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For the last 20 years, among other things, I was an Executive Coach to CEO’s of larger corporations. Now I am moving on to MY Next Chapter. I invite you to join me in my journey. It makes no difference if you are retiring or making any significant change to your life. We are all on the same journey. So tune in and tag along. We will talk about “what you can do next.” It might deal with transition, desire, curiosity, loss, or anything else that has to do with our Next Chapter in Life.
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Midlife isn’t the end of meaningful life, just the end of the first half rehearsal. Listen, laugh and be inspired as Rachel Lankester, author, mentor and founder of Magnificent Midlife, interviews women in midlife and beyond living authentic, empowered lives, not disappearing into obscurity. From round the world yachtswomen to 60 year old pole dancers, from palliative care doctors to sustainable food evangelists, this podcast explores the myriad things older women get up to and the issues we ...
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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 …
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169 Getting creative about dementia with Shelle Luscombe
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Shelle Luscombe is an entertainer, a singer, a presenter, a voiceover artist. She turned 50 in 2021 and she set out to have 50 memorable experiences. She also wanted to raise money for a cause very close to her heart, having two copies of the Alzheimer's risk gene and having lost both parents to dementia. Three years on, she's raised over £12,000 p…
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#324 Randy Adkins Jr: Uncover Your Purpose
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Show Notes Our guest today, Randy Adkins Jr, creatively weaves his experiences as a corporate consultant, ordained minister, and community leader into a tapestry that inspires people to integrate spiritual principles and everyday life. Such is the theme of the Next Chapter with Charlie: the integration of spirituality and everyday life. So it seems…
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Ellie Gould: #323 Rewiring Limited Real Estate in the Brain
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Show Notes Today we a once again doing a show with one of my very favorite friends, very sought-after high-performance coach, with a new discipline—as a neuroplastician. Which will obviously be the prominent focus on the podcast today. As to Ellie’s credits… they would take half the show to list them. Still… Ellie’s bestselling book, Feeling Forwar…
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Pat Wetzel: #322 Intuition-Knowing Without Knowing Why
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Show Notes Our guest today, Pat Wetzel, is a blogger, soaring pilot, and award-winning author of a book titled Bump in the Road. And, oh by the way, Pat also holds a degree from the Wharton Business School in Finance. It was almost 2 years ago that Pat and I did on show on “soaring,” which means flying an airplane (solo) with no engine or in other …
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#321 John Lawyer: From Counterintelligence to Spiritual Intelligence
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Show Notes Our guest on today’s show is a 15-year counter-intelligence expert with a large portion of his experience in Afghanistan for ten years and also served in Kuwait, Iran, and Iraq. Yikes! I can’t wait for our conversation on this subject, But John’s passion is no longer counterintelligence but rather spiritual intelligence. From 12 years de…
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168 DNA surprises, identity, healing and growth with Maria Leonard Olsen
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This is such a fascinating podcast! Maria Leonard Olsen is a lawyer, an author, a TEDx speaker, and a mentor to women in recovery. She wrote 50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life and is host of the Becoming Your Best Version podcast. She’s had a very full and fascinating life – so far. She has so many enthralling stories to share. We…
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Show Notes I’ve been reading… books and essays (or blogs). I recently read two articles that seemed to spawn sort of delightful potpourri of thought and conjecture. One was an article on author Henry Miller by Maria Popova and the other came from recent Terry Hershey Sabbath Moment posts. These are the kinds of ideas that, for me, demand discussion…
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#319 Taryn Voget: “In Person” Value or “Sound-Bite” Hype
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Show Notes Hey Paul. Did you know that our guest today, Taryn Voget, is responsible for birthing our podcast, The Next Chapter with Charlie. This show was all Taryn’s idea. After she and I had lunch at a client’s cafeteria, she said something like, “Charlie, you ask such good questions, you should do a podcast.” That was 7 years ago, and today we a…
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Dena Crowder: Identity is a Story We Tell Ourselves
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Show Notes #318 My conversation today is with my dear friend and one-time personal coach, Dena Crowder. Dena makes the list of one of my “all-time favorite” people. Brilliant, wise, compelling, and… so much fun! Today we talk about the essentials of Dena’s upcoming book about Personal Identity. Dena writes. “Our identity is a story we tell ourselve…
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Sue Mbaya is the founder and director of Menopause Solutions Africa and host of the Pause for Menopause podcast. She’s leading menopause awareness in Africa and seeking to normalize the change while empowering women. She has over 20 years of policy advocacy, advisory and development experience at national, regional and global levels with a focus on…
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#317 Michaela Renee Johnson: Everything You Need to Know About Life!
