The Next Chapter with Charlie

Show Notes  Lynette Eddy is the creator of the Open Heart Mindfulness approach to life. OHM is a mind management practice that provides steps to live a life well-lived.  She earned a master’s degree in Social Work from The University of Nevada Reno and is founder of Eddy House which serves thousands of at risk and homeless youth in Northern Nevada.  Lynette Eddy is the Founder of Eddy House in Ren...

Show Notes  Hi All.  I’ll tell you what… we have a great show for our listeners today. Our guest, informally known as the Master of Disaster, is socio-economist Dr Randall Bell who is an internationally recognized Trauma Specialist. Dr Bell helps people survive, and even thrive, after experiencing a traumatic event, or series of traumatic events, in their lives. I like this description I found on...

Show Notes  On today’s show we continue with Part 2 on Mastering Mistake-Making with non-profit mistake-making guru John Pearson. For those that missed last week, besides being a good friend, John Pearson is a board governance and management consultant from San Clemente, California who served for more than 30 years as a nonprofit ministry CEO of 3 significant organizations.  John is also the autho...

Show Notes   Today I will be chatting with my good friend, John Pearson, who calls himself a master, but not like you might think. John calls himself a master of mistake-making. Yikes! Just a bit on John Pearson… John is a board governance and management consultant from San Clemente, California. He served more than 30 years as a nonprofit ministry CEO, 25 of those years as the CEO of three nationa...

Show Notes  A handful of times in the past we have so enjoyed our time with a guest that we have said, “We must do a follow up to this conversation.” Well today is the very first time we were able to schedule such a follow up in back-to-back weeks. Our guest from last week, Jim Kyles, author of the popular book, Unstuck and Unstoppable, has graciously agreed to be with us once again. Last week we...

Show Notes  You know there are times that all of us just feel “stuck.” Doing the same things over and over again and finding ourselves unable to move forward toward to the life we really want. Our guest today, Jimn Kyles, has written a book intended to give us hope for a new life as well as a very doable strategy to get there. Jimn Kyles is the lead pastor of Anchor Bend Church and author of Unstu...

Show Notes  Our guest today, Ellie Gould, is a specialist in making the kinds of changes in your life that are both valuable and lasting. In fact, she has created a process to help each of us understand who we truly want to be, how we might get there, and then, most importantly, how we can STAY there. Ellie Gould makes a most compelling argument for the use of “feeling” our way into success in lif...

Show Notes  Today is our very first show for the New Year of 2023.  I thought, for today, I would start the new year chatting with my friend Rand Sperry about personal development expert Brendon Burchard’s take on what it means to live a life of purpose and to leave a legacy that matters. Brendon suggests something like this: “At the end of our lives we will all ask, in one way or another: Did I l...

Show Notes  If you are looking for a different “take” on a 2022 Year-end Review, this is it. My friend Terry Hershey and I discuss values and intentions as a way to understand what 2022 meant to us as we pondered the year in review. Now, if you’re a frequent listener of the show then you’re already familiar with Terry Hershey, who is a regular guest. If you don’t know him, Terry is a prolific writ...

Show Notes  On our show with Lindsay Davis today we explore the very core of human existence. I think we can best sum it up with the words of psychologist Phil Sutherland, “As human beings, before we are anything else, we are a “burning ball of desire.” Lindsay and I probe the ROLE of burning desire in every single move we make. We ARE desire. We express desire. Without desire we are barely more t...

Show Notes   Today we are honored to have literary agent, author, and publisher Bill Gladstone. Bill has worked with literary giants Marie Kondo, Eckhart Tolle, and Deepak Chopra. He and his literary agency have placed more than 5,000 titles with dozens of publishers. Today, however, we will focus on Bill Gladstone—author and deep thinker. Bill is an international expert on indigenous cultures, ho...

Show Notes  Our guest today, Pat Wetzel, is an award-winning author, blogger, and photographer. Pretty “artsy” stuff, right. Well, Pat also holds a degree from the Wharton Business School in finance and worked in New York doing strategic planning and corporate investment analysis, among many other business services. More recently, she has been involved with a number of startups, including her curr...

Show Notes   In his latest weekly blog found in Sabbath Moment, Terry Hershey explores the words of theologian/philosopher Howard Thurman by delving into Thurman’s question, “What makes you come alive?” Thurman’s actual words are, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” I liked th...

