The Long Distance Love Bombs Podcast

Chef Dr. Robert Graham, MD, MPH, ABOIM, FACP, is a Harvard-trained physician board-certified in both Internal and Integrative Medicine with over 15 years of clinical experience.  He is recognized as a national leader in the fields of Complementary and Alternative/Integrative Medicine, Nutrition, Urban Farming, Health Disparities, and Cultural Competency, and he has spoken extensively about his research endeavors throughout the world. Rob received his medical degree from the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where he received the Community Service Award and subsequently the prestigious “Attending of the Year” award. Dr. Graham received a Master’s of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health while completing three additional fellowships in General Internal Medicine and Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies at Harvard Medical School as well as Medical Education at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He also completed coursework in Mind/Body Medicine, Positive Psychology, Lifestyle Medicine, Culinary Medicine, and Botanical and Traditional Chinese Medicine.    In 2018, Dr. Graham became one of less than twenty doctor/chefs worldwide, as he obtained his culinary degree from the Natural Gourmet Institute.  Check out his website here, including the FRESH Med University Wellness Program he founded with his incredible wife, Julie: https://www.freshmednyc.com/ Watch his TEDx talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0f0kVrN2hM Follow him on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook @FRESHMedNYC.  Learn more about Meatless Mondays here: https://www.mondaycampaigns.org/meatless-monday __________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Sign up for my weekly newsletter!  Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas.  Click here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91.  It's easy and takes five seconds.

Courtney McNabb trains women to create unshakable safety and confidence in their internal world by dissolving wounded stories that keep them feeling scarce, stuck, and limited.  She is a women's Empowerment Coach and Feminine Energy Repatterning Trainer touring the world and activating women in their fierce, feminine power, aligning high-vibrational energetic behavioral patterns with sacred purpose.  She works with female spiritual leaders and seekers, specializes in sovereignty and the Sacred Feminine, and loves dancing to gangster rap and adventuring in the mountains with her boyfriend and baby sister. Find her website here and follow her on Instagram here.  You can buy tickets to Ritual here, her amazing upcoming event in Denver with Kendra Adachi.  __________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Sign up for my weekly newsletter!  Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas.  Click here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91.  It's easy and takes five seconds.

David Gandelman connects energetic experience, ancient wisdom traditions, and humor, to create a safe atmosphere for people interested in learning to meditate, and develop their natural spiritual abilities.  He is a spiritual teacher, host of the Energy Matters Podcast and the Grounded Sleep Podcast, and teaches meditation at Cornell University and The Den Meditation Studio in Los Angeles.  You can also find his work featured on Insight Timer, where it has been streamed over 2,000,000 times, and the Simple Habit meditation app.  Follow him on Instagram here or visit his website here, including his online courses. As referenced in our chat, Alan Watts was combined with South Park in a video here. __________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Sign up for my weekly newsletter!  Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas.  Click here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91.  It's easy and takes five seconds.

LeAnn Rimes Cibrian is a singer, songwriter, actress, author, and candlemaker extraordinaire.  She has released ten studio albums, three compilation albums, and two greatest hits albums, and she has won two Grammys, three ACMs, a CMA, 12 Billboard Music Awards, and one American Music award. She has sold over 35 million records worldwide and has written four books, including two children's books. LeAnn also cultivates a personal website, Soul of EverLe, where she writes articles and shares her favorite recipes, ideas, and musings.  It's a space inhabited with authenticity, spirit, love, creativity, joy, curiosity, and healing, and you should check it out. Follow her on Instagram here, and the Soul of EverLe Instagram here. You can listen to her newest album, Remnants, here.  You can buy her candles here and merchandise here. __________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Sign up for my weekly newsletter!  Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas.  Click here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91.  It's easy and takes five seconds.

