Vanessa Finney
News Host / ProducerVanessa Finney hosts All Things Considered on JPR and produces My Better Half, a podcast and Jefferson Exchange segment that explores how people are thriving in the second half of their lives. Vanessa sings in the jazz duet LoveNotes and produces The Work of Art for Southern Oregon PBS. Originally from California, she graduated from UCLA then worked as a voice over artist, radio DJ, and freelance writer before moving to Oregon in 2018.
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Phoenix-based artist Beca Blake is part of a team known as Southern Oregon Celebrating Women. Together, they've produced a local exhibit to celebrate female artists. -
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.
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Deborah Costella, dancer turned chef turned Cosmic Muffin School of Cookery business owner.
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Antonio Melendez on his life in film and music.
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Honest Aging: An Insider's Guide to the Second Half of Life by Dr. Rosanne Leipzig
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The organization Third Act helps mobilize people over 60 to focus on some key issues. Deborah Moore, a retired environmental scientist in California.
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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.
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Mary Bemis is active as a lecturer on spa culture and the Editorial Director of Insider's Guide to Spas.
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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.
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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.
