Free To Be with Lucca

I have the most heart-opening and vulnerable conversation with my friends Jenna Kim and Tristan Cabral about navigating the unknown, coming out, and family relationships as queer Christians with an evolving concept of and relationship to faith.  It’s the longest podcast conversation I’ve ever had and one of the most impactful. Every part of it is so intentional and necessary to share.  We talk abo...

Generous love is the theme of this episode. Josie Ross-McCloud and I get candid about the complex relationship between a queer child and their heterosexual parents and family. Josie’s incredible child Salem is a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. They identify as non-binary trans masculine.  In this conversation, Josie holds the most loving space for me to talk about one of the most turbulent and tra...

In the first episode of Free to Be, it’s just you and me. Childlike curiosity is the theme of this conversation.  I share who I am, my journey from living under expectation and judgment to igniting my authenticity and self-trust, and what it means to me to live free to be 100% myself. I also dive into why I chose to evolve my podcast Living in Your Passion Place to Free Be, what I’ve learned over...

In this development chat, Lucca and his mother Dennise talk about the butterfly effect — defined as how a minor change or choice at one time creates a phenomenal change or choice overtime — and how it’s been alive in their family legacy over the past century, beginning with Lucca's great, great grandfather to his great grandma, to his grandma, to his mom and how it has led him to exactly where he...

As a leader and coach in the health and wellness space, Neeyaz Zolfaghari is known for helping others find harmony and balance with their full body and self, emotionally, energetically, mentally and physically.  In this conversation, Lucca and her discuss: How we can find the answers to anything and everything by listening to the whispers within and around us Why being home in her body is her pass...

As a leader and mentor in the yoga, fitness and personal development world, Mary Lyn Jenkins is known for training and coaching individuals to stand in love, forgiveness and choice; expand their gifts to serve powerfully; and live the life they want.  In this conversation, Lucca and her discuss: How our words create our world How standing in your core values everyday is the only way How if you sta...

As a change maker and leader in the yoga and fitness industry, Allie is known for training and empowering individuals and organizations all over the world from Kenya to California in self-development and leadership work. Her teachings are based on her belief that radical grace guides us and we can strategically work with it to powerfully author our lives. In this conversation, Lucca and Allie disc...

As a social justice warrior and fitness professional, Rebby Kern is known for creating space for connection, empowerment and self-discovery, and uplifting the experience of diverse, marginalized identities around race, gender identity, sexual orientation, body and ability. In this conversation, Lucca and Rebby discuss their life as a non-binary, queer person of color; how they are developing and s...

As a well-respected and outspoken activist and fitness professional, Paul Takami is known for empowering others to take control of their lives, make confident decisions that align with their truth and leave complacency behind. In this real talk conversation, Lucca and Paul discuss how obstacles in our life become the way, the importance of not letting your “no” mess up your know, living a certain...

In episode 22, Lucca dives into three things.  First, new full-length podcast episodes are dropping every other Wednesday starting next Wednesday, August 12th. Next, Passion Place Lives — where we bring these podcast conversations to 30-minute chats on Living in Your Passion Place's Instagram — are continuing to happen once or twice a month. Head over to our Instagram to tune into the first 6! Las...

As the Founder of My Wealth Conscious Coach and a powerful leader in the wealth management and personal development arenas, AJ Bishop is known for teaching others about mindset mastery and self-leadership and helping them ignite their potential and transform their thoughts about wealth and life into ones that allow them to reach their best and biggest goals by doing the things they care about the...

As a fitness instructor and community leader for some of the most recognized global brands, Chris Chandler is known for bringing the inherent, childlike joy out of all who he comes in contact with and inspiring others to connect with their truest self and go after their wildest, most exciting goals and dreams.  In this real talk conversation, Lucca and Chris discuss: His faith journey that led him...

As an actor in TV shows such as Tyler Perry’s If Loving You Is Wrong, Apple TV’s The Morning Show, NBC’s This Is Us, ABC’s The Real O’Neals and numerous commercials and a fitness professional for SoulCycle and BoxUnion, Chris Pipkin is known for leading his life through optimism, honesty, resilience and by truly committing to his choices and sharing these values with his global community. In this...