Payal Sharma is a field researcher who studies power and stress in organizations. Through her work, she seeks to identify how, and where, people have agency and control in their job settings, particularly when challenging situations arise. Some of her interests center on understanding the unique demands that leaders face, and how they can manage these experiences in positive ways before and after they occur. In addition, she is currently exploring power dynamics (1) on video sets in the hip hop and rap music industry; and (2) between leaders and their employees, including why leaders might resist empowering leadership.  She is also the founder of an experiential stress management workshop for business school junior faculty held annually at the Academy of Management conference. She has a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Maryland, College Park; an M.A. in organizational management from The George Washington University; an M.A. in higher education from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and dual B.A.s in history and anthropology from the University of California, San Diego.  Prior to joining UNLV, she was a visiting faculty member at the Wharton School and tenure-track faculty member at Rutgers Business School (Newark and New Brunswick).  Her professional experience includes working for the U.S. Government Printing Office in strategic human capital and at Harvard Business School in external relations. The documentaries mentioned in our conversation were Rescue Warriors and The Selection. She also mentioned Brene Brown's Netflix special, Grief Club, and When the Body Says No (one of my top 80 books). You can email her here:  payal.sharma@unlv.edu.  Check out her website here. ____________________________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Sign up for my weekly newsletter!  Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas.  Click here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91.  It's easy and takes five seconds.

Betina Gozo is a Nike Master Trainer and the creator of Women’s Health Magazine's Woman's Guide to Strength Training.  She works with clients and top industry leaders as a fitness professional with a focus/emphasis on strength training. Her #1 goal is to use fitness and training to inspire people to make positive lifestyle changes so they can live their most optimal life.  Betina’s strength is motivating clients to reach outside their comfort zone in order to transform their bodies and mind.   An individualized, dynamic approach to fitness helps Betina’s clients find their own passion and drive to reach their fitness goals. As a Nike Master Trainer, Betina has been featured on the Nike Training Club App and has been an advisor for Nike's marketing content. You can often find her leading inspirational workouts and live events throughout the United States and at Nike World Headquarters.   As the winner of Women's Health Magazine's 2017 "Next Fitness Star," Betina has created the “Woman’s Guide to Strength Training”, a 12-week digital training plan designed specifically for women, in partnership with the magazine, and currently serves on the magazine's Advisory Board. From killer workouts to tips on how to navigate the weight room, Betina shares her expertise to help you get the most out of your resistance workouts.  She also travels the world, empowering and connecting women through her Women's Only Strength Training Workshops or Women's Strength Training Camps. Can’t make it to the gym? You can find Betina as a featured trainer for NordicTrack’s iFit Training program.  Millions of NordicTrack / iFit subscribers have participated in Betina’s dynamic workouts that allow members to explore beautiful destinations - like Thailand and Antarctica - all from their treadmill.  You can also have Betina at your fingertips through your phone through one of her live classes on the Nike Training Club App! Betina prioritizes education and constant growth in the ever-changing fitness field. In addition to being an ACE and NASM certified fitness coach, she has a coaching certification as an Eleiko Olympic Lifting, Functional Strength & Conditioning Coach and an EXOS Performance Specialist. Inspired by a volunteer trip to Kenya working with children and adults with disabilities, Betina recently founded The Dance with Mweyne Foundation.  Using her fitness community, her mission is to bring more awareness to the need for volunteers for special needs schools and homes in developing countries.  You can find her online here and follow her on Instagram here and Facebook here.  Check out her SWEAT AND SERVE workout classes here. ____________________________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Sign up for my weekly newsletter!  Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas.  Click here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91.  It's easy and takes five seconds.

Hilary Jackendoff is a Los Angeles based Tantric meditation teacher, in the North Indian lineage of the Bihar School of Yoga. After completing an intensive, two-year ashram-based Teacher Training in New South Wales, Australia, Hilary moved to Los Angeles and began teaching meditation full-time.  She blends her traditional ashram education with her Jersey sensibilities and is committed to sharing ancient practices in an accessible, modern way. She is currently a Senior Teacher at The Den Meditation, where she co-created the studio’s 400-hour Meditation Teacher Training, the first of its kind in Los Angeles. Hilary developed Sleep Class, her primary corporate wellness offering, based on the popular practice of Yoga Nidra, a beginner-friendly, but powerful deep relaxation meditation, beneficial in managing a range of conditions, from insomnia and anxiety to jet-lag and chronic fatigue. Hilary also offers private in-home sessions, focusing on anxiety management, and Yoga Nidra. In 2016, she co-founded Zen Test Prep, a holistic approach to combating test and performance anxiety. Need help relaxing or sleeping?  Download her free meditation here. Find her website here, follow her on Facebook here and Instagram here. Also, if you're reading this, how great is it that your eyes work?! Life is fun. ____________________________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Sign up for my weekly newsletter!  Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas.  Click here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91.  It's easy and takes five seconds.

