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Chip Conley — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Chip Conley has appeared on 16 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Midlife Chrysalis. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Chip said
“If a problem can't be solved within the frame it was conceived, the solution lies in reframing the problem.”
— Chip Conley, quoting Brian McGreevy
“What got you here won't get you there.”
— Chip Conley, quoting Marshall Goldsmith
“If you want to change your habits, change your habitat.”
— Chip Conley
Episode appearances
16 "Sunday is today." That line, offered by Chip Conley near the end of this episode of The Midlife Chrysalis, captures the central argument of the conversation: the key to a richer life in midlife…
“There are 32 million empty bedrooms in the United States,” Chip Conley says near the top of this episode. Thirty years ago, that number was only seven million. That mismatch—between underutilized…
A few years ago, Chip Conley sat down with Brian Chesky, Airbnb’s co-founder, and asked him a deceptively simple question: “What business are we in?” Chesky answered that they were in the…
In 1970, a 20-year-old from Newark dropped out of Lehigh University and moved to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, thinking a five-month stretch of back-to-back workshops was like a college…
In midlife, the brain gets very good at focus—fast and efficient, narrowing in on what’s in front of it. But that same skill, combined with a packed life, also closes the aperture. Chip Conley,…
“How do you turn your imposter syndrome into an explorer syndrome?” Chip Conley asks early in this Wisdom Wednesday episode. The answer, he suggests, is not about silencing the voice that says you…
Ashton Applewhite, the aging activist who coined the phrase "Yo, is this ageist?," has spent two decades dismantling the biggest lie we've been told about getting older: that older people are a…
“I’ve been dealing with my mom’s death, and you don’t realize how valuable someone or something is until they’re no longer there.” That observation from Chip Conley, founder of the Modern Elder…
“No one’s really watching.” That was Christine Michie’s big therapeutic aha—the realization that she had spent decades constructing a grandstand for her own performance, chasing the “wow” from…
“I want to be admired, but I want to be admired for who I am as I am.” That line from Chip Conley, founder of the Modern Elder Academy, captures the central tension of midlife. In a recent episode…
Alain de Botton, 56, trained as a psychotherapist only three years ago. He did it because, after decades of writing about philosophy, relationships, and emotional life, he wanted to sit on the…
“If you spent your lifetime defining worthiness in the world based upon your looks or your body, aging is a bitch.” That line from Chip Conley lands early in this episode of The Midlife Chrysalis,…
“I wished you'd shut up,” Pádraig Ó Tuama reads in a poem about the exorcism he endured as a young gay man in Ireland. “I repeated Jesus Jesus Jesus / I wished he'd answered.” The poem is called…
The episode centers on Chip Conley’s account of moving through a cluster of simultaneous personal and professional challenges. As co-founder of the Modern Elder Academy, Conley describes his…
“I have a lot of friends along the way in my life. But to the theme of today, do I outgrow them? I think what I would say is you outgrow the conversations you were having.” That’s Chip Conley,…
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