Leading with Genuine Care Chip Conley - Embracing Your Modern Elder: Why the Best Careers are Built with Age and Wisdom
Chip Conley doesn't believe that modern business success is best kept for the young. In fact, this New York Times bestselling author, Airbnb Strategic Advisor and boutique hotel entrepreneur learned that with experience comes wisdom, which doesn't mean you have all the answers . . . in fact, it means you have more questions than answers.
Inspired by what he learned while serving as Airbnb's Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy in his mid-50s, Chip wrote his "manifesto on ageism," Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder. To combat the stigma against older workers in an increasingly Millennial world, Chip proves that generational diversity is the key to creating strong organizations.
But this episode is packed full with more than just age-related insights. We also dig into his young entrepreneurial success with Joie de Vivre Hospitality, philosophies on mindfulness and meditation, near-death experiences, longtime work with Burning Man, and SO much more.
In this episode of the donothing podcast, you'll learn:
- Why ageism is so prevalent in today's workforce
- What those in midlife and beyond offer that younger employees can't
- Why aging is underrated, especially while in the workforce
- How employees at different life stages can learn from each other
- What the Modern Elder Academy is
- How longer lifespans and new technology inspired the Modern Elder Academy
- Why replacing fear with curiosity can alter many perspectives
- When Chip became inspired to write about workers in their midlife
- How Chip started his successful hotelier career
- Why trusting his intuition helped Chip make the smart decisions
- When Chip started working for Airbnb
- Why Chip greatly admires Airbnb's leadership
- Chip's amazing advice on meditation and breathing techniques
- Why Chip advocates mindfulness and meditation
- Why Chip regularly fasts and does cleanses
- Chip's experience as a long-time Burning Man board member
- What makes the Burning Man community so unique
- Why the board made Burning Man a nonprofit
- How an "anarchistic organization" like Burning Man is so well-organized
- Chip's near-death experience that made him reconsider his current path
- What Chip saw on "the other side" when he was flatlining
- What health benefits Chip's experienced since beginning to fast
- How Chip discovered he had prostate cancer
- What action Chip immediately took to fight his diagnosis
- Why Chip considers cancer his teacher—and what has he learned
Connect With Chip Conley
Website: https://www.modernelderacademy.com/chip-conley
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chipconleysf
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chip.conley.3
Twitter: www.twitter.com/chipconley
Watch Chip Speak Live at TED Salon
"For the first time ever, we have five generations in the workplace at the same time," says entrepreneur Chip Conley. What would happen if we were intentional about how we all work together?
In this talk, Chip shows how age diversity makes companies stronger and calls for different generations to mentor each other at work, with wisdom flowing from old to young and young to old alike.
Buy Chip Conley's Book, Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder
"Part manifesto and part playbook, Wisdom@Work ignites an urgent conversation about ageism in the workplace, calling on us to treat age as we would any other type of diversity.
"In the process, Conley liberates the term "elder" from the stigma of "elderly," and inspires us to embrace wisdom as a path to growing whole, not old. Whether you've been forced to make a mid-career change, are choosing to work past retirement age, or are struggling to keep up with the millennials rising up the ranks, Wisdom@Work will help you write your next chapter."
About the Modern Elder Academy
"The Modern Elder Academy (MEA) is the world's first midlife wisdom school providing 5- and 7-day all-inclusive workshops at our awe-inspiring beachfront campus in the heart of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
The unique curriculum includes classroom learning as well as bread baking and breaking, impromptu dance parties, cultural experiences, morning meditations, and surreal sunsets. The experience supports our attendees ("compadres," whose average age is 52) as they navigate this midlife journey and reframe a lifetime of experience."
https://www.modernelderacademy.com
Chip's Recommended Resources
Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, by Kelly Turner, Ph.D.
The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, by Steven Covey
Awake in the Wild, by Mark Colman
About Burning Man
About the Optimum Health Institute
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