Episodes
Feb. 15, 2021
Trifle
Fawn shares her experience on one of her photoshoots in India and explains the correlation to the beginning of moving back to Santa Monica and a very unusual message she received (a tiny little message that normally may have gone unnoticed) that was the first of many from this city that became her …
Feb. 8, 2021
I Need a Friend with special guest LOTUS (Paul Martin)
This episode features our friend Paul Martin. He songs to us and IT IS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! He IS AMAZING!
First:
Santa Monica pearl of wisdom from 5th floor quiet painter neighbor. You never truly know what someone’s life experience is until you are invited in, or you invite THEM in.Sometimes you …
Feb. 1, 2021
Prosperare (Prosperity)
Show notes #26 Prosperare
Nugget of wisdom from Santa Monica – receiving a treat through your window, just exactly when you need it.
Prosperity – PRO= towards Spera=hope
spera. sperare Verb = hope for, hope. Looking at prosperity. Pro pro means towards. Sparity Comes from Spera it's Latin, Spera …
Jan. 25, 2021
Peculiar
Show notes #25 “Peculiar”
Nugget of Wisdom: Jesus and the Bread Guy – Fawn recalls “… two things, two, if you pick two things in the neighborhood, within the community that are a constant, you never thought about together at the same time; in the neighborhood, you never thought had a connection. If…
Jan. 18, 2021
US/THEM/SYNTHESIS
Episode #24 – US/THEM/SYNTHESIS - Is it possible to have synthesis? How can we have Synthesis in society when there is so much of “us” versus “them”?
Pearl of wisdom from Santa Monica: the light within can really touch someone out there that you may not know. What you do in your own home can serio…
Jan. 11, 2021
The Frog and the Scorpion with Special Guest KJ Nasrul
Nugget of wisdom from Fawn’s neighbor in Santa Monica, upstairs Joey – the lesson of the hot stove.
Today’s episode revolves around the fable, “The Frog and the Scorpion”
“The Scorpion and the Frog”
Our super friend, psychotherapist KJ Nasrul joins us to discuss:
the changing of minds;…
Jan. 4, 2021
Emotion Motion - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Episode 22 - Emotion Motion – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Nugget of wisdom from Santa Monica: Moses and the Ten Commandments – Why hearing a crowd chant your name is important.
It is a healing. It is validation. We need that. My friend hearing his name chanted - that's a good thing. It gives you t…
Dec. 28, 2020
Being a Good Guest
Your responsibility to party – How to be a good guest
Nugget- The blind date – How to be gracious
“To Be a Good Guest”
When I was little, my immediate family quite honestly, was pretty stressed all the time and angry and kind of hateful. I was always surprised by how the relatives put up with. I …
Dec. 21, 2020
Friends, Not Friends, and Secret Friend?
Fawn and Matt break out all their dictionaries and read all the definitions of friendship and have a good laugh. Then THEY break it down for real.
Fawn feels a kinship, like a family type feeling about certain people, to which Matt says they are not friends because they don’t even know you!
Fawn sa…
Dec. 14, 2020
Asimov, the Foundation, and the Atomic Knife
Today's Pearl has to do with fine lines and the path that we walk on. We discuss having the intention, awareness, and the wherewithal of knowing how we walk in the world. One of those paths we referred to as “A.W.O.L.” which in Santa Monica, California, stood for “Always West of Lincoln”.
Then the…
Dec. 7, 2020
Alpha Beta...
