Stories from the Center of the Universe
A Podcast about the Human Experience
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 74 minutes
- Episodes
- 344
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 304 (SB5): Woody Hogg
Local real estate legend Woody Hogg joins Paul on the podcast. Woody and Paul talked about his many business ventures in banking, insurance, real estate and jobs he had when he was getting started su…
Mon 28 Oct 2024
Episode 303: Top 10 episodes from episodes 251-300.
In this next installment of the “Look Back” episodes, Paul, Rob and Brent take a look at Episodes 251-300. They each pick their Top 10 and a fun time was had by all!
Mon 21 Oct 2024
Episode 302: James Hagler
James Hagler joins Paul and the first subject they covered was to talk about his relationship with his dad, Marvelous Marvin Hagler. They discussed James growing up with his dad, their differences in…
Mon 14 Oct 2024
Episode 301: Paidemoyo Charasika
Paidemoyo Charasika joins Paul courtesy of a connection with Chris Gaskell (Episode 262) as they played football together at Wake Forest. Pai was born in Nashville, but grew up in Louisville. Educati…
Mon 07 Oct 2024
Episode 300: Brent Scopel
Brent Scopel joins the podcast and is the guest for Episode 300! Brent has listened to almost every episode and he brought Paul some “brown water” to celebrate this momentous occasion. Brent grew up …
Mon 30 Sep 2024
Episode 299: Dwight Vick
Dwight Vick joined Paul on Episode 122 and is back with Paul and Kevin for a combination episode with the Virginia is for Sports Podcast. Dwight filled in Paul and Kevin on what’s been going on with …
Mon 23 Sep 2024
Episode 298: Ken Wakefield
In a unique episode, Ken Wakefield joins the podcast which is doubling with the Virginia is for Sports Podcast as well. Kevin Flippen joins Paul to talk to Ken about a myriad of subjects. Ken is from…
Mon 16 Sep 2024
Episode 297 (SB4): Leah Coleman & Real Estate
Leah is a realtor, a resident of Richmond, a force of nature and an absolute pleasure.
Mon 09 Sep 2024
Episode 296: Eric Ash
Eric Ash grew up in Virginia Beach, moved to Mechanicsville when he was 11 and he told Paul it was a change going from city life to a more rural setting. He said he has positive memories of growing u…
Mon 02 Sep 2024
Episode 295: Manny Fernandez
Manny Fernandez grew up in Topping, Virginia in Middlesex County on a thirty acre farm with a nurturing mom and a Dad that he described as tough. He is very thankful for that combination which has he…
Mon 26 Aug 2024
Episode 294 (SB3): John Finn & United Real Estate
John Finn joins Paul on the podcast to discuss growing up in Richmond, sports memorabilia and his family lineage to name a few. John grew up in different parts of Richmond and he and Paul discussed g…
Mon 19 Aug 2024
Episode 293 (SB2): Joan Dorsey and Richmond Association of Realtors
Joan Dorsey is a managing broker at Long & Foster Real Estate. She is also currently serving as the President of the Richmond Association of Realtors (RAR). Before becoming a managing broker, she fou…
Mon 12 Aug 2024
Episode 292: Spring Break Memories with Mel and Ebeth
We recorded this one during Spring Break 2023. So why are we releasing this now? I wanted this to be a fun set of recorded memories just available for 2 families. The Gilmans and Colemans are on vaca…
Tue 06 Aug 2024
Episode 291: Kiara Robinson
Kiara Robinson and Paul met in a unique way and discovered they had both been in the military. Kiara was active duty in the United States Marine Corps for five and a half years and had many different…
Mon 05 Aug 2024
Episode 290: Weldon Bradshaw
Weldon Bradshaw has been a coach, a teacher and a writer. He is still writing and his knowledge of Richmond, Virginia high school sports is unparalleled. Weldon taught and coached at the The Collegia…
Mon 29 Jul 2024
Episode 289: Chris Gorres
Paul asked Chris Gorres what he says when people ask him what he does for a living. He told Paul he is a Coach. We’ll come back to that. Chris moved to the United States from the Philippines when he …
Mon 22 Jul 2024
Episode 288 (SB1): Laura Redding and Perfect Spaces Home Staging & More
Laura Redding joins the podcast as our first guest of an enduring series dedicated to telling the stories of entrepreneurs and their small businesses. Laura is the founder of Perfect Spaces Home Stag…
Thu 18 Jul 2024
Episode 287: Rich Brent
Rich Brent is the Executive Director of The Big House Museum in Macon, Georgia. The Big House Museum is dedicated to the lives and memories of the Allman Brothers Band. Stu Brown (Episode 257) connec…
Mon 15 Jul 2024
Episode 286: Stewart Verdery
Stewart Verdery joins Paul via a connection with John Hollis (Episodes 277 & 282). His family moved to the Richmond area when he was five and settled in Hanover on a fourteen acre farm that had had a…
Mon 08 Jul 2024
Episode 285: Ray Hedrick
Paul told Ray Hedrick that he completed the trifecta for him. Ray, as the Head Baseball Coach at Randolph Macon College, now joins Pedro Arruza (Episode 99) and Josh Merkel (Episode 154) of being on …
Mon 01 Jul 2024
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