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Happy Valentines Week To You!I hope that you find a moment this week to enjoy some of the silly sparkles of the Valentines hearts floating around.  Regardless of whether or not you have a romantic partner to celebrate with (I went for years without that!), it's a sweet week to celebrate the lightness and love of the heart.This week happens to be week number 2 in the My Love Bomb Program where we are focusing our attention on the building of both inner and outer harmony as an expression of Love.I was inspired to take to the mic and record for you a podcast to help give you some insight to what we're going through while contributing some of that beautiful energy right back to you.I also am bringing back the Body Love meditation this week recommendation as a Valentines Gift to your cells. (See MyLoveBomb.com Podcast/Blog for the link!)I hope you can find 20 minutes to calm and bring this gift of Love to every cell of your body.Big Love to you!Dr. Rhea

Have you ever felt like you landed on a plateau of healing, took a deep breath and said, "thank god that is over with" only to find yourself catapulted into the next feeling of life chaos?Well, in this podcast I chat about the phenomenon of chaos, or, life foundation change, as a part of the transformation growth process.Of course, life chaos does not always mean growth process, it can simply mean chaotic habits, but it can also be a sign when life moves from stable to chaotic to stable to chaotic that there is growth happening, or, in other words, the natural process of change and evolution.I feel we are experiencing this both globally and individually, and, find it valuable, healing, harmonizing, and supportive to move out of isolation and into community as we move through this time both as a humanity and as individuals.Take a listen and, if you feel called to participate with me as a leader in this evolution, I would love to talk!  You can email me at lovebombthemovie@gmail.com to see if becoming a My Love Bomb Facilitator in 2017 might be your next Love Bomb.

This is a meditation designed to accompany episode 31, a conversation and meditation on loving your body.  This is designed to be done when in a safe and quiet location with closed eyes.

It's time to bring the Love back home to our bodies!This week's theme is inspired by this week's launch of the Napa Chapter of "You Matter Meet Ups."  We are getting together at a local boutique to focus on how we can style ourselves to highlight what we love about ourselves.  This podcast is a two part release with a conversation around loving our own bodies, as well as a meditation I have recorded to give you the opportunity to do a full walk through your entire body to say "I love you, thank you."Connect to the content with the podcast, and then sink into a self-care self-love experience with the meditation.Here is to absolutely nourishing and loving ourselves as well shed so much love on others!Big Love,Rhea

Welcome to Part 3 of the My Balanced Life Free Mini Course.  In this episode of the course I bring you  the "My Balanced Life Mind Map System"YOU WILL WANT TO DOWNLOAD AND PRINT YOUR SYSTEM HERE This system, coupled with mapping your big soul dreams and desires that we did in Part 2, will help you to intentionally craft the balance plan that will have you moving towards your dreams while embracing and enjoying your life now.We spend time identifying the elements in your life that you are currently trying to balance, or rather often, are feeling squeezed thin by.  This is the process of noticing the energy inside of your body and your life in order to get clearer about what you need to say no to, and what to say yes to.  It is also about mapping out the self care that you will put into your lifestyle in order to care for the body that you want to be living in, fully healthy, when you arrive at the manifestation of the dreams you are building for the future.It is my hope that you are able to put these modules into practice in order to establish yourself into a strong feeling of peace, ease, and health.With Love,Dr. Rhea

Welcome to Part 2 of the My Balanced Life Mini Course.  In Part 1, we talked about what balance means to us and the general process of beginning to build more of that in our life through knowing that essentially we are successfully juggling the elements of our life that we want to participating in, all while moving in the direction of our dreams, goals, and big visions.In part 2 we begin the Passion Planner process using either the free pdf downloads on their website http://www.passionplanner.com.  We will look at the Passion Roadmap as well as the Monthly and Weekly guides.  I recommend downloading the pdf's to work through along with the recording.I look forward to being back next week with Part 3 of the mini-class, where I'll help to break down the tool that I developed in order to hone in on what it is that is absolutely important to you, so that you know what you want to make sure is making it's way into your life, and therefore, your calendar.

