If you're in your 40s, 50s, 60s or 70s...
Get Ready To Embrace The Best Decades Of Your Life
With Chip Conley’s Learning to Love Midlife Book + Companion Course
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Science proves it life gets better with age.
Though popular culture frames midlife as a time of crisis and decline, studies show that after we hit our 50s, most people start to experience a steady increase in happiness that extends well into our 70s and beyond.
In his groundbreaking book, Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age, MEA founder and bestselling author Chip Conley draws on the latest social science research, inspiring stories, and timeless wisdom to reveal the compelling and evidence-backed reasons why most people experience more joy, fulfillment, and contentment in their life as they age.
No matter where you are in your midlife journey, Chip’s perspective‑shifting guide to midlife will inspire you to find joy, purpose, and success now and in the decades ahead – and reframe your upcoming years as your best ones yet.
And now you can go deeper into these principles and practices in a Learning to Love Midlife online companion course designed to help you implement the key takeaways in your life in a more powerfully impactful way.
Enroll now and get the book and companion course for $49 + shipping
Learning to Love Midlife is an invaluable guide to how to navigate this period with curiosity, energy, and optimism. With cutting-edge research, deep insight, and examples drawn from real life—including candid accounts of his own experience—Conley provides a clear blueprint for creating the lives we want.
- Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project
Discover why midlife isn’t a crisis – it’s a calling.
Midlife invites us to take stock of our lives, invest more deeply in the things that truly matter most to us – and become more fully ourselves.
It’s not merely the transition from youth to old age – it’s a time of transformation, opportunity, and potential just waiting to be discovered and unleashed.
Learning to Love Midlife will help you reframe midlife as a “chrysalis” instead of a crisis – and transform your 40s, 50s, and beyond into an invigorating period of re-imagination, re-creation, reflection, and true growth on your terms.
Sign up today and get a free copy of Chip’s bestselling book, Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age delivered to your mailbox – along with instant online enrollment in the five-module Learning to Love Midlife companion course.


You’ll gain immediate lifetime access to short videos and simple but effective activities that will help you put the book’s principles and practices into practice in the five key areas of your life:
Your Physical Life
We have more life left than we thought – so what do we do with the time ahead of us to ensure our bodies stay healthy and strong?
Your Emotional Life
How can we make friends with our emotions? How can we invest in our social wellness so we’re able to thrive in times of change?
Your Mental Life
How does our story serve us? How can we marvel at our own innate wisdom and utilize it as a respected mentor?
Your Professional Life
How do you switch gears or step off the treadmill altogether and remain influential and impactful?
Your Spiritual Life
What experiences help you feel more connected to yourself and others – and to something larger that inspires awe?
Each video is about 10-15 minutes long and each activity involves journaling and self-inquiry that you can spend as much or as little time on as you’d like. Even 30 minutes per module will help you gain valuable insight and clarity into what you want the next years of your life to look like – and get you excited to dive into your next chapter.
Plus you’ll get Chip’s New York Times bestselling book, Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age shipped to your mailing address and be able to refer back to its wisdom and share it with others whenever you’d like.
$49 + shipping

Rarely have I read a book that so succinctly captures the upside of midlife, a life stage that is more an opportunity than a crisis. Chip Conley reminds us all to savor the wisdom, self-knowledge, and joy that accompanies this time in our lives.
- Father Richard Rohr, bestselling author, speaker and spiritual thought leader
Meet Chip Conley, your midlife wisdom guide
Chip is the founder of MEA (Modern Elder Academy) as well as a three-time TED speaker and the New York Times number-one bestselling author of Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder and Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age, among others.
As founder of the second largest boutique hotel chain in America and "modern elder" to the young Airbnb founders, Chip is a globally-recognized thought leader on the future of work and the competitive advantages of a multi-generational workplace.
Inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring at Airbnb – where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary success – Chip founded MEA in 2017 to help other people in midlife find their own meaningful way to keep learning and sharing the wisdom gained from their lived experiences to create fulfilling and exciting second adulthoods.
With world-class retreat centers in Baja and Santa Fe, MEA offers destination workshops and online programs designed to help people navigate transitions with renewed purpose and possibility and thrive in the second half of life.



I am a huge fan of MEA which is a great initiative. I love the idea of ‘long-life learning’. It's clear that longer lives and technological change will require lifelong learning, and much of that will be skills-focused and based on jobs. And that’s appropriate. But education has a much deeper role to play.
Andrew Scott

Unless you keel over in the prime of your professional life, you are going to see decline in your abilities. And the higher your abilities, the more you will notice when they slip. That’s the ‘winner’s curse’—the reason that people who do really well in life often suffer the most as they age.
Arthur Brooks

Millions are moving through midlife, searching for deeper purpose and the chance to make a meaningful difference in the world. They want to be Modern Elders! All too often, though, the path from aspiration to action has been a solitary and confusing one. Enter MEA, a beacon in the wilderness.
Marc Freedman
Sign up today and gain access to resources that not only help you navigate the challenges of growing older – they celebrate and maximize the opportunities that midlife presents.
Enroll now for $49
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If we are lucky enough, midlife will find us all, but that doesn’t mean crisis has to accompany it. The brilliant and beloved Conley reminds us that with transition and uncertainty comes possibility. No, our doors are not closed after forty, fifty, sixty: in many ways, they are more open than ever. Read this book to reimagine every stage of midlife.
- Esther Perel, psychotherapist, author and host of Where Should We Begin