Gifts for women, made by women
Who knows best about what women like? That’s right — women! Which is why we curated this collection of gifts created for women, by women.
Many of these products and services are designed by women who are members of the Founding MidstHer community of 40+ entrepreneurs and solopreneurs.
Whether you’re gifting yourself or someone you love, we suggest bookmarking this page because we’ll continue to add more gifts over time.
What is Galentine’s Day and when is it?
Galentine’s Day is a holiday celebrated on February 13, the day before Valentine’s Day, dedicated to honoring friendships, especially among women, though people of all genders now join in to appreciate their supportive friends with brunches, gifts, or parties. Galentine’s Day originated from the TV show Parks and Recreation, created by Leslie Knope, as a day for “gal pals” to celebrate their platonic love and empowerment.
What are the best Galentine’s Day gifts for women?
Gifts for health nuts, longevity seekers, and wellness lovers
Seen Nutrition Calcium Chew Complete
Co-founded by a PhD and PharmD, Seen Nutrition innovated the first dietary calcium chew for better bone health. Made with only four real foods, each calcium chew is a delicious, natural way to get 500mg of highly bioavailable calcium. Tastes like caramel; no synthetics, fillers, preservatives, or added sugar.
Visit seennutrition.com to subscribe for $29.75 a month. Use discount codeMIDST10 for 10% off (valid until late February 2026).
The Carry Vest Beta Bundle
$299 | Fully loaded with 20 pounds of modular weight
Meet the first premium weighted vest purpose-built for women. The Carry Vest Beta Bundle is designed to support strength, bone density, and confidence — without compromising comfort or style.
Thoughtfully engineered for the female form, it features padded shoulders, bust-friendly shaping, and adjustable front and side cinches for a customized, flattering fit. The cropped silhouette pairs high-performance materials with minimalist style — and yes, it’s machine washable. With seven sleek pockets to hold your phone, keys, cards, and even a water bladder/pouch, it’s as functional as it is beautiful.
Each Beta Bundle includes:
- A vest shell in your chosen size and color
- 20lbs of removable 0.5lb weights
- A gift for being an early supporter
Ideal for rucking (walking with weight), strength training, or adding resistance to your routine, The Carry Vest helps women age powerfully — one weighted step at a time.
With a patent-pending modular system, you can load up to 20 pounds and swap shells to refresh your look. Once you own the weight system, you can grow your shell collection, with more colorways dropping next year.
Available in black or cream, and three inclusive sizes: 1 (XS/S), 2 (M), and 3 (L/XL).
Join the movement. Preorders open at thecarry.co. Ships in early 2026.
More about The Carry Co-Founders, Esther Sedgwick and Cortney Bigelow: Ruck this way: What are the best weighted vests for women?
The Carry co-founders created the best weighted vest for women
Reclaim Your Pleasure with Reiki
Enjoy this five-week private online program created by Relationship Coach and Reiki Master Teacher Daydree Horner. After years of working closely with women over 40, Daydree saw a clear need for a safe, compassionate space where women could reconnect with their bodies, their desires, and their sense of pleasure — whether partnered or single.
This intimate program offers a step-by-step, transformative journey for women who want to:
- Rebuild confidence in their bodies
- Rekindle self-pleasure
- Experience deeper intimacy and pleasure with a partner
- Feel more alive, expressive, and connected
Reclaim Your Pleasure is designed to support you through the real challenges that arise with age, while helping you rediscover the joy, sensuality, and confidence that have always belonged to you. Special limited-time holiday offering: $197. (If you pay Daydree via Venmo, the last 4 digits of her phone are 1216.)
More about Daydree Horner: Reiki Master Daydree Horner (aka Good Love Coach) helps women find their pleasure
Menopod for instant hot flash relief
$109 U.S.
This personal cooling device helps ease the heat from hot flashes, night sweats, anxiety spikes, and other temperature changes. It cools in seconds, fits in the palm of your hand, and provides relief without fans, sprays, or medication.
