#16 - Modern Mentorship is Mutual | Chip Conley (Modern Elder Academy)

Without today’s guest there would be no Life is a Festival Podcast. Chip Conley is my mentor, my dear friend and the co-founder of Fest300, an online guide to the world’s best festivals where I once worked as Creative Director. Chip hired me in 2013 and that year he went to 36 festivals in 20 countries. Chip got his start in hospitality, creating Joie de Vivre hotels. After founding Fest300, he went on to become the Head of Global Hospitality & Strategy for Airbnb. He is on the board of both the Esalen Institute and Burning Man and has written five books including his most recent “Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder.” His most recent venture is The Modern Elder Academy, a campus for midlife identity refreshment in Baja where this interview took place. On the podcast we talk about Chip’s love of the “collective effervescence” of festivals. We go deep on mentorship from his first mentor, Herb Kelleher, and how to find a mentor to winding down a mentorship. We end the podcast talking about the role of the modern elder in today’s society and Chip’s creation of the world’s first midlife wisdom school. I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as I enjoyed interviewing my mentor, Chip. Chip Conley https://chipconley.com/ The Modern Elder Academy https://chipconley.com/modern-elder-academy Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078LS21ZX Fest300 https://www.everfest.com/fest300