LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of Happy

What happens when a musician is told he has two years to live and decides not just to survive, but to finally live on his own terms?
That’s the story Kevin shared in this powerful conversation with Walt and Jodie Lynn, a story that weaves together music, mortality, and a radical redefinition of success.
From the very beginning, Kevin framed music as destiny, not just a career. As a teenager, he discovered the mountain dulcimer and “just knew it was [his] destiny.” By 16, he was signed to a major folk label, recording alongside legends like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie.
He went on to sing the theme for the PBS hit Shining Time Station, and in his words, he got “a little rich, a little famous, a book deal, a record deal, all that stuff.”
But the dream came with a price.
The stress, pressure, and misalignment of success led to a brutal wake-up call: melanoma. Four oncologists told Kevin it would return within two years, and he’d be dead. He calls it what it was: a death sentence.
And yet something in him refused to accept that story.
Kevin describes himself as “somewhat psychic,” deeply spiritually attuned, and both musical and spiritual “from birth.” When he heard the diagnosis, he recalls walking through his apartment, speaking out loud to his dog, and saying: “Don’t worry, buddy, we’ll get through this.”
Then came the realization: “I discovered there were two of me, the conscious warrior and the knower.” That inner knowing told him he wasn’t going to die. He followed that guidance, turned inward spiritually, found teachings from Yogananda and Ramana Maharshi, and radically simplified his life.
He left the Midwest with “my dog and my dulcimer,” moved into a small apartment in San Diego, and embraced minimalism. He lost most of his money and discovered freedom. No house. No lawn. No status to maintain. Just health, music, and what truly mattered.
When Walt asked what music really means to him, Kevin’s answer was simple and profound: “It was very healing.” He went on to describe Dulcie meditation using dulcimer instrumentals as a vehicle for accessing the subconscious and receiving quiet inner guidance. He realized he’d been doing it his whole life.
That insight became the seed of a new calling. At someone’s suggestion, Kevin began life coaching, helping others apply the same principles he used to heal and rebuild.
His first question to clients isn’t “What do you want?” It’s: “What don’t you want in your life anymore?” From there, he asks:
What do you want?
Why is that truly important?
What are you going to do about it?
Again and again, he returns to a central truth: health and self-love are the real wealth. “Your greatest asset is your health,” he says. “Forget about everybody else. Love yourself.”
Now, through his upcoming Dulcie Meditations project on YouTube and Substack and one-on-one coaching via KevinRoth.org, Kevin is quietly redefining what it means to succeed: not by being everywhere, but by being deeply present with the few people he’s meant to help.
His journey poses a question that lingers long after the conversation ends: If you were given a death sentence, what would you finally permit yourself to let go of, and what would you finally allow yourself to live for?
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What if the way you compare yourself to others is quietly deciding how happy or miserable you feel every day?
In this powerful conversation on LOA Today, Walt and Joel unpack how comparison, gratitude, and mindset can either drain your joy or completely transform your life.
From the very start, Walt asks the core question behind the episode: Are we falling into a comparison trap, or are we using comparison as a tool for growth?
Joel doesn’t hesitate to call out the problem: “Social media is a platform of comparison; people see things, and they judge their life by where someone else is at, and that creates a feeling of lack.”
He explains how we look at someone else’s “100%” – the gym-obsessed entrepreneur versus the person on day three of addiction recovery, and decide one is worthy and the other isn’t.
But as Joel points out, both are giving everything they have. The problem isn’t effort. It’s the way we compare.
Walt adds another layer: those “perfect” people we see online? “You look closer, they don’t actually fit the images.”
There is no perfection. Yet we measure ourselves against it every day.
Joel recalls the famous line, “Comparison is the thief of joy,” and explains why: when comparison is rooted in lack, we broadcast the energy of “I’m not enough.” That vibration shapes what we attract.
But Joel also offers a reframe: “I like to be the dumbest, weakest, and poorest person in a room.”
Not because he feels less than, but because he sees possibility. Around people who are stronger, wiser, or wealthier, he isn’t asking, “Why don’t I have that?” He’s asking, “What can I learn from them?”
That simple question changes comparison from poison into fuel.
Walt connects the comparison to one of their favorite themes: response.
We can’t control what happens, but we can control how we respond. And with comparison, that response is everything: Do I use someone else’s success as proof I’m failing? Or as proof that what I want is possible for me too?
Joel illustrates this with heartbreaking, real-life stories: the overdose of a bright 16-year-old, the death of his own son, families choosing to turn grief into advocacy, awareness, and even life-saving organ donation. “You can’t make tragedy not be tragic,” Joel says, “but your response to it can be empowering.”
Walt brings it back to the simplest emotional guidance system possible: “It’s either I feel better, or I feel worse.”