Farinaz Lari was the first Iranian to win the world kickboxing championship. In 2016, she was the Canadian National Amateur Flyweight Muay Thai Champion.  With her coach and husband, Ali, she owns and operates District Warrior, a kickboxing and Muay Thai training studio in Vancouver. Follow her on Instagram here. Go and get trained by her at District Warrior here. ____________________________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas.  Sign up for my weekly newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91.  It's easy and takes five seconds.

Nahko is a singer, songwriter, and musician who blends socially conscious folk and rock with soulful, alt-R&B, genre-bending production. In a career built on reflective, deeply personal songwriting, Nahko’s new album, ‘Take Your Power Back,’ grapples with grief, trauma, reconciliation, and learning to face heartache head-on by embracing the peace and serenity that comes with understanding and acceptance. It’s an album of growth, courage, and resilience, a testament to the beauty and evolution that can come from fully inhabiting our pain.  It’s also proof that our true power —spiritual, physical, and emotional — inevitably comes from within. Born to a Puerto Rican/Native American mother and a Filipino father, Nahko was adopted by a white, conservative, Christian family in Oregon and raised under the name David Bell. He later learned that his birth was the result of a rape, that his biological mother had been fourteen and sold into sex work at the time he was conceived, and that his biological father was murdered. A sixth-generation Apache, he took on the moniker of Nahko — a play on his middle name, Nahkohe-ese, which translates to Little Bear — as a way of reclaiming his roots, and in his late teens and twenties began traveling the country, spending time in Hawaii and Alaska as he wrestled with identity, purpose, and perception. Backed by his band, Medicine For The People, Nahko released his debut album, ‘On The Verge,’ in 2011, but his breakthrough came two years later with ‘Dark As Night', a critical and commercial breakout landing in the Top Ten on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and earning festival slots at Outside Lands, Electric Forest, Wanderlust, Bumbershoot, and more.  Over the next four years, he would release two more albums with his band, solidifying his reputation as an outspoken activist and advocate for social and environmental justice. A few of my favorite songs of his are this one, and this one, and this one, and this one.  Also, here is the song, San Quentin, inspired by the visit to the jail that he referenced near the end of the conversation. Here are links to check out Nahko and his music:  Website: http://nahko.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/nahko_and_mftp & www.instagram.com/nahkobear Twitter: twitter.com/nahko_and_mftp Facebook: www.facebook.com/nahkoandmedicineforthepeople Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/medicineforthepeople Spotify: spoti.fi/387r87z Apple Music: apple.co/36Wz4sj __________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Sign up for my weekly newsletter!  Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas.  Click here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91.  It's easy and takes five seconds.

Ben Goresky is an addiction counselor who helps men understand and recover from addictions of all kinds.  Ben is also a men's work leader in The Samurai Brotherhood, a rapidly growing community in Western Canada. You can find him online at his website here and follow him on Instagram here. You can also find his men’s community at the Samurai Brotherhood here and on Instagram here. If you want more of his vocal insights, Ben has a podcast called the Evolving Man Podcast and you can listen to it here.  The books Ben suggested are Iron John, No More Mr Nice Guy, and The Way of the Conscious Warrior: A Handbook For 21st Century Men (click each title to learn more). __________________________________________________ Follow me on Instagram @LongDistanceLoveBombs: https://www.instagram.com/longdistancelovebombs Sign up for my weekly newsletter!  Each week, I share a personal story as well as my favorite books, tunes, articles, and ideas.  Click here: http://eepurl.com/T0l91.  It's easy and takes five seconds.