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Desperate for a career, a woman was inspired by a newspaper ad, and within a couple of years, she turned $80 into half a million.

If you're interested in finding the real you and in taking another shot at a truly satisfying career, author Samuel Greengard can help.

At the age of 80, Marilyn Dubois decided she was ready for a new career. She never dreamed that within three years of that, she'd be promoted to Vice President of a major financial institution!

Veteran newsman Sam Donaldson has never been shy about speaking his mind.

Debbie Tisinger has won 14 consecutive titles at the World Senior Championship and three times in her career, she has been named the best female player in the country.

Franklin "Bud" Held burst onto the world track and field scene with his record-breaking collegiate career at Stanford University, and at the age of 75, he's still smashing world records.

Cycling legend Thurlow "Turbo" Rogers has raced away with more than 300 victories in his career, and the 47-year-old says he's only getting better with age.

After a 23-year career in advertising, Matt Thornhill has quickly established himself as a leading national authority on baby boomers.

Before he passed away, legendary swing drummer Panama Francis sat down with Growing Bolder for an unforgettable conversation about an amazing career, the amazing era he lived through and why he loved the drums more than anything in the world.

He didn't mind if you didn't know his name, because he knew you know his music. His autobiography said it all, "They All Sang My Songs." And the biggest names in music history did.

Throughout his prolific career, he has sold millions and millions of records, written best-selling children's books and hosted a national TV show. As he nears 70, you'd think the legendary Bobby Goldsboro would be slowing down. Think again.

What if you could do what you love and still make a living? This week's guests prove that pursuing your passions can be the smartest career move of your life.

The entire world now knows Michael Phelps but this short clip was recorded 8 years ago just a few minutes after an unknown 15-year-old qualified for his first Olympic team.

You can't build much of anything without concrete. But it has far more uses than just for construction. One, is to create fine works of art. Kia Ricchi designs and builds landmark displays with it. See why she makes such a big impression!

Brian Coduto says "It sounded like a shotgun" when he tore knee ligaments on the soccer field. In an instant he thought his college scholarship and promising soccer career was over. But then he met the doctors at Jewett Orthopaedic Clinic.

Country music legend Mel Tillis has been entertaining audiences for more than 50 years.

Scot Weiss left a promising career in finance to chase an American dream -- inventing a product and starting a company. But even good ideas are extremely difficult to get produced, distributed and sold.

Good things really do come in small packages. Susan Newland shows how a love for family led not just to a new hobby -- but a new career. Her passion will have you looking for new ways to pass on childhood memories to the next generation.

He's been recognized as the greatest salesman in the world, and Joe Girard says his simple tips can help anyone sell anything.

She starred in one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, and at age 85, Rose Marie is a quick-witted and sassy as ever.

Crooner Bobby Vinton sang many of the songs that we fell in love to.

Joanne McCully graduated from Cornell University at the age of 51 and has found a new career.

Actor Jim Beaver's career was at an all-time high, but then his world came crashing down when his wife was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Richard Abrahams was one of the world's best swimmers during his collegiate career in the 1960s, and amazingly, now that he's in his 60s, he is swimming faster than he ever has before!

I'll admit it. I'm more than just a little jealous of those who knew from a very early age what their "true purpose" in life was and have been happily pursuing it ever since. You know, the kind of passion that......

After putting his other passions on the backburner for more than 20 years, legendary singer/songwriter Bobby Goldsboro started growing bolder and taking chances with his life and career and started painting.

Jim McKay, the esteemed sportscaster who hosted ABC's popular Wide World of Sports for over 40 years died Saturday of natural causes at his farm in Monkton, Maryland. He was 86.

Writer, designer and former circus performer Glenn Rogers adds artist to his rsum.

Nancy Grace had it all; a successful career, a loving husband, and a TV platform that let her spread her message. But it wasn't until she became a mother in her 40s that she realized something had been missing.

Hey, did you hear the one about the 75-year-old comic? This is no joke - Lynn Ruth Miller has discovered a new career on the stage and she's using her act to set the record straight on aging.

He's an unlikely renaissance man whose voice is known to millions of public radio listeners. But it's his global adventures that are the real story.

It's not entirely normal to be a cross-country skier that is a retired kindergarten teacher. It's even more amazing that Barbara Klippel overcame a fall down a flight of stairs and a broken skull to win the premiere cross-country ski marathon.

Her talent has helped her break many barriers, but Diahann Carroll says it just might her legs that are to thank for her great success.

Comedian Rita Rudner turned 50 and turned over a new leaf. At 54, she's written 5 books and has kept her marriage going for 20 years. So, what's her secret to happiness?

Fifty-one-year-old Ned Overend is the Michael Jordan of mountain biking. At age 52 he's world class and still whippin' the whippersnappers.

World-famous performance artist Rachel Rosenthal is proving that creativity has no age limits.

Songwriter Jack Lawrence, whose "Tenderly" launched the career of Rosemary Clooney and put Bobby Darin on the map with English lyrics to "Beyond the Sea," has died at the age of 96.

Shelly Burch was a star on TV and Broadway when she made the decision to walk away from it all. Her life was a shambles, rocked by showbiz excess. It took years for her to find herself. But now she's back, and more passionate than ever before.

Larry Roofner was a corporate executive, a mover and shaker and a big-time success. And it nearly killed him. He walked away from it all, and at 52, he reinvented himself.

She starred in two of Hitchcock's biggest films, but it's her passionate work to protect animals that has really made her a star. Find out what makes Tippi Hedren feel as vibrant as ever at age 78.

The man who has been called the world's greatest living guitarist talks to Growing Bolder about his legendary career.