As part of my mission this week to bring you some alternative thinking regarding wisdom in the era of AI, I’ve done a lot of reading (it helps to have

August 12, 2025

There was a recent NY Times article with the title of today’s blog post. I wanted to summarize it for you and give you my spin as lots of folks

August 11, 2025

Hearing that our workshop compadres keep their relationships fresh and evolving gives me such joy so this post from Angie brought a smile to my face and a tear to

August 10, 2025

What We Learn When We Travel Together—Across GenerationsWe just returned from a family trip to New York. My Italian mother-in-law (MIL) recently turned 80, and it had always been her

August 9, 2025

I told him about my story with Joie de Vivre, the boutique hotel company that I started at 26 and sold just before my 50th birthday. I started it for

August 8, 2025

In a recent NY Times article “Why Women Are Weary of the Emotional Labor of Mankeeping,” the journalist quotes a Stanford postdoctoral fellow who says, “What I have been seeing

August 7, 2025

Let me explain. When the pandemic left everyone sheltering in place for a year or more, we knew MEA needed to open a second campus, in the U.S., beyond our

August 6, 2025

MEA alum Marcie Merriman and family friend Zak Dychtwald recently created this “First Global Generation” report, published by Ernst & Young and, wow, is it full of insights. There are

August 5, 2025

Of course, they’re referring to my Stage-3 prostate cancer. As many of you know since I wrote about it quite a bit in this daily blog, during a short period

August 4, 2025

This week’s MIDLIFE CHRYSALIS episode features a soulful conversation with writer and global nomad Pico Iyer, whose reflections on stillness, solitude, and the inner journey have inspired readers for decades.

August 1, 2025

It took me three weeks to write this post. The first 20 days were spent ruminating.This morning, I knocked out the post.Writing it wasn’t hard. Beginning it was.I’ve been thinking lately

August 1, 2025

I used to think joy was something I would build—architected, scaled, delivered.For decades I worked at the intersection of innovation and communication, building companies and communities, crafting messages meant to

August 1, 2025