Love Bites
88 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhy and how do we love? Jacqueline Raposo and Ben Rosenblatt speak with authors, hospitality folks, psychologists, artists, and niche-based experts of all kinds in a humor-filled and heart-tugging examination of love in all its glorious, bewildering complexity. Every week, they get to the core of intimate moments that challenge what we think we know of love - experiences of loss, the growth that comes from new beginnings, the compromises and triumphs of long-term commitment, the loneliness of singledom - in hopes that the varying experiences of fascinating human beings can help them and others love more bravely and generously, every day. Tune in Mondays at 4pm ET on Heritage Radio Network. www.LoveBitesRadio.com and on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram as @lovebitesradio.
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Self-Care in the Real World! with ladies of food + media.
February 18, 2019 19:36 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBToday, Americans own twice the amount of stuff we did 50 years ago and bill more out-of-office hours than any other advanced economy. We online date, binge-watch, thumb through social media, and often wander around exhausted and unsure. Food journalist and Love Bites Radio host Jacqueline Raposo took note of this cultural struggle and intimately embraced a life stripped down in her recently-released book THE ME, WITHOUT: A YEAR EXPLORING HABIT, HEALING, AND HAPPINESS. Throughout the course o...
Episode 86: Food, The Brain, and Happiness! With Dr. Leslie Korn!
November 21, 2017 00:02 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBWill impending holiday eats help or hinder our health and happiness? How does what we eat affect our brain’s relaying of joys and frustrations? How does food best support our brain health, so that in turn we can best love ourselves and others? In this Love Bites Special (’cause we’re still taking a season break, hi!), Jacqueline interviews Dr. Leslie Korn, an integrative medicine doctor whose latest book, The Good Mood Kitchen, explores the simple recipes and nutrition tips that best clear ...
Episode 85: Return to Tarot! A Love Bites Special with Reader Sasha Graham
October 02, 2017 21:53 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBFor our first Love Bites Radio special this season, tarot reader Sasha Graham returns to guide us through how we can establish our own daily practice, which cards in the deck we should keep an eye out for when seeking peak romance, and how to pull a talisman that will see us through a particular time in our lives. This episode was recorded at Kettlespace Tribeca! Kettlespace are restaurants converted into daytime workspaces for freelancers, entrepreneurs and other untethered workers. Members...
Episode 84: News from Love Bites Radio (and a little "Then and Now")
September 11, 2017 21:31 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBThe short story is that we're taking a break this season from live shows to focus on some personal necessities and to regroup artistically. On today's episode, Jacqueline shares the story behind why we're hitting the pause button. Then we throw back for a listen to the very first show that launched us on this journey, and one recent segment that shows have far we've come. Love Bites is powered by Simplecast
Episode 83: Summer Magic! What We've Learned from 82 Love Bites!
August 07, 2017 20:55 - 46 minutes - 43 MBToday's show marks the end of our Summer Season and two years of Love Bites Radio! In celebration, we're reflecting upon some of the poignant moments that most stuck with us. Which guests' revealed wisdom is still lodged in our brains? What moments of our lives shared on the show felt simple and insignificant then but, looking back, were actually huge turning points in our self-growth? We talk love, food, and conversation in our 83 episode of summer magic. Love Bites is powered by Simplecast
Episode 82: For the Love of Food (Media): Me & You with Jax and Max!
July 31, 2017 20:29 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MB"Two food perspectives, both alike in dignity, in fair New York City where we lay our scene..."* On today's show, Saveur Senior Digital Editor Max Falkowitz and freelance food writer and Love Bites co-host Jacqueline Raposo dig into their varying experiences. How does Max's analytical curiosity contrast Jaqueline's emotional? How does his experience as an editor on a masthead contrast her constant freelancing bylines? And how do they combine those experiences together to best execute one pi...
Episode 81: To Date Or Not To Date (Other Actors): Me & You with Ben and Deanna!
July 24, 2017 20:47 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MB"I don't date other actors." That's the hard-and-fast rule of many thespians, who find their careers, artistic, and personal lives so difficult to manage that the idea of merging with someone else with the same struggles sounds like a terrible nightmare. Today, co-host Ben Rosenblatt invites his girlfriend, actress Deanna McGovern, onto the show to share their joys and challenges in defying this conventional wisdom in the fourth of our Me & You series.
