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Take your midlife journey to the next level. Enjoy Live and On-Demand Sessions – meaningful conversations, and heartfelt interactions with today’s most inspiring and influential thought leaders as you navigate life transitions, seek renewed purpose, and contemplate your legacy.

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Wild Resilience: Build a Steadier Mind and Body You Trust

Derek Gehl, Jaimie Lusk, PsyD, ABPP, BCC & Rebecca Rusch
October 8, 2026 11:00 AM PT 02:00 PM ET

What if resilience isn’t about gritting your teeth, powering through, or becoming tougher than the next hard thing?

Seven-time world champion endurance athlete Rebecca Rusch and clinical psychologist, Marine Corps veteran, and fellow athlete Dr. Jaimie Lusk have both learned – through loss, injury, recovery, service, and time far beyond their comfort zones – that the body often knows something the mind hasn’t yet caught up with.

In this live conversation with host Derek Gehl, they’ll explore what happens when we stop treating our limits as failures. They’ll talk about fear versus danger, the stories we bring to challenge, the surprising intelligence of movement, and how time outdoors can help us find a steadier way forward.

Join them for an honest, wide-ranging conversation—and a first look at their May workshop, Wild Resilience, at Rising Circle Ranch in Santa Fe.

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Living Your Legacy: Align How You Lead, Love, and Live With What Matters Most

Derek Gehl & Jeff Benton and Brett Weinroth
October 15, 2026 10:00 AM PT 01:00 PM ET

Legacy isn’t simply something we leave behind. It’s something we create every day through how we lead and love, how we respond under pressure, the relationships we cultivate, the choices we make, and ultimately, how people experience us.

Join Paragon Performance Evolution co-founders Jeff Benton and Brett Weinroth for a candid conversation about what changes when we stop treating legacy as a distant outcome and begin paying closer attention to how we’re living right now.

Over the past decade, Jeff and Brett have worked with some of the world’s highest performers – from entrepreneurs and family enterprises to corporate leaders, professional athletes, Special Forces, global first ladies, and astronauts. Across remarkably different lives, they’ve seen a common question emerge:

What might change if we brought the same intention to how we live that we’ve brought to everything we’ve built?

Together, they’ll explore what it means to become more present in our lives, why we can know what matters most and still struggle to live in alignment with it, and how the ordinary choices we make in our relationships, leadership, and moments of pressure shape who we are becoming.

Take the Next Step: The 6-Month Journey

This session serves as an introduction to Living Your Legacy, an exclusive six-month MEA experience beginning in January 2027. Through two in-person retreats at Rising Circle Ranch, private 1:1 coaching, and monthly cohort gatherings, you will find the space and community to design your next chapter with profound intention.

Check out the 6-month Living Your Legacy journey with Jeff and Brett.

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The Action Brief: Get Messy, Get Clear, Get Active

Bonnie Wan & Mary Hofstedt
October 26, 2026 9:00 AM PT 12:00 PM ET

You know you need change. You might even know what you want. Yet you’re still stuck standing still. Reflection, direction, and intention are good starts, but insight without action is just a nicer kind of stuck.

To create real momentum, you need an action brief: a sharp, sticky, singular declaration that makes action irresistible. Join author and strategist Bonnie Wan alongside host Mary Hofstedt for a live conversation on how to move from reflection to declaration.

Bonnie will share her methodology for getting messy, refining your true desires, reframing limiting beliefs, and translating clarity into daily action. She will also give a preview of her upcoming four-day MEA workshop, The Action Brief: Your Time Is Now, taking place January 31–February 4 in Santa Fe.

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A Kinder Way with Sage Robbins

Chip Conley, Kari Cardinale & Sage Robbins
November 2, 2026 10:00 AM PT 01:00 PM ET

Sage Robbins is a speaker, guide, and author who’s shared global stages alongside her husband, Tony Robbins, for more than 25 years. Along the way, she’s been brought to her knees by life more than once, and she’s found her way back to herself each time. She calls what she learned A Kinder Way to lead, to love, and to be.

MEA’s Chip Conley and Kari Cardinale join Sage for an unscripted conversation about what that looks like. They’ll talk about:

  • Lasting Love: Treating love as something you practice and relationships as mirrors

  • Conscious Leadership: Going first, choosing inner alignment, and taking 100% responsibility

  • When Roles Reverse: Caring for an aging parent and navigating the grief that comes with it

  • The Seasons of Life: Choosing acceptance over resistance to navigate change without losing yourself

  • Finding New Purpose: Beginning again and stepping into a new calling, whatever chapter you’re in

Save your spot below and bring your questions for Sage!

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September 29, 2026
Jumpstart Your Next Chapter: Finding Purpose, Passion, and a New Path

Kari Cardinale, Marci Alboher & Kerry Hannon

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September 21, 2026
Alchemy of Breath: Breathe Into Clarity, Courage, and Inner Guidance

Kari Cardinale, Amy Rachelle, ND & Anthony Abbagnano

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September 2, 2026
Inner Tracking: How to Feel More Connected to Your Inner Wisdom

Kari Cardinale, Lee Johnson & Rev. Melanie Smith

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September 1, 2026
Golden Girls: Inside Modern Co-Living

Chip Conley, Dana Collie, Robin Tefft & Jeanne Bradford

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August 27, 2026
Career Transitions: Your Clear Path Forward

Kari Cardinale & Carolina Lasso

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August 20, 2026
From Autopilot to Fully Alive: Zen Tools for Presence and Purpose

Mary Hofstedt & Dan Zigmond

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August 14, 2026
The Deeper Work: Psilocybin, Psychedelic Research, and a Guided Retreat

Lori Schwanbeck, Neil Markey & Anja Saloranta

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August 11, 2026
Roar Into Midlife: Build Your Bold Second Act

Derek Gehl & Michael Clinton

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August 4, 2026
Make Life’s Big Moments Matter: Reclaiming Meaning in a Disconnected World

Kari Cardinale & Bruce Feiler

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July 29, 2026
Big Time Off: The Transformative Power of Sabbaticals and How to Take One

Kari Cardinale & Dj DiDonna

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July 23, 2026
Write Where You Are: Unleash Your Creativity & Transform Your Writing with Kelly Notaras

Derek Gehl & Kelly Notaras

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July 22, 2026
The Soul of Money: When “Not Enough” Stops Running the Show

Mary Hofstedt, Sara Vetter & Lynne Twist

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