Everyday People

This week's episode in with founder of The Third Act, Dr Edward Kelly. The term, third act refers to the third act in our lives. The first act is childhood and our teenage years. The transition to the second act happens in our twenties. When we get into our fifties and sixties, we move into the third act. But what happens then? Nowadays when people retire, they have a whole new gift of time - twenty or thirty years - that the generation before them never had. Average Life expectancy in the developed world is now close to 80. Half of all babies born since 2000 are expected to celebrate their 100th birthdays. And this doesn't just apply to babies; if you are 60 now you have a 50% chance of living to 90 or more Naturally there are practical questions like, will I be healthy? How will I support myself financially? Where will I live? But there's a whole other set of questions that are lot deeper and a lot more difficult to answer... What will do now? Who will I be now? What's my purpose? Edward through his