bought my first vibrator and I wish that I had had one from a much younger age! If you have never used or owned a pleasure device and you are...

An award-winning CEO, Colleen Callander has wealth of knowledge and a proven track record in building brands, establishing winning cultures and creating envi...

Since being discovered performing stand-up in a dingy Collingwood pub sometime in the early 2000’s, the warm and vibrant Jo Stanley has risen to become a hou...

Ever since she can remember she's been able to see music as colours when listening to music or composing a song. She has since learned that this condition is...

Today in the Confessional, Sandy chats with Jenn Donovan a marketing thought leader, change maker, Social entrepreneur and coach and mentor for small busines...

Jenn Donovan, marketing thought leader, change maker, coach and mentor for small businesses, keynote speaker and podcaster ( Small Business Made Simple - 148...

Isn’t it time men held the space? If my 6 year old daughter can do it, dudes can too I’ve been told many times I’m great at holding the space. It’s an evocat...

For over a decade, Donna advised people on presentation and style, for both their personal and professional needs. Donna worked in creative, community and co...

Jo is a Columnist for Her Canberra. who shares observations from her life in the middle-ages through another late onset pursuit; writing. Having been a late ...

Meet Sandy Lowres, Founder and Creative Director of the independent platform WB40 - Women Beyond Forty, a digital + print magazine and host of The Good Girl ...

Libby Moore is a Certified Life Coach, speaker/story teller, adventurer, and creative connector, who loves inspiring people to reconnect to Possibility in th...

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Looking back now, I feel again that sense of foreboding in late December when ash from far away fires started to sprinkle down on me, my family, neighbours a...

Forging a business with passion When Western Australian Kerry Ridley suddenly found herself on the end of a work place redundancy from her admin role, she wa...

Sheree Rubinstein has a burning passion to bring women together to network and raise each other up. A former corporate lawyer turned entrepreneur, she is the...

Sandy, the creator of HappyPause. Bringing HappyPause Menopause Balm to you brings Sandy immense joy. HappyPause is not about making menopause di...

Susan Jarvis is a positive sex and body positivity advocate and is the owner of The Spicy Boudoir, an online sexual health and wellness store to celebrate th...

Episode Description 'Women Beyond Forty is more than a magazine, more than a Podcast, more than a website. It is a philosophy that all women beyond for...

How does one write about sisterhood when referring to the masculine and male-dominated world of construction, mining, building, and the associated industries...

Sue is the Founder at Me Time. Just For Me. She started Me Time after years (too many to count!) of working 60+ hours a week in the corporate world. She was ...

Donna Stolzenberg has just been awarded the honor of Victorian Australian of the Year 2021, and with good reason. She hasn’t had a single day off in 20...

Cathy Frank is an Australian, Coogee-based artist who works in digital and analogue media. Using surrealist techniques, colour and contrast, she ...

Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, is a long way from the country town of Ivanhoe, NSW, where Gayle Kennedy was born, and the country town of Hay where she w...

Throughout the music industry, Tana Douglas is acknowledged as rock’n’roll’s first female roadie. Her journey started in 1973 in Australia within a year she ...

Sam White is the multi-award winning CEO of Freedom Services, a UK based group of companies including Action 365, Pukka Insure and Freedom Brokers, and Stell...

Sarah Rusbatch is a certified Health and Wellness Coach, accredited ‘Grey Area Drinking’ coach, host of two thriving online communities for women in sobriety...

https://youtu.be/lYKcW0MmChI Sandy Lowres, Founder of WB40 magazine (Women Beyond 40) and The Good Girl Confessional podcast is a woman who has found her gro...

I grew up reading everything I could lay my hands on. I loved Jo March writing stories and Nancy Blackett captaining her sailing ship. I loved Frodo as much ...

I’m a city girl. It’s in the city, most any city, where I’m me. Some people love to be in nature and crave time at the beach or bushwalking, the country life...

Image Credit Pexels | Kat Jayne Trigger Warning* - Child online sexual abuse, trauma It was just after dinner about a year ago and the family was star...

Kathy Barron is the host and producer of the successful California-based podcast Women Who Sarcast, and as the Editor-in-Chief of Women Who Podcast Magazine,...

2020 was the mother of all years. It’s fair to say that as the global pandemic extends into 2021 it has shaken so many of us, as we've stayed away from frien...

