Sandra Levitin

Sandra Levitin is the Founder/CEO/Publisher of Kalön Women, an online magazine for women forty plus. She has been writing since she could hold a crayon, growing to love the feel of a pencil in her hand and the sound it makes when connecting to paper. She is a published poet, working on two manuscripts and a children’s book with her 10 year old granddaughter.

Sandra loves being in her fifties! Smack in the middle of the baby boomer generation of women; a generation of women unlike any other. A group of women not ready to move over, lie down or let life pass them by sitting in a rocking chair. These generations of “women of a certain age” have ambition, life experience, and are passionate about both their own well being and giving back to their communities.

She has been searching most of her adult life to find her “passion”. It took being married at 18 for 24 years, raising two children, surviving a divorce, becoming a grandmother, adjusting to an empty nest, living on her own and being single for the first time all before the age of 43 to realize what she lost along the way…herself.

Her life has always framed itself around helping people. A devoted mother and grandmother, she calls herself the “fix it lady” because everyone, including her children’s friends have always come to her to “fix it”. It followed her on into the corporate world as she excelled in sales, sales management and sales training for several national and international companies. In 2002 she became the General Manager of a real estate business, contributing her knowledge and experience to the 800 realtors under their brokerage. Although she enjoyed the challenges, there was still something missing.

After making a tough decision, Sandra decided to leave the corporate environment and fulfill a 15 year dream of creating a magazine for women forty plus that started with a friend who died from breast cancer before they could see it through together. Sandra and a few of her friends also began talking about what direction they each wanted their lives to take. Kalön Women was born as a way for us to reach out to other women sharing similar journeys to share our professional and life experiences, enriching one another along the way – all with a touch of humor, which Sandra says is so important because as women, we forget how to laugh and play.

Kalön Women’s vision is to be a powerful voice for all women 40+ as we face challenges unique to our generation. The mission of Kalön Women is to provide answers and raise awareness of issues and causes that affect us, so that our generation of women will be stronger from knowledge gained, and the generation of women who follow in our path will hopefully find it less rocky. The articles, stories, poetry and other written expressions in Kalön Women are created by real women 40+. Written to inspire, help and perhaps provide a few laughs to all “women of a certain age”.

Retirement? Sandra has discovered that women do not retire in the traditional sense. Instead, she feels that we look for new challenges and then reinvent ourselves to meet them. It is then up to us, to reveal new meanings and truths to hold our attention and to grasp the true meaning of Kalön within ourselves.