Andrea Hogan is a mother, tech marketing executive, writer, animal lover, wife and life adventurer who swapped boardrooms for backpacks after realizing the life she had built no longer fit quite right. In the thick of midlife transitions, a mother diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, career crossroads, menopause, and the quiet ache that something had to change she set out to walk 500 miles across Spain on the Camino de Santiago.

Born in Galway and now based between Ireland and California, Andrea writes with equal parts humor and heart about the messy, magical business of becoming who we are. Her debut memoir, The Closest Thing to Magic: The Camino de Santiago – Through My Mother’s Forgetting and My Own Becoming, traces a pilgrimage taken in her mother’s footsteps and within her mother’s fading memories, discovering along the way how grief, reinvention, and grace can coexist.
When she’s not writing, Andrea leads her consultancy, ALLWEST, helping tech companies chart their own transformations. She believes in the restorative power of yoga and hiking, style, laughter, family, friendships and a well-timed glass of wine.