There’s a season of life no one really prepares you for.
The in-between.
The space where you’re not who you used to be, but not fully who you’re becoming yet. Where you’re dreaming, discovering, building, and questioning… all at once.
Aveline was created for that season.
Hosted by Aleks Arwood, Aveline is a space for honest conversations and meaningful stories with young women who are doing brave, meaningful things with their lives, even as they’re still figuring it out.
These are not just conversations about what someone has accomplished, but about what shaped them, what they wrestled with, and what this season actually feels like in real time.
Through each episode, Aveline offers a quieter kind of reassurance. A reminder that there is no straight line to becoming, that clarity doesn’t always come before the next step, and that sometimes all it takes to move forward is seeing that someone else did it too.
At its core, Aveline is meant to feel like a friend walking beside you in the middle of it all.
A steady voice reminding you that you are not behind.
You are becoming.
Aleks Arwood is the Co-founder and Editor of Aveline, a new magazine and learning community for young women in their season of becoming. A natural storyteller and purpose-driven creative, Aleks believes in the power of stories to bring people together and shift the way we see and shape the world.
With Aveline, she’s building more than a magazine. Aleks envisions it as a space where young women can see themselves in the stories of others who are doing what lights them up and figuring it out as they go. In a culture full of noise and comparison, she imagines Aveline as a really stylish, thoughtful friend you can carry with you—someone who helps you feel a little less alone and a little more sure of your next step.
Alongside the upcoming launch of the magazine, Aleks hosts The Aveline Podcast, where she’ll share conversations with young women across the country who are living creative and courageous lives. Her passion for helping other young creators and entrepreneurs find the confidence to chase their ideas also led to the launch of the Aveline Fund, created to support young women when their ideas are still forming, and encouragement can be hard to find. The fund offers seed money, mentorship, and visibility to help creative, purpose-driven work grow. And somehow, in the middle of it all, Aleks is a senior at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, where she’s studying investigative reporting. It’s a field she sees as one of the most vital callings of our time, and she plans to continue her work beyond the newsroom by advocating for media literacy and inspiring a new generation of journalists to lead with integrity.
A two-time Miss Georgia finalist (second runner-up in 2024 and Top 10 in 2025), Aleks is returning to the stage this June as Miss Gwinnett County. She sees the Miss America Opportunity as a platform to encourage young women to trust themselves and believe in their power to shape the future.
And when she’s not building Aveline, Aleks is either working on her first novel or dancing in the kitchen with her niece and nephew—two of her favorite little humans.