Love Sweet Love

Love Sweet Love

Love, Sweet Love Inspiring examples of why love IS what the world needs now – and how our health and wellbeing depend on it Inspiring conversations with folks – from kids to seniors, from authors to artists, from researchers to doctors, from teachers to school districts -- who are intentionally creating awareness and knowledge, through projects, programs and even systems, to foster care, love, compassion, and joy in this world, so that we can be healthier, happier, and more fulfilled. Gayle Beavil, passionate educator, speaker, facilitator, and decades-long seeker of what it takes to thrive, speaks with these folks to find out why they do what they do, how they are doing it, and what they say are the vital connections to our health and happiness. Join Gayle for informative and inspiring stories and interviews, as she celebrates the good around us, and uncovers what we need, to have a healthier, more loving, society. Gayle knows that what we shine light on, grows, and she thinks that shining light on relationships, care, community, and all the aspects of “love, sweet love” (as Bacharach and David wrote over 50 years ago), is indeed, “what the world needs now”. This is “Love, Sweet Love”.

Episodes

September 9, 2025 28 mins
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 and tested, and the findings are c...
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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 writer, speaker, community developer...
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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. Marj is an award-winning filmmaker...
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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.

Today’s episode has two main parts....
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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 their non-profit, and how these reci...
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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 here in Canada, and she is making all ...
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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 today. They are simple, actionable...
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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 last client as you work from home, how...
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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 about his childhood in a small town an...
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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 various ways to make money, and I c...
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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 Achievement Foundation Community Award an...
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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 older years more joyfully, compass...
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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 Yale’s Dr. Laurie Santos, who studie...
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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 in Kate’s local community of Buffa...
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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 all of your loved ones.

It is not jus...
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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 volunteers.

Honestly, this is one of my all-...
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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 1.1 million followers on Facebook, ...
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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, so they agreed to meet with me. I ...
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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, from BC’s Simon Fraser University’...
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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. Folks who are choosing to spread lov...
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