I get the opportunity this week to speak with another Culture Changer.  While our guest Linda Inlay focused on how she strategically helps schools to adapt new and healthy cultures, our guest this week Amy shares about how she is bringing mindfulness into corporations where she helps individuals to find their whole wholeness, while helping corporations build more mindful, kind, and healthy cultures as well.I got connected to Amy when a friend tipped me off to her sweet book "Knowing Beautiful, A New Bedtime Story for Women."  She speaks about how she gained inspiration from reading her children their sweet bedtime stories, and how it helped her to realize women could use a conscious new bedtime story from criticism and not good enough, to love, acknowledgement, and acceptance.Once again, it is so awesome to get to know a woman out there who is making an incredible difference in her world.To connect with her:DelightForTheSoul.comPotentialProject.comMore on Amy:Amy Tirion is a Speaker, author, mindfulness consultant and founder of Delight for the Soul, Amy Tirion leads employee engagement and individual wellness and mindfulness programs that focus on the intellect, energy, and emotion of personal change. Amy's profession started with a ten-year change management consulting career with Accenture included leading their "People, Values, and Culture" programs for the 1200 employees within their Bay Area offices. In 2011, she started Delight for the Soul to offer one-of-a-kind experiences that help her clients access their own source of wisdom, clarity, and inspiration.Amy is one of fourteen inspiring women profiled nationally in a documentary series on Inner Beauty produced by Elizabeth Arden. Amy's book entitled Knowing Beautiful: A New Bedtime Story for Women won the national 2015 Silver Medal Living Now Award. Amy's current focus it to bring mindfulness into organizations, as a consultant with the global firm, The Potential Project. She is also an artist, dancer, contributor to the Huffington Post and a restorative yoga trainer. Amy uses her background to bring different modalities of mind-body and creative exploration to her clients for holistic support of their change journey. Amy lives in San Francisco with her husband and two teenage daughters

Hi Love Bombers!This week I am excited to bring you Part 1 of a 3 Part podcast series I am recording as a free mini-course on building the balanced life.This content has been created, presented, and refined over the past 6 months and I keep hearing from women that they wished that they could access it.  Part 1 is the introduction to what is balanced, what is that elusive thing we are looking for, and are there practical ways that we can build more of it in our life.  You will get the opportunity to check in for yourself on this important question.There will be links to come in parts 2 and 3 to the tools you need to complete this mini-course in a powerful way.  If you'd like to jump ahead and get the full goods, you can go ahead and order yourself a Passion Planner, the primary tool I will be discussing.  You will also have the opportunity to skip purchasing one and use their free pdf's instead to download and print out the sheets for yourself.I am so happy to share this content and see how it provides a more calming landscape for the Love Bombers who so need it as they bring their gifts to the world.Big Love,Dr. Rhea Zimmerman Komarek

This week I am happy to bring you episode 26 of the Love Bombers Podcast in a new format.  I am playing around with ways to inspire the community and so I am going to be doing some Love Bomber tips from the heart as we move into the next few months, interspersed with interviews of inspiring Love Bombers from around the world.This week I share about the power of living right here, right now as I talk about discoveries along my own life path and in an inspired review of the book "You Are The One" by Kute Blackson, one of our favorites from the film Love Bomb.I hope this inspires you to open up, live now, love now, and be refreshed into the moment of your life.

