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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 AuthorYAWN & LOKO: B-DAY GIRL
Jaymee and his partner/manager Lacee Dilmore share the intimate details of their truly unique relationship, and the spiritual practices they rely on to sustain…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 53 - Krishna Das
Jaymee and Krishna Das have an uncommon conversation about music, devotion, surrender, cynicism, and silence. KRISHNA DAS WEB: www.krishnadas.com LARRY…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 52 - Kim Krans & Sarah Hyland
Kim Krans (creator of THE WILD UNKNOWN TAROT series) makes her second appearance on the podcast. Sarah Hyland is a comedic actress and former cast member of…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 51 - Robert Ryan
Legendary tattoo artist Robert Ryan returns for his third and most potent conversation with Jaymee, discussing the release of his first tarot deck TAROT TANTRA…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 50 - Nanea Reeves
Nanea Reeves is the CEO & C0-Founder of TRIPP, a mind bending VR meditation app named one of Time Magazines "Best Inventions of 2022". Nanea is also the widow…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 49 - Nick Mulvey
Nick Mulvey is a UK artist who's music is deeply emotional, pushing the boundaries of songwriting and sound, traditional and experimental, acoustic and…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 48 - Kim Krans
This episode features an epic conversation with Kim Krans, visionary multidisciplinary artist, author, and the creator of The New York Times Bestseller THE…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 47 - Juliette Lewis
Juliette Lewis is an iconic artist who needs no introduction. She's been avoiding interview requests for a while from the mainstream, but recently became a fan…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 46 - Shannon Lay
Shannon Lay is one of Jaymee's favorite independent recording artists, who's last three Sub Pop releases "August", "Geist", and "Covers, Vol. 1" were…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 45 - Jim James
Jim James is the frontman of the legendary rock group My Morning Jacket. He is one of Jaymee's favorite songwriters and human beings of all time, a modern day…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 44 - Samuel & Ivan Bercholz
Samuel Bercholz is the legendary founder and editor in chief of Shambhala Publications. He is a close friend and mentor of Jaymee's who is making his sixth…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 43 - Tiger Lennon Carpenter
Tiger Lennon Carpenter returns to the podcast a 16 year old to hang with his old man and share some of the hard earned wisdom of his first two years in high…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 42 - KING TUFF
Kyle Thomas is recording artist "KING TUFF", also known for being a member of the band "WITCH" and for his original freak folk project "FEATHERS". Jaymee feels…
Love Is The AuthorYAWN+LOKO: in MAUI
Jaymee and his partner/manager Lacee are back with a two part "YAWN + LOKO" themed episode, sharing the series of highly auspicious circumstances that led to…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 40 - Raghu Markus returns
Raghu Markus is Executive Director of the Love Serve Remember Foundation, which preserves the legacy and teachings of Ram Dass and the great Indian saint Neem…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 39 - Pete Holmes
Pete Holmes is one of the funniest and most attractive stand-up comedians in the whole world. He's also a great father, husband, podcaster and a devoted…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 38 - Rob Dietrich
Rob Dietrich is the currently the Master Distiller of Metallica's Blackened American Whiskey, though he may have the most diverse resume in his field…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 37 - Lama Lhanang Rinpoche returns
This is a very special conversation on the importance of the teacher/student relationship between Jaymee and his root guru, the Venerable Lama Lhanang…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 36 - Ryland & Sarah Zweifel
Welcome Jaymee's younger brother Ryland to the podcast with his new bride, Sarah, to share the unfoldment of their supernatural love story, and offer solid…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 35 - Zach Leary
Zach Leary is the host of the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) Podcast and the son of psychedelic pioneer Timothy Leary. Zach grew…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 34 - Dharma Combat!" w/ Samuel Bercholz
Legendary founder/editor in chief of Shambhala Publications Samuel Bercholz returns for his 5th appearance on the podcast to pick up the mic he dropped here in…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 33 - Autobiography Of Another Yogi
A new friend of Jaymee's (actor/screenwriter Thomas Ronca who was raised on Tibetan Buddhism and the teachings of Trungpa Rinpoche), conducts a 90 minute…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 32 - Nicole Macias McNamara
Nicole Macias McNamara is the star of HBO's Emmy winning series 100 Foot Wave. Wife and partner of legendary big wave surfer Garrett McNamara, over the past…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 31 - Andy Karr
Andy Karr is the author of the forthcoming Shambhala Publications release Into The Mirror: A Buddhist Journey through Mind, Matter, and the Nature of Reality…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 30 - Samuel Bercholz Returns
Samuel Bercholz, founder/editor-in-chief of legendary spiritual press Shambhala Publications and close friend/student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, returns for…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 29 - Lady Diana Mukpo
This episode features Jaymee in an extremely rare conversation with Lady Diana Mukpo, wife of The Venerable Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, on the 36th anniversary…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 28 - Parvati Markus
This episode chronicles the hard earned spiritual unfoldment of the great saint, author and editor Parvati Markus, who's first acid trip (Golden…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 27 - Susan Piver
