C.C. Chapman

My parenting philosophy is pretty straight forward. Be an honest person and treat other people as you want to be treated. That is how I live my life and how I want my children too. But, I also believe that you should stand behind whatever you say. In today’s world where anyone can hide [...] Read more »Download MP3

Last week, a travel writer was kicked off a United Airlines flight for taking a photo of his seat. Beyond the dumb decision this was by the flight crew, it got me thinking about how there are still so many people who haven’t realized we live in an always on society. Each of us [...] Read more »Download MP3

I was in Detroit kicking off the book tour for Amazing Things Will Happen and found myself inspired to share some thoughts on the city. This is a city that I’m quickly falling in love with the energy and vibe of. While it may be kicked and down at the moment, there are so many [...] Read more »Download MP3

Politics are the last thing that usually inspire me to record a podcast, but today that is exactly what made me fire up the microphone and hit record. But, this isn’t a rant fueled political episode. Instead I wanted to encourage people to find the issues that they are passionate about and fight for [...] Read more »Download MP3

Friendships are some of the most important things in the world to me. This past week I had a few friends over to the house and it reminded me how important it is to have friends that will be honest, constructive and challenging all at the same time. After reading the latest from AJ [...] Read more »Download MP3

I love to travel. I love writing, taking photographs and shooting videos when I travel so that I can share my experiences with the world. Today on Managing the Gray, I want to talk about how important I believe that travel is to making you a well rounded person. I don’t think you have [...] Read more »Download MP3

I recently wrote about the importance of living a well rounded life and as soon as I hit publish I knew I had to share some more thoughts on it with you my dedicated podcast listeners. 2012 is drawing to a close and we each can help ourselves by experiencing new things. What are [...] Read more »Download MP3

I realized that I had never talked about my new book Amazing Things Will Happen on the podcast so I figured it was about time I shared with you all what it was about. I’d greatly appreciate if you ordered a copy and it makes a great gift. You can find it at your [...] Read more »Download MP3

I’ve recently announced the formation of The Cleon Foundation because I want to do everything I can to help make the world a better place and that is the focus of today’s podcast. Far too many people find success and keep it for themselves. I firmly believe that is our duty to give back [...] Read more »Download MP3

Today we are excited to announce that Managing the Gray has officially join Kopoint. Dan Patterson started KoPoint to be the media network that we always hoped for and I’m excited to see a lot of fellow old school podcasters becoming involved as well. Big things are coming, but I couldn’t wait to get [...] Read more »Download MP3

At the moment I’m giving a lot of thought to taking on a big new challenge in my life. I’ve been noodling over it for a few days and I know it is a good one because it fills me with fear and excitement. Those are the ones that you have to think about [...] Read more »Download MP3

This will be the final Managing the Gray of 2011 and I wanted to take a look back at the year and give you an update on a couple of things happening in my world. Plus, I wanted to share an announcement with just you, my loyal listeners of the podcast. No matter what [...] Read more »Download MP3

I woke up this morning and realized that it was the first Monday in the last month of 2011. That means you’ve only got a few weeks to get everything completed that you wanted to this year and it is time you start planning for what to kick ass on in 2012. I laid out [...] Read more »Download MP3

As we approach the end of the year, I know that a lot of people will start getting into a bit of a funk. The holidays mixed with not reaching all the goals we set forth at the beginning of year make this a pretty common thing and I wanted to put this out there [...] Read more »Download MP3

The road has kept me busy, but when you I see a constant trend in the world that I don’t like I’ve got to call it out. Today’s Managing the Gray is a bit more of a rant then I try to record around these parts, but I had to get it out there and [...] Read more »Download MP3