Ayesha Roscoe

Yeah, let's hear it.

Well...

It really seems like she has achieved that and that this project really is making the world a little bit richer.

We're back with Anthony Brooks of WBUR in Boston.

His series, Third Act, looks at how Americans are reinventing themselves in their older years.

So, Anthony, I love this idea that like as our life expectancy increases, people are seeing the end of middle age as a kind of beginning.

But it does feel like that may be easier done if you have the financial means.

If you are living paycheck to paycheck, is it really realistic to say, let me reinvent myself and do some good in the world?

Oh, yeah.

Being in that situation and now she got to take care of two kids and no college degree.

That is a very difficult situation to be in.

No, that is a great story.

I mean, really all of these stories are incredibly inspiring stories.

And, you know, even just in my personal life, I'm looking at this, I'm thinking, OK, if they can do it, well, maybe I need to keep trying to.

We can all do it.

Yeah.

But tell us why these stories matter to you and why maybe they'll matter to, you know, all of us.

So before I let you go, I guess I'm wondering if this third act, this time of reinvention, does it go beyond work?

You know, I guess a lot of people might go, I don't really want to spend much more time making money.

I want to spend more time on art or writing or other creative pursuits.