What if we framed midlife not as a crisis but as a transformative chrysalis—a liminal period where profound awakenings unfold?
What if we saw it as an opportunity to shed old layers, unfurl our wings, and share the pollen of our wisdom with the world?
Guiding us from pupa to butterfly, we have the Monarch himself, Chip Conley.
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Today
Ken Rideout On Why Everything You Want Is On The Other Side Of Hard
Ken Rideout is a masters world champion marathon runner, recovering opioid addict, and the author of the new memoir, “Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard.” This conversation explores the childhood trauma Ken spent decades outpacing, the addiction that nearly destroye ... Show More
1h 51m
Mar 2
The Handyman of High Art: Tom Sachs On Why Creativity Is The Enemy, Why Talent Is Overrated, & The Disciplines That Define A Life
Tom Sachs is a contemporary artist and cultural provocateur known for turning branded consumer objects into high art. This conversation explores the paradoxes that define Tom's art and his iconoclastic philosophy of living; why creativity is the enemy, the power of sympathetic ma ... Show More
1h 46m
Feb 26
Decoding Looksmaxxing: The Crisis Consuming Young Men & The Real Path To Self-Worth
Bone smashing. Steroids. Crystal meth. 13-year-olds letting AI judge their faces. It's called looksmaxxing – and it presents as self-improvement. Underneath, it's a deftly weaponized pipeline to nihilism, misogyny, and self-destruction, consuming millions of young men right now. ... Show More
1h 5m
Feb 2024
Chip Conley: How to Thrive in Midlife
<p>Do you want to make your midlife the best years of your life?</p> <p>Joining Sarah Grynberg this week is hospitality visionary and bestselling author, Chip Conley. Chip is the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, and Modern Elder Academy, and the former Head of Global Hospita ... Show More
1 h
Apr 2024
Chip Conley on Learning to Love Midlife
<p>Chip Conley is a bestselling author and co-founder of the Modern Elder Academy, the world’s first “midlife wisdom school”. After an impressive career in the hospitality industry, first as the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, then as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and ... Show More
42m 52s
Jan 2024
Making Peace with Your Midlife, Mid-career Self
Research shows that happiness bottoms out for people in their mid to late 40s. We might struggle with mid-career slumps, caring for both children and aging parents, and existential questions about whether everything has turned out as we'd planned. But Chip Conley says we can appr ... Show More
29m 27s
May 2023
What’s It All For? Loss and Meaning In Midlife with Chip Conley
Midlife has a lot of messy stuff in it: divorce, the death of your parents, menopause, health scares, empty nests, career changes, feeling increasingly irrelevant - “midlife” has terrible branding, according to author, modern elder, hospitality expert, and CEO and co-founder of M ... Show More
47m 30s