Longevity as Leadership

@Harvard Business School December 11, 7-9pm

with Martha McAlpine, Ed.M HGSE

GOALS 

• Newly informed mindset regarding longevity, seasons, and creative cycles

• The power and potential of leader as longevist

• New understanding of women’s bodies, of their health, of the role of death

• New strategies / tools tailored to you and your life aspirations

• New stories around your second prime

STRUCTURE

I will speak for an hour or so, offering some new paradigms, connecting some important dots, fielding questions that arise. In this shared time, I look to redefine the sources and cycles of our wellbeing. We will consider mindset, energy, the nervous system, and trees.

Then we will put the thoughts into action and move for 30 minutes or so. The movement requires no mats or gear. Our own body weight and willingness is all we need.

This does not require yoga pants. But you may if you like. 

Wear what feels mobile and appealing, something you enjoy. I will wear a flared skirt.

Or, wear what you have worn all day. Can you raise your hands overhead? Perfect.

When we don’t need gear or special clothes, we remove a barrier to entry, we remove resistance: “Oh, I’d love to do that, but I don’t have my Reebok step/ mini rebounder / sports bra / weight vest….” 

If you’d love to do it, let’s make sure you can do it, no matter what.

In the last 30 minutes we will rewrite our aging / longevity stories. We carry old information forward unless we actively articulate where we are right now. If we clarify right now, what’s next will appear more easily.

We may have lived beyond the years our parents lived. We may be in a radically different lifestyle from our family of origin. In many cases internally, emotionally, or at a level of our hormones, we tend to perpetuate what we saw and what we knew.

This defines what we may expect - unless we say otherwise. Let’s live, now.

Lead the way.

Getting read: Want a head start?

Try out this podcast from Rich Roll. Masterclass on Longevity view or listen

In particular his conversation with Chip Conley starting 1:17:48 “Societal narrative vs. personal narrative of aging.”

Further resources:

The Matter of Menopause hosted by Elena Brower

Dr. Sara Gottfried 5-week Beautiful Hormones course on Commune

do Less by Kate Northrup - for her seasonal cycles in nature and women model

A new perspective on death from triple board-certified physician Zach Bush

Guidance on having skillful, essential end of life conversations from Choose Nurture

A podcast from Ezra Klein and Marianne Wolf on the importance of reading for brain health

Living Libations breast oil and rose face oil and hydrating cream series - perfect gifts for women in your life

Berkey water filtration system

Grounding mat and 11 minute documentary on electrons and inflammation

Deep Work from Cal Newport is a useful reconsideration of scheduling (but Solar-based, ie. seeking constant productivity)

More about Martha.