Our Story
Our Story
Magnificent Middle was started by Lucy Kinosian and Trinnie Kern, two Frankfurt-based women navigating their own midlife transitions, and convinced they should not have to face them alone.
After a thirty-year career in banking, and now pursuing board roles with endowments, Lucy found herself in a season many women know but few name out loud: the empty nest, the end of corporate life, and the quiet, profound question of what comes next. With a certificate in the Designing Your Life program, pioneered by Stanford professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, she seeks to support women in midlife in redesigning their work, identity, and lifestyle to respond to their new reality.
Trinnie came to this season by a different road. After two decades as an intellectual property lawyer, a career that took her from Silicon Valley to Germany, she reached the same threshold: her children grown and gone, her corporate career closing, and the open question of what to do with this next chapter of life. The Designing Your Life certification program, pioneered by Stanford professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, taught her to meet that uncertainty with curiosity. Now she helps other women in midlife do the same: explore the possibilities and design a life that fits where they are now.
What they went looking for was not another networking group or a career program. It was something deeper: a community of women living the same shifts — not only the physical ones, but the emotional and quietly spiritual changes that ask women to make new space, and reconnect with who they really are.
In an increasingly digital world, the need to claim their humanity in real rooms with real people has never felt more urgent. That is why Magnificent Middle is being built around meeting in person, here in the Frankfurt area.
If you are somewhere in this chapter too, Lucy and Trinnie would love to hear from you. Join a Circle, or come along to the Gatherings.