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What is a modern elder?
We get it. We don’t like to think of ourselves as elderly. Even being an elder, an honorific in many cultures, may feel uneasy.

We are living longer. In the 20th century, U.S. longevity grew by three decades. So, instead of living into our 50s we can hope to live well into our 80s. with this “extra life”, or second adulthood, the idea of what it means to be older or “elder” needs to be radically reimagined.

At MEA we believe our 40s, 50s and beyond are invigorating times of re-imagination, re-creation, reflection, and true growth – on our own terms. Today’s modern elder is always searching – searching for greater meaning, deeper relationships, new experiences to explore and ideas to imagine, and nurturing and unleashing the untapped wisdom, creativity, and joy that sits within us all.

The modern elder is someone as “curious as they are wise.” That means they are saying no to the narratives and the limits of past generations. The modern elder embraces their second adulthood with a dream of adventure, spiritual deepening, joyous learning, exploration, new community, and delight. A modern elder is someone who is saying ”What’s next?” instead of “What’s left?”

If that is what has been missing in your life: welcome. You have found your place.

Phenomenal to receive such vibrant support from Jenna & Hoda on the TODAY show for Chip as a leader, his book and the academy, MEA.

Enrich your midlife journey and connect with people on the same path with an in-person workshop in Baja, Mexico or Santa Fe, USA..

❇️ Discovering Your Own Resilience & Strength with @mark_nepo : Feb 5 - 10

❇️ The Power of Deep Rest with @tracee_stanley : Feb 19 - 24

❇️ Awaken Your Rebel Soul to Reimagine Success with Shelley Paxton of @soulbbatical : Feb 26 - Mar 2

Check out workshop links in bio

Thank you @hodakotb , @jennabhager and @hodaandjenna

Did you know you can book a call with one of our advisors? ☎️

Daniel, Leslie and Lucas are all MEA alumni who can offer genuine insights into our programs. They're here to help you find which workshop is right for you, and clear up any "stucks" you may have.

The advisor team is passionate about helping you finding the right fit to make your next chapter the best one.

Book a call today at the link in bio! 🔗

Did you know you can book a call with one of our advisors? ☎️

Daniel, Leslie and Lucas are all MEA alumni who can offer genuine insights into our programs. They're here to help you find which workshop is right for you, and clear up any "stucks" you may have.

The advisor team is passionate about helping you finding the right fit to make your next chapter the best one.

Book a call today at the link in bio! 🔗

Did you know you can book a call with one of our advisors? ☎️

Daniel, Leslie and Lucas are all MEA alumni who can offer genuine insights into our programs. They're here to help you find which workshop is right for you, and clear up any "stucks" you may have.

The advisor team is passionate about helping you finding the right fit to make your next chapter the best one.

Book a call today at the link in bio! 🔗

Our 3 new foals at the @meawisdom ranch in Santa Fe

Big sky. Big questions. Big leaders.

This month we welcomed the Yale ELI Fellows — Yale School of Management's Experienced Leaders Initiative — to MEA's Rising Circle Ranch for a private retreat written in the language of next chapters.

2,600 acres of high desert. Pueblo architecture against an endless horizon. Arroyos older than empires. Horses, hawks, and the kind of quiet that rearranges you.

Together, the cohort came to ask better questions — about purpose, identity, and what comes next when the title falls away. They left with answers shaped by the land itself.

Thank you, Yale ELI. The Ranch is always ready for your return. 🌵✨

Hosting a private retreat or event? Link in bio!

#MEAWisdom #RisingCircleRanch #YaleELI #YaleSOM #MidlifeChrysalis #PrivateRetreats #NextChapter #ConsciousLeadership #NewMexico #LuxuryRetreats

Big sky. Big questions. Big leaders.

This month we welcomed the Yale ELI Fellows — Yale School of Management's Experienced Leaders Initiative — to MEA's Rising Circle Ranch for a private retreat written in the language of next chapters.

2,600 acres of high desert. Pueblo architecture against an endless horizon. Arroyos older than empires. Horses, hawks, and the kind of quiet that rearranges you.

Together, the cohort came to ask better questions — about purpose, identity, and what comes next when the title falls away. They left with answers shaped by the land itself.

Thank you, Yale ELI. The Ranch is always ready for your return. 🌵✨

Hosting a private retreat or event? Link in bio!

#MEAWisdom #RisingCircleRanch #YaleELI #YaleSOM #MidlifeChrysalis #PrivateRetreats #NextChapter #ConsciousLeadership #NewMexico #LuxuryRetreats

Big sky. Big questions. Big leaders.

This month we welcomed the Yale ELI Fellows — Yale School of Management's Experienced Leaders Initiative — to MEA's Rising Circle Ranch for a private retreat written in the language of next chapters.