Tracey Spicer AM BBus(Comm) MAICD is a multiple Walkley Award winning author, journalist and broadcaster. During her 30 year career, she has anchored nationa...

Sandy is now a cover girl... 👧 very humbled 😀 If you are a podcaster or just love listening to women who podcast head on over to.. https://www.womenwhopodc...

Sandy talks about the importance of believing in yourself, supporting other women, overcoming a great storm of difficulties and how it feels as life finally ...

“When I explained that the abuse he suffered was not his fault and why, I did not need to tell him twice,” Leceta explains, “His eyes became bright! The heal...

The next time you lament the private summers brought about by changing hormones, spare a thought for Mother Earth. Instead of hormones, greenhouse gases (or ...

Catherine Moran has a PhD in conservation ecology and has a passion for facilitating the development and use of knowledge to manage resilient landscapes and ...


Simonne Michelle is a Melbourne-based writer, philanthropy professional, and feminist. She has just started using Medium as a way of jotting down some of her...

I heard a journalist ask 26-year-old, Australian of the Year, Grace Tame recently - “how do we sidestep shame?”. They were talking about the shame of childho...

inchargebox is the world's first lockable tech charging station here to help you: Create healthy screen time boundaries and keep devices out of the bedrooms ...

Jules started her career working on the Herald Sun, Sunday Observer and then the Southern Cross group of local papers, firstly as a Sales Trainer and later a...

Artists are often called on to provide support for fundraisers and to build community spirit. But in 2020, the impacts of COVID-19 put the arts sector in cri...

Catherine McKenna is the author of Ina’s Story: The Memoir of a Torres Strait Islander Woman, and My Island Homicide. She is an Accredited Exercise Sci...

Marcy Neumann, Rev., RN, CHT, RMT, known as The HeartShift Coach, is an Intuitive Transformational Life Coach, Spiritualist Minister and Counselor, Certified...

When Natalie Walker was in her early twenties and not long married, it was revealed that her husband had been accessing images of child sexual abuse on his c...

I’ve written a great deal about dating over years, since hitting the scene shortly after my divorce. I’ve offered all sorts of advice to middle aged singles,...

With each article that I write about Self Love I find myself getting more and more radical in my beliefs and convictions about it being the quintessential re...

The Byron Bay region of Australia is picturesque and has long been synonymous with alternative lifestyles, down to earth people, and more recently a string o...

Podcast description: Follow this woman. She's great. Sandy Lowres is the Founder and Creative Director of the independent platform WB40 - Women Beyond Forty,...


Text from the KT Talk show. Sandy is a writer, creative and podcaster based in Melbourne’s west. She is the proud mother of her three adult children. She has...

The Made Label vision is to inspire a movement of creators and style-makers to sew the wardrobe of their dreams and create a fashion label that allows you to...

Sandy Lowres, founder of Good Girl Media, host of the Good Girl Confessional podcast, and founder and creative director of the Women Beyond Forty platform an...

Ginger Gorman is a fearless and multi award-winning social justice journalist. In the course of her 16-year media career she’s watched bodies burn at the cre...

In 2014, investigators Kristy, Michelle, Jenny, and Cara decided to officially form the Soul Sisters Paranormal team. Investigator Kim, joined the team in 20...

Lisa Cox is an award-winning media professional, author and public speaker who is actively changing the way disability is represented in mainstream popular c...

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Callista Cooper is a journalist with experience in national, regional and remote newsrooms. She is a recent exercise science graduate who is passionate about...

After 20 years as an airline pilot in Australia, Naomi Radke realised that women deserve to start seeking what they desire, and moved into a sassy side hustl...


Belinda Murrell and Kate Forsyth are sisters. They are also writers. They both started writing when they were quite young and now between them have published...

Since 1999 Tara Moss has written 13 bestselling books , published in 19 countries and 13 languages. Her latest is the internationally bestselling histo...

The WB40- Woman Beyond Forty Launched this year and has been nominated for the Roar Awards in the category 'Wild Cat of the Year' . This is an amazing celebr...

Isiah McKimmie is a Couple's Therapist, Sex Therapist, Sexologist and Coach who has been helping women and couples discover deeper intimacy and desire for ov...

Adult Content Warning. What happens when a blogger from the suburbs of NSW starts dating a man who's into sex parties? This anonymous writer shares her no ho...

