Owning Wisdom with guest faculty Barbara Waxman
The Longevity Roadmap – The Secrets of Aging Well
Mar 3 - Mar 8, 2025 in Baja, Mexico
Led by: Barbara Waxman, Janis Nakano Spivack
Financial aid is available. Apply Here.
Create A Personal Longevity Roadmap that Ensures Your Final Years Are Your Best Years
Many people in midlife don’t realize that your genetics are NOT a major determining factor in determining your longevity.
Research now shows that your lifestyle – the choices big and small that you make every day – has a much bigger impact not only on your lifespan, the quantity of years you live, but your healthspan, the quality of years you live.
This is especially true of the choices you make in midlife, which have an outsized impact on what your “Trophy Years” – the final 10-15 or so years of your life, when you’re able to sit back and appreciate the rewards of a life well-lived – are going to look like.
That’s why now is the ideal time for you to get clear on what you want your Trophy Years to look like – in terms of the experiences you hope to enjoy, the abilities and capacities you want to maintain, and the relationships you wish to cultivate – so you can reverse-engineer your journey forward to the life you dream of experiencing in your final years on the planet.In this Owning Wisdom workshop co-facilitated with gerontologist and longevity expert Barbara Waxman, you will create your personal Longevity Lifestyle Roadmap™ that empowers you to live a long, happy, and fulfilling “life well-lived” – starting now.
What You’ll Gain
Through a combination of our MEA Owning Wisdom curriculum and Barbara’s experiential teachings and activities, you will:
You will leave this workshop excited and energized to put your Longevity Lifestyle Roadmap™ into practice in your life, and will have a clear vision and next-steps plan to start making your vision a reality starting right away.
Meet Your Faculty
Barbara Waxman
Author of The Middlescence Manifesto: Igniting the Passion of Midlife
Gerontologist | Coach | Speaker | MS, MPA, PCC
Barbara Waxman is a highly sought-after gerontologist and longevity expert who has been studying the science of aging for more than 40 years. She is passionate about inspiring and empowering people in midlife to be healthy, resourceful, whole, and joyful.
Barbara serves as an Advisory Council Member for the Stanford Center on Longevity, an Advisory Board Member for Stanford Lifestyle Medicine and ExtraFood.org, and an angel investor in the Active Aging and Longevity Fund with Portfolia, which gives her unfettered access to the latest cutting-edge access research on aging well.
She has appeared on CBS This Morning, and has been featured in Marin Magazine, Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global, Next Avenue, and is a frequent podcast guest.
What Barbara’s workshop participants have to say...
"Barbara’s leadership of our MEA cohort was invaluable, and her expertise regarding Middlescence was essential to the success of our program. But what made our collective experience so remarkable was how Barbara imparted her knowledge with so much grace, compassion and care. I have never experienced a teacher so genuinely connected with her students' emotional cores. Thank you for sharing your head and your heart with us."
Steven Rabinowitz
Attorney/Mediator
"Once I started working with Barbara, I identified ways in which I was working against myself work-wise, health-wise and even psychologically...[The] level of true support and concern for my well-being made it possible for me to be more creative in problem-solving across my entire life."
Alexandra Morgan
CEO, The Nancy and Stephen Grand Family House
"Barbara has a terrific tool box and is very results driven, thoughtful and organized. She helps me see different ways of viewing a situation which are transformational."
Julie Castro Abrams
CEO, How Women Lead
"So many breakthroughs, impossible to count. Many of the things that I thought I cared about were utterly insignificant compared to what really mattered to me. She helped me attain clarity of purpose, both for "now" and for the longer-term; I was able to re-center myself on what I truly valued in all facets of my life and rechannel the courage that I deployed on behalf of everyone around me to courage in myself."
Jaye Chen
Senior Management
This workshop is for you if...
1. Searching
Searching for ways to improve your longevity so you can live a joyful and fulfilling life for as long as possible
2. Tired
Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired and ready to stop putting your health and wellbeing in the backseat of your life.
3. Confused
Confused by all of the “latest trends” and conflicting advice about longevity you see in the news and online.
4. Purpose
Searching for greater purpose and community in your life but not sure where to find it or how to get started.
5. Willing
Willing to acknowledge that a long and vibrant life doesn’t come from a pill or an app – it comes from the quality of your relationships and experiences
6. Explore
Ready to explore new ways of being in the world that will boost your health, increase your vitality, and experience more joy in everything you do.
Meet Your MEA Facilitators
In addition to the powerful sessions conducted by Barb Waxman, you will be guided through the core MEA Owning Wisdom curriculum by our seasoned faculty members:
Janis Nakano Spivack
Content Facilitator
Janis Spivack is the founder and CEO of Brite Catalyst, a Wellness intelligence and insights company. She is an award-winning executive and business transformation strategist with over 30 years of experience in democratizing the skills and knowledge necessary for personal change.
After getting her start in advertising, she moved to the field of tech innovation, where she nurtured startup leaders to Fortune 100 executives looking for reinvention. Integrating the real with the virtual to better serve people’s lives is her personal mission. She enjoys bringing together diversely talented teams and discovering better paths to summit their peak.
Longevity Doesn’t Come from “Biohacks” Designed to Help You Outsmart Death
Living a long, healthy, and fulfilling well-lived life isn’t just about maintaining your physical health. (Although of course that matters, too.) It's about cultivating healthy relationships, having a sense of purpose, engaging in fulfilling activities, and feeling like what you do matters. That's your Longevity Lifestyle Roadmap™ is designed to help you do!