Your Life Calling, Jane Pauley
Your Life Calling, Jane Pauley
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Your Life Calling
Reimagining the Rest of Your Life

Author: Jane Pauley

Narrator: Jane Pauley

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2014


Synopsis

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?”

About Jane Pauley

Jane Pauley has been a familiar face on TV for more than thirty years. She served as cohost of Today from 1976 to 1989, anchored Dateline NBC for eleven years, and in 2004 became the host of her own daytime program, The Jane Pauley Show. Her memoir, Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue, was a New York Times bestseller. She lives with her husband, Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau, in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lynne on July 16, 2014

The objective of this book, according to the author, is "to inspire people through storytelling to imagine their own future in powerful and positive ways." Pauley weaves her story into the telling of those anecdotes, so there's a nice rhythm. She's relentlessly cheerful and self-effacing, and uses h......more

Goodreads review by Scott on March 01, 2014

Disclaimer: I received this book from a Goodreads giveaway. I have to say I was a little disappointed with this book. Based on the title, and brief synopsis, I thought I would like this book. I didn’t even realize who the author was before I added this book to my reading list. I think if it was an u......more

Goodreads review by Carol on January 20, 2016

I expected more from this book. As I recently entered my 50's and my roles are shifting, I thought this would be a timely read. The book includes stories of people who have made happy transitions along with some reflections on Jane Pauley's own journey. But there just really wasn't anything I haven'......more

Goodreads review by Pamela on March 21, 2014

I was disappointed in this book. It's choppy and didn't flow well. She speaks candidly and I like that, but there were a lot of vignettes about people she's interviewed. The theme of the book, baby-boomers are now over 50 and reinventing themselves, is interesting. But the delivery of the message is......more

Goodreads review by Doug on March 31, 2021

The thing I love about this book is that it is NOT a how to book. It is a collection of narratives that make you think and analyze your own situation. Jane Pauley is a master story teller and it does make you think, which was the point!......more