by Dr. Marc Cooper and Shae Hadden
Aging isn’t a decline to manage: it’s a role to grow into. Introducing a different way to experience the second half of life.
Is this all there is to the second half of life?
You’ve slowed down. You’re taking it easy. Staying comfortable.
But fewer people are calling you, asking for your perspective, making requests. You have the vague sense you’re missing something important in this whole “growing older” thing, but you can’t quite name it.
This book—short enough to read on a plane and profound enough to change the rest of your life—reveals not only what it is you’re missing and why, but also how to bring it into your life.
Free chapter available by email.
Testimonials
CHIP CONLEY
Founder of Modern Elder Academy
“Not another book about aging well, retirement, or longevity hacks. This is a powerful challenge to the cultural narrative of aging itself. Marc and Shae draw an important distinction between simply becoming older and consciously becoming someone whose presence brings clarity, groundedness, perspective, and responsibility into a rapidly changing world. Direct, provocative, and deeply reflective, Marc and Shae invite us to see aging not as decline, but as a developmental possibility that may be more important now than ever before.”
RABBI NADYA GROSS
Chief Programming Officer of Wisdom School Yerusha
“This is not a book about aging gracefully. It’s a summons written the way an Elder actually speaks—without apology, without the cushioning we’ve come to expect, because what’s true doesn’t need to be liked to be lived. Read it if you’re ready to ask what your remaining decades are for—and to live like the answer matters.”
ALAN CAHN
Executive coach and organizational consultant
“This book is for anyone who wants to write their final chapters and have it be an enriching time full of wonder and creativity. It is actionable, practical, and inspiring.”
RON PEVNY, Director of Center for Conscious Eldering
“Short, powerful chapters paint a compelling picture of the qualities and ways of being that today, as throughout history, characterize those honored by their society as the true elders so vitally important for the well-being of all.”
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Where an Elder’s presence matters?
In relationships.