As the Vice President of Experience for CycleBar Franchising, a CycleBar Senior Master Instructor, a wife and mom of two, Tevia is known for her world-renown impact, influence and guidance in the indoor cycling and fitness industry. In 1998, she started the first high-end indoor cycling boutique studio called Body & Soul Workout, and soon after, she became an instructor. Beginning in 2013, she wor...

Alisa Manjarrez produces big visions. From podcasts elevating the voices of women of color to software launches to starting your online food show, Alisa is your go-to person when you have a vision that’s much bigger than yourself. As a Vision Producer, she helps others untangle and refine their ideas, then works with them to make it all happen. She incorporates her background in marketing and lead...

As the Vice President of Experience for CycleBar Franchising, a CycleBar Senior Master Instructor, a wife and mom of two, Tevia is known for her world-renown impact, influence and guidance in the indoor cycling and fitness industry. In 1998, she started the first high-end indoor cycling boutique studio called Body & Soul Workout, and soon after, she became an instructor. Beginning in 2013, she wor...

Through this podcast, as an Indoor Cycling Instructor at CycleBar and a Freelance Marketing, Communications and Brand Strategist, Lucca empowers his community to discover or rediscover what they really want and love- their passions; to create a one of a kind life around these; and to share them proudly with the world. In this episode, he highlights this and Season 1 learnings; connecting to your p...

What if arriving to our passion place is realizing that we’re already there? What if the real destination was us choosing to connect to our passions in all we are currently doing wherever we are in life? What if our passion has been inside of us all along? The tables turn in this episode as one of Lucca’s closet friends Lexi Bates interviews him about living in his passion place and what he’s lear...

From a small town girl in Ohio longing for fulfillment and adventure to a success and mindset coach traveling the world and creating the life she always imagined, Savannah Hamilton shares how everything we hope, desire and dream can become our reality.  In this episode, Savannah takes you on her journey, from taking the scary leap, leaving her comfortable life and moving across the country because...

For as long as Ryan Greene could remember, he dreamed of being a physician for a professional sports team. He knew his 12+ years of comprehensive schooling would allow him to achieve this so he put his head and went to work. Little did he know that his career goal would soon change. He began to first hand witness the professional and private lives of many doctors and he noticed patterns that didn’...

Instead of allowing his life experiences and circumstances dictate his future, John Marino wakes up each morning with a sense of gratitude and chooses to dedicate every day to community, fitness and service. Whether he’s at his job as a corporate wellness and citizenship advocate for a management consulting firm, spreading awareness for the Epilepsy Foundation, trying a new workout with the Ohana-...

Through this conversation over the past few months, we’ve learned your passion place can be so much more than a career, a destination or an actual place. Our episode 10 guest dives deep into the thought that passion can be a relationship; it can be a connection; it can be faith; it can be the little things that bring you joy. In this conversation, meet Dennise Petrucci Kwietkauski, the very specia...

What's your Passion Place? What lights you up? Share it with us and let's continue the conversation about #YourPassionPlace online @passionplacepodcast on Instagram and at Living in Your Passion Place on Facebook. Tune into new episodes every other Wednesday on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, on our Simplecast website at the link below or wherever else you listen to podcasts. https:/...

What's your Passion Place? What lights you up? Share it with us and let's continue the conversation about #YourPassionPlace online @passionplacepodcast on Instagram and at Living in Your Passion Place on Facebook. Tune into new episodes every other Wednesday on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, on our Simplecast website at the link below or wherever else you listen to podcasts. https:/...

What's your Passion Place? What lights you up from within? Share it with us and let's continue the conversation about #YourPassionPlace online @passionplacepodcast on Instagram and at Living in Your Passion Place on Facebook. Tune into new episodes every other Wednesday on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, on our Simplecast website at the link below or wherever else you listen to podca...