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Love Is The Author
Love is the Author is a heart-centered podcast that explores the power of love, human connection, and authenticity in shaping our lives. Hosted by Jaymee Carpenter, a seasoned mental health professional and spiritual mentor, this podcast invites listeners on a journey of self-discovery and personal transformation, interviewing a wide range of multidisciplinary artists and spiritual teachers from around the world.
Episodes
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 173 - Pink Thrift
In this spontaneous, on-location episode, Jaymee grabs his recording gear and follows a familiar kind of Ojai magic into Pink Thrift—a funky little shop where…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 172 - Nicole & Garrett McNamara
Garrett McNamara is a world-record-breaking big-wave surf legend, and Nicole McNamara is an environmental educator, strategist, and his core safety and support…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 171 - Damien Echols: Crazy Wisdom, God vs. Buddhism, The Power Of Relationship for the Prison of Your Mind
Former death row inmate and best selling author Damien Echols returns for his third conversation with Jaymee on the podcast in 3 months. Together they…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 170 - STREET MONK AT 50
As Jaymee's 50th birthday approaches, the Street Monk himself reflects in a solo episode on his incredible life journey: from homelessness and addiction to…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 169 - David Nichtern
David Nichtern is a longtime Buddhist teacher, founder of Dharma Moon, author, musician and Emmy-winning composer whose life has unfolded at the peculiar…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 168 - Pema Lotus (Shamelle Gonzalez)
Shamelle Gonzalez is a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, translator, editor, retreatant, and the human being behind Jaymee’s favorite Instagram account…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 167 - Mystical/Cynical: STILL DEAD
Mystical/Cynical is a podcast formerly hosted by artist Daren Thomas Magee aka Real Fun, Wow! and Jaymee that boasts three seasons and 100 episodes. It's been…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 166 - KOANHEADS
KOANHEADS is a Buddhist-based conversation between former death row inmate and best selling author Damien Echols, certified mindfulness teacher Chris Carmena…
Love Is The AuthorHealing Sexual Abuse (feat. Jaymee's Mother Victoria)
In one of the most intimate conversations ever shared on Love Is The Author, Jaymee sits down his mother Victoria Roberts for a conversation about how she…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 164 - Dan Richter: Making Imagine
John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s close friend, assistant and artistic collaborator Dan Richter takes us even deeper behind the doors of rock-and-roll history in part…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 163 - Dan Richter
This episode features Jaymee’s conversation with artist Dan Richter—immortalized as Moonwatcher in Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic masterpiece 2001: A Space…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 162 - Lama Lhanang Rinpoche
Jaymee's spiritual teacher Lama Lhanang Rinpoche returns to the podcast for his 6th recorded conversation on LITA. Lama Lhanang is a Vajrayana Buddhist teacher…
Love Is The AuthorYAWN+LOKO: Just Like Starting Over
Jaymee and Lacee share how they turned their recent miscarriage into a method for spiritual awakening, how they've tended to their grief while practicing…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 160 - Keith Slettedahl
Keith Slettedahl is an American songwriter/musician and lead singer of the pop rock band The 88 who perform the opening theme to the Emmy Award winning sitcom…
Love Is The AuthorYAWN+LOKO: Give Birth A Chance
Yawn & Loko return with the biggest little announcement of their lives. In a deep conversation about the depths of intimacy in partnership, ego death and…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 158 - Mitch Horowitz
Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award-winning historian, writer, and lecturer who explores the intersections of metaphysics, ethics, and self-transformation. He is the…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 157 - Sam Bercholz's Rude Awakenings
Sam Bercholz is a senior teacher in the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and the founder of Shambhala Publications. He was a close disciple of…
Love Is The AuthorEULOGY: mixtape for creation/ego death practice
EULOGY (originally released: 7/14/24): a unique collection of home recordings of Jaymee's from the past decade (prayers, notes, ceremonies, dreams) held…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 156 -Siabelle Darling Carpenter
