Midlife Bold: Angel Cornelius on Building a Beauty Brand That Celebrates Aging

What if a tiny idea cooked up in your kitchen at 56 turned into a national beauty brand—and sparked a bold midlife reinvention?

That’s exactly what happened to Angel Cornelius, a healthcare administrator turned beauty entrepreneur who’s transforming how midlife women care for and celebrate themselves. 

Now in her 60s, Angel is the visionary founder of Maison 276, a pro-age beauty brand on a mission to normalize aging, support our evolving beauty needs, and help us love the skin we’re in.

In this empowering episode of Reinvention Rebels, Angel shares her inspiring story—from DIY beauty experiments to being featured on QVC—and what she’s learned along the way about trusting herself, taking risks, and building a brand rooted in authenticity and community.

Key Highlights:

• 🌱 From kitchen to national brand: how Angel transformed frustration into purpose.
• 💪 Why doing hard things is worth it—and how to stay the course.
• 👩🏾‍🤝‍👩🏽 The power of community, mentorship, and asking for help.
• 💡 Embracing your uniqueness and building a brand that celebrates midlife beauty.
• 💫 Why it’s crucial to own your reinvention journey on your terms, unapologetically.

Top Takeaways:

• Identify everyday frustrations—there may be a business idea waiting there.
• Build your “unapologetic muscle” by showing up boldly and consistently.
• Authenticity and community are powerful connectors—lean into them.

Connect with Angel:

• 💻 Maison276.com
• 📸 Instagram: @angel.ucornelius
• 📸 Instagram: @maison276

Mentioned in this episode: If you love honest, enriching conversations about aging well and living with purpose, check out my friend Wendy Green’s podcast, Boomer Banter. It’s real talk about navigating life’s later chapters with intention and vitality. Her guests inspire new ways to think about what’s possible as we age—whether it’s revisiting old dreams or discovering new passions.

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Chapters

• 1:27 Introducing Angel Cornelius
• 2:39 From Frustration to Creation
• 13:20 Catalysts and Opportunities
• 20:13 Scaling Up: The Manufacturing Challenge
• 29:34 Navigating Aging and Redefining Beauty
• 42:08 The Role of Community and Social Media
• 56:14 The Importance of Self-Care
• 1:06:07 Empowering Women to Embrace Change
• 1:11:07 Connecting with Angel Cornelius

Transcript

Angel Cornelius
I don't even think about my age until someone else brings it up. Like, it just doesn't occur to me for that to be a thing. And I realize, like, there are millions of other women who feel the exact same way as I do. And so it wasn't my goal when I first started producing products to like, be a microphone or a megaphone for.
For this cause. But I am more than willing to not just be a cheerleader, but to give other people a microphone and a megaphone and a platform. Because it's going to take all of us.

Wendy Battles
Welcome to Reinvention Rebels, stories of brave and unapologetic women, 50 to 90 years young who have boldly reinvented life on their own terms to find new purpose and possibilities. I'm your host, Wendy Battles, ready to kick your fears to the curb. Do it scared. And step into who you are meant to be in midlife and beyond. These amazing women, these Reinvention Rebels, can help light your reinvention path. Come join us and let's get inspired together.

Hey, hey, hey, rebels. Welcome to another episode of the Reinvention Rebels podcast. I am your host, Wendy, and I am so excited that you are joining me for this episode today. And right now you are hearing my voice. I am on hiatus between season six and seven of the Reinvention Ripples podcast, so I'm sharing one of my best of episodes today with the amazing Angel Cornelius. You are going to love her reinvention story. How she started creating a line of body butters in her kitchen as she worked her full time job, her very unintentional side hustle, and years later has turned into an incredibly successful business.

Products for midlife women, for hair and skin. That is a national brand, Maison276. Well, you will hear all about her story and it's such a great intro into the theme for season seven, which is how I bet on myself and never looked back because that is what she has done. And I think you're really going to love her episode, which reminds me that, you know, we can all spark something new in midlife. I know that many of us struggle with what's available to me in midlife. What could I do that's different? How could I really lean into my purpose?

How can I feel more alive and doing the things that I. I want to do, not what everybody else wants me to do. I think we've all been there. And I want to mention something that I want to encourage you to download. It is my free gift, 100 ways to reinvent in midlife. Because sometimes we need ideas, we need inspiration, we need something to get us thinking, get us curious, help us uncover what that thing might be. And I know many of us are searching right now in midlife, really trying to figure out, especially in this uncertain world where life is short and precious and we never know what's coming, doesn't it make sense to live on purpose and live with more joy and possibility?

Well, this simple list of 100 ideas can spark that curiosity muscle for you and get you thinking about what that might be for you. Details are in the show notes. I can't wait for you to check it out. And of course, if you've got friends who are in that seeking mode trying to figure it out, do me a favor. Just hit the share button in your podcast listening app and share this episode with them. A great way for them to get inspired as well. So now, without further ado, let me introduce you to the extraordinary Angel Cornelius.

Wendy Battles
What if a reinvention was born out of frustration with the status quo decades of beauty products that didn't work for you? What if that frustration led to experimentation and creativity in your own kitchen? And what if that tiny idea that started in your kitchen ignited a new path in your life, One that sparked a beauty revolution impacting women in the US and beyond? This is the reinvention story of my guest today, 61 year young Angel Cornelius. Angel is the founder and CEO of Maison276, a collection of premium beauty products created with nutrient rich botanicals and designed to inspire women to celebrate their own own version of beauty, not someone else's version of who they should be. After becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of clean, effective beauty products in the market, angel began formulating her own skin and hair care products. Her body butters quickly went viral in her local community and eventually made their way to the beauty editor at Essence magazine.

The company launched in 2016 when the pomegranate Kiss Body Butter, now a bestseller, was introduced to nearly 15,000 Essence Beauty Box subscribers. Mason276 also introduced their three step hair care system, an innovative and clean hair care system that brightens and hydrates silver and blonde hair without the use of harsh purple dyes. Angel is a regular on qvc, having won their Big Find competition, a nationwide search for innovative products.
I'm tickled pink. This amazing reinvention rebel has joined me to share her reinvention journey, how she's evolved and what she's learned along the way. 

Angel Cornelius, welcome to the Reinvention Rebels Guest Chair.

Angel Cornelius
Thank you Wendy, I am so honored to share my story and my journey with you and the reinvention rebel community. Thank you so much. I really appreciate the invitation.

