when juzza (justine gaubert, crone-in-training) hit perimenopause, she was pissed off about being made to feel fearful about getting older as a woman.
In 2022 she set up a Private Facebook group of ten menopausal pals to share positive content about kick-ass older women, and ‘considerately cheer each other on’.
Our Facebook group has now grown to over 800 members from all over the world bringing together women of different generations. we share content to take on the AGEIST algorithms and celebrate the wisdom and mischief of older women, and the joy that can come in our ‘third act’.
In 2023 juzza launched her e-magazine on ‘Substack’ -‘Tits to the Wind!’ to share some of the themes from our Private Facebook group with the world, often woven into her personal irreverent musings on midlife.
It’s our aim to pull together ALL our learning from older women to co-create an alternative roadmap for female ageing to help younger women embrace their third act in a healthier way.
We also occasionally give birth to bat-shit crazy events such as:
our sell out menopause disco (with spoken word) ‘Cronelines’
the Crone Human Library™️
Crone Crowning Ceremonies and Crone Camp Retreats
and an online shop with gifts for the emergent feminist crone in your life.
about the founder.
Juzza is a Sheffield Crone-in-Training in her mid 50s. After working as an award-winning copywriter and brand consultant for over 30 years, she became a social entrepreneur, setting up various social enterprises including Silent Cities where she ran Community Journalist programmes to help unearth voices that were not usually heard.
Her Community Journalists collected over 50 hours of stories from Sheffield’s most isolated older people for Sheffield’s Age Better bid, and were name-checked by the Big Lottery as being crucial to Sheffield being awarded the full £6million to reduce isolation.
Juzza was invited to become the first Social Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Sheffield where she set up a Social Innovation Incubator for students.
In lockdown, she set up The Academy for Dangerous Dreamers to help mainly female start ups and charities create marketing plans which align with their personal values.
She was an early advocate of autism/ADHD diagnosis for older women (you can watch her TED X talk from 2015 below). Her personal struggles that come with the superpower of creativity means she struggles to make a living.
She’s run Crone Club as a volunteer for three years, but now needs to turn it into a living wage. Her only income is through her Substack writing, ‘Tits to the Wind!’ but she needs to double the number of paid subscribers to keep going.
You can sign up for just £4 a month to get her writing, straight to your inbox.
Or you can make a one off donation here.
Contact Juzza for more info.
hire her
Hire Juzza for a talk on overcoming FOM (Fear of Menopause) or how to #Reclaim Crone.
Find out about how Crone Club came out and a short history of the word 'Crone'. Founder Justine Gaubert talking at Creative Mornings Sheffield.
Watch Juzza’s entertaining 2019 TED X Doncaster talk about the benefits of curiosity and getting an autism diagnosis as a woman in midlife.