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Show Notes PLEASE NOTE: This show just might be my very, very favorite podcast! ***** Our guest today, Michaela Renee Johnson, writes this of herself. I couldn’t say it any better… Michaela says… I believe the key to living a happy life, is learning how to speak your truth with grace & live a courageous life of authenticity. This requires checking …
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Show Notes Our guest today, Nico Morales, believes that goals are indeed important. However, if you begin your actions with ideas about how to reach the destination (or the goal) you just might be missing the real starting point. Nico Morales is here with us to talk about the real Starting Point: Your Habits! Success comes only from habits that lea…
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#315 Joseph Drolshagen: You ARE the Vision of Yourself
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Show Notes In today’s show, we walk along a journey of success and travail, for the two are inextricably tied together. Joseph Drolshagen shares a convincing argument of the value of difficulty and how to use that difficulty for shaping the life you really want. The two questions Joseph asks every client are: (1) Where are you now” And, (2) Where d…
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166 Writing about Jewish culture with Lynne Golodner
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Lynne Golodner is a novelist writing about strong Jewish women and Jewish culture. She shares her background and journey as a writer, her focus on writing about Orthodox Jewish life, and the challenges and research involved. Lynne recently set up her own independent publishing house for women over 40 with strong voices that need to be heard. Her fi…
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#314 Lata Hamilton: Change is Only Just Beginning
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Show Notes Our guest today, Lata Hamilton, is an inspiring Change Leadership and Confidence Expert, and the creator of “the Leading Successful Change Program” for Businesses, largely in Australia, although she has several international clients as well. In conversation with Lata, I came to realize that changes in business can only occur when individ…
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#313 Wendy Hooper Ross: The Housing Struggle and You
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Show Notes Living in the Orange County Bubble, many of us are unfamiliar with the personal and economic struggles that many (if not most) Americans face on a daily basis. In my personal bubble I read that the market is great, but gas prices are up, and with those words I seem to feel that I have a grasp on our everyday economic state of affairs. Hu…
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#312 Tom Yankle: Treating Life as a Business
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Show Notes At the age of 74, I am what’s called an early Baby Boomer. Maybe because of that, I am fascinated by the thoughts and motivations of younger generations like the Millennials and Gen Zs. Although in our generation gaps, we have many common habits and values. Still, there are also significant differences, especially when it comes to “how t…
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#311 Terry Hershey: Loitering in the Moment
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Show Notes It was probably couple of years ago that my good friend Terry Hershey brought up an idea that continues to leave me in a state of Wonder. He talked about Loitering in the Moment. In fact, just a few weeks ago I wrote a blog on the subject and when I was chatting with Terry about doing a new podcast he suggested that be our topic. So here…
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#310 Lindsay Davis: Reimagining Your Future
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Show Notes Our guest today is truly one of my very favorite people in the world, Lindsay Davis. And you know what?... we have never met… except in dozens of hours of very deep telephone conversations. As many of you already know, Lindsay is a delight—and a brilliant one. Professionally, Lindsay Davis is a highly sought-after Creative Business and P…
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A midlife update from Rachel on what’s been happening lately and what’s coming up for her as we move towards summer. She talks about: - Cherishing loved ones and coping with grief - Recent podcast episodes Being a veteran Black menopause and staying curious Staying strong and healing Embodied experience of postmenopause Discovering the joy of volun…
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#309 Caitlin Cogan Doemner: When Authenticity is a Moving Target
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Show Notes Today we have yet another favorite guest, Caitlin Cogan Doemner. After studying at Oxford University and then receiving an MBA from Biola University, Caitlin co-founded and launched her sales management company in March 2013. In less than three years, they had earned their first million dollars. Since then, Caitlin has traveled the world…
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164 The power of herbs for menopause with Hannah Charman
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Hannah Charman has been a medical herbalist since 1999, having first become interested in alternative medicine when she used it to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome in her early teens. She specialises now in helping women who prefer or need a natural route through menopause, combining herbal medicine with health coaching. We talk about: - What …
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#308 Marshall Jenkins: Discovering Love Once Again
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Show Notes Our guest today is psychologist and spiritual director Dr Marshall Jenkins. Marshall and I have been chatting off and on for a couple of months now. I found a blog post of his online and fell in love with his thoughts and approach to living a successful life in the terms of the realm of love. In fact, Marshall says that love can only be …
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163 Finding what works at midlife with Dr Maria Luque
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Dr. Maria Luque is a menopause fitness expert, a health science professor, and an Air Force veteran. She’s passionate about helping menopausal women become healthier, stronger, and happier. Her PhD dissertation was all about enhancing quality of life in menopause. We talk about: - What quality of life in menopause means to Maria - Maria’s research …
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#307 Keith Page: Being Present with Death
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Show Notes I feel like this podcast may be one of the most important shows we have ever done. Our guest is Crisis Guide, Keith Page. As you will soon discover, Keith talks about stuff that no one “wants’ to talk about, but everyone “needs” to talk about, especially in times of crisis and loss. Keith Page is a Builder. He makes stuff happen… Keith b…
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162 Discovering the joy of volunteering with Ann Marie Jackson
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Ann Marie Jackson is the co-founder of microlending organization Mano Amiga and works with Casita Linda, which builds homes for families living in poverty in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She’s lived as an expat in Mexico for a decade, is a columnist for Mexico Daily News and recently wrote a novel inspired by her life called the Broken Hummingbir…
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#306 Courtney Marchesani: Empathetic Gifts
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Show Notes #306 Courtney Marchesani Today’s guest, Courtney Marchesani, is one of my very favorites. I think she has been on the show four times over the past six years! Courtney is the author of the popular book Four Gifts of the Highly Sensitive. Her insights into sensitivity help readers identify their gifts of intuition, empathy, vision, and ex…
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161 The embodied experience of postmenopause with Stella Duffy
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Stella Duffy is an award-winning writer of 17 novels, over 70 short stories and 15 plays who’s also worked in theatre for 35 years as an actor, director and facilitator. She’s a psychotherapist and a yoga teacher. She recently completed her doctorate in existential psychotherapy and her research was in the embodied experience of post-menopause. She…
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#305 Steve Garnaas-Holmes: Renewing Our Language About God
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Show Notes After a three-month break from doing podcasts, we’re back. I am very much looking forward to our new season. You know, I needed a time of intentional pondering about what I might like to do in my final chapter of what I call “a life richly lived.” This year, in September, I turn 75. Three quarters of a century. Enough time to live a life…
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