The Gift from the Sea

Since “The Gift from the Sea” is really about Lindbergh’s musings on midlife and beyond, it’s a perfect coaching companion

Chip Conley

June 13, 2025

The Gift from the Sea

“The Midlife Chrysalis” Podcast Has Launched

For years, I’ve resisted launching a podcast. I felt I was too late to the party. Who needs another podcast?

Chip Conley

June 4, 2025

“The Midlife Chrysalis” Podcast Has Launched

The Quiet Revolution of Becoming

Turning 50, Gabrielle started the trend of MEA alums celebrating their birthdays in Baja and Santa Fe with friends, either

Gabrielle Pelicci

May 31, 2025

The Quiet Revolution of Becoming

The 24 Sentences That Define “The Midlife Manifesto”

Midlife isn’t a crisis—it’s a chrysalis. It’s the most transformative time of your life, a marathon that spans decades, from 35

Chip Conley

May 21, 2025

The 24 Sentences That Define “The Midlife Manifesto”

Carl Jung’s Midlife Crisis Led to MEA

At the time, he was very successful professionally as the president of the International Psychoanalytic Association, a lecturer at the

Chip Conley

May 8, 2025

Carl Jung’s Midlife Crisis Led to MEA

New Study Shows Late Midlife as a Time of Joy

“There are certain ways of interpreting and narrating our lived experiences that are associated with flourishing and making meaning,” says

Chip Conley

May 1, 2025

New Study Shows Late Midlife as a Time of Joy

Rolling with Rich

You can watch and listen to it HERE.  It was inspiring to ask Rich a few questions since he’s normally doing

Chip Conley

April 28, 2025

Rolling with Rich

Why You Flourish in Your 50s

There’s social science evidence showing that younger people consistently and markedly overestimate how satisfied they will be in five years,

Chip Conley

April 23, 2025

Why You Flourish in Your 50s

“I Want to Complicate My Life”

And, yet, our modern tendency is NOT to simplify, but to complicate. When we’re younger, we might have thought that

Chip Conley

April 15, 2025

“I Want to Complicate My Life”

Bad News & Good News for Gen X

Let me summarize both, but first let’s clarify terms: Gen Xers were born between 1964 and 1980. In a grossly

Chip Conley

April 8, 2025

Bad News & Good News for Gen X

Still Upright (Mostly): Dispatch from Midlife – My Reckoning in Austin

Sometimes life offers up a perfectly timed—if painful—reminder that midlife is less about crisis and more about resilience, reinvention, and

Annette Mason

April 6, 2025

Still Upright (Mostly): Dispatch from Midlife – My Reckoning in Austin

We Wear Too Many Hats in Midlife

MY SOUL HAS A HATI counted my yearsAnd realized that I haveLess time to live by,Than I have lived so

Chip Conley

March 14, 2025

We Wear Too Many Hats in Midlife