"What's Next?" With Steve Blasen
"What's Next?" With Steve Blasen

"What's Next?" With Steve Blasen

Live Well Therapeutic Massage

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As the owner and masseur for Live Well Therapeutic Massage in Monterey, CA I have the pleasure of meeting extraordinary humans. From military, business owners, golf pros, health pros, winemakers...the list goes on. Many have interesting stories, journeys, & breakthroughs, my mind began to stir. I need to take this somewhere - podcast! Then COVID hit & our lives changed. We were forced into lockdown, I was forced to look at life's uncertainty. I thought "What's Next?" Hence the name - "What's Next?" A podcast with interesting everyday humans sharing their life's journeys & passion.

Recent Episodes

Benjamin Forest: Trip Of A Lifetime (Book Release & Interview)
OCT 20, 2025
Benjamin Forest: Trip Of A Lifetime (Book Release & Interview)

Benjamin was our very first podcast guest back in 2021 (S1E1), and then we caught up with him in 2024 (S4E5) after his life had settled down quite a bit. Today, Benjamin is back with us after writing his first book, "Trip Of A Lifetime", which is available on Amazon as well as Kindle! Benjamin shares his insights and motivations for writing "Trip Of A Lifetime" and relates his personal experiences with psychedelics as a means to healing, recovery, and self-love.https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/live-well-therapeutic-mashttps://instagram.com/livewelltm_montereyhttps://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWellhttps://livewellmonterey.com/https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmashttp://www.youtube.com/@StephenBlasensWhatsNextPodcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-next-with-steve-blasen/id1634517783

Episode 1: (S1E1) - https://youtu.be/rawM8POLROoEpisode 2: (S4E5) - https://youtu.be/RMa-0pOLo_AAmazon Books:https://www.amazon.com/Trip-Lifetime-Psychedelic-Healing-Loving/dp/B0FPDPXXXD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=JCBJZBZRCY57&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dXhkKv_8MuCJWmFJkJii3wNxr2gxMiRzPORz_5nmRdZjdUumQgQ2c9C5P1raBw5j5FsGKJR_0RW3_p-fjdtvaRTRC_zNuO9EDWKBflZpMevQyhg70bUzMwAE7ruUBGW9qI8PCAXxFY8Qywp9gnLdHwhQaFTO0kzf8Q5yn-CieFiYQ4Th_DX9VbzAWUaLRSlE14JyuNcKndAgsqqiqbGcegZqDFIFlrjmK2oN8_pxAAw.GGU_nIGYXcIzHJpOL0SIjwQCJMsyiI7LnhbLOYLFJoc&dib_tag=se&keywords=trip+of+a+lifetime&qid=1760563483&s=books&sprefix=trip+of+a+lifetime%2Cstripbooks%2C156&sr=1-1Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Trip-Lifetime-Psychedelic-Healing-Loving-ebook/dp/B0FPDHWRS8/ref=sr_1_1?crid=JCBJZBZRCY57&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dXhkKv_8MuCJWmFJkJii3wWHtGXeWmeRSjOuEJnKh3IMSEhkUw5kw7s8sEz6ekAAHEho-eR1P5Wm3XeSrPxPuTc_ofSUE3fgLaARtNjpkrfW73-xa2vZg_aWhq3oOKw8YYswLKI5x43TjKRixMIA431ugC3wHRLY053AUpqh3H15odpE9HfzpoVDL5YASWMBsyhys6CAUpRxWNe7aOuV97A-GHzPQPAUTPINe7KlMjU.z8sx0hULaLN2JLGOVOgQFcUtRC1VYhEkknn3jAycIeo&dib_tag=se&keywords=trip+of+a+lifetime&qid=1760562821&s=books&sprefix=trip+of+a+lifetime%2Cstripbooks%2C156&sr=1-1Tags:#benjaminforest

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101 MIN
Hannah Lonergan: Ayurveda, Healing & Building a Healthy Self Through Yoga!
MAR 10, 2025
Hannah Lonergan: Ayurveda, Healing & Building a Healthy Self Through Yoga!

We welcome back Hannah Lonergan to today's podcast!

She brings her insight and charm to the Live Well Studios, and we bring that to you!

We hope you enjoy our time with Hannah today!


From Hannah's Website:

I am an Ayurvedic Practitioner & Yoga Instructor.

My goal with Health with Hannah is to personally work with you, to help deepen your relationship with your mind & body through Ayurveda and Yoga! I look at your health from a global perspective. We will look at body, mind, spirit, diet, lifestyle, relationships... everything - and determine what is not working.


Then WE fix it!


You & I will work together towards developing a sustaining & compassionate connection with Self-nourishment that feeds the soul. As we are each unique individuals, the solutions to your health issues will be unique to you.

There is no wholesale “take this to fix that” approach in Ayurveda.


In Her Own Words:

Hannah discovered yoga more than a decade ago and began her teaching journey in 2018. Through her 200-hour yoga certification program (Monterey), she was introduced to Ayurveda, where it quickly became her passion and central to her teaching philosophy. Hannah received her Master’s Degree through Maharishi International University in Ayurveda & Integrative Medicine. In furthering her education, she traveled to Kerala, India (the birthplace of Ayurveda), where she studied and received certification in Ayurveda & Panchakarma through Sreedhareeyam Ayurvedic Eye Hospital & Research Centre. Hannah also interned with Susan and Jeff Turner, the doctors at Living Ayurveda clinic, who were her true inspirations in pursuing this healing modality, which re-instates ‘care’ into ‘Healthcare’.


