The Next Chapter with Charlie

My guest today is our good friend, Terry Hershey. Today Terry and I plan to chat about the critical nature of trust and character. I’m curious about how we gain trust in a person and how much their character has to do with it.   You can reach Terry at www.terryhershey.com   For more with Charlie Hedges please visit www.thenextchapter.life

It’s good to be home from Africa… I think. My body thinks it is 2:00 in the morning so I’m a bit brain dead. But that isn’t about to stop me from discussing some of my observations from Uganda in 2018. The thing I’d like to focus on today is Poverty. Why is it that people that live in homes win dirt floors, no electricity, no running water, no access to clean drinking water, and dressed in tattere...

Divorce can cause many problems.  But perhaps the least understood is "parental alienation" as children blame their parents for splitting up the family and refuse to speak to them. Or one parent poisons the children against the other spouse, leading to years of separation, anger and resentment. That's the topic today as Charlie speaks with a well known expert on this subject.

As a board member for the charity WELLS OF LIFE, Charlie is off again to Africa to oversee the well spring of support for this organization and their simple work of drilling wells for people without clean water.  Until he returns, here's a look back at what that incredible organization and its founder, Nick Jordan, and what they are doing to make a difference in the daily lives of so many villager...

Charlie is in Uganda with Wells of Life again. So stay tuned for some more updates and up-to-date reports. But while he's gone, here's another look (and listen) at one of his best where he examines some of life's basic questions.

Listen as our host Charlie Hedges and his guest Terry Hershey delve into the mystery of character and whether it's a disappearing virtue in today's character driven society and "reality show" reality.

Show Notes  This week I intend the topic of core beliefs and how they evolve over a lifetime. For example, when a person begins skiing, at any age, the slope provides a giant masterpiece to be explored and experimented with. After time, we find our paths and routes that we most enjoy and so we begin to use them more often.  Before long our skiing experience begins to be limited to the grooves of t...

Show Notes  My guest today, Marc Ottestad is all about connection—connecting people, connecting ideas or patterns, and connecting to God. Marc is a “Next chapter” kind of guy because after 30 years of business leadership, Marc is entering a new season, one he is calling his “final act” and that is… coaching leaders one on one towards the freedom of being their best. You can reach Marc at marco@con...

Show Notes  Today… I want to discuss a most disheartening subject. That is mental illness and homelessness in Orange County, and I want to give special attention to the recent events in Santa Ana. You see, until recently several hundred homeless people were living in the Santa Ana riverbed until the county forcefully removed them with no plan of restoration or providing temporary housing. And one...

Show Notes  My guest today is our good friend, Terry Hershey. If you’re a frequent listener of the show then you’re familiar with Terry, who is a regular guest. Terry is a prolific writer, conference keynote speaker, renowned landscape architect, and spiritual advisor. Today, I want to chat with Terry about how to recognize all the hidden gifts in our life if we just have the eyes and heart to see...

Show Notes Today we are honored to have with us from Sardinia, Italy Elena Perella, founder of Sentidu, which is an original life coaching process she developed after years of study and personal experience. Elena says that since she was a child she has been very sensitive to other people's suffering, which awakened an interest in human behavior, that later became a real passion. She received a Mas...

Show Notes  Today we are going to discuss a newer movement that I am seeing in our society today, especially with Millennials and, oddly enough, retiring Baby Boomers. I’m observing that movement as one going from the American ideal of Making Money to one that is more concerned with Making a Difference. I’m calling this show, From Money to Meaning. My guest today is Mike Olsen. Mike was a successf...

Show Notes  For the last three shows I have attempted to discover the basic tenets of atheism, theism and a form of Hallucinogenic Spirituality, all in an effort to understand how people approach their inner and outer lives. After the three shows aired Paul asked a handful of people their impressions of the show. The overwhelming response was: we just don’t really care at all about religion or pol...

Show Notes   For the last two shows I have attempted to discover the basic tenets of atheism and theism in an effort to understand how people approach their inner and outer lives. In the theistic case we would call it spirituality.  Well, today I plan to discuss spirituality through a third medium—an hallucinogen called Ayahuasca, the chemical that the scientist Rick Strassman called the “Spirit M...