Wendy Battles
It is a pleasure. I know that people can't see us because we're actually looking at each other as we're doing this interview, but it's so exciting to just have the opportunity to chat with you and talk about your reinvention journey. And I have to start with this thought, that sometimes a little spark of an idea really does ignite something big in our lives, as in the case with you. And I'm really curious because, you know, in the intro, I mentioned that you were really frustrated with the lack of beauty products. And I know that when, you know, I go to a department store, I go to Target, I go to TJ Maxx on Amazon. There are a ton of beauty products. So I'd love to know a little bit about how this story began.
How did you, you know, take that frustration and actually start creating and experimenting with these products?

Angel Cornelius
Yeah. So, Wendy, I always been a bit of a beauty diy, even before that was a term, because for decades, I would buy products from, you know, many of the places you just listed, and I would add things to them. And just because from a skincare perspective, the products, I mean, what I now realize is that they had a lot of water. But the problem for me was that my skin would not stay hydrated and moisturized throughout the day, so I would have to keep reapplying it or because I grew up on the Gulf coast and still live on the Gulf coast, in fact, they would make my skin feel sticky because of the high humidity in the air. From a hair care perspective, I begin my silver journey very early in life. My mother discovered my first silver strand. So I haven't always had this much silver hair, but I've essentially grown up with it and have really used, prior to creating my own products, the same product for decades that really had not been innovated products for silver and blonde hair.
Silvers and blondes are hair sisters. They have these purple pigments in them. And the reason the purple pigments are there is because they remove the dullness and the brat sassiness that's just inherent in having colorless hair. It's kind of like wearing the same white dress every day. It just inevitably just becomes dull and dingy. And so you need those clarifying products. But the problem with when you continue to use products that have those purple pigments, they keep adding color to colorless hair, and you get what I call old lady blue hair.

And so there's this. See, even you know exactly what I'm talking about. And there's this vicious cycle of trying to figure out what products to use when. And after decades of that, I just got frustrated and I just thought, you know, I'm just going to try and mix up some ingredients on my own. And I researched plant based ingredients that address the specific problems that I wanted to solve for, for my skin that was, you know, all day hydration and moisturizing abilities. And really the same for my hair because as I got older, my hair, the needs of my hair changed. Because what I realized is your hair is just like your skin.

As you get older, it gets drier. And you, the things that work when you were 20, they don't work when you're 40 or 50. And so it was just that experimentation process and just kind of figuring out what worked for me, you know, taking notes and, and just, you know, it was a lot of trial and error and a lot of the stuff I made didn't work. But you know, I just kept at it because again, I was just solving my own pain point, my own problem. I wasn't thinking about, does this work for other people too?

Wendy Battles
I love the organic nature, like play on words, the organic nature of this, right? Both in the ingredients. But just this idea that you said, huh, you know, this isn't working for me. And I have tried a lot of things. I'm really frustrated. And through trial and error you actually found things that worked, which is especially interesting because it's not like you are a chemist, right. Or have that kind of background.
So I love this idea of sort of the trial and error. And I'm really curious, at what point did you have an inkling that this was going to be more than just I'm playing in my kitchen and creating some things that work and that there was something viable about these products and what you could do with them.

Angel Cornelius
Actually, it wasn't my idea. It was my friends who saw me using one of the little vials of body butter. You know, I used to put it in little tiny Tupperware containers so they would fit in my purse. And so I was at an event, church actually one Saturday morning and I had just washed my hands and I applied some body butter to my hands and I just threw it back in my purse. And so the friend next to me got a whiff of it and she said, well, what is that? I was like, oh, it's just some stuff that I make myself. And she's like, well, let me see it.

These are good friends that I'm sitting with about seven girlfriends. And. And so I give it to Wanda, who's sitting next to me, and she uses it and then she passes it down and like everybody else uses it now all the back of the church smells like lavender. And I finally get it back and she's like, well, we want some. And I said, I, this is just something I make for myself. I don't do anything with it. And they said, well, just sell it to us.

And I said, well, I don't have anything to put it in. And she said, well, just put it in that. And I said, honey, if I sell you something, it will not be in a Tupperware container. And it was those group of friends that really said, no, this has value.
We would buy it from you. And so over time, I just, you know, figured out, oh, I. So I created an Etsy storefront because at the time the only way you could be on Etsy Etsy was if you actually handmade the product. That's not the case anymore. But for at that time, that's how you got on Etsy. And so I created this storefront initially just to sell products to my friends. You know, I made everything, I piped everything and put it in the little jars.

I printed the labels on the printer that I had here at home, and those are my first customers. And over time, you know, different people would find out that, you know, I sold these skincare products and, you know, they would invite me to various events, you know, like farmers market types of events or local, you know, sorority or church events or where they would have, you've gone to events and they have vendor table set up and you can buy local things. And. And that's really how I started. It was totally grassroots, totally word of mouth, and that's what I did on weekends and in the evening when I came home from working my very busy job, most of my career had been in healthcare management. And at the time I was managing a very busy pediatric practice for Texas Children's, which is one of the premier pediatric healthcare systems in the country. And I actually loved my job.
I really did. It was very demanding and but that was kind of like a passion project and that's really how it started.

Wendy Battles
It's fascinating and I think it resonates with a lot of us because many of us have a passion for something and we might have a full time job. Like I have a full time job in cybersecurity and podcasting is my Passion that I do on the side, I'm a little crazy. And you know, as we were emailing back and forth, you were talking about the grind of how you. Right. It is real. You do multiple things. And I'm really curious as how you took this passion that you were doing on the side that was very grassroots, started organically and was kind of growing.
And so how do you take that grassroots operation while you have a full time job and then segue into Essence magazine and qvc? I mean, that's truly a reinvention.
How did that happen?

Angel Cornelius
I can tell you, at each step, I didn't think about the next. It wasn't about getting to the next thing, it was about completing that task, like, not wanting to let people down. Like I said, I'm going to do it. This is what I'm going to do. So definitely essence, I was not thinking about qvc. It was not even anywhere on my radar. So at the time I was, my son was in New York and from time to time I would send him, you know, like little care packages and it would include, you know, moisturizer stuff and of course, which he wasn't using, which a 20 something year old young man probably wouldn't.

But he had a friend who had worked at Birchbox and she had just been hired by Essence to curate and run their beauty box subscription program. And so he had actually been giving some to her to use. And so she'd been using my body butters. And so she called me and said, hey, Mrs. Cornelius, I've been using your body butters.

