The Love Cast with Jamal

You may be familiar with the flu, but are you familiar with the non-flu?  In the long run, being prepared for and responding to the non-flu is much more vital for life and health.  In this episode of The Love Cast, Jamal shares three potentially life saving responses to the non-flu.  These responses are:

1. Notice the non-flu.

2. Appreciate the non-flu. 

3. Cultivate the non-flu. (both physically and spiritually) 

Give this timely and important episode a careful listen.    

In any post mortem of a relationship that has ended, it can be discovered what led to the death of the relationship, and conversely, what is essential for relationships to survive and thrive.  In this episode of The Love Cast, Jamal & Taylor discuss how their previous divorce helped them see that these three components are vital for any marriage / committed relationship to thrive:

1. Awareness 

2. Presence 

3. Sensuality / Sexuality 

If you are in a committed partnership / marriage, or you desire to be, this episode is for you.  

Author Meg Calvin, author of the newly released book titled: I Am My Own Sanctuary: How A Recovering Holy-Roller Found Healing & Power, is my guest on this episode of The Love Cast.  In this interview, Meg talks about how the church leadership culture she was immersed in led to self abandonment and burnout, and also how she recovered and found that she already possessed all that she had been chasing in religious performance.  In addition to this, we also discuss how past life trauma and guidance from our ancestors play a part in our current lives and work.  This is an episode with lots of gold, so lean in and listen closely.    

In this episode of The Love Cast, Jamal & Taylor discuss the recent passing of basketball legend Kobe Bryant and why his death impacted so many people. Hint: the reaction to Kobe’s death had very little to do with Kobe Bryant himself, but with our own unprocessed pain. In addition to this observation, Jamal & Taylor also talk about why Kobe Bryant lived such an influential life. Hint: his real influence had little to do with his ability to put a leather ball into a metal hoop. His true influence went beyond basketball, and if we will pay attention to his example, we can live into this same influence in our own daily lives.  Give this episode a careful listen.

Are you actively building off of the successes you had this past year?

Are you in a committed relationship or partnership of some kind? 

Some people feel like they are falling behind, some people feel like they are stuck in rut, and others feel like they are overcoming obstacles and are moving forward.  I've discovered that a key ingredient to moving forward on our journey is this all important thing called 'momentum'.  In this episode of The Love Cast, Taylor and I discuss the momentum we experienced this past year, and how this is propelling us into 2020.  In addition to that, we also share some vulnerable relationship intentions that we have in our relationship for this year as well.  Give this episode a listen and discover your own momentum for this new year as well.     

Every birth is the Christmas story.  

In EVERY conception is the Christmas story.  It is the Divine and the human coming together in each and every conception.  

Chances are, you have probably been told that the Christmas story is only about the birth of one man, two thousand years ago, who was the light of the world.  The Christmas story is typically understood as the divine incarnating as a human being (Jesus) who is called Emmanuel (which means God with us).  Chances are, you've been told that Jesus is the real reason for the Christmas season.  If this is the case, I believe you are actually missing the main point of the Christmas story.  The real lasting and enduring power of the Christmas story isn't only about the human incarnation of divinity through the birth of Jesus, its about divine incarnation in each and every birth. 

Before you react negatively to this reframing of the Christmas story, let me encourage you to listen in entirety to this latest episode of The Love Cast as my bride Taylor and I discuss why the real miracle of Christmas points to the birth of humanity as a whole (including you and me), not just one man.  The implications for our lives are many. 

Are you sitting down?  Okay, good.  Well, I have some fantastic news for you.  Many of us, myself included, read physical books less and less these days.  In place of physical books, many now listen to their books as audio books while on a jog, in the car, around the house, commuting by train, etc... So, it is with great excitement that I get to announce that Living For A Living is now available on Audible.com as an audio book!  

I spent many hours in the recording studio recording this book that is near and dear to my heart.  I personally believe that we are all here on purpose, and moving into that purpose is the key to actually living for a living, as opposed to living only to survive.  This is why I wanted to get this book out as an audio book as well.  In this episode of The Love Cast, I share a sample chapter with you to hear so you can decide if you'd like to get an audio copy for yourself or a loved one.  Give this episode a careful listen, and then get your audio copy of Living For A Living HERE.    

From evangelical Christianity to becoming a poet and speech pathologist to walking the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across Spain, to being one of only two hundred women on Earth who are married to a Roman Catholic priest, poet Rebecca Bayles shares her inspired and unlikely story on this week's episode of The Love Cast.  Give it an enthusiastic listen.  You'll be glad you did:) 

We've all heard that religion and politics shouldn't mix, but what about love and politics?  

As a student of history, we can see that the marriage of religion and politics have yielded some of the world's darkest of ages, the worst forms of tribalism, nationalism, hypocrisy, control, etc... We still see this in our current political situation today.  With that said, is there any place for a politics motivated by love?  Is public service a 'no-go' zone for spiritually attuned and love motivated people?  Is public office less 'spiritual' than other professions?  In this episode of The Love Cast, I had the privilege of interviewing U.S. Congressional candidate David Kim about his decision to run for Congress.  Give this episode an open minded listen.     

In this episode of The Love Cast, Jamal & Taylor have a conversation about the fundamental difference between the energy and essence of a beggar and a creator.  Taylor talks about how she is observing this profound energy difference (beggar vs creator) in the classroom as an educator.  Jamal & Taylor also share a closer look at what they are personally creating in their lives and relationship together, and the challenges that a couple in a relationship can have when one person operates from the energy of a creator, and the other operates from the energy of a beggar.  Give this episode a listen and enjoy!