Michelle McIvor

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Michelle McIvor is a freelance journalist and the author of the national bestseller The Glow Code: A Cheat Sheet for Feeling, Looking, and Being Your Best at Any Age. She has ghostwritten two books, including the #1 Canadian bestseller Forever Terry: A Legacy in Letters.

As a former health columnist with the Calgary Herald, Michelle wrote about everything from emerging wellness trends and new research to her experiences exercising with a personal trainer, giving up alcohol for a trial period, and more. Michelle’s writing has also appeared in publications such as Maclean’s, Reader’s Digest, Best Health, and Chatelaine, as well as AskMen.com. (If you’re into digging up old stories, here’s a hot tip: Before 2015, her byline was Michelle Magnan.)

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Unleashing the Glow Within

Michelle provides simple but effective tips empowering women to age well and live fully, based on her Canadian bestseller The Glow Code: A Cheat Sheet for Feeling, Looking, and Being Your Best at Any Age. Having curated advice from dozens of experts on how to thrive in midlife, she includes strategies to improve everything from friendships, creative practices, and fitness to habits, sleep, body acceptance, and more. With humor and vulnerability, Michelle also reveals what happened when she tried the advice, giving audiences a laugh, inspiring them to enact change in their lives, and encouraging them to embrace the wild ride that is aging.

Best Friends Forever? How to Navigate – and Maintain – Friendships as a Grown-Up

When it comes to living long and well, friendships are critical. But maintaining friendships as we age is tricky because, with all these grown-up responsibilities, who has the time? In this talk, journalist Michelle McIvor shares what she learned about navigating friendships in midlife while writing the bestselling book The Glow Code: A Cheat Sheet for Feeling, Looking, and Being Your Best at Any Age. From sharing her struggles with old pals and advocating for cultivating friendships to imparting expert tips on how to evaluate friendships, reenergize those needing TLC, and build new ones in midlife, Michelle arms audiences with the tools they need to not only have good friends but be good friends.

How to Age Gratefully

Michelle McIvor is rethinking what it means to age. Despite the messages we all hear that aging is shameful or something to fix, she’s excited to get older – and thinks you should be, too. Drawing on the age-affirming insights and advice from her bestseller The Glow Code: A Cheat Sheet for Feeling, Looking, and Being Your Best at Any Age, Michelle shares why aging doesn’t suck, how we can shift our perspectives, and what kind of future waits for us and our loved ones when we do. Audiences will leave empowered to rethink negative views on aging and embark on a more confident, joyous aging experience.