In this wrap-up of the eight episodes of the series, SECOND-ACT SIGNIFICANCE, host Warwick Fairfax and cohost Gary Schneeberger extract from the stories shared by guests four key steps you can take to pivot from Act 1 to Act 2 in your own life.

Author and 7:47 Gratitude Experience founder Chris Schembra found the solution to his discouragement and depression in creating community dinners for friends and total strangers.

Yvette Bodden wanted to inspire women to fight through their crucibles to lead lives of significance, so she started her web platform Awakened Woman.

Nancy Volpe Beringer was embarrassed to be jealous of all the new skills her adult son was learning, but she turned it into a challenge for herself: What would she like to learn if she were young again? Her answer was fashion design — and pursuing that career brought her second-act significance.

The “in-between” spaces in life can be uncomfortable, Life-Worth founder John Busacker has discovered, but pressing on toward what you feel called to can fuel your second-act significance.

Melissa Reaves wasn’t sure how her life was ever going to be OK again after she was fired from a job in an advertising career that had served her bank balance well even if it had stopped bringing her heart alive.

Robert Miller wanted to make music his career from the first time he picked up an instrument in high school – but he did not get to fulfill that desire until after he retired.

We take to the high seas this week with Erik and Emily Orton — which is where they headed in 2014, after Erik’s dream job as a playwright and theatrical producer came to a crashing halt when his off-Broadway show was closed after only a few performances.