“What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks like— it literally rewires it.” This is one of the many fascinating excerpts from Dr. John Medina’s book Brain Rules. Medina is the keynote speaker at this year’s Sun Valley Wellness Festival. He is a developmental molecular biologist […]

Money can’t buy you love. But it can buy experiences that change who you are, how you view the world, and how happy you are. A 20-year study conducted by Dr. Thomas Gilovich, a psychology professor at Cornell University, demonstrated that experiences deliver longer-lasting happiness than things. “Our experiences are […]

There are so many ways to feed and nourish ourselves; it can be overwhelming. I recently went to a dinner where the host labeled each plate: “gluten -free,” “paleo,” “vegan,” and even “ketogenic,” which I thought was very considerate, although a lot to keep track of for a small dinner […]

There’s no place in the Lower 48 quite like Stanley, Idaho; it has a character and draw that’s all its own. The friendly, talented, and colorful locals who inhabit this western destination understand it the best and have created a mountain oasis. Each summer, Stanley adds a little more to […]

For more than 21 years, Suzanne has worked with individual and corporate clients to help build, manage, and preserve their net worth. She strives to create a more approachable way for people to understand personal finance and its ties to life’s rites of passage. Her firm, Hazlett Wealth Management LLC, […]

“Sometimes what you produce takes time to settle. It’s like a fine wine,” says Clarence Greenwood, known to the music world as the artist Citizen Cope, who is playing the Sun Valley Pavilion on June 16. It is only one of several great lines uttered by the singer-songwriter during our […]

Motopony is so much more than just the name of vocalist and guitarist Daniel Blue’s Seattle-based band. It is a term coined by Blue to represent a state of living, a journey, a search for the magic in life that connects us all and makes us realize that we are […]

Abstract art is like a secret language. It is a means to give a visual language to experiences where words fail to articulate what we feel, but cannot see. The expression of the familiar, interpreted through a distorted lens, abstract art moves us in a different way than other forms […]