Kelley Hagenauer - WISE WOMEN 2024
“Kindness doesn’t cost you anything.”
How wise are you? 56 on the cusp of 57!
Where are you from? Glen Iris, Victoria
Bio: I’m a daughter, sister, CEO at home AKA wife and mother to two beautiful humans! I’ve been lucky enough to have had a short career in finance, and then was able to stay at home over the years to look after my family while still working over the years in numerous part-time roles which was a gift. Given a life changing diagnosis of MS just as I became a new mum for the first time did bring about challenges. As a new family, we faced them head on and in many ways being given this diagnosis at 30 was a blessing. It made me put my health very close to the top of the list and I learnt very quickly ‘nobody will look after you and your health like you! I've worked hard to give myself every opportunity to stay in the best health and this is now more important than ever
What about your life would you like to celebrate most? How blessed I am that my MS has remained really stable.
What 3 words best describe you in this phase of your life? Grateful, Blessed and continuing to discover things about myself.
What do you love about this time of life?: I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 25 years ago, started going through menopause at 48 and it would be fair to say Menopause and I are NOT friends! This has been challenging but I am grateful for the fact that I now have more space in my life to devote more time to my health and wellbeing.
It’s now a time to discover what makes me happy, learn to let go of expectations of myself and what others may think of me and evolve into this next phase of my life. Even though my husband is still working full-time in his business, we now have far more time for us. It’s about how we want to spend this time and what that looks like going forward. I’ve never been more excited about this time to come.
This is a time when I’m also discovering new hobbies. Watch this space!
I love the wisdom, honesty and how freeing this age can be too.
“Life isn’t a dress rehearsal.”
Note from Gray. I like the quote Kelley chose. I looked it up, Sam continued to say. Well said Kelley and Sam!
This is probably it. Make it count. Time is extremely limited and goes by fast. Do what makes you happy and fulfilled—few people get remembered hundreds of years after they die anyway. Don’t do stuff that doesn’t make you happy (this happens most often when other people want you to do something). Don’t spend time trying to maintain relationships with people you don’t like, and cut negative people out of your life. Negativity is really bad. Don’t let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