Instead of comparing ourselves to strangers on a screen, what if we only asked: Does this thought, this action, this focus make me feel better or worse?
Joel agrees that comparison is at its best when it’s you vs. you: “Comparison is a quick way with yourself to show the subconscious brain things are different now.”
Comparing who you are today to who you used to be can reprogram your belief in what’s possible.
In the end, Walt sums up their journey: they both tried for years to make all of this complicated. But underneath it all, it’s simple:
Notice how you compare.
Choose gratitude over lack.
Ask: Does this make me feel better or worse?
And keep honoring the process, not just the result.
Because the real “gratitude beyond the cake” isn’t about the celebration at the end. It’s about learning to love the journey that gets you there.
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What happens when you stop running from your past and start ripping it up literally?
In a powerful conversation on LOA Today, host Walt and co-host Anne Marie sat down with artist and soul-portrait guide Devorah to explore how creativity can become a lifeline out of shame, trauma, and self-hatred.
From the outside, Devorah “looked” successful. She went to art school, showed in galleries, and was known as a professional artist. Inside, she felt like she was “never enough.”
As she told Walt, she had grown up deeply dyslexic, struggled in school, and carried a childhood certainty that she was simply “bad” and somehow “going to hell” despite not growing up in a religious household. That early inner verdict fueled years of painful choices that seemed to “prove” her own worthlessness.
One of the most haunting moments she shared was sitting in freezing Prague, wearing summer clothes, contemplating simply leaning back and letting nature take her life. “Something in me said, ‘No. Get up,’” she recalled. That tiny inner “no” became a turning point.
Walt asked what it was like the first time she truly looked under the hood of her own story. Devorah admitted she was terrified of what she’d find: “I was so scared of what I would find looking under the hood, and what I found was love.”
Unable at first to put her truth into spoken words, she found a different way: soul portraits. She began writing out her stories - letters, memories, confessions then ripping them up and collaging the pieces onto canvas. She layered writing over the fragments, then painted over the writing. In doing so, she deconstructed her old identity and rebuilt a new one in art form.
Walt recognized it immediately: “You found a way to artistically journal.”
That’s exactly what it is. Soul portraits are visual journals that live halfway between art and ritual. You don’t need to be “an artist.” As Devorah told Anne Marie, if you can smear glue and rip paper, you’re qualified.
The power is not in making something pretty. The power is in getting what’s stuck in your body out onto the canvas, where you can finally see it, witness it, and relate to it differently.
The conversation went even deeper when Devorah shared the compounded heartbreak of discovering her children had been sexually abused, losing her extended family support system in the fallout, then watching her husband later develop debilitating seizures.
Anne Marie’s “mama bear” response came through strongly as she reflected on just how much Devorah had to navigate at once.
Still, Devorah refuses to stay in victimhood. She challenges the belief that we are our worst moments: “I had no idea that under all of those layers was just peace and acceptance, and more than anything, self-forgiveness.”
Today, she teaches others to do the same through a digital course, group work, and one-on-one guidance using their own letters, photos, and memories as raw material.
Her core question to anyone listening is piercing and simple: Are you willing to look beneath the hood?
Because once you start, she says, you may discover you’re not the monster your inner critic told you you were. You might just find a small, stubborn ember of love that has survived everything and is ready to light the way forward.
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What if everything you’ve been chasing for happiness has been pointing you away from where it actually lives?
In this powerful conversation on LOA Today, host Walt and co‑host Jodie Lynn sit down with breathwork teacher and money coach Jon Paul to explore how a simple, uncomfortable breathing technique can unlock decades of trapped pain and reveal a life filled with purpose, joy, and self‑love.
Jon Paul begins by sharing his turbulent early life in the Irish enclaves outside Boston - violence, heavy drinking, and deep loss: “I lost six close friends before I was 21. I got stabbed when I was 19 and left for dead.”
He describes how alopecia, the sudden loss of his hair during his fitness and acting career, shattered his self‑worth: “My self-esteem, my self-worth, was wrapped up in my looks and that was being stripped away, and it really accelerated my alcohol and drug use.”
The pain that had no tools, no guidebook, finally drove him to therapy and 12‑step recovery - steps that got him sober, but still left old trauma buried in his nervous system.
Walt asks a question many listeners were likely thinking: “What actually happens in this breathwork stuff?”
Jon Paul’s answer changes everything we think we know about “just breathing”: “People think breathwork is relaxing meditation. This isn’t relaxing. This is like saying ‘I do fitness.’ Okay, but do you do CrossFit or yoga? Breathwork is like that.”
He explains he teaches circular breathwork, a 30‑minute, mouth‑breathing practice done in a safe space that activates the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) specifically to reach stored trauma and emotional pain.