Susan Piver is a New York Times bestselling author of nine books, an internationally renowned Buddhist meditation teacher and public speaker, and former record…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 26 - David Nichtern
David Nichtern is the Founder and CEO of Dharma Moon, a senior Buddhist teacher and meditation practitioner who was one of the initial American students of…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 25 - Carolyn Rose Gimian, James Gimian & Samuel Bercholz
Carolyn Rose Gimian is the Executive Director of the Chogyam Trungpa Institute, and was a close student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's who later served as…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 24 - Sam Bercholz Drops The Mic
"I may be crucified for this... but happily!" Sam Bercholz is the Founder and Editor In Chief of Shambhala Publications, was an attendant, student, close…
Love Is The AuthorYAWN+LOKO: Spiritually Nude
YAWN & LOKO (Jaymee and Lacee) return with another "BED-IN" themed episode, discussing the annihilation of ego in relationships, creative license in spiritual…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 22 - Barbara Doux
Barbara Doux is a French filmmaker who became a Wing Chun martial artist solely to become a better photographer, bungee jumped as a therapy to conquer anxiety…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 21 - "LET IT HAPPEN: Addiction Re-Envisioned"
This episode features Jaymee's best recorded advice on the subject of addiction, mental health, recovery and treatment, and how to carve out an unconventional…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 20 - Robert Ryan & Lama Lhanang Rinpoche
This episode features Jaymee's second interview with legendary tattoo icon and street monk Robert Ryan of Electric Tattoo, and Jaymee's teacher, Vajrayana…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 19 - Cody Montgomery of "TOTALLY BLOWN"
Cody Montgomery is the brainchild and designer behind TOTALLY BLOWN, a clothing company that makes distressed clothing using shotguns in Joshua Tree, CA. Cody…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 18 - Enid And Edgar Vintage
Sandy and Jason of Enid And Edgar Vintage in Ojai, CA are salt of the earth people who were once high school sweethearts. Their vintage shop is a one of a kind…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 17 - "DIRTY SAINTS" w/ Mike "One Shot" Coulter
"Dirty Saints" are what Jaymee calls people who spends a good portion of their life in various forms of abuse and intoxication, who at some point face their…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 16 - Lama Lhanang Rinpoche
On September 19th, 2022, the Venerable Lama Lhanang Rinpoche, a particularly magical and important Tibetan Buddhist Lama, spent a full day in Jaymee's home in…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 15 - Victoria Roberts
After Jaymee's mother, artist Victoria Roberts, had survived a horribly abusive childhood by establishing a foundational relationship with God being Love, she…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 14 - Ben Pecorari of WANTS/NEEDS
After surviving crippling illness at birth, an emotionally disturbed violent alcoholic father in his youth, a bi-polar diagnosis at 13 that had him…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 13 - Raghu Markus
Raghu Markus is the Executive Director of the Love Serve Remember Foundation, co-founder of the Be Here Now Network, host of Ram Dass: Here and Now as well as…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 12- Jon Vasu Seskevich
Jon "Vasu" Seskevich has been a trailblazing nurse clinician and primary disciple of Ram Dass's for 50 years. After two years of obsessively reading and…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 11 - Lacee Jené Dilmore
Our most requested return guest, Jaymee's partner and manager Lacee Jené Dilmore returns to share her wisdom in this Woodstock '69 themed episode. Lacee shares…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 10 - Samuel Bercholz - Founder, Shambhala Publications
Samuel Bercholz is the Founder and Editor In Chief of the legendary Shambhala Publications, original publisher of an entire library of spiritual classics by…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 9 - Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan is one of the most sought after tattoo artist's in the world, and an icon and pioneer of spiritually themed tattoo's inspired by the 19th century…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 8 - Francisco Mazza - Director, The Krishnamurti Center
Francisco Mazza is the Director of the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, CA. How did this disappointed, disenchanted youth growing up nihilist in the streets of…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 7 - Tulku Orgyen P'huntsok Rinpoche
Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche is a Vajra Master within the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and Jaymee's "root guru". Born in the Hidden Land of Pemaköd, a sacred…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 6 - "NO BIG DEAL" (a guided meditation)
"NO BIG DEAL" is a new, laid back 10 min guided meditation offering from Jaymee for beginners and/or daily practitioners looking to strengthen meditative…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 5 - Christopher Noxon
Christopher Noxon is an author, artist and contributing journalist for The New Yorker, Details, The New York Times Magazine, and Salon. He has authored three…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 4 - John Dennis
John Dennis is one of Jaymee's favorite people on the planet. The "Quentin Tarantino of vintage", John is a true historian and die hard fan of thrift, style…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 3 - Escape From Tibet! w/ Dorje Tsewang
This episode features the unbelievable true life story of Jaymee's friend and Dharma brother Dorje Tsewang, who at the age of 21 escaped the Chinese occupation…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 2 - Meditation Mount Sound Bath w/ Kelly Jean Anderson
This episode begins with a sound bath by Kelly Jean Anderson, recorded live on location at the legendary spiritual center and meditation garden Meditation…
Love Is The AuthorEpisode 1 - DEVENDRA BANHART
When Devendra and Jaymee get together, they instantly become two children deep at play, bursting with positive energy, ceaselessly driven to expose the…