Love Sweet Love
Love Sweet Love is a podcast that shares inspiring examples of why love is what the world needs now, and how our health and wellbeing depend on it. Host Gayle Beavil, an educator and speaker, has conversations with a diverse range of people—from kids to seniors, authors to artists, researchers to doctors—who are intentionally creating awareness and knowledge through projects, programs, and systems to foster care, love, compassion, and joy. Each episode explores why they do what they do, how they are doing it, and what they see as the vital connections to our health and happiness. The show celebrates the good around us and uncovers what we need to build a healthier, more loving society.
Episodes
Ep 44 Keeping the Happy in the Holidays - Negotiating the Chaos & Staying True to You with Damali Peterman
I am glad you are here everybody. Today we are going to talk about negotiation. Why are we talking about negotiation on Love Sweet Love, which focuses on our connectedness and social health? Well, because negotiations don’t just happen at work … they also happen in our everyday lives, within many of our relationships: such as with our partners, our bosses, our kids and our neighbours, and how we m
Ep 43 Making Communities Ready for Recovery (All of Us) with Founder and Author, Mark Lefebvre
Today my guest is passionate about many of the same things I am. His specific quest is to help make communities places of recovery, or “recovery-ready” to support folks who have been in treatment for addiction and are returning to their communities, but also, for all the members of a community, because you will see that what he is advocating for, and helping communities do, is to create cohesive,
Ep 42 – “Volunteer Grandparents and Childcare In Seniors’ Homes - Why We Need Intergenerational Connections”
If you were, or are, fortunate enough to have a close relationship with a grandparent or older family friend in your life, you know how lucky you are. There is just something magic in these times – for people of both generations involved.These interactions used to happen more frequently and naturally in our families and in our neighbourhoods. We as a society have been retreating inward, as our hom
Ep 41: 100 Women, $10,000 & Making a Difference with Guest Tina Shaw
Hello. I am so glad you are joining me, and if it is your first time, welcome! Today I am going to introduce you to Tina Shaw who leads a group “100 Women Who Care Fraser Valley”. This group of women is so inspiring and I am excited to share what they do with you. Basically, the women each bring $100 to a meeting, 4 times a year and then because there are 100 of them, they present a $10,000 cheque
Ep 40 “Fragile Neighbourhoods, Fragile Society- Why Neighbourhoods Matter To Our Health & Happiness” with guest Dr. Seth Kaplan
If you find yourself wondering what the heck is going on with the world today, along with our growing feelings of meaninglessness and despair, I think you will find this episode not just interesting and informative, but actually helpful. Today, I am so pleased to say that I am speaking with Dr. Seth Kaplan.Dr. Kaplan is a leading expert on fragile states, a consultant to multilateral organizations
Ep 39 How To Achieve the One Surprising Secret to Health & Happiness with host Gayle Beavil
This is an episode I am excited for you to hear. This topic -- about what we clamour for to feel successful, and why, in the end, we don't even feel fulfilled. In fact, we often feel worse. In this episode, I will share with you some research findings and expert opinions on the one thing that makes us the happiest and healthiest in life. It is accessible to all of us. It has been tested and tested
Ep 38 Neighboring is a Crockpot, Not a Microwave & Why Knowing Neighbors Matters with David Burton
Welcome to this episode of Love Sweet Love. If this is your first time here, I hope you come back again! I love sharing inspiring ideas, initiatives and innovators who are growing good and even spreading love (I know! Cue the eye-roll, but it’s true!) in the world.Today’s guest is David Burton who teaches the very popular Engaged Neighbour Program at the University of Missouri Extension. He is a w
Ep 37 Through the Neighbourhood & Across Differences: The Power of Stoop Stories
Welcome back everyone. I am so thankful you have chosen to listen. Listening to the stories of some of the good that is happening in the world, really helps us stay strong, while we try to deal with and process all the negative around us. You will find today’s episode really interesting and entertaining.Today, I am bringing you a conversation with Marj Kleinman, the founder of NYC’s Stoop Stories.
Ep - 36 A Grave Misconception: I Don’t Need You (How Social Health Can Safe Our Lives) with Gayle Beavil
Social health is becoming a widely talked about segment of our lives! It has been for years but the attention it is getting right now is finally doing it justice!This episode is just me. It is me sharing with you some of the thoughts I have, and have written about, regarding our connections, regarding loneliness, regarding our responsibility to ourselves and our kids, to figure this out, and fast.
