The Next Chapter with Charlie

Show Notes   Our guest today is Katie Turner—A Registered Psychologist with a private practice in Alberta, Canada. Katie is a highly sensitive person and empath. One of her specializations is working with others who also have these gifts. Katie incorporates a spiritual and intuitive lens along with more traditional psychological approaches in her practice. Let's see what Katie might have for us to...

Show Notes  Charlie NOTE: This show is a really good one. Check it out! Today's guest, Matt O'Neill, teaches us that happiness is a choice, even when life gets tough. His work has positively impacted the lives of over 100,000 people worldwide.  As a recognized leader in happiness education, Matt teaches audiences how to live a life of 'Conscious Happiness'. His work includes the book "Good Mood Re...

Show Notes  On today's show we chat Ben Keesey, the Development and Partnerships Director for Richard Rohr's Center of Action and Contemplation. Before joining the CAC, Ben was CEO of a charity called Invisible Children , a remarkable organization whose mission was to save the lives of children in Africa who were being abducted, turned into child soldiers or sex slaves. The numbers are shocking… w...

Show Notes  Welcome to the new version of The Next Chapter with Charlie. Today will be the very first show on our new platform of audio and video. This first episode of 2025 will be published on YouTube as well as your favorite podcast location. I thought we might begin our first show of the year in conversation of with our dear friend Terry Hershey, author of 17 books, hugely popular public speak...

Show Notes  Our guest today, Dr Fidele Sebahizi, is a refugee immigrant from the Congo in Africa. He was raised in a kind of poverty mostly unknown in the West, lived through an ethnic massacre in a Refugee Camp where his closet friend was murdered, and yet… came to the United States at 25 years old where he earned a bachelor's degree, a master's degree, and PhD in Criminal Justice. All while work...

Stumbling and Bumbling Along Oh my… This podcast regarding the birth narrative of Jesus is raw. Filled with ah's and uh's and so's. Longer periods of silence. Very "not professional." And yet it is filled with truth about the humble ways of the Divine.  God is not so much interested in pretty presentations as He is in powerful truths underlying the presentations. It is about the message and not th...

Show Notes  Our guest, Andrew Matthews, has sold more than 8 million books with titles like Follow Your Heart, How Life Works, and Happiness in Hard Times .    Today we chat about his latest book titled Bounding Back: How you rebound from disappointment and disaster . With that, let's get Andrew on air to chat about this essential topic.    LINKS   Please be sure to check out Andrew Matthews' late...

Show Notes    On today's show my very special guest, Caitlyn Cogan Doemner, and I discuss some ideas that have floating around in my mind for a bit. Ideas about a core philosophy of love, kind of in line with the words of Jesus about loving your neighbor… ... only I want to be rather specific when my neighbor is the one struggling at the bottom level of Maslow's hierarchy—those with access to wate...

Show Notes  Well, we're finally back with our dear friend Terry Hershey. The topic we will chat about today is the role of the ordinary—the everyday—in the lexicon of spirituality.  For most of us, the idea of the Divine is often thought of a special, unique, and oft times spectacular occurrences. When the truth is God is most frequently found in ordinary occasions of work and play and familiar re...

Show Notes          Our guest today, Dennis J. Henson, is a successful real estate investor, teacher, and author with over fifty years of experience. ​ His mentoring program has greatly contributed to the success of many of his followers. Dennis has a new book, Real Impact, Daily Inspiration , and I am very impressed with his structure and important ideas.   Once, during an interview, Dennis was a...

Show Notes                         Today I am excited to chat with Lata Hamilton, a 3-time guest on the show, who is in the process of releasing her very first book, Pioneer Your Career Change . I am loving Lata's view that while your new career change begins as a Business Decision for the employer and is most often a Personal Decision for you.  However, Lata proposes that you understand your care...

Show Notes   Today we revisit Wendy Hooper Ross to conclude our show on the subject of Understanding Fear.    Wendy is an expert in residential real estate (as you discovered in Part One last week), but it is also obvious that Wendy is an expert on life, from both the thinking and feeling perspectives.  Last week we started out to talk about fear in life as we considered four areas: home ownership...

