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Empty Nest Guests

Welcome to your encore years! They can be your best years yet. Join Charlotte and listen and learn from encouraging guests who are helping others navigate the empty nest phase of life. Charlotte interviews guests (best-selling authors, speakers and leaders) who are blessing people mentally, physically & spiritually Charlotte’s mission and hope, through this podcast and her life, is to encourage others that they have great purpose here and now. Click here https://charlotteguest.com/about/ for more about Charlotte and to reach her regarding this podcast. PRODUCED By: LA PRODUCTIONS

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50. Longing for More? with Kelly Needham 44:55 March 5, 2024 Play in Edifi Player

50. Longing for More? with Kelly Needham

Longing for More? With Kelly Needham, author, and podcaster What if the more we crave is _not_ something we achieve but is something we receive? Are you longing for more? Do you ponder your purpose? Listen in as Charlotte talks with author Kelly Needham about how we need to not be purpose _fooled_. We hear that we were made for more. Yet our modern understanding of what it means to live a meaningful life can feel like a burden, not a dream. Kelly Needham explains the problem …
49. A Look at Loneliness With Sydney Black MS, LPC 47:27 February 28, 2024 Play in Edifi Player

49. A Look at Loneliness With Sydney Black MS, LPC

A Look at Loneliness With Sydney Black MS, LPC Have you ever been lonely? I have. It surprised me. Yet, I learned a lot from being lonely. Listen in if you are lonely, have ever been lonely or know someone who is. Jesus experienced the feeling of loneliness too. He knows just how to help. In this episode, we talk about loneliness and: * Isolation and the types of loneliness * Not wanting to burden others * How we can listen to untrue voices in our head * What it’s like …
48. Eight Habits of the Heart and Empty Nesting with Clifton Taulbert 43:20 January 30, 2024 Play in Edifi Player

48. Eight Habits of the Heart and Empty Nesting with Clifton Taulbert

Pulitzer Prize nominee and acclaimed author and speaker, Clifton Taulbert, joins Charlotte as they discuss his book: Eight Habits of the Heart. Born in the Mississippi Delta, Clifton reaped rewards for his observances of the strong family bonds that seemed to spring from the rich soil of the region. His book, Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored was released in 1996 as a major motion picture, starring Phylicia Rashad. Taulbert has written several books, all of which can be …
47. Let’s Be a Blessing This Holiday Season 11:21 December 13, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

47. Let’s Be a Blessing This Holiday Season

Family & friends, as we celebrate the holidays let’s be a gift to others. Let’s be peace and offer hope. Let’s let cars in during traffic and be kind to cashiers. Little things are big things. Let’s be a safe place for people. Let’s reconcile and reconnect. May we remember the Reason for the season and prepare our hearts for the coming year. Thanks for tuning in. You are a blessing in my life.
46. Aging Faithfully with Alice Fryling 45:02 November 8, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

46. Aging Faithfully with Alice Fryling

Aging Faithfully with Alice Fryling Would you like to grow even as you age? Even in the empty nest you can have the courage to receive God’s love in new ways. Join Charlotte and best-selling author and spiritual director, Alice Fryling as they discuss aging faithfully. Aging is a holy invitation to growing older. We still have undiscovered country to experience in our later years. If we listen to God’s voice in this vulnerable time, God will renew us from within. Friends, …
45. Are We Really Friends? - Rev. Dr. Patricia McLeod 49:59 October 16, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

45. Are We Really Friends? - Rev. Dr. Patricia McLeod

Are We Really Friends? The Road to Godly Friendships With Rev. Dr. Patricia McLeod Empty Nesters, most of the time, our friendships are a blessing. Sometimes, though, they are hard. Listen in as Charlotte and the Rev. Dr. Patricia McLeod talk about friendships. God has a wonderful design for friendships. Satan does his best to destroy them. This conversation covers these truths as well as: * How do we place false expectations on friends and have unrealistic presuppositions? * …
44. What Are Adult Kids are Looking for From Fathers? with Grant and Connor (My Son & Son-in-Law) 24:11 October 9, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

44. What Are Adult Kids are Looking for From Fathers? with Grant and Connor (My Son & Son-in-Law)

Listen in as my son and son-in-law share what they desire to receive for from their fathers. At the time of this recording, my son is 27 and my son-in-law is 30. Both are new fathers. I asked them to reflect about what fatherhood means to them. They share from the heart about what their fathers taught them. They offer what they want to teach their kids and how they are leaning into the Heavenly Father to help them in their journey as a father. Big thanks, Grant and Connor, for …
43. Empty Nesting and Fatherhood (Jim Burns & Gordy Guest) 51:03 October 2, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

