The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, by Civic Ventures founder and CEO Marc Freedman, argues that society is not acknowledging one simple obvious fact: While we are all getting older, most of us are not yet old. With decades of healthy living opening up between retirement and old age, there is a new stage of life, the encore stage. Freedman explains to Prime Time Radio host Mike Cuthbert why people in this new stage of life will soon be America’s largest and possibly most important demographic.
Civic Ventures founder and CEO Marc Freedman, author of The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, eloquently argues that it is now time for society and culture to embrace a new life stage between middle age and old age. This shift, he says on this , is a “pull not only toward a new phase of work but toward a different kind of life and a new set of priorities.”
Everybody knows that once you hit 50 in Silicon Valley you're pretty much finished. If you're in your 50s in the valley, you're most likely in a defensive crouch, waiting for the latest economic storm to blow over and wishing your kids would just graduate from college already and start paying their own bills. Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, has been working for years to change that sort of thinking.
In his new book, The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, Civic Ventures founder and CEO Marc Freedman offers a road map for boomers as they venture into a new stage of life after middle age, but before old age. Americans are living longer – the average life expectancy is now 77.9 – and many people are working longer, too, either by choice or by necessity.
Job Search Strategies for Older Workers
This free workshop, on July 27, 2011, from 7:30 to 9 p.m., will present strategies for competing in the new workplace, updating your skills, networking, dealing with ageism and avoiding job scams.
Start: 06/27/2011 - 7:30 p.m.
End: 06/27/2011 - 9 p.m.
Tough new economic realities have transformed career reinvention from a virtue into a necessity for millions of older Americans who aren't ready to retire or simply can't afford to quit working. But hard times have not forced many boomers around traditional retirement age to give up dreams of meaningful second careers. Recognizing that trend, Civic Ventures has launched a movement around encore careers with two main themes: second careers with meaning and social entrepreneurship.
Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, discusses his new book, The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, which The New York Times called “an imaginative work with the potential to affect our individual lives and our collective future.“
The uncertainty facing boomers is more pronounced than ever, from job transitions to empty nesting to retirement worries. But is there a new way to live and grow professionally beyond midlife? Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures and author of The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife, talks about boomers who are leading the way to a new stage of life.
Recently, Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Civic Ventures, spoke at the Chicago campus of Northwestern University on the subject of his latest book, The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife. This podcast series highlights some of the discussion.
Civic Ventures founder and CEO Marc Freedman talks to Inside E Street, an AARP program broadcast on PBS, about his new book, The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife – and a movement that looks to redefine what comes after midlife.