Episode 80: Me & You: 69 Years of Marriage with Pat and Hansine
July 10, 2017 20:48 - 27 minutes - 25 MBVery few couples will ever get to say they've made it to sixty-nine years of marriage. As we explore how to find and maintain loving relationships of all sorts here on Love Bites, it seems only fitting that when we have one of those couples at hand, we ask them how they did it. Pasquale and Hansine D'Ambrosio have been married since 1948. On today's show, they sit down with one of their nine grandchildren -- your humble co-host Jacqueline -- to share a little of the wisdom they've gleaned i...
Episode 79: Single Lady Writers in Trump's America: Me and You with Jen Doll!
June 26, 2017 20:23 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBHow has Trump's America changed the way two single lady writers think, eat, love, and express themselves? On today's show, author Jen Doll returns for our second Me & You episode. She'll interview Jax and be interviewed on how the current political landscape has shifted the thoughts that become words, and the words that become work in their various niches of the writing world. How does Jen, as a savvy social media presence, navigate the landmine of Twitter with humor and confidence? Does sh...
Episode 78: Me and You: Jax and Ben!
June 19, 2017 20:41 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBLove Bites Radio explores "why and how we love." So why do we love the way we love right now? In what ways does that love physically manifest? How are those manifestations different than what they've been in the past, and what do we hope to get from love in the future? In the first of our Me & You series, we take an entire show to interview each other on how the love in our lives has changed since we started Love Bites almost two years ago. With one of us now just having celebrate...
Episode 78: Me and You: Jax and Ben!
June 19, 2017 20:41 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBLove Bites Radio explores "why and how we love." So why do we love the way we love right now? In what ways does that love physically manifest? How are those manifestations different than what they've been in the past, and what do we hope to get from love in the future? In the first of our Me & You series, we take an entire show to interview each other on how the love in our lives has changed since we started Love Bites almost two years ago. With one of us now just having celebrated an anni...
Episode 77: What Can Starting Over Teach Us About Love?
June 12, 2017 20:30 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBWe asked every guest in our New Beginnings series what starting over has taught them about love. In this special episode, we share their answers as well as a little insight into why each story had personal resonance, and what we learned about love in turn.
Episode 76: From Kosher to a Ham, with Eli Rosen (New Beginnings #5)
June 05, 2017 20:43 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBA career change can be a difficult thing, especially when leaving behind the financial security of life as an attorney for the uncertainty and instability of life as an artist. But what if you were also leaving behind your marriage, family, and the community you were indoctrinated into all at the same time, shedding an entire belief system and way of life for a new one? How might this hinder your career change? How might it fuel you as an artist? Former ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jew-turned act...
Episode 75: From Health to Happiness, with Cynthia Cherish Malaran (New Beginnings #4)
May 29, 2017 20:15 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBCynthia Cherish Malaran was making mad money as a freelance graphic designer. She was married. She was "successful." But she was miserable. Then she got in an accident that left her body shattered and her mind with amnesia. Over a year into her recovery, music started to trigger her memories and she began to rebuild, leaving her miserable self behind. Then she got a diagnosis of a violent, advanced form of breast cancer. "If I hadn't gotten into that accident, I would have still been misera...
Episode 74: Is This Home? with Julia Bainbridge (New Beginnings #3)
May 22, 2017 20:30 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBPacking up and moving to a whole new life. Tempting, huh? Mobility glimmers on the horizon and everything you know -- home, friendships, work -- await reinvention. But what realities play out when embracing relocation? In our third episode exploring New Beginnings, Julia Bainbridge shares what happened when she moved from New York to Atlanta. What rituals did she invoke to help find closure, what did she enthusiastically leave behind, and how has she explored her new home? Is being a singl...
Episode 73: Losing My Religion with Aimee DeLong (New Beginnings #2)
May 15, 2017 20:30 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBWhat happens after you realize you were born into a system that you don't believe in? How do you discover what you really think? How do you escape from all you've ever known? How do you find the confidence to express the new person you want to become? Where do you find a creative outlet, and how do you find new people to fill your life when old relationships are forcefully shed? On the second episode of our New Beginnings series, writer Aimee DeLong shares how moving to New York helped her...
Episode 72: Talking Empty Nests with Our Moms! (New Beginnings #1)
May 08, 2017 20:29 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MB"How does the relationship between mother and child change when the child moves out of the house? What does mom get to reclaim for herself, or what new things may she welcome? In celebration of Mother's Day (!), we've lured our moms onto the show to talk us through this unique kind of New Beginning -- the first in our series exploring what happens after the Ending has dimmed. Plus, we get some dirt on Ben as a baby (!), and surprise our moms by sharing what they've taught us the most about ...