Ep 35 Returning to the Universal Power of Food and Story with Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway of Community Plate
I am excited for you to meet my two guests today, Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway. They are a married couple who are co-founders of a non-profit called Community Plate, in Maine. They also have a goat farm, are authors, have a busy family and a real love of bringing people together and building community.You’ll find out how a cookbook, celebrating Maine’s bi-centennial, was kind of a spark for t
Ep 34 Making a Fuss About Community, Culture & Women with leader & founder, Mithila Karnik Adarkar
Some people just radiate love and community and positive energy. I am so glad you are choosing this episode today, as this is one of my all-time favourite interviews. Sometimes, my guest and I welled up with tears because of the beauty we felt in what we were speaking about. My guest on this episode really understands community and love and culture and celebration.She has only been a few years her
Ep 33: A Surprisingly Effective Cure for Loneliness & Divisiveness (Its Not What You Think!) with Vanessa Elias of Block Party USA
My guest today is creating community and wellness on quite a massive scale! My guest is Vanessa Elias and she is a mental health activist, a certified parent coach (she has her own company called, Thrive with a Guide), and writes and speaks about child and family wellbeing. Vanessa is also the founder of Block party USA. She is a firm believer that block parties are a cure for most of what ails us
Ep 32: “The Dangers in Letting Our Titles Define Us” - A solocast with host Gayle Beavil
What happens when we are consumed by our work, or the titles and roles we have? And when I say consumed, I mean that almost literally – like swallowed up, or as if we melded into one like some kind of chemical reaction that happens when two substances merge.If there is no boundary between work self and non-work self, no off switch, like when you come home from work, or when you finish with the las
Ep 31 “Celebrating Identity & Understanding” Global LGBTQIA & Civil Rights Speaker & Educator, Greg R. Baird
I am looking forward to sharing this inspiring and informative conversation with you. I speak to Greg R. Baird, who has been dedicating his life to inspire, empower, and educate folks about the fact that each of us has something to offer, and we all matter. Especially now, as we see the long fought-for DEI policies in the States under attack, these kinds of conversations matter.Greg and I talk abo
Ep 30 “It’s for the Kids” - 32 Years (So Far) of a Fundraiser with Friends with Guest Bob LeBlevec
This is a fun episode for me, as today I am talking with a friend I have known for 47 years! I asked him to be on the podcast because I have been marveling at him and his wife and what they have done for 32 years now.They have created a fundraiser for children’s charities where they invite over 100 friends, and friends of friends, to an annual Bonspiel. They have a dinner and an auction and other
Ep 29 Creating Change & Hope TOGETHER - Green Teams of Canada with founder Lyda Salatian
Welcome to today’s episode. I am so pleased to have Lyda Salatian on the show with me. It was honestly one of my favourite interviews I have ever done. Her passion and dedication just burst through in every moment of our conversation.Lyda founded the nonprofit, Green Teams of Canada, in 2011. She has won some very prestigious awards for her passions and commitment, such as: British Columbia Achiev
Ep 28 Living With Intention & Sharing Wisdom -The “Aging to Sage- ing” Program with guests Janey Talbot & Wendy Scott
Welcome to another episode of Love Sweet Love.I am so glad you are here. Today you are going to find out about a revolutionary program that will turn your thinking around aging upside down. This program is called From Aging to Sage-ing and it was created by Rabbi Zalmon Schachter-Shalomi. It supports participants to consciously move through the challenges and transitions of life by engaging in the
Ep 27 What Makes Us Happier - TIME DOES! Why Time Matters, and 9 Ways to Get It In Your Busy Life
Anyone who has been a busy mom (I had three kids in 6 years) and worked part time as a teacher. It was so busy and stressful at times. I was exhausted. I had no time for myself. Sound familiar?Studies show that what is most correlated with our happiness, is the sense that we have more TIME to enjoy our lives. Time actually matters more to your happiness than money, or anything else, according to Y
Ep 26 Raising Hundreds of Thousands, Sharing Good & Making Good Happen - The Hope Rises Network with guest Kate Glaser
My guest today calls herself a story-telling enthusiast. She is a professional journalist and after 8 years of television news reporting, she decided to move into the nonprofit world and charity work. My guest is the inspiring Kate Glaser.Kate heads the Hope Rises Network which tells and shares good news stories of love and hope from around the world, and Hope Rises also, importantly, takes action
Ep 25 “The Other “Vitamin C” – It Saves Lives, So Why Don’t We Take It”?
