Love Is The Author

Jaymee and his partner/manager Lacee return with another YAWN AND LOKO episode, offering an hour of one of a kind relationship advice and homegrown spiritual practices. Interested in Mentorship with Jaymee or Lacee? email: lacee@loveistheauthor.com to set up a free consultation, or visit: www.loveistheauthor.com/mentorship SPONSORS: RAUM GOODS (www.raumgoods.com) INDIAN LODGE ROAD (www.indianlodge...

RamDev Dale Borglum is the founder and Executive Director of  ⁠A Living/Dying Project⁠ , and co-authored the spiritual classic Journey of Awakening: A Meditator’s Guideboo k with Ram Dass. He is a pioneer in the conscious dying movement and has worked directly with thousands of people with life-threatening illness and their families for over 30 years. RamDev has a BS from UC Berkeley and a PhD fro...

The Ocean Of Consciousness, The Practice Of Love, Dreams Authoring Songs, Unmasking Fears, The Universal Truths, Chalamet As Dylan and The Divine Gifts of Kendrick Lamar: these are only a few topics covered throughout Jim and Jaymee's new epic conversation a year later. LITA PODCAST: hosted, edited and produced by Jaymee Carpenter.  MIXED BY: Chris Faller The new album by MY MORNING JACKET tit...

Caleb Van Patten is a former platoon sergeant and combat marksmanship trainer for the Marine Corps, and currently a Firefighter with El Dorado County Fire who were assigned to the recent Eaton Fire in Los Angeles. Jaymee met Caleb moments after Caleb nearly lost his life attempting to save Jaymee's parents Altadena home, and the two became instant friends. This uncommonly vulnerable and emotionall...

Jaymee and his partner/manager Lacee return with another YAWN AND LOKO episode, offering one of a kind relationship advice, existential contemplations and homegrown spiritual practices. Upcoming Beings Club course with Jaymee "What Is Sanity" (Jan. 30): ⁠ www.spacetobe.xyz/beings⁠ Interested in Mentorship with Jaymee or Lacee? email: lacee@loveistheauthor.com to set up a free consultatio...

Carlos Niño is a prolific music producer and artistic visionary from Los Angeles, who recently co-produced Andre 3000’s album New Blue Sun . Recorded in Ojai at Love Serve Remember Foundation (www.ramdass.org) in the kirtan space.  LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST:  hosted, curated and produced by Jaymee Carpenter.  LITA WEB: www.loveistheauthor.com COVER PHOTO: Clifford Hutchins Wadsworth III SPONSORS:...

Chris Grosso is the executive producer/director of the tv series F@#k That's Delicious, King Of The Road, Munchies, Tattoo Age, Epicly Later'd, The Untitled Action Bronson Show, Bong Apetit, and a decades worth of other titles and memorable content for Vice and Viceland in it's heyday. Chris shares how following his passion and not being afraid to take big swings led him to sustaining a prolific c...

Kim Krans , multidisciplinary artist, NYT Times Best Selling author and the creative visionary behind The Wild Unknown oracle deck series makes her third appearance on the podcast for an expansive (and hilarious) jam session with Jaymee about surrendering to the call of the muse, shedding artistic identity, the creative straightjacket of success, and why the hell visions of Aaron Rodgers keep show...

Jaymee and Lacee are back as YAWN & LOKO offering one of a kind relationship advice, mindfulness contemplations and homegrown spiritual practices (including nude prostrating) and the two cold call Raghu Markus on air and have an impromptu conversation about Neem Karoli Baba. Plus Lucky Jackson! INTERESTED IN MENTORSHIP W/ LACEE OR JAYMEE: email: lacee@loveistheauthor.com for a free consultatio...

Scarlet Rivera is the iconic violinist from Bob Dylan's Desire album, a pioneer of the electric violin and a member of the legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tour in 1976. This episode is the first long form conversation with Scarlet focusing on her unique relationship with Bob and fateful entry into rock and roll history. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST:  hosted and produced by Jaymee Carpenter.  SCARLET...

Tim Heidecker is an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician. He's a true living legend of modern comedy content creation, and likely one of your favorite comedians favorite comedian. Whether you know him from " Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!" , the film " Bridesmaids", his weekly YouTube podcast " Office Hours Live" or a million other things, Tim's prolific output over the...

Samuel Bercholz, founder of Shambhala Publishing and one of Jaymee's mentors, returns for his 7th appearance on the podcast. Full of Buddhist teachings, insights, and personal experiences with legendary spiritual teachers Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Ram Dass, and Thinley Norbu Rinpoche, this episode is a tender and hilarious refuge from the "known" world, and an embrace of the great mysteries of lif...

