The Beach Speaks

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Oneike Jackson, the beach manager at the Boardwalk Beach Resort in  Negril, Jamaica. I have to say, after editing this episode, I couldn’t stop smiling! His high-vibe Jamaican energy is just that palpable.  Oneike is a great storyteller; however, he did not want to come on the podcast at first. He was shy, and he didn’t know what to say - but his partner Cathi, w...

Send us Fan Mail I have a slight obsession with books. My house is filled with stacks of unread novels, coffee table books, and hidden gems waiting to be explored. But today, I want to focus on a specific genre that holds a special place in my heart: beach reads! A good beach read is more than just a book you read while lounging on the sand. It's a book that transports you to the beach no mat...

Send us Fan Mail Take a walk with me on the beach while I share some stories about what I collect there. It’s a personal journey through my experiences of collecting shells on my beach walks and the odd and sometimes disturbing things I discovered along the way. Diving deep into the world of seashell collecting,  let’s explore the treasures lost and found at the beach, from mundane items to precio...

Send us Fan Mail “One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three. There is only one moon in the sky.” ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea It’s hard to think about going to the beach and not wanting to take a little something with you to remember being there. It’s like the shore has this magnetic pull, urging...

Send us Fan Mail If you’re as passionate about books as you are beaches, you are going to love this conversation with Jane L. Rosen   Jane is an author, screenwriter, and former Huffington Post contributor, and today we’ll be talking about her latest book, On Fire Island - a place Jane knows intimately because she’s been a resident there for 30 years.  On Fire Island   is a story of love and loss,...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Amanda Soler; the creator and host of the SolFul Connections podcast. It seems appropriate that her podcast is called SoFul Connections because Amanda embodies connecting on a soul level; it's in her DNA.  I noticed this from the moment we first met - on the virtual social forum Clubhouse; I'm not sure in what “room” we connected or what the discussion...

Send us Fan Mail How do you feel about seaweed? I bet you could smell it as soon as you heard me say the word!  When I think about the beaches here on the Atlantic coast , I never really considered that seaweed could be a problem. I only notice it when it's washed up in small patches along the shore or in the ocean - but it’s never really gotten in the way of my enjoying the beach. On the Gul...

Send us Fan Mail Is Australia on your beach bucket list?  If it is, you’re going to really like today’s conversation with travel podcasters Lyle and Leanne, who live on the beach in Australia!  Their podcast is called Beach Travel Wine , and I first heard about it when Leanne sent me a message.   She told me that they sold their business and retired to travel, especially the beaches, all over the...

Send us Fan Mail The Number One member of The Beach Speaks Podcast Fan Club joins the conversation to talk about the "Mosts:"  from the Most Enthusiastic Guest and the Most Inspiring   to the Most Popular episode of the entire show (this one might surprise you!) Learn how "Naked on the Beach" became the theme song and what keeps me going when producing the podcast gets tough. ...

Send us Fan Mail I was recently inspired to step out of my comfort zone and write a letter to someone that I deeply admire  - my all-time favorite podcaster Rich Roll, host of the Rich Roll podcast.  Sitting down to write the letter, I  thought - wouldn't it be fun to do it in audio form instead - podcaster to podcaster?  It makes sense because, you know me, I love podcasts! My friends joke t...

Send us Fan Mail Do you dream of moving to the beach?  I dreamed of moving to the beach for so long , and now I can open my front door and walk down to the beach every day! One morning I was sitting on the sand with my eyes closed, tuned in to the sound of the waves, and listening to what the beach had to say about my journey to living at the beach, reminding me of what I had to let go of and what...

Send us Fan Mail I was on the beach taking sunrise pictures with my new iPhone 14pro, and when I opened up my photo app to find some to post on Facebook, I glanced at the number under the “recent” file:  46,454! I wasn’t entirely shocked at the number, but it did make me think about how  I could have that many images on my phone! There’s a lot of talk about how our “smart phones” are making us “du...

Send us Fan Mail What do you think about when you hear the word, Joy ? I’ve noticed in many conversations recently that Joy has come up a lot - like, What makes you feel joy? How can you bring more of it into your life? and If you’ve "lost that joyful feeling," - how do you get it back? We all know what joy is - that feeling of pure pleasure and happiness - but today, my guest Marc Cordo...