For the first time, Jaymee welcomes his 16-year-old daughter, Siabelle Darling Carpenter, to Love Is The Author for an extraordinary conversation on self-love…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 155 - Bob Roth Interviews Jaymee
Bob Roth—legendary teacher, author, CEO of the David Lynch Foundation, and one of the most influential figures in the Transcendental Meditation movement—takes…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 154 - Damien Echols
Damien Echols is a bestselling American author who spent nearly half his life wrongfully imprisoned on death row as one of the West Memphis Three, documented…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 153 - Jess Damuck & John Moods
Jess Damuck was one of Martha Stewart’s right hands in creating magazines and television shows for over a decade. She is now a creative director, food stylist…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 152 - Ruthanna Halprin Hopper
Ruthanna Halprin Hopper is an American artist known for blending visual arts, dance, and somatic psychology. She is the daughter of actor Dennis Hopper and…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 151 - Robert Ryan feat. Devendra Banhart
Robert Ryan is known for being one of the best tattoo artists on the planet, also a member of the band Soma (kirtan), whose new album Songs Of The Lotus Born…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 150 - Dory Bavarsky
Dory Bavarsky is a composer and music producer known for his music for television and film and his record label Full Color Sound Records. Recently, musician…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 149 - Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche
Jaymee welcomes Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche of Pristine Mind Foundation for an in depth discussion on the merits of being a good…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 148 - RamDev Dale Borglum
Jaymee welcomes back RamDev Dale Borglum of the Living/Dying Project for a highly contemplative, hilarious and deeply meaningful conversation surrounding his…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 147 - Rani Singh on Harry Smith
In this fascinating episode of Love Is The Author, Jaymee sits down with Rani Singh of the Harry Smith Archives for a deep dive into the mythic life and…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 146 - STREET MONK (2)
Street Monk 2 is the second in a series of spontaneous dharma talks of Jaymee's, this episode recorded outdoors at the park, as he shares teachings and…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 145 - STREET MONK (Q+A w/ Jaymee)
In this special Street Monk episode, Jaymee opens the floor to questions from his mentees about spiritual practice, honesty, purpose, and the discipline of…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 144 - Ali & Quinn Johnes
Ali Johnes is an American film producer (Holy Hell, Frida, The Witch) and the former co-head of Time Magazine's documentary division. Quinn Johnes is her…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 143 - Julio The Carpenter
Julio The Carpenter is a beloved handyman and craftsman of the Turtle Conservancy, The Hotel El Roblar and Twin Peaks Ranch in Ojai. Originally from the state…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 142 - Born I
Born I (Ofosu Jones-Quartey) is a DC-based rapper, Buddhist practitioner, meditation teacher, and householder. He brings his signature blend of insight, humor…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 141 - Fences
Jaymee sits down with Christopher Mansfield (Fences) and Jonah Marc Levine, his producer, for a chat about their new album "Now She's Long Gone Sun Squint."…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 140 - Brandon Boyd
Jaymee hosts Brandon Boyd—frontman of the iconic band Incubus, painter, surfer, lifelong spiritual explorer and new father —for a playful and thoughtful…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 139 - Dakota Wint
Jaymee is thrilled to share this two-hour conversation with YouTuber Dakota Wint. With his channel Dakota of Earth nearing the one-million subscriber mark…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 138 - Jesus Christ / (no first name) Aurora
In this expansive double-issue episode, Jaymee welcomes back the wandering mystic known as Jesus Christ, or "Jesus Eveningstar Aurum Aquarian" from his time in…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 137 - Mary Wright
Mary Wright is an American painter and founder of the Wright Way Organic Resource Center in the Santa Monica Mountains, sacred land where her and her late…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 136 - Kim Krans 5th
Multidisciplinary artist and creator of The Wild Unknown Tarot series Kim Krans makes her fifth appearance on the podcast, engaging in a non-ordinary…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 135 - Doug Bihlmaier
