On this week’s podcast Jane and Wendy discuss three quotes that Wendy brought forward as the spring board for their conversation. You can live your life out of circumstance or you can live your life out of vision. ~ Werner Erhard Pain pushes until the vision pulls. ~ Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre Each of these quotes centres around the idea of the push and the pull in life. Jane and Wendy talk about how the discomfort and ev...
Jun 22, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 32
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy discuss 'The 5 balls of Life' speech by Coca-Cola's former CEO Brian Dyson and the concept of having a purpose or a raison d'etre, as the springboard for their conversation. The five balls of life are made up of work, family, health, friends and spirit. Jane and Wendy discuss the importance of these, and that ultimately it is having purpose or a raison d'etre that gives life meaning. They talk about how purpose c...
Jun 15, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 31
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy use a long love, and slightly modified quote by John C Maxwell as their springboard. The original quote is 'Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best'. Wendy shares that she has held this quote near and dear for a long time with a slight modification to 'say not to the good and yes to the best!' The talk about how this is essentially setting personal non-negoitables and priorities to ensure that ...
Jun 08, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 30
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast we welcome our second guest to the podcast. Jane speaks with one of her Chateau Life Residency guests, Dr. Ruth Anderson. They use a quote by one of Jane's favorites, Yung Pueblo, as a springboard for their conversation about anxiety and its role in peak performance. Ruth is a sports psychologist specializing in peak performance for athletes. She works with athletes working under pressure to manage their thought processes so th...
Jun 02, 2022•39 min•Season 2Ep. 29
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy use a listeners email as a springboard and an example of how recognition of the state of things can be a love letter to your relationship. They talk about how recognition of the state of things is the first step to growing in a relationship. Wendy shares a quote by Cherralea Morgen, “Life is not fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.” and they both remind us not to panic, because the reality i...
May 25, 2022•37 min•Season 2Ep. 28
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy's springboard for there conversation is a post from a favorite, Yung Pueblo. A particular instagram post hit home for Jane and together she and Wendy shared a deeper conversation about the impact of a good-bye. The post read: manage your reactions but do not suppress your emotions ~ Yung Pueblo Wendy’s Takeaways A 'too-da-loo' means you're in the inner circle There are such benefits to being a life long learner J...
May 18, 2022•31 min•Season 2Ep. 27
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast we are wrapping up our conversation with our first guest, Trish Donnelly. In this episode, Trish joins Jane and Wendy and they take more about the idea of the love journal and how implementing the intentional practice helped heal and grow the relationship between Trish and her husband. Wendy’s Takeaways The intentionality of the actions of creating a space and sharing the words How all the things that were being said were then ...
May 11, 2022•38 min•Season 2Ep. 26
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast we are delighted to have our first guest! Last week we shared a beautiful and inspiring love letter from a listener who we no longer need to call 'Eve'. Trish Donnelly joins Wendy to talk about the letter, her story and reflect on last week's podcast. Wendy and Trish share a beautiful conversation about being women of faith and how that has supported them, how Trish's story inspires others, the gift of reaching for our dreams a...
May 04, 2022•35 min•Season 2Ep. 25
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy use the listener's beautiful and inspiring love letter, as their springboard for their conversation. And...this week's conversation was so good that we decided to invite the author of the springboard letter to be the first guest on the podcast! Jane and Wendy decided to hold their takeaways from this two part series until after next week's conversation. We hope you loved this conversation and we invite you to joi...
Apr 28, 2022•26 min•Season 2Ep. 24
As we close out the first season of Love Letters, Life and Other Conversations we wanted to re-share the prelude episode in which Jane and Wendy outline what a love letter is. We are getting ready for Season 2 and are excited to be adding guests to upcoming episodes! Continuing to use yours and our love letters, we will be inviting others to join the conversation with Jane and Wendy. If you would like to share your love letter with us for consideration in a future episode, please send it to us a...
