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The Second Act is a conversation about becoming.

We’ll explore the ways life deepens, widens, and rewrites itself as we move beyond our first chapters. Through thoughtful conversations with people from many walks of life, the podcast explores how identity, purpose, relationships, and creativity evolve over time. It asks what success means later in life, how experience reshapes our values, and how emerging technologies like AI intersect with our humanity.

Equal parts reflective and forward-looking, The Second Act invites listeners to slow down, listen closely, and discover how every life holds lessons that can illuminate our own unfolding stories.

Season One

A Moment of Redefinition

In its inaugural season, The Second Act gathers leaders, healers, builders, and innovators who have each reached a moment of re-definition in their lives. These conversations explore how success evolves with experience: from individual achievement to impact, from ambition to meaning, from expertise to curiosity. Together, the guests model what it looks like to stay generative, resilient, and purposeful as life expands into its next chapters.

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    Purvi Kunwar

    VP STRATEGY & OPERATIONS, PRECISION NEURO

    A bridge-builder across social work, motherhood, corporate leadership, and entrepreneurship. Purvi shows how integration can create a powerful, multi-layered second act.

  • Ben Bisconti

    CO-FOUNDER & CO-CEO, RED IRON GROUP

    An investor and builder who rose from humble beginnings to shape companies, and then chose to redefine success on his own terms. Ben shares how stepping away from a prestigious path led him back to investing with deeper intention, grounding his work in long-term partnership, mentorship, and values-driven growth.

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    Mrs. Vimala Raj

    MOTHER, PUZZLE-SOLVER, RANGOLI CREATOR

    Now in her fourth chapter of life, Vimala reflects on motherhood, living in multiple cities, and how daily rituals for healing can support resilience as life continues to unfold.

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    Diaz Nesamoney

    CEO, DAVINCI COMMERCE

    A builder of companies who centers resilience, empathy, and customer trust as the true measures of leadership. Diaz shares how humility and listening have become his most powerful tools in business and life.

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    Dr. Vinitha Raghavan

    NEPHROLOGIST, INVESTOR, CREATIVE EXPLORER

    Trained as a physician, Vinitha has circled back toward creativity, investment, and curiosity. Her story illustrates how a second act can feel like both return and reinvention at once.

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    Dr JS Rajkumar

    CHAIRMAN LIFELINE HOSPITAL

    From healing one patient at a time to influencing systems that shape public health, Rajkumar’s journey moves from personal service to large-scale impact in politics. He explores what it means to step into civic responsibility as part of one’s second act.

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    Naomi Kinsman

    Founder & Executive Director, Society of Young Inklings, Creator of Illumineering

    A storyteller and world-builder who believes in the power of each individual voice. Naomi invites people to move from productivity to presence, and from certainty to relational imagination, showing how creativity can become a practice of coherence, vibrancy, and continuity across a life.

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    Dr. Mike Silvas

    MOBILIZE PHYSICAL THERAPY

    A clinician and movement expert who views success not as performance alone, but as sustainable vitality across a lifetime. Mike reflects on how caring for the body reshapes what achievement means in the second half of life.