The Empty Nest Rebellion: Learning to Soar from an Empty Nest
This isn’t a breakdown. It’s a breakout.
The Empty Nest Rebellion is my personal and creative mission to reclaim midlife with joy and courage. After raising kids and living behind the scenes, I’m saying yes to wild ideas, conquering personal challenges, and living big.
ENR is a joyful, sometimes messy permission slip to becoming yourself at any age.
It’s part memoir, part social experiment, and part movement for women who are ready to live out loud in their bold second acts.
Come along!
WELCOME TO THE REBELLION
The kids are gone. The house is quiet. You’ve already doom scrolled your social media. You could use this time to organize your spice drawer, start juicing celery, or maybe…just maybe…completely upend your life in the best way possible.
The Empty Nest Rebellion isn’t just a title. It’s a manifesto. A movement. A middle finger to the idea that your boldest days are behind you just because someone else moved out.
Hi, I’m Michelle. I’m a late-bloomer, a writer, a challenge-slayer, a romantic, a realist, a mother, a mischief-maker, and a woman who said yes to things she didn’t think she could pull off. This rebellion is proof that midlife isn’t the end of your story, it’s where the plot thickens.
You don’t need to shrink, blend in, or settle. You need a spark. A push. A reminder that you're not alone in wanting more.
So, if you’re standing on the edge of the rest of your life thinking, “Wait… what now?”—welcome to the rebellion. You belong here.
The Five Pillars of Empty Nest Rebellion
A framework for courage, consistency, and joy in your second act.
The Empty Nest Rebellion is built on five pillars that help women design bold, fulfilling lives after the kids are grown.
Each pillar represents a different kind of courage, from tiny daily acts to big, fear-facing leaps, and all of them lead toward one goal: creating a life that feels beautifully, unapologetically yours.
After raising kids and playing small, I decided to treat midlife like a launchpad, not a landing. The Empty Nest Rebellion is my radical experiment in joy, visibility, and creative freedom. It’s a memoir in motion. A second act in real time. A love letter to the woman I’m still becoming.
This isn’t about having a crisis. It’s about claiming power, joy, and visibility after decades of caregiving, self-sacrifice, and shrinking.
Come along for the ride. Or better yet, start your own.
The Empty Nest Rebellion is my year-long mission to say yes to everything I was once too scared to try. I’m writing books, training to be the best home chef I can be, launching bold businesses, auditioning for reality shows, and documenting every beautiful, awkward, terrifying step of reinvention in midlife.
Any crazy idea I come up with, I’m going for it. Jump first, think second!
@michellejolene40
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