Jennifer Lopez, (aka Jenny from the block, JLO) visits and shoots a movie in the neighborhood and comments about our little village by asking: “Does anyone work?” when filming the movie “Monster In-Law”. She was noticing our way of being in our community. The truth is we all worked but we didn’t al…
Nov. 30, 2020
The Alliance
Nugget and pearl of wisdom from Santa Monica Days: Iraq and Iran – the adventures of turtle/babysitting. Fawn’s Santa Monica friends (Anders and Liz), named their turtles Iran and Iraq to bring peace to the Middle East. The reasoning for the choice of their names was that every time they called the…
Nov. 23, 2020
Agree to Disagree w/ Psychotherapist KJ Nasrul
Our nugget AKA pearls of wisdom for this episode involves Dr. Bradley Nelson, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Gregg Braden, the Heart Math Institute, Electromagnetic field, Heart math, heart brain, heart wall, intellectual humility, social intelligence, IQ, emotional intelligence, shared reality,
Magneto cardio…
Nov. 16, 2020
Emotional Currency
This week’s nugget is a 16th century Norwegian term, meaning to comfort or to console - related to the English word “hug”.
You need HYGGE in your life, especially these days, guys, this is how we can feel better! Here are some words words associated with HYGGE – comfort, cozy, relaxation, indulgen…
Nov. 9, 2020
BUSY!
First, Santa Monica’s pearl of wisdom:
This week’s pearl of Wisdom from Santa Monica comes via Fawn’s Santa Monica Bathroom conversation delivery and what was shared with her that was a game changer. There are three words that have to this day been chanted by Fawn and those close to her. We talk ab…
Nov. 2, 2020
The Critic - Who's to Judge?
Critic: A person who expresses and unfavorable opinion of something a person who judges the merits of literary artistic or musical works, especially one who does so professionally
Criticism: The practice of judging the merits and faults of something.
Fawn thinks they're the downfall of our culture…
Oct. 26, 2020
New World Mentor
What happened to the village? We always heard that “it takes a village”, but Fawn points out that most of the time; we’re left on our own. This leads us to mentors. Where are the mentors? Does anyone truly have the knowledge to guide us? From Fawn’s point of view, the world is changing so rapidly a…
Oct. 19, 2020
When People Are Against You
How do you handle criticism when it is beyond the simple critique? How to hear the good voices telling you, that you’re great, and why do we get stuck on the attacks and become unable to hear the good? Fawn shares her personal experience with her career, being a woman of color in an unkind, white d…
Oct. 12, 2020
Play
PLAY – We begin to find out why Fawn’s nick name is “The Wookie” and why she struggles with playing all the great games: Pictionary, Scrabble, cards, music… We know all the great things friendship does for us spiritually, physically, emotionally, and the same, same is true about play. Play is a so…
Oct. 5, 2020
Survival of the Fittest and the Unlikely Friendship
We begin with Rumi as food for thought and get right into it. Fawn challenges Darwin’s theory and uses the unlikely friendships as an example of how wrong Darwin’s theory is. Nature relies on cooperation and mutual aid, not competition. It's not about competing for survival. We're here to help each…
Sept. 28, 2020
The Unresolved Emotion
We begin this week with 3 nuggets of gold information and carry on to the unresolved emotion that is at the root of it all. We talk about the Heart Math Institute research, Gregg Braden, the brilliant work of neuroscientist, Dr. Candace Pert, “Molecules of Emotion”, Mr. José Mujica, the former pres…
Sept. 21, 2020
Logic vs Emotion
Logic can’t get you out of something that emotion has gotten you into. Fawn and Matt discuss the difference between logic and emotion, the importance of speaking, being heard, the state of the world, how to hear what is really going on and how respect plays the role in all of it. From mixed martia…
Sept. 14, 2020
Effort
Why don't we follow through (regarding friendship, our dreams in life, our goals, our health, all the things that need some action, some movement)? What is the thing that stops us from doing and creating? This week's episode, Fawn and Matt bring up Sumo Wrestling, Herman Hesse, Dr. Mario Martinez, …
Sept. 7, 2020
Full Circle - Aikido Method of Friendship
Fawn and Matt discuss the philosophy of Aikido (the Japanese martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba that operates using the art of peace). They describe the one purpose, which is to better the lives of people, especially those who attack you physically and emotionally and being able to bring harmon…