Lunch with the Loveologist Podcast

Margaret Wheatley was co-founder and president of The Berkana Institute. Deborah Frieze succeeded her. Berkana Institute partners with people developing healthy and resilient communities worldwide.  They co-authored Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now. The book and website of the same name is driving a movement of people all over the world who are walking out of problems without solutions and systems driven by destructive individualism and walking on to create communities and connection in a world that can work for everyone.  This conversation invites you on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities.   Truly amazing and life changing work!  Don’t miss it. Margaret has also authored five other books, including Leadership and The New Science and Perseverance. Her numerous articles appear in both professional and popular journals. She received her doctorate in Organizational Behavior and Change from Harvard University. She’s been an organizational consultant since 1973, a global citizen since her youth, a professor in two graduate business programs, a prolific writer, and a happy mother and grandmother. She has received numerous awards and honorary doctorates. Before joining the Berkana Institute, Deborah was a partner and founding member of ZEFER, an Internet services firm that integrated business strategy, experience design, technology and program management. Earlier in her career, she was an editor for Snow Country magazine, and she continues to count skiing and winter sports among her greatest passions. She has worked in partnership with the Mastery Foundation, leading peace and reconciliation programs in Northern Ireland and Israel. She serves as a consultant and advisor to numerous grassroots organizations both locally and abroad. Deborah has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College.

Explore the How of Happiness with researcher and author Sonja Lyubomirsky and learn how your intentional activities are enough to shift you into a happier place.  Finding the activities that best fit your personality and beiief system are key elements to making positive and lasting changes.  Don't miss this informative and eye-opening conversation about the science and study of  happiness. Sonja Lyubomirsky is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. Originally from Russia, she received her A.B., summa cum laude, from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from Stanford University. Sonja's teaching and mentoring of students have been recognized with the Faculty of the Year and Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards and her research – on the possibility of permanently increasing happiness — has been honored with a Science of Generosity grant, a Templeton Positive Psychology Prize, and a million-dollar grant (with Ken Sheldon) from the National Institute of Mental Health.  Lyubomirsky’s 2008 book, The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (Penguin Press) has been translated into 18 languages.  Her work has been written up in hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, and she has appeared in multiple TV shows, radio shows, and feature documentaries in North America, South America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. In her work, Lyubomirsky has focused on developing a science of human happiness. To this end, her research addresses three critical questions: 1) What makes people happy?; 2) Is happiness a good thing?; and 3) How can we make people happier still?  Lyubomirsky’s current focus is on exploring different psychological processes that play a role in sustaining or increasing happiness – for example, counting one’s blessings, practicing altruism, and avoiding obsessively dwelling about oneself and making excessive social comparisons.  She is currently testing the potential of such happiness-sustaining activities to durably increase a person’s happiness level higher than his or her “set point” and to thwart adaptation to positive experiences.  

Using science and research to back her up,  acclaimed writer  Tara Parker-Pope dispels the popular mythology about the death of monogamy with For Better.   Called "the most credible and interesting marital self-help book of all time" by Newsweek, Tara has managed to provide a clear and comprehensive context that proves that saving and improving your marriage/relationship is more than worth the effort.  Her collected data demonstrates that couples who cultivate healthy relationships have more sex, more money, better over all health and live longer.   Whether single or married, listen to this informative and inspiring conversation about the value of making love work. Tara Parker-Pope, who writes the “Well” blog for the New York Times, is one of the newspaper’s most popular and most-emailed journalists.  She wrote for The Wall Street Journal before moving to the Times.  Her work is featured regularly on television and radio.  She has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, CNN, Charlie Rose, and numerous National Public Radio shows.   She became interested in marriage research and hoped that For Better would "arm readers with the information they need to save a struggling relationship or strengthen a good one"    There is actually a science behind a good and lasting relationship and For Better offers the optimism and advice to care for our most significant relationships. Parker-Pope lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.  

Discovering the way to fearlessly face the constant change that defines our lives is both a gift  and a practice revealed by long time Buddhist teacher and author,  Bodhipaksa in his most  recent book  Living as a River.   His voice and compassion provides clear and authentic directions to the peace that comes from cultivating a rich inner life.   Employing a broad collection of ancient wisdom and a down to earth view of living on earth,  this interview provides the insight and inspiration to not only seek, but to find deep and abiding peace of mind.

"Fantasy is all about potential," writes award winning erotica author and editor Kristina Wright.  Combining her education in humanities and her curiosity about human sexuality, she is the perfect guide in exploring written fantasies in the form of erotica.  As author and editor of several anthologies including  Fairy Tale Lust and Dream Lovers, her work invites us all into the freedom to explore the fantasies that live inside age old stories and myths that reach into the hearts of all of us. Wondering where to begin to build your erotic library? Start here....

