A luxury personal development brand for high-achieving women who are done performing — and ready to return to presence.
Media inquiries: cha.vintage76@gmail.com · vintage1976.com
"The most transformative thing a woman can do is give herself permission to arrive."— Chà Jones, Founder, Vintage 76
Vintage 76 sits at the intersection of winemaking philosophy, women's wisdom, and transformational methodology — creating a new vocabulary for midlife flourishing that has never existed before.
Founded by Chà Jones in March 2026, Vintage 76 is more than a personal development brand — it is a permission slip. It serves high-achieving women in midlife who have mastered performing for the world and are ready, finally, to perform for themselves. Through curated experiential events, one-on-one transformation work, organizational consulting, and a growing intellectual property ecosystem, Vintage 76 creates the conditions for women to move from depletion back into wholeness.
The brand draws its philosophy from winemaking — specifically, the understanding that the finest vintages require both time and transformation. Just as grapes must be harvested, crushed, fermented, aged, and released to become extraordinary wine, women in midlife are not declining. They are distilling.
Vintage 76 is currently expanding its experiential offerings nationally, with The First Pour Nashville launching June 14, 2026, and a growing roster of corporate wellness partnerships and retreat experiences in development.
The flagship philosophy of Vintage 76. A framework that examines how women have been conditioned to seek external permission — from institutions, relationships, and social constructs — and reclaims the seat of authority as internal. Applied both in individual transformation work and organizational DEI/wellness consulting.
A five-stage somatic and mindset framework modeled on the winemaking process: Harvesting → Crushing & Pressing → Fermentation → Aging & Clarification → Bottling & Release. Moves women from the depletion of overperformance back into embodied wholeness. The experiential backbone of The First Pour.
Vintage 76's signature experiential offering. A curated, intimate ceremony-led dining and embodiment experience for 12–30 high-achieving women. Available as a standalone event, corporate add-on, or multi-day retreat residency for hospitality partners. Nashville launch: June 14, 2026.
A personal story thread that has become a cultural touchstone in Chà's content work — examining the psychological and spiritual weight carried by eldest daughters, and the permission required to put it down. Foundation of her forthcoming book, Passion, Purpose & Permission.
Chà Jones is a luxury personal development architect, author, speaker, Feminine Facilitator, and the founder of Vintage 76. She is one of the few voices in the wellness and personal development space building exclusively at the intersection of Black womanhood, midlife, and embodied transformation.
A first-generation barrier-breaker with deep Southern roots and a global outlook — having lived in South Korea, Mexico, and Kuala Lumpur, and traveled to more than 40 countries — Chà brings a rare combination of academic rigor, street wisdom, and spiritual depth to her work.
Before founding Vintage 76, she built a career spanning instructional design, higher education, DEI consulting, and marketing strategy. That multidisciplinary foundation is the soil from which her most distinctive work grows: a methodology that is simultaneously intellectual, embodied, and deeply human.
She is the host of Life's A Vacay, a podcast about living freely and fully, and a TEDx speaker applicant with the talk: "You're Not Declining. You're Distilling." She is the mother of a son, Langston, and a single mother who has navigated every chapter of her life with grace, grit, and a growing body of receipts.
The Midlife Permission Crisis
The untold story of high-achieving Black women in their 40s and 50s who have accomplished everything society asked of them — and still feel like something is missing. Chà Jones has named it, framed it, and built a luxury brand to address it. For: Essence, Oprah Daily, Shondaland, Ebony
What Winemaking Teaches Women About Transformation
A wholly original framework that uses the five stages of winemaking as a map for midlife reinvention. Harvesting. Crushing. Fermentation. Aging. Release. The metaphor lands because it's true: the finest vintages require pressure, time, and transformation. For: Well+Good, Mindbodygreen, Spirituality & Health
The Eldest Daughter's Reckoning
Chà Jones is an eldest daughter who carried her family — and spent years building a brand around helping women put that weight down. Her personal arc from caretaker to permission-giver is one of the most resonant stories in the midlife wellness conversation. For: Essence, Ebony, Madame Noire, New York Times Wellness
First Pour Nashville: Black Women Are Creating New Luxury Rituals
The First Pour is not a networking event. It is a ceremony. A curated intimate dining experience centered on being Seen, Soft, and Supported. As Nashville becomes a cultural destination, Vintage 76 arrives with a offering the city hasn't seen before. Launch date: June 14, 2026. For: Nashville Scene, Nashville Lifestyles, Travel Noire, Black Enterprise
The Expat Who Came Home — And Built a Movement
After years living in South Korea, Mexico, and Kuala Lumpur, Chà Jones returned to the United States — not to settle, but to build. Her global perspective, forged across 40+ countries, is the invisible architecture beneath every philosophy she teaches. For: Afar, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel Noire, Oprah Daily
Permission Development™ in the Workplace
There is a $1.5 trillion spending-power demographic that corporate wellness programs are completely ignoring: Black women in midlife leadership. Chà Jones has built the curriculum, the framework, and the facilitation model to close that gap — and organizations are listening. For: Forbes Women, Inc. Magazine, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review
June 14, 2026 · Nashville, Tennessee
The First Pour is a curated wellness experience designed for high-achieving women who have mastered performing — and are ready to return to presence. It is ceremony. It is community. It is embodied transformation over a beautifully held table.
Intimate ceremony-led dining for 12–15 guests. 2–3 hours of intentional conversation, curated ambiance, and a collective ceremonial toast.
Half or full-day somatic wellness retreat for 10–30 guests, woven through The Distilling Method™ five-stage framework.
The Vintage 76 audience represents one of the most powerful, most underserved demographics in the wellness and luxury experience space.
This is a demographic that is spending, leading, traveling, and seeking — but has been largely absent from the luxury wellness conversation. Vintage 76 exists to change that narrative.
Chà brings the rare combination of academic authority, embodied facilitation, and earned wisdom to every stage she steps onto. Her keynotes are not presentations — they are experiences.
You're Not Declining. You're Distilling.
The flagship keynote — a radical reframe of midlife transformation through the lens of winemaking philosophy.
Where Does Your Permission Reside?
The central question of Permission Development™ — delivered as an interactive keynote and facilitation experience.
The Strong One: Undoing the Eldest Daughter Legacy
A deeply personal and culturally resonant talk on inherited responsibility, self-abandonment, and reclamation.
Soft Is Not Weak: Redefining Power for High-Achieving Women
The business case for softness — why the future of leadership is feminine, embodied, and unapologetically whole.
Underpouring: The Hidden Cost of Giving Without Refilling
A workplace wellness keynote addressing the depletion epidemic among high-performing women of color in leadership.
Designing a Life That Feels Real — Not Performative
The intersection of intentional living, intercultural wisdom, and the courage to build a life on your own terms.
General & Media Inquiries
Website
vintage1976.com · chajones.com
Podcast
Life's A Vacay — available on all major platforms
Partnership Inquiries
Available for select properties and brands nationwide.
Corporate wellness · Hospitality partnerships · Speaking