LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of Happy

In this episode, Walt and Jodie Lynn explore buying a home on a fixed or retirement income, share hard‑won lessons from past real estate mistakes.Explain how inflation erodes savings and discuss Bitcoin, DIY investing apps, and why a trusted financial advisor matters.Money's Website: https://moneypodcast.net/#MoneyPodcast#PersonalFinance#MoneyMindset#FinancialFreedom

A heart-opening conversation with Walt, Anne Marie, and EMDR therapist Elka.Weave together trauma healing, brain science, language, passion, and energy. Discover how renaming “selfish,” naming your brain, and following what you love can literally save your life.#LOAToday #MentalHealth #EMDR #TraumaHealing

A retired listener’s question about CDs sparks a deep dive into money, fear, values, and the law of attraction. Walt and Jodie Lynn explore active management, emotional triggers, real-life money stories, and why awareness, not income, is the real game-changer. #MoneyMindset #ValuesBasedLiving

When a child is adopted from foster care, the story doesn’t end , it gets more real. Walt and Joel explore trauma, expectations, “doing the work,” and why parents must heal themselves to truly help a hurting child.#FosterCare #TraumaHealing #DoingTheWork

A former foster child turned reclamation coach, Ashana shares how surviving chaos, shame, and rock-bottom moments led her to reclaim herself and help other women do the same through radical authenticity, intention, and community.#HealingJourney #SelfReclamation #LOAToday

Walt and Jodie Lynn launch Money, a fun, accessible podcast about money as energy, scarcity vs. abundance, and creativity with finances.Inviting listener questions to demystify the monetary system and shift mindsets around wealth.#money #moneypodcast #wealth

A candid conversation with life coach Joel Elston on why mindset isn’t enough without action. We explore growth vs. victim mindset, foster care success stories, and how perspective shapes pain, struggle, and resilience.#loatoday #action

What happens when the only survivor of a horrific crash, burned over 70% of her body as a child, grows up, buries her pain for 40 years, and then finally decides to stop merely surviving and start truly living?That’s the story Tracy shared in her conversation with Walt - a raw, emotional journey from suppression and silent suffering to radical healing, self-ownership, and helping others become “tr...

What does it take to finally stop hustling for your worth?For Pamela, it wasn’t cancer. It wasn’t an abusive marriage. It wasn’t single motherhood. It was a blood pressure reading at a routine dentist appointment.Sitting in the chair, she watched the hygienist frown at the monitor: 158 over 104. At first, they thought the machine was broken. It wasn’t.In that moment, Pamela realized something deva...

“How many of my patients would I even be seeing if they’d changed their behavior earlier?”That unspoken question hung in the air throughout Walt Thiessen’s powerful conversation with cardiologist Dr. Bilal Ahmed on LOA Today: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Wellness.This wasn’t a dry medical lecture. It was an emotional, honest look at how our daily choices quietly shape whether our final 10-...

What happens when the person who “should” know money best hands over her financial power and loses everything?In this gripping conversation, Estelle shares how her life imploded and how that collapse became the doorway to true freedom, spiritually and financially.As a child, Estelle’s father taught her about saving and balancing a checkbook at eight years old. By high school, she was an assistant...

What happens when a woman spends decades trying to be everything to everyone, and her body finally says, “No more”?That’s the heart of the conversation between Walt, Anne Marie, and wellness guide Michelle, built around Michelle’s journey from overwhelmed, type‑A single mom to creator of the Holy Well program and the six dimensions of wellness.Michelle described growing up as a classic overachieve...

“What do you really want?”That was the question Marc’s therapist asked him on a beautiful, sunny Atlanta day when, inside, he felt like there was “one cloud raining on just me.” Mark’s answer was simple and heartbreaking: “I just want to be normal.”In this deeply honest conversation on LOA Today, host Walt and co-host Jodie Lynn talk with Marc - certified personal trainer, nutritionist, strength a...

