Lunch with the Loveologist Podcast

Ever wish you had the Hindsight to avoid the same relationship pitfalls time after time,  listen as Maryanne Comaroto breaks down the essential skills required for creating the loving relationships that we all yearn for.  A talented and articulate radio host and author, Maryanne is a relationship activist offering both a clear understanding of where relationships break down and a full set of active tools you can use to revitalize and reinvent your relationship to yourself and to the people you love.   Maryanne's no nonsense approach to relationships offers a clear path to healing at the heart of what makes life most meaningful.  Don't miss this game changing conversation on love and life. Maryanne is a relationship activist, coach, radio personality, award-winning author, and frequent guest on TV and radio talk shows around the country. Millions of people worldwide listen to her three live weekly radio talk shows: Maryanne Live!, The Power of We with her husband David Raynal, and Heart Talk with Eve Hogan. Maryanne is a go-to expert for Fox News, WetPaint, Hollywood Life and more. Her blogs can be found on dozens of internet sites. Along with a private practice, she leads transformational workshops for men and women, awarding the Certificate of Responsible Relationship, CORR®, certified by the State of California for Continuing Education credits. She's the author of the award-winning book, Skinny, Tan and Rich: Unveiling the Myth, as well as Hindsight: What You Need To Know Before You Drop Your Drawers!, and the CD series “Thrive: Seven Essential Truths.” She and David have just released their Great Relationships Begin Within Divination deck. Maryanne's gift is translating life's complexities into practical tools for creating healthy, fulfilling, sustainable relationships. She's recognized by her peers and students as a wise, witty, soulful teacher who walks her talk.

"We are what we eat..."  The truth in this statement has taken on epic proportions as we look at the interrelationships of  our personal food choices, growing ecological challenges and an ever emerging consciousness of sustainable living.  Don't miss this enlightening conversation with Helge Hellberg, Mark Mulcahy and Chef Sitarani Brian, co-anchors of An Organic Conversation as they weave the meaning of how we nourish ourselves and the intention of how we love ourselves and others into a beautiful tapestry that will show you the interconnected relationship of living a life steeped in flavor, beauty and meaning.   It will inspire you to the joy and wonder of all of your senses. An Organic Conversation Team Helge Hellberg is an educator, consultant, radio talk-show host, and organic food advocate widely respected for his innovative work in the field of sustainability, ecology, and human health. Hellberg is a distinguished speaker and guest lecturer at events and conferences throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and has advised businesses, organizations, local and state governments, as well as U.S. Senators and members of the U.S. House of Representatives on agricultural challenges and opportunities. His contributions and projects have been featured in dozens of articles and TV segments including CNN, ABC, and CBS, the Huffington Post, the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and Mother Earth Magazine. Mark Mulcahy is a produce retail consultant, educator, and organic advocate. Mulcahy is a member of CDS Consulting Co-op, which provides produce consulting and educational services for co-ops and independent retailers worldwide.[4]He has spoken at numerous events and conferences including the Ecological Farming Conference, Natural Products Expo East and West, Organic Trade Association's All Things Organic Conference, Natural Products Expo Europe and the Consumer Cooperative Management Association Conference. Mulcahy is a regular columnist for Natural Food Merchandiser, Natural Food Network, Cooperative Grocer and the Melissa's World Variety Produce web magazine, Organic Solutions. His "Language of Flavor" seminars, and his monthly organic produce newsletter Fresh Perspectives is used in stores around the United States. Sitarani Brian is the Culinary Program Director for Bauman College, training chefs in a holistic approach that focuses on nutrition and sustainability. She has worked professionally in restaurants and as a personal chef, caterer, and cooking instructor in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her specialties include vegan, vegetarian, and raw cuisines, as well as macrobiotic, Ayurvedic, and gluten-free diets. Chef Sita¹s commitment to organic, local, seasonal whole foods and fairly traded ingredients led her to her motto: Enjoy food that is good for the body, good to the Earth, and good for the welfare of the people. She is currently working on her cooking show “Twice-a-Week Vegetarian” which encourages people of all diets to choose a plant-based meal twice a week to save money and to promote better health and a lighter carbon footprint.

