Forget everything you think you know about women in midlife. Angela Burk’s raw, unfiltered, and fiercely passionate book shatters the glossy, sugar-coated stories we’ve been sold about ‘aging gracefully.’ This isn’t a manual for doing midlife perfectly—it’s a companion for doing it honestly. She dives into everything from career reinvention to the three waves of menopause—rage, wild symptoms, and all—with unapologetic candor. After divorcing at 45 and raising three young sons, she scrapped the life script she’d been following and rebuilt from the ground up. The result? A long-distance love, a blended family of seven, and a trove of hard-earned wisdom about sagging knees, vanishing eyebrows, and the unapologetic confidence that only midlife can bring. She is an award-winning marketing strategist, mother of three, bonus mom to four, and fierce advocate for women reclaiming their stories at midlife. Follow Angela on Substack or at realgirlsguide.com.