LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of Happy

What if the worst things that ever happened to you turned out to be the doorway to everything you were really looking for?
That’s the thread that runs through this powerful conversation between Justin, Walt, and Anne-Marie on LOA Today -  a conversation about addiction, spiritual awakening, comedy, toxic masculinity, and the quiet power of following your heart.
Early in the episode, Justin shares how he grew up in an emotionally suppressive household, with parents who “didn’t understand the concept of love.” They loved him, but couldn’t express it. His mom often retreated into her room; he retreated into his and into television and comedy.
“The TV wasn’t my babysitter, it was a full-blown parent,” Justin says. Comedy became his pain escape: staying up late to watch Saturday Night Live, absorbing the brilliance of David Spade, Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Norm Macdonald, Jim Carrey, The Simpsons, and Eddie Murphy. That escape later morphed into something darker: alcohol, harder drugs, homelessness, rehabs, and nights in jail.
Walt asks the question that so many crash-and-burn survivors recognize: “People go through these crash and burn moments and they come out the other side saying, ‘I never want to go through it again, but it’s the best thing that ever happened to me.’ Is that true for you as well?”
Justin’s answer is a resounding yes. He describes losing his mother, his sister, a childhood friend, and the devastating loss of access to his young son and yet, he still says he wouldn’t change any of it: “Good things will still come out of crap, the rose grows from the pot of dirt.”
The turning point came when Justin left the “mansion” of rigid religion - his metaphor for a beautiful but fear-built belief system and started working with a shaman. Meditation, shadow work, and questioning old beliefs cracked everything open. Then came what he calls a “bliss attack”: “It was like a panic attack if you replace panic with love,three hours on my bed and my near life experience.”
In that state, he felt immersed in source energy, the “water the fish swim in,” the unified field behind everything. That experience became the blueprint for his book Sorcery 101 — “sorcery” with a u, about source, not spells.
Anne-Marie locks in on one of the most practical takeaways: intuition. Justin explains the difference between instinct (fear-based, survival mode) and intuition (heart-based guidance), and gives a simple practice: slow breathing, hand on heart, ask yes/no questions, and learn how your yes and no feel. “The mind thinks, but the heart knows.”
The conversation then dives into toxic masculinity and the war on the feminine. Justin calls out the influencers “full of ego and hate,” and says plainly that embracing your feminine side does not erase your masculinity: “You lose those toxic traits that are holding guys back.”
Walt adds a crucial observation: many men silently agree, but are afraid to speak up until someone like Justin does. Then the “silent majority” starts finding its voice.
Through it all, Justin weaves humor, spiritual insight, and raw honesty into a single message: You do have power. You are not your crash and burn. Your heart already knows the way out.
All that’s left is to listen.
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What if the moment you were planning to end your life became the moment you finally realized you had a choice?
That’s exactly what happened to Tara, an energy coach from Minnesota, in this powerful, heart-opening conversation on LOA Today with Walt and Jodielynn.
From the very beginning, Tara’s story hits deep. She describes growing up as the “black sheep” of her family - brown hair and brown eyes in a sea of blondes and blue eyes, feeling different in every possible way. At eight years old, during a birthday/Easter family gathering, her aunt casually mentioned seeing her “dad Bruce.” Tara didn’t have a dad named Bruce or so she thought.
The innocent question she ran inside to ask, “Is that my dad?” - was met with stone-cold silence and anger. In that moment, everything shifted. She began to see all the ways she didn’t belong. Only years later, at 12, when she finally met Bruce and saw a “replica” of herself - same laugh, same likes, same energy did she feel, for the first time, “Okay, I belong.”
Then, at 15, Bruce died of cancer. “I felt abandoned by him all over again,” Tara shares. That pain pushed her into a relationship with food that became her emotional lifeline: “Food became my best friend, it never disappointed me.” The result: 338 pounds, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and complete self-loathing as a mother of three who felt she was “a disappointment” to her kids and to herself.
