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