Love Is The Author

Episode 174 - Homeless Opera Singer

Steven J. Miller is a homeless veteran who sings opera for donations in downtown Ojai. He has intentionally chose to live on the streets for the past 18 years and has an

Episode 173 - Pink Thrift

In this spontaneous, on-location episode, Jaymee grabs his recording gear and follows a familiar kind of Ojai magic into Pink Thrift—a funky little shop where vintage tre

Episode 172 - Nicole & Garrett McNamara

Garrett McNamara is a world-record-breaking big-wave surf legend, and Nicole McNamara is an environmental educator, strategist, and his core safety and support partner. T

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 passage

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, fath

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

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 extra

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

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

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 deca

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 the

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 h

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

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,

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.

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 gr

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

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 Thinle

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, spirituali

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