Lisa Walker loves colour, sparkles, wallpaper, animals and pole dancing. Also yoga and nature and mostly fantasises about living in the New Zealand wilderness.

She is an entrepreneur and midlife health advocate with a passion for helping men and women rebuild and reimagine their lives.

At 47, Lisa’s life shattered when she found her husband dead, an unthinkable moment that followed years of quietly battling his addiction while holding together the façade of a “normal” life. Catapulted into the depths of grief and sole parenting, she set herself a new challenge, to reinvent her life to live hard, unapologetically and with joy.

She speaks to anyone whose life has cracked wide open, through grief, divorce, burnout, or the quiet ache of discontent, and offers not just hope, but an unapologetic invitation to start again.

As a co-founder of Eir Women, Lisa is passionate about supporting women through the often-overlooked challenges of perimenopause and midlife. A qualified yoga teacher for over a decade, Lisa combines her knowledge of mind-body wellbeing with evidence-based practices from the field of Positive Psychology, which she is currently studying at Master’s level at Melbourne University.

Before becoming a voice for women’s wellbeing, Lisa spent 30 years in corporate marketing and media, a career that honed her storytelling and leadership skills.

Lisa is a regular guest on podcasts and media speaking on women’s health, happiness, grief, and post-traumatic growth. Her story has been featured in The Sunday Magazine, and she recently co-led original research on health and happiness in midlife. She is also an investor in emerging women’s health technologies.

Her work invites women to reclaim their curiosity, joy, purpose, and to live in full, vibrant colour.

Follow Lisa on Instagram @walker_on_the_wild_side for more daily life hits and misses and health tips for women over 40.