Defying Gravity, Too!

The interviews for the male sequel to Defying Gravity are done! Here are some of the men:

• A popular Denver anchorman who lost his job to downsizing in his 50s and then fulfilled his dream of becoming a veterinary technician.
• A New York City marketing exec who gave up retirement and started a non-profit to help young men plan for life after prison.
  
• A sharecropper from Alabama who became a world-renowned folk artist in his 60s.
• A salesman who took a "gap year" in his 40s and wound up as a wildlife researcher and loon expert in Maine.
• A commercial banker who left the business to buy a popular zoo in the heart of Louisiana's "Cajun Country."
• An Oregon gas station owner who at 48 went on a trip of a lifetime by attaching helium balloons to a lawnchair and taking flight across two states.
  
• A former pro basketball player and marketing rep who became an urban farmer in his 50s and started a non-profit to provide healthy foods to under-served populations in the Midwest.
• A retired Marine Corps major, Vietnam vet and cancer survivor who became an award-winning teacher of students with behavioral problems in southern California.
• A mortgage banking officer who became a nurse practitioner in his 50s and now works with HIV/AIDS patients in Palm Springs.
• A former grocery store owner who returned to his love of flying and become a commercial airline pilot in his 40s.
• A fiber optics pioneer who, at age 60, became the third self-funded "space tourist" to visit the International Space Station.
• A musician and recovering addict who was a front-line volunteer after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Sri Lanka tsunami, and helped found a hospital after the 2005 Pakistan earthquake.
• An ex-Wall Street titan who at 57 is one of the first fellows of Harvard University's new Advanced Leadership Initiative, which trains former business executives for the nonprofit world.
• A high school dropout and electronics repairman who, at 70, is pursuing a PhD in history at the University of Kentucky.
• The former "public face" of a pioneering Public Television station who retired to become a "wolf ambassador" at Yellowstone National Park.