Saying Goodbye….

About this video

A personal memorial, not a tech tutorial. Chuck says goodbye to Moses, the pug featured in his channel branding as ‘Bernard Hack,’ who he had to put down a few weeks earlier after 15 years. He recounts getting Moses in Galveston in 2009 on the way back from his honeymoon cruise, and that the dog was present for the birth of his six children, every birthday and holiday, and the launch of NetworkChuck. Grieving the empty spot in the kitchen made him abruptly leave with his family on a road trip back to Galveston — via Waco, Austin, Fredericksburg, San Antonio, and other Texas stops — without telling his team. On the drive he concludes the loss hit so hard because Moses symbolized the whole building season of his marriage and career, and that closing that season exposed drift: after early attempts to live nomadically, including an RV plan and three months living nomadically from Paris that ended homesick, COVID led to roots, a house, hiring, and working more than ever, trading away the freedom he had wanted. A sponsored Twingate segment describes staying connected to his studio and building an emergency Raspberry Pi 5 sync setup on the road. His stated lesson is to stop, step away, and reflect on whether you are steering your life or being drifted by circumstances, because time is non-renewable and where you spend it shows what matters. He reports deciding to be more intentional with family time and travel, and the family adopted a new pug, Mochi, on the way home.

Key takeaways

• Periodically stop and reflect: ask whether your life is going the direction you want or drifting under other people’s and circumstances’ steering
• Where you spend your time reveals what is actually most important to you — time is presented as the only truly non-renewable resource
• Chuck’s self-diagnosis was working too much after building his business, despite loving the work and his team
• The family’s long-standing mantra is ’let’s just go’ — they use travel and stepping away to reset and course-correct
• Moses represented 15 years of family and career building, which is why Chuck frames the loss as closing a season, not just losing a pet

Episode details: published April 18, 2025 · 18:50 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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