2,600 acres of high desert. Pueblo architecture against an endless horizon. Arroyos older than empires. Horses, hawks, and the kind of quiet that rearranges you.

Together, the cohort came to ask better questions — about purpose, identity, and what comes next when the title falls away. They left with answers shaped by the land itself.

Thank you, Yale ELI. The Ranch is always ready for your return. 🌵✨

Hosting a private retreat or event? Link in bio!

#MEAWisdom #RisingCircleRanch #YaleELI #YaleSOM #MidlifeChrysalis #PrivateRetreats #NextChapter #ConsciousLeadership #NewMexico #LuxuryRetreats

Big sky. Big questions. Big leaders.

This month we welcomed the Yale ELI Fellows — Yale School of Management's Experienced Leaders Initiative — to MEA's Rising Circle Ranch for a private retreat written in the language of next chapters.

2,600 acres of high desert. Pueblo architecture against an endless horizon. Arroyos older than empires. Horses, hawks, and the kind of quiet that rearranges you.

Together, the cohort came to ask better questions — about purpose, identity, and what comes next when the title falls away. They left with answers shaped by the land itself.

Thank you, Yale ELI. The Ranch is always ready for your return. 🌵✨

Hosting a private retreat or event? Link in bio!

#MEAWisdom #RisingCircleRanch #YaleELI #YaleSOM #MidlifeChrysalis #PrivateRetreats #NextChapter #ConsciousLeadership #NewMexico #LuxuryRetreats

Big sky. Big questions. Big leaders.

This month we welcomed the Yale ELI Fellows — Yale School of Management's Experienced Leaders Initiative — to MEA's Rising Circle Ranch for a private retreat written in the language of next chapters.

2,600 acres of high desert. Pueblo architecture against an endless horizon. Arroyos older than empires. Horses, hawks, and the kind of quiet that rearranges you.

Together, the cohort came to ask better questions — about purpose, identity, and what comes next when the title falls away. They left with answers shaped by the land itself.

Thank you, Yale ELI. The Ranch is always ready for your return. 🌵✨

Hosting a private retreat or event? Link in bio!

#MEAWisdom #RisingCircleRanch #YaleELI #YaleSOM #MidlifeChrysalis #PrivateRetreats #NextChapter #ConsciousLeadership #NewMexico #LuxuryRetreats

Big sky. Big questions. Big leaders.

This month we welcomed the Yale ELI Fellows — Yale School of Management's Experienced Leaders Initiative — to MEA's Rising Circle Ranch for a private retreat written in the language of next chapters.

2,600 acres of high desert. Pueblo architecture against an endless horizon. Arroyos older than empires. Horses, hawks, and the kind of quiet that rearranges you.

Together, the cohort came to ask better questions — about purpose, identity, and what comes next when the title falls away. They left with answers shaped by the land itself.

Thank you, Yale ELI. The Ranch is always ready for your return. 🌵✨

Hosting a private retreat or event? Link in bio!

#MEAWisdom #RisingCircleRanch #YaleELI #YaleSOM #MidlifeChrysalis #PrivateRetreats #NextChapter #ConsciousLeadership #NewMexico #LuxuryRetreats

Big sky. Big questions. Big leaders.

This month we welcomed the Yale ELI Fellows — Yale School of Management's Experienced Leaders Initiative — to MEA's Rising Circle Ranch for a private retreat written in the language of next chapters.

2,600 acres of high desert. Pueblo architecture against an endless horizon. Arroyos older than empires. Horses, hawks, and the kind of quiet that rearranges you.

Together, the cohort came to ask better questions — about purpose, identity, and what comes next when the title falls away. They left with answers shaped by the land itself.

Thank you, Yale ELI. The Ranch is always ready for your return. 🌵✨

Hosting a private retreat or event? Link in bio!

#MEAWisdom #RisingCircleRanch #YaleELI #YaleSOM #MidlifeChrysalis #PrivateRetreats #NextChapter #ConsciousLeadership #NewMexico #LuxuryRetreats

A special message from Teddi Dean, our Head of Mindfulness and Movement 🫶

Our Baja and Santa Fe campuses are the perfect space to connect with yourself and experience a silent retreat. And you get to pick the campus where you'd like to do this work!

Put everything down for a few days. Reset. Just BE.

Details on both offerings in our bio. 🔗

Do you know the #1 predictor of successful aging? It’s not genetics, exercise, or supplements.

Yale researchers followed 11,000+ adults over 12 years. The strongest predictor of improved cognitive and physical function is your beliefs about aging.

And your relationships. Harvard’s longest-running study on human development, spanning 85+ years, found one factor matters most: the quality of your relationships predicts both how long and how well you live.

Your mindset. Your relationships. These aren’t soft variables. They’re biological ones.

