Maria
Retired in Medellin in 2021

Bring life questions into real conversations.
What if, before making one of life's biggest decisions, you could talk to someone who has already lived it?
Whether you're moving abroad, changing careers, starting over, retiring, or trying to understand someone else's experience, someone has already walked part of that path.
EmLi helps you name what you're trying to understand, shape better questions, and find Experience Guides. AI supports search, translation, and tone, but the perspective comes from people.
What are you trying to navigate?
I found 18 people who have already retired in Colombia.
Retired in Medellin in 2021
Retired in Cartagena in 2022
Retired in Pereira in 2020
Every experience carries lessons.
Some are learned through success.
Others through failure.
Some through joy.
Others through hardship.

Why EmLi?
Every life has something to teach.
Every shared experience has the power to change another person's future.
EmLi is not a replacement for human perspective.
EmLi helps people ask clearer questions, discover humanity's collective experience, and continue through real conversations with Experience Guides: real people who choose to share what they have lived.

Share the decision, transition, relationship, or experience you need help understanding.
EmLi helps surface stories and Experience Guides: real people with relevant lived experience.
Ask questions, hear their stories, translate when needed, and save the insights that help you move forward.
Private rooms preview
Between Us is being built as EmLi's private communication layer: a calmer place for translated chats, tone support, Bridge Cards, saved phrases, and guided Experience Rooms with Experience Guides. AI helps with clarity and context, but it does not replace the person on the other side.
Invite someone you already know and keep original wording beside translations.
Continue from a MeetEmLi match with boundaries, purpose, and lived-experience context.
Get gentle context for language, tone, culture, repair, and misunderstood phrases.
Should I retire in Colombia?
What's it really like to start a business?
How did you prepare for a major life transition?
What surprised you about becoming a parent?
Would you move abroad again?
What do you wish you knew before buying a franchise?
Join the waitlist to be among the first to use EmLi.

Become an Experience Guide
EmLi can help someone find your story, but you are the guide. Your lived experience could help someone make one of the biggest decisions of their life.
Frequently Asked Questions
EmLi helps guide the search. Experience Guides bring the lived experience. AI supports clarity, translation, tone, and context without replacing real human perspective.
EmLi is a guide to humanity's collective experience. Inspired by the idea of Embracing Lives, EmLi helps people ask clearer questions, find relevant lived experience, and connect with Experience Guides: real people who have actually lived through something similar. AI can help with clarity, translation, tone, and discovery, but the insight comes from people.
Simply ask EmLi what you're navigating. Whether you're considering a career change, moving abroad, starting a business, or facing another major life decision, EmLi helps organize the question and surface people who have already experienced something similar. From there, you can learn from Experience Guides, their stories, perspectives, and real-life experience. We're currently building the platform and inviting early users to join our waitlist.
EmLi is for anyone facing an important decision, transition, or life experience. Whether you're starting a business, changing careers, moving to a new country, becoming a parent, planning for retirement, recovering from a difficult experience, buying a home, or exploring a new chapter in life, EmLi is designed to help you learn from people who've already been there.
EmLi is designed to support conversations around a wide variety of real-life experiences, including entrepreneurship and business, career changes, moving or living abroad, retirement, relationships and family, parenting, education, homeownership, health journeys, military transition, financial milestones, personal growth, travel and relocation, life after loss, and countless other experiences. If someone has lived it, their experience could help someone else.
Search engines provide information. AI can help organize questions, translate, summarize, and explain tone. But neither can replace the perspective of someone who has actually lived through the experience you're facing. EmLi uses AI as a helper, not the source of truth. By connecting with Experience Guides, you gain practical knowledge, honest perspective, and lessons that only lived experience can teach.
Absolutely. Everyone has experiences that may help someone else. EmLi helps people find and prepare for those conversations, while Experience Guides are the real people who share what they have lived. As an Experience Guide, you'll have the opportunity to share your story, answer questions, and help others navigate similar life experiences. Join the waitlist to be among the first to learn when Experience Guide applications become available.
EmLi is currently being built. The best way to get early access and product updates is to join the waitlist on meetemli.com.
You can join the EmLi waitlist by entering your name and email in the waitlist form on this page. You can also share the type of life experience you most want to learn from.
No. EmLi is being built for people who want to learn from lived experience and for people who may want to share what they have learned. Some users may later become Experience Guides, but being a guide is not required to join the waitlist.
An Experience Guide is a real person who has lived through a meaningful decision, transition, or life experience and is willing to share practical perspective with others navigating something similar. EmLi helps people find and prepare for those conversations; the guide brings the lived experience.

Join the waitlist and help shape the future of learning through lived experience.
Fictional sample
Maria spent two years comparing cities, neighborhoods, healthcare options, and daily costs before choosing Medellin. In this sample, she explains why she rented before buying, how she built a local routine, and what she wishes she had asked other retirees sooner.
This is a fictional sample story created to preview how EmLi guide stories could feel.
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Carlos approached retirement abroad like a test year. In this sample, he shares how he budgeted for surprises, found local support, handled paperwork, and decided which parts of coastal life fit him better than he expected.
This is a fictional sample story created to preview how EmLi guide stories could feel.
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Jennifer wanted a slower pace without feeling isolated. In this sample, she talks through climate, community, language practice, healthcare access, and the small everyday details that helped her know Pereira was the right fit.
This is a fictional sample story created to preview how EmLi guide stories could feel.