Show Notes  We have a most interesting and insightful show today. Our uniquely special guest is Ann Sidney, Miss World 1964. Her new book, ‘Surviving Miss World’ is a searingly honest account of how winning the 1964 Miss World Beauty Pageant radically altered the scope of her life. Born to a working-class family in England, at barely 20, Ann Sidney’s overnight fame reveals a life during the ‘swing...

Show Notes  We all love the stories of gritty and tenacious people that go “from breadlines to headlines.” That is the story of our special guest today, Roger Smith. From ages 15 to 35, in the world of work, Roger was a very high functioning drug addict. However, eventually he discovered that although “The Wolf of Wall Street” lifestyle was good for a while, it inevitably became unsustainable, and...

Show Notes  INTERESTING NOTE: Be sure to check out the very end of the show. Our editor left in the “after-show conversation” with Charlie, Hilary, and Producer Paul. I thought about removing it, but the very brief conversation is fun. ***** In the 1990’s I wrote a book subtitled “Reinventing the Life You Want.” As it turns out the book might have been just a bit ahead of its time. It seems that p...

Show Notes  Do you know what makes doing this show so much fun for me? It’s all about satiating my unyielding curiosity. Today we are taking yet another walk through Charlie’s forest of never-ending curiosities. This time we chat with prolific author, Bruce McAllister who writes science fiction, fantasy, horror and thriller fiction, and even a bit of poetry. As a military kid, Bruce lived in many...

Show Notes  I have heard it said that the “road to success” can be a torturous journey. Truthfully, I have heard it said that the “road to success” can be a bloody path. I can identify with that. First of all, we must face all sorts of external roadblocks such as the demands of other people, saturated markets, finances, and dozens of other obstacles. Today, however, we are not going to talk about...

Show Notes  On our show today my special guest, Mark Holbrook, and I will discuss the issues around the recent (and troubling) decline in church attendance in the United States over the past 20 years. For instance, in the year 2000 70% of Americans claimed to attend some kind of church, and just 20 years later, in 2020, that number has dropped from 70% to 47%--a 23% decline in just 20 years! That...

Show Notes  Our show today is about endings and beginnings AND the of the unspoken time in between the two. Life is one long journey of beginnings and endings. Projects, careers, marriages, and life itself all have an end. Beginnings are typically both challenging and inspiring. My personality type is driven to begin new ventures, loves change, and new opportunities. But I must always keep in mind...

Show Notes  Typically, at this point in the introduction, it’s not uncommon for me to say how much I am looking forward to the show. And it is always the truth. However, today is different. I am really looking forward to this show Our guest speaks the same spiritual language that I do: one of meditation, silence, and deep contemplation on the verities of life. Only our guest speaks another dialect...

Show Notes  Have you ever thought about YOUR Brand? What it is that you want to be known for? Well, today we will find discover the value Personal Branding and how each of us can manage our brand, and our reputation. Our guest today, Chellie Phillips, is a “personal branding” expert. She is a coach, corporate trainer, and motivational speaker as well as the author of two books, When in Doubt, Dele...

Show Notes  Our very impressive guest today, Chris Westfall, is one of the most sought-after business coaches and keynote speakers in the world. He helped launch over five dozen businesses and has appeared on ABC NEWS, NBC TV and CNN. Chris’s new book, Easier: 60 Ways to Make Your Work Life Work for You, isn’t about taking the easy way out of difficult circumstances. It’s about overcoming tunnel v...

Show Notes  Today I’d like to talk about a major theme in my life with my friend, Terry Hershey. In the early days of Covid, when masking was new and mandates were just beginning, it was Terry who told me, “Charles,” he said, “I’ve heard it said that… “Hell hath no fury like an inconvenienced American.”” Yikes. It is a hilarious comment because it is hilariously true! And it is all about our inabi...

Show Notes  I’d like to encourage our listeners to sit back and enjoy. Because today will be a special conversation with a very special guest. Our most delightful guest today, Judy Gaman, is here to talk with us about the subjects of friendship and the power of perspective—lessons she learned from her friendship with a woman over 100 years old. She has a most engaging book on their friendship titl...