The Next Chapter with Charlie

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know I frequently say, “This show is especially good,” but you know what? This show IS especially good!

Caitlin Cogan Doemner continues to impress me with wit and wisdom. Today, she brings a whole new dimension to the show: Adventure. Like real Adventure! Caitlin is 6 weeks into a 2½ year journey around the world with her husband, Michael, and 3 children—Cora, Jackson, and Bradley 9, 7, and 5. They plan on visiting all 7 continents and 62 countries.

Caitlin informs us of her strategies, rationale, and books she is writing along the way. A brilliant opportunist, Caitlin also enlightens us on why being an active Opportunist is preferable to being a thinking Optimist.

This show is a worthy of your time! Please enjoy.

You can follow Caitlin’s adventures on Facebook. Just search Caitlin Cogan Doemner.

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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 .

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Boy, are we in for a treat today! I am not overstating it when I say that my guest today, health and wellness coach Courtney Marchesani, is not only brilliant and provocative, but she also offers practical wisdom that impacts all our lives.

Courtney is the author of a most stimulating book titled Four Gifts of the Highly Sensitive. Her insights into sensitivity will help you identify your gifts of intuition, empathy, vision, and expression. Her keen ideas will most certainly help you maximize your potential. Learning about sensitivity’s silent effects will impact your mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

Although in our culture the idea of sensitivity typically comes with all sorts of negative baggage, in this show Courtney and I explore how being a gifted “sensitive” brings a whole new perspective.

With that, let’s bring on my new friend, Courtney Marchesani.

Click here for access go to Courtney’s Free Sensitivity Test

For Courtney’s book go to Four Gifts of the Highly Sensitive

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Today is a huge milestone for The Next Chapter with Charlie. This show is in celebration of our 200th episode and more than 4 years of podcasting!

To begin with I wish to thank all of you for your untiring support and feedback. This show has been, for me, a delightful adventure of exploration into the fascinating experiences and life’s lessons from authors, thinkers, and people with unique and informed thoughts.

In this show Paul interviews me and gets me to reveal some very personal stories of my diverse past, life learnings, and thoughts of my direction in life. We talk about hitchhiking across the country in 1970 and then we move forward to the exciting future in store for the Next Chapter.

I hope that you enjoy this candid interview as much as I enjoyed participating in it.

For information on Charlie visit www.thenextchapter.life

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Hi All. Charlie Hedges here. Today’s show is sort of a potpourri of life learnings with Christina Dylag. Christina is the author of a new book, Tiny Little Boxes, which is a very delightful journey into the thoughts of a brilliant young woman.

The subtitle of Tiny Little Boxes reveals a bit of Christina’s unique and provocative thinking. It reads: “How to Cope with Existential Dread by Way of Ice Cream and Other Things.”

In this episode Christina and I chat about the Velveteen Rabbit, a very unique cocktail lounge she and her sister started in Las Vegas, Nevada. But mostly we engage in a discussion on her witty and friendly philosophical ponderings about life, the universe and everything (to quote Douglas Adams).

This is such a fun show. Be prepared to chuckle and to think about life through the fresh eyes Christina Dylag.

For more on Christian Dylag please go to www.nihilisticecream.com

Check out Christina’s delightful book : Tiny Little Boxes

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Today we are reaching back to a guest we had on the show about one year ago, my son Austin Hedges. Austin is a professional baseball catcher for the Cleveland Indians. After nearly a decade of playing since graduating high school for the San Diego Padres, he was traded in late August to the Cleveland Indians.

What I hope to chat about today has to do with both the inner emotional roller coaster ride, of ups and downs, family life, professional life and the place of dreams in the most competitive of environments.

This show will be a “behind the scene” view of what it is like to be both hero as well as unappreciated. Fans are fickle and they frequently feel the right to express their opinions: many positive and some not so positive.

In addition I want to get into “life during the season” and “life during the off-season.”

For more with Charlie Hedges please visit www.thenextchapter.life

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My guest today is author Richard (Rick) Stone, an expert in the power of story. His book Story Intelligence challenges the fact-based portrayals that we commonly use to describe ourselves and our companies. Instead Rick is a convincing advocate of the use of “story” as opposed to facts.

Rick suggests that we are, in truth, a composite of the stories or narratives we tell ourselves about ourselves. YOUR Story matters. In fact, Rick Stone has convinced me of the life-altering power of personal narratives.

Rick has impacted me personally in a huge way.

Join me as Rick reminds us of a long-ignored discipline of knowing, owning, and paying attention to your own story.

For more on Story Intelligence you can visit Rick’s website at https://storyintelligence.com/

Check out his book, Story Intelligence.

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As Covid 19 restrictions begin to shrink (at least in California in June of 2021), let’s prepare ourselves for an onslaught of “Post Covid Therapies.” Well, today’s conversation with Personal Business and Life Coach, Kamin Samuel, jumps right into the heart of that conversation.

Our topic for the day is “Reinventing Your Life Post Covid.”

Kamin and I will discuss the idea that “reinventing your life” is more about reprioritizing than it is about major changes. Of the many insights Kamin brings to us, we discuss three excellent questions that Kamin posed to me concerning what I may have learned about my work and my life during Covid: (1) Did I love my work? (2) Was it meaningful? And (3) Did I begin to feel that I am built for something more in alignment with my talents and desires, not to mention in alignment with my soul.

Once again, Kamin is brilliant and sets us off to a great start at Reinventing Ourselves Post Covid.

For more information about Kamin go to www.KaminSamuel.com

You can contact Kamin with questions at [email protected]

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We also discussed Free Wealth Resources information at www.WealthFlightSchool.com

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My guest today, Dr. Neil Farber, presents a powerful case for the miracle of Serendipity and the Art of Paying Attention. As Neil Farber and I chat, it becomes apparent that many of our most important decisions in life are the result of unexpected and surprising events that seem to occur out of nowhere.

A man with fabulous stories about life’s serendipitous events, Dr. Farber convinced me that my life personally has been more determined by serendipity than it has by conscious planning. Now that was a surprise.

Neil Farber’s book, Serendipity: Utilizing Everyday Unexpected Events to Improve Your Life and Career, offers a most helpful review of serendipity and important tools for identifying when such events happen in your life.

Connect with Dr Neil Farber at https://neiljfarber.com

Please check out his book Serendipity: Utilizing Everyday Unexpected Events to Improve Your Life and Career

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I feel like today’s show is one of our very best. Vicki Znavor and her book Authenticity ReAwakened provide enormously valuable insight into how to live a meaningful and purposeful life.

As you will see in our discussion, Vicki and her book offer not only excellent content but also very fascinating and intriguing personal discovery exercises.

After hearing Vicki Znavor you will be absolutely clear about the value of personal authenticity and why it is so essential to (1) know who you really are, (2) to know what really matters to you, and (3) to know how to bring that self into the world.

Vicki offers brilliant suggestions for living a brilliant life.

For more on Vicki visit www.vickiznavor.com

Be sure to check out Vicki’s engaging book Authenticity ReAwakened.

For more on Charlie go to www.thenextchapter.life