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Love Is The Author
by Jaymee Carpenter
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.
Episodes
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Episode 171 - Damien Echols: Crazy Wisdom, God vs. Buddhism, The Power Of Relationship for the Prison of Your Mind
Former death row inmate and best selling author Damien Echols returns for his third conversation with Jaymee on the podcast in 3 months. Together they contemplate passages from the Shambhala Publications classic Crazy Wisdom by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, God vs. Buddhism, intelligence vs. wisdom,...
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Episode 170 - STREET MONK AT 50
As Jaymee's 50th birthday approaches, the Street Monk himself reflects in a solo episode on his incredible life journey: from homelessness and addiction to recovery, fatherhood, spiritual mentorship, and key life lessons learned: how to love, how to believe, how to see the things behind things...
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Episode 169 - David Nichtern
David Nichtern is a longtime Buddhist teacher, founder of Dharma Moon, author, musician and Emmy-winning composer whose life has unfolded at the peculiar intersection of meditation, creativity, culture, livelihood and the everyday predicament of being a person. David returns to the podcast for…
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Episode 168 - Pema Lotus (Shamelle Gonzalez)
Shamelle Gonzalez is a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, translator, editor, retreatant, and the human being behind Jaymee’s favorite Instagram account, @PemaLotus, an extraordinary resource for authentic Tibetan Buddhist teachings. A conversation about what happens when the Dharma stops being...
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Episode 167 - Mystical/Cynical: STILL DEAD
Mystical/Cynical is a podcast formerly hosted by artist Daren Thomas Magee aka Real Fun, Wow! and Jaymee that boasts three seasons and 100 episodes. It's been a year and change since they ended the show, so Love Is The Author is hosting a two hour reunion show for end times sake. THiS POD is a...
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Episode 166 - KOANHEADS
KOANHEADS is a Buddhist-based conversation between former death row inmate and best selling author Damien Echols, certified mindfulness teacher Chris Carmena, and Jaymee focusing specifically on the Zen tradition, practices and homegrown realizations. Damien's new book The Alchemy Of The Broken...
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Healing Sexual Abuse (feat. Jaymee's Mother Victoria)
In one of the most intimate conversations ever shared on Love Is The Author, Jaymee sits down his mother Victoria Roberts for a conversation about how she survived a decade of horrific sexual abuse by her father, the silence and self-blame she carried, and the spiritual life raft that preserved...
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Episode 164 - Dan Richter: Making Imagine
John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s close friend, assistant and artistic collaborator Dan Richter takes us even deeper behind the doors of rock-and-roll history in part two of their conversation, recalling the making of Imagine with Phil Spector, what The Beatles’ breakup looked like from inside John and...
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Episode 163 - Dan Richter
This episode features Jaymee’s conversation with artist Dan Richter—immortalized as Moonwatcher in Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey, a role he not only performed but choreographed while in the grip of heroin addiction. Dan takes us behind the eyes of one of cinema’s...
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Episode 162 - Lama Lhanang Rinpoche
Jaymee's spiritual teacher Lama Lhanang Rinpoche returns to the podcast for his 6th recorded conversation on LITA. Lama Lhanang is a Vajrayana Buddhist teacher from Tibet, now the director of the Jigme Lingpa Center in San Diego, who is hosting the upcoming Celebration Of Awakening: World Peace...
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YAWN+LOKO: Just Like Starting Over
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...
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Episode 160 - Keith Slettedahl
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...
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YAWN+LOKO: Give Birth A Chance
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....
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Episode 158 - Mitch Horowitz
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...
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Episode 157 - Sam Bercholz's Rude Awakenings
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...
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EULOGY: mixtape for creation/ego death practice
EULOGY (originally released: 7/14/24): a unique collection of home recordings of Jaymee's from the past decade (prayers, notes, ceremonies, dreams) held together by a sound collage of interviews with inspirational artistic deities. LOVE IS THE AUTHOR PODCAST: produced, edited, engineered and…
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Episode 156 -Siabelle Darling Carpenter
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…
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Episode 155 - Bob Roth Interviews Jaymee
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…
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Episode 154 - Damien Echols
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…
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Episode 153 - Jess Damuck & John Moods
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!"…
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Episode 152 - Ruthanna Halprin Hopper
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…
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Episode 151 - Robert Ryan feat. Devendra Banhart
Robert Ryan is known for being one of the best tattoo artists on the planet, also a member of the band Soma (kirtan), whose new album Songs Of The Lotus Born is out June 11 on Centripetal Force Records. Devendra Banhart is a Venezuelan-American singer songwriter and visual artist, whose new book…
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Episode 150 - Dory Bavarsky
Dory Bavarsky is a composer and music producer known for his music for television and film and his record label Full Color Sound Records. Recently, musician Devendra Banhart introduced Jaymee to Dory at a Buddhist gathering, and in the weeks that followed the two new friends entered into a mutual...
