GEOFF BENNETT: What happens when# leaders across generations come## together to reimagine the future of collaboration?

Earlier this year, CoGenerate --# that's a nonprofit that brings## older and younger change-makers# together -- hosted a gathering in## Los Angeles to explore the power# of intergenerational partnership.

In this Brief But Spectacular,## participants reflect on what it takes# to build a better future together.

ALI WEINSTEIN, Sustainable Entertainment# Alliance: What does it feel like to be your age?

IMANI WOODY, Participant: It feels great.

ALI WEINSTEIN: Really?

IMANI WOODY: The e.. (LAUGHTER) ALEX EDGAR, Part.. KEVIN PATEL, Participant: Anxious.

DONNA BUTTS, Participant: .. ALEX EDGAR: With technology, I feel# like e.. ASHTON APPELWHITE, Participant: Well, I'm 73,## and that seems like really old.

LOREN WATERS, Participant: I'm 29.

TONY BROWN, Participant: I'm 55, and# I feel like I'm younger than that.

JORDAN BOWMAN, Participant: So I'm# 29.

I'm in love with my life right## now.

It's a really cool place to# be, right?

And I get to have fun.

TONY BROWN: I love your life.

JORDAN BOWMAN: Come hang out.

WOMAN: Welcome, everybody.

TANZINA VEGA, Journalist: We're here in Koreatown# in Los Angeles meeting today wi.. leaders and younger leaders to have a conversation# about how we create co-generational allyship.

This is a moment where we, across# generations, need each other.

I'm a## journalist and the lead researcher and writer# for CoGenerate on their Older Leaders Project.

MARCI ALBOHER, CoGenerate: CoGenerate is# a social impact organization committed to## bridging the generational divide to# solve big problems in our society.

What are the new models for shared# leadership in this multigenerational world?

TANZINA VEGA: One of the things that comes up## in my conversations with older# leaders is often about power.

RAYMOND A. JETSON, Author, "Aging While Black":# Those who are thought to hold power create this## story that power is a zero-sum game.

One# of the greatest gifts that we can share## with younger leaders is to share with# them that you can create your own power.

PAUL IRVING, Milken Institute: Those of us who# are our age also need to acknowledge when young## people talk about the impacts of gerontocracy in# our government, the failure and refusal of aging## leaders to make space for young people, that# that is oftentimes a really serious problem.

ALI WEINSTEIN, Sustainable Entertainment# alliance: I think it's so valuable that## older generations know the past,# but that does not mean.. the future.

But I still want to# learn from you about the past.

IMANI WOODY: What do older people# get wrong about your generation?

ALI WEINSTEIN: It's supposed to be brief.

That## we're -- our generation and the# generations below us are lazy.

KEVIN PATEL: I see that perspective from young## people as wrong because I# think we also bring ideas.

HULISSA AGUILAR, Participant:# People always tell me like,## oh, you haven't lived long enough.

And# .. ALEX EDGAR: What do younger people# get wrong about your generation?

NANCY MCPHERSON, Participant: That we're# just taking, taking, taking from the economy,## that I am a certain way because I'm a certain age.

SARITA MOHANTY, Participant: They# feel like we like to go to bed early.

LOREN WATERS: I like going to bed early.

FERNANDO TORRES-GIL, Participant: I# have a disability.

I'm a polio survivor.

MAN: And I either get an element of# pity or you're not that relevant,## so I can essentially just ignore you.

IMANI WOODY: Is pay your dues still relevant?

ALI WEINSTEIN: In entertainment and in# Hollywood, everyone is still paying their## dues if they work in this industry,# but no one is getting the rewards.

JORDAN BOWMAN: Have your inflation calculator# ready when you're looking at differences,## because the value is different.

I think# the concept of paying your dues or working## for free is an object of the past, and# I'd love for us to leave that behind.

SARITA MOHANTY: Yes, I'm older.

There are# certain dues I have to pay to be relevant.

LOREN WATERS: It's like reversed.

SARITA MOHANTY: It's like a reverse, yes.

TANZINA VEGA: .. as much as younger folks want to be# respected for their ingenuity.

It's## a question of understanding that ambition# changes over the course of one's life and## how we can respect that and at the same# time make room for each other's ambition.

My name is Tanzina Vega, and this is my Brief## But Spectacular take on the power# of intergenerational communities.

GEOFF BENNETT: It's great stuff.

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