Apr 21, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 23
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast Jane and Wendy use the song 'Let it all Go' by the artists Birdy + Rhodes , as their springboard for their conversation. We invite you to find the song where you listen to music and then join the conversation. Wendy’s Takeaways Making a habit of saying yes to yourself is everything Jane’s Takeaways The big lesson behind the song - is that if we are strong enough to get into the murky waters, then we are strong enough to get out...
Apr 13, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 22
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy take about the practice of a morning routine, using the principle of S.A.V.E.R.S from the book the Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod as their springboard for this week's conversation. S.A.V.E.R.S stands for Silence, Affirmations, Visualisation, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing. Wendy’s Takeaways The acronym itself and the thoughtful way in which the items are ordered. That we can adjust these suggestions in a way that ...
Apr 06, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 21
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy share love letters to their future selves. This springboard comes from an exercise from Jane’s online class ‘I Want More the Next 30 Years’. Both Jane and Wendy read their letters and talk about the impact that writing and reading these letters had for them. Wendy’s Takeaways The idea that our experiences are ours to own, even when they are shared. Being invited into someone else’s space to share in their ‘world’...
Mar 30, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 20
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy talk about the essential ingredients they look for in friendship. They discuss what qualities make a good friendship or that reveal a not so good one. They also share that they have different groups of friends born out of life’s seasons and circumstances and how those friendships support them in different ways. As well, they both agree that when we are defining and seeking the characteristics we are looking for i...
Mar 22, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 19
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy use an email as their springboard for their conversation. The email contains a heartfelt message about maintaining a long-distance friendship that is deeply rooted, but requires attention and care all the same. They discuss the need for, and elements of maintenance for friendships, how we define and experience emotional intimacy, and the rules of engagement for hard conversations in order to have deeper, more mea...
Mar 16, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 18
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy discuss a lesson from Jane’s ‘I Want More the Next 30 years’ class. They dig deeper into the idea of making something special and being reflective and intentional. Wendy’s Takeaway If something doesn’t feel fun or exciting, think of a way to reframe it and a way to make it open up a truth or a different way to look at a situation. Jane’s Takeaway This exercise uncovers so much and opens us up to discover so much....
Mar 09, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 17
This week on the Love Letters, Life and Other Conversations Podcast Jane shares a poem that she wrote as an 8 or 9-year-old girl about friendship. She and Wendy talk about what little Jane must have been thinking about when she wrote it, how even in their fifties they are still asking for the things they seek in others and in themselves, and how what is being asked may also be characteristics that we are trying to embody for ourselves. Wendy’s Takeaway Conversation is powerful Words are powerful...
Mar 02, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 16
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy talk about a eulogy written about Jane by her friend. They discuss how one strives to live a life that has a positive impact on others and how this gift of words from a friend was a way of showing how that was true. Wendy’s Takeaway The discovery of ‘The Jane Factor’ and her choice to shift it from a backwards joke to one of positive admiration. Jane’s Takeaway That jolt of reading about yourself as though you ar...
Feb 23, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 15
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy talk about a quote used in Jane’s program ‘I Want More the Next 30 Years’. The quote is given to students at the start of week three and it is: “It takes only one event in life, then your whole life changes completely. That even it doesn’t find you. You find it by going out there and doing something, not by just sitting and doing nothing.” ~ De philosopher DJ Kyos They talk about; How a pivotal moment can truly c...
Feb 16, 2022•34 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This episode is part three, the last episode in the special three-part series of the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast celebrating Valentine’s Day. In this episode, Jane and Wendy each answer the final set of questions based on the article ‘ The 36 Questions That Lead to Love ’. Here are this episode’s questions: 25. Make three true “we” statements each. For instance, “We are both in this room feeling ... “ 26. Complete this sentence: “I wish I had someone with whom I could sha...