43. Empty Nesting and Fatherhood (Jim Burns & Gordy Guest)

**Empty Nesting and Fatherhood** Especially for fathers, this podcast is for you. Now that your children have grown and flown, are you wondering “What’s next regarding my role as a father? Good news! Your role as a father isn’t over, it’s evolving. Join Charlotte, her husband Gordy, and Jim Burns from HomeWord as their meaningful conversation explores the answers to these common questions: * It feels like my “job” as a father and raising them is over now that they are out of …
Episode #42 - Parents of Estranged Adult Children (Aimee Palmer) 38:45 July 24, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

Episode #42 - Parents of Estranged Adult Children (Aimee Palmer)

Episode #42 Parents of Estranged Adult Children With Aimee Palmer Estranged from her daughter, on and off for five years, Aimee Palmer has walked a long, confusing, hard, and hurtful road. So have countless other parents whose children have walked away from a relationship with them. All too often, a rejected parent or parents often don't know what they did wrong to warrant this type of treatment. Many times, that same child has walked away from faith, everyone in the family and …
Episode #41 - (Guest: Laurie Beth Jones) 41:51 May 22, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

Episode #41 - (Guest: Laurie Beth Jones)

Episode #41 (Guest: Laurie Beth Jones) How Do We Stay on His Path & Hear His Voice? Join International best-selling author, speaker, coach and trainer, Laurie Beth Jones, and Charlotte on this episode. They discuss how to be mission-minded and hear God’s voice on the path the Lord has for each of us. Full of wisdom, insight and experience, Laurie Beth shares about the importance of having a personal mission statement. She reminds us that sometimes our world is noisy, making it …
Episode #39 How To Handle Mother-Daughter Relationship Struggles (Dr. Helen McIntosh & Blythe Daniel) 53:36 April 13, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

Episode #39 How To Handle Mother-Daughter Relationship Struggles (Dr. Helen McIntosh & Blythe Daniel)

As we get closer to Mother’s Day, this podcast is super insightful. Tune in to hear: Are You Struggling with A Difficult Mother-Daughter Relationship? Join Charlotte as she visits with Dr. Helen McIntosh and Daughter Blythe Daniel, authors of Mended – Restoring the Hearts of Mothers and Daughters. (This wonderful book is endorsed by Lysa TerKeust, Stasi Eldredge and other best-selling authors.) Relationships between mothers and daughters can be messy and hurtful. In their book, …
Episode #38 Loss, Grief and Living Your Gospel 19:26 February 17, 2023 Play in Edifi Player

Episode #38 Loss, Grief and Living Your Gospel

**Episode #38** **Loss, Grief and Living Your Gospel** Losing my cousin Michael has left such a void in my life and in that of our family. Michael was a blessing and his life was a bright light in this world. In this short episode, I share some thoughts about loss, grief and how that affects our lives. Hopefully, with every loss we experience, we are reminded that our lives matter and how we live does too. Thankfully, I served at a hospice facility with my therapy dog, Fitz shortly …
Episode #37 Mothers, Adult Sons & Empty Nesting (Guest: George Stahnke from Focus on the Family) 45:00 November 10, 2022 Play in Edifi Player

Episode #37 Mothers, Adult Sons & Empty Nesting (Guest: George Stahnke from Focus on the Family)

Episode #37 Mothers, Adult Sons & Empty Nesting (Guest: George Stahnke from Focus on the Family) As a son grows into a young man, he needs his mother’s love and, now, more than ever, her respect. This respect needs to be unconditional. We need to understand our son’s: * masculine drives. * their desire to achieve, provide and protect. * and his need for friendship with us. Listen in as Charlotte and George Stahnke from Focus on the Family discuss some key points from Dr. Emerson …
Episode #36 (Guest: Health and Wellness Coach - Jana Love) 34:40 November 9, 2022 Play in Edifi Player

Episode #36 (Guest: Health and Wellness Coach - Jana Love)

Personal trainer and health coach, Jana Love offers inspiration and insight regarding our health and wellness during the empty nest years. Charlotte & Jana discuss what is unique about self-care during this phase of life. More about Jana: \- Certified Whole Food Plant-Based Health Coach \- Married to husband Rich for 30 years \- Mom to two adult sons \- BSF Leader for 5 years \- Youth Mentor \- Women’s Ministry Deacon \- Jana Love, M.S. Exercise Physiologist \- Certified Personal …