Two friends, one honest conversation, and a community we built from scratch.

From the Middle of the Mess

We're Kathleen and Adrienne, longtime friends who have known each other since high school. Like so many women, we spent years building our lives around family, marriage, careers, friendships and all the responsibilities that come with them. Yet we arrived at this chapter from very different places. Kathleen was navigating grown children, unexpected career changes and a life that suddenly looked different, while Adrienne's life was still very full—a long marriage, children building lives of their own, lifelong friendships and a career she had spent decades building—but she was beginning to wonder what else she might want to do, learn or become. During one honest conversation, we realized that although our circumstances were different, we were both asking the same question: "What's next for me?" And when one of us said it out loud, the other answered, "Me too."