June 5, 2025
Westin Hotel LAX
Wise & Wild:
Transform Your Midlife into Your
Best Life
Join Chip Conley & Rich Roll for a Day That Will Change Everything
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Discover a new path to midlife meaning and vitality.
One unforgettable day. A lifetime of renewed clarity.
You’ve spent decades building a life, a career, and caring for others.
You’ve shown up. You’ve achieved. You’ve adapted.
And now – something’s shifting. Not a crisis, but a call to recalibrate.
To move with intention. To live with vitality. To design a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.
You’re ready to double down on what matters most.
Wise & Wild is a one-day catalyst designed to spark what’s next.
Led by Chip Conley and Rich Roll, this live in-person experience will challenge, inspire, and equip you to:
Reclaim your energy and expand your health span
Redefine success on your own terms
Reignite curiosity, passion, and possibility
Step into the second half of life with confidence, clarity, and boldness
You don’t need a life overhaul.
You need the right space – and the right guides – to unlock what’s already inside you.
This is your moment.
It’s time to step into what’s next – and discover what’s possible when you stop settling and start designing the life you truly want.
And there’s no one better to help you embrace your journey than Chip Conley, Rich Roll, and the leaders from MEA – the world’s first midlife school.
This transformative one-day experience is for you if…
You’re in your mid-30s to 70s and sense that there’s more waiting for you in your next chapter.
You’re navigating a life transition – in career, identity, health, or relationships – and want clarity, courage, and community.
You’re craving deeper meaning, purpose, adventure, and fulfillment – now and in the decades to come.
You’re ready to trade burnout for vitality – and redefine what “peak living” looks like now.
You’re curious about how to turn your life experience into wisdom you can share with others.
You’re tired of outdated narratives about aging – and ready to embrace a bold, empowered new one.
You want to spend a day with kindred spirits who are also asking big questions and dreaming bigger.
Here’s What Your Wise & Wild Day Will Look Like:
Thursday, June 5, 2025
8:00 AM – Registration Opens
Check in, get your materials, and meet your fellow attendees.
9:00 – 9:30 AM – Opening Keynote with MEA’s Chip Conley
Discover the vast possibilities available to us in midlife – and why now is the best time to align your life with your purpose and passions.
9:30 – 9:45 AM – Mindfulness with MEA’s “Surfer & the Cowboy”
Drop out of your head and into your body with Teddi Dean and Lee Johnson. Ground yourself in the present moment so you can show up with clarity and focus.
9:45 – 10:15 AM – Play Games You’re Not Sure You Can Win
Unlock the power of curiosity, courage, and the power of a beginner’s mindset with Christine Sperber. The secret to staying young and vibrant is all in your mind.
10:15 – 10:45 AM – Boost Your Transitional Quotient (TQ)
Discover how to grow your ability to adapt and thrive in times of change with Kari Cardinale. Embrace change with confidence is the key to thriving at all ages.
10:45 – 11:00 AM – Break
Move, mingle, and recharge.
11:00 – 11:30 AM – Why Friendship Is the Real Fountain Of Youth
Learn why friendships are the key to a longer, happier life with Jeff Hamaoui. Your relationships can boost your health and bring greater joy to everything you do.
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM – Rewrite Your Success Scripts
Reframe outdated stories and explore new possibilities for your next chapter. It’s time to recognize who you are now and what you really want your life to look like.
12:00 – 1:00 PM – Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:30 PM – Mindfulness Reset
Reset and re-center with Teddi & Lee so you can “be here now” and get back into a grounded, possibilities-focused mindset.
1:30 – 2:00 PM – Owning Wisdom with MEA’s Chip Conley
Tap into your “inner sage” and learn how to turn lived experience into lasting impact. The world needs your wisdom!
2:00 – 2:30 PM – Optimizing Longevity
MEA CEO Derek Gehl shares the latest research on increasing your health span to ensure your life is as happy and vibrant as it is long.
2:30 – 2:45 PM – Break (Move + Practice)
Another chance to move your body and bring the day's insights into motion.
3:00 – 4:30 PM – Fireside Chat with Chip & Rich
Discover proven strategies for boosting your vitality, longevity, and purpose in the second half of life – straight from the experts leading the way.
4:30 – 4:45 PM – Wrap-Up
Reflections and takeaways to carry forward.
5:00 – 6:30 PM – Private Happy Hour Gathering with Chip & Rich (Add-On)
Unwind with snacks, drinks, and great conversation. Space is limited – reserve early.
Here Are the Visionary Leaders Who Will Guide You Through this Transformative Day
Chip Conley
MEA Founder + Executive Chair
Chip is a three-time TED speaker and NY Times bestselling author whose books include Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder and Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age.
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 to create fulfilling and exciting second adulthoods. Since then he has dedicated much of his life to reframing the concept of aging and helping people navigate midlife with renewed purpose and possibility.
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.
– Esther Perel, psychotherapist, author and host of Where Should We Begin
With large doses of wisdom and frequent sprinkles of wit, Chip Conley shows how all of us can approach our 40s, 50s, and 60s with intention and wonder.
– Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and The Power of Regret
One of the most fascinating developments of this cathartic time we inhabit, surely, is the evolution of aging itself. Chip Conley's work in nourishing and reinventing eldering has been groundbreaking.
– Krista Tippett, Founder and Host of The On Being Project
Rich Roll
Bestselling author, podcast host, ultra-endurance athlete
Rich Roll is the bestselling author of Finding Ultra and Voicing Change, and the creator and host of The Rich Roll Podcast – one of the world’s most acclaimed platforms for long-form conversations about personal transformation, wellness, and conscious living.
A former top-level swimmer turned corporate lawyer, Rich experienced a profound midlife awakening at age 40 that led him to embrace sobriety, plant-based nutrition, and ultra-endurance athletics. Just two years later, he became a top finisher in some of the world’s most daunting and grueling endurance races. In 2012, he became the first person to accomplish a feat that many previously thought impossible: the EPIC5 Challenge – completing five Ironman-distance triathlons on five Hawaiian islands in under a week.
Rich has inspired millions with his story of physical, emotional, and spiritual renewal, offering a roadmap for how to reclaim health, purpose, and possibility at any age. Through his podcast and live events, he has become a trusted guide in the global conversation around longevity, authenticity, and the power of midlife reinvention.
Roll has accomplished amazing things, but it is his ability to draw inspiring and uniquely insightful lessons from his experiences that sets him apart from other extreme athletes.
– Dean Karnazes, nationally bestselling author of Ultramarathon Man
An inspiring story of a man whose life took a tragic turn but then rebounded spectacularly. Down but not out, Rich Roll rose like a phoenix, taking the commitment to his own health to a new level and achieving a remarkable transformation.
– Luke McKenzie, Five-Time Ironman Champion
The Rich Roll Podcast stands out as a beacon of inspiration and knowledge in the crowded landscape of wellness and self-improvement podcasts.
– Sebastian Arciszewski, founder of Find That Pod
Supported by MEA’s Visionary Leaders
Christine Sperber
MEA Co-founder
Christine Sperber is chief architect of the embodied, experiential aspects of MEA’s programs. She is a former World Cup snowboarder and serial entrepreneur who has launched and grown successful hotels, businesses, and industry-evolving ideas in the sports and hospitality worlds and beyond. Christine is a devoted team builder whose authenticity, values-based leadership skills, and empathetic engagement create community wherever she focuses her attention. She is a passionate activist who is dedicated to creating transformative experiences that change people’s lives. She makes everything she gets involved in more fun, more meaningful, and more human.
Jeff Hamaoui
MEA Co-founder
As one of MEA’s most beloved facilitators, Jeff is a teacher, writer, speaker and community builder who spent decades working globally as an investor, grant maker, and innovation consultant building startup companies and working with governments and Fortune 500 companies to help seed ideas that might help make the world a little better. In writing much of MEA's curriculum, workbooks, and leading online courses, Jeff has helped shape MEA’s content, philosophy and teaching style and has led workshops with dozens of different teachers and hundreds of people in midlife transition who are seeking purpose and another life path.
Derek Gehl
CEO
Derek Gehl is a lifelong entrepreneur and digital trailblazer who helped launch the first wave of online business creators, equipping thousands with the tools to build successful digital ventures. After exiting that world, he turned his focus toward something deeper—building purpose-driven businesses that support health, longevity, and meaningful midlife reinvention. Today, as CEO of MEA, Derek is on a mission to grow a global pro-aging movement. He brings decades of entrepreneurial insight and personal transformation experience to everything he does—blending business acumen with a deep belief in the power of reinvention. Whether you’re navigating your next chapter or ready to go “wise and wild,” Derek’s journey proves that midlife isn’t a winding down—it’s a powerful beginning.
Kari Cardinale
MEA Chief Content Officer + Partner
Kari is the Chief Content Officer at MEA and a trailblazer in the longevity space, online community-building, and transformational learning. Since joining MEA in 2018, she’s launched a 59-chapter global alumni network and designed MEA’s acclaimed digital campus, hosting thousands of learners in immersive online programs. With nearly 30 years of experience, Kari has worked with hundreds of thought leaders worldwide, developed MEA’s original content, and trained our facilitation teams both online and on-campus. She’s produced two global summits on aging and caregiving innovation, contributed to Huffington Post and PBS’s This Emotional Life, and co-authored the Amazon #1 bestseller Embracing Your Authentic Self. Kari’s superpower? Turning bold ideas into life-changing experiences.
Teddi Dean
MEA Head of Mindfulness and Movement
Teddi Dean is the Head of Mindfulness and Movement here at MEA. He offers a fun, accessible and wisdom filled approach to both mediation and yoga. Teddi loves working with beginners and has a gift in showing that each and every one of us is capable of dropping into stillness.
