My Better Half

Author Dave Young is the program director at Jefferson Public Radio. He shares with Vanessa Finney insights from his personal journey through the world of fitness.

Raymond Jetson and Kali Graves launched 'Aging While Black' in February 2023.

Artist Julie Anderson Bailey shares how creating art has helped her through sad and anxious times.

Pam Haunschild rose to the top of her profession, teaching organizational theory at the business schools at Stanford and Texas-Austin. Now she's creating art on a regular basis, finding the joy in returning to an old love. Pam is the focus of the latest chapter of My Better Half.

Two performers from the show, Teri Adams and Mary-Louise Lee, join My Better Half host Vanessa Finney.

My Better Half host Vanessa Finney visits with Kate Grant.

After 25 years in the sky, pilot starts baking business for more time with her kids.

Vanessa visits with anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite.

Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons talks about her new book with Vanessa Finney.

JPR's Vanessa Finney talks with AARP's Chief Public Policy Officer and author of "The Second Fifty: Answers to the 7 Big Questions of Midlife and Beyond."

The long-time NPR host looks back on her career with JPR's Vanessa Finney.

Artist Julie Anderson Bailey shares how creating art has helped her through sad and anxious times.

Host Vanessa Finney explores the intricacies of finding (and keeping) love after age 50 with the author of "Love After 50."

Vanessa Finney, host of My Better Half, interviews a life adventurer.

Sprinter, Roy Sutton is promoting the idea of a 150+ club, where people of all ages recognize fitness values in each other around town.

Medford doctor's vineyard.

Cathleen Calkins is a state record holder in competitive weightlifting.

For decades, Humboldt County humanitarian Betty Kwan Chinn has helped community members suffering from homelessness, and mental health and substance abuse issues.

Lyn Slater's blog and Instagram presence, and now to a book, How to Be Old: Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon.

Billie Jo Vinson about health for people, health for animals, and how things came together in a store for pets and their people.

Ashton Applewhite on ageism.

Deborah Costella, dancer turned chef turned Cosmic Muffin School of Cookery business owner.

A lifelong musician, Antonio Melendez conducted his first orchestra while in his forties.

Honest Aging: An Insider's Guide to the Second Half of Life by Dr. Rosanne Leipzig

The organization Third Act helps mobilize people over 60 to focus on some key issues. Deborah Moore, a retired environmental scientist in California.

My Better Half, JPR's Vanessa Finney talks to Levine about taking up nutrition therapy later in life, and how he's still doing it at age 70.

Mary Bemis is active as a lecturer on spa culture and the Editorial Director of Insider's Guide to Spas.

JPR's Vanessa Finney exchanges some words with the writer Adam Gopnik about his latest book, "The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery," and learning new skills.

Interview with photographer Matt Witt on My Better Half

You've probably heard about birth doulas, people who assist women in delivering babies. Turns out, there are doulas for the other end of life... Sarah Doré is a tea shop owner training to be a death doula.

Eric Chandler explains how adapting to college as a 40-something was much easier than he feared.

Pam Haunschild rose to the top of her profession, teaching organizational theory at the business schools at Stanford and Texas-Austin. Now she's creating art on a regular basis, finding the joy in returning to an old love. Pam is the focus of the latest chapter of My Better Half.

Not long after Judy Collins played to a big audience at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, she sat down with Vanessa to talk about life and music and living well, well beyond the so-called "prime of life."