Meet the people and explore the ideas that are shaping encore careers in the second half of life.

• MARC FREEDMAN - In this NPR interview in Jacksonville, Fla., Marc Freedman discusses the movement trying to reframe the debate over aging in America and the confusing terminology associated with it.
• 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.
• 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 inventing a new stage of lfie and work.
• PHIL BORGES - The chance to combine his love of travel and photography trumped the security of Phil Borges' established dental career. Then he realized that photographs could connect students around the world.
• AGE AND CREATIVITY - Purpose Prize winner Gene Jones, Civic Ventures founder Marc Freedman and the author of Old Masters and Young Geniuses, David Galenson, discuss the link between age and innovation.
• DEE DEE MYERS - Dee Dee Myers reinvented her career after being pressured to retire as White House press secretary in the early years of the Clinton administration.
• SALLY BINGHAM - Sally Bingham was a stay-at-home mom before landing an encore career linking religion and environmentalism in her 40s. Polly Striker produced this profile of the 2007 Purpose Prize winner.
• ANDY GOODMAN - How can sharing our own stories help ourselves and 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.

NOTE: Many of these interviews were originally conducted in longer versions for Experience Talks radio.