You’re not wrong for wanting more.

I’m Brooke Hofsess – a Midlife Midwife. My work is rooted in both scholarship and soul.

For over two decades, I’ve held space for women to grow—through workshops, retreats, higher education, and intimate 1:1 coaching.

I’ve published books that reimagine mentoring as an art form: creative, relational, and emergent.

My academic background as a tenured professor and academic leader (with an MA from Columbia University and a PhD from the University of Georgia) complements my studies in personal development, coaching, somatics, energy work, and women’s leadership.

What that means for you:

  • I meet you exactly where you are and skillfully lead you toward your inner knowing, creativity, and agency.

  • My clients are creative, sensitive women who often spend a lot of time in their heads.

  • I’m experienced at helping them move beyond cognitive solutions into the heart, body, and spirit—because that’s where true breakthroughs emerge and where life begins to feel different.

Your longing is not a flaw—it’s guidance. This is the story of how I learned to trust mine.

 My life looked perfect. It wasn’t.

On paper, my life was perfect: a tenured professorship, glowing accolades, the respect of my peers.

But deep down, I felt hollow.

I wanted less ivory tower and more bonfire—space for warmth, creativity, and honest conversation.

I wanted to gather with women and ask the questions that mattered.

Still, I hesitated.

I told myself that becoming a coach would simply make me a better professor and leader.

I flirted with change while staying tucked inside the safety of my success.

Because I was terrified of losing a life I’d worked so hard to build.

And yet—here I am.

Living a life that feeds me.

Shamelessly savoring my second bite.

I’d be honored to help you create yours.

 I didn’t arrive here alone.

Each of my teachers has shaped my way of being, as a coach, leader, and facilitator. When you work with me, you’ll receive the nectar of these incredible guides:

Tara Mohr, thank you for your groundbreaking writing and the way you blend the spiritual with the practical. I’m honored to be a credentialed Playing Big facilitator.

Dr. Brené Brown, thank you for your courage and storytelling, and for the daily impact of my Dare to Lead certification.

Joanna Lindenbaum, thank you for guiding coaches to the sacred depths of their craft. My training as an Advanced-level Applied Depths Practitioner moved me beyond the technique of coaching to find the seasoned mentor within.

Lianne Raymond for your open-hearted wisdom and fierce, loving presence as a mentor, and your teachings within, Cherish: A Field Guide to the Human Heart and through The Hidden Art of Coaching.

Rachel Maddox, thank you for helping me work safely and powerfully with trauma, and Nisha Moodley and Ginny Muir for gathering the RIPE women to awaken midlife’s wise, erotic power. To Bruce Anderson, for showing me the profound power of Core Gift work through your master facilitator preparation. 

And thank you to… 

… Robin Joy Hilton, for nurturing my business with your keen sense of systems and tech, but also for all the ways you inspire me to create my work from a place of pleasure and calm.  

… my life’s partner, Dustin, for holding space for my evolution and for inspiring me with his musicianship. 

… And to my daughter, for what she invites me to heal, learn, and grow in myself and this world.

This is the lineage that informs our journey when we work together.

The Soil We’ll Grow In

My work is rooted in respect.
For your timing.
For your wisdom.
For the land beneath our feet.

I live, work, and rest on unceded Cherokee, Yuchi, and Moneton lands—today known as Boone, North Carolina.

Photography by Nicole McConville.