What comes next after years of building a career, raising a family, caring for others, and moving through major life transitions? Journalist and author Allison Aubrey has spent years exploring that question through her reporting, and now she’s taking that exploration further through her new book, Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love, and her NPR and WBUR podcast, Your Turn with Allison Aubrey.
Wallis Annenberg GenSpace is helping bring both projects to a wider audience. At GenSpace, Aubrey joined Julia Paskin, host of All Things Considered on LAist 89.3, for a discussion about how identity, priorities, and possibilities can evolve over time. Drawing on decades of reporting and conversations with women ages 45 to 105, Aubrey shared stories of women finding new sources of creativity, connection, purpose, and joy as careers shift and family roles change.
At the heart of the discussion was an idea that resonates deeply with GenSpace: later life can open the door to something new.
More than 100 guests joined Aubrey and Paskin for the event, which included questions from the audience about reinvention, relationships, and what it means to create a fulfilling next chapter. GenSpace members were also invited to a private workshop with Aubrey, offering a more intimate setting to reflect on their own experiences and connect with one another.
GenSpace is also supporting Your Turn with Allison Aubrey, extending many of these themes to a national audience. Produced by NPR and WBUR, the podcast explores purpose, connection, health, creativity, reinvention, and continued growth in midlife and later life.
Perhaps most exciting is that GenSpace’s support is bringing its own voices into the conversation. Throughout the season, listeners will hear custom “Wallis Annenberg Moments” featuring GenSpace members and leaders sharing personal stories about finding community, building confidence, trying new things, and continuing to discover what is possible as they age.
Together, the event and podcast support reflect GenSpace’s larger goal to help broaden the way aging is understood and discussed while sharing the ideas and experiences behind the GenSpace model with audiences far beyond Los Angeles.
Whether in a room full of people at GenSpace or through listeners tuning in across the country, the idea is the same: growing older can be a time of curiosity, connection, discovery, and possibility.