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Episode 149 - Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche
Jaymee welcomes Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Orgyen Chowang Rinpoche of Pristine Mind Foundation for an in depth discussion on the merits of being a good natured rebel on the path, how one's inner motivation speaks louder than words or actions, and the principles behind his new book The...
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Episode 148 - RamDev Dale Borglum
Jaymee welcomes back RamDev Dale Borglum of the Living/Dying Project for a highly contemplative, hilarious and deeply meaningful conversation surrounding his upcoming book How To Live So You Can Die Without Fear. Drawing from decades of work accompanying people through death, grief, and spiritual...
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Episode 147 - Rani Singh on Harry Smith
In this fascinating episode of Love Is The Author, Jaymee sits down with Rani Singh of the Harry Smith Archives for a deep dive into the mythic life and enduring legacy of visionary artist, anthropologist, filmmaker, occult explorer, and collector Harry Smith. Best known to many for compiling the...
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Episode 146 - STREET MONK (2)
Street Monk 2 is the second in a series of spontaneous dharma talks of Jaymee's, this episode recorded outdoors at the park, as he shares teachings and contemplations with the support of nature and a choir of wind, birds and insects. LITA PODCAST: hosted, produced, and recorded by Jaymee…
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Episode 145 - STREET MONK (Q+A w/ Jaymee)
In this special Street Monk episode, Jaymee opens the floor to questions from his mentees about spiritual practice, honesty, purpose, and the discipline of living what you say you believe—especially when life gets messy. There’s no script here, just presence: part guidance, part storytelling…
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Episode 144 - Ali & Quinn Johnes
Ali Johnes is an American film producer (Holy Hell, Frida, The Witch) and the former co-head of Time Magazine's documentary division. Quinn Johnes is her incredible 9 year old son whose father, the legendary Gerry Gilhool passed away in a surfing accident on the 5th year anniversary of Quinn's...
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Episode 143 - Julio The Carpenter
Julio The Carpenter is a beloved handyman and craftsman of the Turtle Conservancy, The Hotel El Roblar and Twin Peaks Ranch in Ojai. Originally from the state of Jalisco, Mexico, Julio journeyed to America in search of greater opportunities, and eventually had a chance meeting with Eric Goode and...
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Episode 142 - Born I
Born I (Ofosu Jones-Quartey) is a DC-based rapper, Buddhist practitioner, meditation teacher, and householder. He brings his signature blend of insight, humor, and lived experience in conversation with Jaymee as the two explore the realm beyond individuality, how OCD helped him hone his craft as…
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Episode 141 - Fences
Jaymee sits down with Christopher Mansfield (Fences) and Jonah Marc Levine, his producer, for a chat about their new album "Now She's Long Gone Sun Squint." They discuss the process of making a record, ordinary everyday magic, the high probability of being pranked by creative geniuses, formulas…
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Episode 140 - Brandon Boyd
Jaymee hosts Brandon Boyd—frontman of the iconic band Incubus, painter, surfer, lifelong spiritual explorer and new father —for a playful and thoughtful conversation about creative morality and the toll of success after decades in the spotlight. Brandon reflects on the strange miracle of a band…
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Episode 139 - Dakota Wint
Jaymee is thrilled to share this two-hour conversation with YouTuber Dakota Wint. With his channel Dakota of Earth nearing the one-million subscriber mark, Dakota reflects on his unlikely entry into the spiritual path—from once being an argumentative atheist encouraged by the writings of...
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Episode 138 - Jesus Christ / (no first name) Aurora
In this expansive double-issue episode, Jaymee welcomes back the wandering mystic known as Jesus Christ, or "Jesus Eveningstar Aurum Aquarian" from his time in the spiritual cult The Source Family. What unfolds is a hilarious, reality-bending exploration of mysticism, spiritual experimentation,...