Using copper-based Peltier technology, Menopod cools to 5°C and works best when applied to pulse points like the neck or wrist. Use it at home, at work, or wherever comfort matters.
More about the CEO of Menopod: Meet Jessica Tinney, who transitioned from employee to owner of Menopod
NNABI Peri Essential 5 supplements: Foundational support for your perimenopause era
Peri Essential 5™ Starter Kit | Special price for The Midst readers: $125 one-time/$99 subscription
Feel like your body’s changing and no one gave you the manual? This is where better starts. Doctor-formulated and clinically dosed, Peri Essential 5™ is a non-hormonal botanical supplement designed to support the 5 key systems impacted during perimenopause.
Whether you’re feeling stressed, tired, bloated, moody, achy or experiencing disrupted sleep and mood-swings, this is where your comeback begins.
What’s inside NNABI
A 30-day supply of Peri Essential 5™, your all-in-one formula to support:
• Nervous system
• Inflammation
• Gut & Liver health
• Blood sugar
• Immunity
- Glass container. A sleek, sustainable, and made to sit proudly on your counter
- Travel vial. Take your support on the go, so you never miss a dose.
- Lifestyle guidance and community access, to keep you informed, empowered, and fully peri-powered.
More about the founders of NNABI: Meet EJ Kim: NNABI co-founder and ‘double day’ extraordinaire
Marina Pen, NYC entrepreneur with 2 ‘small hurricanes,’ rates her sleep an 8/10
Gifts for good vibes
Warning: This menopause merch may make you pee your pants
At Hot in Charleston and all around the country, we’re finally talking honestly about midlife, perimenopause, and menopause. You could say we’re wearing our hearts on our sleeves… and on our heads. And on our tumblers.
Join the midlife empowerment movement and wear your merch proudly — there’s even more cool stuff here on hotincharleston.com/merch.
More about: Kerri Devine, founder of Hot In Charleston
For more fun, along with soul-sustaining conversations on midlife, head to @hotincharleston on Instagram.
Goldhawk Paper Co. feel-good greeting cards
Goldhawk Paper Co. was built from the belief that connection matters — especially now. Women are carrying so much: the invisible load, the humor required to survive it, and the compassion that holds everything together. And in a world that feels noisy, unpredictable, and often overwhelming, our greatest constant is the bond between women. When we show up for each other, everything shifts.
That’s the pulse of Goldhawk. These cards are not just stationery; they’re signals. Little anchors of care. Quick sparks of encouragement. Tiny, powerful ways to say you’re seen, you’re loved, I’m here. Because the only thing that makes sense is the incredible orbit of powerhouse women who give a damn.
For this upcoming holiday season, Goldhawk Paper. Co. offering two card bundles created to spark connection long after the winter months fade. Each set is priced at $12. Between November 24 and December 3, CYBER25 will be applied at checkout. And the deals don’t stop, HOLIDAY20 will follow between December 4-18, making it easier to send meaningful notes to the women who carry you through.
Bundle 1 4-pack
Bundle 2 4-pack
Launched on International Women’s Day in 2025 by MacKenzie Wilson, Goldhawk Paper Co. honors a lifelong ritual of letter-writing and a nod to legacy, sisterhood, and the art of lifting each other up in both big and small ways. Every design is created with intention, inspired by women who hold the world on their shoulders — and still show up with heart.
More about the creator of Goldhawk Paper Co.: Meet MacKenzie Wilson, a P.M. who leaned into the process of changing careers
Kim’s Little Women collection of art prints, bags, note cards, and more
The founder of Women’s Survival Guide, Kim Druker Stockwell, is also an artist! Kim’s Little Women are a collection of colorful vibes that come in art prints, bags, ornaments, note cards, magnets, and stickers.
In her words: “I have always been conscious of the inequalities between the sexes, particularly in art. Women, painted by men, used as objects to be admired. A walk through any museum exhibits my point. I paint women from a midlife woman’s point of view.”