They're really great. And you know, I'm starting this project at Essence. Would you be interested? And I'm like, yeah, sure. You know, for women of our generation, particularly women of color, ESSENCE is a really big cultural icon for us, right? It's the place where we first saw ourselves portrayed beautifully and positively and powerfully and femininely, right? And so I said, yeah, sure.

Like, I had no idea what this would mean, Wendy. And so I sent some products to the editors for them to sample. These are things that I made in my kitchen and I wrapped it up very pretty. And she said, you know, I can't guarantee anything, you know, I'll get back to you. And you know, so three or four weeks later, she calls me and she says, hey, you know, we tested all of your products, but they really love the Pomegranate Kiss body butter. And I said, okay, sure, no problem. You know, what does that mean?

And she said, well, we're going to need at least 10,000 units. And I was just like, I always tell people it's a good thing we didn't have Zoom then. Because the words coming out of my mouth did not match the look on my face. I'm sitting in my office at Texas Children's, and I just said, yes. I just said, yeah, sure, no problem. You know, it's going to take us some time to get that done. But, you know, I had no idea how many she was going to need when I said yes.
I had no idea how I was going to make that happen, because clearly I could not produce 10,000 units. So that really put the cycle into place of me really becoming a real company. Because I wasn't incorporated, I quickly had to find a manufacturer. They were not trying to get 10,000 units of something I made in my kitchen, that was for sure. And so even the task of finding a manufacturer was very difficult because while 10,000 units was daunting to me, that's actually not a lot of units for a manufacturer. And so many of them don't even turn their machines on for less than 50k or 100,000 units. And when you get on the phone and you start talking about, well, I make this stuff in my kitchen now, like, that is not something most manufacturers are even interested in dealing with.

And so I really had to find a boutique manufacturer, which I didn't even know that was a thing then. And so I started reaching out to people that I thought could just point me in the right direction. And I reached out to a blogger that I had read. I followed her blog post and I googled her to figure out how to contact her. And this manufacturing company came up. And as fate would have it, she had actually. I knew she worked in the industry, but she had actually started a boutique manufacturing. And so I reached out to her and she agreed to work with me.
She agreed to use my formulations because the other problem I kept running into was people would produce 10,000 units, but they wanted to white label it. And what that basically is is when a manufacturer has these products that they already create, and they will just put your label on it. And that's why there are a lot of products in beauty that feel the same because they actually are the same. You can just go to a manufacturer and say, I want to start a product. Whatever the product is, it doesn't matter. And if they specialize in makeup or hair care or skin care, they can create these products for you. And you just.

All you have to do is create a label and they'll put Your label on it, and boom, now you have a product line. And so I wanted them to use my formulations. And so that was also, you know, part of the challenge. But anyway, this boutique manufacturer out of Chicago agreed to work with me, and we subsequently produce actually 15,000 units because the essence projections actually increased. And that is what launched the company in the spring of 2016.

Wendy Battles
Amazing.

Angel Cornelius
It was very difficult, and there were many, many days I wondered, what in the world did I get myself into? You know, it was a lot of. Yeah, a lot of trials. A lot of me learning on the run and not really understanding all the things that I did not know, but I didn't know I didn't know them. So I learned this new thing I needed to do every time the challenge came up. You know, the manufacturer doesn't create your labels. You got to find somebody to create labels for you.

The manufacturer doesn't, you know, necessarily source the containers that the product goes in. They could do it if you need them to, but you have to tell them that's what you need from them. So there are all these little points that, you know, I just didn't know how to do because I was doing it all, you know, from my kitchen.

Wendy Battles
It's really so amazing that you were learning on the go. And as you said, you didn't know what you didn't know. But part of what I hear is that you had a really open mindset about what could be possible, as evidenced by, okay, you need 10,000. I can do that.

Angel Cornelius
Yeah. I'll figure it out when I hang up this phone.

Wendy Battles
But I think that that is the kind of mindset of someone who is interested in pivoting or reinventing themselves, and they. Because we don't know the answers, we often don't know the answers. And I think sometimes we stop ourselves because we don't know, and we want to know, and we want to have more certainty. And I see this in women all the time. Well, I'll do it when I have all the I's dotted and the T's crossed. But I think that there's something about if we're willing to take a risk and we see possibility, even if we don't know what that means, that there could be opportunity on the other side.

Angel Cornelius
It's very scary. And I don't condemn women who are afraid to take the risk because it is risky. I began doing this when many of my friends and my friends currently are planning for retirement. And I'm not doing that. I've started something new. New. So you know, I do understand how scary it can be, and some days it's still scary.
And I am very grateful that I do. I don't mind. I'm not afraid to say what I don't know. Right. That's the only way you learn. And I'm grateful for my parents for encouraging me, you know, to not be afraid of the unknown and asking for help, you know, and surrounding yourself with figuring out the people who, one, know how to do the things that you don't know how to do and two, who are willing to help you. You know, it's, it's, it's, it's not just one.

A lot of people have information that they don't want to share, so it's finding the people who have the information and then are also willing to help you. And I have been greatly blessed in that way. I really have been.

Wendy Battles
It sounds like you have quite a vast network of people that you've been able to tap into. I also heard you say something a little while ago, which was that I took it one step at a time. I did one thing, figured it out, and then I moved on to the next thing that I might not have understood or even known how to do and work through that. And I think there's something to be said about that. The how, like, how is it that, you know, sometimes we want to reinvent ourselves and we might have a really clear why I want to reinvent myself, because whatever that thing is, but we don't always know how to do it. I've had a ton of great ideas over my lifetime that never worked out or I started and I stopped. And I like how you just broke it down into sort of bite sized pieces.

And I think that makes a difference too.

Angel Cornelius
But, you know, one of the things that I, I say to women, you know, in our, you know, peer group is that you have a wealth of information, you have a wealth of, that you can tap into. So, you know, all the things that I had done previously, whether there are successes, failures, challenges or whatever, I just applied that to this new thing that I didn't know how to do because there are other things in my career that I didn't know how to. You know, it wasn't the first time I'd come across something I don't know how to do this. Right, right. So, you know, it's the, it's kind of that muscle memory, really, that I just applied to something else that I was just unfamiliar with. You know, if I came across something in my job as a healthcare administrator that I didn't know how to do. I wouldn't just quit because it was my job to figure it out.

