Love Bombers

What can I say.  You need to listen to this podcast.Margaret reached out to me shortly after the release of Love Bomb after she saw it online.  At first I didn't know what to think, who was this clown person?  I am a convert to understanding after listening to her story.  I felt like my heart was blasted with love (yep, a Love Bomb) from hearing her incredible story of healing, love, and synchronicity.She shares about how she moved from several suicide attempts and a psych ward to deep healing through the power of laughter working with Patch Adams in China and Tibet.The simplicity of the gift of love and clowning inspires me through her story and is one of those "no skills" way to dramatically uplift one's own life.  Also, she says things like "wee teaspoon of hope."  Listen.To get involved with the Patch Adams trips she speaks of:  http://www.patchadams.org/global-outreach/clown-missions/

Gabri Christa is an inspiring and unique Love Bomber creating and curating works of art in motion through dance and film.  She is essentially a power house of making creative projects happen, those of others and her own.  The intention of these efforts are to contribute to society in a way that helps to transform our understanding of history and humanity.  She believes in collaboration, cross cultural understanding and dialogue.  In our conversation we explore this terrain and hear some of her very unique perspective about the process of making things and how this helps to open up our eyes to something new, but within ourselves, and within our connection to others.Gabri hails from Curacao and came to filmmaking after a successful career as a choreographer and dancer with companies such as Danza Contemporanea de Cuba and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.  Awards include the Guggenheim for Choreography, an ABC television award for creative excellence for her short film "High School" and Pangea Day Fes

In this Love Bombers conversation I connect with Kate Coletti.  Kate has over 15 years of experience in women's health as a midwife, birth educator and advocate, prenatal yoga instructor, massage therapist and prenatal massage instructor, doula trainer, and mama.She shares frankly about the power of having a strong "why" for choosing natural birth, the support network to go towards it, and how she assists women through her Enlightened Birth day retreats.  In the conversation we end up exploring the power of birth as experience, and as metaphor for any Love Bomber on a journey of creation and metamorphosis in their own lives.I continue to be in awe of how the chemistry and physiology of our bodies mimic the very emotional and spiritual experiences we go on in our lives, and how, by design, we are meant to live in love.  From conception, to birth, to life itself.To connect with Kate:  www.katecoletti.com

This is a reunion interview with Lisa Reagan, the very first person that I interviewed for the film Love Bomb!  She is such a wealth of insight and information as well that I really wanted to get as much of that juicy value in as I could for all of us Love Bombers.  That is why this is going to be a two part podcast interview.In part one we dive in to the peculiar idea that your feeling of isolation might actually be a sign of a deeper connection to yourself, and to millions of other people on the planet right now.  If you have ever felt like your insights as a Love Bomber and aware human being actually make you feel like an odd ball, this is the interview for you!Lisa has been on a Mother of a Quest for 17 years as an award-winning journalist, activist and nonprofit visionary, exploring the space between our unsustainable industrial culture and the emerging cultural story of what is possible for families who are leading the way forward.Lisa is a co-founder of the nonprofit, Families for Conscious Living and

In part two of the reunion interview with Lisa Reagan we dive in to a paradigm shift that many people and parents are currently experiencing and aware of.  They are moving from a predominantly stress driven culture which drives us into a feeling of disconnection, isolation, and "squeezed thin," into a new paradigm of reclaiming calm, connection, and community.  It's the move from the head to the heart, and it is a courageous journey that she continues to refer to as "The Hero's Journey" as inspired by the work of Joseph Campbell.  She inspires us to know that our challenges and our squeeze are actually a call to action into more being and less doing.Lisa has been on a Mother of a Quest for 17 years as an award-winning journalist, activist and nonprofit visionary, exploring the space between our unsustainable industrial culture and the emerging cultural story of what is possible for families who are leading the way forward.Lisa is a co-founder of the nonprofit, Families for Conscious Living and the executive e

This is a unique conversation for me with Randi into a discovery of how her gifts contribute to healing and intimacy for couples, and ultimately, to adding to the reconnection and healing for human beings on a larger scale towards letting go of shame, finding self acceptance, and letting sex be a healthy part of our lives.I am fascinated by the "Big Idea" of Love Bombers visions.  As Chiropractors this concept is very important to us.  We love looking at how the micro of what we do can impact the health of a culture.  Through this conversation with Randi I got to the awesome intersection of her natural calling to serve with the Big Idea of a more whole, more happy, more connection humanity.Are you curious about how finding your "blissed out sexuality" could contribute to world peace?  Give a listen.More about Randi:  Randi received her B.A. in Psychology and went on to get a Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, California.  She is a

In this interview I have the pleasure of speaking to Evy Smith.  Evy and I connected online 10 years ago when she reached out to me in response to a blog I was writing.  We have built a relationship since that time and got to meet in person officially in 2014 when she premiered Love Bomb in Burlington, Vermont.  I feel that my relationship with her is exemplary of the positive power of the internet to connect me to wonderful inspiring people online and then in person.Evy has a Masters in Health Education and a Masters in Clinical Psychology.  She is a certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist and Certified Life Coach.  She is a lifelong member of the Concept Therapy Institute.  Evy has served as a massage therapist and Thai Yoga Bodyworker which she practiced for 10 years.  Evy has been counseling people from all "walks of life" for over 30 years.  She offers an artful blend of alternative and conventional understanding in her counseling practice.  Currently she is an Employee and Family Assistance Counselor at

