Can you believe The Shift is over a year old? How did that happen? As some of you know, I’ve decided to celebrate that milestone by making the move to Substack where, I hope, we can really make this community grow. If you’re already here and signed up - thank you! I can’t tell you how grateful I am for your support. If you’ve just somehow landed here by accident, well, I hope you’ll soon feel you’ve come to the right place.
Anyway, I thought I’d start by telling you a bit about how The Shift came to be.
After many years editing women's magazines (Cosmo, Red, Company, Just Seventeen (RIP)), I sat back and looked around one day, and thought "WTF?!" I mean, seriously. Where had all the older women gone? And by older, I don't mean "older", I just mean not 25. Or 30. You could count the number of us getting airtime o…