And so I just applied that here. And, you know, even. Even with the ESSENCE project, as daunting as that was, you know, I wasn't thinking of it in terms of, you know, okay, I'm reinventing myself. Like, I wasn't thinking that this was going to be something I was doing full time. It was just like, okay, this passion project has gotten me into something that I'm. That's way over my head. But I have to, you know, I have to be a person of my word.

I have to fulfill my promise. I have to do this thing. Not because ESSENCE was depending on me, but. But because I was depending on me. I didn't want. You know, there's just this thing about completion, you know, or at the very least, it won't be because I didn't try. You know, it won't be because I threw my hands up and said, it's too hard.

Wendy Battles
Yeah, I love that. So you're like, I'm going to dig in. I can do it. If I can do things that work and I'm really successful, why wouldn't I be successful with this? And I like that, that sometimes it just takes a little time for us to figure it out as you've done.

Angel Cornelius
Just because it's hard doesn't mean you shouldn't be doing it.

Wendy Battles
Like, yes, exactly.

Angel Cornelius
Just because it's difficult, that's not. That's not the thing to make you stop.

Wendy Battles
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Wendy Battles
Come join me on social media for a big dose of inspiration. You'll find me on Instagram at Reinvention Rebels. Same thing on Facebook. And also I'm on Twitter @rebelsreinvent.

Wendy Battles
I look forward to seeing you soon.

Wendy Battles
One thing I know as someone who is 56 and, you know, you get to that age, whether it starts in your 40s or your 50s. 50s. But at some point, we recognize that, of course, we're getting older, that our body is changing, that we're not as limber, we're not as, you know, go down the list of things as we were, obviously, in our younger days. And I know that for any of us, it takes a minute to kind of figure out and navigate that. And certainly in our society, a society that values youth and beauty, aging women is not the place where we're often glorified. We're not illuminated and elevated. I'm really curious about Mason276 and how you started to focus on.

Or did you really set out to focus on midlife women and elevating midlife women? Or is it more just generally? I've got some great products that anybody might love.

Angel Cornelius
I think it started because I was first serving my peer group, like my friends, you know, and so, you know, and they would tell other people that were in the same circle. And so that really was very organic. But after the ESSENCE launch, and I started going to beauty shows and events outside of Houston and larger events, because I was like, okay, I have this thing that I've created that no one literally has ever heard of before, so maybe I should get out there and just, like, see what other beauty brands are doing. And so I started going to these shows, and I was very struck by. And some of them were huge. Like, there would be hundreds of beauty companies there. And I was very struck by no matter how, what product they were selling, the people in the booth, whether it was a huge booth or one table like mine, they all look like my daughter.
Like, they were all young. But the consumers at these events were not. They were very diverse in age and culture. And what would happen is I would have this table with just these skincare products, right? This brand no one had ever heard of. And women, middle aged women, would gravitate to the table. And because I looked different than everybody else that was there.

Wendy Battles
Yeah, right.

Angel Cornelius
And it was a very diverse group of women. You know, all ethnicities, hair textures and types. And the conversation would start with what I was selling, but it would just morph into, you know, well, what do you do to your hair? How do you get your hair to look like that? If my hair looked like that, maybe I wouldn't color my silver. And that's what prompted me to realize, like, oh, I should do a hair care product, because I would always consider myself a unicorn. And I didn't realize other women were having the same challenges with their hair.
And they didn't realize, like, no, this is a natural part of aging. Your hair is just like your skin. Like, I knew that intuitively, but I realized other women didn't know. There was nothing. There's nothing wrong with you. This is perfectly normal in your hair. There's nothing wrong.
Your hair is just different because you're aging. And just like your skin changes as we mature, our hair does the same thing. And I would just be having these sidebar consultations, and I realized, like, the beauty industry really ignores us, and then they try and sell things to us with images that look like our daughter. So they're constantly saying, like, there's something wrong with the way you look, and we're going to fix that. And I was saying, no, this is perfectly normal. And I've created something that addresses the naturally occurring changes that take place in your hair and skin as we mature. And so the voice of Maison276 has grown and matured, just as I have as an entrepreneur.
And really realizing, like, I really have struck a nerve because the things that I was just dissatisfied. There are a lot, millions of other women who are also dissatisfied, not just with the product offerings, but how the lack of diversity in beauty marketing. And when they do market to us, it's all about correction and reversal and let's fix this.
Not a celebration. And, you know, I reject that as a woman, and I certainly reject it as an entrepreneur. And, you know, so the entire Maison 276 platform is not just about products. It is about giving women a platform and a voice to say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The way you are portraying me is not the way I feel about myself. I don't see myself that way at all. I don't even personally, I don't even think about my age until someone else brings it up.
Like, it just doesn't occur to me for that to be a thing. And I realize, like, there are millions of other women who feel the exact same way as I do. And so it wasn't my goal when I first started producing products to, like, be a microphone or a megaphone for this cause, but I am more than willing to not just be a cheerleader, but to give other people a microphone and a megaphone and a platform, because it's going to take all of us, right, for them to understand, meaning marketers and the industry in general, that you are viewing us in a way that in no way resonates with how we see ourselves. And we just. We're just not taking that anymore.

Wendy Battles
I love that, and it's so true. I love the platform. I love how you're giving other people a voice. I love how you're educating people. Because again, back to your point, sometimes we don't know what we don't know. And because there isn't all kinds of information, there's all kinds of information about how you take care of your skin when you're younger. And, you know, she always wear sunscreen.
And yes, that's a general thing, but. But you're right. Like, it. It's always about what's wrong, not what's right, and how we keep nurturing what's right with ourselves, with our bodies, whether it's our skin, our hair, or something else, how we're eating. So I like that shift that you're helping to usher in about people really embracing the skin they're in, loving the skin they're in, being proud of the skin they're in. And one of the things I feel like as I look at your beautiful. I know for some of you that don't know angel, she's got this really gorgeous head of hair that's silver.
And I know that, you know, as we age and we start to get gray hair, often the reaction is, I have to cover it up. I don't want to be gray. And I have certainly been there. And now I'm like, you know, Wendy, you spent tons of money and time on coloring your hair. That color is so drying to your hair.
So it's not. There's nothing that's really good about doing that. It's basically just sort of delaying the inevitable. Right. It's a natural thing, as you said. And one of the things I see in what you're doing is that you are helping to normalize this idea that not only is aging a natural process, but that we can celebrate it, that it's something that we can really love that experience instead of trying to, like, go running in the other direction.