Gifts for book lovers
Hype Women by Erin Gallagher
Ambitious or know someone who is?
In Hype Women: Breaking Free from Mean Girls, Patriarchy, and Systems Silencing You, CEO, founder, and entrepreneur Erin Gallagher delivers a provocative and practical playbook of transformation. She shares simple shifts to take you from passively existing as a person who accepts what you “get” into actively living as one who demands — and receives — what you deserve. Readers will explore the depths of their unlimited potential, equipped with actions to take back your power and realize your collective personal and professional goals.
Gallagher guides you through the process of de-conditioning from the false narratives you’ve been told about yourself — and women everywhere — at your own pace, meeting you in this moment. You will learn how to stop pouring your energy and effort into building other’s social and financial capital and how to start investing in building and healing your own generational health and wealth.
She also shows you:
- How to forgive yourself for doing what you needed to in order to survive
- How to break free from the people, places, and programming holding you back
- How to stand in the power of knowing who you truly are and what you really want
Just right for women who are done being good girls, kowtowing to mean girls, Hype Women is a transformative and transformational anthem for a rising tide of women who are ready to become who they were always meant to be.
Have You Seen Him by Kimberly Lee
About the book: For David Byrdsong, life is a series of daily obligations. An attorney, he lacks both ambition and the ability to commit to a long-term relationship with his girlfriend, Gayle. Abandoned by his family at an airport when he was eleven, he learned to blunt his feelings, despite his subsequent adoption by a loving couple.
Until one day, when David discovers his own face in a missing child ad. Suddenly driven to uncover the truth about his past, he is forced to tap into his inner strength as he encounters corporate conspiracies, murdered bystanders, and distressing suspicions about the only family he’s ever really trusted. David enlists Gayle’s help—and the help of an unlikely stranger with secrets of his own—as he attempts to find his true family, whoever they are.
Thrilling, exploratory, and propulsive, Have You Seen Him is a story of lost identity, dangerous secrets, and a deeply personal pursuit of the truth.
More about the author: Former L.A. public defender Kimberly Lee publishes thriller fiction novel
What if everything you believed about yourself was totally wrong? (An exclusive excerpt of Have You Seen Him)
Normalize It by Jessica Zucker, PhD
In her critically acclaimed, groundbreaking book I Had a Miscarriage, Jessica Zucker boldly exposed the silence, stigma, and shame that surround pregnancy loss and demonstrated the need to normalize conversations around painful reproductive events that too often go unspoken.
In Normalize It, Zucker expands her lens to address a multitude of challenges women face — from girlhood, body image, motherhood, reproductive choice, sexual trauma, menopause, and more — that so often incite shame and overwhelming cultural pressure to stay silent. Based on fictitious patient stories, coupled with cutting-edge psychological research, Zucker fearlessly shares her insights into the shame and stigma that shroud so many women’s experiences and explores the liberation that can follow when we get vulnerable and talk about the hard stuff.
Read this exclusive excerpt of Normalize It
Midlife Upgrade book
Pamela DeRose and Julie Fedeli are the powerhouse friends behind Midlife Upgrade — a bold, transformative movement helping women navigate the wild, wonderful, and “WTF” moments of midlife.
With decades of experience in wellness, business, and personal growth, Pam and Julie blend fierce honesty, deep wisdom, and just the right amount of sass. Together, they’ve built a thriving community, a bestselling book, and a series of sold-out events that are redefining what it means to thrive in midlife.
Their mission is simple but profound: to empower women to reclaim their bodies, rewrite their stories, and step into the second half of life with clarity, vitality, and joy.
Pamela and Julie are also the bestselling co-authors of Midlife Upgrade: A Girlfriend’s Guide to Finding Your Power in the Pause — an honest, funny, and deeply relatable roadmap through the hormonal hurricanes and emotional plot twists of midlife. Part guide, part manifesto, Midlife Upgrade is inspiring women everywhere to see this chapter not as an ending, but as the ultimate beginning.
