A company called Rest Less has released the results of a survey it did on self employed individuals in the U.K.

Rest Less has a simple mission: help those in their 50s and older to find jobs. What their survey discovered is that a record number of individuals over 60 have become self-employed. This represents nearly a quarter of all of those in the U.K. who work for themselves.

It would be a real stretch to say that all those self-employed over 60 are dying to work for themselves. More likely, they are forced to because they can’t find a job with a company. And that’s likely because age discrimination, more commonly known as ageism, is keeping them on the sidelines.

This week, a conversation with Janine Vanderburg, a veteran consultant who has taken on the task of battling ageism in the workplace, trying to tear down the prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination at work that does such damage to those over 50 and also to the companies that reject their applications.

Most of us blunder into retirement without any realization about how much our lives are going to change. We’re entering unchartered waters.

Or, as our guest this week on The Art 2 Aging, Wayne Lehrer, would say, we are entering our third act without the knowledge of how to make it extraordinary.

That’s why Wayne looks at life as a play in three acts.

Act 1 is our personal development up to age 20.

Act 2 is when we begin striving for success, accumulation, wealth building and family.

Act 3 likely begins around age 60 and it could be the most challenging one of all.

Wayne has worn a few hats in his life: IMAX film maker, theme park designer, sculptor, and writer.

And as he wound his way through his own three-act play, he came to realize that it wasn’t until he reached Act 3 that he began to understand what the play was really about. Listen this week on The Art 2 Aging.

This week on The Art 2 Aging, we resume our conversation with Jim White. If you’re Canadian, then you will know what President’s Choice is. As well as PC.

Well, that’s Jim White.

And if you’ve ever eaten a muffin from Starbuck’s, then you have consumed a Jim White recipe.

You have probably enjoyed food and beverage products from Costco, Walmart, Wegman’s, Safeway and many other food retailers throughout the U.S. that have Jim’s moniker all over them.

Jim has enjoyed enormous success in the food and wine industries and he’s done so with very little fanfare.

Today, the final part of our interview with Jim as he relates how he moved from food to wine because, as Jim would put it, he’d never done it before and it sounded like fun.