My Story

Growth through reinvention

I’ve reinvented myself several times throughout my life, and every reinvention has made me more compassionate, more curious and more alive. Each experience shaped the woman and speaker I am today.

Adriana Welham celebrating her 58th birthday, a collage of her in a peach gown holding signs that read '58 and just getting started' and 'Women don't expire after 50'
The Girl Who Dreamed Beyond the Horizon

Every great adventure begins with curiosity.

As a little girl in Venezuela, I couldn’t afford adventures, so I borrowed them. Every time we visited one of my mum’s friends, I’d disappear into her son’s beautiful leather-bound Jules Verne books. Those stories showed me that there were bigger worlds, different cultures and endless possibilities waiting beyond the horizon. Long before I travelled, my imagination had already left home.

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