Chip Conley | How To Reimagine Your Second Act (or third)
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Chip Conley shares how the early seed of an idea around the deep wisdom and value and sharing, learning and potential for profound, intergenerational contribution led to the creation of what’s now become a global institution call the Modern Elder Academy with campuses in Baja Mexico and New Mexico, and programming that is building community and changing lives in amazing ways.
By the way if you’re wondering why Chip's name might sound familiar, beyond earlier appearances on Good Life Project, he’s also a New York Times bestselling author, the hospitality maverick who first built and sold a boutique hotel chain, flatlined on stage while keynoting, then reclaimed and reimagined his life, stepping into help Airbnb's founders turn their fast-growing tech start-up into a global hospitality brand, all before founding the Modern Elder Academy.
If you’re in a moment where you’re really thinking about what you want the next season of work and life and contribution to look and feel like, this is a don’t-miss episode.
You can find Chip at: Modern Elder Academy | Website | Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | in our midlife, we have to learn how to become a beginner again over and over again. How do we help |
| 0:06.1 | people learn how to serve? How do we help them learn how to big bread? How do we help them learn |
| 0:10.4 | to do improv? How do we help them speak from a vulnerable place? Write a piece of poetry. I mean, |
| 0:15.3 | the program has a lot of elements to it. It's about reframing aging, about moving to a growth mindset, |
| 0:20.0 | learning how to navigate midlife transitions, cultivate wisdom, learn how to live a regenerative |
| 0:24.3 | lifestyle, but at the heart of it is helping people to learn how to become a beginner over and |
| 0:29.8 | over again. And I promise you that that skill of learning to become a beginner over and over again |
| 0:35.4 | is the skill that's most wedded and clearly attached to the people who turn out to be a hundred |
| 0:40.8 | years old. Hey, so last time I had my friend Chick Connolly on the podcast, it was a different world |
| 0:49.2 | and his world personally had just been turned upside down. We were sitting in my studio together |
| 0:55.4 | I was living and recording in New York and literally hours before. Chick received a phone call |
| 1:00.1 | telling him he had cancer. He chose to come in and continue with our conversation and even share |
| 1:06.4 | a bit about where his heart and head were at that moment while also being incredibly present |
| 1:11.8 | in the conversation and sharing his emerging passion and ideas and emotions his take on the |
| 1:16.7 | role of what he called modern elders since then so much has changed. Once again, in our world |
| 1:23.2 | on a very personal level and chips, so I invited him to come back and share his journey and we |
| 1:29.2 | explore how that day shifted everything how the years have been for him from a physical |
| 1:34.1 | and emotional well-being standpoint, but then we really shift years and chip shares how that early |
| 1:39.3 | seed of an idea around the deep wisdom and value and sharing and learning and potential for profound |
| 1:46.0 | intergenerational contribution led to the creation of what's now become a global institution |
| 1:51.6 | called the Modern Elder Academy with campuses in Baja, Mexico and New Mexico and programming that |
| 1:58.9 | is building community and changing lives in amazing ways and by the way if you're wondering why |
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