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of our second half.

Informed, alive, and charging forward.

Diving off boat into water

The Best Is Now

Why Middle Age Is the Most Powerful Time of Your Life.

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Interviews

Jason and Emily McCarthy

Jason and Emily McCarthy

The founders of GORUCK on the value of continuing to do hard things.

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Daron Rahlves

Daron Rahlves

Thirty years of friendship, one alpine legend, and a second half still accelerating.

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Lysa Cooper

Lysa Cooper

On noise, reinvention, and why nobody is grading your paper.

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Columns

Get Busy Living

Inspired by Junk Mail (and Rage)

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Freebird

Reimagining the Empty Nest

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