Why and how do we love? Jacqueline Raposo and Ben Rosenblatt speak with authors, hospitality folks, psychologists, artists, and niche-based experts of all kinds in a humor-filled and heart-tugging examination of love in all its glorious, bewildering complexity. Every week, they get to the core of intimate moments that challenge what we think we know of love - experiences of loss, the growth that comes from new beginnings, the compromises and triumphs of long-term commitment, the loneliness of singledom - in hopes that the varying experiences of fascinating human beings can help them and others love more bravely and generously...
Latest episodes
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55 min
Self-Care in the Real World! with ladies of food + media.
Today, Americans own twice the amount of stuff we did 50 years ago and bill more out-of-office hours than any other advanced economy. We online date, binge-watch, thumb through soc…
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37 min
Episode 86: Food, The Brain, and Happiness! With Dr. Leslie Korn!
Will impending holiday eats help or hinder our health and happiness? How does what we eat affect our brain’s relaying of joys and frustrations? How does food best support our brain…
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34 min
Episode 85: Return to Tarot! A Love Bites Special with Reader Sasha Graham
For our first Love Bites Radio special this season, tarot reader Sasha Graham returns to guide us through how we can establish our own daily practice, which cards in the deck we sh…
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34 min
Episode 84: News from Love Bites Radio (and a little "Then and Now")
The short story is that we're taking a break this season from live shows to focus on some personal necessities and to regroup artistically. On today's episode, Jacqueline shares th…
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47 min
Episode 83: Summer Magic! What We've Learned from 82 Love Bites!
Today's show marks the end of our Summer Season and two years of Love Bites Radio! In celebration, we're reflecting upon some of the poignant moments that most stuck with us. Which…
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46 min
Episode 82: For the Love of Food (Media): Me & You with Jax and Max!
"Two food perspectives, both alike in dignity, in fair New York City where we lay our scene..."* On today's show, Saveur Senior Digital Editor Max Falkowitz and freelance food writ…
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42 min
Episode 81: To Date Or Not To Date (Other Actors): Me & You with Ben and Deanna!
"I don't date other actors." That's the hard-and-fast rule of many thespians, who find their careers, artistic, and personal lives so difficult to manage that the idea of merging w…
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27 min
Episode 80: Me & You: 69 Years of Marriage with Pat and Hansine
Very few couples will ever get to say they've made it to sixty-nine years of marriage. As we explore how to find and maintain loving relationships of all sorts here on Love Bites,…
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42 min
Episode 79: Single Lady Writers in Trump's America: Me and You with Jen Doll!
How has Trump's America changed the way two single lady writers think, eat, love, and express themselves? On today's show, author Jen Doll returns for our second Me & You episode.…
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44 min
Episode 78: Me and You: Jax and Ben!
Love Bites Radio explores "why and how we love." So why do we love the way we love right now? In what ways does that love physically manifest? How are those manifestations differen…
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27 min
Episode 77: What Can Starting Over Teach Us About Love?
We asked every guest in our New Beginnings series what starting over has taught them about love. In this special episode, we share their answers as well as a little insight into wh…
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42 min
Episode 76: From Kosher to a Ham, with Eli Rosen (New Beginnings #5)
A career change can be a difficult thing, especially when leaving behind the financial security of life as an attorney for the uncertainty and instability of life as an artist. But…
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40 min
Episode 75: From Health to Happiness, with Cynthia Cherish Malaran (New Beginnings #4)
Cynthia Cherish Malaran was making mad money as a freelance graphic designer. She was married. She was "successful." But she was miserable. Then she got in an accident that left he…
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41 min
Episode 74: Is This Home? with Julia Bainbridge (New Beginnings #3)
Packing up and moving to a whole new life. Tempting, huh? Mobility glimmers on the horizon and everything you know -- home, friendships, work -- await reinvention. But what realiti…
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37 min
Episode 73: Losing My Religion with Aimee DeLong (New Beginnings #2)
What happens after you realize you were born into a system that you don't believe in? How do you discover what you really think? How do you escape from all you've ever known? How d…
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46 min
Episode 72: Talking Empty Nests with Our Moms! (New Beginnings #1)
"How does the relationship between mother and child change when the child moves out of the house? What does mom get to reclaim for herself, or what new things may she welcome? In c…
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36 min
Episode 71: Moderating Meat, with the Reducetarian's Brian Kateman!
According to Brian Kateman, if every American reduced their intake of meat and fish by 10%, huge gains would be made in personal and global health. So how do we moderate our consum…
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40 min
Episode 70: Be Your Most Extreme You... in Moderation! With Sarah Robb O'Hagan
Sometimes living as the best version of yourself means knowing when to say "no", avoiding drastic fad lifestyles, and allowing both joyful leisure time and periods of overwork to p…
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31 min
Episode 69: Endings #6: When Your Restaurant Closes, with Chef Chris Jaekle
"So much time and attention are given to a restaurant's opening: Who's the chef? How will the menu be different than everything that's come before it? Who's designing the space? Wi…
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35 min
Episode 68: Endings #5: I Got Broken Up With Because of My Chronic Illness, Part II
“It wasn’t just losing him with the breakup, but a lot of the dreams and hopes I had for the future. It was coming to terms with the idea that this illness might be chronic. That t…