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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

207: At 71, “Never Too Late to Be You,” Says 40-Year Marketing Prof

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5618 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

After 40 years as a marketing professor and consultant, last year Larry Rosenberg turned his joy of singing into a new career, at the age of 71. He launched The Larry Show – inspirational entertainment to help people heal, grow and share, as he has done with his life. He created two one-man musical shows, based on his life story, and performed them in the U.S. and overseas. He found his life dream, passion and purpose. “My message is, it's never too late to follow your dream. It's your life—not anybody else's—so go out and find your passion and follow your purpose.”

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0:00.0

Hello, world. Welcome to Discover Your Talent, Do What You Love, Number 207. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

0:18.6

Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered

0:22.0

his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. Today,

0:28.7

I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Larry Rosenberg. Welcome, Larry. Happy to be here

0:34.2

with you, Don. Thank you, sir. Larry, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

0:39.3

Yes, and I'm doing that YES in all caps.

0:43.8

All right, we want to hear the whole story.

0:46.1

After 40 years as a marketing professor and consultant,

0:49.4

last year, Larry Rosenberg turned his joy of singing into a new career at the age of 71. He launched the Larry

0:56.6

show, inspirational entertainment to help people heal, grow, and share as he has done with his life.

1:03.2

He created two one-man musical shows based on his life story and performed them in the U.S. and

1:09.4

overseas. He found his life, dream, passion,

1:12.5

and purpose. Larry, that's a summary of your career to date. Tell us more about what you're doing now

1:18.1

that has you engaged and excited, please. The Larry show that I created last year is the embodiment of the joy and love and enthusiasm and inspirational message

1:33.6

that I want to bring to the world. So my main show is 70 minutes. It's a chronology of my life,

1:40.8

autobiographical. And the subtitle is interesting, my liberation from the lie.

1:47.1

And the lie is that we have to grow up in a certain way, basically like our parents, school,

1:54.0

and in general culture, media, say so. So I have found myself over 70 years. I have created the life that is authentic to me,

2:06.5

that is fulfilling to me, and it's about inspirational entertainment. So entertainment, singing,

2:14.1

dancing, humor, costume changes, audience participation. And embedded in that is a message.

2:23.9

The message of it's never too late to follow your dream. It's your life, not anybody else's.

2:31.1

And go out and find your passion and follow your purpose. My word, we are so philosophically

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