Discover the power of sexually liberating yourself by listening to the courageous and bold voice of Pamela Madsen, author of  Shameless: How I Ditched the diet, Got Naked, Found true pleasure...and somehow got home in time to cook dinner. Listen to how you can tap into your deepest desires, get over your body image and fill yourself up with real pleasure of the body.  Pamela's fresh and humorous inquiry and discovery of her own sexual pleasure while navigating the sexual underground and discovering the practice of sexological bodyworkers is a tale that will intrigue and surprise you.  Don't miss this conversation that pushes the edges of sexual identity and opens up a treasure trove of pleasure.

Explore the mystery and peace of the midline meditation technology this week with Sandra Wheeler. Discover the origins and availability of stillness within you, and the numerous benefits of cultivating this inner awareness in meditation.  Develop a more centered, relaxed awareness throughout your day, igniting numerous physiological, mental and emotional benefits, as well as helping us to evolve our consciousness.

Originally titled Orchestrating your Orgasms, author and internationally recognized sex therapist/coach Eric Garrison, shares his unique views of how making music and making love share the same transition technologies.   In his book:  Mastering Multiple Sex Positions he offers ideas on everything from position sequencing to emotional transitioning.   His candid and funny voice will illuminate the blocks to a flowing intimate life.  Particularly fascinating is the many ways that offering permission and forgiveness can create the freedom and courage to know our sexuality.

Take a quantum leap in your happiness and positivity potential with this weeks discussion with Tracy Quantum. He is a meditation coach and motivational speaker,  and an authority on teaching individuals and businesses how to use the profound power of meditation to create a life filled with success, happiness, love and health.  Listen as he shares his unique approach  which begins with the truth that happiness and success begin with the simple act of loving yourself.  Listen and learn how thousands have harnessed the power of self love through deep states of relaxation and meditation.  It only takes one positive thought to change your world....

Are you searching for the meaning of your own life? This might just be the conversation you have been waiting to hear. John Strelecky, author of The Why Cafe, which has been called a modern day version of The Alchemist.... The book and our conversation invite you into the place when we allow ourselves to be guided by our heart , instead of feeling like we have to know all the steps along the path before we’ll start walking. If you are seeking inspiration about what it all means and why you are here... don't miss this candid and intimate talk with John.

Masturbation is the single most popular sexual act on the planet but remains steeped in misinformation and shame.  Unburden yourself and explore the wonders of sexual health with Jamye Waxman, M.Ed. who has been dubbed "the nexxxt generation of sex educator".  Author of  Getting Off: A Woman's Guide to Masturbation, Jamye has both a down to earth style and a encyclopedia of sexual health know how that will open your mind and offer access to your body in new and surprising ways.   Don't miss this fun and funny conversation about the tools and techniques of self pleasure and vital sexual health.

Ever wonder what was inside the head of a stripper as she entertains her customers?  Meet Lola,  a young Oregon exotic dancer who brings a different kind of sexual healing to the adult entertainment scene.   Listen to her explain how the industry works from the inside and what motivates young girls to take their clothes off for money.  This very personal glimpse into the lives of women who make the multi million dollar industry turn will surprise and intrigue you with her honest and heart felt desire to help normalize and heal sexuality.

Reknowned sexual health educator and radio show host of "Sex with Jaiya" joins us today to share her extensive training and sexological body worker training with us.  Don't miss her insights and wisdom from her book Red Hot Touch on incorporating the miraculous capacity of our hands to ignite real passion into lovemaking.  Explore the many layers of erogenous zones and listen to her story of reclaiming her own sex life after the birth of her son.   A deeply entertaining and informative talk,  that will inspire the passion in your own intimate life.

Discover the simple and direct program to living through the peri-menopausal and menopause transition with improved health and vitality.   Join this husband and wife team -Dr. David  Miller and Dr. Lovera Miller, authors of Womenopause- The gude to Feeling Fit, Feminine and Fabulous in Four Weeks. Improve your health and avoid common illnesses with simple changes in diet, exercise and sleep routines.  Enhance your understanding of hormone replacement choices and the importance of maintaining sexual health.

Are you a relationship repeater finding yourself in one bad relationship scenario after another.   Understanding the patterns and underlying beliefs that create bad relationship habits is the beginning of breaking the cycle and establishing new healthy relationships.  Join Wendy talk with author, Dr. Seth Meyers about his unique Love Prescription and find ways to overcome the Relationship Repetition Syndrome.