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Every book Chip Conley recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Chip Conley has recommended or discussed 20 books on podcasts, as of April 24, 2025.
- Chip Conley has talked about books on 3 podcasts, as of April 24, 2025.
- Those books came up in 5 episodes, as of April 24, 2025.
- The 3 books Chip Conley has mentioned in the most episodes, as of April 24, 2025: Man's Search for Meaning, Meditations and Awe.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Chip Conley aired on April 24, 2025.
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Across 3 podcasts. Every show Chip Conley appears on, in one place — not just one.
Chip Conley’s most recommended books
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Meditations by Aurelius Marcus
- Awe by Dacher Keltner
- The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist
- From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks
- Awake in the Wild by Mark Coleman
- Breaking the Age Code by Becca Levy
- On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
- Seek by Scott Shigeoka
- Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
Chip Conley is an American hotelier, hospitality entrepreneur, author, and speaker. During his podcast appearances, he frequently recommended books centered around personal growth, financial mindset, aging, and curiosity. On The Rich Roll Podcast, he recommended Scott Shigeoka's Seek as a wonderful resource exploring curiosity as a learnable skill, and praised Becca Levy's Breaking the Age Code as foundational work that informed his program on reframing aging. During an extensive conversation on The Daily Stoic, Conley highlighted Lynne Twist's The Soul of Money multiple times, describing her as a faculty member and praising her perspective on viewing money as a channel for shaping one's desired reality. In the same discussion, he named Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning as one of his absolute favorite books, utilizing Frankl's insights to illustrate the psychological space between stimulus and response. Additionally, on The Rich Roll Podcast, he recommended Arthur C. Brooks's From Strength to Strength as a helpful guide for individuals undergoing midlife self-inquiry and navigating the later chapters of their personal and professional lives.
Books recommended by Chip Conley
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Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning is a profound psychological memoir by Viktor E.
Discussed“My favorite book of all time is man's search for meaning. And it's partly because uh what Victor Frankle tried to get across in that book was the ideas that meaning is the fuel of life.”
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a collection of personal journals and philosophical notes written by the Roman emperor during his military campaigns, offering profound insights into Stoic philosophy, self-discipline, and personal endurance.
Discussed“The practice of stepping back and thinking can provide insights that profoundly impact one's life, as seen by the timeless relevance of Aurelius' 'Meditations'.”
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Awe
Awe by Dacher Keltner is a thoughtful exploration of the psychological and emotional concept of awe, detailing how everyday experiences of transcendence can transform human well-being.
Discussed“Learning how to seek out awe is an important piece of it. Um, Derer Kelner, who I think you should definitely have on your show, um, UC Berkeley professor, started the Greater Good Science Center, also on the MBA faculty, um, wrote a book a couple years ago called Awe. Cultivating awe.”
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The Soul of Money
The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist and Teresa Barker explores humanity's deep-seated emotional and psychological relationship with currency, arguing that money can be transformed into a conscious channel for creating a better world.
Recommended“I think the key to understand money I'm a big fan of Lynn twist who wrote the soul of money she's on our faculty”
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From Strength to Strength
From Strength to Strength by Arthur C.
Discussed“Arthur Brooks talks about this in his new book, 'From Strength to Strength.'”
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Awake in the Wild
Awake in the Wild by Mark Coleman is a guide to cultivating mindfulness, awareness, and spiritual connection through direct engagement with nature and the outdoors.
Recommended“2 years ago I was in Loreto Bay in Baja kayaking with a guy named Mark Coleman who wrote a book called Awaken the Wild, beautiful book.”
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Breaking the Age Code
Breaking the Age Code by Becca Levy is a comprehensive exploration of how societal perceptions of aging directly impact health, longevity, and psychological well-being.
Recommended“There's Becca Levy's book 'Breaking the Age Code.' Becca Levy is the one who actually... In many ways our program is built on her work from Yale.”
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On the Shortness of Life
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca is a foundational Stoic philosophical essay that examines the perception of time, mortality, and the importance of mindful attention to make every minute count.
Recommended“Maybe Seneca, there's a Seneca book about about the short life. Yeah, on the shortness of life. On the shortness of life.”
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Seek
Seek by Scott Shigeoka is a non-fiction book that explores the transformative power of curiosity and how it functions as an essential, learnable skill.
Recommended“Um there my friend of mine Scott Shagyoka has a great book called Seek all about curiosity. Uh curiosity is is a skill.”
