#202 Terry Hershey: The Permission to be Ordinary
Release Date: 08/03/2021
#364 Devon Kerns: Fresh Thoughts on Life
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Be sure to catch this show. It is one of the very best in more than 7 years! Check this out: “In a world where every-body is trying to become some-body, I have decided to simply be in service, as no-body, in this-body while I’m here.” Those are the words of our fascinating guest today, Devon Kerns who is called the King of Curiosity, Chaos, and Stillness. A strange yet compelling combination of descriptors. Devon will bring us to a conversation that doesn’t just inspire—it disrupts. Hmm. I wonder what that’s all about. Let’s find out as we bring...
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#363 Pamela Williams: Healing from Heartbreak
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Our guest today, is author and Emotional Intelligence Coach Pamela Williams. In her book, "How Do I Find Love After Heartbreak?", Pamela isn't just addressing romantic wounds; she's diving deep into the mind-body-soul connection, revealing how unresolved emotions manifest themselves as physical pain. Those thoughts drive our conversation today. LINKS Please check out Pamela’s website “Ramoni Ministries” . Pamela’s most recent book is found at Amazon.
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#362 Steve Garnass-Holmes- Life in Poetry
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes I can’t wait for conversation with poet and mystic Steve Garnaas-Holmes. Steve carries a much-needed role of as Divine Elder in the American caldron of longing for mystery and wonder and awe… and mostly hope. Steve Garnaas-Holmes is a gift to all of us. Let’s allow this conversation with him to carry us away in love, wonder, and Divine mystery. LINKS Please check out Steve Garnaas-Holmes’ daily poems at his website “Unfolding Light” . MOSTLY, if you are a lover of poetry (even if you are not) BUY THIS BOOK!
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#361 Marc Cooper: Becoming a Modern Elder
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes We live in a day and culture almost devoid of traditional Elders. Our society seems to contend that people get older, but they don’t get wiser. And most old people seem to have little concern about this serious conundrum. Our very special guest today, modern elder Marc Cooper, is doing something about this issue. In his latest book, Older to Elder, Marc holds a conversation with his audience about both the value and the traits of a modern elder in a highly individualistic culture of self-assurance with little desire for the wisdom and experience from what has historically...
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#360 Kavita Ahuja: Define Your Reason for Being
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Welcome friends to the Next Chapter with Charlie. Our fascinating guest today totally reinvented her life around 50 years old. From successful a successful life of 25 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Kavita realized her once fulfilling business life no longer offer the internal meaning she began longing for. Instead of just living with dissatisfaction she searched and found a new way of life derived from the Japanese concept of Ikagi—"a way of being” that promotes meaning, purpose, and passion. Her story of discovery and reinvention guides all of us to...
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#359 Rhonda Britten: Fearless Living
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes We are in for a very special show today with a woman whom I call a “rock star”, Rhonda Britten. I couldn’t describe Rhonda’s story any better the opening words found on her brilliant website where Rhonda writes… For twenty years, my life was a wreck. I was an alcoholic who attempted suicide three different times. Oh, and don’t forget those lovely DUIs and the week I was in jail. Yet today, I’m an Emmy-winning Life Coach who has been on Oprah and written multiple best-selling books. In her post trauma years, Rhonda has hosted more then...
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#358 Rhonda Britten: Fearless Living
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes We are in for a very special show today with who I call “rock star”, Rhonda Britten. I couldn’t describe Rhonda’s story any better the opening words found on her brilliant website where Rhonda writes… For twenty years, my life was a wreck. I was an alcoholic who attempted suicide three different times. Oh, and don’t forget those lovely DUIs and the week I was in jail. Yet today, I’m an Emmy-winning Life Coach who has been on Oprah and written multiple best-selling books. In her post trauma years, Rhonda has...
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#357 Brian Herriott: Living Your Eulogy Today
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Our special guest today is Brian Herriot: author, speaker, financial advisor, and entrepreneurship coach. He empowers budding entrepreneurs to find lifestyle freedom and live extraordinary lives. Brian’s mission is to guide others to work on what they want, when they want, and for as long as they want. He teaches us to “live out our eulogy now.” Very, very cool. LINKS Please check out Brian’s website at .
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#356 Phyllis Leavitt: America in Therapy
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Our special guest today is psychologist and author, Phyllis Leavitt. I like what Amazon wrote about her most recent book, America in Therapy: The review said… In the first book of its kind, Phyllis Leavitt highlights a crucial missing piece from national political discourse – the declining state of America’s mental health – and the book emphasizes that addressing our nation’s ills from a psychological perspective takes us beyond partisanship altogether. Today we will get into her new book and its psychological contribution to national healing as well as...
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#355 Phyllis Leavitt: America in Therapy
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Our special guest today is psychologist and author, Phyllis Leavitt. I like what Amazon wrote about her most recent book, America in Therapy: The review said… In the first book of its kind, Phyllis Leavitt highlights a crucial missing piece from national political discourse – the declining state of America’s mental health – and the book emphasizes that addressing our nation’s ills from a psychological perspective takes us beyond partisanship altogether. Today we will get into her new book and its psychological contribution to national healing as well as...
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After a couple months of hiatus, I am so pleased to welcome back my friend and frequent podcast guest Terry Hershey.
In today’s show Terry and I discuss the mostly American need for the overuse of superlatives in our daily speech. In this episode we talk about words like “great,” and “best” and “favorite.” Why is it when asked “how you doing” we commonly fall back to the phrase, “Great. I’m doing great!” Really??? How can you be doing great—all the time.
Or what about “what is your favorite movie? Huh, before Covid I went to the movies twice a week. How could I possibly have a favorite?
Instead, Terry suggests that it might be better if we were to give ourselves, “The Permission to be Ordinary.”
And with regard to Ordinariness Terry goes so far as to suggest that “The ordinary is the hiding place of the holy.” Wow! That is SO true.
Please enjoy our conversation with my ever so insightful friend, Terry Hershey.
Visit Terry at www.terryhershey.com .
For more with Charlie Hedges please visit www.thenextchapter.life