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🎙️ What might you learn about someone you’ve known for decades—if you asked a different question? Ellen Warner joins The Not Old Better Show to discuss The Other Half: Forty Men Reveal Life After Fifty. 📖 Love, work, loss and the years ahead. 🎧 Listen now.
🎙️ After decades of answering “What do you do?” how do you answer “Who are you?”
Photojournalist Ellen Warner joins me on The Not Old Better Show to discuss her book, The Other Half: Forty Men Reveal Life After Fifty. AVAILABLE NOW ON APPLE BOOKS!
📖 From a taxi driver to a prince, these men share reflections on work, love, loss and growing older.
We explore identity beyond a job title, the conversations families leave unfinished, and what Warner learned after her earlier book about forty women.
🎧 Join us for a conversation about the years ahead—and the people we’re still becoming. What question would you ask someone over fifty?
An insightful and intimate look at aging and masculinity that includes interviews and portraits of men from around the world.What do men really think? From a taxi driver to a prince, a fishmonger to a professional boxer, The Other Half reveals the inner thoughts of men over fifty from different nationalities and different walks of life in their own words, illuminated by their portraits. Author and photojournalist Ellen Warner traveled the world to find out what men really think about love, work, and aging, speaking with well-known figures like film director James Ivory and journalist Bill Keller, as well as a philosopher, a chess grandmaster, a hair stylist, a financier, and more. Interviewing men from Colombia, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, and everywhere in between, Warner assembles a moving portrait of their reflections, insights, challenges, and hard-won triumphs. A companion to The Second Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty, Warner’s latest book shares the diverse, vibrant experiences of men over fifty.
Our guest today, Ellen Warner, has spent a career looking closely at people. A photojournalist and portrait photographer since 1969, she understands that a face can invite a question. But you have to stay and listen.
For her book The Second Half, Ellen photographed and interviewed forty women about life after fifty. Now, in The Other Half: Forty Men Reveal Life After Fifty, she turns to men. The Other Half: Forty Men Reveal Life After Fifty. AVAILABLE NOW ON APPLE BOOKS!
A taxi driver. A prince. A professional boxer. Men with famous names, and men you might otherwise never meet.
Together, their portraits and conversations open a window onto work, love, loss, ambition, and growing older. And Ellen found a willingness to talk that surprised even her.
For those of us navigating this stretch of life, there’s plenty here to recognize—and perhaps something we haven’t yet found the words to say ourselves.
I’m Paul Vogelzang, and this is The Not Old Better Show.
Today, we’re asking what happens when men have room to tell their stories—and what the rest of us might hear if we listen.
Ellen Warner, welcome to the show.
