# What’s Your Story, Nina Waters? From community builder to redefining purpose after retirement

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Podcast: [What's Your Story with Jaime & Stan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-your-story-with-jaime-stan-7110537)
Published: 2025-12-16T11:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 3747

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In this warm, funny, and deeply reflective episode, Jaime and Stan sit down with Nina Waters — longtime nonprofit leader, former president of a major community foundation, and a woman navigating what it really means to start again after retirement. From growing up in Pittsburgh in a tight-knit Italian family, to a decades-long career serving at-risk youth and leading large-scale philanthropy, Nina’s story is rooted in service, relationships, and resilience. Now living in the mountains of North Georgia, she opens up about identity beyond work, making friends later in life, marriage that lasts decades, and learning how to slow down — without losing purpose. This conversation is honest, humorous, and quietly profound — a reminder that reinvention doesn’t stop just because the résumé does.

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