Maple Leopard, Valerie Hansen

Maple Leopard, Valerie 
Today marks the launch of the first annual Fierce 50 Campaign.  As women over 50, we are coming together in a supportive, collaborative community to honor and celebrate one another and to share with the world what it means to be a woman in midlife and beyond. Through this collaboration, each woman has developed a unique bond with their blog partners, opening their hearts and sharing their stories in building authentic connections and relationships; we are forming a community of women who have over half a century of life experience and wisdom to share within them.  We are joining to shift a common perception of this demographic.  We are here to show the world how powerful we are together and that we are only just starting.

Let me introduce you to Valerie. She’s 52 years old and blogs at Maple Leopard, a fashion and travel website she started in September 2014. Val has been married for 29 years and has two adult children.

Please keep reading to learn more about the Seattle resident.

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