Wow.  This is one of those podcast conversations where I want to say:  just listen.  Listen.For those who need more cajoling,.....I'll share about it!  Linda Inlay is an educator who spent a career bringing a technique of culture building called "Awakening Wisdom" to schools.  She shares an incredible experience about building a culture based on responsibility, respect, resourcefulness, and responsiveness in schools.I am inspired by the hope that she embodies for bringing change to our public schools and helping students and teachers and parents to gestate in environments that are designed to create natural and relaxed growth and development that starts with an assumption of acceptance.As a builder of new culture with the My Love Bomb Program and a witness to seeing what happens when you intentionally create an environment of unconditional loving acceptance, I am very excited to think that her work could permeate the public domain.If you are someone who works with teams in education, in business, or in your service work, this content can inspire you towards the system of culture that you build within yourself and those you are working with.Together we make the worldview change from fear to love.  Inside of ourselves, and within our communities.  More on the amazing Linda:  Linda began her career as an educator at Our Lady of Sorrows School in Wahiawa, Hawaii, where she worked for fifteen years. There she collaborated with the founders of the Ho`?la Educational Philosophy, a combination of Adlerian principles and Carl Roger’s self-actualization theory. Ho`?la in Hawaiian means, “awakening of the self.” Today this way of organizing a school is called “Awakening wisdom.” This program emphasized the core values of responsibility, respect, resourcefulness, and responsiveness to be modeled by the adults in order to foster these same values in the students. In 1988 Linda left Hawaii for California, entering the public school system and serving for eighteen years as the principal of River School in Napa County, where she introduced Awakening Wisdom. She taught parenting classes to bring home and school culture together, and during her tenure, River School received two California Distinguished School Awards, the Promising Practices Award and National School of Character Award from the Character Education Partnership, and the California School Board Association’s Golden Bell Award. In 2012 River School also became a New Tech Network School where project-based learning is infused with technology as an engaging and effective methodology for teaching and learning. Linda has presented at numerous conferences: National Middle School Association, Character Education Partnership, California Middle School Association, National Charter Schools, California Charter Schools Association, North Coast Educational Summit. She has authored four articles published in ASCD’s Educational Leadership. Her thesis, Ho`?la School The Transformation of Character Through the Implicit Curriculum, continues to be used a training guide for teachers at schools. Her first journal article, “Creating a Culture of Respect Through the Implicit Curriculum”, was published in the January 2016 issue of Middle School Journal.You can find her here:www.LindaInlay.comTo get involved in "Village Napa" to help support teen mental and emotional health:https://www.facebook.com/villagenapa/?fref=ts

Some people aren't quite sure what their Love Bomb is, Mary is a constant Love Bomb and continuously struggles with listening, churning, creating, refining, and choosing which Love Bombs to focus on as her inspirations guide her.This artistic approach to finding her gifts and giving them as service and vocation has led her to create "The Art of Story Project."  The project started as a public speaking online classroom for women in chiropractic and has evolved to become online classes for entrepreneurs who are seeking to improve their ability to create compelling content by integrating the craft of story in a way that will touch people's hearts and minds.In our conversation we share about how we find and measure our own success in the process of creating our podcasts (she has two, Pattern Interrupt and ADIO Radio), as well as in our lives in general.I love also how much she talks about the use of story as a way to look at the Hero's Journey of our lives and to appreciate the moments of struggle and squeeze as much as the moments of ease, as well as to learn the potential art of reframing our stories to a more empowered tale.You can connect with her directing at www.theartofstoryproject.comThat is also where you can jump on her free "Amazeballz Challenge" for moving forward in life on 4 aspects that can help you step forward in your goals with small daily actions.More on Mary:She became a chiropractor although she had originally trained for a career in writing, marketing and communication.  After practicing in Wisconsin and Iowa, she made an unusual choice to serve the profession and her passions by working exclusively in chiropractic college enrollment for the past 12 years.  Mary is currently the Dean of Enrollment at Life Chiropractic College West where she has lead the recruitment and outreach team to substantial growth.

