526: Learning to Love Midlife with Chip Conley
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever find yourself thinking that your best years have passed you by? It’s a common reflection that many people have as they get older. However, this mindset can lead many people to lose sight of the positive aspects of life and to experience joy and fulfillment.
I’m very excited to share this conversation with Chip Conley. Chip is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, Co-Founder, and CEO of The Modern Elder Academy. His new book, Learning to Love Midlife, helps people understand the upside of aging instead of only focusing on the negatives. In this episode, Chip shares the 12 reasons why life gets richer, deeper, and infinitely more fulfilling as we age.
Chip unpacks those reasons one by one, and you’ll see how they’re not just ideas but practical, actionable paths. You’ll learn how to navigate midlife transitions, find and refine your purpose with each passing year, and see aging not as a decline but as a profound opportunity to create the life you want and make the years that lie ahead your best ones yet.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- How our brains get surprisingly better with age
- Mindset is everything when it comes to aging gracefully
- Expectations minus reality = Disappointment
- How coming to terms with our mortality pushes us to be present
- Wisdom isn’t a given with age
- Purpose is something you do, and something you live
- The purpose of life is to find your gift. The work of life is to develop it
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.5 | I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves, and we ask them to give you a |
| 0:24.0 | peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do the same. |
| 0:28.0 | Ready? Here we go. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello friends, welcome to the Cheever Goals podcast this is your host Hal Elrod and if we were playing the word |
| 0:36.8 | association game and the word you were given or that I gave to you was midlife what word would come to your mind next. If it was crisis, you'd be in the majority and that is a problem that my guest today, Chip Connley is on a mission to solve. A New York Times best-selling author, |
| 0:53.9 | Conley's seventh book, Learning to Love Midlife, 12 reasons why life gets better |
| 0:58.9 | with age is about rebranding midlife to help people understand the upside of this often misunderstood life stage. |
| 1:06.5 | And he was asked to give his third, not first, not second, but third TED Talk on the main stage in |
| 1:12.3 | 2023 on what he calls the midlife |
| 1:14.4 | Chrysalis as opposed to crisis. Now after disrupting the hospitality |
| 1:19.2 | industry twice, most notably as Airbnb's head of global hospitality and strategy, |
| 1:24.8 | leading a worldwide revolution in travel, |
| 1:27.6 | Connolly co-founded M. E. A. |
| 1:30.2 | Modern Elder Academy in January of 2018 in Baja California, Mexico, |
| 1:35.0 | inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring |
| 1:39.0 | as a modern elder at Airbnb, |
| 1:42.0 | where his guidance was instrumental to the company's |
| 1:44.3 | extraordinary transformation from fast-growing startup to world's most valuable |
| 1:49.3 | hospitality brand. MEA, again Modern Elder Academy, is the world's first midlife wisdom school, and has a |
| 1:56.9 | campus opening on a 2,600 acre regenerative horse ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico in early 2024. |
| 2:04.8 | Dedicated to Reframing the Concept of Aging, |
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