I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is the Sunday story from Up First, where we go beyond the news of the day

to bring you one big story. Many of us decide to make changes in our life all the time. Sometimes

they're small, like New Year's resolutions, to read more or eat less sugary sweets. But sometimes

we make big changes, ones that are life-altering,

like a career change. Today we're going to focus on those life-altering changes, specifically

the ones we make late in life. One of the most notable people to make a big change in recent years is President Donald

Trump, who will tomorrow be inaugurated as president for the second time. He famously turned

from mogul to politician when he was 69, an age often considered retirement age. But growing numbers of people are rejecting this idea

that a productive life ends at a certain age.

Instead, many are now seeing the part of life

that comes after middle age, not as an end, but as a beginning.

The start of what some call the third act of life.

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. Hey, Aisha, nice to

talk to you. Yeah, welcome to the podcast. Thank you. 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 to change in your life? I think there's always a bit of that going on with me.

But I think where this really started for me was about 16 years ago. I had a bit of a health

scare, which thankfully I recovered from.

I was also mourning the loss of my dad. And I guess you could say that I was coming to terms with

this idea that there's a lot more of my life behind me than ahead of me. And I'm thinking for

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