About Allison Aubrey
Journalist, Author, NPR Correspondent
Allison Aubrey is an award-winning NPR health and science journalist and CBS Sunday Morning contributor. She spent two decades reporting on the science of how we live: what we eat, how we move, how we age, and what it takes to thrive at every stage of life.
She is a member of the senior class of Gen X: a generation of women raised with the expectations that they should climb high in their careers and manage the home front while making it all look easy, without complaining.
She amusingly notes that she raised three kids on Crock-Pot chicken while chasing stories that matter.
While badges of achievement reveal a small part of who we are, Allison is honored that her work is recognized with two James Beard Broadcast Awards, a National Press Club Award, a New York Press Club Award, a Gracie Award, and the REAHL Award for advancing health literacy.
About Allison's Book "Your Turn"
Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love is for everyone who never gave themself permission to stop in the career and family life. It is for those with a million ideas but who struggle to land on what you they to pursue. It's for those who feel guilty asking, "what lights me up?" or long to return to the child within. Allison's statement is simple: It’s Your Turn.
From her publisher Simon & Schuster:
"Aubrey presents a captivating collection of women, ages 45 to 105, who centered creativity, connection, and joy, showing how it’s possible to find meaning and momentum in midlife. She takes what she’s learned, from scores of fascinating women she met both on this journey and in her decades of reporting as a journalist, to give readers a playbook for what could be next. She weaves together incredibly powerful tools of rediscovery to help you reignite your passions and hit your stride in midlife and beyond."
If you’re ready to shed society's script and return to what genuinely lights you up, this book is for you. It’s a playbook for midlife reinvention. Allison has curated the best tools of self-discovery, combined with stories of dozens of Third Turners, people who are not winding down but winding up. Their stories are instructive, infectious, and proof that the Third Turn may be the most exciting phase of life yet.