The Love Bombers journey continues in this conversation with Lacey Book.  I am just getting to know this powerful woman and it is a joy to be in connection with her.In this interview conversation we talk about our mutual discovery of landing in collaborate support with other powerful women and exciting that is to us right now.She also shares powerfully about her own journey of landing into listening to her own innate voice and the path it has led her on as a chiropractor working with women entrepreneurs who are looking for more work-life balance and looking to gain more freedom in their lives through maintaining a healthier state.This led her to start "The Shift", a community of women that support each other in all of the shifts in their lives.  She started it this year, and it already has three chapters with 200 members in her community.She is a power house woman with a vision, traveling and sharing her message on stages across the world.To connect with Lacey directly:  www.laceybook.com

This wonderful conversation!  I got to catch up with Leah Kinsella after years of not having seen her and only catching glimpses of her journey via Facebook.  Her journey has been so fun to watch online as I've seen her become a powerful yoga teacher, meditation teacher, and now life coach in training through Miami University.  I feel the journey embodies many a step by step unfolding that those of us Love Bombers go through who are seeking to understand how we can be of service to life, while expressing the calling of our souls.We talk about the power of listening to ourselves, and then to others.  Her entire journey is a profound one of rediscovering her own inner voice, listening to it, and then watching the profound effects reshape her life.To connect with Leah:  www.leahkinsella.com

I had the grace of connecting to Marilyn Schlitz for the first time when interviewing her for the film Love Bomb.  This relationship continued after the film as a friendship as Producers of media that contributes to the transformation of others.  She is a cultural anthropologist, mind-body researcher, and award winning writer.  Her books and films include Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine; Living Deeply:  The Art and Science of Transformation; and Death Makes Life Possible.  The film, Death Makes Life Possible has toured the world through film festivals and community viewings.  It was aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network in late 2015.   We talk about her next projects and how she is helping people to make worldview shifts into their own noetic knowing including an incredible program she is releasing on the power of consciousness to produce deep healing, radiant health, and living a long and productive life.You can connect to her free online event on July 20 at 5:30 PM PST right here:  Using the Power of Your Consciousness for Healing:  Discover the X-Factor in Creating Radiant Health right here.Marilyn is a gift of wisdom and heart and I encourage you to connect with her through her free programming, podcast, and books!

Meg’s Love Bomber work is a combination paramedic, paramedic instructor, and take life by the hands optimistic adventure seeker.  She inspires people to live each day to the fullest, and, she’s overcome some challenges in the pursuit of a full life.  She has a condition called “Achalasia” and has grown up with a shorter arm than most, leading her to look a little different than the norm.  She begins by sharing about how she learned as a kid to help disarm others confusion or discomfort with humor.She goes on to share how she intentionally brings an extra touch of love to her job as paramedic, helping people while they are having very, very bad days.  Her ability to care for others in her environment is inspiring, coupled with her own dedication to living an "alive' life of adventure.I hope this adventure inspires anyone needing a lift off of the rut and the couch to get on out there and try.

This Love Bombers podcast conversation with Tiffany landed quite a bit on her personal journey as a love bomber discovering what her gifts are to give to life.  I was particularly captivated by the change of course that she went through from path as lawyer to path as therapist.  She continues to gather tools to contribute to people finding their empowered selves through her instruction as a Dailey Method barre fitness instructor, and now, through the My Love Bomb Program as a facilitator.This is a wonderful conversation for those who might be struggling with the gift of self permission to change direction, honoring the voice within.More on Tiffany:Tiffany Lynn Iverson attended graduate school at University of San Francisco studying Counseling Psychology.  She has been a California Registered Marriage and Family Therapist Intern for the past 4 years, recently completing 3000 hours toward licensure, and a fitness instructor at The Dailey Method Napa barre studio for just under 3 years.  Tiffany's dedication to help people achieve their mental health and physical fitness goals allow her to combine passions that help bridge mind and body synchronicity.  She came to The My Love Bomb Program in the Spring of 2016 with a readiness to take herself and her career to the next level, and  got so much out of the program that she decided to become a My Love Bomb Program Facilitator.ou can connect with her now by joining her My Love Bomb group at MyLoveBomb.com

How perfect that I get to be interviewing Jessica Vance during the same week that we are launching the opening of registration for the My Love Bomb Program in Napa.  This is an unplanned grace, as I got to meet Jessica during the Beta run of the program in Napa during February to March of this year.She is a truly beautiful woman, inside and out, and gives so much love to others.  In our conversation she shares about her own journey of unfolding from the desire to feel a fulfillment of purpose which started as an impatient journey in her 20's of lots of falls, to a patient journey in her 30's from Chef to Therapist with beautiful somatic skills to host a deep whole person listening for her clients.Her story is an inspiration for anyone who feels like they know they have more inside of themselves than is currently expressed.  She is also a really soothing woman to listen to. To connect with Jessica email her at jessicavance78@gmail.com  

