Most companies are racing toward AI, efficiency, and scale while quietly losing the one advantage that actually sustains great leadership: wisdom.

In this Wisdom Wednesday episode, we reveal why culture, lived experience, and human judgment matter more than ever. Chip draws on decades of leadership experience to explain why many organizations are losing their edge and what they can do to reclaim it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- Why leadership is a practice, not a personality trait

- How culture is shaped when leaders aren’t in the room

- What companies lose when institutional wisdom disappears

- The difference between knowledge workers and wisdom workers in the AI era

As technology accelerates, human skills become the real competitive edge.

👉 Watch now and discover how wisdom future-proofs leadership and culture.

Timestamps:

00:13 Leadership as a practice

02:29 Culture leaders overlook

05:18 Defining real company culture

08:57 Institutional wisdom loss

13:47 Knowledge workers vs wisdom workers

18:30 AI impact on early careers

22:22 Humanities and philosophy comeback

22:44 Wisdom at Airbnb

25:53 Informal mentors and EQ

27:57 Leading yourself first

28:18 Resources and upcoming workshop

30:12 Closing thoughts

Learn more about MEA at ⁠https://www.meawisdom.com/

#LeadershipWisdom #WisdomAtWork #FutureOfLeadership #AIAndLeadership #CompanyCulture #EmotionalIntelligence #KnowledgeVsWisdom #HumanSkills #MentorshipMatters #InstitutionalWisdom #LeadershipDevelopment #WisdomWednesday #LeadershipCulture #AIImpact #ModernLeadership

Have you ever reached a point in life where what once worked… suddenly doesn’t?

In this warm conversation with Chip, Ben Katt, MEA’s faculty in residence and author of The Way Home, offers a hopeful reframe of midlife. Rather than seeing it as a breakdown, Ben invites us to see this season as a meaningful transition, one that asks us to let go of old roles and reconnect with who we truly are.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

- Why midlife often feels disorienting, even when life looks “successful” on the outside

- How releasing familiar identities creates space for deeper purpose and wholeness

- Why stillness, reflection, and meditation are essential during times of change

- How community and support help us move through transitions with more easy

If you’re feeling restless, uncertain, or quietly asking “What’s next?”, this conversation offers clarity, comfort, and a sense of direction.

👉 Watch now and explore what this chapter of your life is gently calling you toward.

Timestamps:00:35 The Hero’s Journey and The Way Home

04:49 Ben’s five-year soul journey

07:20 Achievement perfectionism and people pleasing

09:44 Meditation and inner balance

13:19 Phase 1: Leaving the familiar

15:46 Phase 2: Falling into the unknown

18:30 Dark night of the ego

20:51 Wander in the wild

23:56 Support and community

29:52 Phase 3: Rising to wholeness

33:46 Stillness and begin again

38:58 Teaching wisdom without religion

44:13 The wisdom well metaphor

47:21 Why wisdom matters now

50:28 Wisdom bumper sticker

Learn more about MEA at ⁠https://www.meawisdom.com/

Find Ben Katt at https://benkattofficial.com/

#MidlifeTransition #MidlifeCrisis #MidlifeTransformation #HeroJourney #FindingPurpose #MidlifeWisdom #LifeTransitions #PersonalGrowth #MidlifeAwakening #SecondHalfOfLife #InnerWork #MeaningInMidlife #JosephCampbell #WisdomTraditions #MidlifeChrysalis

What if the wellness advice you followed for years stops working after 50?

In this episode, wellness pioneers Jeff Krasno, co-founder of Wanderlust, and Schuyler Grant, founder of Kula Yoga Project, share how their approach to health quietly but radically shifted in midlife, and why many popular wellness habits fall short as we age.

With decades spent in yoga, wellness festivals, and lived experience, they share what actually matters now.

They share insights on:

- Why yoga alone isn’t enough after 50

- How muscle and strength shape metabolic and brain health

- The importance of diverse movement, not extremes

- How simple habits and presence support long-term well-being

This is a grounded, honest conversation about aging well — without hype or shortcuts.

👉 Watch now and rethink what midlife wellness really requires.

Timestamps:

01:22 Skylar’s yoga studio near Ground Zero

05:54 The origins of Wanderlust

09:47 Early resistance to the festival idea

11:28 Wellness hotels and business travel

14:32 Challenges of working with a spouse

20:52 What wellness means after 50

20:52 Muscle, metabolism, and aging

26:30 Yoga versus strength training

29:43 Muscle health and brain health

31:37 Diversity of movement in midlife

34:38 Curiosity, learning, and discomfort

37:34 Habit stacking explained

40:27 Wellness and politics

45:49 Upcoming Baja workshop

49:27 Wisdom bumper stickers

Learn more about MEA at ⁠https://www.meawisdom.com/

#WellnessAfter50 #MidlifeWellness #HealthyAging #StrengthAfter50 #MuscleAfter50 #AgingWell #Over50Health #MidlifeHealth #LongevityLifestyle #FunctionalFitness #WellnessPodcast #HealthyMidlife #MindBodyHealth #HabitsForHealth #LifeAfter50