Show Notes   Today I visit with a recent guest Wendy Hooper Ross. Wendy is an expert in residential real estate. She devotes much of her time to understanding the current and future states of the real estate market in the United States. Her insights are brilliant. Now, while in our conversations about real estate, Wendy and I happened to land on the subject of the role of fear and control in the h...

Show Notes   One thing I find about my life today… I live in a world of distractions. I may have plans for the day, but other stuff just seems to come up. First there are the external distractions of emails, phone calls, unexpected appointments and less than important interruptions. But even more disrupting are the Internal Distractions of fear and anxiety and feelings of overwhelm—all resulting i...

Show Notes  As you might guess, I live in an interior world of creativity and imagination. That's why I love to ponder. Yes, I spend a good portion of my day thinking about what is and, more importantly, what might be.  Every now and again, I come across an idea that I am not sure what to do with. That's when I make a phone call to my "go-to" thinkers who also love to ponder challenging topics. Of...

Show Notes  Today, with special guest Dave Buck, we will chat about the details of retirement... mostly details not having to do with finances.  In his new book, The Time Optimized Life , our guest David Buck writes…   "Retirement usually represents a significant change in lifestyle. Most traditional planning leading up to retirement centers on having the necessary financial resources to last the...

Show Notes  Today is a unique show in that it's all about connecting with the Divine Feminine. I know, most are saying, "What is the Divine Feminine?" Well, by the end of this show you will learn a ton about the place of the divine feminine in your life today.  Our guest, former Catholic school teacher and spiritual guide, Kathleen Joan has made it her life mission… "to help people from Christian...

Show Notes  Hi Paul. My guest today, author and Zen Master, Nora D'Ecclesis joins us to discuss her latest fiction, The Contessa's Legacy. Beginning in Pompeii, 79 AD, Nora guides us through 2000 years of a history of resilience, perseverance, and commitment—all for the sake of what she calls, "Generational Legacy."  The story moved me, but not as much as the ideology—so much for those of us that...

Show Notes  Today's show is one I have been looking forward since the publication of our guest's new book: Unfolding Light !   I can't wait for conversation with poet and mystic Steve Garnaas-Holmes. I wonder if Steve truly understands his role as Divine Elder in the American caldron of longing for mystery and wonder and awe.   Steve Garnaas-Holmes is a gift to all of us.  Let's let his conversati...

Show Notes  Yikes, Paul. This Summer has been delightfully eventful. I will be or have been out of state or country for nearly seven weeks in July and August. Visiting seven countries and two states, with a couple of 3-day trips to the Abbey for retreat and spiritual direction. All I can say is… Yippee for the retired life! Hmm… someday we'll do a show on meaningful retirement. It's sooo cool!  My...

Show Notes Well, here I sit, back from 3 weeks on a northern Europe cruise and a few days in Cambridge, England. I love travel, except I got home last night, and I am still on England time and a wee bit fatigued. But I promised our most special guest my best. Which won't be difficult at all because she is a tremendous guest. So much fun! In my opinion, our guest today, Suzanne Campi ranks as a pre...

Show Notes  Our guest today, Kathleen Joan, is a certified life coach and first-time author of a somewhat controversial book titled, From Goo to Gratitude . It's controversial because she challenges some traditional lifestyle requirements of a very conservative religious faith tradition.  But her science, which will be the focus of our show, is fascinating as we dive into the depths of what Kathle...

Show Notes    Today I thought I might explore a few thoughts I have wrestled with recently about discovering God in a fresh and ever more realistic fashion. A discovery based not on our expectations of how God might act, but on our reception to a God of unexpected relationships, of quiet relationships.  Oh, I am tempted to go into deep theology at this time, but I won't. Instead I want to tell a c...

Show Notes  Today is a special show for me. That's because I have a gifted friend willing to step in when I need him. Due to a last-minute cancellation of a show with a pre-planned guest, Terry stepped right up to help. So, we have a most interesting show with little prep time. In a recent Sabbath Moment post Terry Hershey wrote this, " I believe in the healing power of revisiting. Because sometim...