Transformational Listening: Let Life Speak to You

Fast Company calls Gail Larsen’s original approach “transforming your relationship to your voice via the deepest stirrings of your soul.” At 8-Oh! (80 years young), she’s built a global following of influential voices who’ve transformed their speaking through her personal coaching and signature humor, wisdom, and fierce love of truth.

Her award-winning book Transformational Speaking: If You Want to Change the World, Tell a Better Story has guided thought leaders, entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, and four of Oprah’s Super Soul 100 to discover and deliver their authentic message.

Gail is a former executive vice president of the National Speakers Association – the worldwide professional association for speakers – and an SBA award-winning entrepreneur.

She doesn’t teach speaking techniques, she excavates the voice that’s been buried under formulas and fear. Drawing from decades of studying indigenous and cross-cultural wisdom, she guides you to your HomeZone™, that place of deep authenticity, clarity and self-trust.

Derek Gehl is a serial e-commerce entrepreneur, speaker, and author. After spending the first decade of his professional career growing one of world’s first Internet marketing companies to over $30 million in sales, he decided that leading a company of 100 employees in offices in two countries wasn’t for him – so he sold the company to a private equity group and refocused his life on the things he loved most: spending time with his family, pursuing his passions, and building and growing online businesses. In 2024, after doing some consulting for MEA, Derek had his own transformational experience at a Navigating Transitions workshop, which inspired him to join the company as Chief Marketing and Technology Officer and then take on the role as CEO, spearheading our mission to reimagine midlife and build a global pro-aging community that inspires people to thrive in the second half of life.