Caitlin shares a story about how lack of self value and self esteem led her to an unethical decision that landed her in jail.  The experience led her to an epiphany around the mental prison she was holding over herself that imprisoned her from claiming her value, as well as the grace of better relationships and actions that come from the willingness to speak from empowerment versus act in quiet desperation.She now helps other women find their mental prisons so that they can become liberated to "affirm their value in the world."She is a Boulder based life coach, inspirational speaker and wellness blogger who works with women all over the country. She was named one of the 100 Best Health Coach Bloggers in 2015 by The Institute for the Psychology of Eating, is a writer for Elephant Journal, and works one on one with clients.  She studied early childhood development and the psychology of healing at Naropa University and graduated from The University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism in 2008, where she learned how to work one on one with clients in a coaching capacity.To connect with Caitlyn Directly:  www.caitlinwinkley.com

Last week's podcast broad me to laughter, and this week's brought me to tears.  It's essentially like having a service trip experience right from my home as the depth and breadth of human experience through story sweeps through my heart.Tiffany Johnson shares about her journey from her career as a professional singer and performer to a volunteer and eventually full time employee of Soles4Souls.  Her story is rich in what happens when we're willing to listen to the innate calling of our soul, as well as the wisdom of what life itself is telling us through the circumstances that point us in a particular direction.Speaking to her was so poignant for and she shares a story of a woman's life that touched her deeply in Honduras.  She brought me to tears, both in the way that her relationship with the woman was able to ultimately help her, and the plight of so many women around the world who suffer for opportunities like we have so readily available to us in the United States with birth control options as well as the support needed in the case of unwanted pregnancies that are out of the control of the women themselves.  This conversation reminds me of the absolute heart wrenching at times complexity of the service that we do and what happens when we are willing to open our eyes to the depth of challenges of those around us.  It is also the power of being willing to do so, as, we might not have the solution, but we might know someone who does.  Truly, deeply, we never know how far reaching something we say or do for another person will ultimately change their lives.She also reminds me of simply how powerful it is to answer the calling to help right now, because one hand held out leads to seeing more, which leads to more questions, which leads to more answers and the ability to connect people to the solutions that can and do exist.Together we are the web, the tribe, that uplifts life.  It is painful at times to be willing to see, but it is also the only way to be fully alive.Thank you Tiffany, the relationship is just beginning.To connect with service opportunities through Souls4Soles:  To connect with Tiffany's beautiful music, one of her outlets of expression for processing the beautiful living complexity of her heart's work:  http://tiffanyjohnson.netMore about Tiffany: Tiffany works full ­time at Soles4Souls as Outreach and Travel Coordinator where she works daily with hundreds of global partners who distribute shoes for the international non-­profit. Tiffany has visited 9 countries, leading groups to give shoes and love and serve others worldwide. Tiffany was also chosen by Mutual of Omaha as their 2013 Aha Moment Winner. Learn about her Aha Moment here: http://www.ahamoment.com/moments/10041When she’s not traveling, she can currently be found making music with her R&B/Soul band Soul Confidant in and around Nashville. Her current release, Five Minutes More, includes a rendition of “Somewhere over the Rainbow” – a song she’s been singing for the past 30 years. Whether it’s shoes or music, Tiffany just has one goal in mind...leaving her “soul” where it’s needed most. 

