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The Wardrobe Analysis: Why ‘Nothing to Wear’ Isn't a Shopping Problem
Most women have a full wardrobe and still feel like they have nothing to wear. Discover why that's a clarity problem, not a shopping problem, and how a wardrobe analysis changes everything.
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Eleven Women Walked. This Is the Fourth Story.
Wendy's four-year journey with Her Smile, from a lockdown wardrobe revamp that revealed a life out of balance, to running the Mother's Day Classic 5km with her son.
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Eleven Women Walked. This Is the Third Story.
She couldn't get up off the floor. Now she's training for a 5km run. Read Phillipa's story, the third woman who walked the Her Smile runway.
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One Rule. Three Seconds. Everything Changes.
It takes just three seconds to form a first impression. Discover the one styling rule that helps you be seen, remembered, and taken seriously.
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Eleven Women Proudly Walked the Her Smile Runway. This Is the Second Story.
Once too nervous to sleep before her first session, Denise trained with Adele for over a decade, building strength, confidence, and an energy that keeps up with her grandsons.
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Eleven Women Walked. This Is the First Story.
Told for decades what her body couldn't do, Stephanie found Her Smile, and found out what it could do. Read her journey to the runway.
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The Beatles Coincidence: How My Granddaughters Found Their Mother's Childhood in a Fabric Store
Two little girls chose galaxy and strawberry fabric for handmade cloche hats without knowing their mother's favourite baby songs were Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Strawberry Fields Forever.
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Strength Has No Expiration Date: Toes-to-Bar for the First Time at 64
At 64, Adele Haussmann did strict toes-to-bar for the first time in her life. Here's what her birthday morning in the gym proves about strength, age and starting late.
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What Does 64 Look Like When You Refuse to Disappear?
Adele Haussmann turns 64 this week. Here is what six decades of living, immigrating twice, losing yourself and finding yourself again actually looks like and what it means for you.
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The Woman Who Came Home
After swimming naked in eleven degree water at Dark Mofo on her mother Elizabeth's birthday, Her Smile founder Adele Haussmann came home to Canberra knowing exactly what she was leaving behind and what she was building next. This is what reappearing looks like at almost 64.
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The Day Strangers Stopped a Crowd for My Mother
At MONA in Hobart, hundreds of strangers unanimously voted me best dressed and stopped an entire crowd so I could walk the ferry gangway alone in the coat I hand-sewn for my mother Elizabeth. This is her moment.
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They Reappeared! Eleven Women Who Decided Their Story Deserved to Be Seen
Eleven women. Ages 40 to 75. Real lives. Real comebacks. They walked the Her Smile runway in Canberra, not as models, but as women who decided they were done being invisible. Read their stories and find out what reappearing actually looks like.
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The Woman Who Didn't Disappear. Narelle's Story
Narelle had brain surgery. Then seizures. Then redundancy.
She could have disappeared completely.
She didn't.
Read her story and find out what it really costs to stay invisible and what it looks like when a woman decides to stop paying that price.
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The Condition of Your Body Is an Indication of the Type of Person You Are in Everything Else You Do
Adele Haussmann is three weeks out from the Dark Mofo Nude Winter Solstice Swim in Hobart in eleven degree water, with three thousand people, at almost 64.
This is what her preparation looks like across all six steps of the Her Smile Empowerment Pathway and why the discipline required to maintain your strength and vitality after 40 shows up in everything else you do.
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My Mother Put on Lipstick Before She Let Her Son Carry Her to the Car
Adele Haussmann shares the story of her mother Elizabeth diagnosed with breast cancer in 1979 and given three months to live. She lived for twenty-five more years. At the very end she put on her lipstick before she let her son carry her to the car. This is the woman Her Smile was built for. CLICK TITLE TO READ MORE
I Was Told Twice to Have Both Breasts Removed. Both Times I Said No.
I have kept myself lean and strong for over four decades. But this is not a story about fitness. It is a story about the decision to keep showing up for yourself even when the stakes are high, even when fear is present, and even when no one would blame you for stepping back.
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The Woman Who Reappeared. What Coming Back Actually Looks Like
She stopped waiting until everything was perfect and began anyway. Her Smile founder Adele Haussmann launches The Woman Who Reappeared — a six-week campaign for women over 35 who are ready to stop disappearing and start coming back to themselves.
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Happy Mother’s Day Mum! Elizabeth 1933-2007
She was given three months to live when her daughter was seventeen. She lived for another twenty-five years and never once complained. A Mother's Day tribute from Adele Haussmann, founder of Her Smile.
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She's Back! And She's Bringing Something New
If something in the last six weeks landed for you but you haven't taken a step yet, this is the post to read first. The woman hasn't gone anywhere. She is just waiting for a specific invitation. Consider this yours. CLICK TITLE TO READ MORE
The real price of waiting, and what is waiting on the other side
Nobody talks about the quiet cost of putting yourself last. Not the dramatic cost, the slow, invisible one that compounds year after year. In this final edition of The Woman Who Disappeared series, Her Smile founder Adele Haussmann gets honest about what another year of waiting actually takes from you and what becomes possible the moment you decide to stop. Plus a practical skincare gift inside that every woman over 40 needs to know.- CLICK TITLE TO READ MORE