Hi there. Thank you for being here with me on the Love Sweet Love Podcast. This episode is about something life changing and life-saving and that we can add into our lives.Life-changing and life-saving.It is free. It is accessible.My hope with this episode is that it will have you pause and think about how you can get more of this in your life, and into the lives of your kids, your grandkids and a
Ep 24 Serving Meals, Supports and DIGNITY Together - The Storehouse, Cloverdale Community Kitchen with Marty Jones
A local community kitchen. A shelter. A mobile meals program. These sound like very helpful services for our community, but maybe you are thinking that helpful doesn’t exactly make for an exciting and entertaining podcast, necessarily…. Well, don’t be fooled. This episode will inspire you, make you laugh, astound you with its vision and leadership and dedication of volunteers. Hundreds of voluntee
Ep 23: Getting Your Spark -- and Joy -- Back with guest Rachel Marie Martin
My guest today is Rachel Marie Martin! Yes, I mean the author, Rachel Marie Martin, who has supported and inspired so many of us, especially those of us who are moms and parents, to remember we are enough, we are not alone, we can get through hard times, and that we all have strengths and gifts that we are meant to embrace and even bring to the world.Rachel has been blogging for decades, has over
Episode 22: 100 Guys That Care A LOT - Who are they & why they do it with guests Mike Pajic and Frank Ellestad
On this episode I am highlighting a local group called "100 Guys That Care, South Surrey". They are basically a bunch of friends who got together to support local causes, groups and even families, who need a hand up. They are a bunch of regular guys who get together 4 times a year and donate $10,000 each time they meet, to a deserving group or cause. Who does this??? I wanted to know all about it,
Episode 21 Youth Making a Difference: Their Motivation and Impact with guests Emily Eng and Megan Moy
I’m glad you are here to take a breath, pause and focus on some of the good that is happening all around us. It’s there, we just don’t get to see it sometimes. I am talking to my favourite demographic on this episode – young people. It is so inspiring and the wisdom and insight shared here today will give you hope for the future.I became interested in my guests today when I saw a post on Linkedin,
Episode 20 Kind Cotton: Kindness and Justice in Action with guest Kaitlin Johnstone
This guest today is innovative and fierce and visionary and caring and compassionate and she is exactly the kind of person I want to highlight on this podcast. When I came across this person and saw how she is choosing to live her life and the mission she has, it was so inspiring to me. When I dreamt up this podcast, this is just the stuff I was hoping I could bring to as many people as I could. F
Episode 19 Butter and Belonging: Goodness and Inclusion at Gabi and Jules' Handmade Pies
You will love this episode! The company I am featuring today is remarkable and I think, quite revolutionary.It is a local bakery, here in the lower mainland of BC, called Gabi and Jules. . It is known for having the most delicious, handmade baking and they use full-butter in all their goods, and NO machines. Everything is handmade.That is spreading love enough, of course, but… there is so much mor
Episode 18 Fostering Empathy, Changing the World - The Roots of Empathy Program & the Babies that Teach It with guest Julie Lundberg
It is a huge honour to have my guest with me today. When I dreamt up this podcast, the Roots of Empathy program was one of the first examples of a program or organization that is fostering and spreading love, and highlighting this program was on the top of my dream guest list.Here is a tiny excerpt from founder Mary Gordon’s best-selling book called “Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by C
Episode 17 Sitting Alongside to Create Sacred Spaces with guest Christine Vaughan Davies
“Creating Sacred Spaces for Transformation” with guest Christine Vaughan Davies I first found my guest today on Substack. I was drawn to her post called “Sacred tears” for many reasons – one being that anyone who knows me knows that I cry easily – well not easily, but “readily”, maybe. In her post, she wrote about what it could be like if vulnerability could be seen as a superpower. Here’s a littl
Episode 16 Workin (well... Volunteerin) on the Railroad - Preserving History & Building Community with JOY
I am so excited to share this episode with you. It is the first time I have taken microphones and recorded my interviews on site! I did this because I was stunned by this place! I wanted to go back there and try to capture the magic that we witnessed when we went there this summer.My husband, Paul, and I, were looking for places to take his 89-year-old mum while here on her month-long, annual visi
Episode 15 Kids These Days:The Teen Stereotype is All Wrong with guests: Liz Byrne, EJ Launio, Faith Duong, and Lori Kullahian
Today I am going to focus on teens and young adults who are choosing to give of themselves in order to support others in the community. I hear, and I bet you do, too, the disparaging phrase “these young people today” and how they are adrift, or idle or selfish, or unmotivated.This is not what I see. This is not what you will hear about today. I am regularly so inspired by the young people I get th
Episode 14 “The Loving in Dying: Hospice Work and Why it Matters” with guests Angela Elemans & Donna Porter
Who are the people who choose to comfort those as they die? Who are those who choose to be around that sadness, the tears, the grief? Who are those who could watch the loved ones of the dying, in their grief? These questions have crossed my mind many times – I could barely utter the words “death” and “dying”, let alone imagine myself trying to comfort someone during this time. I think those who do
Ep 13 Flourishing - Research-based Ways to Add Joy and Meaning to Our Work and Life with Guest Dr. Sabre Cherkowski