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 Festival One World's 100 most promising filmmakers distinction.  Her film KASITA won best short at Harlem International Film Festival.  Her documentary about her Yoga teacher Leo Floridas will premiere in the 2016/17 season.  Her new solo dance performances for Living Rooms will start touring in 2017.  Other projects include a new installment in her series Another Building, a dance film exploring Creole Jewish identity in a dwindling community, and an environmental thriller for young audiences.  She joins the faculty of Barnard College Dance Department at Columbia University as Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in the fall of 2017.  Her life long yoga practice fuels her approach to life and art.Connect with Gabri:www.gabrichrista.comwww.anotherbuilding.com

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

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 editor of Kindred.  Lisa shares her personal stories of shifting in features, such as Spiritual Composting, in Kindred and other conscious parenting publications.  In her presentations at conferences and workshops, she inspires parents to look toward Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey for guidance on transforming themselves as a path to transforming our unsustainable culture.  Her Parenting As A Hero's Journey Virtual Retreats and publication launched in 2015.To catch up more with Lisa visit www.KindredMedia.org

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 the executive editor of Kindred.  Lisa shares her personal stories of shifting in features, such as Spiritual Composting, in Kindred and other conscious parenting publications.  In her presentations at conferences and workshops, she inspires parents to look toward Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey for guidance on transforming themselves as a path to transforming our unsustainable culture.  Her Parenting As A Hero's Journey Virtual Retreats and publication launched in 2015.To catch up more with Lisa visit www.KindredMeda.org

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 Certified Clinical Sexologist, Sex Expert and Certified Sex Coach.  Her belief is that if your sexual activities are not harming you or others and there is consent with other adults- it is all okay and there is no "normal."To connect with her: http://www.randilevinson.com 

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 the University of Vermont Medical Center and has a small practice in South Burlington, Vermont.In this conversation we explore the feeling of life balance as peace, fulfillment, and an inner harmony that leads to a harmony with life itself.  She gives tips for finding this.She shares about the power of nature and quiet times of reflection, as well as the importance of play and fun in the adult life.  Essentially, making sure every day includes elements of self care as well as doing something that brings joy.

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, Ayurveda, to help students sleep and eat better, and increase their energy. Marjorie offers online programs, yoga classes, workshops, and wellness programs and retreats, and co-founded Ready Set Recover in 2014 to help individuals going through surgery get back to better. A lifelong New Yorker, Marjorie recently relocated to La Jolla, California. 

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 to find the answer again and again.? 

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 contributes to a more sustainable and happier world.She will inspire and calm you at the same time!To connect directly with Becky please email her at BeckyDielIBCLC@gmail.comIf you are in the Napa area please join us for our next "New Mommy Love" event to receive a free consult with Becky on reclined nursing (we welcome pre and post-natal mommas to come in, be supported, and learn).  Go to blossomlife.com to see when the next event is.    

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 enjoying the moments of changed lives now, as well as her family's joyful moments.More on Kelli:Kelli Iverson Stuart found The Dailey Method in 2009, shortly after having her 2nd son and was hooked after just one class. She was working a corporate job, struggling to balance work and her family, and quickly losing touch with herself. “I was really nervous to attend my first class because I was really out of shape after a difficult pregnancy and putting myself last for many years. But in a matter of minutes, I felt 100% supported and more importantly, empowered. The class was incredibly challenging, but I knew I had found something my body, mind, and soul truly needed. On top of that, I felt an immediate connection with the teachers and students in class. The sense of community was strong and energizing. I knew right away that I wanted to share The Dailey Method with other women, particularly in my hometown of Napa. I knew I had found my calling - to help other women get stronger from the inside out, so that they can live fuller, more joyful, more satisfying lives.” Kelli began training directly under Jill Dailey and received her master certification in 2013. After a long hunt for the perfect location, she opened The Dailey Method Napa in downtown Napa in May 2014. The studio is owned and operated in partnership with The Dailey Method.To Connect with Kelli:  http://www.thedaileymethod.com/studios/napa/overview/ 

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 also references the book that has helped me, Book Yourself Solid.

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 Recovery:  http://www.refugerecovery.organd another not mentioned isAttitudinal Healing:  http://ahinternational.orgSubscribe to Love Bombers to get our podcast straight to your inbox at lovebomberspodcast.com

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.