Starting Over

Former attorney turned soulgrass singer Paula Boggs. In her late 50’s, she left her primary career at the top to start at the bottom of a new one and has never looked back. She rocks.

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Have Music, Will Travel

Retired music teacher Glenn Williams combining his passions for music, travel and giving back on musical exchanges around the world. He shares his latest excellent adventure from Cuba and plans for continuing to do what he knows best and loves most.

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Unstoppable

Twice retired from football and the law, Alan Page is now writing childrens books, raising scholarship funds and making maple syrup .He’s still trying to figure out what to do when he grows up.

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Gray the New Blonde ?

Cindy Joseph defied one of the most unforgiving age barriers in the workplace to launch a new career with the prestigious Ford Modeling Agency at age 59. Next came her own cosmetics company called BOOM.

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Buying the Farm

Downsized out of the publishing business into early retirement, Barry Meinerth went back to what he originally wanted to do – work with animals. First he had do his homework before starting his new alpaca business and life in Vermont.

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Rhythm of Life

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart's encore career developing music therapy programs for treating damaged brain cells. Combining his lifelong passions for science and music to validate "good vibrations'' as a healing power.

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Going Back to Give Back

Chuck Searcy, a former newspaper publisher and veteran moved to Vietnam to help clean up a dangerous legacy of the war and to create a new legacy of his own.

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Back To School @ 67

After her career as an executive assistant, Jules Means wanted to be a social worker. Neither a stroke nor the COVID shutdown stopped her from earning her long delayed college degree at UC Berkeley , go on to graduate school and a new career.

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Go Fly A Paper Airplane

How a former TV director turned his lifelong fascination with paper airplanes into a new career using them to teach STEM education from elementary schools to Harvard.

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Finding Your True North

Paula Boggs gave up a lucrative legal career as Starbuck's chief counsel to become a musician— something she always wanted to do before it was too late. A timeless lesson for anyone contemplating a major career and lifestyle change.

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Fields of Dreams

Former Indiana Governor Joe Kernan's llfelong passion for baseball extended his community affairs career expertise as a minor league baseball manager after losing his re-election bid and being “out of work” for the first time in his life.

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Reinvention Under the Tuscan Sun

Frances Mayes, the former college professor turned author and high priestess of the reinvention movement. Her bestseller, Under the Tuscan Sun, chronicled the making of her new life in Italy is a celebrated case study for running off to a foreign country to start anew.

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Just Win the Lottery

While most people only joke about winning the lottery so they can retire, Jerry & Marge Selbee actually did it . Not just watchwatchonce but dozens of times to the tune of $26m for their new encore career along with their breakfast club friends.How they did it and what they did next was featured on 60 Minutes . Hollywood is working on the movie.

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Wall Street to Hindu Kush

One of Goldman Sach's first female traders, Connie Duckworth is now running a women's rug-weaving cooperative in Afghanistan for women.

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Badass Pilot Buys a Jet

How a former Marine fighter pilot turned his career into a hobby by buying and restoring one of the retired planes he once flew and becoming a TV celebrity. Art Nails is still going full throttle doing what he’s always loved doing .

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It Takes a Garden

After forty years of running one of the country's most celebrated restaurants, Alice Waters is shifting her culinary experience to school cafeterias and teaching kids how to grow their own food.

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NFL to Broadway

The distance from the Super Bowl to Broadway isn’t as far as you might think. Watch Eddie George’s transition from stadium to stage.

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Unexpected New Direction

Unexpectedly widowed in her 50s, Suzanne Lecht just as unexpectedly decided to move to Hanoi to help launch the international market for contemporary Vietnamese art.

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