#407 Amy Rasdal: From Success to Freedom
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Show Notes Today we are chatting with Amy Rasdal, entrepreneur and coach to both successful and aspiring entrepreneurs. Let’s find out more as we bring Amy on the show!
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#406 Dr James Gregory: Small Fortunes
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Show Notes Today we are chatting with Dr James Gregory, retired business executive who now spend his time as a prolific author of novels as well as non-fiction. Let’s find out more as we bring Jim Gregory on the show! LINKS Check out Dr Gregorys website, right HERE. Please review all of Jim’s books at Amazon .
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#405 Larry Kesslin: Why Do Driven People End Up Unhappy?
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Show Notes Today we are chatting with Larry Kesslin, entrepreneur and philosopher of life. Larry writes this… “My life changed in 2012 during a trip to Africa. I went there to bring computers to rural villages in eastern and northern Uganda, but what I found was something much deeper. I met people who had very little in a material way, yet they were joyful, connected, and full of purpose. “Their way of living opened my eyes and made me rethink everything I believed about success and happiness. I wanted to understand one thing: Why are so many successful people unhappy?” Let’s...
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#404 Robin Harris- Time to Pivot?
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Show Notes Today my guest is Robin Harris, is a certified hypnotherapist, Ordained Minister, and Storyteller. But first of all she calls herself a HUMAN—and damned proud of it. And that is where I want to start our show today. LINKS You can visit Robin’s website .
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#403 Anne Karber-The Life Hack Playbook
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Show Notes Today my guest is Anne Karber is an entrepreneur, host of the Let’s Get Naked Podcast, and author of The Life Hack Playbook. Anne’s work centers on emotional intelligence, personal responsibility, and helping people get out of burnout and back into clarity and momentum. Anne, welcome to The Next Chapter with Charlie.
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#403 Anne Karber-The Life Hack Playbook
The Next Chapter with Charlie
Show Notes Today my guest is Anne Karber is an entrepreneur, host of the Let’s Get Naked Podcast, and author of The Life Hack Playbook. Anne’s work centers on emotional intelligence, personal responsibility, and helping people get out of burnout and back into clarity and momentum. Anne, welcome to The Next Chapter with Charlie.
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#402 Diane McDowell- Has Your Brain Been Hijacked?
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Show Notes Retrain your brain. Reclaim your emotional power. Rebuild real connection — without years of therapy or needing your partner to change. Today my guest is Diane McDowell, therapist-turned-coach and leading expert in emotional therapy. Please enjoy this fascinating conversation. LINKS Please check out Diane McDowell’s website .
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#401 Gregg Lunceford- Planning for Your "Third Age"
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Show Notes Today my guest is Gregg Lunceford, author, financial planner, and life-design consultant. I am quite interested to find out more about midlife lifestyle design and the lost season of “our third age” as we bring Gregg Lunceford on the show! LINKS Please check out Greg’s book, Exit from Work, .
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#400AshPerrow-Heart
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Show Notes #400 Ash Perrow: Working from the Heart Today with my guest Ash Perrow, I release my 400th podcast episode. When I began this project, I had no idea where this journey would lead — only that I felt called to speak, reflect, and explore what matters most. Very few podcasts ever reach 400 episodes. I read that fewer than 1% of all podcasts reach 400 episodes. The real milestone, however, isn’t the number of shows. It’s the conversations, the growth, and the community that has formed along the way. At this time, I especially want to thank you for listening and thinking with me....
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#399 Charlie-Consistency When No One is Watching
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#399 Charlie: When No One is Watching I believe that a well-lived life isn’t built in grand moments. It’s made in small, unseen choices. It’s about staying consistent when no one is watching. Obviously, there is no single path to a well-lived life, but there are qualities that seem to appear along the way. In my mind those are: Authenticity, curiosity, resilience, and spirituality. These four are not achievements—they’re practices, quietly chosen, over and over again. These qualities certainly don’t guarantee ease, but they do deepen presence. And over time, they shape a life that...
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On today’s podcast I plan to be perhaps be just a bit controversial by challenging one of our society’s prime objectives—personal growth. In truth, this may be a follow up to the show we did with my son on the tension between personal improvement and personal contentment.
My question, I guess, is this: does there ever come a time in life when you are done growing? Do you ever get to “arrive” and be done with this exhausting effort “to be the best you, you can be?”
I can put the blame on my thoughts on author Neil Gaimen who wrote this in his poem After Silence:
And somebody has to say that we
never need to grow forever. That
we, like the trees, can reach our full growth,
and mature, in wisdom and in time,
that we can be enough of us…
Who’ll whisper it:
We’re done. We grew. Enough.
Neil Gaimen struck on chord that has been ringing in my ears for some time now: that our obsession with “growth” comes from an almost unhealthy dissatisfaction with ourselves.
Why do I have to be the best Charlie I can be? Why can’t I be, just Charlie?
I heard an interview with B.B. King when he said to up and coming blues guitarists: “Quit trying to be the best one, just try to be a good one.”
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