Episode 71: Moderating Meat, with the Reducetarian's Brian Kateman!
April 17, 2017 20:30 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBAccording to Brian Kateman, if every American reduced their intake of meat and fish by 10%, huge gains would be made in personal and global health. So how do we moderate our consumption, and why should we? On today's show -- the second in our series studying Moderation -- we discuss why it's so hard to not go whole-hog with certain foods overall. Then we dig into Kateman's work with Reducetarianism and his new book, The Reducetarian Solution [Tarcher Pedigree]. How do the essay contributors...
Episode 70: Be Your Most Extreme You... in Moderation! With Sarah Robb O'Hagan
April 10, 2017 20:25 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBSometimes living as the best version of yourself means knowing when to say "no", avoiding drastic fad lifestyles, and allowing both joyful leisure time and periods of overwork to play together. Which is why we've asked Sarah Robb O'Hagan, the author of Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat, to join us as the first show in our series studying MODERATION. Sarah inspires colleagues, readers, and those who have heard her speak to make brave choices in their lives. But she's also a b...
Episode 69: Endings #6: When Your Restaurant Closes, with Chef Chris Jaekle
April 03, 2017 20:20 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MB"So much time and attention are given to a restaurant's opening: Who's the chef? How will the menu be different than everything that's come before it? Who's designing the space? Will there be craft beer or craft cocktails? We fill reservations books. We rush in to review. We Instagram furiously. But when a restaurant closes? The process is colder, quieter, and far less bombastic. On today's show -- the last in our six-week series on Endings -- chef Chris Jaeckle joins to share the process o...
Episode 68: Endings #5: I Got Broken Up With Because of My Chronic Illness, Part II
March 27, 2017 20:20 - 33 minutes - 31 MB“It wasn’t just losing him with the breakup, but a lot of the dreams and hopes I had for the future. It was coming to terms with the idea that this illness might be chronic. That there was no fix.” - Katrina On Part II of our episode on breakups because of chronic illness, we first hear from Katrina, who contracted Malaria while in Uganda and then developed Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (also called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Systemic Exertion Intolerance Disease) after the initial infection. ...
Episode 67: Endings #4: Breakups About Chronic Illness (...and sex and babies)
March 20, 2017 20:40 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBOn today's show -- the first of a two-part episode during our series on Endings -- Jacqueline speaks with two women who recently underwent breakups they attribute to their chronic illnesses: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) and Interstitial Cystitis. They both reached out to J after reading her Cosmopolitan Essay, How I Learned to Date with a Chronic Illness. On top of sharing with J similar struggles of food restrictions, pain, and living with an exhausting invisible illness...
Episode 66: ENDINGS #3: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, with Sari Kamin
March 13, 2017 20:45 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB"When at the age of 31-yrs old my boyfriend of five years broke up with me I was deeply heartbroken but also stunned that I was no longer on the path of getting engaged, getting married, and having children by the age of 35. That was the course that I had seen so clearly unfold in my head, and when I vocalized this desire to him it was then that our relationship began to systematically implode." - Sari Kamin On today's show, we discuss a specific kind of ending: the breakup that hurts in a ...
Episode 65: ENDINGS #2: The Point of No Return: Curtains Up and Books Out, with Jen Glantz!
March 06, 2017 21:45 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBMaking it look easy is the point, right? Writers, actors, and artists of all sorts tell stories about real life experiences, defending their choices, owning their truth, and leaving a trail of wisdom in their creatively-tuned path. We see them at the climax, the triumph, the TED talk --- the ENDING. But what about all the steps before they hit SEND on that manuscript? On today's show, we're joined by writer Jen Glantz, who combines public and private in her work as a Bridesmaid for Hire, b...
Episode 64: Endings #1: Friendship During Tough Times with the authors of The Optimist's Guide to Divorce
February 27, 2017 21:45 - 43 minutes - 40 MB"What's a life experience you're holding onto that you wish you could emotionally shut the door on? What's holding you back? Who has helped guide you through growth the most? What positive new tactics or tools did you pick up to battle the tough stuff along the way? And do you wish the situation had never happened to begin with? On today's show, we launch the first in our series on Endings with Suzanne Riss and Jill Sockwell, authors of The Optimist's Guide to Divorce (Workman, 2017) and f...