Show Notes  Last week, we filled up most of an hour on the subject of Atheism—not in an effort to disclaim it, but rather to better understand it. I think it was a great show. In fact, it was one of my favorites. Well, today I want to give equal time to Theism. I decided to do the show primarily through the eyes of a Christian priest, Fr Robert Edwards who is the Rector (or lead minister) of St Ma...

Show Notes  Let me begin our show today with a question? Consider this rather long list of names: Woody Allen, Isaac Asimov, Kevin Bacon, George Carlin, Jodi Foster, Joyce Carol Oates, Brad Pitt, Ayn Rand, Oliver Sacks, Kurt Vonnegut, James Baldwin, Charles Bukowski, Ursula K LeGuinn, Pablo Neruda, Virginia Wolfe, Stephen Hawking, Sir Richard Branson, and Bertrand Russell. What do all these famous...

Show Notes   I’d planned today to do a “solo-sode, but as I began making notes for the show I thought of my dear friend, Terry Hershey and how much value he could add to the show. So 75 minutes before the show I invited him as a guest. And he agreed. Many thanks. And this really is a good show! My topic today is one I’ve lifted from a book by Richard Rohr’s titled Falling Upward: A Spirituality fo...

Show Notes  Think about it Paul, what part of you comes out when your back is against the wall? Is it ugly or is it protective in a positive way? Do you lash out in anger, cry or whine, blame, or respond with some sort of passive (or aggressive) attack? Or, do you take the time to consider the best way to handle any given particular situation? These are tough questions. Hard to answer and even har...

Show Notes  I find it shocking the number of people that tell me quite literally they “hate their jobs.” And if they don’t hate their job they are simply dissatisfied by so many things they do more than 40 hours each week. That’s a lot of time of dissatisfaction. Our special guest today is here to help us with that issue. With me today is Mac Prichard, who’s the founder and publisher of Mac’s List...

Show Notes   My guest today is our good friend, Terry Hershey. If you’re a frequent listener of the show then you’re familiar with Terry, who is a regular guest. Terry is a prolific writer, conference keynote speaker, renowned landscape architect, and spiritual advisor. Today, Terry and I plan to chat about Spring Cleaning: Getting Rid of Things that Don’t Work. You know we’ve all talked about Spr...

Show Notes  Today, I am honored to have another special guest, Rand Sperry who is CEO of Sperry Equities and Sperry Commercial. Now here is a guy familiar with 5 star hotels and roads that actually have asphalt on them. Somehow, Nick Jordan the Executive Director of Wells of Life, convinced Rand and his awesome daughter Keleigh to join us on this rugged trip, where the accommodations are abut 1½ s...

Show Notes  I am super excited about our special guest today, Sherry Benjamins, who is the President and Founder of highly successful Talent Search Firm, S. Benjamins and Company. Today Sherry and I will engage in a discussion on the dynamics of an entirely new concept of what the workplace and the world of work is going to look like in the very near future. In fact, many companies have already ad...

Show Notes Today I’d like to chat with you, and our producer Paul, about a subject that is most dear to me. Bottom line it’s about the positive impact each of us can make on the lives of other people: from the ones we love the most to just about anyone we engage with in a meaningful conversation. As I have stated often, I have concluded that my single most important goal in life to help people fee...

Show Notes Today is Part II of a series I began last week on the disturbing issue of Erasing Family. An amazing 22 million parents in the United States alone find themselves in the middle of this tragic situation. My guest today, is Ginger Gentile who is an expert in this field. Ginger is an award–winning filmmaker who grew up in New York and graduated from Columbia University. Ginger is the co-di...

Show Notes   We have a most fascinating and disturbing show today on what is becoming an almost epidemic subject. It is called Erasing Families. Now, because of the privacy and confidentiality of the information we will be sharing with my very special guest, we going to give her a pseudonym of Mom. Our subject of Erasing Families has been referred to in psychiatry as Parental Alienation, although...