I spent twenty years in the U.S. Foreign Service. My co-host, Antonina “Nina” Berube, spent hers teaching math. Neither of us planned what came next, and nobody handed either of us the next set of orders.

This show is about midlife reinvention — the part where you have done one thing well for twenty or thirty years and you are no longer sure you want to do it for twenty more. Nina and I talk about career identity, and what happens when you lose the title that used to answer “what do you do?” for you. We talk about career change, starting over after a long career, what travel actually teaches you, and the unglamorous middle part that nobody posts.

It is for anyone looking at a second act — leaving government, a classroom, a hospital, a law firm, a company, or just the version of your life that stopped fitting. It is never too late to change. We say that a lot, and we are both still proving it.

We are not career coaches and we do not have a framework. We are two people doing it in real time, saying out loud what it actually feels like. New episodes every other Tuesday.