Her breaking point became her awakening. Tara describes the day she locked her bedroom door, ready to end her life—until the door somehow unlocked and her middle son walked in and asked: “Are you going to die, Mama?”
That question shattered everything. “I realized - I can choose,” she says. Up to that moment, she believed life just happened to you. That day, she saw the truth: “I have a choice.” From there, she began learning to love herself, eventually losing 220 pounds and taking her life back.
Later, losing her sister to cancer led her into what she calls a “dark night of the soul” and her first successful meditation. Guided by a healer named Trisha, she met her higher self, who told her: “Tara, I’ve waited a very long time for you to show up. You’re a healer. You’ve always been a healer. The world needs you now more than ever.”
That moment anchored her purpose. Walt asks the question many listeners are silently wondering: “What are the modalities you hang your hat on, the ones you and your clients can count on every time?”
Tara’s answer is clear and grounded:
Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Mental Emotional Release to clear limiting beliefs and negative emotions at the subconscious level.
Integrated Energy Therapy, similar to Reiki but highly hands-on and intuitive, works with the organs and energy bodies to release stored anger, sadness, fear, doubt, and more, then integrating positive energy back in so nothing “empty” attracts more pain.
Throughout the conversation, Tara, Walt, and Jodi Lynn keep returning to a central theme: We trap ourselves with limiting beliefs, old programming, and stories about not being enough, yet healing is always possible, and it begins with awareness and choice.
JodieLynn beautifully sums up one of the biggest takeaways: in any moment, you can gain awareness and choose differently, and that choice can change not just your life, but the lives of everyone around you.
This episode is a reminder that your worst moments can become the very soil your new self grows through - if you let yourself break through.
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What if the very thing you call “security” is quietly draining the life out of you?
In this powerful conversation, Walt and Joel dive deep into self-responsibility, comfort zones, trauma, mindset, and the wild magic of living at the edge of your growth. What emerges is a brutally honest, emotionally charged message: your life only truly begins when you take responsibility and step beyond what feels safe.
Early in the discussion, Walt shares a striking contrast between two people at a breakfast gathering: a retired woman thrilled to “do nothing” and Walt himself, lit up by his AI project and hungry for what’s next. “She wants to stay exactly in retirement, I’m doing everything I can to get out of the comfort zone.”
That contrast sets up the core question behind the entire conversation: Are you choosing comfort, or are you choosing growth?
Joel explains that the comfort zone isn’t just emotional - it’s biological. The brain is wired for homeostasis, to keep you “safe in the cave.” “Stepping away from that comfort zone is like, man, that’s just where all the magic is. Nothing occurs inside the comfort zone except the same old redundant thing.”
Walt reframes the comfort zone in a way that hits hard: “A comfort zone is where we maintain the same behaviors; it’s the same thing as being blocked.”
So when we say, “I’m blocked,” what we often mean is: “I’m repeating the same patterns and refusing to leave my comfort zone.”
From there, the conversation shifts into self responsibility. Joel doesn’t sugarcoat it: “Most people’s trauma is not their fault but they are 100% responsible for fixing their trauma.”
It’s a statement that, as Joel admits, “pisses people off,” but he follows it with the only question that actually changes lives: What are you willing to do differently?
They share story after story:
A man who built a $500 million company driven by a father who refused to pay for his college.
Twin brothers who both had an alcoholic father—one saying, “I’m an alcoholic because my dad’s an alcoholic,” the other saying, “I’m not an alcoholic because my dad’s an alcoholic.”
Same facts. Different mindset. Radically different lives.
Walt reveals a deeply personal breakthrough: learning to treat himself with kindness instead of constant self-criticism. That inner shift led a woman he was dating to tell him: “You’re the kindest man I’ve ever met.”
He never set out to earn that label. It emerged as a ripple effect of being kinder to himself while taking responsibility for his own resistance and patterns.
Joel distills one of the most powerful tools of all: “If I am up against something I’m having trouble with, I need to walk away and change my mindset.”
Walt calls it a mic-drop moment because it is. That’s the turning point: Not “How do I force this to work?” but “How can I see this differently?”
