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Smart Women
aging gracefully.

A community for women who are done doing the dog and pony act just to feel good enough.

What It Means

Grace does not mean elegant. It does not mean composed. It does not mean quiet.

Grace means unmerited favor.

What if you no longer had to perform your worthiness? What if you just assumed it?

The S is optional. Smart, sexy, sophisticated, sassy, a total smartass. You choose. The grace is not optional, because grace is what happens when you stop needing approval to feel enough.

Aging is not the enemy. Hiding is.

Hands holding a cup of tea at a café table
Woman with silver hair at a flower market carrying colourful tulips

Who It Is For

SWAG is for women who are somewhere in the middle. Past the years of proving themselves, not quite sure what comes next, and ready to stop pretending that everything is fine.

Women who know there is more. Women who have been carrying a version of themselves that no longer fits. Women who want to be in the company of other women who are honest about that.

This is that company.

What Happens in the Group

A real conversation. Not a content feed. Not a course.

Women teaching and learning from each other. Giving and taking in the way that women do when they are not performing. Getting honest faster than they expected. Leaving with something they did not know they were missing.

Cathy holds the space. The women do the work.

Photography: Franco Dupuy

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Come and find us.

SWAG lives on Facebook.

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Letters from Cathy. Occasional reflections, an invitation to the next gathering. Not a newsletter. Not a content calendar. Just what she is thinking about, when she has something worth saying.

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Cathy sends occasional letters. Not a newsletter. Not a content calendar. Just what she is thinking about, what she is reading, what she keeps coming back to.