Terri Mead

Award-Winning Author of Piloting Your Life, Speaker on Thriving after Forty

2019 - Current

Inspiring women over the age of 40 to design and live and life of their own creation through Piloting Your Life (the book), Piloting Your Life (the podcast), public speaking engagements, one-on-one coaching, webinars, and online and Stanford Continuing Education courses. Open to in-person and online paid speaking engagements for women audiences around the world. Sample talks include: --Piloting Your Life: Navigating Life for Women Over 40 --Midlife is an Opportunity, Not a Crisis (for women) --Defying Turbulence: A 30-Year Journey to Taking Flight --Claiming Your Power as a Woman in a Bro-Centric, Ageist, Sexist Startup Ecosystem: In Piloting Your Life (the book), diverse women from around the world share their personal stories of learning, growing and thriving through midlife to inspire you to explore and experiment. The book has been described as "a well-researched, inspiring beach read on how to thrive during the menopause transition well into midlife." Gold Medal Winner (Health & Wellness) 2020 IPPY Living Now Evergreen Awards Silver Award Winner (Inspiration) 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Silver Award Winner (Ageing Consciously) 2019 Nautilus Book Awards Finalist (Women' Issues) 2019 American Book Fest Awards Piloting Your Life is available through independent retailers like Bookshop.org and your local lbrary., Amazon and other retailers in ebook, paperback, and audio book formats. http://bit.ly/PYL-Amazon. Learn more at https://www.pilotingyourlife.com/.

Travel Journalist, Inspirational Speaker, Author

2024

Zeke and Terri Adventures: navigating our lives and the world, mostly together. Traveling, vlogging, and blogging with my husband Zeke Mead to inspire other people over the age of 50 to get out, get dirty, and go adventures. Northern California and France specialists with a sprinkle of adventures in Australia, Nicaragua, Canada, Mexico, Scandinavia, and throughout Europe.

Managing Partner

2005

Parent company for the following brands: --Zeke and Terri Adventures --Class Bravo Ventures Publishing --Piloting Your Life --Terri Hanson Mead Formerly IT strategy and compliance services for biotech, pharma, medical device, diagnostic, and digital health companies, and Expert Witness Services for failed technology projects.

Instructor

2024 - 2025

Spring 2024 and Winter 2025 - Reinvent, Rediscover, Relaunch: Navigating Midlife for Women After the age of 40, many of us find ourselves staring in the mirror, feeling like we're meeting a stranger. We often ask ourselves: Is this all life has to offer? Yet midlife is an opportunity, not a crisis, especially for women. Whether considering career transitions, navigating symptoms of perimenopause, or grappling with issues of identity and purpose, the natural shifts in our minds, bodies, and lifestyles can be challenging to navigate; it is a time when guidance can inspire a new sense of fulfillment. Uniquely designed for women over 40, this immersive course will help you dive into life's most pivotal transitions, rediscover your purpose, and harness your wisdom to navigate uncharted territories with confidence and grace. Whether you're seeking a fresh chapter in your career, forging new relationships, or embarking on a journey of personal renewal, the course will equip you with the tools to become the master of your destiny. Drawing on the stories of diverse and thriving women from around the world, we will practice proven strategies to help us let go of predispositions that no longer serve us. Students will learn to understand their bodies, embrace experimentation and exploration, and trust that we don't need to figure out every detail of our journey—with the right approach, the path always reveals itself.

Operator Network

2019 - 2023

January Ventures invests early and opens doors for the visionary founders of the future. We invest at the pre-seed and seed stage in the US and Europe. See our full portfolio and learn more at: january.ventures

Managing Partner

2017 - 2023

Angel investor focused on investing in startups with products or services that expand the power and influence of women. This includes health, consumer products, enterprise, and technology. It also means that if there is a product for children that will give time and mental space back to women, I will take a look at it. Investments include afterglow, aavia, astarte medical partners, elektra health, january ventures, magnetic insight, marlow, myhealthteams, nudebarre, outlaw, sendaride, silk + sonder, tactical haptics, tomboyx, valora, via global health, wearwell, xendoo, and zum.

Advisor

2022 - 2022

Strategic and financial advisor to early stage company based in the Netherlands.

Board Observer

2018 - 2022

Member: Angel Investor

2018 - 2020

Podcaster

2017 - 2019

Piloting Your Life was a multi-year/multi-season podcast —Season 4 (Sept - Dec 2019): We focused on deeper dives into topics covered in my new book, Piloting Your Life, released on September 1, 2019. There were some informative conversations about sex, money, GenZ, and claiming our power as women. We also covered some topics that were not in the book including divorce, supporting loved ones during their end of life journey, death doulas, and grief. —Season 3 (Jan - April 2019): This season was all about women’s health…startups, investors, researchers, healthcare providers, and those in the ecosystem committed to providing a better health and wellness experience for women across the spectrum of women’s health. —Season 2 (Sept 2018 - Dec 2018): Interviews with women founders who had received Series A and beyond, women investors, and others who are supporting and building the ecosystem. —Season 1 (Sept 2017 - Aug 2018): Interviews and conversations with people taking the controls to be the pilots in their own lives.