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The Midlife Chrysalis is a one-hour podcast hosted by Chip Conley, bestselling author of Learning to Love Midlife and founder of MEA (Modern Elder Academy).
Topics: Self-Improvement , Education
Transcribe the entire archive
Fetch every episode as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script:
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
https://spoken.md/podcasts/1817695682/episodes \
| jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
| while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
[ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
-o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id
sleep 0.34
done
Each episode costs 1 credit. Already-saved files are skipped — safe to re-run after a top-up.
Example Transcripts
How to Build a Life You Don't Want to Retire From | Stephen Herman & Evelyn Neaman July 17, 2026
What Your Future Self Wants You to Know About Life July 15, 2026
How Time Away Can Change Your Future | DJ DiDonna July 13, 2026
The Soul of Money: Why Life Gets Better After 50 | Lynne Twist & Sara Vetter July 10, 2026
How Wise People Handle Uncertainty July 8, 2026
The Skills That Will Matter Most in the AI Era | Chris Shipley & Scott Barry Kaufman July 6, 2026
The Biggest Myth We Believe About Aging | Dr. Michael Gurven July 3, 2026
Stop Trying to Fit In: The Hidden Gift of Aging July 1, 2026
Can Your Mind Change How You Age? | Ellen Langer June 29, 2026
Why We Spend Years Chasing Things We Don't Really Want | Alain de Botton June 26, 2026
The Real Problem Isn't Aging. It's Resisting It. June 24, 2026
Science Says Aging Can Make You Happier | Laura Carstensen June 22, 2026
Why So Many of Us Feel Like We Don't Belong | Pádraig Ó Tuama June 19, 2026
When Success Isn't Enough: Finding Purpose in Midlife June 17, 2026
What Comes After You've Achieved Everything? | Bill George June 15, 2026
Stop Beating Yourself Up and Listen to This | Kristin Neff June 12, 2026
Why Time Speeds Up as You Get Older (And How to Slow It Down) June 10, 2026
What Research Reveals About America’s Midlife Crisis | Frank Infurna June 8, 2026
The Truth About Becoming Miserably Successful | Debjani Biswas June 5, 2026
The Millennial Midlife Crisis Won't Look Like You Think June 3, 2026
From Ambition to “I’m Enough” | Brian Chesky February 22, 2026
Any episode from this podcast is available via the API — get started .
Get any The Midlife Chrysalis episode as clean, speaker-labeled Markdown — ready for your AI agent.
curl -H "x-api-key: pt_demo" \
https://spoken.md/transcripts/{episodeId}
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