After working for 10 years in a high stress, corporate sales environment in New York City, Marjorie was depressed and de-energized, she couldn’t ignore her body any longer. It was time to shake things up, to transcend her funk. It was time to live life, not just trudge her way through it (in heels).In her quest for health and wellness, she found yoga and was surprised at how effectively the poses got her out of her head. She suddenly felt connected to her body and her breathing. As her yoga practice advanced, she realized that finding connection and ease in the body is the road to living a full and healthy life.The benefits of yoga were so profound for her that she wanted to share its healing effects with others. When her yoga studies led her to Ayurveda, she started folding India’s mind-body science into her personal practice, along with her classes, workshops and retreats.Now, as a health and wellness guide, Marjorie teaches how to live better in your body, incorporating yoga and its mind body science, Ayur

Jeni is a love bomber momma of two teenage sons.  She runs her own successful graphic design business here in the Napa Valley, and she also manages a full plate of service projects both at home and abroad.She is fresh home from a teen service trip with Souls 4 Souls where she took 15 teens to deliver shoes to those in need in Guatemala.  She has done similar trips in Honduras and Haiti and has also participated with me in service in Peru as the team photographer.  She is also freshly on the board for the Boys and Girls Club here in Napa as well as completing the Napa Valley Leadership Program where her team is focusing on service to the homeless.She is an amazing example of finding her own calling and soul’s fulfillment in relationship to her role as a wife, entrepreneur, and mom.We speak about her journey through a variety of service experiences and the growth it has provided for her son and herself.Her Love Bomb journey is an inspiration of asking the question of "how can I serve" and then stepping forward

In this podcast I get the pleasure of interviewing my own lactation consultant, Becky Diel.  She was like an angel to me in the days following the birth of my son when this were going haywire with painful nursing and mastitis.  Her presence completely shifted me and my family back into the sweet love bubble trust of the newborn adjustment phase and her continued support was like an anchor throughout.She has been around birth and moms for over 18 years with experience supporting moms and babies in scenarios ranging from straight forward homebirths to hospital births to complicated births and high acuity hospitals.  She loves working with families and helping moms to get started on their breastfeeding adventure.In this interview we talk about her journey into landing on this path of service, the angels who helped get her where she is today, and how she uses the power of listening to land fully into the moment in support of moms and babies.  She shares about her vision for how happy breastfeeding moms and babies

Paula Demartini is a Love Bomber who has grown through some tough life stuff including her parent’s divorce, an eating disorder, addiction and her husband's infidelity.  She says that this real-ness and force-feeding of humility has opened her up to genuinely help and connect with a lot of people. She savors and finds joy in the opportunity to listen and inspire.  As an engineer by trade she does this through how she chooses to be on a daily basis, through teaching yoga after the 9-5 and soon as a facilitator of the My Love Bomb Program.In this Love Bomber conversation we meet up to discuss how she finally found the experience of forgiving herself, fully, long after the people in her life had forgiven her for the struggles of an eating disorder and addiction.  She shares about how she finds her way into what it means to be authentic in a way that serves the people in her life in an empowered way that responds to the moment.You can find Paula at:  http://www.paulademartini.com

Kelli Iverson Stuart is a mommapreneur business owner joining us on the Love Bombers podcast after just having completed the My Love Bomb Program in Napa and is among the inspiring women training to become facilitators for our September launch in the SF Bay Area.  In this interview she opens up about how she found her current love bomb gift of bringing fitness to busy women looking for more joy, fulfillment, and harmony through opening her Dailey Method barre studio.  She shares about the journey from spread thin, to finding her fitness and "filling her cup" through the Dailey Method.  She then takes on the next steps of the journey where she decided to overcome her own introverted and fearfull limitations to become an instructor and owner of a new studio in Napa.  The common "Love Bomber" experience of pursuing your dream of giving to others, only to find yourself spread thin and stressed out again in the business of service, is complimented with how she is now finding her wholeness in the journey, reflected

In this episode of Love Bombers I speak with my own business coach Shawn Dill about the business of service.  As a Love Bomber myself I reached a point in my life where I had to choose that in order to keep going with my passionate hobby of making media, like the film Love Bomb, and other courses to uplift other people's lives, I would have to start making it a business in order to have the time and resources I spent on it be a part of the value deal for my family.  I hired Shawn to help me look at this hobby and help me to align it so that I could turn it into a business where my authenticity, passion for service, and love for others was also aligned with the needs and values of enough people that I could earn money for my family in exchange.  Today Shawn speaks about the principles he used to help me while answering pertinent questions from other Love Bombers wanting to be in the ethical, and fulfilling business of service.You can learn more about Shawn here:  www.drshawndill.comDuring the episode Shawn als

This interview features the story of a long time friend Melissa Sivvy whose recovery from paralysis of the legs after Guillain Barre Syndrome and then healing from alcohol and drug addiction has deeply inspired me.  To literally watch someone find their legs again is a thing of grace.She is now finishing her master's degree in psychology at Goddard College and is registered as a non-licensed psychotherapist in the state of Vermont. Her work lately has been focused on Refuge Recovery (a Buddhism-based program for addictions of all kinds), which has lead her to an interest in providing proper care for incarcerated people who suffer from addiction and other mental health afflictions. Melissa intends to pursue a PhD in Forensic Psychology where she will gain the training and knowledge needed to advocate for policy changes within the United State's corrections system. Resources for help with addiction and finding connection to others mentioned in the podcast are:Alcoholics Anonymous:  http://www.aa.orgRefuge Recov

This is episode number one, where I will give the behind the scenes "why" for the podcast.  I'll share why I want to interview people giving their "Love Bombs" of all sizes to the world through projects, non profits, businesses, and every day acts of love.  It's the next step of the journey into making the documentary Love Bomb, where together we inspire one another with our unique gifts and tips for remaining balanced, thriving, and healthy in the pursuit of loving service.