Ayesha Roscoe

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.

An all-woman rock and roll band.

Tell me more.

Now you say almost lost.

So what happened?

Well, Anthony, thank you so much for these stories.

And I guess it's basically like keep hope alive.

You can do it.

Anthony Brooks is a reporter with WBUR in Boston.

You can find Anthony's third act series and more of his stories at WBUR.org.

This episode of The Sunday Story was produced by Andrew Mambo and edited by Jenny Schmidt.

The engineer was Jimmy Keeley.