Our podcast series focuses on the issues ideas, ambitions and motivations emerging in the second half of life. These interviews were originally conducted in longer versions for Experience Talks radio.

• MARCIE PITT-CATSOUPHES - How much can a workplace bend? Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Co-Director of the Center on Aging and Work/Workplace Flexibility at Boston College, talks about flexibility in the workplace, and the ways it can benefit the older worker.
• POLLY STRIKER - The Retiree Work Opportunities Program at the UC Berkeley Retirement Center offers university retirees innovative, flexible, and meaningful opportunities for encore careers.
• MARC FREEDMAN - When did retirement stop meaning an endless vacation? Civic Ventures founder Marc Freedman reflects on a new trajectory.
• THE CHANGING NATURE OF RETIREMENT - John Gomperts, Claire Haaga Altman and Marc Freedman describe how boomers are transforming retirement.
• DEE DEE MYERS - Dee Dee Myers had to reinvent her career after being pressured to retire as White House press secretary in the early years of the Clinton administration.
• PHIL BORGES - For Phil Borges, the chance to combine his love of travel and photography trumped the security of his established dental career. Then he realized that photographs could connect students around the world.
• AGE AND CREATIVITY - What's the link between age and innovation? Featured are the voices of Purpose Prize winner Gene Jones, Civic Ventures founder Marc Freedman, and the author of Old Masters and Young Geniuses, David Galenson
• SALLY BINGHAM - How did one woman link religion and environmentalism in a career she began in her 40s? Polly Striker produced this profile of Purpose Prize winner Sally Bingham.
• ANDY GOODMAN - What is the nature of storytelling, and how can sharing our own stories can be of value to ourselves and to others? Civic Ventures Senior Fellow Andy Goodman offers advice.
• WILMA MELVILLE - This Purpose Prize winner took a simple idea - training dogs to save lives - to a high level.
• GORDON JOHNSON - He saw siblings being separated in foster care and knew it wasn't right. Listen to how this Purpose Prize winner created a solution.
• MARC FREEDMAN - The founder of Civic Ventures talks about the changing nature of retirement and the value of engaging in a purposeful life.
• MARC FREEDMAN - Civic Ventures founder Marc Freedman describes the genesis of the Purpose Prize.
• SUZANNE KNODE - At 59, she packed her bags, said goodbye to her daughters and headed across country to become a resident at the Senior Artists Colony in California.