Christopher Baron

Magical Year Retreats founder and
Host of Baron's America, More In Common

Christopher Baron is a sought-after teacher and consults and coaches a small group of executives in Aspen and remotely.

Chris is a researcher, interviewer, author, founder of Magical Year Retreats, and a passionate advocate for human performance and longevity.

After years devoted to outperforming a series of life-altering health issues, Chris is a subject matter expert on healthcare, resiliency, mindset, and the philosophy and science of fitness, longevity, and the life well-lived.

He speaks eloquently and passionately about human thriving, and is dedicated to sharing the knowledge he gained from decades of personal experience, thousands of hours of research and a life lived in blue zones.

Baron is an advocate for the critical roles that nature, wilderness, and solitude have historically played in our lives, and the necessity for healthy connection in a profoundly disrupted world and lonely world.

Chris is founder of Magical Year Retreats, Host of Baron's America More In Common, and creator of More In Common Dinners and the More In Common Ventures. He lives in Aspen, Colorado and has two adult children.

Methodology

Chris' unique approach to transformation draws from several spiritual, psychological, and neurological practices. It blends 25+ years of personal development and corporate experience and has been taught to hundreds of people worldwide.

During his early career, Chris. Immersion in these diverse environments drove home what he already knew: There is never just one way of looking at anything, and there is inherent wisdom in every person.

He then began a 13-year journey with a diverse array of businesses and executives. In that time, Chris formed innovative companies.

Chris is effective because his clients and students show up with courage and vulnerability, they experience incredible results in a very short period of time. 

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I work with clients seeking assistance achieving significant personal, professional, and sports goals, and those facing complex challenges including serious health issues, divorce, family and relationship challenges and professional or business decisions.

My philosophy is the culmination of decades of experience and research on human thriving and performance, athletic pursuits, expeditions, and wisdom from world-class mentors. It is deeply rooted in the natural world.

My mission is to empower you to excel in health, well-being, and performance by addressing challenges, seizing opportunities, and managing risks. If applicable, I utilize a self-discovery model in which you explore your 'Why'— your meaning and purpose.

Together, we clarify your goal, develop a strategic framework, assemble the right team if necessary, and craft an actionable, achievable plan. Inherent in this process is a focus on self-knowledge, clear intent, and physical and mental fitness.
I returned to Aspen prior to the pandemic just about dead. I wrote a manifesto about a life worth living: my purpose, my meaning, my joy.
I wrote my future. So can you.

— Christopher Baron

No one I know so thoroughly supports my health, profession, and relationships.

— Tech Founder

A profound and inspiring exploration of tenacity, hope, and healing

Baron describes his return to Aspen, Colorado just prior to the pandemic, and his subsequent recovery from a series of life altering health events and losses that left him near death. In unrelenting pain and emotionally and physically exhausted, he describes a tenacious will to not only survive but to thrive, succeeding in a world of boutique medicine, world class surgeons, pain specialists, physical therapists, and Olympic athletes. The spectacular alpine wilderness near his home became a sanctuary where under cerulean blue skies and in frigid whiteout snow storms he found solace and strength on cold water swims, day long hikes, skiing, and horseback riding. And in a valley soon to rise even higher on the list of the world’s most expensive zip codes, he found genuine community, friendship, and rebirth. A manual on resilience, navigating loss, and holding on to hope when there seems to be none, Baron has written a treatise on surviving tragedy and crafting a mid-life renaissance and a life of meaning, purpose, and joy.

A rare view of America during one of the most pivotal periods in her history

In this expansive look at a post-9/11 America, Baron combines photos and words from his multi-year circumnavigation and interviews with hundreds of Americans along his route and those he met while embedded in cities across the country. As a former investigative journalist and political reporter, he undertook what would become a year’s long, De Tocqueville-esque examination of the country, during which he saw the forces that created the world in which we live and the complex challenges and unlimited opportunities that reside at the edges of our polarized society. Baron paints a compelling and sobering portrait of a divided country.

"Perhaps we need another Steinbeck. A lot of Americans are hurting." - 4th generation Montana Rancher

Christopher is founder of Magical Year Retreats and writes passionately about thriving in a rapidly changing world, and the benefits nature continues to offer us.

Work
With Chris

Virtually Or Aspen Intensives. Our base curriculum tailored to support your physical, mental, and professional thriving.
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Virtual Workshops

Our signature Memoir For Healing and Life Transitions curriculum virtually. Three one-month sessions.
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Aspen & Italy Literary Retreats

A beautiful, intimate, and soulful week in Aspen and Italy for our Memoir For Healing and Life Transitions.
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British Virgin Islands Swim

A swimming and sailing adventure in the magnificent British Virgin Islands for experienced ocean swimmers.
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Aspen Intensives

A swimming and sailing adventure in the magnificent British Virgin Islands for experienced ocean swimmers.
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Online Curriculum

A swimming and sailing adventure in the magnificent British Virgin Islands for experienced ocean swimmers.
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People asked me who I met, what they were like. "Amazing people. Mostly lovely, often surprising me with their stories, living their lives with the same hopes and dreams and challenges as the rest of us."
- Perimeter, An Odyssey

Chris is one of the most inspiring and tenacious
men I know - Ann Gibson, Black Hawk Pilot, Founder Adventure Wellness

Christopher Patrick Baron

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episodes of the More In Common podcast from Christopher Baron.
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