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Episode 137 - Mary Wright
Mary Wright is an American painter and founder of the Wright Way Organic Resource Center in the Santa Monica Mountains, sacred land where her and her late husband, organic architect Eric Lloyd Wright lived, stewarded and offered to the public for ceremonial and teaching purposes for over 4…
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Episode 136 - Kim Krans 5th
Multidisciplinary artist and creator of The Wild Unknown Tarot series Kim Krans makes her fifth appearance on the podcast, engaging in a non-ordinary conversation with Jaymee on creativity, high-risk joy, artistic discipline, the multiverse of symbolism, art as a spiritual practice, the rhythm of...
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Episode 135 - Doug Bihlmaier
Jaymee is joined by Doug Bihlmaier—fashion icon and mythical creative force at Ralph Lauren for over 5 decades, for a luminary conversation with one of the forefathers of vintage on the Icons of his youth, the ingredients of cool, and the arc of his longtime friendship and creative collaboration…
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Episode 134 - TEN TIMERS CLUB: Samuel Bercholz
Samuel Bercholz—legendary founder and editor-in-chief of Shambhala Publications— returns for his 10th appearance on the podcast, dropping pearls of wisdom like he has holes in his pockets, bridging past conversations with a breathtaking round of new secrets and truths. This is a conversation on...
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Episode 133 - Ganesh Das
In this episode of Love Is The Author, Jaymee welcomes Ganesh Das—host and producer of Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield on the Be Here Now Network— as well as a kirtan walla, artist and gnarly goofy footed skateboarder. Ganesh Das is also a big fan of Love Is The Author, and this past year…
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Episode 132 - Gregory Rogove
In this episode of Love Is The Author, Jaymee interviews Gregory Rogove - musician, composer, and longtime drummer for Devendra Banhart. Greg is also known for playing with Brandon Boyd, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Seal, Rodrigo Amarante, and his favorite music project of all time: Megapuss (with...
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YAWN AND LOKO SUPREME
Jaymee and his partner/manager Lacee Dilmore are back with another YAWN & LOKO themed episode, a two hour window into their unique relationship as romantic partners, mental health professionals, business partners, and devout spiritual practitioners. LITA PODCAST: hosted, produced, edited by…
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Episode 130 - Elena Brower
Elena Brower is a bestselling author, international yoga and meditation teacher and the host of the acclaimed Practice You podcast. Her new book, Hold Nothing published by Shambhala Publications in late 2025 has been incredibly successful, celebrated generously by the spiritual elite, iconic...
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Episode 129 - Wayne Carpenter
Wayne Carpenter is Jaymee's father, a New York born singer/songwriter who lived and breathed music from his earliest life. Wayne developed himself as a performer and writer while attending prestigious music colleges before chasing his dreams on the West Coast in the early 1970's pursuing a record...
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Episode 128 - Da Snake Mon
Chance Feimster aka "Da Snake Mon" is a naturalist guide and wildlife expert from North Carolina who’s been a devout fan of Jaymee's podcasts for the past 5 years. Earlier this year the two began working together in weekly Spritual Mentorship sessions online and a close bond formed between them....
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Episode 127 - Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche
Tulku Orgyen P'huntsok Rinpoche is a Vajrayana Buddhist Master at the Odiyana Institute in Santa Barbara, CA, and one of Jaymee’s root guru’s in Tibetan Buddhism. At 18 months of age he was recognized as the reincarnation of an important teacher by His Holiness Dudjom Rinpoche, and was raised…
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Episode 126 - Chuck Testa
Chuck Testa is owner/operator of Ojai Valley Taxidermy and easily the most recognizable taxidermist in the world, due largely to his viral internet commercial created by YouTubers Rhett and Link for their docu-series Commercial Kings. Besides a healthy exploration of the origins and ethics of...
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Episode 125 - Jamie Kilstein
Jamie Kilstein has been a working comedian for decades, exploring the vast spectrum of highest highs and the lowest of lows both personally and professionally. After hearing his story you may feel that’s putting it lightly. But remarkably, Jamie has survived the gauntlet of his own mistakes and…
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Episode 124 - Daren Thomas Magee
Daren Thomas Magee is the prolific visionary artist behind the wildly popular design-meets-humor lifestyle brand known as Real Fun, Wow! For nearly 5 years he co-hosted a podcast with Jaymee titled Mystical/Cynical, a hilarious show about radical empathy which generated three seasons worth of...
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THE BALLAD OF YAWN & LOKO
Jaymee and his partner Lacee are back with another YAWN & LOKO themed episode, offering one of a kind advice on how to maintain healthy romantic relationships while sustaining emotional health. The couple breaks down the noncommittal aspects of men, the poverty mentality within the feminine, a...
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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.
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