Are you ready to design your longevity? Join me and @derekgehl at @meawisdom this June in Santa Fe for the Designing Longevity workshop. Link in bio.

#longevity #longevitylifeplan #healthyaging #midlifeandbetter

Do you know the #1 predictor of successful aging? It’s not genetics, exercise, or supplements.

Yale researchers followed 11,000+ adults over 12 years. The strongest predictor of improved cognitive and physical function is your beliefs about aging.

And your relationships. Harvard’s longest-running study on human development, spanning 85+ years, found one factor matters most: the quality of your relationships predicts both how long and how well you live.

Your mindset. Your relationships. These aren’t soft variables. They’re biological ones.

Are you ready to design your longevity? Join me and @derekgehl at @meawisdom this June in Santa Fe for the Designing Longevity workshop. Link in bio.

#longevity #longevitylifeplan #healthyaging #midlifeandbetter

Do you know the #1 predictor of successful aging? It’s not genetics, exercise, or supplements.

Yale researchers followed 11,000+ adults over 12 years. The strongest predictor of improved cognitive and physical function is your beliefs about aging.

And your relationships. Harvard’s longest-running study on human development, spanning 85+ years, found one factor matters most: the quality of your relationships predicts both how long and how well you live.

Your mindset. Your relationships. These aren’t soft variables. They’re biological ones.

Are you ready to design your longevity? Join me and @derekgehl at @meawisdom this June in Santa Fe for the Designing Longevity workshop. Link in bio.

#longevity #longevitylifeplan #healthyaging #midlifeandbetter

Do you know the #1 predictor of successful aging? It’s not genetics, exercise, or supplements.

Yale researchers followed 11,000+ adults over 12 years. The strongest predictor of improved cognitive and physical function is your beliefs about aging.

And your relationships. Harvard’s longest-running study on human development, spanning 85+ years, found one factor matters most: the quality of your relationships predicts both how long and how well you live.

Your mindset. Your relationships. These aren’t soft variables. They’re biological ones.

Are you ready to design your longevity? Join me and @derekgehl at @meawisdom this June in Santa Fe for the Designing Longevity workshop. Link in bio.

#longevity #longevitylifeplan #healthyaging #midlifeandbetter

Don't just tell your greatest story. LIVE IT! 🌟

Robin Fisher Roffer is the pioneer of personal branding.

She's spent over two decades helping Fortune 500 CEOs, media executives, and industry leaders define who they are. She's written all the acceptance speeches, keynotes and campaigns you can imagine. And when she does this work for a client, their company's stock price goes up.

She's different from other brand strategists because she doesn't tell you who you should be. She just helps you articulate who you already are in a way that's clear, compelling, and impossible to forget.

Her 3-day workshop on the ranch is available at the link in bio ✨

Reframing Retirement starts TOMORROW - last chance to join! 🚨

Because what feels like an ending is actually a new beginning. Register at the link in bio 🔗

There is a kind of unhappiness that doesn't look like unhappiness. It looks like a calendar that's full. A career that's working. A life that, by every measure, is going well.

And yet, in the quiet between obligations, a question starts to surface:

"Is this all it's supposed to be?"

If you've felt that, you're not alone. And you're not broken. After years of research, I've become convinced that what most people are experiencing isn't a happiness problem. It's a meaning problem.

Meaning has three parts:
Coherence: your life making sense
Purpose: your life going somewhere
Significance: your life mattering to someone else

When one of those weakens, life begins to feel mechanical. The phone. The schedule. The next thing. Busyness becomes how we avoid the only question that actually matters — and we end up trapped in what I call the meaning doom loop: distraction, numbness, achievement, repeat.

I wrote The Meaning of Your Life because I believe this problem has an answer. But I'll be the first to tell you—a book is only part of the solution. You can understand the framework in an afternoon. Living your way into it is something else entirely.

That's why I partnered with the MEA to create the Meaning of Your Life Retreat—5 days in 2,600 acres of high desert outside Santa Fe.

Small group. Three questions. Real conversation. The kind of stillness that does half the work before the first session even begins. I'll be there for the inaugural retreat, June 14–19, teaching alongside you.

If anything you've just read landed and felt like something you're dealing with—if you've been carrying the sense that something needs to change—I'd be honoured to have you join us.

Comment "Retreat" below, and I'll send you everything you need to know.

There is a kind of unhappiness that doesn't look like unhappiness. It looks like a calendar that's full. A career that's working. A life that, by every measure, is going well.

And yet, in the quiet between obligations, a question starts to surface:

"Is this all it's supposed to be?"

If you've felt that, you're not alone. And you're not broken. After years of research, I've become convinced that what most people are experiencing isn't a happiness problem. It's a meaning problem.

