Empty Nest Guests

Doing Life With Your Adult Children With Best-selling Author Jim Burns Tune in and hear best-selling author Jim Burns and Charlotte talk about practical advice and hopeful encouragement for the tough, yet rewarding transition of parenting grown kids. Jim is President of HomeWord. He speaks to thousands of people around the world each year. He has close to 2 million resources in print in 20 languag...

Empty Nesting In Adversity When trials come, they often drive us to our knees in search of answers and comfort. Join Charlotte and Shannon Wilburn as they talk about empty nesting in adversity. Shannon is the co-founder of the global franchise Just Between Friends. She’s also a wife to Mitch Wilburn, a pastor in Tulsa, OK who miraculously survived 45 days in the hospital, near death with Covi...

Is it Alzheimer’s, Dementia or Memory Loss? Alzheimer's disease is the most well-known and common form of dementia but not everyone with dementia has Alzheimer's disease. And, just because you are forgetful, during these empty nesting years, doesn’t mean the worst. Charlotte and Erin Powell, from the Alzheimer’s Association, discuss this topic on today’s podcast. Learn the top warning signs, how t...

Sleep, Wellness and Balanced Empty Nesting Health Are you sleeping well? How is your energy level each day? Do you experience brain fog? You are NOT alone. Join Charlotte and Jane Wenning, a Certified Medical Technologist, Certified Athletic Trainer and Health Coach who has been helping women improve their mental and physical health for over 20 years. During high school and college, Jane was overw...

Empty Nesting and Friendship.  Friendships are such a gift. They also are important to well-being. Listen and learn the value of making and nurturing friendships with the best friend – God, yourself and others. Learn the difference between loneliness and solitude. Charlotte and Michelle Van Loon author of  Becoming Sage, Cultivating Maturity, Purpose, and Spirituality in Midlife , p...

Parenting A Prodigal & Hope For The Journey With Joannie DeBrito – Director of Parenting at Focus on the Family Loving a prodigal can be a long, lonely, misunderstood, and often desperate road. Will a phone call come from jail or the hospital? Living with fear, worry, anger, and self-recrimination wears you down. Words of love and words of threats can co-exist. You search for help yet feel sha...

The Empty Nest Guest Podcast With Michelle Van Loon author of  Becoming Sage, Cultivating Maturity, Purpose, and Spirituality in Midlife , published by Moody Publishers. On this episode, Charlotte talks with Michelle Van Loon, author of Becoming Sage, Cultivating Maturity, Purpose, and Spirituality in Midlife , published by Moody Publishers. In Chapter 8 of her book, Michelle shares her own j...

Welcome Empty Nesters! We are glad you are tuning in. Charlotte and Joannie DeBrito, Director of Parenting and Youth at Focus on the Family, discuss Parenting Emerging Adults: Boundaries and Limits & Parenting and Prodigals. We are seeing a cultural shift, partly due to Covid and as a sign of the times, in how parents relate with their older children. What kind of boundaries and limits do we n...

Welcome back, Empty Nesters! Today we begin Season 2 and you are in for a treat! Best-selling author of Empty Nest, Full Life - Jill Savage - and Charlotte talk about the balance of letting go & holding on. Are you caught between grief and delight? Empty nesting can be disorienting. The good news is that your encore years can be FULL of purpose and passion. Jill shares wisdom, encouragement &a...

What legacy would you like to leave your children? If you died today, would your voice still be guiding your children? Have you said everything that needs to be said to your children? Is it written down? This podcast will help you learn more about writing a Legacy Letter. You can leave a written, treasured legacy that will last forever. Join me, Stephen, producer of Empty Nest Guests, Charlotte an...

Join best-selling author, Stasi Eldredge from Wild at Heart ministries and Charlotte as they discuss Spiritual Warfare. Rejection, addiction, fear, and tiny voices that condemn…there IS a cosmic war and we are the battlefield. We bump into this warfare every day. Sadly, so many don’t recognize this or know how to combat it. This podcast exposes what warfare is and will help you learn to battle aga...

Join Charlotte and life coach, Julie Miles as they discuss the benefits of life coaching – What is it? Do I need it?  Julie spent 28 years running a successful company with her husband while parenting her growing sons. She then found herself navigating a divorce and a completely new chapter of life.  After a few years of searching for direction, at the encouragement of longtime friend and Lead Sel...

Listen in as Charlotte and her accountability partner and close friend, Linda Pulver, discuss what accountability means in the empty nesting years. Linda and Charlotte have been accountability partners for several years and have experienced many of life’s ups and downs together. Having a confidential, safe, and trusting person to “do life with” has many blessings. Sharing honestly, asking hard que...

Shirley Staires is 84 years young. She’s a mentor to countless women, author of several Christian books, and founded Shepherd’s Fold Ranch. Join Shirley and Charlotte as they discuss the importance of developing a personal mission statement during the empty nesting years. Knowing whose and who you are during these special encore years is life-changing and life-giving. Visit Amazon for Shirley’s bo...

Welcome back, Sydney Black! Individual, marital & family licensed therapist, Sydney discusses parenting adult children during the encore years. Parental roles are ever-changing during the empty nest years. As parents step to the sidelines, our roles can become more advisory and challenging. Charlotte and Sydney talk about letting go intellectually and emotionally and how to lean in when needed...

How do men and women process the empty nesting years? “Often VERY differently,” according to licensed marriage and family therapists, Brent and Janis Sharpe. In their book, The Making of a Marriage , they share about the formation of a healthy and thriving marriage. The same principles are needed as men and women navigate this new phase of life. Join Brent and Janis, Charlotte, and her husband Gor...

Enjoy listening to Laura Dennis, a blogger, speaker, and creator of Almostemptynest.net . She started Almost Empty Nest on a whim after her oldest child left for college. Through her blog and News from the Nest newsletter she inspires, uplifts, and empowers women who are transitioning from a full nest to an empty nest so that they are able to let go, find their way, and celebrate their empty nest....

Individual, marital & family licensed therapist, Sydney Black discusses common empty nest emotions. People process the empty nest differently and all emotions are real, unique and vary. Sydney encourages listeners to reconnect with themselves and offers tips about how to navigate relationships during this phase with family, friends, aging parents & others. The empty nest years can be the b...

Welcome to your encore years! They can be your best years yet. Join Charlotte as we listen and learn from encouraging guests who are helping others navigate the empty nest phase of life. In this first episode, get to know Charlotte and hear about her desire to visit with guests who are blessing people mentally, physically & spiritually. Together, we can encourage each other during these encore...