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Chip Conley was a boutique hotel pioneer in the 1980s when he founded Joie de Vivre, a company that he eventually sold with 50 properties.
Chip created a travel experience that didn’t end when you unlocked the door to your cookie cutter hotel room with it's plastique bedspread and unimaginative design. With his boutique hotels, where are you stayed was as much a part of the adventure as exploring the city you were visiting was.
As someone for whom travel has always been a huge part of living a soulful, creative life, I was a fan of Chip's boutique hotel concepts from the very start. So when I finally met him for the first time a number of years ago it was kind of like a celebrity sighting for me. I know, who geeks out on boutique hotel CEOs? Apparently, I do.
Since founding Joie de Vivre, Chip went on to become the head of Global Hospitality and Strategy for Airbnb and has authored five books. The most recent, called Wisdom at Work, addresses the need for balance in today’s world of relatively inexperienced millennial CEOs with the wisdom of those of us who have circled the sun for a few more decades.
After leaving his full-time gig at AirBnB, Chip created the Modern Elder Academy designed to give us modern elders a way to recognize and channel our accumulated wisdom and to help us to rediscover a resonance and relevance that many people at our age think is done for.
To this end, he writes a daily blog called the Wisdom Well. Each morning when I read his posts, I’d hear our words echoing each other‘s. It was so validating to know that I wasn’t alone and crazy that I reached out to ask him to share more about his own perspective on wisdom, spirituality, millennials and if and when any of these things might align.
Since I’ve been a bit of a fan girl, I was nervous about sitting down with Chip for this interview. But when I reminded him of that first meeting and the fact that neither of us had a stitch of clothing on at the time, it melted away any nervousness as well as the pedestal I had put him on. We happened to have been in the clothing-optional baths over looking the sea at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur - just in case you were wondering.
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By Sharon EisenhauerChip Conley was a boutique hotel pioneer in the 1980s when he founded Joie de Vivre, a company that he eventually sold with 50 properties.
Chip created a travel experience that didn’t end when you unlocked the door to your cookie cutter hotel room with it's plastique bedspread and unimaginative design. With his boutique hotels, where are you stayed was as much a part of the adventure as exploring the city you were visiting was.
As someone for whom travel has always been a huge part of living a soulful, creative life, I was a fan of Chip's boutique hotel concepts from the very start. So when I finally met him for the first time a number of years ago it was kind of like a celebrity sighting for me. I know, who geeks out on boutique hotel CEOs? Apparently, I do.
Since founding Joie de Vivre, Chip went on to become the head of Global Hospitality and Strategy for Airbnb and has authored five books. The most recent, called Wisdom at Work, addresses the need for balance in today’s world of relatively inexperienced millennial CEOs with the wisdom of those of us who have circled the sun for a few more decades.
After leaving his full-time gig at AirBnB, Chip created the Modern Elder Academy designed to give us modern elders a way to recognize and channel our accumulated wisdom and to help us to rediscover a resonance and relevance that many people at our age think is done for.
To this end, he writes a daily blog called the Wisdom Well. Each morning when I read his posts, I’d hear our words echoing each other‘s. It was so validating to know that I wasn’t alone and crazy that I reached out to ask him to share more about his own perspective on wisdom, spirituality, millennials and if and when any of these things might align.
Since I’ve been a bit of a fan girl, I was nervous about sitting down with Chip for this interview. But when I reminded him of that first meeting and the fact that neither of us had a stitch of clothing on at the time, it melted away any nervousness as well as the pedestal I had put him on. We happened to have been in the clothing-optional baths over looking the sea at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur - just in case you were wondering.