Episode 63: Love and Hospitality on a Political Day
February 20, 2017 21:46 - 31 minutes - 29 MBOn this Presidents' Day, we invite you all to #GiveLove and take care of yourself and others. For the first half of the show, we hear Floyd and Barkha Cardoz of Paowalla restaurant in New York talk about how their work in Indian and American cuisines have changed since they immigrated in the eighties. Then, we turn to our broadcast right after the election in November. What were we feeling, and how we did tackle personal interactions when riding waves of emotion and angst? We'll be back toge...
Episode 62: A Single Gal's Relationship Goals with our Power Couples for Valentine's Day!
February 13, 2017 21:45 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBWe just wrapped our series on Power Couples -- five couples in hospitality who work alongside each other by day and someone manage to still love each other enough to share a bed together at night. The series came about for deliciously selfish reasons: we both need a little inspiration in the healthy marriage department and figured relationship goals were out there for the stealing. On today's show, Jacqueline -- abandoned in New York while Ben continues to wow the theatre world out west -- ...
Episode 61: Power Couples #5! Barkha and Floyd Cardoz of Paowalla!
February 06, 2017 21:35 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MB"Barkha and Floyd Cardoz met at hospitality school in India and became close friends. Eight years later, after emigrating separately to New Jersey and New York, they met once again and started to explore romance. Twenty-five years later, they're the owners of the New York restaurant Paowalla, where their Indian heritage is cooked up through Chef Floyd's modern American lens. Journey with us as they share how friendship evolved into love, and the sacrifice of every young cook into the success...
Episode 60: Power Couples #4! We Bow Down to Rozanne Gold and Michael Whiteman!
January 30, 2017 21:45 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBIn 1976, the restaurant Windows on the World opened on the 106th and 107th floors of the World Trade Center's north tower. As president of Baum + Whiteman Worldwide, Michael Whiteman was one of the restaurateurs behind the space; Rozanne Gold their Chef-Director. Together, the two opened several other iconic projects over the course of several years... which made the early stages of courtship rather risky ones. Now, decades later, they share remembrances of those early days together -- what ...
Episode 59: Power Couples #3! Stacy Adimando and Steve Graf
January 23, 2017 21:45 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBStacy Adimando and Steve Graf are a testament to risking big for love whenever and wherever you find it. She was living in Brooklyn, he in Northern California. But when they met working at a food festival in Portland, Oregon, they both felt something strong enough to give a long-distance relationship a chance. On today's show, we track their story as Stacy crosses the country, they court and wed, and eventually move again, this time to New York together. Their biggest fears throughout the pr...
Episode 58: Power Couples #2! Kristin and Andrew Wood of Russet Restaurant
January 16, 2017 21:45 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBHe covers savory, she covers sweet, and everything else comes together between them. That's how chefs Andrew and Kristin Wood have been working together since they first met, and how they do now as parents and co-owners of Russet in Philadelphia. Many years, several moves cross-country, and two children later, they've got many pearls of wisdom to share on how they make it all work. So sit back and enjoy the second of our Power Couples series.
Episode 57: POWER COUPLES #1! Joe and Jill Dobias of Joe & MissesDoe
January 09, 2017 21:52 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBOn the day they first met at a New York restaurant, Jill's first day working the front of house was chef Joe's last day in the back. He was fresh out of a rough relationship; she a ballet dancer twirling her way around New York City. Twelve years later, they're the wife-and-husband team of Joe and MissesDoe, an intimate restaurant on 1st Street and catering company in New York City where Jill rules the bar and Joe the kitchen. They're the kind of fiery couple you wanna be, their relationshi...
Episode 56: Single and Fabulous! (Or, The Best Ladies Who Lunch Round Table Ever!)
December 12, 2016 21:34 - 54 minutes - 50 MBIn 2009, the percentage of single women in the United States rose above 50% for the first time in history. The median age of first marriages dramatically rose from twenty and twenty-two years old--which it had been steadily for centuries to the 1980s--to twenty-eight. Beyonce's singing about it, countless books celebrate it, and women are living proudly independent more and for longer than ever. Being a single woman in today's world can be empowering! Or, it's just life! Or... it can be rea...
Episode 55: Fostering Healthy Families, with Author and Foster Family Advocate Regina Calcaterra, Esq.
