Why midlife isn't what it used to be with Chip Conley

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What is the modern day meaning of midlife? In the past, its definition was limited and often attached to crisis. Today’s guest has a more optimistic approach. Chip Conley is the founder of the Modern Elder Academy and the author of Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Life Gets Better with Age. Chip sits down with Jessi to share his experiences transitioning into middle age and asks us to reframe our ideas around all that this stage of life has to offer. Follow Chip Conley on LinkedIn and check out his newest book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now available in paperback! Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:05.0	From the news From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple and this is Hello Monday. What does it mean to be middle-aged?
0:18.0	It was a term that had a more concise definition back when I was a kid. Our milestones were more clear-cut. There was one acceptable timeline, one way of navigating a career, one gender that was afforded the luxury of declaring a crisis
0:36.0	publicly when it all fell apart.
0:38.5	Men turned 40, had a midlife crisis, and bought that red sports car.
0:43.2	That's no longer how it is.
0:45.4	We finally realized that all sorts of people experience midlife.
0:50.2	Those people are living longer.
0:52.2	They're falling off the proverbial career ladders earlier.
0:55.0	They're hitting those milestones at very different times.
0:58.0	There are sociologists that will say today's version of midlife
1:02.0	stretches from 35 to 75.
1:06.2	Now me, I'm just about in the middle of that spread.
1:09.4	I'm 48.
1:10.7	It's the first thing I told our guest today, and he got this wistful smile as he leaned into the mic.
1:16.0	Ooh, the bottom of the U-curve of happiness.
1:20.0	That's Chip Conley.
1:22.0	Today we're talking about Chip's new book.
1:25.0	Learning to Love Midlife.
1:26.6	12 Reasons Life gets better with age.
1:30.3	So does it get better with age? We'll get into it after the break.
1:39.0	The LinkedIn Podcast Network is sponsored by TIAA. TIA makes you a retirement promise, a promise of a guaranteed retirement paycheck for life.
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