Ayurveda is a holistic approach to well-being that believes ‘health is life. ’ Hannah believes that self-love is central to well-being and that a restoring of vitality, of the inner being, of faith in the self needs to occur.

She takes her personal lessons of healing and finding self-love into her Ayurvedic work with clients and into the classroom in the form of Self Love Yoga.

Her approach to introducing clients to the benefits of Ayurveda is to highlight the ‘whole-person' in any healing journey. Hannah guides each individual on a personalized path to creating equilibrium by removing toxicity and restoring health through diet, lifestyle, and herbs.


Hannah’s appreciation for the internal and external benefits of movement led her to expand her teaching offerings to include Barre. Her Barre Certification program (Santa Cruz) focused on a full-body approach to this ballet-inspired exercise, which cultivates lengthening & toning within the body. Hannah is now certified through Yoga Alliance with a 500-hour yoga certificate after completing the Ki Yoga 300-HR Becoming A Master Teacher & Mastering the Business of Yoga program (Santa Cruz) in 2020. She hopes to teach her students that embodiment of health is possible, transformation is possible, and living a soul-filled life is the purpose.

Hannah offers Ayurvedic consultations, packages & workshops; she also teaches Yoga and Barre, both publicly & privately (in-person throughout Monterey County, California & virtually).


Recorded: 03/03/2025


[email protected]

https://www.instagram.com/healthwhannah/

https://www.omoasis.com/

https://www.healthwhannah.com/about-me

https://www.healthwhannah.com

https://www.healthwhannah.com/freebook

http://www.youtube.com/@StephenBlasensWhatsNextPodcast

https://instagram.com/livewelltm_monterey

https://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWell

https://livewellmonterey.com/

https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmas

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-next-with-steve-blasen/id1634517783


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47 MIN
Ryan Hokpins of Lavender Farms Company Stops By to Share a Wealth of Knowledge!
FEB 17, 2025
Ryan Hokpins of Lavender Farms Company Stops By to Share a Wealth of Knowledge!

Our guest tonight is Ryan Hopkins of Lavender Creek Company, the co-owner of a local lavender farm in the Monterey Area.

We learned a ton while talking about the lavender industry and how it is used in many different facets of life and healing.

We hope you enjoy today’s podcast and maybe even go and check out what they have to offer!


From Their Website:

Lavender Creek Co. is a family-run lavender farm and brand of soothing lavender products. Our story started when two California natives, Myriah and Ryan, met in Los Angeles. They both had career office jobs but dreamed of leaving the city and starting a farm and family business. That said, a few years later they were married in Carmel Valley, pregnant with their first, and had purchased a beautiful old creekside ranch on Carmel Valley Road! Today, their mission is to grow delicious fragrant fields of lavender and create naturally healthful products that soothe and enhance peoples’ lives.


Myriah and Ryan’s interest in lavender started originally with Myriah’s fascination with essential oils. Ryan loved to listen to Myriah talk about the properties and the history of all the many oils. So, when the idea to make dried lavender boutonnieres and handmade lavender soap for their wedding came up, they were both excited to get hands-on! Through this experience, and a little research, they learned that lavender was the perfect drought-resistant plant to grow in California. The little lavender seedlings in their hearts had sprouted and they set out to launch Lavender Creek Co!


(Originally recorded 2025-02-04)


Contact Information:

45217 Carmel Valley Road

Greenfield, CA, United States 93927

Website: lavendercreekcompany.com

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @lavendercreekcompany

Facebook: facebook.com/lavendercreekco



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https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/live-well-therapeutic-mas

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https://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWell

https://livewellmonterey.com/

https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmas


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47 MIN
Karen Lewis, Holographic Memory Resolution (HMR) Traumatic Memory Therapist, Is Today's Guest!
FEB 10, 2025
Karen Lewis, Holographic Memory Resolution (HMR) Traumatic Memory Therapist, Is Today's Guest!

On thisSpecial Sunday Edition of the "What's Next?" podcast, we sit down with Karen Lewis of Mississippi who is involved with Holographic Memory Resolution(R), HMRFrom Her Website (https://www.ahealingpath.life/) :PRIOR TO HMR, Karen had been declared by two rheumatologists to be 100% disabled with rheumatoid arthritis and had been diagnosed with 34 diseases, primarily autoimmune. Many medical specialists and traditional talk therapists had been very helpful, but her condition continued to deteriorate. After only 3 sessions of HMR, Karen returned to her psychologist who dropped her notepad and declared, “I never had any hope you would get to this level of healing.” NO TOOLS: This psychologist knew all about Karen’s childhood trauma but didn’t have a tool to use to safely address the issues. Neither did the five psychologists Karen had seen in ten years prior to this one. THE JOURNEY BEGAN: This began Karen’s journey to continue to heal with HMR and learn its techniques so she could help others heal from their own childhood trauma. She now tests negative for rheumatoid and almost all of the other “diseases”.Holographic Memory Resolution(R), HMR, is an integrative trauma processing approach developed by Brent Baum that has evolved over 30 years based on the work of David Cheek, Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse, David Grove, Richard Schwartz & others.YouTube: @elizabethmayer1327https://www.ahealingpath.lifehttps://ahealingpath.squarespace.com/blog-/how-hmr-enhanced-my-lifehttps://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT05001399http://hmrtraining.com/http://michaelsgift.org/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijk4dQIYFCEhttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/live-well-therapeutic-mashttps://instagram.com/livewelltm_montereyhttps://twitter.com/@SteveBLiveWellhttps://livewellmonterey.com/https://www.tiktok.com/@livewelltherapeuticmasTags:#michaelsgift

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84 MIN