Vital Conversation Series 2025

One day of radical clarity, community, and real conversation about midlife health.

Live in Sandpoint | October 11, 2025
9:00am to 5:00pm
(Doors open at 8:30am)

This Is Not a Summit — It’s a Reckoning

Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s a reckoning. And you’re not imagining it—your body, your priorities, your tolerance for nonsense… all of it is changing.

The Vital Conversation Series is a one-day, in-person gathering for women who are done navigating this shift alone. We’re bringing together a crew of fierce, wise, sharp women—think nervous system practitioners, movement guides, authors, land stewards, systems thinkers, financial mentors, and grief-holders—to talk about what it really takes to reclaim your vitality and voice in midlife.

This isn’t about fixing what’s “broken.” It’s about making space for the version of you that’s trying to emerge.

You’ll hear stories that resonate. Tools that restore. Ideas that challenge. You might cry. You might laugh. You’ll definitely exhale.

If you’ve been craving honest dialogue about energy, grief, money, movement, food, capacity, creativity, boundaries—and the systems that shape us—come sit with us.

This is the conversation your nervous system has been waiting for.

What You’ll Experience

🌱 Connection → Real conversations with women navigating the same midlife reckoning.
🌀 Practical Insights → Clear, actionable strategies you can apply right away.
🔥 Ritual & Reflection → Hands-on practices to help your body register the shift.
Nourishment → A meal and curated treats from local women-owned businesses.
🌟 Clarity & Support → Leave energized, resourced, and ready for what’s next.

What You’ll Carry Home

🌱 The Kinship Multiplier → Sit beside women who don’t need your backstory. Expect a few “me too.” The social nervous system exhales.

🔥 The Embodied Reset → Story, sound, and simple ritual. Your body feels the shift—not just your head.

The Clarity Mirror → Not random talks. A thread you can follow home. Name the pattern you’ve been living.

🌟 The Local Table → Buffet lunch at Marigold Bistro. Nourishment + conversation that lingers past coffee-date small talk.

Non-Repeatable → This table will not be set again. You’ll be in the circle—or you won’t.

🧭 The Ripple Effect → New language for your signals. Different conversations with partners, friends, coworkers.

🌿 Raffle for the Food Bank
Tabletop décor from Verdant Plants will be raffled ($20 = your height in raffle tickets), with proceeds going to the Food Bank

Verdant Plants sample tabletop decor for the Vital Conversation Series.

(Sample photo shown — actual plants may vary.)

Your Guides and Speakers

🌟 The Guides

Every gathering needs anchors.  We hold the mood, the meaning, and the resonance so the stories can unfold.

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Amanda Bailey

Amanda (The Luna Alchemy Co) will serve as our Sound Guide—offering resonance that reminds us how healing begins when we allow ourselves to listen.

Shelly Johnson

Shelly will serve as our Ritual Guide—holding the mood, weaving transitions, and reminding us that every gathering becomes stronger when it is lifted by spirit, story, and presence.

Jennifer Steinbachs

Jen will serve as the Meaning-Keeper—threading the day’s stories into a larger arc and holding the reminder that transformation is not random, but rooted in design.

🌱 Regulate

We begin with the body’s baseline — safety, rhythm, and structure that everything else builds on.

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Katie Smith Hoover

Katie (Sandpoint Reflexology) will speak on Reflexions: A Journey Through Grief with Faith + Reflexology—offering you a chance to see touch not just as comfort, but as renewal.

Mickey Hemingway

Mickey (MK Hemingway Consulting) will share Rhythms Over Rigor: Designing a Schedule That Holds You—inviting you to trade burnout for a pattern that actually fits your life.

Jessica Prentice

Jessica will present The Dance of Opposites: Polarity Management in Life and Leadership—helping you reframe tension as a place of power, not collapse.

🌀 Restore

Turn toward nourishment and nature. These conversations bring us back to what fuels resilience beneath the surface.

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Kelly Greenway

Kelly (Dig Nutrition) will present It Runs Deeper Than Hormones: Restoring What Fuels You—showing you how restoring what fuels you can transform energy, digestion, and balance from the inside out.

Peggy DeArmond

Peggy will speak on Scent, Sound, and Soil: Returning to the Root of Resoration—inviting you to rediscover how sound and scent can return you to your root.

Shannon Weiler

Shannon will share Movement from Within: Eurythmy as a Path to Restoration—revealing how movement becomes medicine when it springs from within.

Ready to be part of this rare gathering? Don’t wait until the end.

🔥 Reclaim

Midlife isn’t a slow fade. It’s a portal. This phase is about expression, hormones, and the unapologetic return of power.

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Elizabeth Hulsey

Elizabeth (With Love Elizabeth Hulsey) will present The Midlife Portal: Rebirthing the Self—inviting you to step through your own threshold and reclaim the courage to begin again.

Ali Loraine

Ali will share Reclaiming Strength: What the Body Learns on the Trail—reminding you that the path to strengthh is always still open.

Beryl Ryan

Beryl (Tap Within) will present Tapping Through Changes, Finding You—showing you how gentle tapping can help you release, restore, and return to yourself.

✨ Resonate

We close by weaving wisdom into purpose. Financial sovereignty, legacy, and carrying forward what matters most.

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Scotti Stephens

Scotti (Lexar Homes) will share The House She Builds: Finding Strength and Softness in Midlife—inviting you to see how the structures you create can reflect the woman you’ve become.

Nancy Hadley

Nancy (DA Davidson) will present Finances as Legacy: Building Wealth with Purpose—showing you that true wealth is measured in impact, not just income.

Terese Luikens

Terese will share Why Bother: Forgiveness, Grief, and the Work of Carrying On—reminding you that choosing to relate, even when it’s hard, is how we carry forward.

Every phase builds on the one before — moving from regulation to resonance.

In-Kind Partners

We’re grateful for the local businesses bringing grounding, beauty, and nourishment to the day.

Tickets

$150 Until Oct 7 | $175 Day-Of (if available)
Bulk ticket option available — bring friends and save money!

Seats are limited—reserve yours before October 7

Oct 11 • Sandpoint, ID • 8:30 AM–5 PM

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