Lama Tashi Norbu is the only known Tibetan Buddhist monk tattoo artist in the world, who originally served as a fine art painter for His Holiness the Dalai Lama . Lama Tashi utilizes his art as a medium to deepen people's understanding of Buddhism and help them recognize their inherent virtues. He is the founder and Creative Director of the only registered Tibetan Museum in the world, The Museum o...

Mikael Jorgensen is the keyboardist for Wilco and director of a forthcoming documentary on jazz legend Bob James . This is his first public conversation about the emotional components of his life story, as well as the arc of his entire music career including working with producer Steve Albini and the last 22 years in Wilco . MIKAEL WEB: www.mikaeljorgensen.com LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST:  hosted,...

Rain Phoenix is a multidisciplinary artist and creator of LaunchLeft podcast. She is the older sister of Joaquin, Liberty and Summer, and younger sister of River. Jaymee and Rain go deep discussing the potentially harmful aspects of applause, humble ways to create a generous mind, Ian MacKaye as a "near impossible" model of artistic integrity, how her solo album River was a way to open t...

Geneviève Medow-Jenkins , founder of Secular Sabbath who also had the unique experience of being raised at the legendary Esalen Institute in Big Sur, joins Jaymee in conversation live from the kirtan space of the Love Serve Remember Foundation in Ojai, CA. Topics include: - the normalization of nudity - being unafraid of confrontation - the value of boredom - the potency of not sharing everything...

Jaymee shares a free hour of spiritual guidance, offering his one of a kind teachings, tools and practices for sustaining mental health and cultivating emotional maturity. In this solo episode, you'll learn how he disrupts patterns of mind on a daily basis (and why), the importance of living a life of integrity, tips for parents attempting to redirect generational trauma, and multiple home rec...

Marlon "Chito" Vera is an Ecuadorian mixed martial artist who competes in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship . The pride of Ecuador and already a legend at the young age of 31, little has been focused on Chito's spiritual side, which Jaymee explores throughout the entirety of this episode. You'll hear why he considers fighting a meditation, his love o...

Mark Mahoney is a true icon of American Tattoo Art, a living legend of the craft. He is the owner of the Shamrock Social Club tattoo shop on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, CA., where he has tattooed everyone from 2PAC and Biggie Smalls, to David Blaine and Johnny Depp. This episode is a masterpiece of vulnerable storytelling, and a masterclass in authenticity covering the expanse of Mark's ent...

Coulter Jacob's is a highly influential independent artist in Los Angeles who hasn't quit his day job. He's worked for the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles for over 20 years, intentionally has no website, rarely takes commissions or sells his paintings. "I've just never wanted to live the life of a starving artist". He's a disciplined practitioner of the c...

Dave England is an American stunt man and member of Jackass who's currently creating a documentary on the cult sport of fingerboarding. Jaymee and Dave take turns attempting to make the other do a "spit take", and cover a range of topics including David Bowie's bulge in Labyrinth , the massive influence early skateboarding videos had on culture, early childhood pranks and homemad...

Legendary ambient multi-instrumentalist Laraaji joins Jaymee for an uncommon conversation on the Universal Truths beyond religion, his original unconscious mystical initiation with sound, why he's worn the same colors for the past 5 decades, and production notes/spiritual practices from his iconic 1980 release Ambient 3: Day Of Radiance (produced by Brian Eno  as part of his  Ambient  series)....

Featuring memorable conversations with Juliette Lewis , Krishna Das , Jim James , Pete Holmes , Devendra Banhart , Sam Bercholz , Kim Krans , Sarah Hyland , Bob Roth , Nick Mulvey , YAWN & LOKO , Clive Langer , Lama Lhanang Rinpoche , and many more. 00:40 NICK MULVEY 08:32 JULIETTE LEWIS 12:00 JIM JAMES 14:43 PETE HOLMES 21:46 SAM BERCHOLZ 34:04 KRISHNA DAS 45:50 DEVENDRA BANHART 55:49 ROBERT...

Barry Taylor is a former priest with a PhD in theology and pop culture, who was once a touring sound technician for legendary soul artists Marvin Gaye , Gladys Knight , and The Stylistics . But it was hilariously working on the Highway To Hell tour in 1979 with AC/DC that Barry converted to Christianity, ushering in a new immersive phase of his life. HIs book Sex, God, and Rock 'n Roll is a wo...

Jaymee and Lacee , who have lovingly referred to themselves as " YAWN + LOKO " in partnership on this podcast, invite you into their most sacrificial spiritual act yet... the death of their romantic relationship! "Trauma is a great involuntary spiritual schoolhouse" - LOKO "You can't sit shiva for your ego dying." - YAWN LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST:  hosted, produc...