Teddi Dean grew up in Southern California where he was immersed in surf and skateboard culture. He was part of skateboard royalty as a team member of the infamous Powell and Peralta Bones Brigade.
Lee Johnston
Head of Land, Livestock, and Mindfulness in Santa Fe
Lee likes to say that he’s as ordinary as dirt but as complex as soil. A former Course Director for the Colorado Outward Bound School and Certified Holistic Management Teacher, he has managed ranches in Nebraska and Tennessee as well as several ranches here in New Mexico. As steward of our four-square mile regenerative ranch, Lee translates nature’s teachings into insights that encourage us to tune into our inner landscapes as much as the outer landscape. His holistic approach to life and spirituality creates a warm invitation for you to step into a deeper relationship with yourself, nature, and each other.
Brought to you by MEA, the world’s first midlife wisdom school
We’re on a mission to reframe aging and help people thrive in midlife and beyond. Our science-backed workshops and programs were developed in collaboration with academics from Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Yale, and offer tools, practices, and support to navigate midlife challenges and find joy and fulfillment in the second half of life.
At MEA, we believe midlife isn't a crisis – it's a calling. Our purpose is to disrupt societal beliefs around aging and help people in the second half of their lives create the exciting, fulfilling, purpose-driven lives they crave.
Ready to join us?
What You’ll Gain from this Life-Changing Experience When You Register Today
A Full Day of Inspiration and Epiphanies
Come prepared to transform your sense of what’s possible and leave with a renewed vision for your next chapter.
Actionable Wisdom
No fluff, just proven frameworks from longevity and midlife experts who've helped thousands transform their lives
Practical Tools
Walk away with concrete strategies you can implement immediately, including daily practices for vitality, confidence, and creativity
Transformative Insights
Unlock science-backed insights on aging, purpose, and possibility from visionaries who are redefining what's possible in midlife and beyond.
Expert Guidance
Get actionable advice from trusted voices who've guided thousands through life-altering transitions.
Meaningful Connections
Building community is MEA’s not-so-secret superpower. Spend the day with like-hearted individuals who also believe that we are better together.
This Isn’t Just an Event – It’s a Turning Point.
Join Chip Conley, Rich Roll, and MEA for an unforgettable day designed to expand your sense of possibility and help you step boldly into what’s next.
Early bird rate available – register by May 22nd and save.
Keep the inspiration flowing:
Join us for a post-event “Happy Hour”
Enjoy a post-event drink and snacks with Chip, Rich, the MEA Team and your fellow attendees. There are sure to be a lot of MEA alumni in attendance – which means vital and engaging conversations with everyone you meet.
Tickets are limited for this 90-minute exclusive event and expected to go fast. If you’re interested in hanging out with us after the event, reserve your spot ASAP.
Wise & Wild
One-Day Pass
Regular price
$147
Early bird
$97
Wise & Wild
One-Day Pass
+ Happy Hour Ticket
Regular price
$197
Early bird
$147
What people are saying
Thank you again for the opportunity to participate in MEA. It was the best gift in my adult life.
– Upkar Arora, CEO Rally
MEA was the most radically transformative journey I’ve ever embarked on.
– Irene Edwards
Highly recommended to anyone interested in exploring the roles they play in the world.
– Tina Seelig, Professor, Stanford University
My MEA experience was life-changing. It wove a sense of peace into my life that still remains.
– Ken Page, psychotherapist
MEA is a beacon for the soul, seeking renewal and inspiration for the next phase of life.
– Shilpa Sankara, entrepreneur
I became part of a community focused on mindful aging and embracing the beauty of liminality.
– Wanda Whitaker, visionary artist
Frequently Asked Questions
Wise & Wild is designed for curious, growth-minded individuals who are ready to pause, reflect, and reimagine what’s possible in the next chapter of life. You don’t need to identify as being in “midlife”—you just need to feel the pull toward deeper vitality, clarity, and purpose.
Wise & Wild is a one-day only event happening June 5th at the Westin LAX Airport Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
Your ticket includes access to the full-day event, all speaker sessions, guided experiences, and curated take-home materials to help you integrate what you’ve learned.
Yes, but only until May 22nd! Purchase your ticket now to make sure you don’t miss out.
Lunch is not included in the price of your ticket but there are multiple restaurants and cafes in and close to the hotel where you can grab something delicious to eat during the break.
Yes. Connection is a core part of this experience. We’ve designed the day to foster meaningful conversations, shared reflection, and the chance to meet like-hearted people walking a similar path.
You will receive a free drink ticket and there will be snacks available as well. More importantly, you will have 90 extra minutes to connect with your fellow attendees and soak up more wisdom from Chip, Rich, and the MEA Team.
Absolutely. Many of our guests come solo and leave feeling part of a vibrant, supportive community. You’ll be warmly welcomed, whether you come alone or with a friend.
Yes. If your plans change, you can receive a refund for your ticket up to one week before the event. Please contact [email protected] for more information.
Yes! The Westin has setup a website for any Wise & Wild guests to reserve a room at our discounted room rate. Click here for more details.