December 05, 2016 21:46 - 40 minutes - 37 MBWhen we discuss family love, we refer to biological families by default. But what about foster family relationships? What does it take for them to succeed, and who suffers the most when they fail? On today's show, we welcome Regina Calcaterra, the co-author of Girl Unbroken and the memoir Etched in Sand. Regina shares how the bond between her four siblings--born of separate fathers and the same mentally ill mother--lasted through years of abuse, displacement, and movement into and out of th...
Episode 54: There Were Never Such Devoted Sisters!
November 28, 2016 21:46 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBHow do the relationships we form with our siblings shape us as adults? What happens when we don't identify with the roles our parents assign us within our sibling group? And how do our relationships with our siblings change as our parents age? On today's show, Jacqueline's sisters Jessica and Maggie Raposo join to share stories about how growing up as a team of four siblings affected their growth into adulthood, and the relationships they've developed to this day. How do varying ages, profes...
Episode 53: Love, Loss, and What We're (Not) Eating
November 21, 2016 21:33 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBWhen a job, a relationship, or a tradition ends... how do you know how to properly mourn it? When do you lean into the grief, and when do you pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and start all over again? Today, we welcome performer Lindsay Benner to the show to discuss how the recent loss of her father has affected her life and work. And we share our own little forms of loss and grief recently, too, and how the patterns of our lives shift as we struggle through them. Where do we find sust...
Episode 52: Home Is Where The...? with Author Jane Alison
November 14, 2016 22:37 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBOn today's show, we take a look at the idea of feeling safe. First, in light of last week's election results and the flood of emotions many of us are feeling because of it, we spend a little time checking in on how we're doing, where we are, and what we need right now. Then, on how we can show a little extra love to those who need it, and what signs of love we've seen in the past week, despite all the anger and pain in circulation. After the break, we're joined by Jane Alison, the novelist...
Episode 51: The Shepherd's Life: Fatherly Love, Land, and Loss with James Rebanks
November 07, 2016 21:07 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBOur relationships with our parents are fraught with complication. There is just too much – for better or for worse – we can inherit from them. Even if they're ceaselessly loving. Even if they're largely absent from our lives. Even if we resist. On today's show – the first of our five-week exploration of familial love– we welcome author James Rebanks of The Shepherd's Life and The Shepherd's View. Recently in town from the UK, Jacqueline met up with him in a Lower East Side park to ask him f...
Episode 50: Happy Halloween! We talk Pistons and Pasties with Velvetina Taylor
October 31, 2016 20:20 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MB"Timing isn't everything, but it sure as hell is a lot." We've debated variations of that sentence often over the last year, questioning its weight as a dating cliche and the effect it's had on our relationships woes. Today, we discuss how it's woven its way into Jax's current dating mire: basically, how when you're dating three men, life is all about timing, for the good and the bad of it. She's got some explaining to do, and some decisions to make. Then we're joined by burlesque dancer V...
Episode 49: We Turn to Tarot! Readings and Recipes with Sasha Graham
October 24, 2016 20:11 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBWe are all about using every tool out there to build our strongest selves and most loving relationships. So can we use the ancient practice of tarot to gain insight into our ever-changing inner selves? How can the cards offer guidance, wisdom, comfort, and challenge? What about the practice does pop culture misrepresent, and what does tarot have to offer even the greatest of unbelievers? On today's show, tarot reader and author Sasha Graham shares how her experience with tarot has helped he...
Episode 48: Atlas Obscura: Food, Love, and Travel with Ella Morton!
October 17, 2016 20:16 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBWhat are our best travel memories with romantic partners? Sexiest? Most frustrating? What part does travel play in our hopeful romantic futures? And what do our desires – highbrow, lowbrow, and everything in between – say about who we are and how we love? On today's show, Ella Morton – co-author of ATLAS OBSCURA: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders – joins to discuss some of her book's most mysterious and romantic offerings. What weird and fascinating food and love destination...
Episode 47: Ground Control to Major Love! Algorithms and romance with NASA engineer Rashied Amini!
October 10, 2016 20:15 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBEnough of dating apps that show you images of potential heartthrobs. What if there were a program that could help you calculate where, when, and how you're most likely to find love? There is. Almost. Sort of. It's getting close, that is. On today's show, Ben and Jacqueline grapple with their current dating woes, which right now are at opposite ends of the dating spectrum: B's in the throws of serious-relationship-ville which comes with mutual respect and trust and all that jazz so he can't ...