By the end, they circle back to the world we’re living in now - chaotic, magical, AI-driven, and full of possibility. “If you really want to live life to your absolute fullest, keep living life.”
The real question is: Will you keep choosing the cave or will you finally step into the magic outside your comfort zone?
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The Paleo story in this conversation doesn’t start with a trend. It starts with a dying woman.
A severely underweight client with advanced uterine cancer came to Beverly and refused conventional treatment. Beverly built a way of eating that felt nourishing and doable for her: animal proteins, fats, cooked vegetables, some tubers, low starch, and no grains.
Beverly refused to recommend anything she wouldn’t do herself, so she started eating that way too. The client later told her: “I want you to know I have felt better this last year than I have felt for decades.”
Even as she was dying, she experienced a level of vitality she hadn’t known in years. That powerful contrast crystallized Beverly’s perspective on what she calls “true and correct paleo.”
The core? Grains come off the menu. Wheat, rice, corn, oats, grass seeds humans never evolved to eat. “We’re hunters,” Beverly explained. “We don’t look down to locate food. We look up to watch for motion.”
One of the most gripping parts of the conversation comes when Beverly shares her health crisis from about 10 years ago. Already naturally slim, she began losing a pound a month with no clear cause. Doctor after doctor of many different modalities ran tests and came up empty. “They basically sent me home to die.” So she did what most people are terrified to do: she became her own researcher.
Beverly dove into medical journals, ordered her own labs, re‑ran them, and eventually discovered she had common variable immune deficiency (CVID) - a serious genetic immune flaw that even affects nutrient transport. “It’s like you’ve got a market full of produce, but no trucks to get it to the store.”
After pushing for the treatment she had determined was right for her, she began weekly infusions that she’ll need for life. Her weight stabilized, and her health returned. Not because the system saved her, but because she refused to abandon herself.
Throughout the conversation, Walt and Anne Marie kept circling one core truth: modern medicine often gives you pills, not understanding. Anne Marie shared going to a doctor in the UK to ask about HRT and being told: “I don’t really know anything about that. Go back, research, and come back. I’ll prescribe whatever you want.”
Beverly’s answer is not blind rebellion; it’s educated ownership. She urges people to ask:
What is my biology actually designed for?
What does my lab work really say if I “aim for the middle” of the range?
Who is paying for the studies I’m trusting?
How can I upgrade my food, my sleep, and my self‑respect before chasing miracle cures?
Her mantra is simple and radical: “Follow your biology. Help yourself to health.”
In a world that often asks you to hand over your power, this conversation is a reminder: you are allowed to be the expert on you.
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What if doing the dishes, getting a free rental car upgrade, or simply making it through a hard day actually counted as celebration?
In my conversation with Jodielynn, we explored how most of us save “celebration” for weddings, birthdays, and funerals -while ignoring the tiny, everyday moments that are quietly shaping our lives.
We asked:
Why don’t we celebrate more when it’s such a powerful tool?
What if the “insignificant” things are actually the most sacred?
How much of our painful past is really true… and how much is just an old story we keep retelling?
Jodielynn shared how doing the dishes became her unconscious way of creating safety and comfort during family crises and how realizing that allowed her to say, “I got you, baby Jodie,” and choose kinder ways to care for herself.
She also told a courageous story about making a painful mistake, drowning in shame, and then hearing her best friend say: “Jodie, there’s nothing you could do that would make me love you any less.”
That one sentence became a doorway to self-forgiveness and a powerful practice: When I’m beating myself up, what would the most loving person in my life say to me right now?
We talked about how:
The brain’s RAS (reticular activating system) starts looking for more good when you intentionally celebrate small wins.
You don’t have to fix everything overnight. Just shifting a little changes your relationships and the energy around you.
Celebration isn’t balloons and cake - it’s a feeling of recognition, gratitude, and “I am okay.”
The real question isn’t can you celebrate more.
It’s: Will you let your everyday life count as worthy of celebration?
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