Female Hosted Podcasts are on the rise! Needing a bit of lady love and inspiration in your life? Here's 9 fantastic podcasts hosted by Women for your listeni...

Chloe Higgins writes about the things she’s afraid of: death, sex, love, and how she feels about her mother. The Girls, a memoir of family, grief and sexuali...

KAYTE MURPHY (AKA MRS WOOG) AUTHOR, STORYTELLER, BLOGGER, PODCASTER Mrs Woog started blogging in 2010, became Australian Blogging Royalty and went pro somewh...

Nikki Hind is a social entrepreneur and Australia's first legally blind fashion designer, with a background in PR, Communications and Event Management. Nikki...

Sarah Hennessey, Natural Health practitioner and Doctor of Chinese Medicine. With Nadine Marsh runs innovative workshops for women - Menomorphisis: Reclaimin...

Lisa Westgate is the Founder of Freedom Mindset Training and delivers speaking presentations and trainings in areas of mental health, preventative measures, ...

Stephanie Wood is an award-winning long-form features writer, known for her rare ability to tell substantial, compelling stories across a range of subjects. ...

The Lady Vanishes - a 7NEWS.com.au podcast series dedicated to finding out what happened to Marion Barter - the ex-wife of Socceroo great Johnny Warren. We'r...

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Dr Catherine Barrett is a doctor, educator and researcher who started #TheKindnessPandemic only 3 weeks ago and it has become a global movement with over 600...

Claire spent the first 36 years of her life in two different strict religious movements. Although both based on Catholicism, the latter group was a bit more ...

Sara's journey from midwest Christian mother to her gay son Parker, to creating an organisation that wraps its arms around the LGBTI+ community is inspiring ...

Many women of of a certain age, will be going through peri-menopause or menopause. Nadine Marsh, a Women's Health facilitator, facilitate innovative workshop...

Kerri Sackville is an Australian writer. She is currently a regular columnist for Sunday Life magazine, Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age . Over ...

Nicole Brownlee is an innovative leader in business who founded The Story Box Library in 2012 utilising her passion for children's literature and a backgroun...

Caroline Candusso is the Creative Director of studio Papel (Paper), Along with her son and business Partner, Agustin, who is 10 years old, create amazing obj...

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Erin Guest, a Melbourne based woman, shares her important story with us. This is a story of surviving the medical device called Essure. Although FDA approved...

Karen Andrews is an award winner writer, author, editor, speaker, poet, publisher and is one of Australia's most established and popular personal/parenting b...

Kimberly Holiday-Coleman is a model, author, burlesque performer and advocate. She is the epitome of thriving beyond surviving trauma and cancer. Kimberly un...

Amalia Chilianis is a Capability Expert, helping organisations, teams and individuals identify and build capability. As a leader in the HR and Organisational...

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e are always happy to accept submissions for WB40 – Women Beyond Forty . Articles are generally about topics that appeal to those that identify as fema...

Sandy is a writer, creative and podcaster based in Melbourne’s west. She is the proud mother of her three adult children. She has always been passionate abou...

Spinster & Tonic is an Aussie Blogger living abroad. She describes herself as one part Spinster, two parts Tonic. She Writes, swears too much, and fears ...

Carly Findlay is an award-winning writer, blogger, author, speaker and appearance activist based in Melbourne. Her first book, a memoir, is called Say Hello....

Shirley Maya Tan is a writer, blogger and mentor who is featured in Huffington Post UK, Elephant Journal and The B-Side. Shirley is a single mother living in...

Our Anonymous Blogger is based in NSW and writes for us about her new found sexuality.

Debra Cerasa is the CEO of Jobs Australia, but is also a celebrant, and a blogger. She is a leader who is passionate about helping other women achieve, as we...

Becky Paroz doesn't fit in, and she's not sorry. She has worked for nearly 30 years in the construction industry, taking names and making one for herself. Be...

Sandra Reynolds is an award winning blogger, writer cookbook author. Surviving hardship, she has created, written and shared over 1300 nutritious, low-cost a...

Sometimes we do not know how much a decision will impact us until it is done. This is the case for me, and my divorce. It has undoubtedly changed my life, an...

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Deep Kick Girl is a Sydney based blogger and writer. This funny chick describes herself as a divorced, working single mum and a half-arsed blogger. She has a...