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 Let’s be honest: No one told us that midlife would be this complicated—or this ripe with possibility. Love, hormones, relationships, identity… it’s a lot. But you don’t have to navigate it alone.
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Join Midlife Upgrade for a night of bold conversations, expert insights, and real talk about the second (and maybe best) half of life.
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🔥 Featuring Special Guests:
Sameena Rahman, MD
Sameena Rahman, MD, FACOG, MSCP, IF, is a board-certified OB/GYN and sexual health expert who actually gets it—talking openly about hormones, libido, and everything your doctor probably didn’t mention. As Clinical Assistant Professor of OB/GYN at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine and founder of a private gynecology and sex medicine practice in downtown Chicago, she’s built a career focused on helping women thrive through midlife and beyond.
A leader in the field, Dr. Rahman is Medical Director for Gynecology at Ms. Medicine and serves on the Board of ISSWSH, where she also chairs the Scientific Committee. She’s a nationally awarded educator, ISSWSH Fellow, and international speaker who brings expertise and cultural insight to everything from sexual dysfunction to medical bias. She also hosts Gynogirl Presents: Sex, Drugs, and Hormones and will release her first book, Brown Girls Disease?, next year.
Bela Gandhi
Bela Gandhi is a nationally renowned dating coach and founder of Smart Dating Academy, dishing truth on modern love, dating after divorce, and finding connection that actually fits. A TEDx speaker and relationship expert, she has been featured on Good Morning America, the Today Show, Kelly Clarkson, Access, ABC, NBC, Fox, and more. She discovered her gift for love in college, matchmaking and coaching friends to relationship bliss, and in 2009 launched Smart Dating Academy after finding her own husband of over 20 years.
Today she guides singles worldwide through the Smart Dating four phase system, preparing to date, dating, exclusivity, and happily ever after, via VIP coaching and hands on support like profile reviews, messaging strategies, and date feedback. Bela lives in Lincoln Park with her husband Andy and their children Jaden and Max.
Tracy Hill
Tracy Hill is the creator of A Beautiful Fix, a top 5% globally ranked podcast and movement born from her own midlife unraveling—and now streamed in over 30 countries and 389 cities worldwide. After walking away from a successful career as a Fortune 500 marketing executive, Tracy chose stillness over striving and curiosity over fear—and slowly rebuilt a life that actually felt good from the inside out.
Today, she guides other women through that same remembering, using tools like Human Design, soul-led retreats, and radical honesty. Her mission is simple: to help women stop searching outside themselves and start trusting the wisdom within—so they can get high on life, one beautiful fix at a time.
 What You’ll Experience:
✔️ Insightful talks from top experts in women’s health and relationships
✔️ Unfiltered conversations about love and desire in midlife
✔️ Real answers to the questions you’ve been too afraid—or too embarrassed—to ask
✔️ A room full of incredible women who get it
✔️ Laughter, connection, and maybe even a few aha moments that change everything
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Because love and desire don’t expire—and neither do you.
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Come be seen, heard, and wildly inspired.
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Spots are limited—reserve your seat now!
 This night is for you if:
• You're hormone curious. Your questions will be answered at this event.
• You’re so over feeling invisible—and ready to feel fully alive again
• You want expert guidance, sisterhood, and zero shame
• You’re navigating dating, divorce, or just craving deeper connection
• You’re wondering where your libido went (and if it’s ever coming back)
Meet the hosts of this special event:
Pamela DeRose &Â Julie Fedeli
Hosts and menopause wellness advocates
We have been friends for over a decade. Midlife friends are the best! We have navigated two children, three husbands, ten careers, and a lifetime of adventures. We have tried hundreds of supplements, explored numerous food plans, supported hundreds of clients and friends, shed millions of tears, and shared countless moments of laughter. Through it all, we have learned valuable lessons and discovered the secrets to living our best lives yet.
In May of 2022, we got together for lunch and began talking about midlife s*x! We shared things that we had never discussed before. And why not? Realizing that many conversations about the down and dirty of menopause were not happening, we decided to collaborate and co-author a book on the midlife experience. Our bestselling book Midlife Upgrade, A Girlfriend's Guide to Finding Your Power in the Pause, is available on Amazon or Barnes & Noble. An online community and program to follow shortly.
