Women Over 40: Your Next Chapter Starts in Community
The next chapter is better with company
Forty, fifty, sixty, and beyond are not winding down years. They are becoming years. You know yourself better than you ever have. You have survived things, built things, raised people, buried dreams, and grown new ones. And yet the world does not always make room for a woman in this season. Friendships thin out as lives scatter. Roles shift. Starting something new can feel like it belongs to younger women.
It does not. The Women Before Me was built intergenerational on purpose. In the app, women in their forties, fifties, sixties, and beyond gather alongside younger women, and everyone is richer for it. Your experience is not behind you here. It is treasure the whole community learns from.
Through MentorMatch, you can guide a younger woman through a season you have already survived, or find guidance for a change you are facing yourself. Weekly events and voice journals keep connection woven into ordinary life, and the Healing Corner is there for the seasons that carry grief alongside the growth.
How it works
Step one: download the free app and create your account.
Step two: join the conversation. Share a voice journal, come to a weekly event, let the community get to know you.
Step three: take your place. Mentor, learn, encourage, and be encouraged, in a circle that spans generations.
Your next chapter starts here
Download The Women Before Me free: iPhone or Android. You can also visit us at app.thewomenbeforeme.org.
See it inside the app
Questions women ask us
Is this community only for younger women?
Quite the opposite. Women over 40 are the backbone of this circle, as mentors, as members, and as the women before the rest of us.
What do women talk about here?
Everything this season holds: grown children, aging parents, second careers, new love, old grief, and starting again.
We Are The Women Before Me
15% of Every Profit. 100% of Our Heart.
When you shop with us, you fund a future. 15% of every profit goes directly into a pooled charity fund supporting women and girls globally — including CAMFED and WE LEAP. Every purchase is an investment in generational change.
Our Mission
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Love Missions Global
Love Missions is dedicated to the abolishment of modern-day slavery through community awareness and education. Domestically they travel to some of the most impoverished areas of the United States to care for those in need. Globally they travel to remote areas to restore, educate and build safe houses.
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CAMFED
CAMFED supports some of the most excluded girls in Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe to go to school, learn, thrive and lead change for their families and communities.
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Jamaicans for Justice
JFJ serves hundreds of Jamaicans each year by providing legal services in response to human rights violations, working on legislation and policy, campaigning for social justice causes, and conducting high-impact research that shape the national human rights agenda.
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WE LEAP
WE LEAP is an educational violence prevention & awareness organization raising awareness to end violence before it begins.
