Kickbutt Ageless Living Starts Here.The Beginning Of Becoming

By Staff Writer

At 83, Aundria McMillan Humphrey is not winding down. She is widening.

A writer, speaker, and longtime educator now living in San Miguel de Allende, McMillan Humphrey carries herself with the quiet assurance of someone who has lived many chapters — and knows there are more still unfolding. Her guiding truth is simple and steady: it is never too late to begin again — not by starting over, but by becoming more fully yourself as you age. This belief sits at the heart of her work, which invites people to reconnect with what matters most, meet life’s transitions with courage and curiosity, and live with vitality, meaning, and joy at every stage of life. What she offers is not coaching or quick-fix transformation. As she often says, it is remembering — a return to wisdom already lived.

McMillan Humphrey’s life story spans remarkable distances, both geographic and personal.She grew up poor on a sharecropper’s farm in rural, segregated Virginia, the oldest of eight children, raised within an extended family community where cooperation and resilience were not abstract ideas but daily necessities. Her formal education began in a two-room wooden schoolhouse — now a historical relic — where imagination and determination compensated for limited resources.

From those humble beginnings, her academic path led her far afield. She earned graduate and post-graduate degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City, later spending ten years on the faculty there.

Her career also included a dual appointment at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Cleveland Clinic, where she served as Head of the Speech Production Department.

For decades, McMillan Humphrey’s professional life centered on service — teaching, mentoring, healing, and guiding others through complex transitions. But credentials alone do not tell the full story. Like many people who arrive at later-life wisdom, her understanding was shaped as much by lived experience as by formal education: reinventions, health challenges, and moments when life demanded resilience rather than certainty. Over time, she came to see that wisdom does not arrive all at once. It accumulates quietly, through attention.

That insight now informs what she calls Ageless Living — not a program or a brand, but a way of relating to life itself. At its core is a refusal to shrink with age, coupled with an embrace of curiosity, creativity, gratitude, and connection.

Kickbutt Ageless Living, which began as a community experiment, emerged from a simple observation: people do not lose relevance as they grow older; they lose permission. Permission to begin again. To explore new expressions of self. To speak from lived truth. Ageless Living restores that permission.

Today, McMillan Humphrey’s work appears in many forms — writing, video storytelling, books, podcasts and small reflection circles — yet she resists the idea that these are separate ventures. Instead, she describes them as parts of a constellation.

Each shines on its own, but together they illuminate a larger vision: living with gratitude, learning from experience, and building inclusive community.

Stories inspire reflection. Reflection strengthens connection. Connection reminds people that they are not alone — and never finished.

She is the author of The Secrets to Ageless Living and Unlocking Inner Healing: The Guide to Five Powerful Methods for Personal Transformation, along with reflective journals and essays. Her forthcoming book, Still Becoming: Reflections on Noticing Life, continues this exploration, inviting readers to slow down, pay attention, and recognize the quiet power of noticing.

In San Miguel de Allende, McMillan Humphrey has found a place uniquely suited to this work — a town long known for creativity, reinvention, and a remarkable vitality that extends well into later life. Here, artists, seekers, elders, newcomers, and long-time residents gather not around sameness, but shared curiosity. Through writing circles, conversations, and moments of shared reflection, McMillan Humphrey’s work quietly strengthens the social fabric, offering spaces where stories are exchanged, wisdom is honored, and community deepens — one attentive moment at a time.  She creates spaces where people feel seen, heard, and reminded of their own capacity for renewal.

At 83, she is not offering answers so much as invitations. If something in you stirs while reading her words — a sense that there is more to say, more to live, more to notice — she would tell you to pay attention. That quiet stirring, she believes, is not an ending. It is the beginning of becoming.

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