Second ACT: How Successful Women Rewrite the Rules of Fulfillment and Power in Midlife

by Colleen Pimentel

122 pages, Paperback

Published January 15, 2026

About the author

If you have checked every box on the "script" of success but still feel a hollow ache, you aren't having a crisis—you're having a breakthrough.

I’m Colleen Pimentel, a former Go-to-Market Executive with 30 years in Big Tech and over 10 career reinventions. I wrote my debut book, Second Act, because I lived the "Midlife Fog" firsthand. After closing the biggest deal of my career, I found myself sitting on my couch feeling numb instead of euphoric. That moment launched a five-year journey to discover how high-achieving women can move beyond exhaustion and unlock their most purposeful chapter.

My work focuses on the "Four Anchors of Midlife Change"—Clarity, Courage, Commitment, and Compassion—to help you stop drifting and start steering. I believe that the linear life is dead and that your best years are unequivocally next.


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When I'm not writing or speaking, I'm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, likely biking or spending time in nature with my husband and family.

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