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Setting the Table
Setting the Table by Danny Meyer is a highly regarded book exploring the philosophy of hospitality, business leadership, and the power of empowering employees through enlightened hospitality.
Recommended“Um I also love Danny Meyer, the restaurateur. Yeah. Um and he's got and he's got one of the best books on hospitality ever written, which is called um Setting the Table.”
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The 100-Year Life
The 100-Year Life by Lynda Gratton and Andrew J.
Recommended“there's a book called The 100-Year Life. 100-Year Life, written by a couple Brits and it it sort of says, 'Imagine the future where the average person lives to 100.'”
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The Happiness Curve
The Happiness Curve by Jonathan Rauch is a compelling examination of the U-shaped trajectory of human satisfaction across the adult lifespan.
Recommended“The Happiness Curve, which we talked about earlier. Um it's a book the the U curve of happiness is what we call it, but the name of the book is by Jonathan Rauch, is called The Happiness Curve. That's become a favorite to gift.”
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Business Rules of Thumb
Discussed“And we did and we created a book called Business Rules of thumb and it came out long long long time ago.”
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Education During Adolescence
Discussed“The first one was adolescence, 1904, started because a psychologist who ran the American Psychological Association wrote a book called Adolescence in 1904.”
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Male Sexuality
Discussed“So I ended up going to therapy with a guy named Bernie Zilbergeld, who wrote a book called 'Male Sexuality.'”
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Regeneration
Regeneration by Paul Hawken is a solution-based book aimed at guiding the climate movement and ending the climate crisis within a single generation.
Discussed“So Paul had a book and it's right here in the studio called Regeneration. And so we've learned a lot from him.”
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Sears Tower
Discussed“In the book 'Tower' and other resources, there's a company called 'Books by the Foot.' They cater to film studios and similar clients.”
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The Little Engine That Could
Why people recommend it: The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper is a classic children's picture book that teaches the enduring values of optimism, perseverance, and hard work through the mantra of a determined little steam engine.
Discussed“I a few years ago um at we had 3,500 employees in my company and Janeviv I gave every single one of those employees at our holiday party a copy of the book the little engine that could because that was that was the book that defined me”
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Tiny Habits
Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg is a practical self-help guide that revolutionizes personal growth by teaching readers how to build lasting changes through remarkably small, manageable behavioral adjustments rather than relying on overwhelming willpower.
Discussed“And so BJ Fogg, who wrote the book, Tiny Habits, is teaching with us this year. And what a great thinker he is on this topic.”
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Transitions
Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges and Susan Bridges is a psychological self-help book that differentiates external life events from the internal emotional processes people undergo during major life shifts.
Discussed“He wrote a book called Transitions and the Way of Transition long ago. And change, he defines change as circumstantial and situational.”
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Books Chip Conley wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (14: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I got interested in emotions because when I was struggling through my emotions in my late 40s, I didn't feel like I was emotionally fluent. And ultimately, I wrote a book called Emotional Equations, which became a New York Times bestseller.”
“So thinking that your your worst stories are wisdom is probably ill advised. So you don't lead with the war stories and you don't definitely don't lead with saying here's how the world works. What you lead with is curiosity and and an openness to like what it is the other person wants to learn. And and I wrote a”
“And three days later, I am on Good Morning America. And my book comes out. And the Today Show.”
“So in your natural state, one of the things I write about in this new book we'll talk about is what comes through you.”
“because I have a new book out that's called Learning to Love Midlife, 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better With Age.”
“And my third book, I had written a few months earlier called 'Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow.'”
“And I wrote a book called 'Emotional Equations' about it.”
“So as I'm writing that book, I'm going for runs on the beach. One day I went for a run on the beach and I had a Baja aha.”
“'Wisdom at Work.' 'Wisdom at Work,' being one of them.”
“I think that for me the thing that became clear to me was and and and has been a practice my whole business career is making a weekly inventory of what I learned that week has been essential.”
“I wrote a book called Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. It's meeting the unrecognized needs of whomever your customer is.”
“Plus, I wrote another book. I wrote a book called Emotional Equations. It did well. It became a a New York Times bestseller”
“So speaking to that, we have an exercise around evolution, evolving, because the first lesson in my book Wisdom at Work, Making of a Modern Elder, is to evolve.”
“They've got to read the book Wisdom at Work the Making of of Modern Elder and they do two exercises”