More about the MidstHers: Midlife Upgrade Co-founder Pamela DeRose releases a bestseller
Want to be part of a Goddess Salon? (We do!) Meet Julie Fedeli
We had the honor of reading an advance copy of Dana Bowman’s forthcoming book, Humble Pie: Sober Menopause, Sugar Addiction, and the Sweetness of Recovery — and it’s really good.
I mean, menopause stories are having a moment, but menopause + sobriety + food addiction? Dana Bowman is early to market on that. More than a pioneering truth teller, in Humble Pie, she’s a mom who does her research, a master of digressions that make sense in a minute, and a writer whose wise cracks resonate whether you’re sober or not.
In her Fear and Loathing in Las Dana voice, she makes it AOK to LOL about recovery, relapses, and swapping alcohol for sugar. Why not have a laugh about how to deal with hard things while making sense of the madness that is menopause and the chaos of midlife — and cozy up with a new friend while you’re at it.
More about the author: Dana Bowman takes on sober menopause and sugar addiction in ‘Humble Pie’
Read an exclusive excerpt of Humble Pie
The Covert Buccaneer by S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour
The Covert Buccaneer is a dual-timeline women’s historical fiction novel and family saga set in San Francisco, linking two extraordinary women separated by a century.
With a diary beginning in 1867 at age thirteen, Theodora “Teddy” Ellis defies gender norms as a miner, suffragist, and real estate pioneer. Over a hundred years later, climate migrant attorney and special needs mother Georgina “Ellie” Benvenuto discovers Teddy’s long-hidden diary — along with an heirloom that might change everything.
From escaping the Great Chicago Fire, to prospecting in the untamed Alaska wilderness, to rebuilding post-earthquake San Francisco — Teddy’s covert past helps Ellie navigate her own fault lines.
Blending legal drama, emotional resilience, intergenerational mystery, and unconventional love stories, this richly researched novel based on real people and events explores climate justice, gender nonconformity, caregiver discrimination, the immigrant experience, and unsung Indigenous voices.
The Covert Buccaneer is a celebration of resilience, legacy, and what we might become when we dare to follow the women who came before us.
Gifts for professional, creative, and personal development
Rebecca Callahan of Summer Day LLC
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
If Mary Oliver’s question hits differently these days, you’re not alone.
Maybe you’re in a career that no longer fits. Maybe you’re asking bigger questions about what success even means anymore. Maybe you’re realizing that the rules you followed to get here won’t take you where you want to go next.
The messy middle of midlife isn’t a crisis — it’s a clarifying moment. A chance to stop optimizing for someone else’s definition of success and start designing for your own.
As a certified career & leadership coach, Rebecca works with women who are done with “should” and ready for “what if.” Together, we:
- Redefine what success looks like on your terms — not the ladder’s
- Navigate career pivots with clarity and confidence
- Reconnect with your purpose and lead from there
- Build the next chapter around what actually matters
This isn’t about fixing yourself. You’re not broken. This is about claiming what’s next.
Special offer for The Midst community: $50 off per session when you book a 6- or 12-pack coaching package.
Because investing in yourself in 2026 isn’t indulgent — it’s essential.
Your one wild and precious life is waiting. Let’s figure out what you want to do with it.
Book a free chemistry call with Rebecca.
More about the career coach: Rebecca Callahan is a community builder and career coach for early/mid-career women
The Artist’s Way for Midlife Women Workshop by Steph Sprenger
Join a 12-week Artist’s Way workshop reimagined for midlife women. Through a feminist lens, Stephanie Sprenger will help you tackle real barriers — emotional labor, caregiving, silence — and help you reclaim your creativity. Weekly lessons, meetings, and an online forum are equal parts creative breakthrough and group therapy.
More about the MidstHer: Meet Steph Sprenger, 47, a solo-parenting Renaissance woman who’s seeking writers and a literary agent
Thank you for supporting women-owned businesses on Galentine’s Day and Valentine’s Day
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