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“Harmonizing the Music of Our Spheres”
Regina is a wife, entrepreneur and, in her mid-50s, a mother. In her business she works with other “mompreneurs”, coaching them to free themselves of the “work/life balance” myth. She creates a new perspective for herself and her clients. A model of life where the many roles we are all called to play are not seen as “boxes” that we place ourselves in, but lines of music – melodies and solos – that we harmonize into the symphony of our identity and existence.
Having experienced full menopause in her 40s, she speaks quite candidly about how closely fertility and motherhood define “womanhood” in our society, how as an adopted child she had no connection with her biological history, marriage to a younger man who wasn’t attached to parenthood and how her mother’s deathbed request was transformed from an impossible dream to a journey full of heartbreak and denial and, finally, fulfillment and unimaginable joy.
This conversation is so deep, we may have to schedule a second conversation to explore some of the topics we barely skimmed the surface of…