Susan Crain Bakos has written close to 2 dozen volumes on the orgasmic experience over the last two decades and believes we express our core identities through our sexuality. Listen as she shares her unique perspectives on the crossroads of life, love and orgasm as well as her no-fail Orgasm Loop technique for achieving orgasm.  Susan recently discovered that she is dying of cancer and we discuss her moving reflections about living and dying authentically.   Don't miss this conversation that you won't soon forget. Susan Crain Bakos is an internationally recognized research sexologist, a sex educator, and a magazine journalist. She is also the author of twenty books, including the Orgasm Bible, The Sex Bible and The Orgasm Loop.  She has been studying and writing about sex for over twenty years and her work has appeared in national magazines including Redbook, Men's Health and Cosmopolitan.  She is an an outspoken champion of sexual empowerment, and reports on the cross roads of scientific research and sexuality on her blog SexyPrime. As a former contributing editor and columnist at Penthouse she has worked with legends like Dr. Ruth and Helen Gurley Brown.  She has interviewed thousands of men and women about their sex lives and has developed several sexual techniques that have helped thousands of women achieve orgasm.  She has appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America and numerous other television and radio programs.

For Tiberio Simone and Matt Freedman, two of the most beautiful things in the world are food and the human body – not necessarily in that order.  Their coffee table book,  La Figa: Visions of Food and Form examines the relationship between food, touch and the ingredients that make life delicious.  Their project, five years in the making,  is a combination of sensuous human shapes decorated in food, where natural beauty and fresh flavors are one in the same.  Listen to Tiberio and Matt explore the connection between how the food we eat has the power to nourish us through all of our senses and awaken our inherent attraction for flavor and pleasure.   A totally sensuous exploration of how we are truly what we eat. Italian born, Tiberio Simone is a James Beard Award-winning chef and pleasure activist. He has been cooking for as long as he can remember, beginning in his mother’s kitchen. Tiberio started his career by working at an Italian restaurant in Seattle, where he moved at the age of 21. He eventually became the pastry chef at Seattle’s Four Seasons Olympic Hotel. Years later – tired of corporate cooking – Tiberio launched his own company: La Figa Catering. Matt Freedman is both a professional photographer and a professional technologist. In 2007, he was able to combine his passion for photography and technology by becoming the staff photographer and Director of Technology for JUST CAUSE Magazine – a bi-monthly magazine focusing on solutions, with stories of individuals, organizations and businesses doing good in the world. In 2009, Matt once again merged photography and technology to produce Burning Man: A Photo Essay – the first iPhone app about the Burning Man festival. A "coffee table book for the iPhone," the app combines Matt’s photography, writing and software engineering.

Ever wonder about the increasing popularity of body piercings,  don't miss this informative and surprising view of the art and science of body art by Elayne Angel who wrote the definitive guide The Piercing Bible.  With over 40,000 piercings in every imaginable place,  Elayne shares her unique perspective of how body art ritualizes important life passages as well as how it has been practiced throughout the world since recorded time.  Her's was the first piercing shop in the country and she remains the leading voice for improving it's education and safety.  I promise you will not look at piercing the same... Elayne Angel is a world-renowned professional body piercer and author of The Piercing Bible--The Definitive Guide to Safe Body Piercing (Random House, 2009), the only comprehensive book in English that is exclusively on the subject of body piercing. She’s performed over 40,000 piercings in her career since the 1980s when she managed Gauntlet, the first piercing specialty studio in the United States. She was founder and President of Rings of Desire, the only licensed body art studio in the French Quarter of New Orleans, where she pierced for over twelve years. She helped legislators to promulgate the regulations on body art for the state of Louisiana. Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, she closed her business and relocated to the Yucatán in Mexico. Mrs. Angel guest pierces in fine studios all around the US and she is a monthly columnist for the body art industry trade publication, Pain Magazine. Now serving her fourth elected term of service on the Board of Directors of the Association of Professional Piercers, she is the current President of the organization.

