Ayesha Roscoe

And specifically, making those changes late in life.

Now, you've probably heard of a three-act structure in movies or plays.

It's sort of like the beginning, middle, and end of a story, where the beginning is the setup, the middle is the big challenges and conflicts, and the end is the resolution.

In life, we've assumed that the first act is youth and adolescence, the second is middle age, and the third act is usually retirement.

But what if you choose not to rest and retire, but to launch into a whole new era?

That's what today's episode is about.

People who are rejecting the idea that a productive life ends at a certain age and who see life in older age, not as an ending, but a powerful and purposeful new beginning.

Anthony Brooks is a former NPR reporter and longtime correspondent at member station WBUR in Boston.

He's spent the last few years interviewing people about their decision to reimagine and reinvent themselves late in life.

His series is called Third Act, and he joins us now to talk about what he's learned.

Hi, Anthony.

Yeah.

Welcome to the podcast.

So I'm intrigued by the origin story of this project.

Did you decide to do this because you were feeling stuck or you wanted a change in your life?

Okay, so tell me about the man in that story that drew your attention.

But I'm guessing since we're talking about him, he didn't just stop and retire in a traditional sense.

So he wanted to do good and he wanted to do it at a point when it would matter, right?

Well,

Well, how is it going for Tom now?