Chip Conley | Age is Irrelevant

Chip Conley’s "modern elder movement" leads us to ask how life can get better with age.
Join us for a conversation about tools to adjust our attitudes and perspectives. Drawing from his new book, Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age, Conley will seek to motivate us to think differently. We will learn about his practices such as building your own “birds of a feather” community, stepping off the treadmill, letting go of what no longer serves you and the freedom that it brings.
Chip Conley is on a midlife mission. After disrupting the hospitality industry, first as the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the second largest operator of boutique hotels in the United States, and then as Airbnb’s head of global hospitality and strategy, leading a worldwide revolution in travel, Conley co-founded MEA (Modern Elder Academy) in January 2018 in Baja California, Mexico.
March 27, 2024
Speaker photo courtesy the speaker.
Speakers
Chip Conley
Co-founder, Modern Elder Academy (MEA); Author, Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age
In conversation with Lenny Mendoca
Member, Board of Governors, The Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California
Elizabeth Carney
Chair, Business and Leadership Forum, The Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California-Host and Moderator
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[@HopeWins777]

Best piece of wisdom I've got. After unwittingly choo adds ing my way into a life of trauma and betrayal, surviving and mining golden truth nuggets sling the way, here's the best piece of wisdom I've discovered for a difficult life like mine: Sometimes it's not about what you do, it's about who you raise. Reminiscent of the Legacy topic you mentioned here. The impact of a life on those whom we stop and touch will Ripple for an eternity. You make a difference because you have had the breath of Life inside of you, whether you are aware of your impact, or not. Be kind to those on your path. Notice them. And live your days on purpose. Slow it down. Everyone is going through something. Don't miss out on the best parts if being here. 🐛❤🦋

[@HopeWins777]

I'm also facing physical challenges and trying to diagnose what exactly is going on. Thank you for sharing that part as well! ... Humbling. You did good. You are generously multiplying the many talents and gifts you were divinely given and quite humbly received. Of course, that is precisely how wisdom multiplies... 💝🎁💝 Exponentially. Well done, Chip, well done.👏👏👏

[@HopeWins777]

I'm 62 and this paradigm shift just changed my life, adding countless years to an already blessed existence. But I've been wandering, circling, for many years now since my kids have quite successfully launched, and I have discovered so many things that I would like to claim do-over. The online world has been amazing for people open to the wisdoms that my children are too old to receive. But 10 years from now what will I regret not having done? And that was nuclear. Thank you for the vulnerability and for the sharing. And also for setting up m e a. I'm in tears hoping that I could also spend a birthday there or give that trip as a gift to someone close to me to whom I owe many debts. But I'm old enough to know we pay it forward. So I will Ponder what you have presented and push off into my own universe in the direction I'm led. Also letting the Divine surprise me. Wow❤❤❤

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[@6Diego1Diego9]

You should become a gangster rapper