Jaymee is joined by Doug Bihlmaier—fashion icon and mythical creative force at Ralph Lauren for over 5 decades, for a luminary conversation with one of the…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 134 - TEN TIMERS CLUB: Samuel Bercholz
Samuel Bercholz—legendary founder and editor-in-chief of Shambhala Publications— returns for his 10th appearance on the podcast, dropping pearls of wisdom like…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 133 - Ganesh Das
In this episode of Love Is The Author, Jaymee welcomes Ganesh Das—host and producer of Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield on the Be Here Now Network— as well as…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 132 - Gregory Rogove
In this episode of Love Is The Author, Jaymee interviews Gregory Rogove - musician, composer, and longtime drummer for Devendra Banhart. Greg is also known for…
Love Is The AuthorYAWN AND LOKO SUPREME
Jaymee and his partner/manager Lacee Dilmore are back with another YAWN & LOKO themed episode, a two hour window into their unique relationship as romantic…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 130 - Elena Brower
Elena Brower is a bestselling author, international yoga and meditation teacher and the host of the acclaimed Practice You podcast. Her new book, Hold Nothing…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 129 - Wayne Carpenter
Wayne Carpenter is Jaymee's father, a New York born singer/songwriter who lived and breathed music from his earliest life. Wayne developed himself as a…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 128 - Da Snake Mon
Chance Feimster aka "Da Snake Mon" is a naturalist guide and wildlife expert from North Carolina who’s been a devout fan of Jaymee's podcasts for the past 5…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 127 - Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche
Tulku Orgyen P'huntsok Rinpoche is a Vajrayana Buddhist Master at the Odiyana Institute in Santa Barbara, CA, and one of Jaymee’s root guru’s in Tibetan…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 126 - Chuck Testa
Chuck Testa is owner/operator of Ojai Valley Taxidermy and easily the most recognizable taxidermist in the world, due largely to his viral internet commercial…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 125 - Jamie Kilstein
Jamie Kilstein has been a working comedian for decades, exploring the vast spectrum of highest highs and the lowest of lows both personally and professionally…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 124 - Daren Thomas Magee
Daren Thomas Magee is the prolific visionary artist behind the wildly popular design-meets-humor lifestyle brand known as Real Fun, Wow! For nearly 5 years he…
Love Is The AuthorTHE BALLAD OF YAWN & LOKO
Jaymee and his partner Lacee are back with another YAWN & LOKO themed episode, offering one of a kind advice on how to maintain healthy romantic relationships…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 122 - Bonezeye
Adrian "Bonezeye" Cavazos is the multidisciplinary artist and former taxidermist behind the legendary Kill Tony Show podcast joke book, which he conceived…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 121 - Coulter Jacobs (CJLA)
Jaymee and multidisciplinary artist Coulter Jacobs got together at CJLA Studios to record their third long form conversation about honoring the muse, devotion…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 120 - Spencer King
Spencer King is an American Filmmaker, who is the son of director Amy Berg and musician David King of the band Mary's Danish. His new film 'The Wilderness'…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 119 - Amy Berg
Amy Berg is an Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker known for her groundbreaking storytelling in films like 'Deliver Us From Evil', 'West Of Memphis'…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 118 - Rob Bell
Rob Bell is an American author, speaker, and former pastor known for his books challenging traditional Christian views. He’s a New York Times Bestselling…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 117 - Adam Goldberg
What do Dazed And Confused, Saving Private Ryan, A Beautiful Mind, Zodiac and the sitcom Friends have in common? Adam Goldberg, who’s been a working actor in…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 116 - Christopher Mansfield
Christopher Mansfield is the charismatic frontman of the group Fences. On September 14th he will be featured on the Season 8 opener of AMC’s series RIDE with…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 115 - Lama Lhanang Rinpoche
Jaymee sits down with his spiritual teacher and guru, Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, for a deep conversation on how every word and thought functions as prayer, the…