Your first act is school, your second act is work, but have you thought about what you’re going to do in your third act? Join host Liz Tinkham, a former Accenture Senior Managing Director, as she talks to guests who are happily “pretired” – using their time, treasure, and talent to pursue their purpose and passion in the third act of their life.
Chantal grew up in Champagne, France as one of 10 kids. Chantal was a quick learner, finding her way to corporate jobs and eventually discovering a passion for sales, becoming Sprint’s west region Op…
Anne Devereux-Mills follows a nonlinear path of life, exploring and succeeding across multiple careers and interests. Anne discovered that she was a leader as a Wellesley College undergraduate stude…
Nancy Evans was bound to succeed from the start, regardless of occupation. Early in her career, she wrote a prescient article called Surviving My 20s, starting a zigzag path to storied publisher and …
Carol was a serial tech executive, successfully rising through the ranks of a male-dominated world. Throughout her career, she lacked female mentors. She began looking for ways to advise young women,…
After a successful career as a lawyer, Heather slowed down somewhat, played more tennis, and began thinking she was a bit over the hill. Until one day her teenage daughter asked her what all the othe…
Angela Jones learned early on how to use her voice to advocate for herself and others. She demonstrated her voice as educator, university senior administrator, and now CEO of Washington STEM, a nonpr…
Kim Alexis Newton is a successful artist, corporate executive, and entrepreneur through her quilting, career at Hallmark, and recent launch of her book and business—The Intentional Pause. We talk wit…
Jamie is the Founder of Fast Penny Spirits, an Italian Amaro company based in Seattle. Jamie became a master blender after a long career in digital advertising and marketing. On this episode of Third…
Michele is the Executive Chairperson of Corelight, Inc., an emerging leader in the network detection and response market. She's also a published musician, her music is featured in short snippets thro…
In the sixth episode of Third Act, we talk with Judy Spitz, the outsider. Judy started her career as an academic, but quickly leveraged her speech technology knowledge as the academic outsider at Ver…
This episode of The Third Act Podcast features Steve Wilcox. We’ve titled this episode The Conscientious Giver, as Steve and his wife, Peg, have deliberately given to and worked for charitable causes…
This episode of The Third Act Podcast features Beverly Tarulli, the Human Library. This moniker is derived from her eternal passion for learning, guiding her initial studies at Franklin & Marshall th…
On this episode of The Third Act Podcast, we talk with The Challenger, Jeannie Diefenderfer, whose innate pursuit of the hardest challenges led her to a highly successful global career at Verizon. Je…
When he was about to graduate from Purdue, Andre Hughes met an influential senior executive who leveraged his network to get Andre a great job at AT&T. Andre never forgot the lesson he learned from t…
Kate Isler began her career at Microsoft at its beginning, ready to respond to the energetic, nuanced business environment of a rapidly growing tech company. Her independence and can-do attitude led …
How both women and men have discovered passion and new meaning in the “Third Act” of their lives, after their big career has come to a close.