The first 10 minutes? Often awful. “Your brain really fights you. It doesn’t want you to shut it off, and you have to push through that to have this big transformational experience.”
One of the most striking moments is when Jon Paul describes what happens in the brain: “There’s a thing called transient hypofrontality. Part of the prefrontal cortex, where the critic lives, where the ego lives, can shut down.”
For the first time in his life, he felt “enough”: “The first time I ever felt like I was enough was the first time I did this breathwork.”
That quieting of the inner critic allowed a massive emotional release - years of grief, anger, and stored experiences finally moving out of his body.
Jodie Lynn admits she’s not a natural “yeller,” and shares how past toxic relationships made screaming feel unsafe. Jon Paul responds with an insight that lands deeply: “Men need permission to cry, and women need permission to yell or scream.”
At the end of his classes, he has everyone let out a massive yell, often with a gong crashing in the background. It’s raw, primal, and liberating: “When in life do we yell? There’s something there, it felt like years, maybe even other lifetimes of stuff letting out.”
Perhaps the most emotionally charged takeaway is John Paul’s reflection on career and purpose: “We have to give up our dreams to step into our destiny. We can keep pursuing something just because we’ve been pursuing it so long and miss something beautiful right in front of us.”
Jodie Lynn reframes it brilliantly, adding that we often must surrender our perceived dreams - the ones handed to us by culture, family, and social media - to finally discover a heart‑centered life worth living.
In the end, breathwork isn’t presented as a magic fix, but as an actionable, repeatable way to love yourself by doing the hard inner work you’ve been avoiding.
“The life that you’re looking for is in the work that you’ve been avoiding.” And this time, that work starts with one uncomfortable, conscious breath.
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What if the very thing that makes you powerful is the thing your subconscious has spent a lifetime shutting down?
In this deeply vulnerable and expansive conversation, Walt and Jodie Lynn explore what it means to live with immense spiritual potential while feeling cut off from some of its most common expressions,  especially visualization and direct connection with spirit guides.
Early in the discussion, Walt lays out the emotional load he’s been carrying: grief over his cat’s illness, financial pressure from his gardening business, and the stress of creating a last‑minute memorial video for a family celebration of life.
Yet even in the middle of all that, he’s also birthing something new: “What about the idea of the three of us creating a new modality, a way as a group to feed each other energy as we’re trying to focus on the things that we’re trying to attract in life?”
That raises one of the central questions of the episode: How do we deliberately amplify good-feeling states so they reshape our lives, rather than treating them as fleeting moments?
Walt shares a powerful insight he uncovered with the help of AI: if a conversation or experience raises your vibration (like their show “Your Daily Dose of Happy”), you can lock in the benefit by pausing several times later in the day just to re-feel how good it felt - without replaying the whole story: “You literally take a moment and spend a minute or so remembering how it felt to feel good at the end of the show. If you do that three to four times, you’re going to maximize the value of what you got out of doing the show.”
Jodie Lynn takes that further with a somatic, body-based practice:
Where does joy live in your body?
What does fear feel like, and can you make it bigger than smaller, then quiet?
She describes guiding people to map emotions in the body, “coding your entire body in your field” with the feeling you want to live in. She also shares her “Care Bear Stare” group exercise, in which everyone collectively sends love energy like a beam from the heart toward one person, often leaving the receiver feeling profoundly lifted.
The conversation becomes even more intimate when Walt reveals his lifelong struggle with visualization: “Any image that I get is a pretty dull image, and it’s a static snapshot. As soon as I close my eyes, it’s gone. I can’t hold that image at all.”
Why would someone so spiritually drawn be almost locked out of visual inner experience?
Together, they explore the possibility that subconscious protection- some early conclusions like “this world is insane; I need to protect myself” may have led Walt’s system to shut down visual and psychic channels to keep him safe.
Jodie Lynn suggests that when he finally unlocks this, he may see far more than most people, and will need not just access, but healthy control to turn it on and off.
Walt’s recent Reiki session adds a powerful confirmation. A Native American spirit guide appears to the practitioner and symbolically gives him a large feather, a rare and sacred gift, and a message: his long, frustrating journey of “not quite connecting” is almost over, and a much larger journey is about to begin.
“I’ve got this intention of doing a lot of stuff. I’m only, like, halfway through my life.”
The core takeaway of this conversation is both simple and profound:
Your resistance may not be a flaw; it may be protection.
Your body is the gateway to the reality you want to create.
Tiny, deliberate returns to good-feeling states can reshape your life.
And underneath it all, Walt and Jodie Lynn keep circling one truth: “We have more power than we think. It’s not limited to the few. It’s all of us.”
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