Third Curve Remix
The Whole Story About Midlife for Professional Women And Why It Matters
A Narrative Nonfiction Book by:
Donna Coxon-McCory & Karen Marginot
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Nobody told us that at 48 or 52 or 57, everything would shift at once. The career. The body. The children. The parents. The marriage. The face in the mirror. Nobody told us all of this would happen simultaneously.
Third Curve Remix is the map we were never given. Told through the stories of 10 women across the United States, South Africa, and the United Kingdom and the authors’ own journeys, it is the book that holds all of it together: career disruption, hormonal upheaval, relationship renegotiation, grief, liberation, and the fierce reckoning with the question: What do I actually want?
Third Curve Remix is the map we were never given. Told through the stories of 10 women across the United States, South Africa, and the United Kingdom and the authors’ own journeys, it is the book that holds all of it together: career disruption, hormonal upheaval, relationship renegotiation, grief, liberation, and the fierce reckoning with the question: What do I actually want?
WHY THIS BOOK, WHY NOW
GenX women are the largest book-buying demographic in the U.S. The menopause publishing surge is proven; Dr. Mary Claire Haver’s The New Menopause sold over one million copies. But no book tells the full human stories of what it actually feels like to be a professional woman between 40 and 60 navigating all of these forces at once. Readers find the integration and inspiration they need to thrive. This book fills that gap.
GenX women are the largest book-buying demographic in the U.S. The menopause publishing surge is proven; Dr. Mary Claire Haver’s The New Menopause sold over one million copies. But no book tells the full human stories of what it actually feels like to be a professional woman between 40 and 60 navigating all of these forces at once. Readers find the integration and inspiration they need to thrive. This book fills that gap.
THE FOUR CURVES
They connect to complete our woman-centric Circle of Life:
The First Curve: Becoming. Childhood, education, identity formation.
The Second Curve: Building. Career, family, ambition, responsibility.
The Third Curve: The shift. When everything you built starts to move and you have to decide who you are without the scaffolding.
The Fourth Curve: Flourishing. Your responsibility at retirement is to yourself so you can focus on health span, well-being, and having new adventures.
THE WOMEN
10 professional women interviewed across three countries, from a VP of Engineering pushed out after 20 years who rebuilt as a speaker and author, to a tech strategist in Cape Town who ran screaming from civil service during perimenopause and found herself making ceramics, to a retail SVP who spent five years methodically preparing her exit before anyone knew she was leaving, to an Army officer turned defense consultant pivoting toward women’s health. Their stories are not advice. They are mirrors.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Donna Coxon-McCory
is the founder of The Wiser Me, a women’s midlife health and wellness platform, building community and education with a salon speaker series and curated resources. 30+ years providing program and operations leadership for creative and engineering teams, she now consults for companies in women’s health.
Contact: thewisermeorg@gmail.com
Karen Marginot
is the founder of Clarity Under Pressure and author of The Bad Girls Club: Promises of a Spirituality-Based Recovery (Koehler Books). 30+ year career spanning government contracting, advertising, publishing, non-profits, and leadership.
Contact: karen@karenmarginot.com
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