When Michele Olson of Green Bay retired, she didn’t view it as the end of a 45-year career as a writer, producer, and voice actor, she looked forward to it as a chance to spend time doing the things she loved the most. She calls it her “second act.”
“There is this beauty to it,” Olson said. “I am retired and I don’t need to have this corporate idea of goals. My goal is to listen to the whisper of the Holy Spirit every day and keep doing what I’m doing it and enjoying it. I would say to everybody sitting in a cubicle, look ahead and you will be able to have your own second act.”
Her second act is a mostly unscripted combination of painting, designing bookmarks, teaching classes, doodling, speaking, doing voice work, and writing books…