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The Noon Purpose & Power Retreat, May 2024

You’re invited!

Our big annual retreat at Broughton Sanctuary is back. It’s an opportunity for personal transformation and professional growth (it qualifies as professional development for tax or business purposes). Join us and start the next phase of your life now!

24 – 28 May 2024

Where: Broughton Sanctuary, Yorkshire, one of the 30 “Cool List” places to go in 2024

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Event: What Queenagers need to know about AI

Join our lively, interesting and easy-to -understand discussion on what you need to know about AI

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“I was made redundant in my 50s”

After a 30-year-career in publishing, one Queenager describes how it feels being the victim of mid-life redundancy.

Becoming a mid-life apprentice

There are all sorts of ways you can make a change to your career in mid-life, becoming an apprentice is something that not many Queenagers realise is one of them. Diane Kenwood investigates what apprenticeships involve and how they work at Amazon UK. 

Learning to swim in your fifties

In spite of being a former personal trainer and now a Women’s Health Coach, Thelma Mensah had never been able to swim. A conversation with Noon founder, Eleanor Mills, and the chance to take part in one of the Noon retreats proved to be the incentive she needed to finally take the plunge and learn. 

Join us: Inside the Noon Retreat 2024

Discover the women’s wellness retreat like no other … and transform your life!

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“People don’t realise how much of what happens with your hormones affects your mouth and your teeth.”

It turns out the menopause can play havoc with your teeth on top of everything else. Oh joy. But help is at hand, in the shape of Dr Uchenna Okoye, who is making it her mission to change the way we manage caring for our teeth. As Chrissy Iley discovered. 

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A benefit of being a part of the Noon community is having access to our amazing experts. Ask them your question!

Burning the Wrong Witch

Television is a shockingly perilous place for most female journalists, whatever their age and experience, as Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, who was on the Question Time panel when host Fiona Bruce came under fire, reveals. 

Get the menopause care you need

Because we know how difficult it can be to manage your menopause symptoms and get the right treatment for them, Noon has partnered with menopause relief app Stella and is offering a special discount for their personalised care and support services.

How to Have Sex Again With Someone New 

Having new sex in mid-life, for whatever reason, can be quite the challenge. But it can also be life-affirmingly wonderful. Sex and love expert, Annabelle Knight, guides you through the pitfalls and the potentials of start-again-sex.

How to make a successful mid-life career transition

Pivoting your career in mid-life can seem like a daunting prospect, but as career transition coach Hazel Martin explains, it doesn’t need to be. She shares her top career change tips.

Connect with Noon Circles

“I feel I’ve found my tribe”

“It’s wonderful to know I’m not alone in what I’m experiencing and feeling”

“It’s fantastic to meet so many amazing women who immediately feel like friends”

Each month a group of Queenagers gather in person or online for Noon Circles to share their experiences, views and thoughts about the issues and challenges they’re facing as they navigate mid-life.

Each Circle has a theme – although discussion can be wide-ranging – and sometimes they kick off a special guest speaker. Whatever the topic, and whoever is in the group, you can be sure that the conversation will be honest, supportive, encouraging, understanding and enlightening.

Noon Circles are only available to our Queenager newsletter subscribers, so sign up HERE to become one. We’ll see you at a Noon Circle soon!

Great Queenagers in Conversation

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“I love being a Queenager”

Laura Kuenssberg talks to Eleanor Mills about Brexit chaos, how the country was on the verge of a revolution, why she never wanted to be famous, and how she feels about being a mid-life woman

Why Jo Whiley is seeing midlife through a whole new lens

Jo and Eleanor were joined by an array of inspiring speakers and guests at a special Queenager event hosted by Noon and Vision Express

Minnie Driver talks midlife power, Hollywood & Managing Expectations

The Brit and Hollywood A-lister has published a memoir as a collection of essays. Here she talks midlife with Eleanor.

World Exclusive: Sheryl Sandberg talks to Eleanor Mills about leaving Facebook

‘I’m proud to be a Queenager’ Sheryl tells Eleanor as she moves into her own new chapter in midlife.

Why we’re all talking about menopause

Menopause has gone from a topic talked about in hushed tones to a full-on campaign

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