After a lengthy global consulting career in developing and executing strategy, team building, and facilitating executive teams Yvonne decided to spend more time at home rather than travel from one client to another. As 2020 dawned, she thought she would take a few months to decompress, consider her options, and somehow spend more time focussing on serving women. That was the extent of her plan.

The universe had different ideas for Yvonne. Just as the world was becoming aware of the Covid Pandemic, she considered shifting to some type of online business. As she explored that opportunity, she was diagnosed with malignant melanoma in her upper right thigh. Suddenly, her life shifted. The cancer was, thankfully, completely removed during surgery. The surgery resulted in a seven inch ‘river scar’ as she fondly calls it. During her recovery consisting of sitting absolutely still for 3 weeks, she realized she held a deep passion for helping women. She determined her key focus would be finding a way to work with midlife women.

In the next year Yvonne travelled for immunotherapy treatment to a cancer center 3 hours away from her home. She read avidly. She connected with women she’d worked with throughout the world. She took copious notes. She decided to write a book and build an online community of mid-life women who support each other, uplift each other, and hold each other as they move through their own mid-life journey.

Yvonne wants to begin a movement for mid-life women to find their relevance and help them know they continue to have runway in their life – beyond mid-life. The book you’re holding in your hand forms the basis of the YOU Are Relevant movement.