ABOUT ABUNDANTLYMARI
I’m interested in better decisions, not perfect women.
I’m Marilene Hodge, an entrepreneur and wellness strategist currently pursuing doctoral work in strategy. AbundantlyMari is where the strategic lens meets a subject I care deeply about: how women live, feel, perform, recover, and age after 35.
Why AbundantlyMari exists
AbundantlyMari began with a frustration I kept running into in my own life: there was no shortage of wellness information, but far less help deciding what actually deserved attention.
After 35, the questions become more interconnected. Sleep can affect cognition. Hormonal changes can alter energy, recovery, and mood. A wearable can produce more data than clarity. A supplement cabinet can quietly become a museum of good intentions.
I wanted a place that could help women understand the signal, question the claim, weigh the evidence, and make a more deliberate decision without turning wellness into a full-time job.
That is why AbundantlyMari exists. It sits at the intersection of women’s wellness after 35, perimenopause and menopause, longevity, biohacking, technology, and the very ordinary business of living inside a changing body.
The goal is not perfect health. It is greater understanding, better choices, and more agency over the parts of our lives we can actually influence.
Why strategy belongs in wellness
Wellness has become extraordinarily good at producing options. There is always another supplement, device, protocol, peptide, test, app, diet, expert, or beautifully packaged promise competing for attention.
My instinct is to step back and ask different questions: What problem are we actually solving? What evidence supports the intervention? What does it cost in money, time, effort, and attention? What would change our decision? And when is doing less the smarter strategy?
That is the operating philosophy behind AbundantlyMari.
What I research
The territory is intentionally broad because women are not a collection of disconnected symptoms. Hormones affect sleep. Sleep affects cognition. Strength affects longevity. Stress capacity affects decision-making. Nutrition, recovery, relationships, practical beauty, confidence, technology, and aging all overlap in real life even when the internet files them into separate tabs.
You’ll find research and commentary on perimenopause and menopause, longevity, metabolic health, wearables, peptides, supplements, nutrition, recipes, healthy aging, beauty technology, nervous system capacity, coherence, mindfulness, recovery, and personal development.
How I approach recommendations
- Evidence first. Strong human data, professional guidance, and evidence quality are treated differently from early research, mechanism-only reasoning, anecdotes, and marketing claims.
- Experience is not evidence. I may test and discuss products personally, but I distinguish my experience from conclusions that apply broadly.
- Cost matters. A product can work and still not be worth buying.
- Conflicts are disclosed. If a link may earn a commission, or if something is gifted or sponsored, you should know that before you click.
- Medicine stays medicine. Wearables and wellness tools can provide useful information, but diagnosis and individualized treatment belong with qualified healthcare professionals.
Tech for insights. Doctors for decisions. Community for support.
The long game
I’m building AbundantlyMari as a body of work, not a feed of disposable wellness takes. Some ideas will become deeper frameworks. Some experiments will become resources. Some better questions may eventually become products. The point is to earn that progression through useful work and trust rather than announcing expertise before doing the work in public.
If you are a woman who wants to understand what is changing, make better choices, and remain curious without making wellness your full-time job, you are in the right place.
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