I am so excited about this episode. We have such an expert with us today! My guest today is a leading researcher in the study of flourishing and wellbeing. I have had the pleasure of knowing her for a few years now, as I was in some sessions with her in a series in my district and I immediately felt connected to her and what she has to say. She is incredibly knowledgeable, insightful, warm, funny,
Episode 12 Forgiveness - Why We Need It and How To Do It with guest Katharine Giovanni
There are so many thoughts on forgiveness. I think of forgive and forget, or even that sometimes we say or feel we can forgive, but we won’t forget…. Which is right? Is there are a right approach to forgiveness?I think recently we have heard that forgiveness is good for us, as holding that burden of a grudge or hatred or something else negative, is only hurting us, … but then what if something is
Ep 11: We Can Build a Resilient Lifestyle with Michelle E. Dickinson
Burnout is one of the most uttered words of the past few years.I know in my work in schools, I often hear from colleagues that it seems harder and harder to find the stamina to do the job. Many of us have wondered, “Why does everyone seem so tired all the time?”. These feelings of exhaustion seem to be increasing, don’t they? I wonder, is if because of COVID? If so, why? Or is it something else, a
Ep 10 Why Community is Medicine with guest Dr. Elizabeth Markle
Today I am highlighting an organization which fosters connection and care and harnesses the power of community to improve the wellness and lives of its participants.My guest today is Dr. Elizabeth Markle. She is an Associate Professor at Community Mental Health at California Institute of Integral Studies and is also a licensed psychologist, speaker (her TEDx talk is excellent), writer, and researc
Ep 9 The Village Initiative with Guest Cindy Andrew
Today, I am highlighting a really cool project, or initiative, as they call it, which is happening on BC’s Vancouver Island. I first noticed this group on Twitter, as I found they liked and reposted the same kinds of things that I did, and their focus seemed to be on focussing on the greater good of the community. Their name caught my eye, too, as it was about the “village”, a power which I truly
Ep 8 The Gifts of a Life of Giving with Guests Lindy and Jim McQueen
This is a very special episode in that it celebrates two people who are, and have been, fostering love for decades. These two people happen to be married, and have been married for many years. These two people are so dedicated to giving their hearts and time to the community, it seems like they treat it like their job. When you see them in their various ways of serving, they are so comfortable, so
Ep7 Love: It Literally Builds Brains with Dr.Jean Clinton
On this episode we talk about what it means to be an “upstreamist”; teens and what is most important; social conditions and their impact; how colonialism got it all wrong and the brilliance of indigenous ways of knowing and learning; a gardener versus a carpenter approach to parenting; and so much more.My guest today is a Clinical Professor at McMaster in the Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioural neu
Ep 6 Having Work - Life Harmony: Be Nourished In All You Do
I have known today’s guest for more than a decade, and I have seen with my own eyes, her obvious intelligence, her broad vision of a compassionate world and the role she believes we all play in creating that world. Through coaching, writing, and community work she does, and through her daily interactions (whether at work or not), she has always focussed on a healthy work climate, and her colleague
Ep 5 Love and Books Are Medicine: An Author's Gracious Approach with Monique Gray Smith
Our guest today is an esteemed, best-selling author, speaker and consultant who believes love, is medicine. She believes and shares how love heals, brings hope and builds empathy. I have heard our guest today say that when talking about love, we do not necessarily have to sue the word “love” – but, she says, “when we treat somebody with respect, with kindness, when we share with them, when we upho
Ep 4 Promoting Possibility and Independence - A Different Kind of Thrift Store
There is a small but mighty group of people in Burnaby who are doing incredible things with their time, creativity, and vision. These people have found a way to support hundreds and hundreds of people in this lower-mainland BC city, by promoting capacity-building, community engagement, new and exciting opportunities, avenues to equity, leadership and more. We are going to talk to some of the folks
Ep 3 Our Youth: Volunteering to Serve, Lead and Love
Here are two young people who are acting and living in loving ways, every day, even as they navigate their packed grade 12 schedules, maintaining their grades and expectations, high involvement in their extra-curricular activities and of course, their relationships with friends and family. I talk to them about how they manage all of this, where they learned this ethic from and WHY they give all of
Ep 2 Gather, Belong, Shine and Lead - Neighbourhood Houses
Today I have the great pleasure of bringing you the amazing work of Neighbourhood Houses.When I think of Neighbourhood Houses, certain words spring to my mind: The first one is, welcome. Other words that come to mind are: inclusion, gathering, opportunity, capacity, possibility, involvement, assets, equity. The work done in Neighbourhood Houses is definitely fostering and spreading love. These fol
Ep 1: Introduction Episode
Educator, facilitator, speaker Gayle Beavil, introduces “Love Sweet Love” – her appreciative inquiry on love and its power to make us, and society, move toward more happiness, health and harmony. Listen in to hear what kind of conversations you will hear and why, what the word needs now, is indeed, “Love Sweet Love”.
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