Love is the Author is a heart-centered podcast that explores the power of love, human connection, and authenticity in shaping our lives. Hosted by Jaymee Carpenter, a seasoned mental health professional and spiritual mentor, this podcast invites listeners on a journey of self-discovery and personal transformation, interviewing a wide range of multidisciplinary artists and spiritual teachers from around the world.
Jaymee and Lacee share how they turned their recent miscarriage into a method for spiritual awakening, how they've tended to their grief while practicing non-attachment, and why they feel love is limitlessness that transcends death. SPONSORED BY: www.yerbamadre.com Interested in Spiritual Mentorship with Jaymee or Lacee? email: lacee@loveistheauthor.com to set up a free consultation, or…
Keith Slettedahl is an American songwriter/musician and lead singer of the pop rock band The 88 who perform the opening theme to the Emmy Award winning sitcom Community . He's played with legendary artists like Ray Davies, Elliott Smith, Elvis Costello, The Zombies and The Flaming Lips, but what most people don't know about the charismatic frontman is that he's a spiritual giant posing as a…
Yawn & Loko return with the biggest little announcement of their lives. In a deep conversation about the depths of intimacy in partnership, ego death and beholding the great mystery, Jaymee and Lacee share the news they’ve been waiting to tell: they're expecting their first child together. Interested in Spiritual Mentorship with Jaymee or Lacee? email: lacee@loveistheauthor.com to set up a free…
Mitch Horowitz is a PEN Award-winning historian, writer, and lecturer who explores the intersections of metaphysics, ethics, and self-transformation. He is the author of over a dozen books including his newest release Esoterika: Formula's Against The False Self . Jaymee and Mitch have a two hour discussion on the inconvenient recipe for unconditional love, human rights for witches, Christian…
Sam Bercholz is a senior teacher in the Nyingma and Kagyu lineages of Tibetan Buddhism and the founder of Shambhala Publications . He was a close disciple of Kyabje Thinley Norbu Rinpoche and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche , and was empowered by them to teach and given the title Acharya (religious instructor). Samuel returns for his eleventh conversation with Jaymee on the podcast to promote his new…
For the first time, Jaymee welcomes his 16-year-old daughter, Siabelle Darling Carpenter, to Love Is The Author for an extraordinary conversation on self-love, spirituality, emotional intelligence, friendship, and the gift of truly listening. We invite you to spend some time tripping in the unified field of their father/daughter bond, and to ask yourself the deeper questions along with them. LITA…
Bob Roth —legendary teacher, author, CEO of the David Lynch Foundation , and one of the most influential figures in the Transcendental Meditation movement—takes the host’s chair to explore the life and journey of Jaymee Carpenter . Over the past five decades, Bob has introduced meditation to everyone from Martin Scorsese, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, and Jonah Hill to hundreds of thousands of…
Damien Echols is a bestselling American author who spent nearly half his life wrongfully imprisoned on death row as one of the West Memphis Three , documented in the three-part HBO series Paradise Lost , as well as director Amy Berg's documentary West Of Memphis . This is not a conversation about true crime... it's a conversation about how meditation, spiritual study and ritual turned his prison…
Jess Damuck was one of Martha Stewart’s right hands in creating magazines and television shows for over a decade. She is now a creative director, food stylist, and the author of the bestselling cookbooks Salad Freak , Health Nut , and Open Wide with Benny Blanco . "Martha Stewart is my guru!" Musician John Moods is a German-Polish songwriter and recording artist who's intention is to listen to the…
Ruthanna Halprin Hopper is an American artist known for blending visual arts, dance, and somatic psychology. She is the daughter of actor Dennis Hopper and dancer Daria Halprin, and the granddaughter of renowned environmental designer Lawrence Halprin and dance pioneer Anna Halprin, creators of the world renown Halprin Method . Jaymee and Ruthanna discuss shadow work, synchronicities, collective…