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we are thrilled to have all of you join us for first and perhaps many

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different conversations regarding on
court careers. In 1900 the US

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lifespan was around 47

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and now it's nearly 80 years of age.
What's more impactful is that tens of

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millions of individuals are turning 60
every second, in fact 8000 day or

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every 10 seconds. Someone is turning
60 in 16 years since 2030. But when I

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realized I was only 16 years from now,
oh my goodness, there will be 77

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million baby boomers and the baby
movers. I think that some of us will

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outnumber those in strollers. We have
approached education in the past in

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far too segmented fashion. We think
that Children need to be edgy. Young

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adults need to be educated and after
that you just need to be trained to

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do your job and then maybe you'll read
a lot if you have time to read and

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you're not too tired as one of the
administrators here at issue where we

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have a very significant mission, the
elimination of ignorance, the

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creation of individuals who have the
capacity to learn and to adapt. Now,

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we've concentrated almost all of our
energy for all of our life as an

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institution

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in late adolescence between roughly
the age of 18 and mid to late twenties.

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And as we're learning more about how
the human mind develops, We're

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learning that it develops some of us
knew this all along. Watching

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behaviors develops more slowly. It
takes longer than we thought. As you

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think about the advancing university

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for all ages. I mean, it really is
incumbent upon us to listen to you all

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and to listen to your ideas about how
we can become a better defeat er, of

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ignorance. Whatever age we're going to
work to in the future, whatever age

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we're going to be having a health
span,

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livelihood extension. What we need is
a way in which we can all be

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learning always to be adaptable.

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What we're talking about today is
another stage of life that I think will

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become as dramatic and distinct as
adolescents has been in our modern

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world today, but what seems to be one
of the defining felt elements of

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this, It's a desire for purpose. My
organization is located in what is

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primarily a retirement community and
we primarily serve seniors who are

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either homebound or disabled. So the
people we serve and more than 500

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volunteers that we have to serve them
are naturally going to be mostly

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retired people. And while we like to
use the experience and skills of the

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people that we recruit and who come to
us, what we're doing more than that

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is investing in their passion

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because much of what we do doesn't
require

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really elaborate skill sets. We drive
them to the doctor, we call them to

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make call people to make sure they're
okay with different meals. A number

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of things that don't require elaborate
skills or phds, but it requires a

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passion to serve our workers

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are really investing in the community
and in themselves in their own

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futures if you will, because part of
what they're doing is to make sure

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that our organization remains viable
and vibrant and we'll be there to

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serve them and their families when
they need us in the future and as a

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society and where we're going, we've
been sold on this active adult

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lifestyle where you retire and you
play tennis and golf, go on a cruise

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and do all these things. You moved to
a retirement community. Yeah. What

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I've seen hundreds of people, they do
that for a year or two and then say

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, what am I doing? You know, I can't
just play tennis for the rest of my

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life. I need a purpose and that's
where we get our volunteers from. So you

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need to remember that that next
station stage of life isn't just going to

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be off getting up late and playing
golf. You know, that just isn't enough

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for most. I left IBM in 2000 and five
after a 30 plus year.

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Sales and market. Very fulfilling,
lovely, interesting career. I love, I

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have plans for career after idea to
become a gemologist. So in 2000 and

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six I moved to California, went to all
of the schooling at the DJIa became

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a graduate gemologist graduate pearls
accredited jewelry professional.

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Came back to phoenix Arizona and got a
job working in a choice. Mhm.

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I don't know. So sometimes you have
great plans. They don't always work

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out. So I decided historic
volunteering different organizations around the

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valley and figure out really arrived.
I'm felt I had no purpose. I had

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spent so many years working and that
was my life and my and all of a

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sudden you don't, it's really dark.
And a couple of years ago someone said

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, you know, there's this organization
public.

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So, and I was fortunate enough to
interview in the first wave of encore

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fellows, not get select position until
last year. So last year I

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interviewed with Y. W. C. A. And as
the bios right now managing their

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financial education, it has been a
wonderful experience for it. Really

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matched up a lot of the skills that I
had over the years. Yeah. So with

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IBM I had done a lot of teaching. I
had to go well I present I had brought

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out and established relationships with
customers, different clients that

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we have and that really well for the
workthat