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 13
Jane and Wendy are sharing two additional episodes this week, to continue their celebration of Valentine’s Day with a special three part series called ‘Do ‘this’ to Fall in Love. On Wednesday they shared the first episode in this series, each answering a series of questions based on the article ‘ The 36 Questions That Lead to Love ’. In this episode they carry on with questions 13 through 24. Here are this episode’s questions: 13. If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your l...
Feb 11, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In celebration of Valentine’s Day this week’s episode is the first of a special three-part series called ‘Do ‘this’ to Fall in Love. Jane and Wendy will each be answering a series of questions that are touted as a fast track to falling in love. Despite the fact that they feel they make terrible test subjects - since they already adore each other - they thought it would be fun and informative all the same. Wendy’s Takeaway Hearing Jane’s life story that only part of was known Connection and emoti...
Feb 09, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 11
This week on Love Letters, Life, and Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy took their podcast recording to Instagram Live to share the recording process with their listeners. The springboard for their conversation this week is a quote by meditator, writer and speaker, Yung Pueblo. Jane and Wendy discuss the quote and ask themselves and listeners to reflect on this passage not only from the perspective of a love relationship but also in terms of friendship and connection with everyone in your life...
Feb 02, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 10
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy discuss the to be published book "An Invitation to the Great Game" by Adam Robinson Wendy shares a chance encounter with author Adam Robinson and the generosity he showed with his time, words, and connection through conversation. Jane and Wendy discuss taking the time to be present, whether that is by turning off your phone or subscribing to the idea of a two-drink minimum, meaning take the time to sit and be pre...
Jan 26, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 9
This week, on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations podcast, Jane and Wendy talk about possibility and perspective. Inspired by Rosamund & Benjamin Zander’s book,“The Art of Possibility,” they discuss: - How the stories we tell ourselves about what’s going on in our lives can affect our mindset and experiences. They explore the idea of changing the narrative and empowering a new story that infuses meaning and quality into your life. - Turning challenges into opportunities by questi...
Jan 19, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy discuss how choosing a word to guide your year is like a love letter to the months ahead. Wendy and Jane share the words that they have chosen for 2022. They talk about how setting a word for the year gives an intention to attach to decisions and actions as you move through the year. They also talk about how these words can have a lasting impact even after the year has passed. Wendy’s Takeaway The how is not our ...
Jan 12, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy discuss the poem A Brief for the Defense by American Poet Jack Gilbert as a love letter. Wendy and Jane talk about the act of allowing for delight and richness in life, and that our joy does not take the joy away from someone else. They talk about; How one person's experience of joy may not at all be the same as another. That if we focus on injustice and are allowed only to be happy when no one is suffering, we w...
Jan 05, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 6
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy share how we can give a Love Letters to Ourselves. Wendy and Jane are no longer waiting for someone to give them permission to live their lives as they want them to be. They have each written a love letter to themselves in the form of a motto to live by. Jane’s love letter to herself is “I’m never going back to the beige, I’m only available for extraordinary” and Wendy’s love letter to herself is “I’m only availa...
Dec 29, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 5
This week on the Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy share and talk about A Song as a Love Letter to Chateau Bosgouet. Jane shares a story of how Charlotte of Viv et Margot, a now dear friend, persistently encouraged her to join in the practice of doing Instagram Lives and a resulting contest that arose from that experience. The contest was to submit a love letter to win a Chateau Life Residency at Chateau Bosgouet. Contestants could submit anything that they consi...
Dec 22, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 4
This week on Love Letters, Life, and Other Conversations Podcast Jane and Wendy share and talk about a Birthday love letter to Wendy’s dear friend Jeff. While an incredible cook, Wendy’s dear friend Jeff had proclaimed he was not able to make cookies. This led to Wendy making cookies for him each year on his birthday. This particular Birthday love letter came the year that Jeff retired and moved to France - too far to send his birthday cookies. Wendy’s solution to the distance between them was t...
Dec 15, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 3