Meaning has three parts:
Coherence: your life making sense
Purpose: your life going somewhere
Significance: your life mattering to someone else

When one of those weakens, life begins to feel mechanical. The phone. The schedule. The next thing. Busyness becomes how we avoid the only question that actually matters — and we end up trapped in what I call the meaning doom loop: distraction, numbness, achievement, repeat.

I wrote The Meaning of Your Life because I believe this problem has an answer. But I'll be the first to tell you—a book is only part of the solution. You can understand the framework in an afternoon. Living your way into it is something else entirely.

That's why I partnered with the MEA to create the Meaning of Your Life Retreat—5 days in 2,600 acres of high desert outside Santa Fe.

Small group. Three questions. Real conversation. The kind of stillness that does half the work before the first session even begins. I'll be there for the inaugural retreat, June 14–19, teaching alongside you.

If anything you've just read landed and felt like something you're dealing with—if you've been carrying the sense that something needs to change—I'd be honoured to have you join us.

Comment "Retreat" below, and I'll send you everything you need to know.

There is a kind of unhappiness that doesn't look like unhappiness. It looks like a calendar that's full. A career that's working. A life that, by every measure, is going well.

And yet, in the quiet between obligations, a question starts to surface:

"Is this all it's supposed to be?"

If you've felt that, you're not alone. And you're not broken. After years of research, I've become convinced that what most people are experiencing isn't a happiness problem. It's a meaning problem.

Meaning has three parts:
Coherence: your life making sense
Purpose: your life going somewhere
Significance: your life mattering to someone else

When one of those weakens, life begins to feel mechanical. The phone. The schedule. The next thing. Busyness becomes how we avoid the only question that actually matters — and we end up trapped in what I call the meaning doom loop: distraction, numbness, achievement, repeat.

I wrote The Meaning of Your Life because I believe this problem has an answer. But I'll be the first to tell you—a book is only part of the solution. You can understand the framework in an afternoon. Living your way into it is something else entirely.

That's why I partnered with the MEA to create the Meaning of Your Life Retreat—5 days in 2,600 acres of high desert outside Santa Fe.

Small group. Three questions. Real conversation. The kind of stillness that does half the work before the first session even begins. I'll be there for the inaugural retreat, June 14–19, teaching alongside you.

If anything you've just read landed and felt like something you're dealing with—if you've been carrying the sense that something needs to change—I'd be honoured to have you join us.

Comment "Retreat" below, and I'll send you everything you need to know.

There is a kind of unhappiness that doesn't look like unhappiness. It looks like a calendar that's full. A career that's working. A life that, by every measure, is going well.

And yet, in the quiet between obligations, a question starts to surface:

"Is this all it's supposed to be?"

If you've felt that, you're not alone. And you're not broken. After years of research, I've become convinced that what most people are experiencing isn't a happiness problem. It's a meaning problem.

Meaning has three parts:
Coherence: your life making sense
Purpose: your life going somewhere
Significance: your life mattering to someone else

When one of those weakens, life begins to feel mechanical. The phone. The schedule. The next thing. Busyness becomes how we avoid the only question that actually matters — and we end up trapped in what I call the meaning doom loop: distraction, numbness, achievement, repeat.

I wrote The Meaning of Your Life because I believe this problem has an answer. But I'll be the first to tell you—a book is only part of the solution. You can understand the framework in an afternoon. Living your way into it is something else entirely.

That's why I partnered with the MEA to create the Meaning of Your Life Retreat—5 days in 2,600 acres of high desert outside Santa Fe.

Small group. Three questions. Real conversation. The kind of stillness that does half the work before the first session even begins. I'll be there for the inaugural retreat, June 14–19, teaching alongside you.

If anything you've just read landed and felt like something you're dealing with—if you've been carrying the sense that something needs to change—I'd be honoured to have you join us.

Comment "Retreat" below, and I'll send you everything you need to know.

4 weeks until the big alumni party on the ranch! Get your Homecoming Weekend passes at the link in bio 🏡🤠

Your guide to no-regrets living: WHAT DO YOU WANT ❓

It's a simple question that we answer everyday, like deciding what to eat for dinner. But we don't ask ourselves this question about the bigger things that matter.

Where do you want to devote your energy? Who do you want to spend your time with? Who do you want to be?

Bonnie Wan is a 30-year brand strategy veteran who spent her career helping companies like Google, Apple, and Accenture get crystal clear on their purpose. She found herself in her darkest hour - three kids under five, the primary breadwinner, running on empty, and convinced her marriage was the problem.

And instead of making a rash decision from that dark place, she began to write. This later became her first "Life Brief" and ultimately shifted her family from what she calls their "dark chapter" to their "golden chapter." 🌟

Bonnie will be teaching "Find Your “F*** Yes!” – A Guide to No-Regrets Living" on our Santa Fe ranch campus later this month. Because every choice is either a "F*** yes!" or an easy no.

Say YES at the link in bio 🔗