Episode 46: Paging Dr. Love! With Tribeca Therapy Founder Matt Lundquist
October 03, 2016 20:36 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBTechnology really burns our bacon sometimes... Ben: "I hate how technology dehumanizes people. Whether it be by swiping, taking a long time to respond to a text, ghosting, or saying brash things we wouldn’t ordinarily say, we don’t treat people with the same courtesy through technology as we would in person. We also don't present our full human selves through technology, but rather a crafted version of our image that is not entirely authentic." Jacqueline: "I feel like technology has short...
Episode 45: I Just Texted To Say I Love You: With Melissa Stanger and Shana Lebowitz
September 26, 2016 19:54 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBWhen it comes to romantic communication, texting and online messaging can be gentle introductions into IRL conversation, or mediums in which you can royally screw another person. Some of us daters of a certain age - ahem - started this whole dating thing before cell phones were glued into our hands. Others grew up with instant communication as the norm. But how can all of us muddle through the dating world with clashing views of normalcy, etiquette, and preference when it comes to getting to...
Episode 44: Textual Healing! with Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula
September 19, 2016 20:06 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBWhere's the romance in a Snapchat? The thrill in an email? When the conversation moves from online dating to texting, how much do flirty digital conversations represent how we're gonna interact in the flesh? And when we're on a dinner date and our lover's fingers are talking to someone else, how hot and bothered can we really get? On today's show, Ben is joined in the studio by Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula, the founders of the theater troupe Blogologues and the No Text Weekend, which hit...
Episode 43: The Bro Show
September 12, 2016 20:09 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBHoly testosterone! Jacqueline's out of the country and Ben has invited some fellas into the studio to get REAL about... um... dude stuff. Ladies: Ever wonder how men talk about you when you're not around? Guys: Ever wonder if/when it's cool to let your sensitive side show around your bros? On today's show, hear the out-and-out, unadulterated TRUTH from four humans with Y chromosomes. Joined by regular guest Andrew McLeod (sales manager for Union Beer Distributors), Nick Guitart (General Man...
Episode 42: Dating Cliches - Screw 'Em! (Part Two)
August 15, 2016 19:58 - 43 minutes - 39.8 MBNo matter the stage of your relationship (or lack thereof), well-meaning jerks often throw old, tired cliches at you in the guise of friendship: "Go with your gut!" "There are plenty of fish in the sea!" "Never go to sleep angry!" "Tis better to have loved and lost..." "You have to love yourself before you can really love someone else." Gag. So today, we're tearing them down, again! We've got returning guests Andrew McLeod of Union Beer and Antony Raymond of the Elsinore County Theatre Comp...
Episode 41: LIFE Calls for a Drink! With sommelier and author Diane McMartin
August 08, 2016 20:14 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBAh, alcohol. It can be a first-date necessity, when nerves and questions and vulnerabilities are at their peak. Or it can be our greatest downfall, when "just one more" turns into "one-plus-four too many." On today's show, we discuss how alcohol can help or hinder early love, sharing our worst first-date sloppiness, and how it's affected our lives (and struggles) overall. Then we're joined by sommelier and author Diane McMartin of This Calls for a Drink: The Best Wines and Beers to Pair wi...
Episode 40: What's UP (or down) With Our Libido? We ask Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg
August 01, 2016 20:44 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBIt happens. One day, our bodies are crying “I NEED SEX!” with such force that we can barely think of anything else. The next, we couldn’t get in on if our top-of-the-list celebrity was standing in front of us in nothing but their knickers and a smile. What is up with that? On today’s show, we spill on some personal wins, with Ben being in a relationship and Jacqueline deciding to extend her social media / dating app cleanse for another 50 days. Then we’re joined by Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg, w...
Episode 39: Honing Our Romantic Intuition With Iris Higgins
July 18, 2016 22:44 - 40 minutes - 37 MBDoes "love at first sight" exist? If we break it down to bits and pieces, "love at first sight" is a combination of sexual attraction (hormones), curiosity and the elusive "intuition", right? It can be our best friend... or our fiercest enemy. It can guide us to real, lasting, life-changing love... or to seeking out bottles of whisky and pints of ice cream in our heartbroken despair. On today's show, we discuss how intuition has served us romantically in the past. Then we're joined by Iris...