Not all sex education is created equally, and learning some sex positive lessons with humor and integrity might be as good as it gets... Reid Mihalko has taught over 30,000 individuals in his sex education workshops around the world.  Reid educates articulately and authentically on everything from learning your sexual boundaries to exploring and allowing deep pleasure into your life,  this conversation will make you want more from one of the top sex ed gurus in the country.   Don't miss this exciting opening to a healthier sex life. Sex and relationship expert Reid Mihalko of www.ReidAboutSex.com is  known for his charisma, wit and emphasis on integrity, Reid travels the country teaching, coaching, consulting and collaborating on fulfilling his mission: Create more self-esteem, self-confidence and sexual health for adults in and out of the bedroom.From his rated-PG/PG-13 workshops (Cuddle Party, Speed-Flirting) to the rated-R (Iron Slut Sex Educator Showdown) to his explicit, NC-17 rated, Show-N-Tell sex education workshops (where audiences get to watch, take notes, and ask questions), Reid's workshops have been attended by close to 30,000 individuals from myriad walks of life, orientations, relationship styles, countries and religions.   Reid has been a featured speaker at dozens of conferences on relationships and sexuality and is a sought-after presenter and teacher at colleges and sex positive stores across the country.  Reid has appeared on the Emmy award-winning talk show Montel, Fox News, in Newsweek, Seventeen, GQ, The Washington Post, and in thirteen countries and at least seven languages.

Discover the mysteries of life and relationship through the perspective of a truly renaissance scholar, David Barish, professor of psychology at University of Washington and author of over 30 books on topics including animal sociobiology to human evolutionary psychology.  This fascinating conversation travels through the evolutionary mysteries of sexuality and illuminates our fundamental  human propensity towards peace.   David has spoken and written extensively on the conundrum of humanity and enlightens us from every angle.   This is a conversation not to be missed. David Barish,  professor of psychology at University of Washington since 1973 and author of over 30 books on a diverse range of subjects from sociobiology to evolutionary psychology.  He has also been active in researching, writing and teaching in the field of Peace Studies since the early 1980's.   In addition he has written eight books with his wife of over 30 years on they mysteries of human sexuality including: How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories,  and recently Strange Bedfellows: the surprising connection between sex, evolution and monogamy.  His most recent book, co-authored with his wife, Judith Eve Lipton is Payback: why we retaliate, redirect aggression and seek revenge.   What makes David's writing so deeply insightful is how he weaves his training in biology with his inquiry of human psychology, offering a unique perspective of how biology affects behavior including gender differences, reproductive strategies and the troubling problems of violence.  Combining this with his interest in Buddhism and existentialism, David's science is a philosophy which enlightens the core questions at the heart of life's meaning.

Rethink what orgasm means for you in this provocative conversation with author of The Ultimate Guide to Orgasm for Women,  Mikaya Heart.  Explore female sexuality from a perspective that normalizes the diversity of women’s experiences  — including the wide range of physical experience, emotional release and spiritual recognition that comes through orgasm.  Discover new ways to find your capacity for pleasure and ways to communicate it to your lover.   Understand your connection to the erotic and witness how that enhances your connection to life. Mikaya Heart is an author, speaker, life coach and explorer. She grew up in Scotland and immigrated to Northern California in the 1970s.  The author of seven books, Mikaya’s most recent book, My Sweet Wild Dance, received a Golden Crown Literary Award, bestowed by The Golden Crown Literary Society, a literary and educational organization for the enjoyment, discussion and enhancement of lesbian literature. Trained as an agricultural mechanic, Heart has run an organic market garden, raised free-range pigs and built her own house out of recycled lumber in the backwoods. She’s done a great deal of personal growth and healing work with illustrious teachers including Brooke Medicine Eagle and Angeles Arrien. Heart is a spiritual teacher, offering workshops based on the art of being human, and a qualified kitesurfing instructor, her greatest passion..