Send us Fan Mail When I think about my 2023 beach bucket list, the ones at the top are on the Gulf Coast  -  the ones on practically every travel guide’s top 10 Florida beaches, like Caya Costa, Captiva Island, Sanibel, Destin, and Pensacola. Jensen Beach was not on my bucket list, but when I got a chance to go - even though I had a lot of work on the podcast left to do - how could I say no?  When...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a continuation of the theme,  close encounters of a marine kind, from Episode 56, which I recorded with my friends, John and Jennifer. I thought I’d start out telling one or two of my own stories of scuba diving with my family; I was certain that recalling these events would be like an easy drift dive in the crystal clear waters of a Florida Spring, however, as I s...

Send us Fan Mail Happy new year, Beach lovers!  I just wanted to check in and tell you a little about what I have planned for The beach Speaks in 2023.  Thank you for subscribing and continuing to share the beach love - it means a LOT to me. I just got back from a whirlwind week between Christmas and New years traveling around the Tampa area visiting our close friends - our "Tampa crew"...

Send us Fan Mail I was on an exercise power walk on the beach (which is really kind of a misnomer because I stop so much to take pictures and videos - I’m not sure how much “exercise” I’m getting!) brainstorming themes for the podcast when I began thinking about all the marine life in the ocean, which got me thinking about SCUBA diving, and of course, our friends John Bailey and his wife Jennifer...

Send us Fan Mail Remember the commercial for Calgon bath powder?  The one where a woman, totally frazzled and exhausted from the day's chaos, cries out: “Calgon, take me away!” Then she magically appears in a bubble bath, soaking in an oasis of relaxing healing water.  When I was a kid, I thought it was just a funny commercial, but over the years, when I became that frazzled, exhausted woman,...

Send us Fan Mail Aloha Beach Lovers!    I’ve been talking a lot about the not so fun aspects of beach life - hurricanes.   I thought you might need a break from that and want to hear more about the more pleasant aspects of beach life, so I called Cathi - my go-to beach travel expert and super fan of the podcast, because, lucky her, while we were battling hurricane force winds here, she was basking...

Send us Fan Mail A  friend of mine from “up North” asked me what’s it like to be in a hurricane? That got me thinking about my past 22 years living in Florida. How many hurricanes had I been in?  I grew up in the mountains of Pennsylvania. The only “natural disasters” I ever experienced were blizzards - which were fairly common and not all that disastrous. It wasn’t until I moved to Florida that I...

Send us Fan Mail Ever since Hurricane Ian hit Florida a few weeks ago, I told you I would do an episode about what it’s like to be in a hurricane at the beach - and I fully intend to do that - soon, However, in the meantime, as I start collecting hurricane stories, I thought it might be interesting to hear from one of my fellow podcasters, Kevin Lowe, who lives a few hours south of us near Daytona...

Send us Fan Mail Did I ever tell you about the time I ran away from summer camp to go to the beach? Well, I guess I might be a little dramatic -  I didn’t really “run away.”  It was more like I  “wandered off.” One summer when I was about 7 years old my parents joined a private boat club on the long island sound that had tennis, boating,  and. . . a beach!  We didn’t own a boat, but my parents wer...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to my 50th episode!!  Now you might be thinking, “Ok, 50 is a good number - but what makes it so special? Why not 100?” Well, here’s the deal, according to the latest podcasting statistics, in the past several years a LOT of podcasts started, but the truth is most of those shows are - dead.  There are many good reasons why a show ends but most of the time it’s because peop...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today, Emily Pasnak-Lapchick ,  lives in Saint Petersburg, FL (we call it St Pete)  with her life partner Andres and two cats (there seems to be a theme with cats lately - since my recent guest Alise Sauders travels with her two cats.  It just occurred to me that I have a lot of friends and family that have two cats, and I’m allergic to cats ! But what I’m NOT allergic to...

Send us Fan Mail Is traveling to Greece on your bucket list? It’s definitely on mine! So, when my friend Cathi Taucher asked me if I might be interested in going on an amazing Greek island tour that she has planned - well, yeah, of course! While she was telling me about it, I said: "hold on - this is something I bet my listeners would be interested in, so why don’t you hop on the show and tel...