Angel Cornelius
Right. And, you know, I just, I want to say this, that I am not the silver hair police. You know, I always tell people like, I, for me, I want women to just be comfortable in their skin. And if. And if that means you want to color your hair, I support you. You know, I want you to be comfortable. You deserve that, to be comfortable in your skin.
You know, if you want to rock the silver, I'm here for you, to support you, and I've got all the information you need to help you do that through that in that journey. But I just think that that's the most important thing because for so long, you know, middle aged women have been told to try to pump the brakes as much as you can on that process as opposed to embracing it fully. You know, there's just. We just have not been valued in the same way that mature men have been. You know, we all know they're, you know, a man starts getting a little silver in his temples and, you know, he's considered distinguished a woman. The first thing someone asks is like, are you going to touch up those roots? And in full transparency, I, you know, I, like I said, I started turning silver very early in life.
In college I had a little streak that a lot of people thought I bleached. And when my second child was born, that's when it really started coming in. And again, because I had always grown up with it, I didn't really think anything of it. And so, you know, there were a couple of times when I had my daughter and, like, as an infant and someone actually, you know, a couple of people asked me, like, is that your grandchild? And I was just, like, so mortified. I thought, oh, my God, do I look old? Like, I'm thinking, like, my face looked old.
And actually, even a friend that I had a. I have. Have a close friend.
We're so friends. And she had been telling me, like, you should color your hair.
Like, you're just too young. I mean, I was in my mid-30s. And then when someone. A couple of people were like, is that your grandchild? And I thought, well, maybe it is making me look old. And I colored my hair. And as soon as I did it, I knew it was a mistake.
I knew it was a mistake. And I did that for several, maybe three or four years. Because the thing about when you color your silver, you know, it doesn't want to be colored. And so you have to keep reapplying it over and over again. And, like, it is so stubborn. And I just got to a point because, you know, it was like, oh, my God, I did it now. Like, you can't undo it. Right?

Wendy Battles
Right.

Angel Cornelius
And so that was the first time I did a big chop. That was not even a phrase then. And I just cut it off.

Wendy Battles
Like, that's it.

Angel Cornelius
I couldn't stand it. I felt like every morning I was wearing a hat because it was so not me, because I had grown up with that hair. And even though I was in my mid-30s, it was just like, okay, I made a mistake. I'm owning it. I'm cutting this off. It was just like, I couldn't stand it anymore. And so I do understand there are a lot of women who, like, they don't this.
That transition process that is so difficult. And I truly understand. I truly understand. But I always want to share that, because I don't. I want people to know that even I, you know.

Wendy Battles
Right.

Angel Cornelius
Succumbed to societal pressure and just was like, nope, not doing that.

Wendy Battles
And I think that sometimes, you know, we have to go through that process. We have to try things out. We have to experiment whatever that thing is, whether it's coloring it or not coloring it, coloring it and saying, I'm going to go gray. And then you Decide you don't like it, and you go back. I mean, I think that really, I feel like this is aging on our own terms. It's figuring out what's right for me, what's right for you, what's right for anybody that no one else knows but us.

Angel Cornelius
Right.

Wendy Battles
People try to tell us.

Angel Cornelius
Sometimes you do make a mistake, and that's what I do. Anyway, that was decades ago. Like I said before, the phrase big chop was even a part of, you know, the lexicon.

Wendy Battles
So, anyway, well, I see this, too, you know, on Instagram. There's the Silver sisters. There are all these women with beautiful silver hair, which I feel like, again, helps to normalize. Okay, I can go that route, right?

Angel Cornelius
Absolutely.

Wendy Battles
Ten years ago, I never would even. I would have just been like, I need to cover it up. And now I'm like, you know what? Well, the silver is coming out. And right now I'm thinking, I don't want to color it right now. You know, I want to experiment with this.

Angel Cornelius
Yeah. I really think social media has really two things. Social media, because it's like the support. Like, you're not out there all by yourself, even if you're literally looking at women who are thousands of miles away from you, but you're reading their comments, they're sharing their before and after pictures. And to your point, it does normalize the process. And I think the next thing was the pandemic when people just could not get to the salon, and they literally had no choice.
They had no choice. And so after months and months of roots, it was, like, enough for them to see, like, this is actually going to be beautiful. And it really, really, I believe, accelerated something that I actually think in my heart was coming anyway. I really do. But I do think the inability of people to get to their stylist, I think it accelerated what was.
What was happening.

Wendy Battles
Anyway, I think you're right about that. And I remember myself thinking, wow, you know, I really. I don't even know why it mattered, because I wasn't seeing anybody or going anywhere. I was thinking, you know, looking back, I'm thinking, well, you're right.
Like, who cares?

Angel Cornelius
Like, we totally have bigger things to worry about right now than roots.

Wendy Battles
I know. And I think that's part of the context, too, that, you know, when we look back and we think about how this has changed all of us in often very dramatic ways, and we've lost loved ones or friends or colleagues, that is so much bigger than our hair color. And we can also kind of put in the context of well, you know what might have been really important to me in the past? Well, maybe that shifted and maybe I'm seeing myself in a different way. And I think there's a lot of value in that as we age, just the notion of seeing new possibilities as you've done and thinking about how we might reimagine our lives.

Wendy Battles
Thank you so much for tuning in to the Reinvention Ripples podcast today. I hope you enjoyed this episode as much as I did and found it interesting, insightful and inspiring. I've got a small favorite to ask if you love this, would you do me a favor and share a five star review on Apple Podcasts via your.

Wendy Battles
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Wendy Battles
I am curious about what your biggest challenge has been as you reinvented yourself, because I know that you've talked about some different things that have happened and things you had to figure out, but what would you say is something that you've had to really kind of work or maybe massage to overcome or get around in your, you know, through this process.

Angel Cornelius
And it's funny because, you know, even the term. And I shared with you this, I shared this with you earlier, like reinvention, even that, you know, is like, I just basically took the things that I was doing in one career and did it in. And I kind of didn't even see myself in terms of like, that's a reinvention. And I was talking to my daughter and she's like, mom, that's literally the textbook definition.

Wendy Battles
Yeah.