Listen as philosopher, poet and best selling author Mark Nepo, shares his insight and wisdom into the magical art of deep listening to your life.    His work has helped millions of people to understand the spiritual physics of suffering and the freedom that comes from being broken open by life.   His words and stories are the vehicles for experiencing the truth of your life and the courage to hold nothing back.   This is a conversation that will inspire you to believe in everything that happens to you and lean into your life with renewed faith and trust.  Don't miss it. Mark Nepo is a poet and philosopher who has taught in the fields of poetry and spirituality for over thirty years. A New York Times #1 bestselling author, he has published twelve books and recorded six CDs, including his latest book As Far As the Heart Can See,  Finding Inner Courage  and  The Book of Awakening and Finding Inner Courage. As a cancer survivor, Mark devotes his writing and teaching to the journey of inner transformation and the life of relationship.  Recently, Mark sat down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey as part of her SIRIUS XM Radio show, Soul Series, and was interviewed by Robin Roberts on Good Morning America about his New York Times bestseller The Book of Awakening. As well, The Exquisite Risk  was cited by Spirituality & Health Magazine as one of the Best Spiritual Books of 2005.   His work has been translated into several languages including French, Portuguese, Japanese, and Danish. In leading spiritual retreats, in working with healing and medical communities, and in his teaching as a poet, Mark’s work is widely accessible and used by many. He continues to offer readings, lectures, and retreats.

Bring intelligence to your sex drive with psychotherapist, Stanley Siegel who has evolved his understanding of the healing power of our sex drive over 35 years of practice.   Learn how to understand your sexual desires as your brain's effort to heal painful developmental experiences.  Siegel explains how our fantasies connect to our brain's subconscious efforts to find pleasure in our lingering painful histories.   Our lust is intelligent when regarded in the context of our emotional wounds and life history and treating it with generosity and respect offers real healing.  Don't miss this conversation that will change everything you think about sexual fantasies and discover the healing passion waiting in your own life.   Truly, deeply inspiring. Stanley Siegel is a psychotherapist in New York City and writes a weekly blog on sex for Psychology Today. He is an international lecturer and former director of education and senior faculty member of New York’s renowned Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy. He is the author of The Patient Who Cured His Therapist and Other Unconventional Stories (Penguin 1992) and Unchartered Lives: Understanding The Life Passages Of Gay Men (Penguin 1994), and most recently Your Brain on Sex. He has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, as well as many other television and radio programs across the nation, and is regularly quoted in the media, often described as the “therapist to the celebrities.”

Join this lively discussion with Rachel Kramer Bussel, editor of dozens of volumes of best selling erotica as we explore the interesting crossroads of what makes us orgasmic.   Giving language to our erotic selves, even just in the reading of other people's fantasies has the power to both add passion to our intimate experiences and release our fears by facing them.   Rachel's anthologies explore pleasure from all angles ending up giving us access to our own arousal mechanism.   Exploring our deepest desires, especially the ones we can't name ourselves within the confines of a book cover may just be the sex therapy your life has needed.  Be curious and wonder.... Rachel Kramer Bussel is a New York-based author, editor, blogger and event organizer. She is the editor of over 35 anthologies, including  Orgasmic, Surrender, Passion,  and Obsession as well as Best Sex Writing series editor. Bookslut has said about her work, "Bussel always portrays sex as delicious, wonderful, and fun." She writes the biweekly Secrets of a Sex Writer column for SexIs Magazine. Her writing has been published in  Jezebel, Mediabistro, New York Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, among many other publications. Her books have garnered five IPPY (Independent Publisher) awards. She is the former host of In The Flesh Reading Series, and conducts readings and erotic writing workshops nationwide and is the co-founding editor of the popular blog Cupcakes Take the Cake.

