Women of Élanoura

A double board-certified physician in internal medicine and sleep medicine, Dr. Andrea Matsumura refuses to accept that exhausted women are simply part of the deal. Dr. Andrea Matsumura has spent her career at the intersection of women’s health, midlife, and sleep, and most of that time refusing a story women are told too often, that…

A landscape painter in Sonoma Valley, Alex Cole has spent more than 25 years teaching women to trust the creative process. She shares what painting taught her, the idea of success she outgrew, and the advice she gives anyone who hasn’t started. Alex Cole has spent three decades painting the landscapes of Northern California, and…