Your Life Calling

Reimagining the Rest of Your Life

De: Jane Pauley

Narrado por: Jane Pauley

Jane Pauley, “America’s baby boomer” (Tom Brokaw), offers an inspirational guidebook “chockablock with keen insights for career transitions…Compelling” (USA TODAY).

In 2014, every baby boomer will have reached the milestone age of fifty. For most, it’s not an end, but the beginning of something new. Research has shown that people in their fifties are more vital now than they were only ten years ago. They’re saying, “I’m game, I’m up for it, I want to do more.” Jane Pauley, one of America’s most beloved and trusted broadcast journalists, offers humor and insight about the journey forward. The New York Times bestseller Your Life Calling is a fresh look at ideas that have been simmering since boomers first entered midlife with a different perspective on the future than any generation before: that there was more to come—and perhaps the best of all.

Jane is not an advice giver but a storyteller. Here she tells her own and introduces readers to the fascinating people she has featured on her award-winning Today show segment, “Life Reimagined Today.” You’ll meet Betsy McCarthy, who traded in her executive briefcase for knitting needles; Gid Pool, who launched a career as a stand-up comic; Richard Rittmaster, who joined the National Guard Chaplain Corps; Trudy Lundgren, who took her home on the road in an RV; Paulie Gee, who opened a successful pizzeria in Brooklyn; and many more.

“Jane Pauley is a wonderful guide to all the different ways you can open new doors in life, many of which lead to unexpected places. She shows with humor and insight why the journey to reinvention can come from all kinds of places and produce all kinds of joys” (Michael J. Fox). Your Life Calling is delightful, compelling, and motivating for anyone asking “What am I going to do with my supersized life?”

Great 'Listen'

Jane read honestly just like she always has over the years. Very easy to listen to. Great inspiring message as well

Inspiring

What made the experience of listening to Your Life Calling the most enjoyable?

Pauley's authenticity.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Jane of course, her life is interesting.

Have you listened to any of Jane Pauley’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes, I read her first book and I like this one even better.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

A documentary about the second half of our lives in this era and how society has changed; how people are being more productive in their older years nowadays.

Any additional comments?

A feel-good book if you need a lift.

An inspirational collection of anecdotes

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, I would recommend this book to a friend. I love the way Jane Pauley is chatty in her delivery of stories. There are 29 chapters to this book and 6 hours 50 minutes of recordings.

What other book might you compare Your Life Calling to and why?

Go Solo by Kelsey Humphrey's is a fun listening. Life Reimagined discover your new life possibilities by Richard J. Leider has interesting success stories.

What does Jane Pauley bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The delivery of her stories is like spending an evening with Jane Pauley like having dinner with the lady or spending an evening at her house or apartment. It is relaxed and chatty.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Develop your own stories of success by reimagining your life.

Any additional comments?

I love this audiobook. I could listen to this long recording many times. Thank you Jane Pauley.

A must read for those who are planning to retire

If you could sum up Your Life Calling in three words, what would they be?

She points out that the "retired" life of a baby boomer will be very different from someone in an earlier generation. We are living longer than the generations before. Therefore, it is very imprtant to figure out what we really want to do after we "retire" from our jobs. We cannot sit at home and watch TV, play golf and just travel all the time. There has to be another purpose for the final phase of life. Figuring what that is the challenge.

What about Jane Pauley’s performance did you like?

She read her book very well. I enjoyed listening to her and it reminded of the days I used to listen to her in the mornings on NBC TV in the 1970s

What’s an idea from the book that you will remember?

The career may have been a distraction for something you really wanted to do in life

Any additional comments?

It is a great book. I really enjoyed listening to it. I strongly recommend it.