"Gratitude is parent of all other virtues." This ancient roman wisdom is even more true today; developing a daily practice of gratefulness is a proven method for improving your mental, emotional and physical health.  Learning to be grateful for the goodness and love in your life is a multiplier.  Listen to this encouraging and heartfelt conversation with author Nina Lesowitz, who co-authored Living Life as a Thank you and The Gratitude Power Workbook.   Discover how the secret ingredient to a life that works begins with loving what you already have. Nina Lesowitz is the author of four books including the bestselling Living Life as a Thank You which inspired the recently released title, The Gratitude Power Workbook (Viva Editions, 2011) She is on the executive committee of Litquake, and also helps aspiring and established authors publish and promote their books worldwide.

Forgiveness is both a choice and a skill we can develop. Listen as the leaders in Forgiveness research Robert Enright and Fred Luskin share their insights and tools for bringing the powerful healing of forgiving to your life.   Most of us were not trained in the practical step by step process of learning how to forgive. Often forgiveness is confused with condoning or forgetting.   Listen and learn how forgiveness can be real in your life, freeing your life energy for the pursuit of love and goodness. Robert Enright is a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He has been a leader in the scientific study of forgiveness and its effects since 1985. Time magazine referred to him as “the forgiveness trailblazer.”  He is the author of over 100 publications, including five books: Exploring Forgiveness, Helping Clients Forgive, Forgiveness Is a Choice, The Forgiving Life (currently in production), and a children’s book, Rising above the Storm Clouds. .  His colleagues and he have been working in Belfast, Northern Ireland since 2002, assisting schools in setting up forgiveness education programs. Dr. Fred Luskin serves as Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations. The forgiveness project has successfully explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone as well as the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. In addition his work has been successfully applied and researched in corporate, medical, legal and religious settings. He currently serves as a Senior Consultant in Health Promotion at Stanford University and is a Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. He presents lectures, workshops, seminars and trainings on the importance, health benefits and training of forgiveness, stress management and emotional competence throughout the United States. He offers presentations and classes that range from one hour to ongoing weekly trainings. He is the author of Forgive for Good and Forgive for Love.

Learning to identify and build the skills for the Crucial Conversations in your life, whether in your work or personal relationships is pivotal to success or failure in both.   Listen as author and expert, Kerry Patterson shares his research and advice that has helped over 2 million people navigate the rough waters of high stakes discussions that both resolve problems and build relationships.  The techniques and insights that Kerry shares will inspire you to a new level of communication that offers a new level of bonding and relatedness as well as a means to discovering innovative problem solving and thinking skills.   Don't miss this crucial conversation.... Kerry Patterson is the four-time New York Times best-selling co-author of Crucial Conversations, Crucial Confrontations, Influencer, and Change Anything. For more than twenty-five years, he has served as an expert in organizational behavior, interpersonal communication and corporate training. Patterson is also the co-founder of VitalSmarts, an innovator in corporate training and organizational performance. VitalSmarts has consulted with more than 300 of the Fortune 500 companies and trained more than 650,000 people worldwide.

Eco-sexuality is the future of a sustainable planet.  Listen to this animated and lively conversation with Tina Marie Bernard, international blogger and writer.  Eco sex is concerned with everything from the ingredients in your intimacy products to population growth.   Listen in as we dive deep into the controversial crossroads of eco-feminism and alternative love relationships.  Adopting an eco-sexual perspective to our own erotic lives may just provide the ultimate healing we seek in our lives and for our world. Explore eco Sexuality with internationally known love writer and blogger, Tina Marie Bernard.   She is a top-rated writer of sex, love and relationships for Examiner.com. Her musings are found in a variety of online and print media including Greenprophet.com, More.com, and SheWrites.com, among others.  Her studied and lively perspective on everything from tantra, erotica, feminism and the blessings of pleasure are sure to awaken a new understanding of intimacy and answer questions you might not even knew you had.  Tinamarie  is a great resource for everything that  Modern Lovers want to know about.  Read her work on Green prophet or theExaminer.