Vanessa Finney

My Better Half

Business EN ↓ 35 episodes

With career changes and second or even third acts becoming more common, My Better Half shines a light on midlife or late-life reinventions and how people are thriving in the second half of their lives. Listen to explore the creative potential of our later years.

Author

Vanessa Finney

Category

Business

Podcast website

www.ijpr.org

Latest episode

Jun 15, 2026

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Episodes

Expert on healthy aging visits the latest installment of My Better Half 01.09.2023

Honest Aging: An Insider's Guide to the Second Half of Life by Dr. Rosanne Leipzig

Activating the inner activist later in life 14.07.2023

The organization Third Act helps mobilize people over 60 to focus on some key issues. Deborah Moore, a retired environmental scientist in California.

Switching up nutrition later in life 09.06.2023

My Better Half, JPR's Vanessa Finney talks to Levine about taking up nutrition therapy later in life, and how he's still doing it at age 70.

A visit with a Rogue Valley spa expert 12.05.2023

Mary Bemis is active as a lecturer on spa culture and the Editorial Director of Insider's Guide to Spas.

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik on life long learning 14.04.2023

JPR's Vanessa Finney exchanges some words with the writer Adam Gopnik about his latest book, "The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery," and learning new skills.

Documenting life in pictures and words and more, in My Better Half 17.03.2023

Interview with photographer Matt Witt on My Better Half

Exploring life with a death doula 10.02.2023

You've probably heard about birth doulas, people who assist women in delivering babies. Turns out, there are doulas for the other end of life... Sarah Doré is a tea shop owner training to be a death doula.

Resuming education later in life 20.01.2023

Eric Chandler explains how adapting to college as a 40-something was much easier than he feared.

Lifelong artist returns to first love 07.01.2023

Pam Haunschild rose to the top of her profession, teaching organizational theory at the business schools at Stanford and Texas-Austin. Now she's creating art on a regular basis, finding the joy in returning to an old love. Pam is the focus of the latest chapter of My Better Half.

Judy Collins talks about great work in the second half of life 26.10.2022

Not long after Judy Collins played to a big audience at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, she sat down with Vanessa to talk about life and music and living well, well beyond the so-called "prime of life."

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