{"id":108947,"date":"2018-12-16T22:43:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T03:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=108947\/"},"modified":"2020-01-14T13:09:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T18:09:25","slug":"chip-conley-cross-generational-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ja\/journal\/chip-conley-cross-generational-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Life: Cross-Generational Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chip Conley is the author of Wisdom at Work: The Making of a Modern Elder<\/a>, and a speaker at Wellspring, happening this month in Palm Springs. For tickets and more information, click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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At age 47, Chip Conley died and went to the other side. \u201cI saw what I saw,\u201d he says, \u201cand they brought me back.\u201d It was 2008, and his successful and well-constructed life was facing transition. Chip, and many of his peers, were seeing early signs of the Great Recession, and\u2014as the founder of Joie De Vivre Hospitality<\/a>, a chain of 52 boutique hotels\u2014Chip was starting to get nervous. \u201cI was 22 years into it,\u201d he says. \u201cI loved it for 21 of 22 of those years, but I started to feel like it was more of a job.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, a number of his friends committed suicide and Chip became depressed. A broken ankle yielded a bacterial infection in his leg, and though he knew he should have been resting accepted a speaking opportunity in St. Louis. While signing books, he passed out. By the time the paramedics arrived five minutes later, Chip Conley was dead. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a career and business perspective,\u201d he says now, still very much alive, \u201cthis was divine intervention of the world somehow tapping me on the shoulder and saying, \u2018You don’t want to do this anymore, do we actually have to kill you to show you that you can do something else?\u2019\u201d A hotelier through and through, Chip recognized this as a wake-up call. And it was this that helped him to see that he was ready for something else.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I think you can have one of three relationships with your work,” he says. “It’s either a job, a career, or a calling, and why not go for the calling?”<\/p>\n

No Day But Today<\/h3>\n