"Overqualified" is corporate code for "too old," "too expensive," or "too unimaginative." It’s often an ageist term. The fact is, most companies should want someone overqualified, especially if that talent comes at a fair price. It’s really the job applicant, not the company, who needs to determine if they’re overqualified.

In the U.S., most of us are familiar with how Social Security, 401k plans, and company pension plans help us save for retirement. Many of us may also be familiar with 529 plans, a tax-advantaged investment vehicle designed to encourage saving for future higher education expenses for one’s children or other beneficiaries.

This post’s name is the same as a recent TED Radio Hour podcast focusing on how we can bring what's been dormant back to life, more than a year into the Covid crisis. All the featured speakers are amazing, but I think you’ll find psychologist Guy Winch’s recommendations particularly prescriptive and valuable as we try to find new footing in this new normal.

Retirement is to regeneration what recreation is to re-creation. Sixty years ago upon their advent, retirement communities promised endless leisure in an age-apartheid gated neighborhood with your home facing a fairway. Today, regenerative communities are offering programs that help you repurpose yourself in intergenerational villages with your home facing a farm.

I grew up on a big wheat and soybean farm in Kansas. It’s a place so rural, the nearest fast food and movie theater is almost an hour away. It was quiet in a way that you could hear the rustling and songs of meadowlarks and quail, and the coyotes at night. You could hear the constant wind rushing through the tall grass. You could hear your own thoughts.

British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard wrote, “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” In Spanish, “my success” translates as “mi exito,” which sounds a lot (in English) like my success is my exit. Makes sense to me. After all, how we end things influences how we begin something else.

I was in ‘the valley’ of purpose paralysis. I had been soul searching for 721 days after leaving my big corporate career. I felt flatlined from soul searching and identity shedding, wondering what my next move should be. I thought the C-Suite was my promised land until my corporate ego finally bowed down, and I sent a cold-call email pitch to Chip to be an MEA ‘intern.’

One of our revelations at MEA has been the pattern consistency of transitions. They often start with the end of something, move to the often-awkward liminal period, and then crescendo with a new beginning. Once you understand those three phases, you can witness your life as a series of transitional episodes and, with some experience, you can plot out a roadmap that gets you through that messy middle.

Do women feel included in narratives about soul work when the loudest voices are from men? MEA alum Douglas Tsoi and Wisdom Well subscriber Jennifer Villeneuve are friends and colleagues at Challenge Success, a nonprofit affiliated with Stanford’s Graduate School of Education focused on kids' well-being and lifelong engagement with learning.

I’ve been reading academic Dr. Dilip Jeste’s recent book, “Wiser: The Scientific Roots of Wisdom, Compassion, and What Makes Us Good.” In his book, he offers the reader one particular study that gives evidence that wisdom is more correlated with spirituality than it is with intelligence.