I’ve long admired Yumi Stynes. Ever since she was a VJ on Channel V. I think she’s strong, fiesty, feminine, individual and unafraid to be herself. She’s now a single mother of two daughters and by moving from cable to commercial TV with the Logie-winning morning show The Circle, has become massively more well-known.

Imagine my delight when I opened my Sunday paper and the magazine in which my column appears, popped out with Yumi on the cover. What a frock. And what’s that in her hair? Grey. Yumi, 35, chooses not to dye her hair. She likes the grey. The article itself was called “The Wonder Years” and featured interviews with Yumi and several other women about the age at which they have felt happiest, when they’ve felt like they’ve really got their shit together.

From Sunday Life:

I loved that. And I have to say I think I hit my stride a little later, in my mid 30s. I was so….rushed in my early 20s. So desperate to tick off a long list of Big Life Events faster faster faster. Of course, my train derailed fairly spectacularly a few times along the way and it wasn’t until my mid thirties, with some careeer and personal disasters behind me that I felt like I was where I wanted to be.

What about you…when did you hit your stride? Or are you still on your way? Are you where you thought you’d be at this age?