Angel Cornelius
I was like, okay, I just feel like I'm just being me. But I do, I think, geez, there's so many, the differences between working for someone, a corporation, and working for yourself. I think the number of things that are outside of my control is still daunting to me and very difficult. I don't really consider myself a control freak, but maybe I am, I don't know. But there are so many things that are outside of your control when you're an entrepreneur because you have so many partners. Particularly when you have a consumer packaged goods company, the supply chain, you know, everything's not made even in the States, you know, so even before the pandemic, like, that's an issue it is. It's truly a global society.
It's a global supply chain. And all the things that you don't have control over, you know, what's going on in some other country, the shipping things get getting stuck at the dock, whether it's product, whether it's raw ingredients or packaging. You know, we had a situation where, you know, the plants were shutting down because, you know, they were having outbreaks. And, you know, those are all the, I guess, people could. Their challenges, and they're things that you can't control. But I think the good. You know, there's an upside, too, that I didn't expect in forming a company was that I've. It's also the opportunity to create a community that really has nothing to do with transactions, but has to do with relationship building.
I'm constantly astonished, and I look back over the short journey of, you know, the company's life cycle and look at all the amazing people that are now part of my circle that I would never have met in health care. Not that I didn't have an incredible circle that. Not to say that at all, but just people literally all over the world, all over the country. And now you're part of that circle that I just. They would never have come across my radar because we just. We lived in two different silos. And so I am so grateful for that and feel so enriched personally, that it is almost hard to describe.
It's hard to put into words how much my life has been enriched by all the people that I've come across as a result of building the startup company. And so that is. It just takes my breath away. Even when I think about it, I.

Wendy Battles
Can see how that would be really exciting and to connect with these really amazing people. I see that reflected when I look at you on Instagram sometimes, and you're talking about welcoming in new people that you're working with, new women that are trying your products and are so excited about them, and they feel like they've found a solution. So how you create that community, I can see how you can be gaining so much from that. Just the energy you get from these really interesting people.

Angel Cornelius
I think, you know, it's. It all started kind of organically, and actually I had to step back and see, like, oh, why? What am I doing that's making this happen? Yes, it's awesome, but, like, kind of like step back and evaluate, like, what is the thing that I'm doing? How is this happening? And I think part of it is just me not being afraid to be authentic for Instance, showing up to meet you without makeup on.

Wendy Battles
Exactly.

Angel Cornelius
And not feeling the need to be just, like, perfect all the time. Right. And I think women are the only one burdened with that. I don't feel like my husband feels that way, like, when he walks out the door, when he. I just. Am I wearing a suit or a tie or am I wearing a sport? Like, that's not the same thing that women go through.
Like, there's the hair, there's the makeup, there's the. What am I gonna wear? Like, what is everybody else wearing? Like, all these things. What mental energy that society has told us, like, we have to do all these filters. And I think my willingness to just be like, nope, I'm gonna post a picture with no makeup on. And I didn't realize how impactful that was until I started reading the comments.
Like, oh, okay, that's a thing. Okay. Or, you know, me working out and I don't have a six pack. It's okay. But it's not any kind of pack. It's just a lifetime of exercising.
But I still am, you know, 61. And, you know, if there is another 61 year old and there are many that have six packs, kudos to you.
I'm not there. But just.
And so stepping back and realizing, like, what we've done successfully to build community, and I think so that's encouraging women to be their authentic self, whatever that is. Like, what? We have some brand ambassadors who are muas, and I love watching a makeup artist, and I love watching them do, like, the complete transformation. Right. Because I think that's empowering for other women to see that. No, no, you don't have to be perfect all the time. Like, no, when I wake up, I actually have some bags under my eyes just like you.
This is all, like, you know, smoke and mirrors. This makeup, it's magic. And this is how I do it. This is how you can do it. So I think it's encouraging women to be their authentic selves and to be comfortable, just comfortable in your skin. I know. It's. It's. I. You know, I keep saying it over and over again, and I just think, because our generation, we were just taught that we needed all these things and all this stuff to be acceptable and saying, like, yes, those.
There is a time and a place for all of that. You know, tomorrow this time, I'll be getting ready to go to a black tie event. So I won't look like this. I'll look completely different, and that's okay too. But it should be okay for me to meet you like this, you know, in my workout clothes, because I'm gonna work out after I finish. And you being okay, as opposed to like, oh, my God, I can't believe she showed up that way. You know what I mean?

Wendy Battles
Exactly. Exactly.

Angel Cornelius
I think we're finally getting to that point where we're accepting each other in our. In their authentic way because we want to be accepted that way, and so it's reciprocal. And I think that that is how we continue to build community, because we're just telling women, one, everyone's welcome. I don't care. Your ethnicity, your hair texture type. Everyone's welcome. Everyone's beautiful.
And we celebrate you all in whatever way you want to be celebrated, because that's what I want.

Wendy Battles
Yeah.

Angel Cornelius
Just as a woman. Not even as an entrepreneur or as a brand founder.
That's what I want. I want you to. I want to be accepted, you know, whether I'm a size 8 or 18, you know, I want everyone to be healthy, but we can't all be a size zero, you know?

Wendy Battles
Exactly. Exactly. And I think that you are so right on about this idea of self acceptance, finding our authentic self, how as we age, certainly our generation, and we're getting comfortable with being who we are. It is so freeing.

Angel Cornelius
Oh, yes.

Wendy Battles
Why didn't I know how to do this? Like, in my 40s and my 30s, you know, I feel like I've finally arrived, so to speak, in terms of being my authentic self and being able to be what I call perfectly imperfect.

Angel Cornelius
That.

Wendy Battles
That I'm just leaning into. It's okay if everything isn't all perfect, but I'm making forward progress, and that feels like a really good feeling. As someone who's like a recovering perfectionist, you know, trying to do everything right.

Angel Cornelius
Leave the house without a little bit of makeup.

Wendy Battles
Right.

Angel Cornelius
You know? Right. So I.
That's not me anymore. You know, If I have to, I will, but if it's not required to literally go to the. The grocery store, I am not even. I don't go to the grocery store anymore. I love having my groceries delivered. But. But you know what I mean, this idea that we have to be a certain way before we're in public, you know?

Wendy Battles
Yes, exactly. It's like, all right, enough of that already. I. I'm. I'm so done. So I have to ask you, since you are what I call a queen of helping women take care of themselves. Right. On multiple levels, from how we look on the outside to also inside, because we're working on changing ourselves to be our best selves.
So that begs the question for me about what you do for your own self care. How do you take care of yourself when you're so busy and you have this whole big company and you're doing amazing things? What does angel do for self care?