When Walt opened the show by admitting he saw “preparation” and “where are we going?” as almost the same topic, he expected agreement. Instead, Joel gently pushed back.For Joel, those two ideas live in very different emotional universes. “Where are you going matches the concept for me that there is no destination. There’s a journey. Your journey is where you’re going. There is no destination.”That...

What happens when a musician is told he has two years to live and decides not just to survive, but to finally live on his own terms?That’s the story Kevin shared in this powerful conversation with Walt and Jodie Lynn, a story that weaves together music, mortality, and a radical redefinition of success.From the very beginning, Kevin framed music as destiny, not just a career. As a teenager, he disc...

What if the way you compare yourself to others is quietly deciding how happy or miserable you feel every day?In this powerful conversation on LOA Today, Walt and Joel unpack how comparison, gratitude, and mindset can either drain your joy or completely transform your life.From the very start, Walt asks the core question behind the episode: Are we falling into a comparison trap, or are we using com...

What happens when you stop running from your past and start ripping it up literally?In a powerful conversation on LOA Today, host Walt and co-host Anne Marie sat down with artist and soul-portrait guide Devorah to explore how creativity can become a lifeline out of shame, trauma, and self-hatred.From the outside, Devorah “looked” successful. She went to art school, showed in galleries, and was kno...

What if everything you’ve been chasing for happiness has been pointing you away from where it actually lives?In this powerful conversation on LOA Today, host Walt and co‑host Jodie Lynn sit down with breathwork teacher and money coach Jon Paul to explore how a simple, uncomfortable breathing technique can unlock decades of trapped pain and reveal a life filled with purpose, joy, and self‑love.Jon...

What if the very thing that makes you powerful is the thing your subconscious has spent a lifetime shutting down?In this deeply vulnerable and expansive conversation, Walt and Jodie Lynn explore what it means to live with immense spiritual potential while feeling cut off from some of its most common expressions,  especially visualization and direct connection with spirit guides.Early in the discus...

What happens when the life you built shatters - your child is struggling, your marriage is crumbling, and you realize you’re starting to sound like the parent who hurt you most?In this powerful conversation, Julie joins Walt and JodieLynn to share how losing herself became the doorway to everything she was truly here to be.From the start, Julie frames her journey as a path to becoming an “empowere...

What if every person you meet, every fleeting moment, every heartbreak, every kindness, is not random at all but divine?In this powerful conversation, Walt and Joel pull back the curtain on what they call divine encounters and reveal how the smallest moments can reshape an entire life.Early on, Walt poses the core question behind the whole episode: Are some encounters truly divine, or is every enc...

When Jessica Taylor left home on November 15, 1969, she thought she was simply picking up supplies for her cosmetic studio. Instead, a single misstep sent her plummeting down a dark staircase, shattering her skull and erasing her entire memory.“My slate was wiped clean, all memory of everything in my life and what life was, gone. Totally all memory was gone.”In a recent episode of LOA Today, host ...

What if the quality of your life is not random, not unfair, and not “just the way it is” but a precise reflection of the standards you quietly live by every single day?In this powerful conversation, Walt and Joel unpack how much our lives are shaped not by what we say we want, but by what we’re actually willing to accept, repeat, and tolerate - in love, in work, in health, and in how we treat ours...

What if the worst thing that ever happened to you became the doorway to the life you actually want?That’s the emotional heartbeat of this powerful conversation between Walt, Anne-Marie, and guest Dwight, who shared how a full-blown health crisis and career burnout forced him to reclaim his life, purpose, and freedom.For years, Dwight was the classic high-performing IT consultant: a global internet...

When Walt sat down with life coach and LOA teacher Joel for an episode of Your Daily Dose of Happy, a simple phrase from one of Joel’s TikToks became the doorway to a powerful, uncomfortable truth: “Excuses are expensive.”At first glance, it sounds like a clever slogan. But as Walt admitted, the moment he read it, he realized how true it was - we pay a real price for excuses, while getting nothing...