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✨ WHAT’S COMING THIS WEEK AT GLOWINTO
October 12–18

Celebrating women-owned businesses, supporting our community, and understanding our health. Here’s what’s ahead:

✨ TUESDAY | Share Your Favorite Woman-Owned Business
It’s your turn to give a shout-out! Tell us which woman-owned business you love supporting and what keeps you coming back.

💜 WEDNESDAY | Giving Back
We’ll share how Dr. Gail Meese and Advantage Family Chiropractic raise money to support violence prevention in our community.

💜 THURSDAY | Violence Prevention Center
For Domestic Violence Awareness Month, we’re highlighting the Violence Prevention Center and the support available to people experiencing abuse.

🎙️ FRIDAY | Glow & Tell with Shannon Shores
“The Woman Everyone Counts On: What Happens When She Wants More?”

When everyone else is counting on you, are you still counting on yourself? Shannon and I talk about her transition into Bertie Mae Consulting full time, setting in life, finding your people and what she would tell her younger self.

✨ SATURDAY | Heather Samudovsky of Premier U
“Beyond the Hot Flash: What Menopause Does to Cholesterol”

Heather explores the connection between changing hormones, cholesterol, and heart health, including questions to bring to your healthcare provider.

✨ SUNDAY | World Menopause Day with Doreen Warfield of Studio Strong
“Chronic Pain During Menopause: Movement Is Medicine”

Doreen explores the connection between menopause, chronic pain, and movement.

And if you haven’t read Janine Lange’s story or listened to her story on GlowInto podcast, catch up on her story about writing, family connections, and a journey to Italy.

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✨ Celebrating National Women’s Small Business Month with Christine Boos and her daughter Alex of Ch*****ne and Lace Bridal in Collinsville, Illinois!

This mother-daughter team brings personal attention, creativity, and care to finding the dress for your big day. As the shop’s bridal consultant, Alex helps you explore the gowns and choose a dress that feels like you. Christine brings her talent as a seamstress to the alterations, carefully adjusting the fit and details so you can feel comfortable and confident walking down the aisle.

Together, they help brides navigate everything from that first try-on to the finishing touches, with the reassurance of having someone beside you who understands how much this moment matters.

Have a wedding coming up? Check out their beautiful dresses and get to know the women behind this local business. This October, we’re celebrating the skill and dedication women bring to small businesses in our communities.

Want to know more about how Christine became the owner and built this chapter alongside her daughter? Read “Christine Boos: The Shop She Built Her Life Into”

https://www.glowinto.com/interviews/christine-boos

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✨ NEW STORY: Janine Lange: An Author’s Voice and a Journey to Italy
Janine Marie Lange

Becoming a nurse at 46. Facing a brain tumor. Finding her voice as an author. Preparing to travel to Italy to explore her family’s roots. Janine Lange has a story with many chapters, each revealing something about the woman she is today.

In her GlowInto feature, we get to know Janine beyond those milestones. We explore her writing, the experiences that have shaped her, and the personal meaning behind a journey that connects her present life with her family’s past.

Her story invites us to consider our own unfinished chapters: the interest we still want to pursue, the history we want to understand, or the words we have yet to share.

Read the full article on GlowInto to view Janine’s photos, or listen to her story on the GlowInto podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. We’ll also reconnect for part two after her trip to hear what she discovered along the way. ✨
👉 https://www.glowinto.com/interviews/janine-lange-an-authors-voice-and-a-journey-to-italy

✨ Big ideas. A next chapter. A woman you want in your corner.

Please help me welcome Shannon Shores of Bertie Mae Consulting to GlowInto’s contributing writers community for "Inside the Workplace!"

Shannon brings experience as a business owner, executive leader, and social worker to a conversation so many of us are having: How do we turn what we want into something we can actually build?

She’ll share perspectives on leadership, business growth, finding clarity when everything feels like a priority, and having the confidence to take your next step. Whether you’re building a business, leading a team, or wondering what’s next in your career, Shannon brings an understanding of both the practical decisions and the human experiences behind them.

This introduction is especially meaningful to me because Shannon is also my coach. I’ve experienced her kindness, insight, and commitment to helping other women move forward. I’m excited for you to get to know her, too.

Start with “Big Ideas Need a Way Forward: Meet Shannon Shores of Bertie Mae Consulting.” Meet the woman behind the work, discover the two grandmothers who inspired her business name, and learn why helping others see their possibilities matters so much to her.
👉 https://www.glowinto.com/inside-the-midlife-workplace/big-ideas-need-a-way-forward-meet-shannon-shores-of-bertie-mae-consulting

Welcome to GlowInto, Shannon! ✨

✨ Behind every small business is a story of what it took to build it.

For National Women’s Small Business Month, we’re celebrating Doreen Warfield, one half of the dynamic duo behind Studio Strong in O’Fallon, Illinois.

Doreen’s journey into fitness began during a season of rebuilding,raising two young children, navigating divorce, and finding a way to care for herself. What started with a $5 gym membership grew into a career helping others discover their own strength.

Together with her business partner, Dave, she built Studio Strong around personal connection, accountability, and community. When the pandemic challenged their business, they adapted with virtual classes and outdoor workouts, continuing to show up for the people who trusted them.

Her reminder, “We do hard things,” applies to building a business just as much as building strength. 💪

Today, we celebrate a woman who turned her own experience into meaningful work and reminds women over 40 that there is still strength, adventure, and possibility ahead.

Read Doreen’s story on GlowInto: Doreen Warfield: Building Strength for the Life Still Ahead

✨ In her newest GlowInto Longevity article, Alison Tindall of Thriving Willow Whole Person Health asks: “Are You Resilient or Are You Just Used to Running on Empty?”

The work gets finished. Everyone gets what they need. But where do your own needs fit into the day?

She explores the exhaustion we begin treating as normal, the boundaries that protect our health, and small ways to make room for recovery—even when life feels full.

One question to sit with: What is draining you that you’ve been treating as normal?

You can be the woman who gets everything done and still be running on empty.

👉Read Alison’s newest article here:
https://www.glowinto.com/longevity/are-you-resilient-or-are-you-just-used-to-running-on-empty

✨ This National Women’s Small Business Month, we’re giving a shout-out to Rebecca Willmann, founder of WholeBody Physical Therapy in Troy, Illinois!

Rebecca started her business in a small rented room inside a gym, guided by a vision of giving patients more time and caring for the whole person. Today, that vision brings together physical therapy, running, yoga, and wellness.

One of my favorite parts of her story? Savings her entrepreneurial grandmother set aside for her helped Rebecca fund her own business. One woman’s legacy helped another woman build her dream. 💜

Let’s show this local woman-owned business some love!

Read “Rebecca Willmann: Building a Practice Around the Whole Person”:
https://www.glowinto.com/interviews/prukfq84fc30ssskurdd51i5zgifbr

✨ Does your wardrobe reflect the woman you are today?
KS Signature recently joined fellow women veterans through Sisters in Service – Greater St. Louis for an evening called “Style Beyond the Uniform.” Together, they explored color, fit, and the freedom to discover what feels like them after years of wearing a uniform.

In her newest article for GlowInto’s -Style That Evolves, she shares reflections from that evening that reach beyond military service. Whether you’re changing careers, retiring, or entering a new chapter, personal style can help you express who you are now.

Read “Style Beyond the Uniform” from KS Signature: https://www.glowinto.com/style-that-evolves/style-beyond-the-uniform

How do you want to show up today? ✨