Angel Cornelius
So I've always been, well since, since my freshman year in college. I've really understood the benefit of exercise. Not just in terms of what it does for me from a health perspective, but what it does for me mentally. And I'm so grateful that I learned that one thing early in life. My kids have no memory of me not being someone that worked out even just a little, even when they were little and I couldn't go run, I would literally pop in, in a VCR tape and just literally work out for 30 minutes in the family room like you guys, you know, everybody get an activity. I gotta do this for 30 minutes. And then, because I would feel like that one little, that was that one thing I was doing for me.
Because every parent knows how you can pour, pour, pour into your family, you know, everyone else, and then there's nothing left for you. And so I'm really grateful that I learned that early on and that I demanded that little sliver of time. I, when I was, we have two children and each time I was pregnant I told my husband like, don't buy me that running stroller thing. That's my time. So even though I ran for 30 plus years, I never had that running stroller. And I would see moms in the park with their little stroller and sometimes I would feel guilty, but most times I would not.

Wendy Battles
I love it.

Angel Cornelius
So that's kind of, you know, that's the thing that, you know, kind of when I, I can clear my. Either clear my mind and not think of anything or take a problem that I have and kind of turn it over in my head, you know, which is why I loved running so much. Because you can just be on autopilot, right, and think about a lot of things. So that's the thing that I do that I still find time for. Before I started the business, I would also spend a lot of time in my garden. I really don't have time to do that anymore. And I miss it, you know, and I try to, you know, take.
I'm from New Orleans. So, you know, if you know anything about New Orleans, food is very, very important to us. I'm not even going to tell you that I'm like just some super strict person. But I do, I am more mindful as I've grown older over the last 10, 15 years. So I definitely don't eat a lot of fried food or whatever. It's just basic stuff. Lots of vegetables, as much fresh fruit and as much fresh vegetables as I can.
Lots of water. But it's not anything complicated. I wish I could tell you there's some secret gem, but it's not anything you literally couldn't find. But I've always just been conscious about just trying to take care of me probably because I always feel like I have so much to do that I have to be healthy and strong in order to do it and also wanting to be a good role model for my daughter and my son of the importance of taking care of yourself. And that's nobody's job but yours. Literally, it's nobody's job but yours. So wanting them to see how important that is and to incorporate that in your life.
Because here's the thing that I know as a woman, nobody's ever going to come to you and say, Wendy, you're working too hard. You need to take care. You need to stop and spend 30 minutes on yourself. Like nobody's going to do that.

Wendy Battles
Right. Right. We have to decide. It's important enough for ourselves. We have to be our own best advocate and friend when it comes to that. And part of what I hear you saying is that consistency is key to your self care. That you agreed.

Angel Cornelius
Yeah.

Wendy Battles
Right. Do this regularly. Not the sort of start and stop, ebb and flow. I'm going to do it when I've got time, then I get busy and I stop. You have made it like other things like brushing your teeth, something that you right now.

Angel Cornelius
Very true. That's very true. Yeah. Yeah. And it doesn't have to be, you know, some days I only have, you know, 30 minutes. I don't have an hour every day.

Wendy Battles
Exactly. Exactly.

Angel Cornelius
I take those 30 minutes and I decide what I'm gonna do and.

Wendy Battles
Yeah.

Angel Cornelius
You know, and I feel good at the end, you know.

Wendy Battles
So.

Angel Cornelius
Yeah. Yeah. It's, you know, you get it in.

Wendy Battles
Where you can and I do see how when you're so busy. Yeah. In some ways I think that when we're busy like this, it almost makes it easier because it's easier to compartmentalize things and say, well, here my, here are my windows of opportunity for me to do this exercise and this is important to me. So I'm gonna either do it at this time or this time, but I'm gonna do it it before I do these other things. So I think that when we're reinventing ourselves, if we're thinking about like, what are the things that make us feel good, what are the things that are important to me, what are the things that will help me in my reinvention journey? If we can build those things in the way that you do in this consistent. I'm making this a priority way.
I think that does make a difference. And I, I love that.

Angel Cornelius
And it's refreshing. I mean, you, you have to, you know, and you're an entrepreneur, you know, and we talked about, like, it can be exhausting. I mean, and it's, you know, and it's definitely, it's definitely not glamorous, despite the industry. I know I'm in the beauty industry, but the process of building a company, that, that, that day to day grind, that part, it's a lot of things, but glamorous is not one of them. You know, those are Instagrammable moments. You know, most times I don't have on makeup, most times my hair is not, you know, done. I work from home.
I have workout cloth most of the time. So, you know, and I'm, you know, very honest about that. Absolutely dolled up just like everybody else. But I don't have to do that every day anymore. Anymore, you know, I don't have the corporate job anymore, so. But, but you really do need to find something that replenishes you. You know, whether you're an entrepreneur or not.
That is just so important, I really think, for your mental well being. I mean, you just, you just, just have to find a sliver of something. And if you can get more than a sliver, fine. But I'm just saying. What is the phrase?
You can't pour from an empty cup?

Wendy Battles
Exactly.

Wendy Battles
Exactly. Angel, as we are wrapping up, I want to ask you one last question. You are someone who I see as unapologetically pursuing your dreams, what makes you happy. And it's very empowering. And you're doing it on your terms. You're, you're clear about what you want and how you're going about doing it. I know that there are many women that are trying to get more comfortable with building their unapologetic muscle.
Women who want to be more clear about their desires. You know, how women we are as women, we are always taking care of everybody else, as you alluded to, not enough time for ourselves. What advice do you have for midlife.

Wendy Battles
Women or older women or really anyone.

Wendy Battles
Who'S listening, who wants to build that unapologetic muscle, who wants to move closer to Getting clarity about their priorities and then making them happen.

Wendy Battles
What would you say?

Angel Cornelius
I first love that you called it a muscle. I love, love that. Because we all know even if you're not someone who exercises, the only way to build a muscle is to use it. And so it goes back to that consistency. Like, I mean, if, if you've never taken time for yourself and then you do something and your family is like, wait, wait a minute, we had, like, you got to do that over. And that was just one example. But you've got to do that over and over again because then it becomes a habit, not just for you, but for them as well.
It needs to be a habit. And so just like any other muscle that you haven't used before or that you haven't used in a long time, it's going to be uncomfortable. But that doesn't mean you should stop working that muscle. Right?

Wendy Battles
Right.

