Jody Day is the English/Irish founder of Gateway Women, the global support & advocacy network for childless women, and is often described as the founder of the “childless movement.”

An author, two-time TEDx speaker, thought leader and psychotherapist, she’s known for her best-selling Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children (PanMac 2016/2020) and increasingly for her popular Substack, Gateway Elderwomen which explores the adventure of elderhood without motherhood.

Jody’s been a World Childless Week Ambassador since its inception in 2017, and was chosen as one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2013 & as a UK Digital Woman of the Year in 2021. She was also a founding and former board member at the UK Charity Aging Without Children, and is a former Fellow in Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School. She recently trained as a Work That Reconnects Facilitator to weave into her Gateway Elderwomen project focused on disrupting ageism, facilitating intergenerational connections, and creating a pilot study of how to build an “Alterkin” (Alternative Kinship Network) mutual-aid community of care for those aging without children. She lives in rural Ireland and hopes to finish her first novel soon.

Jody can be found at www.gateway-women.com.