Angel Cornelius
You want that muscle to get stronger. And you know, I have to say, I have grown into this. Right. This is not angel at 30, probably was an angel at 40. You know, I always tell people I feel like I was about in my mid-40s by the time I really felt like completely comfortable. Like, you're good, like you're okay, you're not perfect, but like, you're, you're okay, you know, you're okay. You don't have to beat up on yourself, you know, about what's not right with you or what you haven't done. You're okay.
And, you know, we're moving forward. And so it's definitely a process. And as I said earlier, you know, I don't want our daughters to be 45 when they get that, when they get to that point in their lives, life. But so I, I think just, my advice is to just keep exercising that muscle. It'll, it's going to get stronger, you know, it might get a little sore some days, you might not want to use it, you might need to take a rest day. But just keep using that muscle. And over time, what becomes a habit, a habit for you and just, it'll become a part of your life and as well as those around you as well.
And they'll see the difference. They really will.

Wendy Battles
You were so right about seeing the difference that as we get stronger, as we exercise that muscle and build it, we do become more confident. So it does become easier. Just like when you're lifting weights, right. At first you're thinking, I can't lift heavy weights. Or you start off with maybe a three pound weight, you do that For a while.
But then you're like, oh, I'm up to £5.

Angel Cornelius
Yes.

Wendy Battles
Right. And then you're like, wow, I can't believe I'm this much stronger. Then you're like, wait a minute, I have that eight pound weight. Maybe I could do that eight pound weight for, like, my chest or, you know, some parts, even if it's not all of them. So I think that feeling into it that you're talking about and wanting, you know, building that desire to really build that muscle is such great advice for really any of us at any age, because I do believe we can reinvent ourselves at any age or any stage. But especially for reinvention rebels or in training people, that. Right. Are like, I am putting my sights on something bigger.
I don't know what it is yet, but I know that I want something else. And, you know, women that are going through that and just kind of putting their feelers out and kind of figuring out what, what, what do I want to be?

Angel Cornelius
That's so funny. You said something, reminded me. You said, I don't know what it is. I remember when our daughter went to College and is 2011, and I said to myself, her freshman year, literally, I didn't share this with anyone. I just said to myself, when she graduates, we'll be done, and I'm going to do something completely different. I don't know what it's going to be. I'm going to do something where I'm not anybody's boss.
I'm not going to be on call 24 hours a day. I had no idea When I put that out there in the universe, honey, if you had told me we'd be having this conversation now, 10 years later, I would have thought, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't mean that different.

Wendy Battles
Right. It's like, we have to be careful we ask for. Right. It's right, Right.

Angel Cornelius
Right. So be open to anything.
And it's okay. It's okay when you're almost 50 to say, I want to do something else. I don't know what it's going to be.

Wendy Battles
Yeah, right. And you epitomize to me being open to anything. I mean, I will not forget this moment. Angel, when Essence said, We need 10,000, you're like, okay, I can do that. And I love that.
I love that. Now the question.

Angel Cornelius
Right, right.

Wendy Battles
You made. You made it work. You made it work. So as we wrap up, people are going to want to know, how can they reach Angel?
They've heard this interview. They're like, she is so dope. I need to follow her. I'm inspired by her. Where can people find you?

Angel Cornelius
Sure. Well, the brand website and I should say the brand name. Maison 276. You've already mentioned I'm from New Orleans. It's really homage to my New Orleans roots. Maison is French for house, and 276 is the street address of the house where I grew up. So that's the inspiration for the brand name.
And you can find us online@maison276.com and that's spelled M A I S O N276.com. We're also on Instagram, Maison276. You can follow me on Instagram at. Angel. You Cornelius, you like Umbrella? My maiden name is Upshot and that's.
That's what the U is for. Like you. What is that? And you can reach out to us@infoison276.com as soon as this is up, we're going to load it up on our this podcast on our website so you can listen to it. I am so grateful for this opportunity, Wendy.
It has been a joy. And I don't know what we're going to collaborate on in the future, but we're definitely going to do something. I don't know why.

Wendy Battles
Yes. And I am so excited.
First of all, I have to say thank you. Thank you so much for taking the time to come join me in the Reinvention Rebels guest chair. I am really thrilled. And you are so inspiring, everyone.

Angel Cornelius
Thank you.

Wendy Battles
Everybody I talked to is so inspiring. I mean, just amazing women. You are a shiny example of what. What is possible. What is possible, ladies, for any of us, in our own way. It doesn't have to be Angels story or Angels trajectory, but you have a path, too, that you can take that's just unique to you. And your story of how you did this is just a great way for all of us to get some inspiration about what's possible in our own lives.
I cannot thank you enough. And I'm very excited about our future collaborations and the cool things that we can do to.
To just inspire women like. So thank you.

Angel Cornelius
I'm here for it.

Wendy Battles
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Wendy Battles
Rebels. I hope you enjoyed Angel's story as much as I did. Isn't it extraordinary how she bet on herself? Isn't it amazing how she trusted she.

Wendy Battles
Could figure it out?

Wendy Battles
As in, Essence magazine is coming calling, and they need all of this product, and she just knew she could figure it out and she did. Now that is a reinvention Rebel. That is the mindset of someone who is reinventing, bidding on herself and can see possibilities even though she didn't know the how. And I hope this has really inspired you about what what is possible in your own life. So now more than ever, I want to encourage you to download my free gift, 100 ways to reinvent in Midlife so that we can get started. You can start down this path to uncover new possibilities. And if you love this episode as much as I did, do me a favor, would you write a quick review.
Would you mind rating this episode in Apple Podcast or Spotify and even writing a brief review that makes it more discoverable for other people because we want as many people as possible to find the Reinvention Rebels podcast, which by the way was just ranked at number 15 of the top 90 podcasts for midlife, which is an honor I am so proud of. One more thing before we go. I'm always listening to other podcasts. I love listening to podcasts produced by other midlife women. And one podcast I'm listening to right now is my friend Wendy Greene's podcast called Boomer Banter. Boomer Real Talk About Aging well is a show for those of us who have journeyed through life's ups and downs. I have definitely done that and recognize that aging brings new opportunities to follow some of the paths that we may have left behind.
This is our time to feel re energized, vital and purposeful, just like what we've been talking about. Where can you find Boomer Banter? Well, it's on all the podcast apps, plus I've got a link in the show notes so you can easily find it. And it's also on YouTube on the boomer Banter Channel. I hope you'll check it out. Wendy is a fantastic, fantastic interviewer and I love the guests she has on the wisdom she shares. She's got a whole month full of amazing guests this month in April, and I really encourage you to check it out.
Okay, Rebels, until next time, keep shining your light. The world needs you and all that.

Wendy Battles
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